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This Is It
Jackie had just finished tucking the kids into bed for the night. She went into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water. Despite it being later in the evening and despite having their central air on it felt like it was over one hundred degrees in the house. She wasn't sure if it was really that hot or if all of the pregnancy weight just made it seem so. She was now just one week away from her due date and she was secretly hoping the baby would be a little ahead of schedule, being this pregnant in the squelching heat was torture.
She grabbed the nice cool bottle of water from the fridge and then started walking to the living room so she and Nick could watch the movie he had rented on his way home from work that morning.
She was only a couple steps away from the living room when she suddenly felt a sharp cramp in her stomach. She grimaced and grabbed onto the back of a kitchen chair. The cramp only lasted a few seconds so she didn't give it much thought, but she did look at the clock just in case this was a contraction.
She decided not to tell Nick about it as she walked into the living room, after all it wasn't that bad, and it had only lasted a few seconds, and she was a full week away from her actual due date.
"Ready?" Nick asked with the remote in hand when she sat down on the couch.
"Yep." She replied.
Nick smiled and hit the start button on the remote.
A few minutes into the movie Nick looked over at her and noticed she was fanning herself with her hand.
"You ok?" He asked.
"Yeah, but I wish we had a walk in freezer, I'd go lock myself in there for a while. It's so hot in here."
Nick chuckled and hit pause on the remote.
"I have an idea." He said as he got up off the couch and walked into the kitchen.
The second he left the room another cramp hit her.
She glanced up at the clock, twenty minutes had passed since the last one.
"Nicky." She called.
"Yeah?" He asked as he poked his head back into the living room.
Suddenly however the cramp was gone.
"Never mind." She told him.
He went back into the kitchen and grabbed an ice pack and then returned to the living room.
"Here, this will help." He told her as he began rubbing the ice pack on her neck.
"Thank you." She told him gratefully.
He un-paused the movie, it was a good movie and both were engrossed in it so neither said a word, that is until Jackie suddenly reached over and grabbed his wrist.
"Ouch." She said in obvious pain.
Nick's eyes got wide as he soon realized what was happening.
"Just breathe." He said calmly as he immediately grabbed her hand.
She breathed until the cramp, or what she now finally believed was a contraction was gone, that realization was even more confirmed to her when she looked at the clock and saw that this one had come almost exactly 20 minutes after the last one.
"Honey I think this is it, I've had three contractions now tonight and they've been twenty minutes apart." She told Nick.
"Why didn't you say something?" Nick asked sounding very surprised.
"Well I didn't think they were contractions at first, I just thought they were cramps, they weren't that bad and they didn't last very long."
"Ok, ok, it's ok, I'll go wake the kids, and we'll go." He said with a smile, trying to keep her calm.
"Alright." She said as she returned the smile.
He hurriedly walked out of the room.
The rest of the movie was going to have to wait.
TBC….