Chapter 149 - TOO FAST PART 1

The impromptu baby shower had ended about two hours ago. It only lasted until the late afternoon, and it was nearing dinner time. I was glad that I could relax the rest of the night with just Kyle around, especially since I had been feeling way too much pressure ever since EZ had taken me to the mall.

Right now, I was looking forward to the dinner that Kyle had made for me; then I wanted to soak in the bathtub until I went to bed. My whole body was aching. Damn this pregnancy stuff, it was getting to me and making me feel like I was nothing but a damn whale.

Dammit, I am not a fucking whale shifter. And thinking about the bathtub was helping me with that analogy or image. I kept just thinking about how my belly always floated, and I ended up bobbing in the water like some weirdo pool toy, or like a whale breaching the surface of the water.

When I sat down to dinner with Kyle, I felt my mouth water. He had made some of my favorites because he was the best husband in the world. I may have been scared to find a mate and get married, but I was happy now that I had one. Especially since I had a husband that cooked me delicious steak and grilled BBQ chicken for dinner like this. Oh Goddess, he was the best!

I started to dig into the two different meats, the grilled asparagus, the creamy mashed potatoes, and the freshly baked dinner roll that he had set before me. I was trying a little bit of it all one after the other. However, before I had even taken a bite of everything I started to feel oddly full and sort of sick to my stomach.

What the hell? I was definitely hungry, and I could tell that the baby wanted food as well. So, why then, was I feeling like I had eaten three dinners, and I couldn't eat another bite?

Dammit! This was bullshit. I wanted my food, but I couldn't eat it at all.

"What's wrong?" Kyle asked me when he saw me push my plate aside.

"I'm feeling full." I could tell that I was looking depressed over it.

"Does it not taste good?" He asked me with a worried look on his face.

"No, it tastes great. I just can't eat it." I started to try and get to my feet, but before I could, Kyle jumped up and rushed to my side.

"Here, let me help you." He had me on my feet in an instant and was holding me steady. "Are you alright?" He looked worried.

"I'm fine. I think I am just tired from the party. You know that I don't like big events and things like that."

"Yeah, I know." He kissed my cheek. "Are you going to take a bath? Want me to get the water started for you?"

"That would be nice, thank you." I smiled at his words. He had been making that offer for me everytime that I needed, or just wanted to, bathe lately. He had been so helpful with everything lately, and I honestly couldn't figure out why I had been so lucky as to have him in my life.

A few minutes later, I was doing my best to undress while Kyle filled the tub for me. He rushed over to help me though, while the water cascaded into the big, black tiled bathtub. He helped me out of my clothes and then helped me into the water before shutting off the tap and kissing my cheek once very quickly.

"I'll go back to dinner. Call me if you need me, and don't try to get up without me."

"Alright." I rolled my eyes at him and his words. He had been helping me to move around a lot lately. And he had made sure that I didn't get out of the tub alone since I was unsteady on my feet and could slip. He didn't want me or the baby getting hurt in the process. He truly was a worrywart.

Just like I knew it would, my belly floated in the water. It made me look like a real whale, but I didn't care. I liked that when I was floating in the tub like this it helped to alleviate the pressure on my body and made me feel better. It had been the only form of relief I was getting lately.

However, that relief didn't seem to be coming now, even though I was doing the exact same thing that I have been doing every night for the last week at least. This time, soaking in the tub and floating in the water weren't relieving the pressure or the pain.

"Ughhhahh!" I groaned and let it turn into a sigh at the end. "Why isn't this helping like it usually does?" I groaned into the silent and empty room. "Come on, you stupid body of mine. Get with the picture and get on with the relaxing."

No amount of grumbling and groaning would get my body to listen to me though. I was just laying there, trying to think about how best to make this stupid pregnancy pain go away. I know if I moved around that it sometimes helped me out.

With that in mind, I pushed myself against the back of the tub so that I was more reclining than floating. I turned a little bit so that I was on my left side, but the belly was still under the water so that it was floating a little bit. I also scooted back a little so that I could press my back against the side of the tub and hold myself up like that.

I had hoped that sitting in a position like that for a few minutes might help, but it didn't. I just continued to move around in the water trying to get into a more comfortable spot. I was looking for that one magical way of sitting that would appease the pregnancy Gods so that they would let me relax in peace and quiet.

Nothing was helping me though. I ended up pulling my knees to my chest, as best as I could anyway with a giant ass baby belly being in the way. I wrapped my arms around my legs to help keep them in place as I laid my head against my thighs. I was essentially in as much of a fetal position that I could manage at the moment. I couldn't curl all the way up but I needed to do something dammit. 

It didn't help the pain really. It was still there, but at least it stopped getting worse for the current moment. All I was doing was sitting there, feeling that pressure get worse and worse.

"This can't be what I think it is, can it?" I asked myself as I felt the pressure intensify once more and pain wracked through me so intense that I made me cry out.

"Ahh!"

The cry was short and quick. I cut it off with the back of my hand almost as soon as it started, but still Kyle heard it. I knew that he was going to hear it, which was why I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to worry him unless I was sure that this was what I thought it was.

"Jacy?" He came running into the bathroom a moment after I cried out. There was a worried look in his eyes, and I could tell that he was almost in full panic mode already. "What happened?" He ran to me the moment he saw that I was sitting there in pain.

"I'm fine. It just hurt a little, that's all."

"Are you sure? Could the baby be coming?" He really was going to think that, wasn't he?

"I don't think so. I think it's just discomfort. I haven't been having contractions. At least, I don't think that I have been." After I said that, I felt the pressure get worse once again. It was like a whole body pain that was just on the brink of being unbearable.

I know that my face had to be showing that I was in pain right now. It really was getting worse and worse by the minute.

"Come on, let's get you out of there." Kyle wrapped an arm around my shoulders and used his other arm to hold onto my elbow. "Come on, steady now." He was being his usually paranoid self as he got me out of the water.

Right now, I didn't mind since I was barely able to move on my own. Every time that I tried to straighten up, I felt like there was someone stabbing me in my back. I realized too late that it was actually to the point that I couldn't bear the pain at all.

"Jacy, are you OK?" Kyle asked as I let my knees buckle while he tried to dry me off with a towel.

"No, I don't really think that I am. It's hurting a lot more than I thought it was." I had shaken my head side to side as I answered him.

"When did this start?" He asked me with a firm tone.

"The pain only started when I was in here. Before that it was just pressure." I was answering him honestly.

"When did the pressure get this bad then? I know you've had pressure for weeks, but it was worse today, wasn't it?"

'Yeah it was." I nodded. "It got worse while I was out with EZ. I thought it was just because I did a lot of walking."

"I think that you might be having the baby soon." He grinned at me. 

The moment those words were out of his mouth I felt something hot run down my leg and an intense pain grip my belly.