MIRANDA (complete ✔️)

21

Miranda lay on her bed.

She was so big.
She was almost due.
She was scared.

And anxious and excited as well.

Zayn brought her breakfast in bed.
She had been getting such treatment ever since she had told him of the pregnancy.

He had been hyped and angry too.
She too had been confused and scared.

"I'm a bad mother. I almost killed my child even before she was born.
No! even before I knew she existed."

She had cried out then.

And became frentic.
" my first pregnancy and I almost missed it."
She had cried.

"no I am a horrible father. I should have known."
Zayn had said.

They had been in a state of shock for a while.

Then recovered and realized the bundle of joy that Miranda was carrying.

"who said it is a she?"
He had asked after.

" I just feel it. It is a girl ."

She had said on their way home.

After that they had promised to make amends for not knowing about the child.
They went to every appointment.
She ate healthy.
If she was in any  pain even the slightest , they would rush to the hospital.

Till now they had not agreed on the name.

" the baby and I thank you."
She said.

"No Mary Frank and you thank me ."
Zayn said.

"Mary Frank?
Mary Frank?
What kind of name is that?"
She said.

" no!  We won't even argue about it ."
She said.

But they did and they continued arguing about it.

Zayn left for work and left her in bed.

When she was bored, she got up to watch TV.
She took a sweet potato and some water that she attempted to balance on her belly.

When she was bored she called work.

" how is the movie coming along?"
She asked Joy her editor.

" you don't need to worry. Just focus on your baby for now."
She said.

" come on not telling me will make me more stressed."
She insisted.

" we are working on it.
And I have a little surprise for you. "
She added.

" tada! "
Joy showed her baby clothes.
One purple and the other blue.

" thank you so much.
You got purple?
That is so kind.
I have a room full of blue and pink, I'm sure the baby will appreciate the color change. "
She said.

Zayn had bought a lot of clothes and she received many as well.

"talk to you after you are a mother? ."
Joy said and hung up.

Later Zayn came back.
They had started arguing about the name again.

" June."
Miranda said.
" what June?You want to name our baby after a month?"
Zayn asked.

" it is better than Jasmine junior? "

She said.

" it is my mother's name"
He said.

"with all due respect, I don't want to name my child after your mother.
I want her name to be unique."

Miranda breathed heavily.
She began having labour pains.

" Juliet then?"
He asked completely oblivious to his girlfriends pain.

"Zayn."
He kept speaking.
" Zayn."

He was still speaking .

"Zayn!!!"
She shouted.

"what?!"

He said.

" my water broke."
He then looked at her and grabbed his keys.

They left.

Miranda gave birth to a girl as she had assumed and anticipated.

Her mother was there and his as well.
He left for some time and came back.

He found Miranda holding their child.
Francine.

He knew then what he had always known ever since they were children.
That he loved her.
So much he could not want to know a future where he didn't.

He loved her so much he did not want to imagine a future where things were different .
Where Miranda was gone.

He had had such days. Years, when she wasn't around.
And they had been horrible.

He knelt in front of the mother of his child.

The love of his life.

" will you marry me?"

He asked.
It was silent.
Both their mothers smiled. The nurses did too.

And Miranda nodded in tears, the child cried.

It had finally happened.