Be My Bride and Have My Baby by Kimberley Taylor

Author:Kimberley Taylor [Taylor, Kimberley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BWWM Club
Published: 2019-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Two Months Later

Coughing all the time, she wrote. Sore. Everywhere. Feet are beginning to swell—thought was too early for that?

Melissa was onto her fourth notebook of pregnancy notes. When Rodger had asked her what it was that she wanted to do with these last precious months before parenthood took over their lives, she’d at first had no idea. But she knew that she didn’t want to let pregnancy flit by. She knew that she wanted to steep herself in these months and remember them, not just be hyper-focused on the end goal.

It was a sweet time. She and Rodger were bonding—they did everything together, now; Melissa’s apartment stood dusty and unused. The two prospective parents spent most nights looking over shared Pinterest boards of nurseries decked out in pastel. Rodger had said that of course the nursery he'd put together was already done but if Melissa wanted to put any personal touches on it she should feel more than welcome. And Melissa wanted to make it personal.

It was one of the most personal rooms she’d ever set foot in, after all. The room which she was only just beginning to feel belonged to her—the one in which she and Rodger slept—still felt sort of like a room into which she was moving, rather than a room which she could make to be hers; which, to be fair, was very close to being true. She and Rodger had still not yet decided what they were to each other, and it seemed like daily they were putting off the discussion, forgoing that bit of sure awkwardness to instead coo over the idea of what their little babe would look like.

They were both raging with curiosity about what he or she would grow up to be, what she would like, and even what she or he would look like. As Melissa was black and had very dark skin and Rodger was extremely fair, they knew that their son or daughter would have skin which was of any shade along the whole spectrum of beautiful skin colors.

Melissa couldn't wait to meet her child.

But in a way, she was beginning to feel like—on some level—she already had. Or was in the process of doing so. While she wasn’t explicitly showing yet, she was beginning to experience interesting bodily phenomena which she wouldn't have expected. Bits of her were sore which she didn’t even remember ever feeling before. She was hungry, often for what felt like days at a time. But then she was often unable to eat when food was placed in front of her. She was having the weirdest food cravings. Only the other night, she'd woken up in the middle of the night with an insatiable urge for peanut butter and saltines with lemon juice. She'd never liked any of those things before. Particularly not together. But that morning, just when everything in the world was closed and there was no way she could get any of those things, she’d already raided

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