CHAPTER 91:
Sometime later, AJ and Roman had managed to finish their dinner as they were conversing. "I hope everyone will be alright with this crazy ass storm that's coming" said AJ. "They will be baby" said Roman. "Me too baby" said AJ. "Do you think your mom knows the real reason why you asked if they could babysit Alia overnight?" asked Roman. "No but if does she knows, who cares?" said AJ alluringly. "You're so bad" said Roman while smirking. "I'm bad?" said AJ. "Remember how we conceived Alia? Now that was bad…at least on your part." "My part?" asked Roman as he smiled. "Well if I remember clearly you were there with me." AJ shyly smiled. "Stop, you're making me blush."
"Do you remember our first time?" asked Roman. "Yeah" AJ said softly. "I remember. I had water in my ears for days." "Me too" said Roman. "You know something I didn't tell you about that?" asked AJ. "No, what?" asked Roman. "That even though it was my actual first time, and no matter how compulsive it was, it didn't really hurt that bad" said AJ. "I mean it was a little uncomfortable at first, but then afterwards it wasn't." "Really?" asked Roman. "Yes" said AJ. "And then I actually had my first pregnancy scare." "How come?" asked Roman.
"Well, because we didn't use protection" said AJ. "And then I had Tamina get me the morning after pill and I turned out fine." "I'm sorry I put you through that" said Roman. "I really had no idea that happened." "No, don't be" said AJ. "Alia was meant to be, it may have first started out really bad and all wrong but she was meant to be, just like we were meant to be." "That was a very beautiful thing you just said" said Roman. "Yeah well that's what happens when you're in love" said AJ. "Your heart makes you say the craziest, yet realist of all things."
The couple moved closer to begin kissing. "Are you sure?" asked Roman. "I mean…we haven't done this since we had Alia." "Yes, yes of course I'm sure" said AJ as she pulled Roman in for another kiss. Roman stood up to pick up AJ. "You're so strong" she said. "I have to be, I'm a wrestler" said Roman as he carried her into their room. "Why not the sofa?" AJ said softly. "Not unless you want baby number 2" said Roman. "No, no…" said AJ as she giggled. "Good then no more weird places, that's sort of how we ended up in trouble the first time" said Roman. "But the trouble turned out to be completely worth it". He laid AJ down onto their bed and began to unbutton her sea foam green blouse, revealing a violet laced bra.
"I missed you" he whispered softly. "I missed you too" said AJ. "Mm I really hope that they stay this size forever" said Roman. "Well I don't think they are, so enjoy them while you still can" said AJ. "I told you I wouldn't be a 32D forever." Roman laughed. "I know" he said. "Yep…those B days are going to come back pretty soon" said AJ. "If I'm hopeful, you get to be at least a C" said Roman. The two laughed as they resumed kissing and as Roman began to kiss AJ's chest, they suddenly heard their bell ring. "Ugh who the fuck is that!?" AJ hissed. "No baby it's ok. We'll just ignore them" Roman said as he resumed kissing her chest. But the doorbell of course continued to constantly ring, causing him to angrily sigh. "I guess I'll go see who that is". Roman made his way to the front of the apartment. "Who is it!?" he called out but there was no answer. AJ quickly caught up to him. "Maybe it's a prankster" she said as she finished buttoning up her blouse. "No it can't be, this a private building" said Roman.
"Yeah but kids do these sort of things everywhere, it doesn't matter where" said AJ. Roman forcefully swung open the door, leaving him and AJ shocked to see that it was Nikki standing there with her suitcase. "Oh my God Nicole, what are you doing here?" asked AJ. "What? Are you really that surprised to see me?" said Nikki as she entered. "Nicole, what are you doing here?" asked Roman. "And more importantly how'd you find us?" asked AJ. "Don't worry about that" said Nikki. "Oh and I came to talk to you". "To me?" asked Roman. "For what?"
"I thought you were supposed to have the baby last week" said AJ. "Well as you can see Captain Obvious that I'm still very much pregnant" Nikki said as she motioned to her large belly. "No but seriously, why are you here?" asked Roman. "Besides we were sort of in the middle of something." "Don't worry. I won't keep you from your boning for that much longer" said Nikki. "Wow Nicole you sure are blunt" said Roman. "Yeah I know" said Nikki. "How the…how the hell do you even know that?" asked AJ. "Seriously AJ? Your blouse is wide open" said Nikki. AJ looked down. "I thought I closed it" she said. "You must have been rushing" said Roman. "You obviously didn't do a good job at it if you did "close" it" said Nikki. "Besides it's pretty much ok given that we've all seen each other naked in a way." AJ rolled her eyes as she fixed her blouse again. "Cute bra though by the way. Remind me to get one exactly like yours" said Nikki.
"So I'll ask again, why are you here?" asked Roman. "Yeah didn't you hear that there's this huge blizzard coming tonight?" said AJ. "Blizzard? What blizzard?" Nikki asked. "Yeah well there's one coming tonight" said Roman. "A really bad one. We're nearly getting 2 feet and by the way people were talking about it today it could be way more." "No…I didn't know that" said Nikki. "I thought it was just a little snowfall out there, nothing major." "Yeah well you're majorly wrong" said AJ. "Whatever AJ" said Nikki as she rolled her eyes. "Ok so now that you were given some answers, hopefully we can get some in return" said AJ.
"This isn't a yard sale bargain Mendez" said Nikki. "But if you must know the real reason why I came here is because I-" but before Nikki could answer, the lights began to flicker on and off until they completely went off. "What the hell!?" shouted AJ. "Ok please don't tell me that we just entered a blackout". "Nah baby there's no way" said Roman. "This place should have a backup generator." But the lights remained off. "Well this is just great!" AJ said sarcastically. "Don't worry baby at least nothing else could possibly go wrong" said Roman. Nikki suddenly took a step backward as her facial expression quickly changed. "Uh…um…I don't want to alarm anyone but I think we have a much bigger problem" she said.
"How can I relax Leati when our freaking lights just went off? I mean seriously this building is like brand new. They just completed it less than 5 years ago. There's no excuse for any of these problems" said AJ. "Guys?" Nikki asked worriedly. "Baby, please you have got to calm down. Now I'm pretty sure that any minute now that the maintenance people will turn the lights back on, ok?" Roman said reassuringly. "You guys?" Nikki asked. "I really hope so because we paid a lot of money to get in here" said AJ. "You guys!?" Nikki shouted. "Honey…but it was mostly all of your money" said Roman. "I know I contributed nearly half, but it was still mostly you. Besides it'll be alright. I'm sure that they're working on it as we're speaking."
"Yeah I guess so" said AJ. "You guys are you fucking there!?" Nikki shouted again. "What!? What is it now!?" AJ asked with an attitude. "Oh wait lemme guess Nicole you have something else really smart that you would like to say." "AJ…" Roman said. "That's not very nice." "I know but she isn't even supposed to be here right now and now there's no fucking lights I mean come on! What else can possibly go wrong?" said AJ. "You guys? I…I think we may have a problem over here" said Nikki. Roman turned around to finally face her. "What are you talking about?" he asked. "My…my water just broke" said Nikki. "Nicole, stop lying!" said AJ. Roman glanced out the window and by then, it had begun to furiously snow.
"I mean it Nicole!" shouted AJ. "Now can you just go back to wherever you came from please? You're interrupting our night." "Now you listen here bitch!" Nikki said sternly as she grabbed a hold of AJ's blouse. "I'm. Not. Lying. My fucking water just broke and I'm going into fucking labor! Now will you please go call me an ambulance!?" "Sure" AJ said through her teeth. "I'll gladly go just as soon as you let go of my blouse". Nikki released her grip from off of AJ. "Just stay calm" said Roman. "There's no need to get all worked up over nothing."
AJ walked over into the kitchen to call 911, but all she got was a dial tone. "Shit!" she shouted. "AJ, what's wrong?" asked Roman. "We can't get a call out" said AJ. "The lines are dead and that probably means that we can't use our cellphones either." "Well that's no problem" said Roman. "We can go get the car and just drive her over there." "Ok right that sounds good" said AJ. Roman quickly grabbed his keys and began to put on his coat and headed out of the apartment. AJ walked over to Nikki who had since took a seat down on the couch.
"How far apart are they?" she asked. "I dunno, every few seconds" said Nikki. "No, no that can't be" said AJ. "That's…that's way too fast, way too soon." "What do you mean that they can't be!?" Nikki yelled. "Don't tell me that they're not when they are! I read that damn book too you know!?" AJ took a quick glance over to the small puddle that was on the floor. "I know" she said quietly. "Ugh I can't take this!" shouted Nikki. "This is hurting me!" "J-just try to breathe through them ok?" AJ shakily said.
Meanwhile Roman had made his way down into the lobby. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa man! Where do you think you're going?" asked the doorman. "To the parking lot!" said Roman. "I need to get someone to the hospital. They're having a baby." "Well I'm sorry sir, but do you not see outside there?" said the doorman. "It's far too dangerous for anyone, let alone an ambulance or a simple car to be traveling out there". Roman took a look through the front door. The snowfall had severely intensified to the point that it was beginning to pile up against the glass. "Please I gotta go help for her!" Roman pleaded. "I'm sorry sir but I have orders to keep everybody in the building until the blizzard passes" said the doorman. "On who's orders!?" Roman asked firmly. "The Mayor of Jersey City" said the doorman. "Or better yet try the Governor of New Jersey."
"This can't be happening" said Roman. "Yeah well it is" said the doorman. "It's like the ice age is happening out there or something and trust me I'm not talking about that cute and furry little movie. Lord in all my 38 years I ain't never seen such a storm pick up that fast." "Well isn't there a doctor in here or something!?" asked Roman. "Yeah Dr. Terri Hills" said the doorman. "But he's at the hospital delivering." "Fuck!" shouted Roman. "So that means we're on our own!?" "I'm afraid so" said the doorman. "At least until the storm calms down and then hopefully they'll have the lines back on." "But that could be hours" said Roman. "Or days". "Days for the power, but hours for the storm to clear" said the doorman. "And hours to clear out the main roads so that the emergency personal can get through."
"But you don't understand, we don't know anything about delivery a baby" said Roman. "Don't worry" said the doorman. "It usually takes 12 hours plus for a baby to come and by then, then it'll be safe to travel". "But by then we probably won't be able to move her out of my apartment much less into a car" said Roman. "God I can't believe this! I can't believe that you're trapping us up here! And if anything happens to that baby I swear to God that I will have your head!" "Sir I am-" said the doorman before he was cut off. "Yeah I know! I know! You're sorry! So fucking sorry you piece of shit! How can you do this to us!?" shouted Roman.
"Sir all we can do is alert the emergency officials for you but I can guarantee you that no one for any reason is going to come through that storm now. No one, not even authorized officials are permitted to come out through this" said the doorman. "Please already…just save your bullshit for someone who truly needs it" Roman said as he quickly ran back up 6 flights of stairs. A few minutes later he arrived back up to his apartment.
"Look see Nicole, he's back" said AJ. "Were you able to pull the car out front?" Roman stood quiet. "Leati…why aren't you answering me?" asked AJ. Roman remained quiet. "Why won't you answer me Joe!?" shouted AJ. "April…we're…on our own" said Roman. "What, what the hell are you talking about!?" AJ shouted. "What do you mean that we're on our own!?" "April, there's no way that I can get a car out through this right now" said Roman. "What do you mean you can't!?" shouted AJ. She was now becoming frantic. "Well you have to try! Baby you have to try! You must try!" "April I wish I could…but we can't!" shouted Roman. "We'll never make it." "So what are we supposed to just deliver this baby on our own?" asked AJ. "Aren't there any doctors in this building?" "They're not here" said Roman. "Well what about that generator thingamabob? Aren't they working on it now so we can at least try to get a call out or something?" said AJ.
"April, listen to me!" Roman sternly said. "They're not working on anything! There's nothing more we can do! That unreasonable doorman said that as soon as they'll get power, they'll send out for help!" "H-how are we supposed to deliver a baby all by ourselves?" AJ fearfully asked. "I dunno" said Roman as he began to calm down. "Didn't they say anything about that in the book you read?" "Yeah" said AJ. "A little." "Then I guess we'll have to rely on that" said Roman. "No you can't!" Nikki sobbed. "It'll be ok Nicole" said AJ. "No it won't!" shouted Nikki. "Nicole…" AJ trailed off. "Oh will you fuckers just shut the hell up and listen to me for once already!" shouted Nikki. "I can't have this baby here! My daughter is breeched!" "What do you mean she's breeched?" asked AJ.
"She's Frank Breeched!" said Nikki while crying out in pain. "And I'm supposed to have a C-section." AJ and Roman looked at each other with horrified looks. "Oh my God" the two said at the same time in horror.
A/N: Oh Nikki that wasn't such a good idea to travel to New Jersey right now even I wouldn't do that if I was 9 months pregnant. Always check the weather before you travel people! But uh...I guess not in this story haha and what a lousy doorman! He could have least allowed Roman to get help. The blizzard can't be that bad… or could it?