It was a Friday morning. Joey woke up in bed, and saw that Daniel already had left it. Joey could hear him downstairs, where he was preparing breakfast. The bed felt very comfortable, so Joey just stayed in it and relaxed. After some time Daniel came into the bedroom, which made Joey open his eyes.

"Good morning gorgeous" Joey said and rolled over on one side.
"Good morning" Daniel said as he walked over to Joey and gave him a quick kiss. "You don't have to get out of bed right away. The eggs are not done yet."
"I can't lie here all day, I have the last meeting of the week to attend this morning", Joey said. "But I can stay while I put his on."

Joey stretched as far as he could towards the nightstand trying to reach a tube of moisturizer, which he used to but on his stomach.

"No let me take it", Daniel said and walked from the wardrobe and over to the nightstand.
Joey got back into a comfortable position as he saw Daniel opening the lid on the tube.
"What are you doing?" Joey asked, as he had always put the moisturizer on, himself.
"I want to do it today", Daniel said and pulled down Joey's cover to right under his belly.

Joey leaned back and closed his eyes as he felt Daniel started to run his hands over his swollen belly. Daniel rubbed in slow circular motions and loved the feel of Joey's firm belly as his hands warmed up every area of it. He also liked being closer to the baby and feel more involved in the process Joey was going through.

"Oh, what was that you did there?" Joey grinned and looked down at Daniel.
"What do you mean?" Daniel said as he continued.
"Something you did felt weird, not bad, just unexpected", Joey said and then felt the same sensation, just a bit more intense. "There, you did it again!"
"I swear I'm not doing anything different", Daniel said and removed his hands.
"What do you me… oh!" Joey moaned and laid a hand on the side of his belly. "The baby, I think it's kicking".

Joey felt a slight push against his hand. He then grabbed Daniel's hand and placed it in the same spot.

"I can't feel anything", Daniel said and looked at Joey.
"Just wait for it", Joey said with excitement in his voice.

Some time passed, where none of them said a word. Daniel moved his hand to different areas on Joey's belly, but nothing happened and he took his hand off.

"Are you sure it was a kick? You know it could just have been gas or, as you said, me touching you in a weird way…"Daniel continued.

At the same time Joey had a big smile on his lips as he just listened to Daniel for a while, before grabbing his hand and placing it low on his belly.

"… maybe the baby just don't like me or maybe", Daniel stopped as he felt a couple of tiny pushes underneath his palm.
"The baby recognizes your voice. But I think you are right about it disliking you, it sure feels like it wants to punch you", Joey teased.

Daniel looked at Joey but suddenly his eyes turned big and expressed pure panic. He jump of the bed and ran towards the stairs. Joey then confused sat up.

"Daniel?" Joey shouted
"The eggs!" Daniel shouted back, before he rushed down the stairs.

The breakfast that morning became smoothies. Joey didn't have time to enjoy his new discovery for long. He got dressed, took his breakfast smoothie to go and placed it in the cup holder in his car before getting in himself. It was about a 20 minute drive so Joey turned up the radio and started singing along. The only thing, which made him take breaks from the singing, was when I took a sip of the smoothie. He stopped at a crossroad, and there were a couple of cars in front him, when he felt the baby move again. He enjoyed the feeling but didn't react to it, because he had his focus on the traffic. The traffic lights switched from red to green and the cars in front of him began to move, and Joey followed just behind them.

What Joey didn't knew was, that a car were being chased by the police, and right when Joey was in the middle of the crossroad the car came from Joey's right side. The car didn't manage to brake before crashing into Joey's car and making it flip around.

When Joey first opened his eyes everything was blurred. He noticed his head was feeling different and moved a hand to his forehead. He felt his hands getting wet and looked at it. As his sight came back to normal he slowly realized, that it was blood on his hand. He didn't feel any pain and tried to take a deep breath but ended up coughing and gasping for air instead. He had fallen out of his seat and was now lying on the roof with his seatbelt still wrapped around waist. He wanted to take it off to relieve the pressure it made on his stomach, but a man stopped him right before he could do anything.

"Stop, don't move!" The man said. Joey froze as the man continued. "I'm a doctor. I'm here to help you, what is your name?"
"It's Joey, what happened?" Joey asked.
"Joey I'm Mark and you have been hit by a car. I need to know if you feel any pain or discomfort." Mark said.
"The belt, I need it off" Joey said.
"Okay, Joey. We will take it of you, as soon as your back has been stabilized", Mark said.

Right after that a spine board came in through the front seat car door, which had been removed to get to Joey. It was placed along Joey's back, and the seatbelt could now come off.

"Okay, you might feel some pain when you get released", Mark said. "I'm gonna do it now. 1. 2. 3."

A sharp pain was shooting through Joey's body, starting from his lower back and spreading out. He could not do anything but letting out a loud painful scream.
In the same motion as Mark released the belt, Joey got pulled out of the crushed car and got placed on a stretcher.

"Okay, Joey I need to examine you. I'm going to put pressure in different places and you just have to tell me yes or no", Mark said.

Mark first checked Joey's head and after that his ribs, both places Joey responded with a yes. Mark then moved on to Joey's stomach. Mark was sure he was going to scream the second he would touch it, since it was very swollen. Mark carefully placed a hand on Joey's stomach.

"Do you feel any pain when I press here?" Mark asked.
"No, no nothing", Joey responded and was for now very relieved.

Mark did not understand how it could not be sore at all and pressed a little harder, only to find out how firm Joey's stomach was.

"Are you sure you don't feel any pain?" Mark asked again.
"Yes absolutely", Joey said.

Mark was very worried and decided it would be best to get him to the hospital and have a further examination.

Mark rolled Joey over to the ambulance and told the paramedics what he knew: "This is Joey, male, 25 years old, complains about pain in chest and head, has a swollen and firm but non-sore abdomen."
"It is a good thing, right?" Joey interrupted. "It means my baby is okay, right?"
"Sorry your what?" Mark asked.
"My baby", Joey said. "Oh I should probably tell you I'm pregnant, isn't that important for you to know?"
Mark turned to the paramedics: "He must have hit his head harder than I estimated at first. Add hallucinations on to the list of symptoms."
Joey then grabbed Mark's arm: "I know it sounds crazy, but I really am pregnant."
"Both you and your baby is going to be checked at the hospital", Mark said calmly as he held Joey's hand.

Joey got lifted inside the ambulance. And all the way to the hospital he had a protective hand resting on his stomach and just waited. He was very worried and was lying with tears in his eyes, as he not had felt a single movement since the accident.