Disclaimer: See first chapter.


What's pressure—beyond the physics definition of it anyway?

A soda can that had been left in the freezer over night.

A football team three yards away from making the winning touchdown, with twenty-two seconds remaining. Or a hockey team at the final Stanley Cup Championship game, with seven seconds left. Thousands of screaming, adoring fans and only one chance to make the winning goal.

She concedes that's pressure…

… though nothing compared to having a baby pressing against one's bladder.

She groans, rising for what feels like the umpteenth time in the last hour, and waddles to the bathroom.


A/N: Trust me to be random…