Warning adult content in this chapter. ;)
"Mmmmmm man I'm glad that's over" Naomi says leaning against the door she'd just seen the last of our guests out.
"Not a fan of the big family Christmas babe?" I ask taking in Naomi's weary appearance.
"I like Christmas and I love our family. All of them here together all day was a little overwhelming though. Just think if we had of spent an extra two weeks in New Zealand and we could have avoided it" she says a dreamy look in her eyes as she considers the possibility.
"Yeah, I had a great time though Hun and Kelly loved it, think she is going to be a bit jealous when Bradley comes along and she's not the only one being fused over." I say taking her hand and leading her towards the lounge. I pull her down onto the couch next to me. I did have a lovely day with mine and Naomi's family, but it felt good to be alone again. Kelly had passed out from exhaustion an hour early, all the sugar, food and attention taking its toll.
I cuddle into Naomi as much as is possible with her ever expanding stomach. I feel her sigh and kiss my neck. I look at the lights twinkling on the tree in the dimly lit room. It really is beautiful. I relax further into the comfort of the couch and the warmth of Naomi. The peace is amazing after a full house since 10am this morning. We had managed to have a special present opening before everyone had arrived. I smile at the thought. Then suddenly the only thing in my mind is a picture of me and Naomi going at it passionately beneath the Christmas tree. I concentrate on the thought and realise it can't be a thought of what I'd like to happen because Naomi is clearly not pregnant.
"Naoms" I question hearing the desire in my voice "have we ever shagged under the Christmas tree?" I ask. When I'd first lost my memory I would have feel unsure and embarrassed by asking something like that. Now I had no problems. I felt like I could talk to her about almost anything and it felt good. I feel her laughing in my arms learning round to leer at me.
"One of our better Christmas traditions, in my book anyway" she says pulling me in for a dirty kiss, nipping at my lip. Her hands move to my breasts swiftly, squeezing my nipples roughly through my shirt.
"Fuck babe" I moan as she moves her mouth eagerly to suck on my neck.
"Oh we're going to Em's. We've been all cute and loving around our family all day and right now its time for some dirty animalistic sex" she says eyes wide as she looks at me as if she wants to devour me. Which I'm pretty sure is not too far from the truth. Wow she's never been this intense in the times I could remember and I had a feeling it was going to be incredible.
"Nai, what if Kel wakes up" I say as she moves to pull my shirt off, taking my bra swiftly at the same time.
"She's so fast asleep she probably won't be up till 9 o'clock tomorrow" she says before wrapping her lips around my stiff nipple. It feels too good to assert anymore protest and I allow her to worship my body in the very passionate slightly rough way she appeared to have planned.
"I love you" she whispers huskily in my ear apparently unable to completely separate her physical desire for me from her deep love. I had to smile at the sentiment liking the fact that what we had was a whole package.
"Yeah I know" I say smiling at her "and I do believe you have much better things to be doing with that mouth of yours right now." I reply pulling her shirt over her head to even the playing field before pulling her back in and kissing her lips. The kiss is sloppy and tongues move nosily but it feels amazing. I feel like we're both just letting go unworried about what the other might think and letting our body fulfil desires. Well Naomi certainly is and if she was I was going to embrace it because her inhibition was, for want of a better word, hot.
I moan as she ends up between my legs, feeling her smile against me. I look down at her and she winks at me before proceeding with her plan. If her plan involved blowing my mind she was doing a damn good job of it. Just when I think it couldn't feel better she mixes it up or changes speed. It's like she's managing to get me both closer and further away from my peak.
"Hello" she says smiling at me as cheekily as she lays on top of me clearly proud of her efforts. She had a right to be too, she'd keep me just on the edge of an orgasm for about half an hour before letting me reach my peak. Oh what a peak it was, I was glad we were in the lounge because its far enough from Kelly's room that she shouldn't have heard me.
"You look pretty pleased with yourself" I say moving a little so we fit more comfortably. Baby Bradley was definitely taking up some room in Nai's belly.
"Yeah" she says laying her head on my chest. "when you make sounds like that I know I've done pretty good."
"Pretty good is a bit of an understatement babe" I say stroking her hair. Wriggling until our legs are intertwined and I can feel her warm wetness pressing against my own. I find her lips kissing her hungrily making sure she knows my intentions by pushing my hips into hers. She seems pretty happy about this moaning into my mouth and pushing back so we're as close as we can be. I'm just about to move down and start on her breasts when she pulls back looking startled. She looks down at my chest where her breasts had been resting. I follow her gaze a little confused by why she'd pulled away from me.
"What's wrong Hun?" I ask trying to pull her back to me. She struggles moving her body as far away as is possible on our couch. The only place where we remain touching is her baby bump and my belly.
"Fuck" she says voice distressed "I'm a fucking cow now" she says grumpily gesturing to her breasts. I finally realise what she's talking about. Her milk must have started to flow. Apparently she had felt it leaking on us; I had no idea with all the sweat and grinding distracting me.
"Come here" I say trying to pull her back to me. She looks like she's about to cry.
"But I'm all fat and milky" she says confirming my predictions as tears slowly roll down her cheeks. I decided I'm not going to ask this time and pull her towards me giving her no option but to come. She hides her face from me crying into my hair.
"Shhhhh Nai" I say stroking her hair. "You're anything but a cow baby. You're beautiful, so beautiful and I love you." I say as her tears keep falling and she sniffles into my hair.
"I love that you are pregnant with our son. It's good your producing milk because it will help our boy grow big and strong." I say kissing her forehead and running my hand over her belly, smiling as I feel the movements of our son.
"Plus" I say moving my lips closer to her ear making sure she can feel the heat from my breath. "It does make your tits look pretty mint. We all know I'm a tits and fanny girl Nai." I say smiling as she laughs at my words.
"I'm sorry for being a drama queen" She says vulnerability evident in her tone.
"You weren't being a drama queen babe, just acting like a hormonal pregnant woman. It's ok though because I heard a rumour that it's ok to act like a hormonal pregnant woman, when you are in fact a hormonal pregnant woman."
She finally turns to look at me face puffy and red but an amused look present.
"You're such a geek Ems" she says rolling her eyes at my words.
"Shut up" I say kissing her then pulling back and wiping away her tears. "Now if you're finished having a meltdown I was hoping to screw you senseless."
"Oh" Naomi says in response seemingly startled by my boldness. She recovers giving me a wide grin before pulling me in for a kiss, her tongue mingling with mine again.
"Just careful on the breasts babe they're a bit tender" she says into my neck avoiding eye contact, apparently still a little embarrassed. I'd just have to show her there is no reason to be.
"Mhhhh that's good" Naomi says leaning back against me as she lowers herself into the bath.
"Yeah sex and a soak in the bath really are the best way to finish an amazing Christmas" I reply. I relax against the back of the tub letting the hot water take away the some of the stress of the day. It had been amazing, but as there always is with family gatherings there was also drama. Surprisingly none of it had been my mother; she had actually been really great. She'd helped me and Naomi with preparing the meal and been the doting grandmother to Kelly. To be fair I think my idea of her is slightly clouded by me memory of her from when I was a teenager. I think Naomi's might be a little too. I mean they get on fine but I can tell the both of them are trying extra hard for my sake. Guess that should make me feel special.
"How's my boy doing today?" I ask resting a hand on either side of Naomi's belly. I've been spending lots of time touching and talking to Bradley trying to bond with him. Naomi keeps telling me he knows my voice and gets excited when I'm around but I'll take no chances.
"He great been kicking and moving all day. His mother on the other hand is sick and tired of everybody thinking they have the right to touch her stomach." She says causing me to take my hands away from their place on said stomach. She grabs them and places them back where they were.
"I'm not talking about you Ems. It's your right as my girl and his mum to touch me whenever you want, in fact me and Bradley both love it when you do. Don't we my baby boy?" She says covering her hands with mine. I smile as I feel Bradley move appearing to agree with Naomi's statement.
"You looked a bit uncomfortable when my mother was talking to her grandson earlier." I say remembering the startled look on her face when my Mum had cornered her on the couch and spent a good 20 minutes before I had managed to get away from an aunt to save her.
"Yeah she was one of the better ones, I mean she is his grandmother she does have some sort of right even if it is awkward. Your second cousin Steve on the other hand not so much. He reminds me of an older creepier version of your brother. I swear he was staring at my tits the whole time he was talking to me. Plus he stroked my stomach in more of a sexual advance than to greet our baby. Your Aunt didn't looked to pleased when I slapped him but I'm not going to have some prick drooling over me and thinking my baby gives him a right make advances" she says disgust in her tone.
"Yeah you had every right if you hadn't I would have when I found out about it. Plus it did get the crowds to start leaving, leading us to this blissful moment." I say kissing her neck and shoulder then resting my head there.
"Mmm yeah and not being here would be a tragedy." She says leaning back at a strange angle to meet her lips with mine for a second.
"You know babe I do love this whole carrying our son thing but at least when you were pregnant you didn't have random relatives fondling you. I mean my family's only me and mum and you didn't seem to mind either of us." she says causing me to laugh. She's right, I do have a rather large extended family and I think more than one of them are a little jealous of my hot wife. I guess up until now they've really had no excuse to touch her. Not that they had that right now but some of them seemed to think they did.
"Yeah some of my family are tossers. Speaking of which I meant to ask you why does Kelly dislike my grandmother so much?" I question. Kelly had jumped off my lap faster than I'd ever seen when Grandma had sat down to talk to me. She'd stayed well clear to. I'd seen her clinging to Naomi while Grandma talked to me and she had promptly returned to my lap once she left. I didn't expect the two of them to be best friends. After all I wasn't the biggest fan of my Grandmother she was for want of a better word a bitch. She believed what she believed and everyone else was wrong. I was fairly impressed my mother had managed to change some of her beliefs when I realised who she'd learnt from. At least she didn't seem to have a problem with Naomi and I probably the one belief I find appealing in her. Well to be fair I don't remember many of her other beliefs but I'm sure most of them are irrational and rigid.
"We let her watch Kelly one time. The bitch slapped our 2 year old daughter because she wouldn't eat the tuna sandwich she made her. Kelly was so upset about it. It's the only time anyone has ever punished her that way and she refuses to talk to her now. Poor kid won't even go back to her house. Not that I would let her anyway, nobody hit my daughter, she's a privilege to have around and if people abuse that they don't get the privilege" Naomi rants causing me smile against her shoulder.
"I love the way you're so protective babe" I whisper nudging my nose into her neck. I can smell the mixture of her perfume, sweat and Christmas dinner, it's a pretty good combination. I close my eyes letting myself really feel the moment. I didn't know if we had a moment like this before, I did know that this was one I didn't want to forget. I wanted to remember the way it felt and smelled and tasted. I kiss her skin gathering myself more information to store. I planned on staying like this as long as the warmth of the water would allow. I planned on remembering it forever.
"Why Mummy not come?" Kelly asks from her car seat. We're on our way to Naomi's favourite bakery to pick up a cake for her birthday tomorrow. I don't want her to know about it or the present we'll also be collecting so I'd been a little pleased when she had opted to stay in bed today. She was eight and a half months now and finding it a lot harder to keep up an active lifestyle with her massive bump. I remember thinking at Christmas time that she couldn't get much bigger than she was but the last month or so has seen her still steadily expanding. It was a good thing she was off work for a while because I doubt she would be able to perform her tasks as she is. Though she is somewhat of a super hero so I'm sure she would find a way to do it if she needed, proving me wrong would only be a bonus. Dr Graham seems fairly satisfied with the health of both her and Bradley saying tiredness was normal and to just do what was possible.
"Mummy's still in bed sweetie she's a little tired today. It's ok we'll see her when we get home." I inform Kelly who seems satisfied with my answer. She nods happily at me before turning her attention out the window.
The bakery is fair drive from our house so I was glad Kelly seemed happy observing the world. According to Katie it was about an hour and a half drive depending on traffic but it would be worth it. The bakery was in a small place called Bracknell situated between Bristol and London. Katie of course had been the source of all this information. Apparently the two of us had discovered it on one of our trips home from University after taking a slightly wrong turn. Naomi had declared the bakery to have the most amazing cheese cake she had ever tasted and so we had made it a regular stop when ever passing near by. Today of course not having these memories myself I'd had to programme the address my sister gave me into my GPS.
"Mumma" Kelly pipes up from the back seat.
"Yes Kel" I reply impressed that she's gone a full half an hour intently observing the scenery.
"I seed two white horses and then I seed a purple car" she says proud of her observations.
"That's great sweetie, are you ok back there you don't need to use the loo do you?" I ask hoping she's not to worried about the journey. She seems to be a fairly good traveller. She rarely complained or whinged on our long flights to and from New Zealand. The car travel we had done within the country hadn't bothered her either.
"No me good Mumma." She says as I see her smile happily in the rear vision mirror.
"I'm going to be a sister Mumma" she says to me a few seconds later.
"Yeah you are baby, your going to be a big sister to Bradley."
"Me be sister today" she says excitement in her voice.
"Yip you are a sister today and you'll be a sister to Bradley forever now, just like Mumma is a big sister to Uncle James." I reply happy that she's so excited about the fact. I just hope the excitement continues. We'd been warned that Kelly might be jealous and feel left out when Bradley was born. I wouldn't blame her right now she had the full attention of both me and Naomi, soon we'd all have another person to make time for.
"Me be sister today, Bradley be my little brother, Bradley be big and Bradley have red hair. He be my brother and he will play with my car with me and he like elephant." She says apparently enjoying making up stories about what her brother would be like.
"We're here Kel" I say as I pull into a park outside the bakery as by my GPS's demands. Kelly blinks slowly opening her eyes and looking up at me. She'd fallen asleep about forty minutes ago and looks up at me in surprise as the information we'd reached our destination. She holds her arms out to me and I pick her up enjoying her sleepy warmth as she cuddles into me trying to regain her senses.
"Bradley dog blanket" she says quietly into my neck.
"We're not going to give your brother Chessie's blanket when he's born sweetie. He'll get a brand new blanket of his own" I reply as we walk into the shop being greeted by the tingling of bells above the door.
"Green blanket" Kelly says nodding her head.
"Yeah that sounds good Kel we can get Bradley a green blanket. Right now we need to get Mummy her cake though." I reply making my way to the counter as an elderly woman makes her way through from out the back.
"Emily" she greet me with a smile and enthusiasm "How lovely to see you, is Naomi with you dear." the woman asks. Katie had failed to state that we were so popular at this bakery that we were greeted by name, by who I assume must be the owner of the establishment.
"No not today we're on secret business, we need to pick up one of her favourites for her birthday tomorrow." I say feeling rude that I can't address this lovely woman by name.
"Of course dear well your in luck I've just finished making a batch of berry, chocolate cheesecakes and it would be no problem to add some of the white chocolate piping that Naomi says makes it even better." She says smiling at me.
"That would be great thanks" I say looking round that store. It's got real character, there are cups and saucer sets all over the walls no set the same as another. There are mismatched tables and chairs far enough a part that each one has its own privacy. On top of the tables are intricate lacy tablecloths and on top of those are vases each with a different flower in it. I look to a table in the window that has a vase with tulips on it. I can suddenly see me and Naomi sitting there feeding each other cake. "Dorothy really does make the best cakes" Naomi says as we giggle and continue to feed each other. I smile knowing that this wasn't something I was imagining but a memory of one of our previous visits here.
"Yummy" Kelly says pointing to one of the cup cakes in the large glass counter. She right it does look yummy as do the numerous other treats on display.
"This is all ready for you Emily" who I now know is Dorothy says as she comes back into the front of the shop. "Aww your little Kelly's more awake now is she, hello sweetie and how are you?" she says smiling genuinely at Kelly.
"Me good" she replies "Mumma me want one those" she continues pointing to the cupcake. I'm about to tell her that because she's been very good we could get one to eat when we got home. Before I have a chance to vocalise that my phone begins ringing and I look at Dorothy apologetically.
"Hey Nai is everything ok?" I ask knowing from the ringtone that it's her calling.
"Ems you need to come home, my water just broke apparently Bradley thinks today is a good day to enter the world" she says. My mind begins racing, I'm and hour and a half away from home and my wife's going into labour.
"But he's not due for like another two weeks" I say not that it's a particularly helpful thing to say right now.
"Don't think he's too concerned about that now Ems. I on the other hand am quite concerned about my wife being here when our son arrives." She says causing me to panic.
"Shit" I say covering my mouth when I realise Kelly heard that. "Nai, I'll be there as soon as I can it's just that I'm about an hour and a half away" I admit hoping she'll take it well.
"What, where are you I thought you were just running some errands" she replies sounding upset by the information.
"Kelly and I were picking up a cake for your birthday so we're actually at our favourite bakery in Bracknell" I say biting my lip as I wait for her response.
"While that is a lovely thing to do Em's can you please just get home as fast as you can without putting you or Kel in danger. I need you here" she says sounding like she's about to cry.
"I'll be there as soon as I can Nai, I promise. Have you called Doctor Graham yet?" I ask trying to sort everything out. I wanted to hang up now and start driving as fast as I could back to Bristol but I needed to make sure Naomi was ok first.
"No I called you first, she shouldn't find out before you do" she replies.
"Ok well you need to call Doctor Graham then Nai. I'm going to be there as soon as I can but I'm going to call your mum and Katie ok so someone will be there with you until I get home" I tell her hoping she'll be ok with the plan.
"Ok" she says and I can hear her tearing up her voice an octave higher than it should be. "I just I need you to be here, you have to be here" she says desperately.
"I will be Naoms I promise, remember you told me I was in labour for 10 hours with Kelly." I say trying to reassure both me and her.
"Yeah" she says her voice small.
"Ok Nai I love you I'll be there as soon as I can call Doctor Graham yeah and then relax I'll make sure someone is there with you in a few minutes ok."
"Yeah ok" she agrees.
"Bye" I say
"Bye" she replies before hanging up the phone.
"Look I'm sorry Dorothy but I really have to go. How much is the cake?" I ask trying to hold Kelly and look for my wallet at the same time feeling very flustered.
"It's on the house Dear. I over heard bits of your conversation you need to get home to your wife, here's your cake and I've thrown in a couple of cup cakes and a celebration cake too" she says handing a bag across the counter to me.
"Thank you so much" I say grabbing the bag and rushing towards the door.
"No problem Emily, just make sure you bring that wife of yours and your children in fro me to see next time you're in the area" she says waving and smiling as I open the door. Kelly waves back at her from my arms.
"I will" I say smiling. I push speed dial two and bring the phone to my ear as we make our way to the car. It's somewhat difficult consider a bag of baked good is also in my hand but I need to sort this out now. I can't have Naomi at home in labour all by her self.
"Katie" I say as I hear someone answer.
"Yeah whats wrong Ems?" she asks able to hear the urgency in my tone in just the one word.
"Naomi, her water broke, I'm still in Bracknell. Please I need you to be with her until I can get home" I say probably sounding as close to tears as Naomi had a minute ago.
"Yeah of course Ems, I was actually on my way over there anyway. I needed to get her expert advice on a few things for work. That will probably need to wait till another day now I guess" she says. I don't want to hear about what's going on with her work right now. I want to know that someone's with my wife who's possibly experiencing high levels of distress and pain. "Just pulling into the drive now Ems, I'll look after her till you get here yeah, drive safe." She says and I hear a door open and close on her end of the line as she gets out the car.
"You shouldn't drive and talk on the phone" I say because I know she doesn't have a hands free set.
"Haven't we got bigger things to worry about right now? Get in the car and drive yeah, make sure you put your phone in your hands free Mrs Safety patrol." I smile she's right it was a silly thing to say I needed her to answer and she had.
"Ok bye Katie" I say realising that during our conversation I'd strapped Kelly into her car seat, put the bakery stuff in the boot and climbed into the diver's seat without even noticing.
"Bye Ems, Hey Naomi" I hear her say as she hangs up and I breath a little easier knowing that at least someone is with Naomi right now even if it should be me.
"You right Kelly?' I ask realising I had panicked and not actually told Kelly what was going on.
"Yip" she says smiling at me.
"Ok well we have to go home to Mummy now ok. Bradley is going to be born soon." I say looking at her before putting my phone in its hands free device and starting the car.
"I know" Kelly says apparently having understood most of my phone conversations and established the fact herself.
"Call Gina" I say to my phone as I pull out of the parking space. My phone dials and I hear ringing a moment later as I wait for my mother in law to pick up.
"Hello this is Gina, I'm unavailable right now, probably off protesting one of the great injustices of the world, I mean the state of the world these days, anyway please leave a message and I'll get back to you if your cause is worthy" I hear followed by an automated beep.
"Gina its Emily, Naomi's in labour and I'm on my way there but it's going to take me a while. Katie's there but I'm sure she'd want you there too. She'll be at home please get there as soon as you can" I say before hanging up my phone. I hope she'll be able to understand the message because I was talking quite fast.
"Mumma" Kelly says from the backseat while I drive as quickly as I safely can. I need to try and calm down a bit for Kelly. It can't be good for her to see her mother so distressed.
"Yes sweetie" I say as calmly as I can right now. In my head I'm wishing that there really was Hogwarts, that I been there and had the ability of apparition. It would be really bloody handy right now.
"Ok, we be home for Mummy, Bradley be born later" Kelly says. I can't help but smile at this. My three year old daughter trying to reassure me it really is priceless.
"I hope so sweetie, thank you for being such a big help to Mumma today." I say really appreciating how easy going Kelly was being.
"It ok Mumma, me love you" she says kissing her hand and sloppily blowing it towards me.
"Love you too sweetie" I say looking at her in the rear vision mirror. Just them my phone starts to ring and I break the eye contact as I answer.
"Hello"
"Hello Emily" I hear Gina's voice. "Is everything ok, I tried to listen to your message but being the ditzy old bird that I am I accidently deleted it." She says, if I wasn't so worried about getting home right now I probably would have laughed at that but instead I get straight into telling her what's happening.
"I'll head over to your house right now" she says after listening to the same thing I'd told her on the voice mail.
"Thanks Mum" I say pleased someone else I trust can be with Naomi in my absence. "I should be there in about an hour all going well" I tell her.
"Ok love I'll see you soon, bye" she says.
"Bye" I reply. Not 10 seconds after I've hung up does my phone begin to ring again.
"Hello" I say again as I answer the phone.
"Ems" Katie's voice comes through the line "I don't want to panic you more than you already are but since you talked to Naomi like forty minutes ago her contractions have been getting closer and closer together. If the strength at which she's squeezing my hand is anything to go by its bloody painful too, you need to get here Em's. She keeps asking when you're going to be here says she can't do this without you. Little tyke has other ideas apparently Doc says she's already 7 centimetres whatever the fuck that means but apparently she's progressing quickly. Little bit uncomfortable about being in the room with you wife's having her lady bits inspected" she says laughing good heartily.
"I'm trying Katie ok, I'm coming as fast as I can" I say knowing I'd be in tears if I wasn't trying to keep it together for Kelly. I couldn't remember the birth of my first child; I'd feel like utter crap if I missed the birth of my second.
"I Know Ems just get here as fast as possible without hurting yourself or that niece of mine ok?" Katie says.
"Its ok to hurt other people then?" I ask trying to lighten the mood.
"Try and avoid that too I guess if it's possible" she says laughing.
"Ok Gina should be there in a minute Katie, so you won't have to be the one getting their hand broken." I say.
"Ok I really don't mind you know" she says I and hear Naomi groaning in pain in the background. "Shit that sounds like she's having another contraction I better get back to her. I'll tell her you love her and all the mushy shit and that you'll be here soon" she says.
"Thanks Katie" I say before hanging up.
"Still ok there Kel ?" I ask putting my foot a little heavier on the pedal eager to get home as soon as possible.
"Mmm" Kelly hums on the edge of sleep again.
"Ok sweetie shout out if you need anything." I say hoping that her being asleep will let me focus on getting home.
"Mmmm" she says again.
"Hello" I yell as I open the door carrying a sleepy Kelly.
"Ems" Katie responds running down the stairs. She takes Kelly from me and gesturing upstairs.
"She's in the guest room" Katie says pushing me towards the stairs "don't worry about Kelly, we might go for a walk to the park eh Kel how does that sound?" I hear my sister ask as I run up the stairs. I can see why she was suggesting it. Naomi appeared to have just been hit with another contraction and the noises she was making might distress Kelly a little.
"No, I'm not pushing until Emily's here" I hear Naomi yell as I reach the top of the stairs and head towards the guest room. I walk in and immediately make my way over to Naomi kneeling down next to her. She's spread out on the bed. Someone's taken the time to spread a large plastic sheet out over it to protect it from the mess; they had also put down a few towels for Naomi's comfort. Naomi looks quite worn out sweat covers her forehead and she's wearing nothing but an old t-shirt with a pig on it.
"You're just in time Emily this thing's about to happen" Dr Graham says standing at the end of the bed between Naomi's legs. Gina is on the opposite side of the bed from me holding Naomi's hand. She smiles at me a look of relief crossing her face.
"Ems" Naomi says looking at me, I brush some of the hair from her forehead and kiss it.
"I'm here Nai, I so sorry it took me so long" I say.
"Naomi you're about to have another contraction, this time when the contraction hits I need you to push ok" Dr Graham says. She's right a contraction does hit a few second later, officially stopping our conversation. Naomi grabs my hand squeezing it hard as she pushes as hard as she can through the contraction. Tears stream down her face and she cries out in pain. I feel helpless, I'm so glad I made it in time but I don't know what to do now. The contraction finishes and Naomi loosens her grip on both mine and Gina's hands.
"It hurts Em, it hurts so much" she says looking at me. "I can't do it, I'm not strong like you, you're amazing" Naomi says trying to give up.
"I know sweetie, I know it hurts, but you can do this you're the most amazing person I know." I tell her.
"But I can't" Naomi moans.
"You can't Naomi, I think you can do anything. You need to push babe, don't you want to meet our baby boy?"
"Here comes another one, you need to push just like you did last time" Dr Graham says. "You're doing great Naomi" she adds.
"Yeah darling you're doing fantastic" Gina adds patting Naomi's arm.
Naomi sniffs looking at me for confirmation. I nod at her and take my free hand to stroke her cheek. She lets out another groan getting louder as the contraction continues.
"That's great Naomi keep pushing" Dr Graham says.
"That's it Naomi, he's crowning I can see the top of his head."
"Can I look?" I whisper to Naomi. I don't want to make her feel more uncomfortable than she already is but I want to get a look at our son as he enters the world. She squeezes my hand nodding. I kiss her hand still holding it as I move slightly so I can get a view of our emerging son. The sight shocks me a little. I can see why Naomi was feeling so much discomfort especially since she had refused any drugs. It was a mixture of disgusting, unusual and amazing. A tear comes to my eye as I see his head slowly appear as Naomi continues to push. I smile at the sight of our son and move back up to Naomi's head.
"You need to keep pushing babe. Our son's beautiful I could see his head. He's got little tuffs of orange hair Nai" I tell her causing a smile to spread across her tired sweaty face.
"Look at him" Naomi says cradling our son carefully in her arms. "He's, he's perfect" she says through tears.
"Yeah you're both perfect" I say moving onto the bed next to her. Our son wasn't even twenty minutes old yet but we were cuddled up on our bed at home. Dr Graham had checked over both Naomi and Bradley and given them both a clean bill of health. Gina after kissing each of us had left in search of Kelly and Katie.
"I love you Naomi, you did an amazing job" I tell her wrapping my arms around her kissing her on the lips. Then leaning down and kissing my son's head. This moment feels perfect, I'm with two people I love more than anything in the world, Kelly would be the only thing that could make it better right now. I stare down at the tiny bundle in Naomi's arms. He's wrapped in a green blanket with dogs on it that Gina had brought for him. She's also brought him a cute toy elephant, saying it was a grandmother's job to buy the first soft toy. He crinkles his nose in his sleep fussing slightly causing both me and Naomi to coo.
"Marry me" I blurt suddenly.
"What?" Naomi says looking up from our baby for the first time since he was born.
"I know we're already married it's just I can't remember it. This, this is so perfect and I want to be able remember how perfect it felt marrying you." I explain my mind all over the place. "So Naomi Campbell, love of my life, mother of my children would you do me the honour of marrying me again?" I ask hoping I don't sound like a rambling idiot.
"Yes" she says smiling widely at me before mashing her lips against mine. She's still all sweaty and her lips taste a little salty but this is another perfect moment to add to the list.
"Can I hold him again before the mobs arrive?" I ask having only held Bradley Ryan Fitch-Campbell for a minute or so since he was born.
"Of course babe sorry" she says handing me the bundle in her arms carefully. I shuffle closer to her leaning against her as I hold this tiny little life that had been growing within her for months. I bring him up to my chest leaning forward and kissing him inhaling his scent. He starts to fuss opening his mouth and letting out a small cry.
"Shhh" I sooth him pulling him closer to my chest so he can hear my heart. "It ok baby you're mummies are right here." He continues to fuss a little; Naomi brings her arm around to cover mine. He's now being embraced by both his mothers and it seems to help settle him.
"This ones a little attention seeker" I say smiling at her, apparently that was something I couldn't stop doing today.
"Yeah think we're going to have our hands full with him and Kelly" she replies bringing her free hand down to softly stroke his cheek.
"Mmmm" I say kissing her on the shoulder where my head is leaning.
"Mummy, Mumma" Kelly screams running into the room destroying our quiet moment. I smile at her utter excitement. I hand Bradley back to Naomi motioning for Kelly to climb up beside me. I didn't want her hurting Naomi with all her excitement.
"Bradley" Kelly says leaning over and gently stroking his hair in a fashion similar to that she did Chessie's. "Love you" she says leaning closer and pressing a sloppy kiss to his cheek causing more tears to well in my eyes. I look to Naomi catching her looking at me, tears in her eyes too. I can tell we're both marvelling at the perfectness of this moment. I mark it off as number three for the day and wonder how long the streak can continue.
Well there we go mammoth chapter. Hope you liked it. I don't have any knowledge of any landmarks in England Bracknell was found on Google maps and I choose it because I played Lady Bracknell once in the Importance of being Ernest. Comments would be great. I have a feeling the next chapter will be the last of this story. I do think I'll add few random snippets from the future at some stage though because I just can't help but imagine the kids as they get older. Thanks to those who are still following loyally. :)