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Chapter 34:
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The next two months passed by with very little remarks at school about Demi's pregnancy. It was the morning of the ultrasound. Demi looked down at her stomach. Bradin couldn't deny it now, there was a clear little bump there now for the world to see. She was in maternity clothes now, as her old jeans were threatening to cut her legs off as they were so tight. Demi donned a cute purple flounce top that came out quite a few inches, resting on her bump. She decided to check on how her baby should be doing at this point on the internet. Demi knew she was 20 weeks pregnant, that didn't sound like much, even though she knew it meant she was half way though the pregnancy. But when she thought about it in months instead of weeks the number seemed scarier. 5 months! Demi couldn't believe it had been 5 months since she and Bradin… she pushed that thought out of her head. Demi thought it was a little weird when she learnt that the baby has fingerprints now. She groaned when she learned she was about to put on 1-3 stone. She'd felt the baby quite a lot more lately. There were still lots of flutters, and she could feel them a lot stronger now, but there were also little punches and kicks every now and then, especially, it seemed, in the morning. It was a Saturday, so Demi had allowed Nikki to come along for the ultrasound as well, as she'd asked to do not long after they found out about the baby. The ultrasound wasn't until 4:30 that afternoon, so Demi sat in the front room and watched TV for a little while. She'd only been watching for 5 minutes when there was a knock on the door.
"Hey, Adam." Demi said with a smile, receiving a quick kiss and letting him into the house.
"Got any plans for today?" He asked with a smile. "Because I was thinking we could go down to the beach for a while and then go for dinner, my treat. Maybe we could stop by my house after, it's been ages since you've been round and you haven't even met my parents yet." Adam said with a laugh.
"Um, I've got an ultrasound today, Adam. I thought I told you."
"Oh. Well, I could come with you if you like, then maybe we could go to dinner afterwards. What time is your ultrasound?"
"4:30, but me and Bradin are already going…" Demi said awkwardly. "Maybe we could hang out tomorrow, though?" Demi offered.
"Oh, I would but I've got plans, my brothers coming down to see us." Adam told her. She didn't think he seemed to happy about her turning down his plans, and he hated when she and Bradin went places together. "Some other time, though, maybe."
"I would've invited you to come, Adam, but 'd already said yes to Bradin, he wants to be really involved with the whole pregnancy and-"
"It's fine, really. I'll see you later." He said before turning and leaving. Demi decided she couldn't be bothered with the whole suspicious, moody boyfriend thing at the moment and decided to forget about it.
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Demi looked down at her watch. 4:00!
"Bradin!" She said, knocking on his door.
"What?" He called from inside.
"The ultrasound, come on!" She heard him get off his bed and come to the door. Demi shouted up the stairs for Nikki.
"Nikki, come on, we're going to the hospital!" Nikki quickly ran down the stairs to meet them.
"Aunt Ava, we're taking your car!" Bradin shouted upstairs to her, grabbing the keys. They heard a faint 'ok' and left the house. Nikki talked animatedly about the ultrasound, about how excited she was to see the baby and find out the sex of her niece or nephew. They arrived at the hospital in 15 minutes and had to wait in the waiting room. Demi sat, slightly bored, not nearly as anxious about this ultrasound as she had been about the first and second one.
"ooh." Demi said quickly.
"What's up?" Nikki asked.
"It kicked." Demi said with a smile. Nikki and Bradin hadn't felt that many kicks of the baby, but they had felt a few. It tended to stop as soon as other people touched it, but sometimes it kept going. Demi took Nikki's hand and placed it where the baby had just kicked and waited. Nikki gasped and smiled when it kicked again. Bradin grinned at the two of them.
"Demi King?" A doctor called.
"That's me." She said, walking over to him, followed by Bradin and Nikki. She was instructed to lay on the bed and did so, lifting her top and inching down her trousers so her full bump was visible. The doctor turned on the screen and she was once again warned that the gel is cold. He pressed the instrument onto Demi's belly and spread the gel around, pushing down to see the baby, but it wasn't exactly hard, it was so much bigger this time around. She looked at it, awed. You could clearly see it now, a big head and a biggish body to match. She could see its little hands, screwed up into fists. It was moving around quite a bit and they even saw the baby kick on the monitor, whilst Demi felt it, too. Even though the ultrasound isn't all-too clear, Demi could swear she could kind of see Bradin in the baby, even a little bit of herself, but definitely Bradin.
"Would you like to know the sex of the baby?" The doctor asked with a smile.
"Yeah." Demi said, smiling as butterflies fluttered in her stomach that weren't because of the baby. He doctor moved the instrument around.
"As you can see on the screen," the doctor said with a little laugh at the baby's clear-as-day genitals, "it's a boy." The doctor finished the ultrasound and Demi wiped her belly of the gel. They got a photo of the scan and were on their way back home.
--Back at home--
"So… what is it?" Ava asked from the sofa where she, Johnny and Susannah were sat once the three of them came in.
"It's a…"
"Don't tease us!" Susannah said with a laugh.
"Boy!" Demi exclaimed happily. Ava, Johnny and Susannah gave their congratulations "Thanks." Demi laughed.
"So, have you thought of names?" Susannah asked.
"Nope." Bradin replied.
"I'm not sure whether to think of names yet, maybe we should wait until it's born to see if the name matches him?" Demi suggested. Bradin gave her a pining look. "It was only a suggestion!" She said, holding up her hands, mockingly.
"Well, why don't you think of a name now, judging by what you saw on the ultrasound?" Johnny suggested.
"He looks like Bradin, definitely." Demi said with a smile.
"I thought that, too." Nikki agreed.
"I've got an idea for the name… well, the middle name." Bradin said.
"What?" Demi asked curiously.
"Robert. My dad was called Bob, so I kinda wanna do that for him, y'know, give my first child his name. But I don't want Robert or Bob as the first name, it seems kinda old." Bradin said with a little laugh. Demi smiled at him.
"Ok, the baby's middle name's Robert."
"Thanks."
"So what about the first name?" Ava asked. "I kinda like…"
"No, don't!" Demi said quickly. "I don't want to think of too many things all at once, we'll leave it's first name for another day." She said firmly. They all muttered ok and dropped the subject of names, instead passing the ultrasound photo around.
--Later that night--
Demi sat in her room, bored. She'd just sent a text to Adam to tell him that the baby's a boy, and he hadn't replied. She decided he was being pathetic and would just leave him for a little bit, to cool off even though she hadn't done anything wrong. She decided she'd get some early sleep, which didn't come as easy to her now as it had done in the first trimester of pregnancy.
The walls of the room around were covered in blue wallpaper, covered in teddies. Demi looked at the crib a few feet in front of her. Through the white bars she could see a blue quilt. There was a changing table in the room, a shelf filled with baby toys and a wardrobe and drawers. She put her hands to her stomach. It was flat. She jumped when she heard a baby crying. She ran to the crib. It was empty. The crying got louder and louder. It was within the room. Demi looked around frantically. The crying continued to get louder, the baby seeming to sound more desperate. She ran for the door and turned the handle, pulling the door, but it was no use. It was locked. The crying rang in her ears. She put her hands to them. She looked at all the toys around her, seeming to stare sown at her, all the eyes of the teddies and clowns beginning to really freak her out. The baby was screaming and crying. Demi pulled up the quilts, checking again for the baby.
"Where's my baby!?" Demi screamed. The crying got louder, louder than Demi thought was possible.
"WHERE'S MY BABY!?" Demi screamed through tears.
"Demi, wake up, it's just a nightmare!!" Demi sat bolt upright in her bed, breathing heavily. She noticed her face was wet with tears and quickly began to wipe it. Bradin looked at her, concerned. "You ok?"
"Yeah, just a dream… a weird dream." She looked around the room, checking that she was back in her room. She put her hands to her stomach and found the bump was there again. She breathed a small sigh of relief.
P/S: Ok, guy's, I've already got a name and everything, but I think there might be better ones for the baby. Tell me any names you think sound good, but they have to have Robert as a middle name. :D Review and tell me!