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Roni leaned over and rubbed Nellie’s belly just as it contracted Her big smile immediately fell, and she stared at Nellie "Wow, that’s hard" She lifted a brow "Are you contracting?"

Nellie shrugged "Yes, just like I have been all week But none are significant enough to haveanother trip to the hospital just yet"

She forced a s a sip of her water as a bitch of a contraction hit harder than any so far and took longer to pass Glancing down at the time on her phone, she htto get the attention off her before Roni noticed anything, she turned to Bianca "So have you and Gio decided when you till start with the baby rinned playfully but looked aithout responding Nellie and Roni exchanged glances then looked back at Bianca "Bianca?" Roni’s cautious question was laced with the sarin about?"

Seeing Bianca cover her mouth in obvious pleasure made both Nellie and Roni’s eyes shoot open "I can’t say yet," she gushed "Gio wants to wait until we know for sure" She leaned in after glancing around and whispered "You can’t say anything, okay?" Both Nellie and Roni inancy test I took a few days ago was positive But it’s only been like three days since Iany announcements" Her s as you’ve been pregnant, Nellie When we found out you and Abel were having a baby, we started talking about ould be a good ti for one, and a feeeks later, we decided it’d be a good idea for ured it would take a few et out of "

Roni and Nellie both spoke at once then laughed They assured Bianca she was pregnant, especially after she mentioned her overly sensitive brsts and how incredibly tired she’d been lately "I was beginning to think I was coirl," Roni reached over and squeezed Bianca’s ariddily Nellie was about to tell her about stocking up on fideo and crackers for the next couple of h those first fewher hand to her side she wasn’t able to refrain fro concerned "Honey, are you okay?"

Nellie nodded, unable to say anything as unbelievably the contraction kept on and was brutal She started the breathing she was taught in La or they were full of shit because it wasn’t helping Glancing down at her phone, she saw it’d been only six minutes since the last

"Nellie, thisup "Where’s Abel?"

With the contraction finally passing, Nellie looked up and across the yard Abel was standing with Noah and Gio under the large patio by the backhouse, holding a beer and laughing He glanced her way and did a double take, his eyes abruptly locking on hers as she still held her side At that moment, she knew that he knew It was as if he froze for a uys all turned and watched hi him over only made him move faster "Don’t make him nervous, Roni," Nellie warned "He tries to hide it, but he’s been a wreck for days"

Nellie aluilty that she’d interrupted afor the first time in days Ever since their first trip to the hospital earlier that week, he’d been so ju, he was on her, asking if she was okay

"What happened? What’s wrong?" He asked as soon as he reached her and knelt down in front of her

"Nothing’s wrong," Roni said a very reassuring voice "It just o to the hospital," she informed him as he continued to search Nellie’s face

"For real this ti a s on already

Well shit Maybe she shouldn’t have waited so long to say so There was no way it was sixthe armrest of the chair in an unsuccessful atte

She didn’t even realize she’d scrunched up her face as the contraction continued to clobber her lower back, until Abel kissed the side of her face "Breathe, baby," he whispered,breath, she felt it If Abel’s face hadn’t been so close, heShe’d seen the alarm in his eyes earlier that week and sahen he’d rushed over to her, but now there was so more in them His eyes widened and she saw the terror "It’s okay," she said, trying to mask the effort it took her to breathe She hadn’t had an asthma attack since"I just needto his feet instantly, he asked "Where is it?"

"In my purse," she pointed Abel practically tossed an eet to it "Please cal "I’m fine," she insisted