“Hello, Faith. How are you feeling?” It was almost as if he read my mind.
“Actually, not to good.” He looked at me strangely but then grinned.
“Faith, can I tell you something?”
“Yeah go ahead.”
“Well, you know how on that first day after we met you in the store, when we were down on the beach?”
“Yeah.”
“Brian was going to tell you something and he chickened out.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. But I want you to know what he was going to tell you. I want you to know this.”
“OK. Tell me.”
“Well, you know that group that Brian asked you about?”
“Yeah. The Backstreet Boys, right?”
“Yeah. That’s it. Well, I’m not sure how to say this so I’m just going to come right out and say it. Kevin, AJ, Howie, Brian and I are the Backstreet Boys.” I looked at him in shock. At first I didn’t want to believe him. But it did explain a few things.
Then it happened. My water broke. “Oh my GOD!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed. That woke everyone up. Immediatly people were running down the stairs. “Brian!!! My water just broke!!!” I answered after he asked me what was the matter. No one was going to need coffee after that one.
“Oh, my God! OK, It seems that you have woken everyone it the house up so I guess that means that we can all go to the hospital.” Nick said taking charge of the situation. “OK, Brian you get the twins and the girls in the car. Wait, BJ, go pack some things for her when she’s in the hospital. Toothbrush and stuff like that.” They all did as they were told.
Soon, Brian had the kids in the car along with Kevin, AJ and Howie. Kevin was driving that car. Nick and Brian drove with me. Well, Brian drove and Nick was in the back seat with me. “Slow down Brian! I’m not going to have this kid in your back seat or anything. It is going to be a while before I can actually have the kid.”
“Have you decided what you are going to name him yet?” Brian asked, slowing down a little.
“Yeah, well, sorta. But I’m going to have to make up my mind soon it looks like it.” Nick laughed a little. “I’m so glad that you are enjoying this, Mr Carter.”
“What did I do?”
“”Nick, think about it. She’s a woman and she’s in labour. Need I say more?” Brian said from the front seat.
“What’s that suppose to mean Brian?”
“Nothing, nothing at all.” Just then we pulled up to the hospital. “Nick you go with her and I’ll park the car.”
We got out of the car and Brian went to go park it. The others went directly into the parking garage to find a place to park. Nick and I went into the hospital and checked in. “Hi, I’m very pregnant and my water just broke. I want this thing out of me and I want it out of me NOW!” I said, as nicely as possible to the nurse at the front desk.
“OK I think we can help you with that. I just need you to fill out a few things and then we can get you in a wheel chair and bring you into a room, where a doctor can take a look at you.”
“OK.” I smiled at her and took the clipboard that she was holding out to me. I sat down and started to fill out the paper work. Nick looked at me, shocked. I looked up at him. “What?”
Before he could answer, there was commotion at the door. The crew. “Hey, Faith how are you feeling?” Brian said, sitting next to me.
“OK except that me hand is cramping from all these stupid forms that I have to fill out.” He laughed.
“You want me to help?”
“Nah. I’m almost done.” I signed the last dotted line and got back up. I handed them to the nurse behind the desk and she escorted me to a wheel chair.
Two hours later…
“Is she going to have the baby soon?” Nick asked the doctor as she came out of my room.
“Yes, she keeps on asking for Nick and Brian. Are you one of the two?”
“Yeah, I’m Nick. Why does she want us?”
“She doesn’t have a couch and since she has decided that she is going to have a natural birth, she is going to need one. Now, normally we only let one other person in, but I can tell that this is a special situation, so I’m willing to make the exception. But you will need to hurry. Go and get your friend.”
He did as he was told and ten minutes later, he and Brian were all washed up and in my room. “You called?” Brian said, laughing. I smiled and then started another contraction.
“Oh my God! GET IT OUT OF ME!” They both rushed to either side of me and each held a hand. They immediately regretted that move.
“OH MY GOD!!! LET GO OF ME.” Brian yelled. The contraction stopped and my grip loosened.
“Sorry about that guys.”
“I’m sorry about that too, and so is my hand,” Brian said.
“Oh you big baby!” The doctor came in then and said that it was time. “OK. I’m ready.”
“Faith, do you know your breathing?” Nick asked.
“Yeah, I do.”
“OK Faith, get ready to push.” The doctor instructed.
Five minutes later….
“OK one more push Faith.” The doctor said Then I heard it. A baby crying. My baby crying. “You have a healthy baby boy.” She said, as she handed him to me. “OK who wants to cut the umbilical cord?” she asked looking at Nick and then Brian.
“Um…well….” I started.
“I do!” They both said at the same time. I hadn’t expected that.
“Well, I’ll tell you what. I’ll get another pair, and you can both cut it at the same time.”
“OK!” She came back and tied of the ends before handing the two guys their cutting utensils.
“OK, 1…2…..3!” Snip. Then they were done they told me that they were going to go get cleaned up and that they would see me in a while. Then the nurse took my baby and told me that she was going to clean him up and then bring him back.
The baby came back before the guys did. That’s when I decided on a name. The nurse told me that he was going to have blond hair. He already had a little bit of yellow fuzz on his small head. And I had been correct in my assumption that he was going to have green eyes. But they weren’t as bright green as I thought they were going to be. For this I was thankful.
When the guys did come back they brought the whole crew with them. “Hey everyone.” I said weakly.
“Hi, Faith. How are you feeling?” Kevin asked.
“Pretty good. Brian you know how you asked me if I had decided on a name yet?” Brian nodded. “Well, I would like you all to meet, OK this is sorta long, so bare with me, Thomas Kevin Alexander Dee Carter Morrison.”
“Oh my god. He is going to get teased in school for that one.” AJ said.
“That’s why when he goes to school I’m going to shorten it to Thomas something Morrison. I don’t know what his middle name will be on his registration yet but that is what it is going to say on his birth certificate.”
“Hey, I’m not arguing. I was just telling you.”
“Yeah I know.”
And so, on October 16, 1998, my baby boy was born.