Room mates, chapter twenty-three.
Authors note: Just a quick update to show you all I missed you :)
Disclaimer: Shugo Chara and all of it's characters of course belong to Peach Pit, I am simply a fan of their beautiful work.
Some things you want to be surprised by like a birthday party, or that your husband took time from work to send you flowers, just because he could. These are good surprises, the ones that give you butterflies or make you smile so hard you feel as though your face might crack.
However there are some things in life that you do not want surprising you, and if what I felt just moments earlier was what I think it was, well it's safe to assume it may not be the best kind of surprise.
There was a plan, a clearly labelled, colour freaking coded plan. Rima and Utau had spent literally the past month preparing it. It ranged all the way from what kind of blanket one might need when preparing to give birth, to the pro's and con's of the epidural and of course a completely comprehensive schedule of exactly where everyone would be on the date of my due date and the month after.
In hindsight perhaps it should have been a little too obvious that this whole giving birth hullabaloo would not happen in any way shape or form close to any plan I could try and tether it down to. These twin's had the stubbornness of a Hinamori, if they wanted out they wanted out.
Which is why when I felt a faint pop accompanied by the distinguishable flood of warmth down my thighs only thirty-four weeks into my pregnancy the panic set in. Slowly as if the speed with which I removed the cover could alter the evidence I found beneath, I slid the cover from my sides and let out a hysterical cry.
"No, no, no, no, no! Not yet babies." I whispered almost pleadingly shifting my body weight in some vain attempt to move myself, or do anything productive.
"Hello? Anyone? I'm freaking out you guy's." My voice echoed into the hallway beyond and it didn't take long before frantic footsteps could be heard in response.
"Amu, what's wrong are you okay?" Utau's eyes surveyed me critically before widening at the dark pool beneath me.
"What happened is everything okay?" Nagi asked, calmly entering the room followed by a less composed Rima.
"It can't be time yet, we had a plan..." Came Utau's only dazed reply as she looked from the bed to Nagi.
"Well I hate to break it to you Utau, but it looks like the twins didn't like the plan..." I knew that I was snapping but I was in so much pain that at that given moment I didn't care. It was as though someone was squeezing my insides, the worst cramping I had ever experienced and hoped never to feel again.
A cool hand rested against my forehead offering some form of relief from the pain, at least enough to allow me to open my eyes. The hand belonged to Nagi and he swept it carefully across my feverish forehead as Utau smiled at me apologetically.
"It's time to take her to a hospital." Nagi spoke out to the group, hushing my whines for Ikuto with one single wave of his hand.
"No arguments Amu, Nagi is right it's time to have these babies." Rima added, hands on hips and mouth slightly pursed preventing any chance of argument.
"Utau you need to call your brother and husband, tell them to get to the hospital. Rima if you could load the car with the bags we have packed, I'll help Amu to the car." Nagi's authoritative voice did the trick as everyone seemed to move all at once in some kind of pre-pregnancy flurry of panic.
"Now Amu-Chan it's time to move okay honey, hold on tight." With long arms and square shoulders he slipped his arms beneath me and pulled ever so gently until my feet where dangling from the bed.
We walked in silence, side by side. I leant so heavily against Nagi that he was practically carrying me anyway. Reaching the car felt almost impossible, I was sure my feet would give way beneath me at any moment and I was petrified.
Rima had already taken her place at the wheel of the car, her warm eyes would flicker to the back seat where I slouched against Nagi breathing heavily. Utau was in the seat in front of myself, her ear still glued to that cell phone as if my life depended on it. And though I may not have voiced it aloud, at that current moment it almost felt like it did.
By the time we had reached the hospital I was in hysterics, it would seem the difficulty to walk had worn off with a healthy helping hand of worry and pain medication. I paced the floors possessed, arms bent against hips cursing every time a new wave of pain would hit.
It had been an hour now, an hour of sheer unconstrained pain. I wanted Ikuto, needed him to be here now, I could not and would not do this without him.
Sorry babies you're just going to have wait, I thought to myself as a fresh dose of nausea racked my system.
Nagi appeared by my side as if clairvoyant, ushering me towards the bed and hushing me like he was soothing an errant child. He smiled gently before sweeping the hair from my face.
"No news yet Amu-Chan but if anyone can find them it is those two."
Nagi smirked a little at that, and it was just enough to pry a laugh from my lips. Picturing Utau and Rima, the fearsome duo tearing up the town looking for my husband, or blood was just too funny not to laugh.
"It just hurts so much, I need him Nagi... I can't do this without him."
The saline finally made good on it's bluff, forcing it's way from the corners of my eyes to stream down my cheeks. It was not the quiet sort of cry you would tie to a delicate woman, no these tears robbed my body of breath. Shaking my entire frame down to it's very foundation with grief and fear.
Nagi simply held me close, running his hands across my spine in soothing circles.
"It's going to be okay Amu-Chan, I promise." Nagi whispered into my hair.
"Mhm" Was all I could respond with before I shrugged out of the comfort of his arms to continue my pacing.
Not yet babies, wait for daddy, please wait for daddy.
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