SOPHIA CASTILLO
I'm pregnant.
I'm pregnant.
That word kept ringing in my head like a song and I just cannot get used to it. I decided to get a pregnancy test two days after Adrian left and this is the result.
I do not know how to feel now. I wasn't really happy and I was nervous. Nervous because I wasn't ready to be a mother.
I knew this news would bring great joy to Adrian and that's why I am happy. I have made plans to go see a doctor and get a pregnancy test done just for more confirmation. On my birthday, I will reveal this news to him.
I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone yet because I believe Adrian should hear this news from me first. I heaved a sigh for the umpteenth time while on my bed in my dorm.
"Do not tell me that you haven't left that bed since I left?" Annabella said the moment she entered the room.
"I did leave. To go pea and I came back," i replied.
"Is something bothering you?" She asked me, scrutinizing me.
I sighed. "Not at all. I just miss my husband," I told her.
"There you go again. Reminding me that I'm single and you are not," she said.
"He will be back for your birthday and that's four days from now so you better ensure. Not like he will be gone for years," she said.
If only she knows what it is that is going on in my mind. Not only was I worried that I was pregnant, I didn't know how to feel about the whole situation.
"I will just leave you. Seems like you are not in the mood to talk," she told me before leaving me to myself.
I heaved a deep sigh and placed my hand on my belly. A seed was growing inside of me. A mini me or a mini Adrian.
I cannot help but imagine how happy he'd be when he finds out about this. He wants to have eight babies and this is the start of it all.
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"Happy birthday to the only woman in my heart. I wish I was with you right now but sadly I'm not. Thanks for being mine Sophia. I bless this day because if you weren't born then I might not experience love. I wish you a long life and prosperity. I love you so much and words cannot describe how much I love you. I am sending the message a minute before twelve before I want to be the first to wish you a new year. I love you baby and I want you to know that I love you and love you."
I couldn't help but smile as I read the message Adrian had sent a minute before my birthday. It was so sweet and it made me feel warmth in the pit of my stomach.
My phone rang at exactly twelve and it was Adrian that was calling.
"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to the love of my life. Happy birthday to you."
I chuckled as I listened to Adrian's voice on my phone. No one has ever done this for me. All my twenty years on earth. My parents comes to my room at exactly twelve in the midnight with cake to ask me to make a wish.
I don't really have friends so no one calls me to sign for me on the phone by this time except they were family.
It felt nice to have a man in my life and someone who loves me just as I love him. Adrian is my family but asides my parents and sister, he is the first person I am related to by blood to do this for me.
"Happy birthday Sophia!" My door burst open and my mom and sister enters my room with Sarah holding a cake in her hand.
My dad followed next.
"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you princess! Happy birthday to you!" My mom, sister and my father all sang together.
They always refer me to princess whenever they sang birthday song for me.
"It's your family right?" Adrian asked.
"Yes. Let's face time so you see my yearly ritual, I chuckled.
"Sure," he said before ending the call.
"Thanks so much mom, dad and Sarah," I told them with a smile on my face.
"My baby is twenty one years old. Oh my goodness. It feels too good to be real. I remember changing your diapers and now look at you, all big and grown and also married, my father said with tears in his eyes.
"Oh my goodness. Please do not do this father," I said.
They didn't know I was pregnant too. I was their baby and now I also have a baby.
It's funny how a year has passed now. A lot happened in the span of one year and I cannot begin to mention how my life changed overnight.
"I am so proud of you Sophia. You are all grown and I love you. Happy birthday my princess," my mother said before hugging me.
"Happy birthday Sophia. I look at you and I remember how small you well and how you always followed me around and now look at you, all grown and I am so proud. I love you so much," Sarah said.
My eyes was filled with tears and it was taking all it had in me not to cry right now.
My phone rang shortly. It was Adrian.
I answered.
"Happy birthday my beautiful wife." Adrian said.
"Thank you," I replied.
I showed Adrian to my parents and he greeted them and they greeted him back.
"Your cake is beautiful," Adrian said.
"Thank you," I told him.
"Why don't you make a wish now," my father reminded me.
Sarah brought the cake in front of me. I closed my eyes for a short while, made a wish before blowing the candles.
"Thanks so much." I told them all.
"Happy birthday my love. It's late for now so we will leave you to see. When it's bright, it's going to be a blast," my mother said.
"Goodnight," my father said and kissed me on my forehead.
"Goodnight father," I told him.
"Goodnight Sophia," Sarah said, hugging me.
"Goodnight my princess," my mother said and hugged me.
They all left the room and I focused on Adrian.
"It feels so nice having your parents with you right?" He asked and I nodded my head.
"How are you feeling? Are you feeling twenty yet or you are not?" He asked and I chuckled.
"Was that how you felt twenty eight when you turned twenty eight?" I asked.
"Yes. You should be able to feel your age to claim that age. Do not worry, If you do not feel twenty one then we might just have to go clubbing together. I've been thinking of that for some time s now," he said and I quirk my eyebrows.
"Clubbing? That's true. We never got to do what every other couple did. What I mean is we just got married without doing some things," I told him.
"Yes. That's true. We never got to do what other couples did but now that you are twenty one, we will be doing a lot of things. List down what it is you have in mind, the places you want to visit and what you want to do and we will get them all done," he expatiates.
"That's great. Maybe then I'd really feel twenty one," I teased and he chuckled.
"I really wish you were here," I said after a few seconds of silence.
All I want to do right now is cuddle beside him but sadly I cannot and so i'd just have to endure.
"I hope so. I'm not happy right now. I really want to be beside you but worry hot, I'd be by your side soon," he assured me.
"Okay. I love you," I whispered.
"I love you too sweetheart. Why don't you take your beauty sleep? I do not want you waking up tired. Goodnight," he said and blew me a kiss.
"Goodnight," I told him and blew him a kiss too.
FROM ANNABELLA: Happy birthday my best friend. Wishing you long life and prosperity and we are going clubbing now.
I smiled when I read her message. She is indeed the only friend I've gotten.
She has been talking about going clubbing for a while now but I'd go clubbing first with my husband before I go with her.
TO ANNABELLA: Thanks so much.
I send her a reply before putting my phone down so that i could sleep.
My big day. My twenty-first birthday. I feel so grateful to be alive because there are so many who were born the same year as me that are dead. I feel so happy and I cannot begin to express how happy I am.
I wanted to spend the day with my loved ones. It would have been nice waking up to Adrian's side but things happen and next year, I would.
I walk down the stairs to go meet my parents as they usually have a birthday breakfast for me. It's like a normal family breakfast but just a little different.
"Surprise!" I heard my mom and sister scream as soon as I came down the stairs with a lot of balloons on the floor.
"Congratulations!" My sister said before rushing to come hug me.
"Happy twenty-first birthday Sophia. I love you to the moon and back and across the hills, all over the mountain and back," she said, hugging me tightly and I did the same too.
"Thanks so much Sarah," I replied with a smile on my face.
"Happy birthday my cutie pie. I love you so much," my mom said.
I love the happy look on their faces. I just feel so happy and grateful to have my family by my side and with me right now.
"So what's for breakfast?" I asked.
"Well, nothing much. Just the usual pancakes mummy makes for your birthday each year," Sarah snickered.
I just couldn't wait for later today because I was sure Adrian would be around by then. I really miss her and his kisses and I cannot wait to tell him that I was pregnant and I'm freaking out.
I place my palm on my stomach. "Say happy birthday to mummy little one," I whispered to myself so that no one would hear me.
"Good one," I whispered with a smile on my face.
"Who are you talking to?" My mother asked.
I shook my head. "No one. Just to myself," I replied.
We ate breakfast while chatting about how my previous birthdays have been. It felt nice talking about it.
Give it to my father to remember every little detail concerning my children's life. He says it without missing a piece at all.
"Last year by this time you were single and small but now look at you. It's not as if you grew too big but a lot has changed about you. You are also married too. If someone told me that my daughter would be a married woman then, I would have doubted it," he said.
It was the day after my birthday last year that we got the news of my fathers company and things were changing.
"Can we please not talk about it. I hate to be reminded of last year as it makes me remember how things changed in our lives," I told them.
"That's true. Let's talk more about the present and also the future. So a toast to the future," Sarah said, lifting her glass of water up and I chuckled.
"A toast to the future," I lifted my glass of water too and my parents followed suit.
We cheers and drank the water. We all burst into a fit of laughter afterwards.