Chapter 8 – Mr. and Mrs. Sportacus
It was just 7:00AM, and Riley was already with her head in the toilet.
Boy, she hated these nauseas so freaking much!
And nothing helped her anymore.
After she was completely done, she just leaned on the sink for a moment, catching her breath. Opening her eyes, she looked at herself in the mirror and then at her stomach, which was still flat.
"Hey, um, baby? Listen, I did you a very big favor by keeping you and not aborting you, so it will be very nice of you if you will stop making me sick, ok? Thanks," she told "the baby".
She wanted to go back to sleep, but thought there was no point to that, so decided to make herself a breakfast.
After the breakfast, she decided to take a walk in the sun, to chill a little. She took her sunglasses, her big hat and a bottle of water and went out.
As she kept walking, she tried to find Sportacus, but with no luck. So she went and sat under a tree to rest.
She lied her hand on her stomach and hummed the song "I Love You".
Sportacus was just a few meters away from her. Ziggy's kite got stuck in the trees, so he went to release it, and then he heard her. He just loved her voice.
"Uh, there you go, Ziggy!" he said and quickly left to find Riley.
"Thanks, Sportacus! Sportacus?" Ziggy was left there confused.
"I thought it was you," Sportacus said as he leaned over her.
"Oh, hey Sportacus!" she looked up at him.
"What are you doing here?" he asked as he sat next to her.
"Well, I didn't feel like going back to sleep after my usual morning sickness, so I decided to go out to get some fresh air," she said and took a sip from her bottle of water.
"Oh, that's great," he said.
"No it's not. I'm tired as hell but I know that I won't be able to go back to sleep right now, so it's better than nothing," she said.
"Ok," he laughed, "Um, I wanted to know, did I heard you singing a couple of minutes ago?" he asked.
"Pretty much, I was humming a song for the baby. Some people say that music helps the baby's development," she said and smiled at Sportacus.
"Oh, I think I heard that too somewhere… Will it be... too much to ask you to sing again? Uh, I mean, for the baby..." he asked nervously.
"Sure!" she smiled, then took his hand by surprise and put it on her stomach along with hers, and then she sang.
Sportacus could listen to her voice for hours.
He started to think what it will be like when the baby will actually start to move inside of her when it will hear her voice. Just three months until that should happen.
He tried to imagine how her baby will be like, but couldn't. He was still afraid of what is waiting for Riley's future with this baby.
But he was snapped out of his thoughts when Riley stopped to sing and called him.
"Sportacus? Sportacus!" she waved her hand in front of him.
"Huh? Oh... Sorry, I was just thinking of something..." he told her.
"What were you thinking about?" she ask curiously.
"Uh... Never mind..."
"Ok, well, I was thinking to go and grab a smoothie at the store. Will join me?" she asked as she stood up.
"Why, sure!" he stood up as well and followed her to the store.
When they both left the store with their orders – Vanilla milkshake for Riley, and a strawberry smoothie for Sportacus – they came across Amanda and gang (obviously).
"Oh, hello there, Mr. and Mrs. Sportacus," Amanda said.
"Oh, hello there, a plastic-surgery-that-failed," Riley replied.
"Riley, calm down..." Sportacus whispered to her, and she just rolled her eyes.
"So, have you picked a name for your baby yet?" Amanda teased them.
Sportacus started to lose it.
"Ok, Riley, let's go," he took her hand and they took off.
"Sportacus, are you alright?" she asked when they stopped running.
"Ok, excuse me for the language, but she was pissing me off," he confessed.
"And I thought you were the calmed one between the two of us... I guess I was wrong."
"Look, we need to try to avoid them. I'm alright with them teasing me, I'm used to that from your brother, but when they are teasing both us it's unbearable," he told her as he held her hands.
For a moment she couldn't stop looking into his bright blue eyes, and she didn't even know why.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, well, that sounds like a good idea..." she said and they kept walking toward her home.
"Oh, Sportacus, it's so good that you're here! I really need your help," Rachel said as the two entered home.
"Sure, Ms. Rotten, what do you need?" he asked.
"Well, you see, Riley has another appointment at the doctor next week, but apparently there is a very important meeting of some of the teachers at the elementary school which I have to be there, so I was hoping that maybe you can go with Riley, please?" Rachel asked.
"Uh..." Sportacus didn't know how to respond it.
"Mom, it's fine, I can go by myself, don't drag him into that," Riley told her mother.
"Oh, no, that won't be a problem, I would like to go with her, and accompany her and..." Sportacus quickly changed his mind.
"Oh, thank you, thank you so much! I owe you that," Rachel said and left to her room.
"Sportacus, you don't really have to come, I can really go alone to the doctor-" Riley said.
"No, I really want to do that. I don't want to go alone through anything in this pregnancy, alright?" he told her as he held her hands in his.
Riley smiled at him.
"Thank you, Sportacus. You're a really good friend," she said and hugged him.
"Friend". Why did he hate the sound of it so much?
