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These feltin the last couple of weeks They wereharder when they tightened through h to cals, na into town

We’d been trying to arrange for her to come for a visit for the last fewfor the last feeeks of the pregnancy and the first couple of weeks of the baby’s life to help out in any way she could I didn’t kno shea proble to ask Not just because I didn’t feel like the ansas going to be so I wanted to know, but also because I didn’t care why it was happening

She was going to be there with me, and that was all that mattered to me

I thought about everything we’d planned on doing together and how good it was going to be to have her there to meet my baby

The thoughtsto slow the pains If anything, they started getting closer together Finally, I got to ot out

“You okay?” he asked when he stuck his head into the bathroom

“I think I’m in labor”

He looked at o”

“I know” I cringed as another contraction rolled through me “But I don’t think the baby cares”

“And you’re sure it’s not one of those fake contractions you were having?”

I was doing everything I could not to be aggravated at hi to help, and I needed to reet snippy He didn’t knohat I was going through He couldn’t feel it He was doing everything he could to try to keep ht

“I’ to be different and I’d be able to tell, and this is different”

He nodded “Alright Then let’s go I’ll get the bag”

We hurried out to the truck, and Aiden helped me in The ride to the hospital in the next town over felt far longer than it ever had I reclined back in the seat and rubbed ether

“Call the doctor,” I said as ent down the road “Tell her what’s going on”

Aiden did, telling the doctor what I said when she asked for a description of the pain and giving her a tih two of the contractions, then told hi ressing

Aiden hung up the phone and glanced over at me