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I shake my head.
“This means…!”
I nod.
Aunt Veronica became animated. “Don’t just stand there man! We need to get to the hospital quick. Sis, put the beer in the fridge. We’ll watch the rerun later.”
Then we all scuttle, panic coming from all of our voices. Somehow Aunt Veronica calls Carl and he’s standing outside ready to jump in the ca
r.
“How did you get here so quick?” I say, as we get in the car.
“Oh, Aunt Veronica has me on speed-dial. So she just calls me twice and it means to come over.”
I look at her, forgetting my pain for a brief second, wondering if we’re really related. No matter how many times I think that, she always manages to remind me that we are.
“No time to think. Just get in the car!” Ross screams as he tells the driver to get out and he’ll drive us to the hospital.
That’s the first mistake. Ross starts driving before I even get in there. The car door slams and he’s gone like fire.
“Good, now he’s out of the way. Let’s go!” Aunt Veronica shouts to Carl. That’s when a new car, one that I’ve never seen before, is being opened by Mom as she says, “Get in.”
I’m too much in pain to ask and I don’t have the strength to have a conversation, but as we start heading to the hospital I feel the need to push so fucking hard. As if the baby’s coming now and it can’t wait until we get there.
“Mom, I can’t hold on,” I say as I hold on to her hand. Then she starts to sing to me. The same way that she used to do when I was a kid. Suddenly the memories flooded back of her holding me and telling me that everything was going to be okay when I was being bullied by the other kids for being too thin or too short. She used to hum it to me all the time. No words, just a lullaby. When I was in the playground and no one would want to play with me, it gave me the strength to go back and go on the swings alone.
The next few minutes became indistinct as I start to go to sleep. I no longer felt strong, but weak, as if something else was taking over my body.
“Don’t let her sleep! In Grey’s Anatomy it happened to a woman and she lost the baby. Just don’t let her sleep!”
“It doesn’t matter: we’re here,” Carl says, “And so is Ross.”
Then I’m being told to take deep breaths and there’s a stranger holding my hand. Judging by her white coat, she’s a doctor.
“Olivia can you hear me?”
I nod as I feel weak and unable to move. I feel as if something’s stuck between my legs and I suspect that it’s my baby.
“Yes,” I whisper as the pain takes over my body.
“Good, she’s responsive. Let’s get her inside quickly and smoothly.”
I nod, but I know that she’s not talking to me.
Then they start to move me and I can hear Ross’s voice in the background.
“I can’t believe that I fucking drove here alone.”
Aunt Veronica is calming him down, “Ross don’t worry it happens to the best of us. I remember in this one episode of General Hospital a dad did exactly the same thing!” she giggles, but she’s laughing alone as he keeps repeating the same words: “Sorry Olivia.”
I shake my head, I want to tell him that it’s okay, but I feel myself on a stretcher and being moved inside the hospital. It may be fast but sure isn’t smooth.
Before long I’m pushing and being helped by Ross, he is no longer panicking, but kissing my forehead and saying, “Come on Olivia you can do it.”
I can hear them telling me that the head was out and then as if he was watching a football match Ross screams.
“Just one more try!”
