Countdown
Another two weeks and Calleigh would be starting maternity leave. She would be twenty-eight weeks pregnant. It seemed surreal to her that she would be seeing her baby girl in the flesh in such a short time. It could been just hormones or a combination of things but She found herself getting emotional every time she thought the little girl she was carrying.
"I already love her so much," Calleigh said, becoming teary-eyed, rubbing her abdomen. "Is that strange? I feel like I already know her but I don't even know what she looks like."
"I know, Sugar," Alexx said when Calleigh told her. "That's normal. And I know you and Eric have wanted this baby for a long time."
That was absolutely true.
Months after they met at work the two found themselves secretly dreaming of being together. Then Eric got shot in the head. Almost two years after that Calleigh had been kidnapped. Coming so close to losing each other forever, twice, made them finally give in to their feelings. Some people would say that Calleigh getting pregnant that first night was just an "ops" from getting lost in the heat of the moment. Sure, Calleigh had realized it was the seven days she was off birth control and there hadn't been a condom on-hand but with five years of pent-up sexual tension lack of contraception was a fast-passing thought. The parents-to-be thought though it wasn't planned, it was only confirmation they were meant to be together.
Calleigh had a quite a high pain threshold and wanted to have her baby without drugs. However, she also knew the notion of natural birth was great but then there was reality. There was pain involved and lots of it. Therefore Calleigh knew there about a ninety-eight percent chance she would need drugs.
