Distraction

Chapter 40

OLIVIA.
I wake Daniel up. 'Daniel my water broke.' Quickly his eyes open. 'What?' I look down at the wet bed. 'Oh shit Ollie.' He gets up from the bed and turns on the big lights, what really hurt my eyes. That definitely wasn't necessary. 'We need to go to the hospital,' he says slightly panicked. He walks over to my side of the bed. I take his hands. 'First you gotta calm down.' Now he finally starts to smile. 'We're getting our boy.' We are. It is only hitting me now. 'Did you had some sleep?' I shrug. He had more than mine. 'Probably an hour or two.' It surprises me I fell asleep. 'I'll call the midwife.' I nod as I get out of bed. when I grab my phone, I see it is only 3 in the morning. Daniel fell asleep quickly, what I get because he had a busy day. A contraction again, I sit down. They say contractions are worse after your water broke, which is totally true. A hand on my back, Daniel while being on the phone with the midwife. After the contraction is gone I get up from the bed. Change my clothes before heading to the living room. My mom peacefully asleep on our couch. I wake her up. 'Mom my water broke.' She is awake in a quick second. 'Really?' I nod. 'The midwife is on the way.' Good. 'I hope I'm over 5 centimeters.' My mom takes my hand. 'The pain is al so worth it.' I believe that.

'Our little man.' Daniel walks his over me with the little boy in his arms. He is all healthy, luckily. He sits down on the bed, handing me the tiny baby I gave birth to a couple minutes ago. Grace and my mom are in the room too. I wanted them to be at the birth, luckily Grace was already here and she didn't had to come all the way from Australia. My moms first grandchild, Grace her second. 'Hi little Gus.' He is so pretty and tiny. His tiny little nose, fingers, his chubby cheeks. He is so cute. I kiss Daniel. 'We did it.' I am so tired. It's 7 PM and I haven't slept since 3 in the morning. 'You did it, I'm so proud of you.' I look back at little Gus. He has some little hairs, but they are really blond. He opens his eyes and looks around. I'm so in love. Gus Edwin Ricciardo. The 24 hours of contractions really were all so worth it. We were out over his second name pretty quick, my fathers name. A knock on the door. That must be Joe, my brother and Riley. I'm right. All with a big smile on their face.

I smile at Daniel, who is taking a photo. We're home, I had to stay the night at the hospital. It surprised me how quick I could go home. Daniel sits down next to me. His finger moves over Gus his head, who is asleep, he just had some food. 'I can't wait to go go karting with him.' 'Calm down alright, I just gave birth to him.' Daniel laughs. I watch him post the photo of me and Gus on Instagram. A sweet, but still so Daniel caption underneath; My champion Ollie, who pooped out this perfect human being called Gus Edwin Ricciardo last night. Proud of the lady who had to deal with my stupid jokes because I was nervous and maybe freaking out a little, while she was in labor. Amazing but scary experience. They are both doing good and are safe in my hands 😬. Happy to hold my man in my arms. In a couple of years I'm going to kick him in some cars, you'll see him out on track (not too sure about it though, mama has opinions too). Lots of love to you Ollie. 'Last bit is very much true.' Driving is dangerous. How fast will the cars go in 20 years, don't even wanna think about it. I don't want my little baby boy to get hurt. Not sure if I'm able to watch him, I already get nervous when Daniel gets in the car. 'That's why I wrote it.' I kiss him. 'He needs to get changed.' Daniel looks at me. 'First kiss me and then saying he needs to get changed, you really are something.' I smile. Getting up hurts, changing a dipper is the least he can do. 'I pooped him out, so you can clean his poop.' I hand him Gus. He gets up, not much later I get up myself, what hurts as a mother fucker; but it was it all so worth. I need to film how Daniel changes poop diapers, he is acting like a pussy. When I'm at Gus his room I start filming. 'What?' Surprised Daniel looks at his shirt getting wet. I can't help myself but laugh. 'It hurts.' Tears running down my cheeks. I can't breath and my lady part hurts. 'Ollie help me.' Still filming I come closer. 'No, you've gotta learn.' Sad he looks at her. 'Hurry up, he is getting cold.' Daniel shakes his head, almost throwing up. He is exaggerating. Smiling I shake my head and leave again.

'Dan.' I face Daniel, playing with his vingers. 'What?' He takes his eyes off his phone. 'I think I'm wanna get back to work.' Lately I got the feeling I really wanna do something again. Of course I've been doing some work things, but not teaching. I miss being surrounded by teens. But now Gus is born I also wanna stay with him every second of the day. But I think going back to work will be good for me. Not right now, I wanna be with Gus for the first year. 'Teaching?' I nod. 'You should.' I really wanna, but I have such double feelings now with Gus. 'I'm gonna stay with Gus though for while, I'm just gonna take a look at things.' He softly chuckles. I rest against his chest, he wraps one arm around me, his fingers moving over my arm. 'What ever feels right for you.' His lips against my hair.