Okay, updating this fanfic, I am SO sorry its taken me a while! I'm wanting to go back to school in (hopefully) September, so I'm trying to find out what I need to do to get financial aid, I have a new job that I've had for about seven months so there's that too.
This will also be another flashback chapter, just another fair warning so you guys don't get confused!
It was the evening of June, the twentieth to be exact! My little girl was due any day and I was hoping today would be the day on a count of my parents were driving me to the hospital because my contractions have been five minutes apart for the past hour! I had text Gina a few minutes ago, telling her I'd let her know once I knew anything! It was now around six forty PM when I felt like I had peed myself.
"Uh...dad?" I asked.
"Don't worry Angel wings, we'll be at the hospital in five minutes!"
"I think we're gonna need towels..." I said as I grunted in pain, grabbing onto one of my brother's hands.
"Angela peed herself!" Derek exclaimed as I groaned.
"I did NOT pee myself you dimwit!" I exclaimed, squeezing Mark's hand tighter.
"Please don't make her any more mad than she is, dude!" Mark began, "I'll probably need splinters in my fingers if she keeps squeezing the life out of them!" I let go of Mark's hand, rolling my eyes, I began to clench my fists on my shirt in pain.
"Well..." mom began, "Looks like today IS going to be the day." she sighed.
"Let's hope this won't be like Mark and Derek's birth." Dad said under his breath, "You were in labor for ten hours."
"Ten HOURS?!" I exclaimed I turned my attention to Derek "YOU said I had peed myself, YOU'RE going to push this baby out! You hear me?" Derek just looked at me in confusion as I sensed mom rolling her eyes.
"She's hormonal, boys! It's going to be like this for a while." mom sighed as I groaned again in pain, I pulled out my phone and text Gina 'Miranda is coming 2day!'
'U at the hospital?' she replied.
'no, my water broke n the car on the way'
'im on my way!' I put my cellphone back in the diaper bag as dad pulled up at the front entrance.
"We're here!" He exclaimed, "Mark, grab the bags! Derek, help your sister!"
"Which sister?" Derek asked as I snapped.
"Obviously the one in LABOR!" dad just groaned in agitation.
"I've got Lulu!" Mom said as she pulled my sleeping little sister from the car, "One of you boys grab a wheelchair for Angela."
"On it!" Derek exclaimed.
"I'll go park the car and meet you inside." Dad said as he drove off; I sat down in the wheelchair as Derek began to push me inside. At the front desk, I heard my name from someone behind me in the waiting room.
"Angela!" Gina exclaimed as Gordy followed closely behind.
"How did you guys get here so quickly? I just text Gina a minute ago!"
"Well, when you text Gina the first time saying you were going to go to the hospital she got excited and her mom dropped us off." Gordy explained.
"We've only been here for five short minutes!" Gina exclaimed.
"But what if she wasn't coming today? You would have wasted a trip to the hospital." I said as Gina smiled.
"On the contrary, Angela! Since your mucus plug fell out two days ago, I knew it wouldn't be long!" I rolled my eyes as Gordy gave a look of confusion.
"Her what?" He asked.
"Mucus plug." Gina said as Gordy gave a look of confusion, worry, and disgust.
"What is that? Will the baby be ok?" Gina just sighed.
"Miranda will be fine. We'll explain what a mucus plug is later. But right now we've got a baby ready to be born!"
(In the delivery room)
I groaned in pain as Gina's eyes began to dance, a smile plastered on her face, I was as excited as she was, but the pain was unbearable to where I couldn't show my excitement.
A nurse walked in a few seconds later, with a smile on her face.
"Angela Anaconda?" She asked as I nodded, exhaling in pain, grabbing my abdomen.
"We're going to need you to change into this gown." She said, as she gave the white gown to my mom. "I'll give you some privacy." She closed the door behind her as I sighed.
"Why do they give you a white gown when there's going to be blood all over it?" I asked as mom sighed.
"I don't think we should worry about the little things." mom said as I clenched my teeth in pain.
"Yeah, it's about the big thing that will soon be leaving my body!"
"I wouldn't say soon." Mom said as we watched Gina push Gordy out of the room so I could dress in the gown.
After I was dressed, a knock at the door as the doctor came in this time.
"Ok, Miss Anaconda!" She began, "I'm going to check your cervix dilation now!" She walked over to the sink and washed her hands. She then put on sterile gloves, opened my legs, and placed her fingers inside of me.
"Six centimeters!" She exclaimed, pulling her fingers out as I groaned in pain from a contraction.
"So...when can I start pushing?" I asked, as the doctor smiled.
"When you reach ten centimeters."
"How long will that be?" I whined.
"That depends, it could be a few minutes or a few hours." I just groaned as she removed her gloves, and threw them in the trash
"Do you want an epidural?" She asked as I nodded.
"I'll get on that!" She began to walk out of the room, before turning back to me
"If you need anything, we're here! A nurse will be here with the epidural momentarily."
That was around seven PM, it was three AM now and I was only dilated eight centimeters!
"How long has it been since we've been here?" Gordy whined as Gina yawned.
"Eight hours!" She exclaimed as I began to chomp on some ice chips.
"Mom had a ten hour labor with my brothers." I said as mom nodded.
"It's true...it was a long ten hours." She sighed, "But once Miranda gets here it'll be worth it!" Gina just gave a small yet tired smile.
Seven AM, the doctor arrived to check my cervix again as Gordy left the room to give me privacy. She did the checking procedure again and smiled.
"Ten centimeters! Are we ready to have a baby?"
"Yes! Finally!" I groaned as Gina squealed in excitement and ran to the door, opened it slightly, poking her head out.
"Angela's going to push!" She closed the door and rushed over towards me.
"Alright, I'm going to ask you two ladies to lift her legs up." She motioned to my mom and Gina, I felt my legs go up in the air as the doctor sat in the middle.
"Okay! When I say push, you're going to push!" There was about a three second pause "Push!" And as if my body knew what to do, I began to strain, yelling in pain, I laid back and panted; whimpering a little.
"You're doing beautifully, Angela!" The doctor praised, "Push!" I did as I was told again, the pain was unbearable as I laid back down, with tears.
"I can't do this!" I whined, "Gina, you're my best friend, can you do it for me?"
"Uh...I'm afraid not, Angela...but, you're doing great!" She exclaimed.
"Another big push, Angela!" the doctor exclaimed, as I began to strain again, tears were flowing down my cheeks.
"I can see her head!" Gina exclaimed in excitement, I screamed in pain again, but continued pushing, feeling her shoulders stretch me, my tears got heavier. I then felt relief as her feet finally came out of me and her first cry of life pierced the room, the doctor immediately placed my daughter in my arms. My tears then changed from pain to elated. She was absolutely beautiful!
"June twenty-first, seven twelve AM!" The doctor exclaimed as a nurse began to write that down. She then wrapped a badge around my daughter's tiny wrist with my information on it and took her to the other side of the room to weigh and measure her, and swaddle her in a blanket.
After I was cleaned up, and moved to a different room. the doctor let my family in the room my brothers gasped in delight.
"Awwwww!" They both began in unison "She's adorable!" I looked up from my bundle and smiled at them, Derek pointed at the baby to Lulu whom he was holding.
"That's our niece!" He told her proudly, as Lulu's eyes began to dance.
"Do you want to hold her, Lulu?" I asked as Lulu gave the biggest smile, nodding her head.
"Yes, please!" She exclaimed, climbing out of Derek's arms. taking a seat in the nearby chair as my dad brought Miranda over to her to hold.
"Watch her head." Dad said as he placed my daughter in my sister's arms, she gasped in delight.
"I love you, Miranda!" She exclaimed.
"Alright, Lulu! It's my turn to hold her." Mark said as Derek grumbled.
"No way, dude! It's MY turn!" I began to snicker, as mom broke up the argument.
"Mark's the oldest, we'll let him hold Miranda first." Mom said as Derek scoffed, Mark took Miranda from Lulu's arms and I could tell his heart had melted.
"Hey, Miranda..." Mark cooed softly as he passed her to Derek.
"Uncle Mark and Derek won't let anything bad happen to you!"
"And I got that too!" dad exclaimed, holding the digital camera up, I giggled at Mark and Derek's blushed faces.
After my family left the room, Gina came back in with Gordy. Gordy gasped as he and Gina walked over towards the bed, peering at the small bundle.
"Aw! She's beautiful, Angela!" Gordy exclaimed, "She looks just like Joh...uhhhhh beautiful Princess!" He said, catching his words, I sighed.
"It's okay, Gordy Rhinehart...go ahead and say it! She looks just like Johnny Abatti."
"Well, he did make her..." Gina began, "She is going to have some of his features!"
"It doesn't make me love her any less, though." I said, smiling at my beautiful Miranda.
"You're already a good mother, Angela Anaconda!" Gina said as my eyes moved to look at her, smiling, I looked down at my little girl again.
(Abatti residence, noon)
Johnny gave a look of boredom with his ear to his cell phone, Nanette was fussing about something, and he was only half listening. He couldn't take it anymore.
"I...gotta go." He said, sighing.
"What?" Nanette asked, half peeved off.
"I gotta help...uncle Nicky with something." He blurted the excuse out as Nanette sighed
"Fine." She sighed, "Love you, John!" He hung up after those words, he couldn't say it back to her. He flopped on his bed, looking up at his ceiling. He blinked a couple of times before rotating his head towards his nightstand. He opened the drawer and reached his hand in there, pulling out a photo of him and his ex-girlfriend. He began to tear up...he wished she had never gotten that contagious disease...what was it called again? Pregnant! That's right!
"I love you, Angela..." he said, placing the photo back in his drawer, and closing it.