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“You’re not going to have him right this second, are you?” I glanced up at Elijah. He stared at my stomach with bulging eyes.
I glared at him not caring about the tears or my snotty nose. Yelling, I asked, “If you’re worried about that possibility then why the fudge did you climb in my car?”
His brown eyes widened more. Even in the dark I saw his face pale. He shook his head and refocused on the road. The man looked positively rattled.
“Sorry,” I burst into tears and screamed at the same time because, hello, this agony was killing me. Through gritted teeth, I said, “I’m in a lot of pain. Thanks for driving me.” I studied him for a moment and then added, “But can you please go faster? This baby won’t wait much longer for a doctor.”
Within seconds, the engine roared as it accelerated. Two minutes later, we pulled up to the emergency room’s sliding doors. “Do you…” He put my car in park and eyed me warily. I opened my door, staggered to my feet, and grabbed onto the car for dear life. Could I even walk inside? “Sit down. Let me go find a wheelchair!” Elijah hollered as he ran through the doors. I sat down but kept my feet on the concrete and waited, taking deep, even breaths as best I could.
“Are you and Eli going to be okay, Mommy?” Lucy asked from her seat.
“Eli’s just ready to come out.” I patted the seat where she could see me do it since I couldn’t reach her. “It’s okay. This is normal.”
“We can send him back. I don’t like this,” she mumbled. I pictured her crossing her tiny arms over her chest.
“Here.” Elijah was in front of me. He didn’t offer me his hand, but waited as I lifted myself and sat down.
“Can you help Lucy with her buckles?” I asked apologetically, knowing this was beyond weird for any two people that didn’t know or even like one another.
He gave me a withdrawn but accepting sigh as he walked to the door and opened it. A few seconds later, Lucy was by my side, examining me as she scanned every part of me. Elijah rushed me inside. “Stay by me, Lucy.” She took my hand and walked by me, barely keeping up with Elijah’s long strides.
He dropped my keys in my lap as he stopped, then called the nurses. “I think her water broke!” I covered my forehead with my palm. Did he have to yell it? The ER wasn’t even where I needed to be, but at least I was here.
I hissed and held my stomach with my free hand as the tightening grew worse. “Can someone please do something? Fuck! Look at her! She’s seconds from having the kid.” He said kid instead of a baby.
A pretty blonde stepped out of the doors and greeted him with a smile like she’d seen that scene a hundred times before. Maybe she had, but I hadn’t. Scott had been chill the entire time, even grabbing himself a soda and chips from the vending machine while I waited for my water to break with Lucy.
Thankfully, the nurse came to me instead of Elijah, rushing in and taking over. “It will be just a second, Dad.” She stared straight at Elijah. “Don’t worry, we’ll take care of her. If you want to go ahead. We can prep her and get you dressed—”
“He’s not the father,” I told her quickly. “Please, I have to take my daughter back with me. I can’t leave her out here.”
“But he’s—” The nurse pointed toward Elijah.
“Absolutely not,” I said adamantly. “We don’t know him. He simply rushed us here when he saw us in the parking lot.”
The nurse nodded, clearly confused.
“Hadley!” I recognized my mom’s voice and sagged in the chair. They couldn’t have shown up at a better time. “Did your water break already?” she asked as Lucy ran to my dad.
“Mommy’s been crying,” she told him.
“I can go now,” I told the nurse. “Mom?” I didn’t care that I was about to be a mother of two. A girl knew when she needed her mom, and I was lucky enough to still have mine.
“Go on. Lucy and me will wait outside the windows,” Dad told us with a reassuring smile. “You ready to be a sister, Lucy?”
Mom came with me as the nurses rolled me away.
I was about to be a mommy for the second time at twenty-one-years-old.
