Aaliyah to the World

50 | Junaid

•Hamza

Ogasawara National Park, Tokyo, Japan.

14:00PM

"Kon'nichiwa (Hello)." I greeted a bald man I met at the entry of the park.

"Ogenkidesuka? (How are you?)"

"Watashitachiha daijōbu (We're fine)."

"Yokatta ne (That's good)."

We smiled in response.

"Ogasawara kokuritsu kōen e yōkoso (Welcome to Ogasawara National Park)."

"Thank you."

"Kochira ga chizudesu (Here's the map)." We smiled and collected it.

"What is this language you guys are speaking?"

"It's Japanese. Would you like to learn?"

"No. It's even giving me a headache listening to you and him converse."

I laughed and rubbed her belly before I exited the car.

Today happened to be the fifth time she was stepping her feet outside since we realized she was pregnant nine months ago.

I managed to bring her out to take in some fresh air. She suddenly resented coming outside while she was six months pregnant saying the baby needed pampering in our home not outside.

I brought her here for a tour around the beautiful park and to enjoy some quality time with her. For about two weeks I'd been so busy that I barely had enough time to spend with her so I was making it up to her.

Ogasawara National Park is a national park in the Ogasawara Islands.

Archipelago, also known as Bonin Islands is a corruption of munin (uninhabited). Chichijima, Hahajima and Mukojima being clusters within the park.

I've seen numerous pictures and heard from different sources that it was a beautiful place to visit. It looked so much better in reality.

I ran to the other side to open her door for her.

"Such a gentleman." She complimented.

I helped her get out before shutting the door and pressing the lock button on the cars remote control.

We walked slowly, enjoying the view of our beautiful surrounding

"So who told you about this place?" She asked.

"James told me."

"It's very beautiful." She smiles, "Thank you for bringing me here. It makes me feel like an archeologist. If I wasn't pregnant I would've been going into every tunnel just to feed my eyes of it's contents."

I laughed at my wife's crazy ideas.

"And I'll follow you wherever you go. As long as we'll be together I'll be fine."

"Stop being cheesy!" She laughed before planting a chaste kiss onto my cheeks.

"You're the cheesy one kissing people." I stated and she punched my left arm, laughing.

We continued walking, bantering along the way with the maps as our guides.

I would look at the map eventually, looking for landmarks to be sure of where we were at the moment.

The waters at Chichijima was so blue you'd think it was artificially created.

"Inalillahi!" Aaliyah squeezed my arm.

"What is it?"

"Cramps. Hospital!" She cried.

"Ok." I held her by the waist and took her to the car.