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Prompt: "AsYa romance and a pregnant Zoya and a 3 year old son"
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Zoya could feel some movement and muted sound in their room that disturbed her much needed nap. Too tired to see what it was, she tried to fall back under the haze of sleep.
It wasn't too long after that when feather light touches on her belly drew her out of her restless sleep completely. She was too tired and the agitation was caused by a much active baby in her belly. She had just gotten somewhat comfortable with the position that she was and now she was disturbed so soon.
Before the fog of sleep completely lifted, she thought it was her husband's fingers that were tracing his daughter, yet again. She was about to reprimand him and warn him about letting the baby sleep so she could continue her nap as well when she realized that the touch on her swollen belly was not Asad's. She could feel that Asad's back was to her and when she peeked through her cracked eyes she saw that there was a small person who had wedged himself between the two of them. Glancing down her body without moving her head, she saw her son's brown head of hair as he dipped towards her stomach and was in the midst of a one-sided conversation with his sister.
"Sissy," she heard him whisper as he tapped against his sister's temporary residence. "Sissy, you need to come out!" Zoya could hear the whining tone in her son's voice.
Biting the insides of her cheeks to keep herself from laughing, Zoya squeezed her eyes shut tightly and turned a little to give her son more room. Upon her movement, the little boy sat up on the bed and watched his mom with worried eyes, hoping that he had not disturbed her, and when Zoya didn't say anything for a couple of minutes, he relaxed and continued.
"Sissy, Ammi don't feel very good and she can't get outta bed til you're borned, so you need to come out of there! The docta at the hopsitul said she stay in bed all day!" He whispered to Zoya's stomach and then he adjusted himself so he was lying on his tummy. Propping his elbows against the mattress, he cradled his cheeks in his hands, made himself comfortable and continued to talk in whispers as Zoya peeked at him.
"Look, Abbu says its real fun to be a big brudder and I really wanna pway wif you and when you come out, Phuppi and Chachu will come see us too and Chachu pwomised gifts, so hurry...Please," he begged, sighed heavily, and looked up to Zoya to make sure she was still sleeping. "Mostest of all I want Ammi to get out of bed, okay? Please Sissy!" He reached out and rubbed his hand over his mother's stomach, pushing his tiny fingers against her protruding belly button as if he was making a deal with his unborn sister. "Thanks," he finished and waited a minute to make sure his parents were still sleeping before he carefully crawled off the bed and tiptoed out of the room.
As soon as he was gone, Asad started to vibrate with laughter, letting Zoya know that he had been awake during the entire conversation of the siblings.
"Pwease Ammi, have sissy right now!" he mocked in a baby voice as he twisted his body to look over his shoulder to see his wife laughing as well, but also crying. "Zoya, love, what's wrong?" He turned completely and engulfed her in his arms.
She shook her head, "You know, a part of me hopes that his words would work, because I really want her to come out too," she cried as he kissed the shell of her and rocked her gently.
"Our little trapeze artist didn't let you sleep again, did she?" Asad leaned down to kiss right where her belly button had popped out.
"Not a chance. She was too active; she fell asleep only a few minutes ago. I think she's starting to run out of room in there because her kicks and tumbles are trying very hard to make more space by trying to remove my spine and shift my organs around in there."
His deep chuckle vibrated pleasantly against her taut skin. "Then she just needs to come out. Do you hear that, baby girl? There's a lot more room out here. And be nice to your Ammi." Asad leaned down and spoke against the skin of his daughter's abode.
"Although I want to be comfortable and really get out of this bed, please don't give her any ideas, Asad." With just at three weeks left to go, Zoya ready for their daughter to come out, mostly because she was tired of having to pee every five seconds, but she was also secretly afraid that her body wasn't ready for all of this. "I want her to finish baking properly."
Asad laughed at her choice of words about the gestation period, "The doctor said from here on, we're okay, just a matter of how much she's going to weigh. Your bed rest is only precautionary."
He caressed her back and tried to soothe her aching body. Zoya hummed as his hands drifted across her body. He peppered flutters of kisses on her face and neck. She signed against him. This pregnancy had been harder than her previous one.
"I know she is fine, but I can't help but be concerned." Zoya let her fingers run through his short messy hair as he leaned down and rested his scruffy cheek against the bump. "Besides, Ammi will be very unhappy if we had the baby before she gets back from the events in Delhi." She laughed as she remembered Dilshad instructing her baby bump to stay put until Dadi came back.
Asad smirked at her, "It's her fault for leaving at such a time."
"Asad!" she admonished him, but laughed along with her husband and as soon as she so, did the baby kicked. "Great! And now she's awake. Really, why can't she sleep?"
Asad pulled Zoya t-shirt up over her tummy to watch as their daughter moved around. Watching his child move was one of the most awe inducing moments in his life. He leaned down and kissed the outline of the baby, and then started playing whack-a-mole with kisses instead of a hammer each time he could see a little footprint appear. It had become his favorite playtime ritual since the moment he first could see their baby moving around inside of her. It had started with their son, and now with their little girl as well.
As much as she rolled her eyes at him, Zoya secretly loved it.
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