AN: Sorry for not posting in so long, exams. (I also kinda lost the copy that I wrote it in...)
Chapter 6
Five months later
Aria checked her watch. She had a doctors appointment at four. She had time to put her feet up for a minute or two. Aria snuggled down under her blanket, and flicked on the Tv screen. She could just about see her toes. That was a rare sight these days.
She was due in two weeks, and had been stressing about everything. Literally everything. Whether she had thought of everything, whether she had bought too much pink. What if the baby hated pink?
What if she went into labour in the middle of the night, and she had no way of getting to the hospital?
Aria took a deep breath. The doctor had said that the baby was fine, but Aria knew that she had to relax.
Aria felt so alone. She didn't really have any here and she missed her home. She missed Hannah, and Spencer and Emily. She missed Ezra…..
Those last few months at home had been torture. She hated lying to him but was terrified of what could happen if she told anyone. They talked plenty, at first, on the phone but the calls between them were becoming slightly rarer.
She hadn't seen much of the girls either. Spencer organised most of their meet-ups, but she had been kind of MIA lately.
Aria's watch beeped, drawing Aria back to reality. She had to go soon. Aria paused. She felt the baby kicking. She instantly relaxed. She smiled. No matter what this was her baby girl, and Aria knew that she would love her.
Just less than a week later
"Just one more push!"
Aria could barely hear the doctor. She game one more agonising push and:
"WWWAAAEAAA"
Aria opened her eyes and saw her beautiful baby for the first time.
"Congratulations!" said the doctor, "You have a beautiful, healthy baby girl!"
Two minutes later, Aria was sitting on her bed, holding the whimpering infant in her arms.
She already had some fluffy, brown curls and she had the bluest eyes. She was tiny.
The nurse came in a few minutes later.
"I just have to weigh her, and measure her and make sure everything is fine," the nurse reassured the reluctant Aria.
"Do you have any names in mind?"
"Sophia," Aria replied in a barely audible whisper, smiling down as the newborn gazed all around her.
"My Sophia, my baby girl."