The next day, Sunday, November 7, 2032, Jake's home, 2:00AM
Rayeleigh and Leah are 39 weeks pregnant with their daughters, they will be 40 weeks tomorrow, and Maya is now 29 weeks pregnant with her son and daughter. After everything that Rayeleigh did yesterday, she decided to take a break from studying. She and Leah are doing homeschooling until their daughters are six weeks old. They stopped going to school before their baby showers.
It was late at night after Jake and Rayeleigh had sex to help with labor and they just had fallen asleep when Rayeleigh felt something she never felt before. It was new to her. Her eyes widened when she opened her eyes, sat up and turned on her bed side lamp.
"Jake?" She says, a little panicked as she began shaking his shoulder. Not long after, Jake opened his eyes and sat up, placing a hand on her back. "Baby, are you alright?" He asks, concerned.
She shook her head. "No! I think my water broke!" She says, getting out of the bed as fast as she could, but was hard because she was 39 weeks pregnant.
He nods his head as he stood up from the bed and began putting on his sweatshirt and sweat pants. After putting his clothes on, he helped Rayeleigh get into her clothes. After making sure everything was in his car, he woke up Carter, Caliey and Charlotte and made sure they were buckled in the back seats. He helped Rayeleigh into the passenger seat.
"Are you comfortable?" He asks her, and she nods slowly. "As comfortable as I can be. I haven't been comfortable for weeks." She tells Jake, who nods before jumping into the drivers seat and texting Jocelyn to meet him at the hospital.
Jake; Rayeleigh's water broke. Meet me at the hospital, please. I'll need you to take the kids back to your place.
After sending that message, Jake drove out of the driveway and headed straight to the hospital.
Fifteen minutes later, they finally arrived at the hospital. After getting all three of kids out of the car, Jake helped Rayeleigh out of the car. They slowly walked towards the entrance of the hospital. As they were checking into the hospital, Jake's phone pings, alerting him he has a message.
He looks at his phone. Jocelyn had sent him a message.
Jocelyn; I'm outside in the parking lot. I'll come and get them for you.
Jake; Thanks.
Jocelyn; Good luck. Give Rae a kiss for me. Can't wait to see pictures of the next little princess.
After letting Jocelyn take Carter, Caliey and Charley with her, a nurse rushes Rayeleigh upstairs in the elevator to the labor and delivery ward. As they were heading to their room, Rayeleigh had her first contraction.
She winced in pain, shutting her eyes shut tightly as she grabbed onto the wheelchair, gripping it tightly as she groans in pain. "Ouch!" She yelps, sighing as the contraction goes away after a minute of tightening.
"Are you okay, babe?" Jake looks at her. She opens her eyes and nods her head. "Yeah, I just had a contraction." She says, breathing deeply in and out as they finally reached her labor and delivery room. She got into a gown and since she was just contracting not far apart yet, her doctor let her walk around the room for a bit.
Leah was in her bed, fast asleep when she felt the sharpest pain she ever experienced in her life. She shot up in bed, grabbed her phone and the first person she decides to call was Brayden.
Her parents are out of town for a few days and she wasn't expecting to go into labor tonight. She took a deep breath before pressing the call button.
After three rings, Brayden finally answered. "Hello? Leah? Is everything alright?" Brayden asked, with every concern he had in his body. Why was she calling him at 2:30AM? Is the baby coming?
Leah breathed in and out before wincing in a bit of pain. "Oh crap, I think I'm in labor! I need to come over and drive me, please?" She asked her childhood friend.
Brayden looks at Laura, who could hear the fear in Leah's voice. She nodded her head and mouths to him. "You need to go take her to the hospital. I'll be fine with Emma. Go!" She mouths to her boyfriend. Brayden nods his head and puts the phone back to his ear.
"Leah, I'll be there as soon as I can, okay? I'm coming to take you to the hospital." Brayden makes sure Leah knows he'll be there as soon as possible.
"Okay..." Leah mumbles softly. After getting off the phone with Leah, Brayden quickly changes and then kisses Laura goodbye and rushes downstairs and out to his car to drive to Leah's.
On the way there though, he dials his Aunt London, who is in NYC in a meeting. "Aunt London, it's Brayden. Leah just called me to tell me she's in labor and I'm going over there to take her to the hospital..."
London's eyes widened. "Okay, Brayden. There should be a spare key to the house in the lock box. I'll text you the code, alright?" She says, and Brayden nods his head. "Okay." He nods as he parks into the driveway and gets out. After hanging up with his aunt London, he gets the text soon after hanging up and not even two minutes later, Brayden walks into the house and runs upstairs to his friend's room. Like the gentleman he is, he knocks on the door.
"Leah? Can I come in?" He asks. Leah laughs, shaking her head.
Has he forgotten he has seen my naked body before? No? I guess he has forgotten.
"Just come in! Have you forgotten we slept with each other?" Leah jokingly asks as she gets her pants on. "Uh, yeah, I guess I did forget..." Brayden mutters.
After Leah gets her things together, they head off to the hospital, where his sister is giving birth to his niece. Once signed in, Leah was rushed up to the labor and delivery floor and put into her room. By this time, it was almost 3:00AM.
Leah looks at Brayden, who was holding her as she walked around her hospital room. "Brayden?"
"Yeah, Leah?" Brayden looks back at her as he was holding her in his arms. "I want you to be in the room when I give birth..." Leah tells him, looking up at him. Brayden just gave a smile. "I'd be honored to be here for you, Lee. Anything you need." He tells her.
Leah nods her head. "My parents won't be here for a few hours so I'm happy to have you here with me."
"Happy to help you through this." Brayden smiles at her. "So, her name is Nevaeh Faith, huh?" He asks his friend. A big smile forms on her face as she nods. "Yeah. Nevaeh is heaven backwards and I just love the name Faith. It just goes so well with Nevaeh." Leah tells him.
"I completely agree with you." Brayden smiles.
Meanwhile, Rayeleigh's Hospital Room
Rayeleigh was in her hospital room, walking around with Jake, while holding onto him while she is going through another contraction rock her body. It has been an hour at the hospital now. She has only felt two contractions so far.
"How are you feeling, babe?" Jake asks her as he holds her in his arms. "Uncomfortable. I'm only two centimeters and I feel like I should be more dilated, but sadly, I'm not..." She sighs into his chest.
He nods his head. "You can do this, baby. You got this." Jake whispered to her.
"I don't think I'd be able to handle this without you." She mutters. "I can't imagine going through this without you."
Jake kisses her head. "I couldn't let you go through this without me, baby girl."
5 hours later, It's now 7:00AM and Rayeleigh is stalling at 5cm while Leah is now at 4cm.
Rayeleigh groans as she still feels tightening, but is stalling. She buried her head into her pillow.
"Ugh! This fucking sucks! I don't want to go through this again any time soon..." She moans in pain.
"I'm sorry, Leigh." Jake mutters into her ear. "Soon, you'll be able to get the epidural..."
"I fucking hope so!" She screams into her pillow.
For the next 48 hours, Leah and Rayeleigh go through their contractions and stalling here and there - it's now November 9th, 2032 and Rayeleigh and Leah are now 8cm. Both feeling better with the medication because they have had gone through hours and hours without any kind of medication. They have been in labor for 53 hours now.
Leah's Hospital Room
Brayden sighs as he sits back down in the chair beside Leah's hospital bed after handing her ice chips. "Are you feeling better now, Leah?"
Leah nods her head weakly, giving him a small smile. "I could feel better about having a baby's head coming out of me in a few hours but other than that, I'm good I guess. I'm never wanting to go through this again!" She says, popping one of the ice chips into her mouth.
Brayden was about to say something when he heard someone knocking on the door. He got up and walked over to the door. He opened the door slowly and his eyes widened when he saw Josh standing in front of him.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Brayden asked Josh in an angry tone.
Josh glares at Brayden, crossing his arms over his chest. "I'm here to see my daughter, dumbass."
Brayden shook his head. "Unfortunately for you, she's not here yet and Leah hasn't said anything about you or wanting you here."
Josh gave him a questionable look. "Did she now?"
Brayden nods his head. "Yes, she did, dumbass. You weren't even told that she was in labor, so why are you here?" He asked with annoyance in his tone of his voice.
"My mom told me, bro. Let me see her, please." Josh was now wanting to see her, but Brayden won't allow him to do so. "No." Brayden says, shaking his head.
"No? Why the fuck not?" Josh glared at him. "Because Leah doesn't need you here, asshole. She is going through so much pain and doesn't need to be remembered on what the fuck you did to her! Excuse me while I go comfort her. You can see yourself out."
Josh groans as he walked away from Leah's room, mumbling to himself.
Rayeleigh's hospital room, a few minutes later
Rayeleigh's doctor, Dr. Johnson walks inside and shuts the door. "Ready for a baby, Rayeleigh?" She asks as she walks over to the teen, who is in her hospital bed, panting for breath.
"Ready whenever I can be, I guess..." The seventeen year old says, looking at her boyfriend. "I'm NOT going through this for a LONG time, Jake. I swear to God, I'm not!" She yells at him as her doctor gets all growned up.
"Alright, let's have a baby..."
Leah's hospital room, same time
Leah had dried tears on her face when she looks at Brayden. "I...I don't think I can do this, Brayden..." She starts to tear up.
Brayden shakes his head. "I don't think you have a choice to back out, Lee. You can do this. I know you can. I'm right here."
London looks at her daughter. "I'm here now, sweetie. You can do this. You are so strong."
Leah nods her head. "Okay. Let's have a baby..."
Leah's doctor nods. "Alright. Let's do this."
AN: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The next chapter is the finale. I feel a different kind of way with this story. I can't believe it's ending...
I love you! See you soon with the finale!
