Some People Have It and Other People Don't

“There’s too many people here, I don’t really like it,” William complained.

“I wish I could go to China.”

“I’d take you then, if you wanted. Just not when we’re on tour,” I could almost see the adorable smile set on his face.

I laid back against my bed and felt a jolt in my stomach.

A huge smile swept across my face. “The baby just moved again,” I explained.

I longed to see him smiling, feeling him hold me. Well, as best he could, that is. I was a huge pregnant woman.

“My God Emily, please don’t have the baby when I’m gone. I would never forgive myself.”

I giggled. “I’ll try and hold it in, I promise.”

“Okay, good,” he laughed.

“William?”

“Yeah, Em?”

“I love you,” I declared.

“I love you too, baby,” he said softly, sweetly. “I wish I was there with you now. If I wasn’t famous I’d be there to hold you, I promise you.”

“If you weren’t famous, I probably wouldn’t know you.”

“You didn’t know I was famous when we met. I was just a guy at a bar.”

“A hot guy at a bar,” I reminded him.

He giggled. “Yes, of course. But I think we would have met no matter what.”

I played with a lock of my hair, frowning at my appearance in the mirror. Oh well, things could be so much worse. I could have no William. “And why is that?”

“Fate.”

I involuntarily started to tear up.

“I always knew there was something so special about you, from the first time I met you.”

“When you met me, you were drunk and only wanted to fuck me,” I corrected.

“Love, you’re ruining the moment,” he sighed.

I giggled. “I know what you mean.”

“Aw shit, Em, I gotta go. We’re doing soundcheck.”

“Okay, well it’s late here, so I’m gonna get to bed.”

“Okay, love, sleep tight. Pretend I’m there.”

“I will,” I smiled softly.

“I love you.”

“Love you too,” he said fast and hung up.

I wrapped my arms around my legs and let out a sigh.

Things were still hard to comprehend. I was having a famous person’s baby. He was off in Asia. I was so huge I could have the baby any day without him here.

That scared me, the thought of William not being there when the baby was born.

I’d never loved anyone before, like real love. But I think it was real now, with Will. At least that’s what I felt in my heart, even if everything was so rushed.

I snuggled under the covers, and placed a hand on my stomach before I fell asleep.

Nah, I never really liked children. But as I felt this baby move inside of me, this baby that was just made out of lust, but now had a future and a daddy, I couldn’t help but start to cry.

William Beckett and this baby were the two best gifts in my life…

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“Oh my God,” I muttered, looking down at my lap. I could feel the wetness rushing down my legs.

Only my mom was in the room with me.

“Honey, what’s wrong?” she asked, not looking at me. She then looked up from the book she was reading and let out a gasp. “C’mon, we need to get to the hospital.”

“Ohmygod, ohmygod,” I kept muttering to myself. My water just broke, didn’t it?

My mom hurriedly shuffled Kiera and me into the car, telling me to breathe and to tell her when a pain came.

She tossed a phone into Kiera’s hand, telling her to call Will, and I was in the backseat, panicking like a crazy woman.

“Mom I can’t! I can’t have the baby without him here!” I cried.

The car started and we were off. I started crying hysterically.

“Emily, you need to calm down, and you need to breathe. It’s going to hurt.”

I let out a cry. “Make it stop, mom, make it stop!”

“You can’t stop someone from giving birth!” she cried.

“Mom, mom, he’s not picking up!” Kiera yelled.

“Call again!” mom demanded.

I shock my head vigorously and mumbled, “No, no, I can’t do this.”

“Yes you can, Emily, just calm down,” my mom said soothingly.

But then the pain came and I couldn’t control a thing. I looked down at my lap and saw a steady stream of blood and let out a piercing scream…

I felt myself being shaken awake by someone, it was Kiera.

“Emily, calm down, you were screaming,” she declared.

I was breathing heavy, and a sudden sharp, intense pain went through my whole body. I felt a wetness on my bed as well.

I swallowed hard and threw off the covers and my eyes went wide.

I was covered in blood.

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Between then, and when I woke up several hours later in a hospital bed, I had no clue what went on.

I opened my eyes slowly, hurting because of the brightness of the room.

“Mom?” I called softly.

“Oh Emily, thank God you’re awake!” I heard an extremely worried tone in her voice.

I slowly adjusted and sat up a bit. My head was pounding. My hand flew to my stomach and I let out a sigh.

“The baby..?”

“He’s perfectly fine,” my mom smiled wide.

“He?” I smiled. “I’m having a boy?”

She nodded with a slight smile. “He’s a strong little boy Emily. You almost lost him.”

I nodded knowingly. “I was afraid. What did they do?”

“They just stopped the bleeding, made sure the baby was okay. They were almost about to give you an emergency C-section, but the baby is not fully developed and would have to be in intensive care if they decided to do that.”

I nodded again, gently rubbing my stomach. A few tears streamed down my face.

“You’re going to have to be on bed rest here, though.”

My smile instantly turned to a frown. “What, why?”

“You can’t exert yourself at all, love, it’s too risky,” she rubbed my hand. “But things could be worse.”

How many times had I heard that?

“Did you…did you get a hold of William?”

“No, I couldn’t. I called almost every half hour. He still hasn’t called back. He will though, don’t worry.”

“I’m not worried,” I said, but I knew William would take this out of proportion. Sure, it was bad, I’d almost lost the baby, our baby.

How was I going to tell him?

I let out a sigh. I still felt some pain, but I could feel the baby, moving and stretching inside of me.

My mom left the room to go get the doctors for a moment. I rested a hand on my stomach and took in a deep breath.

“So, William Eugene Beckett III?” I couldn’t help but giggle.

Life was just the greatest miracle…