"Well, Amy, the baby looks good. Everything seems to be developing normally, even if it is more rapid than a normal pregnancy. I need you to be very aware of any pains that you have, because if I remember correctly, your mother had a very fast delivery. I want you to be able to get to the hospital, get the medicine if you need it, because this is something that cannot be taken lightly," Aisha said as Amy sat up and barely nodded. She had visited every day since the test had turned out positive and now, on the eighth day, she was sure that Amy would go into labor at any moment. She meant it when she said that she did not want her to deliver at home, Tommy had done that once in his lifetime and he did not wish to do it again.
"What happens if she doesn't get to the hospital?" Max asked as Aisha looked over at him and let out a sigh. He reminded her a lot of Jason when Max had been on the way, he was so worried about things and trying to help Trini in all the ways that he could. He almost drove her crazy with the 'help' that he was giving her.
"I'm not sure, Kim wound up delivering at home, I don't want you to go through the same thing your mother did. I don't imagine that you want to have an all natural delivery," Aisha said as Amy barely nodded and then forced herself to her feet. She was exhausted and all she wanted to do was go to sleep, hopefully Max would let her do that. He had wanted to talk all day, but she was spacing out, she just couldn't concentrate on anything. "Rest, that's all I want you to do."
"That's all I feel like doing," Amy said, honestly, as Aisha nodded and she then waddled out of the room back to the room that she now shared with Max.
"You don't look so good," Aisha said as Max let out a sigh. Amy had been in a mood from hell for the last day and a half and he hoped that it was only the hormones talking at this point. Some of the things that she had said made him doubt whether or not they would be able to survive this. He did not want for them to turn out like Kim and Tommy, but he felt they might very well be heading down that road.
"She hasn't really been that open to talking to me lately," Max said as Aisha nodded her head. Kim had all but shut herself away from Tommy for the last couple of days of the pregnancy. Tommy had tried everything that he knew to get her to talk to him and all he had gotten was an order to sleep on the couch and leave her the hell alone.
"Just be there, she needs you to be there," Aisha said as Max nodded his head and the older woman then gave him a hug. "She loves you, you just need to remind her of it."
"It's kinda hard to do that when she doesn't even want to look at you," Max said as Aisha released him and barely nodded that that was difficult. "I miss her."
"She's not gone," Aisha said as Max looked over at her and gave her a significant glance.
"But she has all but checked out of our relationship Aisha. I don't want my child to have the same feelings towards her that she does towards her own mother," Max said as Aisha barely nodded and Kim then walked into the room.
"Do you think she'll talk to me?" Kim asked as Max shrugged his shoulders, both he and Tommy had been getting the silent treatment for the last few days, but maybe she would treat Kim differently. "I'll try Max, I will."
"I don't know how much good it will do," Max whispered as Kim looked over at him and then placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I know what it is like, trust me," Kim said as Max barely nodded his head and then watched her leave.
"Amy? Can we talk?" Kim asked as she walked into the room and Amy rolled over to face the woman that she despised with all her might.
"What do you want?" Amy asked as she forced herself to sit up and placed her hands over her swollen abdomen.
"To keep you from making the same mistake that I made all those years ago when I left your father," Kim said as Amy looked away from her. "I know what's going through your mind right now and your hormones aren't helping you any. You have to think that Max thinks you ugly and you're worried about if you can even be a mother, I understand that, but you can't take my way out. I have regretted it for years, but I never had the guts to come back and try to make things right with either of you. It took me finding out that Tommy was dying, to try to make amends with him. I don't want this to be the same with you and Max."
"I just don't know how to do any of this. I'm scared about having the baby and Max can't possibly think that I'm pretty, not like this, look at me, I look like a whale. He has to be regretting this," Amy whispered as Kim reached over and took her hand in her own. She had thought the exact same thing so many years before and she now knew that she was completely wrong about what Tommy thought. He had fallen even harder for her and then she had left them, left him with the child that they had made.
"I can promise you that he is not regretting you at this moment. He's thrilled that you are the woman that is carrying his child and that you will be the woman that he wakes up to every morning. I don't want you to have the regrets that I have Amy, I don't even know you and you're my child," Kim said as Amy looked over at her and saw the pain in her mother's eyes.
"I'm scared to talk to him, scared that he won't be the same man that I have been with for the last three years," Amy said as Kim smiled at her.
"He's not, he's trying to figure out how he's going to be a father and how he's going to be a husband to you. He's only going to become a better man because of this and you will be a better woman if you just stay," Kim said as Amy winced and let out a shaky breath. "I'll get Max."
"I'm not going to leave him, I'm just afraid that he won't like what he sees anymore," Amy said as Kim barely nodded her head as she stopped in the doorway.
"He'll like it even more, that's what your father told me after I had you, I just didn't believe him, I couldn't," Kim said as Amy winced again and she smiled. "I'll get Aisha too."
"Why would I need the both of them?" Amy asked as Kim smiled a knowing smile as Amy placed a hand over her round abdomen and let out a groan. The pain was becoming more intense, it had been a dull ache all day, but now she understood what Aisha had been warning against. For all she knew, she might already be too far gone to make it the hospital with the way that she was feeling now.
