Rebecca's miracle

Twenty-six (22nd September 1996)

Rebecca Pov

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Levi and I had just moved into a house together like a couple of days before, so naturally I was still getting used to our bed as it wasn't the bed that I was used to, Levi was asleep as it was like 4 O'clock in the morning.

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I was wide awake as my back was fucking sore, but I didn't think anything of it as I had been lifting boxes the last couple of days, so it made sense to me why it was sore, I got out of bed because I needed to wee, like nothing out of the ordinary was about to happen.

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So when I got to the bathroom, I wasn't expecting my fucking water to break as I didn't know that I was bloody pregnant, so naturally I started to freak the fuck out here, and after a minute or two of me freaking out, that was when I realised that I should wake Levi up, as this was his bloody kid too.

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"Levi, Levi!, LEVI!"
"Whaat?"
"I need you to wake the fuck up!"
"It's 4:30 in the morning, why are you so panicky?"
"My water fucking broke!"
"You're pregnant?"
"Not for fucking long!, and no!, I didn't fucking know!"

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The longer I was in labour for, the more wound up I was becoming, which looking back on it, wasn't helping me at all, as all I wanted was for this baby to get the fuck out of me, (but also maybe like not, emotions are confusing at the best of times, let alone in high stress situations).

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It felt like forever, but honestly it was realistically like maybe 20 minutes, (well, most likely, but we all know how shit my inner clock is when I don't feel my fanny is about to rip in two, ya know), I was trying not to scream out like a banshee as I didn't want to wake the neighbours up and them then giving a complaint about us, especially when we were new.

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Anyway, realistically 20 minutes later, though like I said, no real way of knowing, it felt like I was about to pop with the amount of pressure coming out of me, Levi was probably trying to help me breathe through it but honestly I couldn't process a fucking goddamn thing but the fact that I was about to be a fucking mother here.

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So while I was panicking about becoming a mother, I started to hear crying, which kind of snapped me out of my own head, as I knew that it wouldn't have been Levi crying as he's not a loud cryer, so that had to mean that the baby had to have been born, so we had to start thinking of names and all that jazz.

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"Are they ok?"
"Yeah he's ok Babe"
"That answers my next question"
"Are you okay Babe?"
"I'm struggling to get my head around this to be honest, there were no bloody signs"
"You still had your periods?"
"Well no, but that's not necessarily a sign for me as mine only come when all the stars are aligned and the moon is fucking blue"

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Levi seemed to be thinking, but then he could've just been tired as I had woken him up at like 4:30 in the morning, which was a few hours before he normally woke up, and I felt really bad about that but at the same time, it was for better or for worse Bitch.

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"What kept you up?"
"Insomnia-"
"No I know, but it wasn't the normal insomnia-"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the covers on your side of the bed aren't as messed up as they usually would've been after you tossing and turning"

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I didn't think that my tossing and turning was that noticeable, (I was clearly fucking wrong here), but looking back on it, I appreciate that Levi actually noticed.

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"Oh, yeah my back hurt but it kinda doesn't hurt now"
"Rebecca-"
"What?"
"How long was your back hurting for before your water broke?"
"I don't know, since like 9-"
"So you were in labour for almost 8 hours-"

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This was news to me, I was also pretty fucking confused as my water didn't break until like half 4 in the morning, but I also wasn't an expert considering that I didn't know that I was even pregnant, so take that as you want to.

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"But my water didn't break until I woke you up, plus it could've been from the boxes-"
"Babe it's not from the boxes, especially if it's not as sore now, his head was probably by your spine"
"Why do you say that?"
"It happened to Lottie, she didn't know that she was pregnant with Matt until like a month before he was born, what do you want to name him?"
"You think I have just roladex of names just chilling in my head-"
"No, I just thought that you should have like first dibs on naming him"
"Oh, what about Jordan?"
"That works"

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