Both my parents have very high hopes for me. Daddy wants me to be a jock much like he was when he was younger. But mommy wants me to be a scholar, she won't admit it but I think she secretly hopes that I'll turn out to be a writer. I don't know which one I want to please more. Can't I be a scholar and a jock? Is that even possible? I love sports but I also am not opposed to sitting down and reading a good book. So what does that make me? I don't really care I am what I am I guess.
Rainey sat cross-legged well as cross-legged as she could be with her very pregnant stomach sticking out. She was just now entering her 6th month. She was relieved that the whole morning sickness deal was over. She didn't like that part of the pregnancy but this leg of it wasn't too bad with the exception on the constant trips to the bathroom and the sharp kidney shots her little boy sent her way.
"Mommy I discovered something today … there is this thing connected to me and I can wave it in front of my face"
She was reading to the baby. She had been reading to him since she first found out she was pregnant. They had started out with simple books such as The Cat in the Hat before moving onto more difficult books like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Right now they were reading Twilight. She was about mid way through the book which she was really enjoying and from the way her son was kicking she thought he liked it too. Kayla walked into the room and rolled her eyes which made Rainey stop reading.
"Go on Mommy I wanna find out what happens with Bella and Edward"
"Please tell me you are not reading that baby Twilight" she almost laughed.
"The baby books says reading to the baby is a good thing … they never said what I had to read him" she retorted "besides it's not like there are any more Harry Potter books … we finished those"
"You read him Harry Potter?" the shorter girl was astonished.
"… Well yeah I mean come on Harry Potter is like a classic now … kinda like the Lord of the Rings which we have also finished"
"You are a freak"
"Auntie Kayla if I don't find out how this series ends I swear when I'm born I will never stop crying whenever you are around and I heard mommy talking about my nursery being right next to your room so try me"
"Now anyways I have a book to continue reading" she returned her attention to the text in front of her.
"You tell her mommy"
"Can I borrow Sarge for a little while?" the shorter girl asked hopefully.
"How about … Hell Fuckin' No!"
"Language"
"Whatever, but you still aren't taking my car anywhere"
"I'll bring you home some Kane's doughnuts" Rainey was almost tempted to say yes.
"Say yes Mommy I want doughnuts"
Rainey felt a hard kick to her kidneys and somehow she figured that it wouldn't stop till Kayla returned home with doughnuts. Sometimes she thought her unborn son was way too smart for his own good. He had obviously inherited that from his mother. She smirked proudly to herself.
"Scratch, dent, or do anything to hurt or disfigure Sarge and I will dismember your face" the older woman threatened throwing her roommate the keys to her car.
"Now why would I go and do a thing like that" Kayla said letting the screen door swing closed behind her.
"Baby boy sometimes I wonder why I let her live here" she rubbed her growing belly lovingly.
"Me too Mommy … I think Daddy would be a much better choice don't you agree"