"Come on Samantha, you can do it just one last push and you'll have your baby!" the doctor yelled.
Sam screamed through clenched teeth, using all her energy to force out one more push and collapsed back onto the pillow, exhausted.
"That was great Sam, we just need one more."
"You said that was the last one."
"I know I did sweetie but we need another I can see the head, we're nearly there." The doctor looked up with a sympathetic look. "The poor kid," she thought, " only 18 and giving birth on her own. The father was away training and had left his wife alone to give birth in Navy base hospital surrounded by strangers.
The next contraction engulfed Sam's body and she pushed with all her might. "I'm dying," she thought, "this pain is too much, I can't take it, it's like my body's going to be torn in two." Then, suddenly there was relief as the pain left and Sam felt her baby slithered out of her body.
"You have a daughter," announced the doctor. She held up the tiny, baby covered in blood and fluid, face startled like she wasn't quite sure if she should be here. The doctor placed the baby on Sam's chest. Sam stared down at her; she didn't know what to say or do, so she just wrapped her arms around her daughter, closed her eyes and let all the pain of the last 17 hours just melt away.
She looked down at her little girl, she still couldn't believe she was hers. Lily, that was her name, they had agreed on that name before Pete had gone away for offshore training. Sam had been furious when he had told her he might be away when the baby was born. He was due back in a week and Sam couldn't wait, if she was perfectly honest it wasn't Pete she was missing it was simply having someone around.
Her parents had been furious when she had informed them of her and Pete's plans, she hadn't spoken to them since. Pete's parents still spoke with him, but they disapproved of Sam and she felt uncomfortable around them. All her high school friends had gone to college or gotten jobs, Sam had hardly spoken to them, they lead different now. So Sam only had Pete now, and Lily of course she would always have Lily.