13. Gina
I opened my eyes and quickly closed them again. Everything was far too bright. I remembered being in a room with Danny and Drake when the pain started.
The baby!
I reached down to my stomach. It was flat. Where was my baby? It had to be close by. I tried to sit up, even though I felt incredibly weak. I wasn’t even sure if I’d managed to lift my head from the ground.
A shadow passed over me and I opened my eyes again. A woman’s blurry face was smiling down at me.
“My baby,” I said. “Where’s my baby?”
“Here,” the woman laughed.
The sound of her laughter was delightful, like wind chimes, but it didn’t take away my concern for the baby I had carried and cared for all those months.
“Was it a boy or a girl?” I asked.
The woman clapped her hands excitedly, “A girl!”
So Danny ha
