Suddenly I felt a kick in my stomach. I looked at the clock. When I saw that over two hours had passed I fell back in my chair. I walked over to the middle of the floor with great effort. How the pain disturbed me! I was glad I could rest when I finnally settled down. The baby was coming, and I needed to get to the hostipal quickly!

"What's wrong?!" Lily asked me. "What happened?"

"My baby's coming." I told her. "Will you please call my aunt? She can pick me up and bring me to the hostipal. I need to get there as soon as I can."

"Okay I'll call her. Remember, the pain starts about 3 hours before the baby atually is ready to come out into the world." Lily told me as she dialed the phone in the other room. Soon she came out and handed the phone to me. "Your aunt is on the phone now."

I carefully lifted the phone to my mouth to speak to Meg. "Meg, the baby's coming. Can you come pick me up at 68 Woodstruck Road? I'm afraid I can't get to the hostipal myself."

"Sure thing Jo. I'll be there as soon as I can. Bye. I'll see you there!" Meg told me.

Relief flooded over me. "Bye Meg. Thank you." I hung up and handed the phone back to Lily, who put it back on the reciever. She would probably be here within 45 minutes. I would have to suffer the pain but at least the baby would come in the hostipal and not here in a normal house. I will need a docter with me to make sure my baby is healthy.

Suddenly another jolt of pain disturbed me. It was unbearable. I hope Meg will get here soon! Then my cell phone rang. When I picked it up I found that it was Meg.

"I'm stuck in traffic." Meg told me. "I'm sorry, but you're probably going to have to wait alittle longer than expected. I hope the baby stays put."

"It should." I told her. "I just want the labor to be over." The pain disturbed me again. "Well Meg, just get here as soon as you can."

"Don't worry Jo. Of course I will." Meg reassured me.

(Three hours pass.)

Meg still hadn't arrived. I was getting very worried. Had Meg gotten into an accident or something? And how long would the baby last? It was to come out in approximately 20 minutes. But just as I was thinking this a car pulled up in the driveway.

"Meg-" I said with all my effort. "Meg."

"Lets get her into the hostipal. It looks as if the baby's coming right now." A voice said.

I woke up. I didn't know I had fallen asleep, but apparently I had, because if I hadn't I wouldn't be waking up right now. I looked around me. I was on a strecher, and a nurse was opening a door to an empty hostipal room. I was here at last! The baby was kicking me as hard as it could. As I was laid down upon the empty bed, I felt a pain that stabbed me worst of all! I let out a screech, and the nurse bent down at my side.

"It'll be all right Mrs. Harding." The nurse told me. "I hated the pain too when I was having a baby."

And before I knew it, the baby had been released from my body, and the pain started to die away. I looked up with a smiling face a my new baby; a girl. The nurse layed her down in my arms, and the baby girl looked at me with her bright blue eyes. I had a baby at last. What would Bill say? I looked around at all the smiling faces: Meg, Lily, the nurse...

I had a baby girl!