Chapter 2 Let's get a divorce
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"Arghhh!" A woman's scream echoed in the ward. Strands of her long red hair stuck to her face, and sweat trailed down.
He should be there with her.
The woman, still in pain, tapped the nurse close to her, which caused the nurse to turn around.
"My... My husband." She incoherently muttered, but the nurse heard it anyway. "I want to call my husband."
As soon as the nurse made out the words from her request, she turned to look at the doctor, silently asking him with her eyes whether or not she should agree with the woman's request.
The doctor nodded in agreement, giving the nurse the go-ahead.
The nurse answered with a curt nod.
She went towards the woman's belongings, which were in the locker next to the bed, and located her phone.
She dialed the lady's husband's number and then placed the phone next to her ear.
"Dar... Darling, I'm..." The woman began, her tone sounding excited despite the amount of pain she was currently in. "I'm about to give birth to our children, I'm at..."
Her husband barley allowed her to speak before cutting her off. "I'm busy." His words echoed in the room. The nurse had accidentally placed the call on speaker phone, so everyone present in the room, including the doctor, heard the woman's husband's rude words.
"What?" Natalie whispered. "What do you mean by busy? I'm..." She sniffled, the pain consuming her once more, before she could finish her sentence, the rude husband interrupted her again.
"Look here, Natalie, you're the one giving birth; my presence would do nothing there." He said, his tone sounding as though she was interrupting something important. "Plus, I'm too busy to leave my..." The man suddenly gasped, and Natalie heard his whisper. "Ah yes, that's the spot."
Her face turned whiter than it already was, and her body shook.
Still, the husband spoke again. "I can't do this, I have to go." Then he ended the call.
"Jullian?" Natalie called out her husband's name,
"Jull... Ahhh!" A scream tore through her throat.
The nurse immediately put the phone away to attend to the woman who suddenly screamed, and began shaking.
"Prep the OR!" The doctor commanded, "We are going to have to operate to get this baby out."
As soon as Natalie heard the woman 'operate' she shook her head.
No, that couldn't be possible.
"Operate? No. I can't have an operation..." She cried, clenching her jaw. "I can't have an operation, my father would never allow it "
"You're too tired ma'am." The doctor tried to convince her. He had thought that the woman could still push before, but after that call to her husband, she was clearly disorganized and it seemed as though she had lost a lot of strength.
He couldn't put that on her. "We've been at this for..."
"No." Natalie refused.
"I'd push, I'd... Push." She forced herself to nod.
She would push.
The doctor hesitated for a few seconds, contemplating his options.
"Fine." He agreed. Then he got into position at the bottom of her legs, ready to take out the baby. "Push on the count of three..."
The nurse, the same one who had called Natalie's husband came to stand beside her. "Ma'am please, push as hard as you can." She said. Then she encouraged. "You can do it."
Natalie nodded.
She could do it... She had to do it.
"One..." The doctor began his count.
"Two..."
Natalie's heart kept beating faster with every number.
"Three..."
Natalie screamed and pushed with everything left in her. "Ahhh!"
She pushed with everything left in her.
"She's out..." A loud cry of a baby could be heard, and Natalie let out a sigh of relief.
"She's out..." The doctor announced as he took out the baby before handing her to the nurse next to him.
But then when he got back down, he noticed something. "Oh wait, there are two?"
"What?" Natalie asked in shock. How... How was it two? She had gone for a scan before, and it showed only one baby... A girl.
Before she could understand what was going on, the doctor spoke again.
"You're going to have to push again."
Natalie nodded. She was weak and tired, but what was going on was the fact that she had done it before, and she could do it again.
"One, two, three... Push."
"Ahhhhh!"
...
Natalie sat on her bed, still in a hospital gown, holding her babies in her hands.
A girl and a boy... They were perfect.
She was still admiring her children when suddenly, a nurse walked into her room.
It was the same nurse who had shown her sympathy and encouraged her hours ago.
Natalie's lips pulled up as soon as she saw her. Before she could greet or even thank her, she noticed the nurse's gloomy expression.
The nurse, who looked no older than she was, explained. "Ma'am, there's a man outside who identified himself as your husband."
Her husband... Jullain?
"He's here?" Natalie's eyes twinkled. She had been expecting him for so long already.
"Please... Let him in." She told the nurse eagerly.
"Em..." The nurse hesitated. "Ma'am, he's here with a woman."
She was trying to give Natalie a hint of what she saw outside, but the excited woman didn't pick it up. "A woman? Maybe she's his sister." She thought, completely forgetting about what she had heard earlier when they had called him.
And the party hours ago where he claimed up the stage with another woman.
"Please, let them in."
The nurse wanted to explain further, but what was the use? She could only nod.
"Okay." Then she left to carry out the order.
Less than a minute after she left, a handsome man with blonde hair, walked in. He had a brown envelope in his hands, but Natalie thought nothing of it.
Natalie's smile got even brighter. She gestured to him to come closer. "Jullian... Jullian, look." The joy spilling out of her words.
"Look at them," Natalie whispered. "They're beautiful. Two little humans that we both have created, and I... I love them so much." She rambled on. "I've thought of names for them, the girl is..."
The man had had enough, he suddenly reacted coldly. "Natalie..." He called her name.
His voice was emotionless as he called her name. Natalie felt a trickle down her spine, she slowly looked up at him, trying to force a smile to stay on her lips. "Yeah."
"Let's get a divorce."
Natalie's eyes widened at his words. "What?" Her voice broke. "What are you talking about? Why would we get a divorce?"
It was only after she said those words did she remember.
He was with another woman at the party and they had called them a couple.
Even the phone call... He was definitely with another woman then.
Natalie shut her eyes.
She should be the one suggesting the divorce, but no. She still needed him.
Natalie shook her head. "I just gave birth, I'm not divorcing you." She said before opening her eyes.
Then she pushed the children towards Jullian.
"Look at them. How can you think of abandoning your children now?"
But Jullian shook his head, he barely glanced at the children in Natalie's hands.
Children? He had thought it would be just one. And he had hoped that she would lose the baby, at least that way nothing would tie them together.
But instead, she gave birth to two of them!
"Natalie, I've wanted to get a divorce for a while now, but I held back because you were pregnant and I didn't want you to lose the baby."
Lies...
"But... Now that you've delivered them, I can't keep this up anymore."
Of all the thoughts that crossed through her head when the nurse came to announce Jullian's arrival, she never expected that he would come with such terrible news.
How could she give up on the man she loved? No... Not loved, the man her father chose.
"Jullian please..." Natalie pleaded, shaking her head again.
Then, ignoring the bone-shrilling pain she felt in her lower abdomen, she lowered the twins to the bed and got off. Then she gritted her teeth hard before falling to her knees in front of him. "Please don't leave me," Natalie begged. "I'll change."
But Julian's reply was cold. He threw the brown envelope to her. "Here are the divorce papers sign them."
What?
D...divorce papers?
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