Family

Shower Us, Mother, and Weep

25 Dec, 2021

My face hit the floor and I felt a chill down my body. I felt my bare skin brush against the ice as I struggled for air. I slowly opened my eyes and looked upon the cold, desolate room, with ice for its floors, walls and roof. There was but a single, copper door with a frozen glass circular window near the top of its arch. Across the glass and through the ice I could barely see a face peering in at me, but I knew who it was. I knew Liam had thrown me in here and was now jeering at the thought of being rid of me. Soon his wish would be fulfilled.

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17 Feb, 2021

Pandora

I awoke to the gentle feeling of Felucca's lips on my face. I turned to gaze at his brisk, smiling face. One of his arms was encompassing my body, the other was laying gently on my leg. I smiled as I peered shamelessly at his physique, his biceps and pecs being the true stand outs. I wish we could have sex again. I haven't in so long, and the temptation was beginning to become too much to bear. But at the end of the day, if I were only interested in his body, I wouldn't have married him.

"We should probably get going soon," he murmured, his smile soon fading into a face of neutrality. I said nothing, so he got out of bed and began to get ready. I lay there admiringly watching him, until he eventually finished getting changed.

"Can you help me out of bed?" I squeaked meekly. He half nodded and walked back to me, extending his hand. I grabbed it and together we pulled me out, my belly nearly toppling us forward. He caught me, and lifted up my shirt to feel my nearly bursting stomach.

"Wow - it's easy to forget how close you are to poppin, eh?" he laughed.

"Yeah, I guess," I nodded. "Just a couple more weeks, the doctor says."

"Yeah.." he said quickly, before there being a few seconds of silence between the two. Breaking the pause, Felucca turned quickly, and continued to hastily get ready.

"You know," I began. "I think I wanna drop into my parents' before we go." When I saw the look of concern on his face, I continued, "It's okay - I'll give Bunny a ring and tell her to move the shower later a few hours, she'll organise it without a sweat. Can you give me a ride?" I quickly changed into something more presentable, and got my handbag. When Felucca didn't reply, I gave him a stern look.

"Fine." He moaned begrudgingly.

"What?" I asked.

"They only live a couple streets away, can't you just walk?"

I wanted to say no. I wanted to tell him that when I'm eight and a half months pregnant, getting me to walk that far is a difficult task. I wanted to tell him to give me a fucking ride to a place that would be on his way anyway, if he were going to Andre's. But I didn't.

Instead, I said, "Fine. Go play video games with Andre or help Bunny prepare the shower or whatever the fuck it is you wanna do. I'll take a bus."

He smiled appreciatively and whispered, "Thanks, babe." A few moments later, he was out the door, and I rang up Eve. She picked up almost instantaneously.

"Hey sis! What's up?" She asked enthusiastically.

"Hey. Are you at Mum's?" I asked in a droning voice.

"Nah, I just picked up Liam and we were heading to your baby shower. Why?" Eve responded. I had always admired the way she still treated me like her own all these years. After Dad told us I was adopted, Liam very subtly stopped treating me like his sister. But Eve didn't. In the end, Eve helped Liam understand that I was the same person I always was, and that our relationship had no reason to change in any way.