“Fuck me,” he replied rolling his eyes heavenward. “Lay back.” He pushed me gently back into our daughter’s waiting arms. “Adin turn on the light.”
Adin flipped on the light with one hand reaching behind her while keeping her other hand on the wheel. She was afraid to look. I focused on Keegan and breathing. My daughter continued to play with my hair which actually gave me some relief. She was relaxing me.
Kerry spread my legs with a gentle touch of his hands on my knees and pushed aside my panties. “Oh Jesus. Adin hurry the fuck up. We need to get her home.”
“Kerry?” I was questioning the look in his eyes.
“Please don’t push.”
“That close?” I asked through pants of breath trying like hell not to push. I tilted my head back and let loose with a cry of pain that started in my belly from a contraction that was intense I thought my pelvis w
as going to explode.
“Hold on baby,” he said. “The baby’s head is right there.”
“Right where?” Adin cried her voice filled with concern. She whipped around in the front seat.
“Where do you think Adin?” Kerry and I asked at the same time with different levels of hysteria.
“I have to push Kerry,” I was sobbing now. The pain too intense. My hands were twisting looking for something to grasp onto to help fight off the intensity of the pain. There was nothing. “I can’t wait. It hurts too badly.”
He yanked down my panties with a quick movement of his hands and tossed them in the back. Kerry threw open the door climbed out of the vehicle taking charge. He took a huge breath. I watched as his chest expanded and expelled with every breath trying to calm himself.
“Keegan hold your mother up… into whatever position feels comfortable for her.” He looked frantic and afraid. I was afraid too. “Baby push when you’re ready.” He didn’t sound confident even if was trying to be.
I started to laugh.
“What is so funny?” My sister asked glaring at me as she leaned over the seat to hold my hand trying to comfort me.
“This could only happen to me,” I said between laughing and sobbing in pain. Tears rolling out of the corners of my eyes.
“You got that right,” Adin replied caressing my hand in both of hers while I bit down on my lower lip trying to stifle the scream that I wanted to let loose. I dug my fingernails into Adin’s leather seat to keep from hurting my sister.
Brad jumped out of the SUV, “I will run home and get Lucy.”
Nobody responded as my brother-in-law sprinted towards the direction of the house. Hopefully he was faster than Adin. Gym teacher, I reminded myself. Athlete. I found a position that gave me some comfort while Keegan supported my back. My feet pressed against the sides of the car door frame. Kerry pushed my nightgown out of the way until the lower part of my stomach was bare. I was exposed to whomever might drive by.
I bore down with everything in me hoping I was doing it correctly. It had been eighteen years since I had given birth.
“You’re doing great baby…I think.” Kerry sounded worried. His hands rested on my knees watching the action going on in the area of my vagina. He kept looking towards the street and then back at me.
“Ahggg,” I screamed as the contraction ended. “Kerry, is the head out?”
“Dad do you know what you’re doing?” Keegan asked at the same time.
Kerry’s hands were busy now between my legs. His face contorted with fear, concern, agitation and worry.
“Not a clue,” he answered our daughter. “But luckily your mother has had a baby before so I’m trying to use my gut and her experience.” He chuckled uncomfortably.
“Kerry I have to push again.”
“Whenever you’re ready.” He sounded tired and afraid.
I bore down with everything in me.
“Hold on baby. The head is out now. Not sure what to do now.” He was frantically looking to me for answers.
I breathed through the pain.