Chapter 78
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"Her?" I asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
He hid his smiling face with his hands.
"Okay. I'll have to ask their parents if their kids can come over. I'll have the chef bake a cake."
"Yay! Thank you mommy. I love you."
"I love you too, baby."
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After one hour, the house was invaded with screaming children who were hyped off sugar.
I was supervising along with another parent who decided to accompany her daughter to the Last-Minute-Birthday-Party.
"My daughter talks about Jason all the time. I was curious to see how they get along," Julia, the other parent said to me as we prepared the party bags. She went on, "I had no idea he was Jevan's son."
I smiled at her.
"Can you picture my kid with your kid? Growing up together. Being rich. Having kids. Being rich," she said again.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked her.
"I'm sorry. Did I offend you?"
"Of course you did! My son is only six years old and so is your daughter and you're talking about them growing up, being rich, having kids and being rich. Is it only about the money?"
"It was a joke."
"I don't joke when it comes to my son and I'm sure your daughter is FRIENDS with Jason because of who he is and not what he is. It's parents like you who make me sick. Now, hand out the party bags."
I gave the bags to her which was filled with goodies and she handed them to the children in attendance.
I stepped back into the kitchen and cut myself a slice of red velvet cake and poured myself a little bit of red wine.
After eating and drinking, the party came to an end. The children said their goodbyes to Jason and he gave his friend a game station he wasn't fond of.
"Okay, little man. Time to get you cleaned up and ready for bed."
"Where's daddy?" he asked.
"Your dad is at work. He'll be home any time from now."
I got Jason to shower and got him some hot milk.
Then, it was time for him to get into bed. I lifted him up and felt immediate pain in my stomach. I clutched after I tucked him in.
"Mommy, are you okay?" he asked.
"Yes. Mommy is fine," I answered. I kissed his forehead and left the room feeling as if a lake of fire was being lit at the bottom of my stomach.
I called Jevan.
"Hey baby. I'm pulling into the gate right now," he answered.
"Jevan... Jevan... Je.."
"Blossom, baby, what's wrong?"
I was in physical pain. My entire body was shivering. I was right outside Jason's bedroom door.
"BLOSSOM!" I heard Jevan calling me.
He reached me so quickly that I thought he was probably Usain Bolt in disguise.
"Baby, what's wrong?"
"I'm not feeling too good. I feel like I'm going to die."
All the blood drained from his face. He picked me up and carried me to the car.
He instructed the night Maid to keep an eye on Jason as it was the weekend and the nanny was off.
He drove me to the hospital afterwards and each minute, the pains grew increasingly worse.
Nurses ran to my aid as soon as Jevan carried me through the entrance.
The next thing I knew, I was being pushed down the aisle on a gurney. My eyes were getting heavy and I drifted in and out of consciousness.
"We need Doctor Chaplin!" I heard someone yelled.
"Paged him!" another responded.
Jevan was right by my side, holding my hand. His felt warm.
*
I was directed inside a private room and a Doctor entered quickly, speaking instructions.
"Cryptic!" he said to the nurses and he put on a pair of gloves, " And already crowning."
"Huh?" I asked.
"Ma'am, I would need you to push when I say to do so."
"Push for WHAT?" I frantically asked.
"You're in labour."
Blossom's POV
"Are you crazy! I'm not PREGNANT!" I yelled. Bewildered was an understatement to describe the mood I was in.
The fierce pain snapped and I thought I was going to break into half.
"AAAARRRGGHHHH!" I cried. Jevan held my hand and wiped beads of sweat off my forehead.
"Miss. Wright, I know this is alarming to you but I would need you to calm down and listen to me for the sake of the baby. Okay?" the doctor smoothly spoke.
I nodded in agreement.
"Good. Now, on the count of three, I need you to push. Okay?"
"Okay."
"One. Two... Three. PUSH!"
I cooperated and pushed with all my might. I felt as if all the nerves from my lower body were being heated up.
"Get this out of me!" I cried.
"Push. One more!"
I pushed the last bit of energy I had left and heard the crying of a new born before everything went dark from around me.
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Jevan's POV
"Congratulations, it's a beautiful baby girl," the doctor said before handing me the tiny baby.
I didn't know how to feel. I arrived home from a normal day at work and the next thing I knew, I was sitting next to Blossom in a delivery room with a freaking baby in my arms.
But she was the most beautiful little thing ever. Tears of happiness rolled through my eyes as I heard her cooing.
"Doctor, what's the status of my fiancée? Is she going to be okay?" I asked the doctor.
"Sure. She had only fainted from exhaustion. We'll be monitoring her very closely just in case her condition changes but she'll wake up soon."
"We were definitely not prepared for this," I said.
"No one usually is with that type of pregnancy but the baby is going to be alright."
