Chapter 104

“Take it easy,” Arrick guides me from the car towards our building and home. We have been shopping, last minute nesting items as it gets crazy close to my due date, and I am so done with being pregnant. I’m like New York’s answer to Free Willy, and my feet are like long-lost sisters I maybe will see one day again. A woman cuts in front of me aggressively as I reach for the door handle and knocks me over into him as Arrick almost takes her head off.

“Watch the fuck where you’re going.” He snaps at her, and I look back at him in surprise at his non-typical response to another human. He’s been tetchy since we got into my last month. Antsy, nervous, and overkill in protective mode. Today he is having a bad day because I have been having a bad day, and he is trying not to lose his shit with me over it.

Me… I’m suffering every day and absolutely despise this endless growing rounder and waiting. Whoever said pregnancy was beautiful lied. It’s an infinite cycle of peeing, starvi