CHAPTER XVIII. Him

Pregnancy week 15

My pregnancy was more noticeable than ever, but as with everything in life, not everything can go right... as the press had unintentionally found out about it.

Today we woke up to an international headline: "Loving young couple, Maeve Thompson, and Nathaniel O'Donel, are expecting a baby. Congratulations".

The worst part was when my phone was about to explode with calls and messages, when I checked it, I had thousands of messages from my siblings, my mum, my aunts... but only one from Simon was a simple "I told you so".

Recently, when we went to the ultrasound, they told me: ‘The bones are growing, but they are still mostly cartilage. They wiggle their fingers and toes and make other movements, like blowing out their bellies, as training for the breathing movement they will make once they are out of the womb’. I loved having the doctor digest everything that was happening anatomically with my babies, it was so cool to hear.

My babies looked stronger and stronger, my