Chapter Nine, Part Two

"Blaine, are you excited for your first day of school?" I asked, smiling brightly as I looked toward my son.

"Probably not as excited as you are, Mom!" Blaine laughed after swallowing a mouthful of pancakes, he had been talking about how excited he was to be going to school and how he thought his first day would go. In all honesty though, he was for the most part correct about me being 'more excited' than he was about school starting up this year.
"Aw, it just means that my little boy is growing up, and it's exciting for us to watch you mature and learn new things." I paused for a second before opening my mouth to say something else, but when the words were about to come out, they were interrupted by the sound of the school bus honking it's horn. "Oh! There's the bus! Go on, before you're late."
"Okay, see you both when I get home! Love you Mom, love you Dad!" Blaine said quickly as he got down off the bar stool and headed out the front door.
"Love you too, sweetie!" I said cheerfully, placing another bite of pancakes in my mouth.
"See you later bud, love ya." Jay said quickly before getting up and taking his dish, as well as picking up Blaine's plate, it was his turn to wash the dishes today. When I finished my plate, Jay came to get that one too, it was nice to know that he was true to his word when he tells me that he's going to do something.

This pregnancy was going by smoothly now that the morning sickness had passed and now that Blaine was a child. But for some reason today seemed to drag by, I ended up reading another new medical journal and taking a short nap. I woke up refreshed and ready to tackle the rest of the day.

"Hello in there." My voice was soft as I patted my rather large, round belly. "You father and I can't wait to meet you little one... You're already so loved, and you have a big brother waiting to meet you too." After my last sentence the baby began to kick and move around like crazy, which caused me to laugh and rub my belly more. It was definitely true that the growing life inside of me could hear my voice, even though I've known that since my first pregnancy. It was hard to believe that soon I would be a mother to not one, but two kids, my life has already changed so much, I couldn't imagine it being any other way now.

After admiring my baby bump, it was time to head downstairs to see what my wonderful husband was up to. I hadn't seen or heard much from him all day, which lead to me being very curious as to what he was doing. Slowly, I waddled to the stairs and carefully walked down them, making sure to hold onto the rail tightly as I descended down each step. As soon as I had reached the bottom of the stairs and had walked a few steps into the living area, I was greeted by the most handsome man on the face of the planet. But before I could open my mouth to even say anything to him, Jay planted a small kiss right on my lips, which took me by surprise, but it was a welcome gesture.

Jay smiled a very large smile as he pulled back from my lips and locked his eyes onto mine. My cheeks turned a slight shade of pink and a smile formed on my face, as a small laugh escaped from me.

"Hey, you.." I said finally after recovering from the surprise kiss. "You've been quiet down here all day long, what have you been doing besides painting?"

"Nothing.. Just waiting for you to get up from your nap, so I could give you a nice back rub.. I heard you say something about your back hurting earlier before you went upstairs for your nap." He replied gently as he motioned for me to turn my back toward him, so he could give me a massage.

"Oh, I love the way you think Jay!" I laughed as I turned to face my back toward him so he could help relax my tense back muscles.

"Ahh... Yep, that's the spot..." I sighed in relaxation as Jay began the massage. His large hands felt nice rubbing in a circular motion all over my back and shoulder area, he applied just the right amount of pressure to relieve the tension in the muscles and I think a little bit of drool may have even escaped from the side of my mouth during the back rub. It felt so very nice, and paired with the refreshing nap I had just woken up from a few minutes ago, I was now ready to take on anything the day had to throw at me.

"Feel better?" Jay asked as he stepp back once he was finished with the massage.

"Yes, much, much better.. Thank you, you're the best." I replied as I nodded my head.

"You're welcome. If it starts hurting again, tell me and I'll give you another massage."

The two of us spent the entire afternoon catching up on each other's day, and just being together. I spent most of mine upstairs reading, or just laying down to relieve the stiffness from my back even though it never fully went away until Jay gave me that wonderful massage. Jay told me about the wonderful painting that he had started and finished during the day, and almost before we knew it Blaine was home and it was dinner time.

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After dinner was finished and the kitchen had been cleaned up, my back was hurting again, but not intensely, so I thought maybe relaxing in bed for a few minutes would help. If that didn't work then I was going to take a warm bath. Just as I got to the bottom of the staircase, and was about to begin walking up the stairs, this nearly unbearable pain immobilized me. There I was, trying to breath through the pain and try to get my body to move itself, but I couldn't.

The next thing I knew, Blaine rushed over to me, his face was full of concern and fear. My eyes barely caught sight of him, but I knew he was there, I could finally breath through the pain that had just hit me all of a sudden, but I still couldn't move.

"Mom! Mom! Are you okay, what's wrong!?"

"Owwwwww!" I yelped as another wave of pain, this time it was clear that I was in labor, and that this baby was on it's way out whether we were ready or not. My due date wasn't for another week, but I was already full term and the pregnancy had been a healthy one, so there weren't any fears for the baby coming out unhealthy or anything like that, I just wasn't prepared like I thought I would be. "The baby's coming!" I yelled. 

Jay must have heard all the commotion going on downstairs because he came rushing down them just as the second set of contractions passed. I was instructed to go get in the car we had just recently bought, and then Jay turned to Blaine and reassured him everything was okay, and that we would be back soon. He also instructed Blaine to stay inside and wait for the babysitter to arrive before he went to bed. With that we were on our way to the hospital to bring our second child into the world.

When we arrived at the hospital, Jay ran ahead of me with all the documents he needed to check me into the hospital. Thankfully they weren't too busy tonight on the L&D floor and had a room prepared for me as soon as we got to the floor. It was about nine o'clock when the doctor got into the room and before long we were holding our second child in our arms.

At 10:13 pm little Gabriel Rodriguez was born at a whopping 9 lbs and 3 oz, measuring 21 inches in length. Jay and I are both thrilled to have brought another son into the world, and we can't wait to see what the months and years ahead bring us as a family. We definitely cannot wait for Blaine to meet his little brother and to see how well the two of them will bond. Life is just getting better all the time.