A/N: I did alot of research for this chapter. I don't know anything about pregnancy so I had to do alot of research to find out some things to be accurate. Emma is around eighteen weeks or five months for the majority of this chapter.
So that's all I have to say and I hope you enjoy this chapter!!
With a small sigh, Emma's eyes fluttered open. She looked around the dark room and then her eyes found her way to the clock and she let out another sigh. It was early but it was too late for her to go back to sleep. The alarm would be going off in just a half an hour.
The bed squeaked under her as she moved her body to reach her arm over and turn the alarm off. As she did so, Will's arm that was loosely hanging over her throughout the night slipped off of her and onto the bed.
Emma flipped herself around slowly to face her husband. He was still fast asleep and looking adorable with his face buried in the pillow. She reached out and lightly traced her finger down his jaw line, admiring him. Even at her touch Will did not stir at all, he was out for the count. She knew there was no use waking him up just because she was awake. Besides she loved to admire him while he was asleep. She often would wake up earlier than him and just watch him sleep. Occasionally he would wake up and catch her and after her embarrassment of being caught the first time, Will admitted that he also would watch her for some time after she fell asleep. She never thought watching the person you love sleeping could be so entertaining.
As much as she wanted to stay and continue to watch Will sleep she knew she should get up and start getting ready for the work day. She groaned inside her head, closed her eyes for a second and cuddled up under the blankets. It was so warm and she didn't want to leave Will's side.
But she reluctantly pushed herself up out of the bed but not before giving her sleeping husband a longing glance. She let out a small groan as she lifted her self up. She was so not used to the new weight she was carrying.
She quietly and slowly tiptoed around the room to gather her clothing in order to not wake up Will. She went into the bathroom and quietly shut the door. She took care of her business first and foremost. She had been having to go to the bathroom constantly over the last few weeks and it annoyed her to no end. Luckily the morning sickness stopped about a month ago. She was so ecstatic when it went from happening every day to every few days to every week to every few weeks to none at all. She knew that in the first twelve to thirteen weeks of her pregnancy she had vomited more than she had in her entire life, maybe even counting her infancy.
Luckily she was able to control it more at school. It was more of a mind over matter thing for her. She hated vomiting to begin with but the thought of doing it in public was absolutely horrifying to her. She felt incredibly nauseous throughout the day but she managed to push it back. It slipped out of her control once in a while and every time, after she was done, she would make her way over to Will's room, hope he wasn't in the middle of teaching and break down in his arms. Then after she let it out for a couple of minutes, she composed herself, thanked Will and made her way back to her office. There were the few occasions where Will was involved in a class and so she managed to suck it up and just cry quietly in her office for a little while.
But there was one time where it was really bad. She was so nauseated in the morning and Will even mentioned that she looked a little pale. He suggested that she stayed home but she refused. When she got to school she only lasted an hour before running to the bathroom. She knew Will was in a class so she didn't even bother going to his classroom. She was fine until after lunch. The little she did eat for lunch was removed from her stomach and she started crying before she even left the bathroom. At that point in time they were still trying to hide the pregnancy and it was easy because Emma wasn't really showing much at all. But unfortunately for her a few students were in the bathroom during her last morning sickness episode and rumors started flying. But for then she ignored the whispers of the students and practically ran down the hall straight for Will's room. She paused in the doorway and Will was explaining the difference between 'ser' and 'estar'. Will didn't notice her at first and in fact it was one of his students in the front row that did.
"Mr. Schue?" She called, breaking into his explanation and pointed to the doorway. Will followed his student's motion and his eyes grew in alarm at the sight of Emma's upset face. He quickly excused himself, leaving the classroom, closing the door and Emma collapsed into his arms apologizing for interrupting his class and for being an emotional mess. Will comforted her the best he could knowing that she just needed to get it out. It took her a little more time than normal for her to calm down and even when she did she didn't want to leave Will. Will let her come into the classroom because he did need to finish his class. She tried to hide the blush on her cheeks when all 25 pairs of eyes were on her as she walked into the class and took a seat at Will's desk. For the rest of the time her eyes remained fixed on Will as he stood at the board and taught the class.
After that things had calmed down a little. At least morning sickness wise. Before the end of that week the whole school was talking about the rumor of Mrs. Schuester's pregnancy. After one class kept pestering him, Will finally broke and told his students that yes, he and Emma were expecting their first baby. He apologized to Emma later on and where she would have liked to keep it a secret for a little longer she didn't blame Will for telling them. If she were as excited as he was about the pregnancy she would have wanted to tell the whole world.
Emma felt relief once she emptied her bladder and then she started the shower and shed her clothing. She stepped towards the shower about to get in when she stopped, seeing her reflection in the mirror.
Her eyes were drawn immediately to the middle part of her body. Everyday she examined herself in the mirror and everyday she seemed to be getting bigger. Will noticed the drastic changes from when her flat stomach started expanding but she noticed the mere millimeters it grew every day.
She placed her hand over her bare stomach and smiled. During the first few weeks of her pregnancy she was still panicked even thinking about it. When she first started showing she panicked again because she was so used to her flat stomach she didn't even want to think of what she would look like over the course of the nine months. And as time went on her fears lessened but were still there especially when it came time for her next doctor's appointment. She scheduled it for after school hours so she could be sure that Will was there. There was no way she was going there by herself. She held onto Will's hand the entire ride over there and waiting in the waiting area and even in the doctors office. She closed her eyes when the doctor brought out the gel and shuddered when it was placed on her bare skin. She gripped Will's hand tighter and buried her face into his arm as she felt the doctor move the scanner around in circles on her bare skin.
"There we are." The doctor proclaimed and she heard Will's awed voice whisper in her ear, "Open your eyes Em. Look."
She carefully peaked open one eye and looked at the screen. Her other eye quickly opened and she stared in wonder at the screen.
"Your baby is right here." The doctor pointed to the screen and made a circle with his finger around where the baby was.
All thoughts of the cold and slimy gel on her stomach and every other worry she had simply evaporated as she stared at the little dot on the screen that was her and Will's baby.
Her eyes filled with tears and she managed to take her eyes off the screen long enough to glance at Will. He was staring at the screen, his eyes glistening with unshed tears and then he looked down at her. They shared a loving smile and Emma leaned up and softly kissed his lips. Once she laid back down, Will kissed the top of her head and they both returned their eyes to the screen.
Ever since that day Emma's fears have been, for the most part, blown out of the water. She thought back to what Will said to her the day she found out she was pregnant. "Once you lay eyes on him or her, I promise you won't even have the slightest worry about how messy he or she is." And he was right. He was so right. She hadn't even met the baby yet all she saw was a little dot on a screen that didn't resemble a human being in any way shape or form but that little dot filled her with the same love, the same warmth, and the same comfort she got when she looked at Will.
Her next doctor's appointment was in about two weeks and the doctor told her that if they wanted to they could find out the sex of the baby. Personally, Emma wanted to know. She wasn't a big fan of surprises and she liked to be prepared for everything. She wanted to have the room that was going to be the nursery either decorated for a girls or decorated for a boys. When she brought up the subject of finding out the sex of the baby to Will and her views on it, he said that he didn't care what they did. Then they both agreed that waiting the last eighteen weeks not knowing whether their baby was a boy or a girl was torture enough and they would like to spend the second half of her pregnancy knowing. That and Emma didn't really like calling the special creation of their love an 'it'. The baby was special and 'it' was so demeaning. So the both of them were very excited to finally label their baby a 'he' or 'she'.
Emma ran her hand along the curve of her stomach, smiling at the thought of her baby resting safely inside. It was remarkable. She always wondered what it would feel like to be pregnant and yet never thought she would actually become pregnant. But now that she was, once she got past her fears, she couldn't explain how amazing it felt to have a growing life inside of her. A life that she and Will created. Her grin broadened and she looked down at her baby bump.
The steam from the hot water was quickly fogging up the mirror and creating a mist of steam in the entire bathroom but she didn't seem to notice. Her hair had begun to stick to the sides of her face from the moisture but she could care less. She was fully focused on her baby.
Her thoughts were so heavily occupied she didn't hear the bathroom door opening. Only when a larger pair of hands covered hers was she alerted to her husband's presence. Instead of being startled like she normally would be her grin widened even more and she rested back against Will's naked chest.
She felt Will pressing feather light kisses along her shoulder blades and neck and her eyes closed at the feeling. She giggled when his breath ticked her ear and soon she heard his husky voice in her ear, "You're so beautiful Em."
His hands left hers and gently caressed the soft skin of her stomach. She tilted her head back and rested it against his shoulder, her mouth parted slightly. Will then spun her around to face him, grabbed hold of her hips and as gently as he could pushed her against the wall, attacking her lips.
Emma was taken aback, Will was rarely so forceful. But she could feel his hunger for her and in the pit of her stomach she could feel her own desire building. The in love, hormonal part of Emma wanted to continue what she was doing with Will but the rational side of her brain took over.
She slipped her hands up his bare chest and reluctantly pushed him away. "Will..." She groaned breathlessly. "We can't."
Will lifted his head to meet her gaze and she was almost taken in by the lust in his eyes. She traced her finger up his neck and to his jaw line and rested her hand on the side of his face, giving him an apologetic look. "I have to shower Will. We have to get ready...separately or we'll never make it to school on time."
Will sighed heavily and took a step back, his eyes never leaving hers. In them she could only see one question: Later?
Emma gave him a small smile and a nod. Will smiled back at her and turned to leave and as he was doing so Emma subconsciously reached out and slapped his behind.
Will paused and looked over his shoulder, cocking an eyebrow. Emma smiled coyly and his eyebrows shot into his hair line. Once she realized exactly what she did her whole body flushed red. That was so out of character for her. Her pregnancy hormones were making her act so strangely.
Will grinned at her and blew her a kiss as he left the bathroom, closing the door behind him. Emma smiled as he left, waited for the door to be closed and then finally stepped into the shower.
Emma nodded along as one of the students of McKinley High School sat in her office and droned on and on about how he hated his math class and how his teacher was out to get him.
She had her legs crossed tightly trying to withstand the uncomfortable pressure the baby was once again putting on her bladder. She was trying to pay attention to what the kid was saying but she found that it was rather hard to concentrate when she felt like her bladder was going to explode. She had just went to the bathroom an hour ago too! So far she was not liking this aspect of the pregnancy.
She shifted uncomfortably in her seat and held back a groan. She did not want to let on to the young teenage male that her mind was somewhere other than him.
As discreetly as she could Emma glanced at the small clock on her desk. There was only fifteen more minutes until the period ended. She could survive that long couldn't she?
Emma suppressed a groan once again. Why did she have to drink so much water? Oh that's right because her body craved it even more than usual.
Being pregnant was driving her absolutely insane.
She tried to clear her thoughts thinking that maybe if she didn't think about going to the bathroom it wouldn't be so bad. Emma turned her attention back to the boy who was still going on about the teacher hating him.
"...and get this, ok? She marked my answer wrong on this big test we had and I'm not really that good at math so I thought okay maybe I did get it wrong but another student got the same answer I did and they got it right! I asked her about it after class and she said that my four looked like a nine or something but my four clearly looks like a four I just don't understand..."
The boy kept going on but Emma once again did not have her mind focused on him. Her eyes widened and her hand flew down to her stomach. She could have sworn that she felt it jerk. The boy's voice was now a fading background noise as she focused on feeling for it again.
She waited five minutes...six....seven...eight....nine....and then...
There it was again, a jolt. Movement from inside of her. The first sign that there was actually a living being growing inside of her. A bright smile spread across her face and luckily the boy was so into his one sided conversation that he didn't notice her distraction.
Emma glanced eagerly at the clock, there was about four minutes left until the end of the period and time was ticking by agonizingly slow. She wanted to get out her office and not because she had to use the bathroom. In fact her bladder didn't seem to bother her anymore. She wanted to go to Will.
Emma watched each second tick by and when there was one minute left on the clock, the teenager finally asked her what he should do.
She managed to curb her excitement for just a minute longer and gave her advice to him. At least, the best advice she could only hearing a few phrases of the almost thirty minute speech he gave her. But the boy seemed satisfied with her answer and with just ten seconds left before the bell rang, he stood up and thanked her.
Emma nodded at him and bit her lip, feeling the smile creep on her face again as the last few seconds ticked away. The bell rang and she rose from her seat faster than she ever had before. She quickly glanced around and the boy was nowhere to be found and he must have slipped out in the last few seconds she had been intently watching the clock.
Emma quickly sped out of the room, leaving the door open unlike she normally did whenever she left her room. She made her way through the crowd of students, carefully avoiding skin contact and winded up standing in Will's doorway.
A few of his students were just leaving and slid past her to get out into the hallway. Will was standing over his desk with a girl standing next to him as he was explaining something to her. The girl nodded along, apparently trying to understand whatever Will was telling her.
"Thanks Mr. Schue." The girl smiled up at him, gathering her books into her arms. Will smiled back, "Anytime."
The girl turned to leave the classroom and Will followed her with his eyes and caught Emma standing there.
"Oh hey Em, you didn't have to come down here. A student just needed my help with something I would have met you down in the teachers lounge." He explained, shuffling the papers on his desk and then finally turning to face her.
Emma's excitement bubbled over until no coherent words could be formed so instead a thousand watt smile spread across her face. The smile reached her eyes and lit up her whole face.
Will always found her smile infectious so he couldn't help but smile back but there was also a hint of confusion on his face. "What?" He laughed and then looked down at his shirt, pulling it down slightly. "Did I spill something?"
Emma shook her head and walked into the room, her grin never leaving her face. She walked up to stand in front of Will and grabbed his hands in hers. Then she placed them over her swollen stomach and held them there.
Will's brow furrowed in confusion. "Emma what...?"
"Shh..." She cut him off. "Just wait." She whispered and stared up at his face. Will was very perplexed but did just as he was told. Emma wanted to see his reaction once the baby moved again.
The couple was standing there for a couple of minutes not saying a word. The second bell had rung signaling the beginning of the next period and the hallway had gone dead quiet.
Will was about to ask what was going on when suddenly he felt a little kick against his hand. His eyes widened and his mouth dropped slightly. "Was that...?"
Emma grinned up at him and whispered in her best high pitched baby voice, "Hi daddy."
Shock was the most prominent emotion on his face but that only lasted a second or two before it was replaced with unsurpassable joy. The grin that lit up his face matched hers and her eyes twinkled in delight at the sight of the raw emotions on his face. "Oh my God!" He laughed, still holding onto her stomach and he knelt down so his was face was aligned with her stomach.
"Hello to you too." His voice was low and chocked up with emotion.
Emma slid her hand across her abdomen and smiled again, "I think it can hear you Will."
Will glanced up at her in wonder and she beamed. "You probably can't feel it but I can. When you spoke it moved."
"I love you." He continued speaking to it. "I'm very excited to meet you." He looked up at her again curiously. "Anything?"
Emma shook her head, "Not that time." She placed her hands over his and pulled him to his feet.
His hands left her stomach and moved to cradle her face. She smiled brightly up at him and Will was staring down at her with such love in his eyes her heart fluttered. "That was one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced." He whispered and a grin remained glued on his face. "I love you." He said shaking his head slightly. "So much."
She beamed, her face alit from the glow of pregnancy and her own happiness. Seeing Will so happy made her feel so good. She wished she could watch his face for hours maybe even days as he talked to their baby. Whenever Will mentioned the baby his face would light up like she had never seen before and she knew when he was thinking about it because it also lit up then. Seeing Will happy made her happy. She could forget about the annoyances of her pregnancy when she saw Will's happiness and when they had moments like these.
"I love you too Will." She replied breathlessly, slipped her arms around his neck, rose onto her toes and pressed her lips to his. Will eagerly responded, his hands sliding off of her face, down her shoulders, her sides and finally resting on the sides of her stomach.
For the next several minutes the couple were blissfully unaware of anyone or anything but themselves.
A/N: Who saw the newest glee promo?? Where Will and Emma are in her office and Will says "there are so many things you don't know about me and I can't wait to introduce them all to you" and then it shows Will and Emma dancing and then kissing! So cute!!! I can't wait for April 13th!!
Review if you agree with me!!!