Maya's POV
"Riles?"
"Peaches?"
Me and Riley were siting in my living room watching a movie. Riley was holding a bowl of popcorn on her lap and turned to look at me.
"Do you think I will be a good mom?" I asked Riley a little unsure of myself.
"Of course you will! You will be better than good, you will be the greatest mom in the history of moms! You know why?"
"Why."
"Because you would never put your kid through what you went through."
I felt my face get warm and my vision started getting blurry, great now I'm crying. I started fiddling with my hands.
"Hey...." Riley put her hand on my shoulder "You will be a great mom."
"Thanks, you will be a great aunt." I smiled wiping my watery eyes
I walked to the kitchen to see if we had any Nutella left.
"Hey Riley!" I yelled from the kitchen
"Do we have any Nutella left? Or any chocolate?"
"I think you ate it all." She hollered back
Oh joy...now I gotta walk all the way to the front door, put my shoes on, then walk all the way to the car, then go to Vons, then walk all the way to the front door, then walk all the way to the Nutella isle, then walk all the way to checkout then walk all the way back to the car again...it's too much! But baby needs Nutella.
"Get your shoes Riley we're going shopping.." I demanded while putting my shoes on
"But-Cinderella just lost her shoe! I can't stop watching now!"
"Riley you've seen this movie like 50 times." I whined
"Actually 54 times." She corrected
"My point exactly...lets go."
"Ok."
At Vons:
"Maya slow down! For a pregnant lady your crazy fast." She hollered from behind me
"Baby wants Nutella so baby will get Nutella." I stated simply
I scanned the isles till I found what I was looking for. Ooh snickers...NO MAYA! Stop it! We are here for one thing and that one thing is 5 jars of Nutella...
I felt my mouth water staring the Nutella and suddenly jerked foreword.
"Whoa!" I knew babies kicked and stuff, but-
"Whoa baby." I laugh when I feel my baby move. "Hey I know baby, you want Nutella as much I do." I feel awkward when an employee walks past me. "Nope, nothing weird here. Just a pregnant lady talking to her unborn child. Yeah nothing weird at all." I nervously smile hoping not to look too crazy.
Oh excuse me? Do these jars come in a four-pack?" I ask an employee while picking up a jar of Nutella. He shook his head and walked away.
I sighed as I picked two jars of Nutella. That's enough right? No, maybe two more. Ok one more so I can eat it in the car. And how about one when I get to the house? You know what I'm taking 7 jars-make that 8 jars of Nutella. I smile as I push the cart to where Riley was waiting patiently for me. She looked up and saw my cart. Her eyes widened and her mouth opened as if she were to speak.
"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!