Chapter 75 Struggles of my pregnancy

Chapter 75 Struggles of my pregnancy

2 1/2 Months later

I'm bloated, disgusted and exhausted.

Whatever fantasies I had of being pregnant is completely false!

I keep throwing up every ten minutes, I have terrible mood swings, my feet are swollen and I can't stop eating. I have been eating anything edible in sight. It's so bad that everyone has to hide their food from me or else I will just throw a tantrum until they give it up to me.

I'm pretty sure everyone hates me.

Just thinking that makes me want to cry.

"Hey, hey, why are you crying?" Andrew rushes over to me.

I sniffle as I ugly cry, "Everybody hates me."

"Who?"

I smack him on his arm and scowl at him. "You, dumbass." Then I begin to ugly cry again. "And everybody else."

He laughs while wrapping his arms around and I lean back on his chest. "I don't hate you, nobody does."

I look up at with a look. "Are you laughing at me?"

He instantly begins to shake his head. "No."

I sit up, turning around to him. "Are you making fun of me? You know I can't control my feelings." I could see the regret in his eyes when I begin to cry again. He looks behind me at the door and relief washes over his face.

"Are you hungry, dear?" I snap my head in the direction to see Lyra holding a bowl of soup. Smells like chicken and pumpkin.

A grin breaks on my face and I nod. "Thank you so much." I said sweetly.

"Could you give us some privacy please?" She asks Andrew.

"Sure." He kisses me on the head before leaving the room. Lyra walks further into the room and place the bowl on the bedside table, Andrew, made.

"It's hot, you'll have to wait for it to cool." She sits next to me and feels my forehead. "How are you feeling?"

"Terrible." I admit.

She looks at me with sympathy and places her had over on my bump. "The baby is growing, getting stronger." Hearing that made me much calmer but seeing her expression change made me worry again. "It's much sooner than I thought."

"What?"

"The baby is using your energy, your power. That's causing your symptom and I'm afraid it will continue for the rest of your pregnancy."

I'm sad hearing it's happening faster than I expected. I was hoping like 6 months or so, when the baby is close, you know?

"Are you ok?"

I sniffle wiping the tear from my face and try to smile through the pain. "I'm fine. We knew it was going to happening at some point, right?"

"Just keep drinking the tea, it'll help with the pain and nausea. Now you should drink that soup before it gets cold."

As she leaves the room, I don't move and continue to look at the empty spot she was. I could sense, Andrew, behind me and it was confirmed when he wrapped his arms around me, from behind.

I take in a deep breath, feeling myself about to breakdown. "Did you hear everything?"

"Yes, baby." I close my eyes and turn around to hug him. "I'll be here, every step of the way, ok?"

I nod, not saying a word.

We're going to be fine.

I'm going to be fine.

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4 Months later

"Anna, will be here soon!" Simon informed from outside as he's helping Lyra and Junior in the garden.

"Thank you!"

This is the first time I am seeing Anna for the past 7 months and I'm so excited to finally see my big sister again. Sure we've talked almost everyday but that's just through Veronica or Mia and I just want to her little annoying voice again.

Right now Jeremiah is helping me cook some, Paella. With Daniel, Simon and Jeremiah's Hispanic roots, I wanted to try something new. So far it smells so good in here and I know Anna's going to be hungry after her trip. Andrew and Daniel, left to follow her back because we discovered the demons have been watching us the entire time. Lyra felt something was wrong and the barrier and it turns out it was the demons trying to come on to the mountain but each time they failed miserably. We didn't pick a fight with them because we wanted the to think we still didn't know they were there.

Some part of me had hoped the Nikolaos would of stopped with his plan or at least move onto to someone else but that was crushed two months ago. Along with my sadness, there is also anger and annoyance. I can't wait until this is over and I can rip his head off myself..... If I make it anyway.

I stand on my tip toes trying to reach the top shelf for a bowl but this damn bowling ball keeps pulling me down.

"No, get down!" Jeremiah scowls me like a child and pulls me away.

"I'm not a child, Jer."

"No, but you are carrying one. Now sit down." He takes down the bowl I was reaching for and set it on the counter.

"Nooo! I want to help." I cry like a child. "No one ever let me do anything around here." I sit down and cross my arms with a pout on my face.

"You can help me by making my life easier, if you just eat this and keep that yapper shut." He says to me like he's talking to a child and hands me a chocolate bar.

I take it from him but not open it. "I don't want chocolate!"

"Woah!" He says looking at me worried.

"What?"

"You don't want chocolate? Shit, I think something is wrong with you. Are you feeling ok?" He feels my forehead and I roll my eyes and slap is hand away. "Aw!" He screams.

I try to get back up but it's a struggle. Jeremiah reaches out to help while giving me a look. "There is nothing wrong with- Ah!"

"Elle, what's wrong?" Jeremiah asks looking around frantically for what might be causing the problem. "Come on you need to sit down. I'll get, Lyra."

"No." I place my hand over his to stop him. I look at him with a smile and he looks at me confused. "It's fine." I place his hand on my stomach and I could see him visibly relax. "She's just kicking." She kicks again causing me to take in a breath.

"Does it hurt?"

"Yeah, but I don't care. I just love to know she's ok in there."

He chuckles, which is rarely ever seen but he has gotten closer to me the past few months we've been together. "She's a strong one."

"Yep." I wobble a little feeling light headed.

"Ok, now you need to sit down." I nod while rubbing my temples and sit back down on the cushion they made for me. A minute later he gives me a cup of the tea, Lyra gives me. I thanked me and took a sip and instantly feeling myself relax....

"Dinner will be ready in a few minutes. You should probably go freshen up."

"Ok, but you'll have to help me up." As if realizing, he helps me up and I take a cold shower trying to keep my temperature down. After I put on this beautiful purple maxi dress Veronica packed for me, which fits perfectly.

I walk outside to see everyone laughing and passing around plates with food. I spot one specific person and she was already looking at me with teary eyes and a huge ass grin on her face.

I begin to waddle over to her but then she shouts, "Stop!" Everyone freezes and look at her like she's crazy. "Not you guys." She brushes off the guys and runs over to me. I laugh as I watch my sister look at me like Christmas presents but I'm also slightly worried.

She holds me by my face, taking a long look at me. "Just as beautiful as I remember. I missed seeing your baby face so much." She hugs me but not as tight as she usually would.

"I missed you too." I giggle, hugging her back.

She pulls away and smile looking down at my stomach. "May I?" She asks and I nod. She places her hand on my stomach and almost immediately I feel a kick. She looks up at me with fascination. "She already knows her aunty. We already have a bond." She laughs.

I smile watching her face go throw all these emotions but at the back of mind is the baby. I still haven't told her or anyone else about my chances and it's also strange that every time someone touches my stomach she kicks harder. Maybe it's just her sensing others but it's still weird and hurts!

I feel arms wrap themselves from around me and rub under my stomach, just the way I like. I relax in his touch and I could also feel the baby calm down. Andrew is the only one that makes her do this and I'm thankful for it.

"You, need to sit down." I smile agreeing with and he helps me into a chair.

"Anna, did you get it?" Jeremiah asks.

"Ah, yes. Your blood bags are the cooler. By the way, it's not fun juicing deer." I scrunch my face at her choice of words.

"Sorry, Cristian is the one that got us off human blood years ago and we stuck to it." Jeremiah's eyes immediately found mine as he realizes what he said. I gave him a look telling him it's fine and look away.

"Dinner is ready!" Simon announces.

"Good, I'm starving." Anna cries.

The rest of the night carried on well. Everyone laughed and caught up with each other. Anna finally met Junior and they instantly hit it off. Simon, Anna and Junior were laughing and talking most of the dinner and I was happy to see she has loosened up around Simon.

Daniel and Jeremiah spent the entire dinner talking in Spanish and laughing like idiots. It was a beautiful sight but I know whatever they were talking about wasn't good. Lyra didn't stay around long, as soon as she finished her food she went straight to her room working on the same thing for the past 7 months. She rarely ever loosened up around us and it is kind of sad seeing her like this, exhausted. She doesn't tell us much on the spell she's working on, 'only it's for when the time is ready'.

After dinner Anna kicked Andrew out of our room and he left to bunk with Daniel and Jeremiah.

None of them were happy.

I decided it was time I told Anna, about my pregnancy, it's now or later.... or too late. She finish getting ready for bed and sits on the bed next to me.

"You obviously have something to tell. What is it?"

"What? How'd you know?"

"You have that 'I have something to tell you and I know you're going get mad face.'"

"I do not."

"Yeah, you do. You gave the same face when you had to tell me about the demons." She pauses with wide eyes. "It's not about them, is it?"

"No." She relaxes and lets a breath out and gives me look to continue. "It's about my pregnancy. There is a chance I might not make it."

She looks at me with a dead pan look, not saying word, I almost got scared she was possessed. After a long antagonizing minute of silence she lowly chuckles. "Sorry, I thought you said there is a chance you might not make it while carrying this baby and by the looks of it, you would have known about it for along time and haven't said a word to me and if any of that is even true, I would kill you before anyone else does." She said sarcastically through gritted teeth.

"I did say that, Anna."

She begins to continuously shake her head with her eyes pooling with tears. "No, you didn't. Take it back." She cries.

"I can't." She throws her arms around me and we both break down crying in each others arms.

"There must be something we can do. Maybe Lyra could-" I cut her off.

"There is nothing, Lyra can do. All I can do is hope, Anna and that's what you need to do too."

"Hope can't get you out of this, Elle! Y-you could.... you could die." She rubs her hand over her mouth, as if can not believing it came from her mouth.

"It's all I can go on, Anna. That's all of us can go on."

"Who else knows about this?"

"No one."

"Oh, Elle." She cries harder.

"And I don't want you to tell anyone else. You have to promise me."

"What? No."

"Promise me. Please." I plead. She shakes her head turning away from me.

"They deserve to know, Elle."

"And they will."

"After you're dead?!" She snaps back at me. I look away from her, avoiding eye contact. "Look at me, Elle." She pleads. I hesitantly look back up to see the pain in her eyes and my heart aches seeing her like this. "What am I going to do with out you?"

"You're going to live." I say remembering what mom told me. "You'll be fine and I might make it. It's not a 100% fact I won't."

"Might, Elle. That's the key word. What is all this for anyway, if you're just going to give up?"

"I'm not giving up! And we're doing this to protect everyone from the demons. They don't want me Anna, they want the baby."

"Elle, what is she going to do without you?"

"She has her father, her badass Aunt and a ton of people who are going to love her no matter what. You hear me?"

She bites her lip and nod her head. "Ok..... I won't tell anyone."

"Thank you."

"I want you to promise me that you will survive this." I was about to say something but she doesn't let me. "I don't want to hear anything about 'hope' or 'we'll see'. I want to hear you say you will and mean it."

I take a long pause giving her look that I can't say that, because I know it's not true. She gives me a look of desperation and not taking no for an answer.

I sigh and say, "I will."

The rest of the night we snuggled close together and just talked. First, she informed me that she changed her two weeks visit to a whole month. I am happy she's staying longer and she also promised to come back before the baby will be born, so she could be here for the birth. She then began to tell me what she and Cora would do one weekends and how she'll spoil her. Of course she included me but I didn't pay mine to that part and just listened to her exciting plans, during the middle of it I secretly started crying. I'm pretty sure she heard me sniffle a couple times but thankfully she didn't address it.

At some point she changed the subject to Aiden eating too much wasabi at once after them challenging his spice tolerance. He was on the toilet all night.

I heard it was Max's idea and guess who doesn't like him now.

I laughed at all the things I missed out and fell asleep through half of it.