Promise Me (Lucaya)

T w e n t y - t h r e e

"Don't say it."

"Ok..." Riley responded putting her hands up in surrender

While I was putting my Nutella on that runway thingy for food, ( idk what it's called...anyways) another employee looked at me weird. What is it with these people!

"When are you due?" She asked

I looked up from counting my jars.

"Oh 3 weeks." I smiled

"Oh honey, your gonna have that baby tonight." She said in full confidence

Uh...did you hit your head or something? I'm having my baby in 3 weeks. I just smiled and grabbed my bags.

Back at Maya's apartment:
When we got home I flung my shoes off and collapsed on the couch.

"I'm so tired." I said to Riley who was putting away 'the gold' (I call Nutella gold.) I'm not really that hungry anymore, my stomach hurts, wait...not anymore. The baby must have moved or something. About 30 minutes later it would hurt again then the go away.

"Ok Maya wanna finish watching Cinderella?" She asked sitting on the couch, she saw my facial expression and became concerned

"What's wrong?" She asked

"I think the baby is moving around a lot, like he would move then stop then a few minutes later he'd move again then stop." I explained

"Maya? Honey? Peaches? Um, I think your having contractions."

"WHAT? No, this is probably a stomach ache or something, I'm not having my baby today. No. I can't be." I assured myself

Riley started pacing the floor.

"Riley you ok?"

"Me? Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" She answered with a shaky voice

"WHO DO WE CALL?" I became more concerned now

"Uh-your Doctor! Yeah! He'll know what to do!"

Riley grabbed the phone and started dialing.

"Oh hi! How have you been? Good? Aw good-"

"RILEY!"

"Oh sorry- um the reason I'm calling is-well Maya, you know her as Miss.Hart-anyways...SHES HAVING CONTRACTIONS AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!"

"Yaha...yeah....ok."

Riley has seemed to calmed down by now. Contractions aren't at all what I thought they would be. They didn't really hurt at all really.

"Thanks Mr.Braverman, bye!"

"What did he say???"

"Ok he said to call him back when your contractions are 15 minutes apart."

"OH MY GOSH!"

"WHAT? Is there a bug on me?" Riley said searching her arm.

"No, it's just that crazy lady from Vons...she told me I would go into labor tonight...what if she's right?" I said nervously

"Maybe she was a witch!" Riley exclaimed

"I doubt it, maybe it was just the way I wobbled or something."

"Aw Maya! Your gonna have your baby!"

Riley was way more excited than I was. I mean I was excited and all but mostly terrified. I don't know if I would be a good mother. What if I have to work all the time like my mom did? I could never do that to my kid. I'm mostly afraid of if I could actually do this alone. He will ask me one day why everyone else has a dad and why he doesn't. That day I hope I have the heart to tell him the truth.

So what happened was I was working on this chapter for a week and I accidentally deleted EVERYTHING! I had to start from scratch, but it ended up being a better chapter 😉 comment below!