Our baby

A couple of hours go past midnight indicating not only the arrival of a new day but also of a new year, when Riko wakes up upon feeling some minor pain in her stomach.

She moves in Yoshiko's embrace careful to not wake the sleeping woman to end up resting her head on her chest, closing her eyes once again to try to go back to sleep, but to her dismay, the pain and light jabs in her stomach only grow harder until she feels a liquid sliding down her legs and wetting the mattress.

Riko can't help but gasp loudly, trembling in fear, before she grips Yoshiko's shirt out of pain, shaking her while trying desperately to wake her wife from her deep slumber.

- Yocchan, baby – Riko calls her wife's name, shaking her more.

Riko then hears Yoshiko grumbling, before she sees her opening her eyes slowly with sleep still clouding them.

- Riri? What's wrong? – Yoshiko groans, still quite sleepy.

- My water just broke.

Riko whispers to her, seeing her wife being unaffected by the sudden news as Yoshiko simply hums and goes back to try to sleep.

It actually takes her a couple of long minutes, before her brain processes her wife's words, and she sits upright.

- W-w-what!? – she yells frantically – O-okay, c-calm down. D-don't worry! I'll take the baby's things and… and call the hospital and Mari too, yes, Mari… and your mother! Of course… and shit…

Yoshiko enumerates the list of things she has to prepare to take to the hospital with them and all the people she has to call while she paces around the bedroom fidgeting nervously under Riko's amused gaze, who can't help but hold and caress her protuberant tummy.

Calm down, she says.

Riko ironically thinks to herself, clicking her tongue as she keeps observing the panic state in which Yoshiko currently is.

- Baby.

Just a single word is enough to make Yoshiko halt on her pacing, calming her down as she walks back to their bed to kiss Riko chastely on her lips, before she helps her wife to get out of it, and finally rush into the car to drive towards the hospital.

Then, everything seems to happen in a flash.

Riko is already giving birth, squeezing Yoshiko's hand as if her life depended on it as she pushes, while Yoshiko is right by her side, panicking and squealing high-pitched every time Riko squeezes her hand hard with each push.

And if Riko wouldn't have been pushing their baby out, she surely would have laughed at her wife's squeals.

The baby is already out and in the burgundy haired woman's arms, when Yoshiko takes a brief look at her, only to faint seconds after that scaring everybody in the room.

At the end, it turns out that she was the one being way too nervous...

Riko is already resting at the hospital's bed in a private room with their little girl in her arms making her laugh, when Yoshiko slowly wakes up on the chair next to them.

- It was about time you finally woke up, mommy – Riko whispers tenderly with an amused smile on her face as she stresses the word "mommy".

- Ugh, what happened?

Yoshiko asks as she touches her head, finding a light bump on her forehead.

- You fainted – Riko simply answers to her in between giggles, much to her wife's embarrassment.

- Sorry.

Yoshiko apologizes quietly, blushing, before she hears a cheerful little laugh and gazes at the beautiful sight of Riko with their baby in her arms.

A goofy smile spreads across her lips as she approaches them to stroke the little girl's cheek who immediately takes her mommy's finger with her little fingers to introduce it in her toothless mouth.

- She has your hair – Yoshiko says with a dazzling goofy smile on her face.

- And your eyes – Riko tells her wife softly, giggling as she watches amusingly how their little girl keeps chewing Yoshiko's finger – Our little Reika is going to be like her mommy, a complete heartbreaker.

Riko says teasingly, making Yoshiko groan as she rests her head on her wife's shoulder.

- Be nice.

Yoshiko mumbles, gazing at her wife adoringly yet with a playful pout adorning her lips, and Riko can't help but kiss it away.

Little Reika seems to be astonished by this demonstration of love, looking at them beamingly as she starts to squeak and giggle happily at them, extending her little arms to both of her mommies.

Her mothers can only look at her with a beaming smile on both of their faces, eyes sparkling with nothing but love and happiness in them, before they lean in to nuzzle both of the little one's chubby cheeks, kissing them at the same time while eliciting more happy squeaks and giggles from their baby.