Chapter five: A Baby?
A few weeks after Christine had come back to her Erik, life had beengoing along quite well. She visited Meg and her other friends for a few hours everyday, always sang with her Angel, and she had no worries about Raoul.
Although, within the few weeks, Christine had become awfully sick. She was vomiting a lot in the morning, she was very tired, and a bit unhappy for no reason. Of course, she tried not to take her unusual anger outon Erik. He seemed to understand, and played relaxing music to soothe his love's discomfort when she was resting.
Erik began to get really worried about Christine. "What if she has the flu?" he wondered aloud one day, while she was at the doctor's. Theflu had been a very deathly at the time. It would kill Erik if Christine died.
When Christine arrived back, Erik ran to meet her. "Are you okay?" he asked. "Why are you rubbing your heel?"
"Oh, Caesar, didn't want to go down the stairs and I gave him one tap too hard with my heel," she said.
"Did he bolt?" Erik asked, concerned.
"No, but..." a smile started to spread across Christine's face.
"What?"
"Well..." Christine started, playfully. "Erik, have you ever heard of a stork?"
"A stork?" Erik asked, confused. "Well... yes, it's a bird isn't it?"
"That brings what?"
"Uh..." Erik felt kind of awkward. Why was Christine talking about birds when she was sick. Christine suddenly sighed and pulled Erik close.
"Nevermind about the stork, it's a child's tale. I'll cut to the chase... Erik... I'm having a baby."
Erik's heart seemed to stop. A baby? His and Christine's baby? Someone to carry on his name? His father had always told him he was useless, and he hated him because no one would carry on his name. Oh how wrong you are, Erik thought. Erik reminded himself it might be a girl, but he was to shocked and happy to care.
"Christine?.." Erik said. "A baby...? Our baby...? " Christine smiled even wider and nodded. Erik smiled too. He hadn't done that in a while. He picked Christine up and twirled her around. He hugged her hard... but not so hard, not wanting to damage their baby. He kissed her for a long time. When the two finally broke apart Erik's visible part of his face was shining with tears of joy. "My god..." he said. "I'm going to be a father..."
