Missing in action

Chapter ten

Three months later

I was seven months and one week pregnant, my bump had grown really big but I was enjoying pregnancy so far. Anna and I had a quiet Christmas at her parents house, with a light layer of snow that we spent ages truing to do a pregnant snow angle but it ended up looking like a sad blob and ended in me not being able to get up. 

My little mango was growing really well and they expect him or her to be a big chunk when I give birth. I still hadn't heard from my parents, and had stopped expecting them to contact me. The disappointment lessened everyday.

We didn't attend anymore birth classes after the last one that we would have been kicked out if we didn't run away, but instead stuck to the books and Annas mum came round to have a tour of the flat and the nursery. She had given me loads of useful information and Annas dad had suggested whiskey to help the baby sleep, so anything he said in regards to the baby I would probably not be listening to. Anna has a theory that it was why she enjoyed whiskey because her dad used to give it to her as a baby. 

I had the envelope in my hand that the midwife had given me with the babies gender in it. Anna and I were going to find out the gender together. We walked into the bakery and gave then the envelope. 

"Hey, the gender of my baby is in this envelope, can we have a cake with a gender reveal in it please" I asked the man behind the counter at the bakery, he gave me a kind smile. 

"Yeah of course and congrats" he replied as he opened the evolve and smiled. "It'll be ready in an hour" 

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Anna and I hopped out of the car after picking the cake up from the bakery, I was looking down at it excitement swirling in my stomach. Anna opened the boot and grabbed the blanket and our bags out. 

The sun was painted all shades of range and red as it fell across the horizon, reflecting on the calm sea. My feet sank in the sand below me as I walked further onto the beach, the smell of salt in the air. We had driven out of the city and towards the closest beach about an hour and a half away to have a quiet gender reveal with just the two of us and my little mango growing in me. Anna was certain that it was a boy, however I was on the fence I couldn't decide what I felt anymore. 

"I can't tell what I'm more excited for the cake or to find out baby mango's gender" Anna says laying the blanket on the beach following with the bag we had packed some bits in. 

"You literally had donuts like 45 minuets ago" I reply sitting down on my knees and taking the cake from the box, putting it on the plate we had brought. Anna passed the knife over to me and two forks. 

"What can I say its the pregnancy hormones" Anna sat down beside me looking out along the stretch of beach. 

"You're not even pregnant" I laugh watching her rub her stomach and she should be happy she isn't I can't even see my own vagina anymore and my back feels like shite.  

"Well I think the hormones are transferring to me or something too" She looks at me brows raised.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that, are you also pissing yourself when you laugh too hard" I ask raising a brow. 

"Not my fault you don't use condoms" Anna shoved her tongue out, she seems to enjoy teasing me about that even though it was the birth control that failed me. I flicked a shell at her in reply. 

"What about Anna the second? I mean name Mango after someone amazing" Anna asked filling her glass with wine. I looked at the glass in envy, I've missed wine and I'm sure its missed me too. Im sure one glass wouldn't hurt but Anna keeps a watchful eye on me. 

"Im not having two Annas in my life, the ones just enough" I reply watching the waves, my mind still blank for names.

"What about something to do with the baby daddy? One night stand or what about big O in remembrance of the great sex" Anna chugs down the rest of her glass and starts refilling it. I guess I'm driving home. 

"I'm sure the butter on the jacket potato for my baby whose father isn't in its life is to be called big O" I laugh fiddling with the hem of my green dress. 

"Oh shit the wines gone to my head" Anna swung round, she's already taking the role of wine aunt well, her lipstick slightly smeared down her chin. I burst out laughing at her appearance, her following behind. 

Our laughters echo across the beach, dribble slides down my chin as I'm laughing hysterically at Anna, I'm not too sure if she knows what she's laughing at but her cackle sounds like a rabid seagull. 

She knocks the wine over and the red liquid floods our beach blanket, we laugh even harder at the ordeal and I have my legs squeezed together. I sweep the now empty wine bottle and put it into our beach bag. Annas white jeans have spatters of red, any onlookers would think we've gone mad and killed someone. 

I learn forward to grab Annas arm, instead she moves and my hand pushes into something spongey and soft. White buttercream squelched through my fingertips, I had squashed the cake. 

Our laughter got louder as I took my hand from the cake and lifted it up between us. Anna swiped her fingertip through the buttercream and launches herself towards me. She squeezed me in an embrace and my heart exploded. 

"Well looks like little mango is a boy" I said in disbelief, catching my breath as I looked at the previously beautiful cake. The vanilla sponge dyed a light blue, we were supposed to cut it to and find out but I guess this worked too. 

"I guess the name Anna is defiantly out then" my best friend said with a smile shining on her face "Im so proud of you Evy" she carried on sitting back on her heels. 

"You want some cake still?" I asked looking at the mess we had created, wine and cake spread all over the blanket that we would probably have to throw out later. 

"Can never say no to cake" Anna said, putting a blob of cake on a paper plate and passing it over. It tasted amazing and probably even better because of the happiness of finding out my baby's gender. Now I can finish the final parts in the nursery accordingly. 

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A/N: shorter chapter today but these will be because of the snippets into the pregnancy I still hope whoever reads enjoys. Im not too sure if this story is enjoyable or even readable. 

Next chapter I'm thinking with be baby mango coming into the world so if you don't wanna read it skip to the next part xoxo