“Halle, I miss you. You didn’t come to see Mom even on New Year’s Eve. Halle, did something happen to you? Why don’t you come see Mom?”
After seven or eight months of not seeing each other, Agnes became increasingly suspicious of the matter.
“Mom, give me two more months, and I’ll come to see you.”
Although she was not a biological mother, she was her one and only family in the world. She knew Agnes’s household register had her name.
“OK, I’d like to get married to Mr. Hill at that time. Halle, Thank you. It’s all your credit.
Agnes finally got what she wanted after so many years of obsessive waiting, and now it was going to come true. Halle was indescribably happy for her, but what about herself?
She touched her belly, gritted her teeth, she wouldn’t regret it after having chosen. she would also bring up this child independently like Agnes. But she was much happier than Agnes, because it was her own child.
The housekeeping company was efficient, having chosen a nanny for only one day. The nanny was neatly and sharp. What’s more, it just took little money to hire her. She took very good care of Halle and could also tend the shop. Halle felt the nanny like an angel that made her happy, “Darcy, close the shop early today, I’m a little tired.”
It was unknown that the little one in her belly was a boy or a girl. It was so naughty that kicked there and here when it was to be born, so that Halle’s belly couldn’t stop bulging. She really didn’t want to be tired again, she’d like to walk more, because she learned from books that walk was good for birth.
“Okay, I’m going to cook dinner, just go for a walk and watch out for the car, you have to be careful now.”
Darcy said with concern as she glanced at her belly.
She walked down the road after Darcy closed the shop. Her legs were a little swollen, but it was normal. She predicted the due date was nearly in this week. Her heart was beating faster for both scare and tension just thinking about it.
“Baby, be adroit to be born and don’t torment mommy.”
She thought it and was actually happy.
It was a longing for a life to come. It turned out that everything was happy if she were pleased.
She walked slowly. Other pregnant women were accompanied by their husbands on their walks, but what around her was always air.
She had gotten used to it. However, the pregnant woman she saw at that day always unconsciously drifted over her mind, she didn’t know whether it was that woman’s blessing or bad luck to be together with Ronan.
Reminding of the number that Ronan had saved in her cell phone, she checked it again and found it was gone. She had changed her phone number, and there was nothing in the address book except a few supplier’s phone numbers. Thinking carefully, she saved her mother’s phone number. People said that it was a big challenge for a woman to give birth to a child. She was terrified and unsettling on the thought of no family around.
Darcy cooked food well and it was to her liking. After eating, she read books on baby care and childbirth. It was the first time to be a mom and she couldn’t be ease at all. Nobody taught her so that she had to depend on books. She even wrote down a recipe of the three meals she’d eat after giving birth. She asked Darcy to follow it to allow her have sufficient breast nursing. She didn’t go to the hospital for checkups these days, because she didn’t like those doctors looked at her with tinted glasses, just because she was alone, and no husband around her.
Not any female will like such a situation.
She had no choice but to be like this. She didn’t like the pitying eyes of Ronan and must be self-improvement if she wanted to be self-reliance. She was to sleep after taking a shower, it was a very small and clean bathroom on the second floor of the small shop. She looked at her round belly while taking shower. Her belly should be considered normal among pregnant women, not too big or too small. She touched it and began to imagine what her child would look like. It was unknown that it would look more like her or Ronan. She thought it better that her baby not to be looked like him at all, how good it would be! Then no one would suspect that the baby was his.
Thinking carelessly, her foot slipped, “Ah …”
She subconsciously shrieked, and she had already fallen by the time Darcy heard the sound and came over. She felt some fluid was coming out of her vagina, “Darcy, it hurts. Hurry up, call an ambulance.”
She was sober, no family was around and she had to rely on herself in all things, so she had to be sober as well.
“Yes, I’ll do it.”
Darcy went to make a phone call, and Halle strained to stand up holding onto the wall. She had to be strong for the sake of her baby. How could she be so careless? But it was too late to blame herself now, she had fallen.
The blood and the water-like stuff fell along her legs, it may be the amniotic fluid, she knew it from the book. But the baby would not be born easily with more amniotic fluid flowing out. Her head was hurt, but she kept telling herself not to panic, as long as the ambulance came, she would be saved, it would be okay, it would be okay.
Darcy called and turned back when she stood up, “Halle, the ambulance will arrive soon, come on, I’ll help you get dressed.”
She gritted her teeth and cooperated with Darcy to put on her clothes, then leaned against the wall and couldn’t move at all. She saw Darcy carry her things that had been long prepared to take to the hospital downstairs, then the ambulance arrived in time. She still felt as if a century had passed though it came so quickly. She was so painful that her forehead was full of sweat.
After she was carried on a stretcher to the ambulance, the doctor and nurse briefly examined her, “It’s going to give birth and can’t wait any more, notify the hospital to prepare to delivery as soon as the pregnant woman arrives.”
Halle heard that her baby was about to be born. At this moment, she was full of anticipation instead of fear. It was her baby that she had looked forward to its birth for a long time. Several months might not be lengthy in a people’s life, but it was long in her world. She would never be alone and lonely again as long as the baby was born.
Halle was carried off the stretcher and pushed into the delivery room. Darcy waited outside, “Halle, just shout out if you were in pain, don’t tolerate it.”
She gritted her teeth. It was extremely hurt as if she was to die. Her body was like fell apart, the little one was tossing her desperately, it was really painful.
Helped to the bed to check, she closed her eyes and let the doctor examine her. The hands and the cold bed made her trembled.
“Madam, there’s too much amniotic fluid, and I think you’re having twins, have you tested it before?”
“Twins?”
Halle hadn’t even thought about it.
“I think so, and I recommend you to have a C-section immediately, but we must get your permission.”
Halle panicked all of a sudden, “Do I really have to do the surgery?”
Although she had known that a C-section was just a minor operation in the eyes of doctors, she couldn’t help being scared at the thought of having to cut her stomach and take out two children.
“Yes, it is urgent, the situation was bad because you fell down, I suggest you get an idea quickly, by the way, where is your family?
I’ll call in and you discuss it together.”
Halle’s head was painful, she shook her head, “No, I’ll make my own decisions.”
“No, it needs a family member to sign off on it.”
“Tell Darcy to come in.”
She couldn’t think of anyone else except Darcy.
The nurse went to tell Darcy, and Halle closed her eyes, her whole belly was ache. she had never known that having a baby was so hard, and suddenly, she felt her mother was so great to give birth to her, and she thanked her mother for giving her life.
Darcy came in soon, “Halle, are you okay?”
“It’s okay, I’m going to have a C-section soon. Darcy, so I have to bother you.”
“No … No problem, don’t worry about it.”
Darcy held her hand and then a nurse joined a doctor in lifting her onto a hand-push bed to prepare to enter the operating room.
She opened her eyes in round, looked around nervously at the thought of going to the operating room. How nice the world was! She needed to live well with her baby.
The anesthetic and the operating table were prepared. Halle forgot that she hadn’t signed agreeing to the surgery, so did Darcy. It was another person.
A man.
The light from the top of the operating table dazzled her, making her didn’t want to open eyes.
The vague sound of surgical instruments rattling sounded in her ears. She told herself not to be afraid, she was waiting for the baby to be born.
The surgery was proceeding methodically, someone whispered to her, “Do you have any feeling?”
“No …”
She didn’t want to talk, she was so nervous, she would have fainted from fear without the anesthetic. Was she timid? She was really a timid woman.
The female kept talking to her without interruption, as if feared she would fall asleep, “Do you like a boy or a girl?”
“It’s all good.”
She said unhesitatingly. She only had one ultrasound during her pregnancy and didn’t inquire the gender of the child. As long as it was her own child, she’ll like it.
“It was born! Look, they are really twin. They look same, like a pair of rag dolls.”
Halle smiled, her babies were born! She opened her eyes to see them, but could not move, so the nurse held the children in front of her, she could only see a small face, pink and a little wrinkled, were they her children?
With just one glance, she fell in love with them.
“They are two little sisters. They’ll look like princesses when grow up, prettier than mother.”
Halle smiled. She was too nervous just now, now she felt extremely tired, so as soon as she heard the babies were born, her whole body and mind immediately relaxed.
The babies were carried away, but she was in a bit of a hurry, because the items she prepared was only for one child, “Nurse, help me … help me …”
“What’s wrong?”
“There’s only one set of kids’ stuffs, please help me to buy a small quilt.”
She would feel grieved no matter which one was neglected. She had begun to concern about her babies though the incision had not been stitched up. Maternal love is instinct. She had completely fallen in love with them.