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Her due date being in just a few short weeks, Graciella felt more pregnant than human. Having pushed her big belly into a, supposed to be loose sitting, dress, Graciella’s patient had already ran thin and she had found some comfortable sneakers for her feet. Whenever she caught a glance of herself in a mirror, she felt like a whale. Pregnancy made her nauseated, sweaty, have cramps and needing to run pee for what felt like every five seconds. Making her way to the crowded hotel bar, Graciella tried to avoid any reflective surface to spot herself in, but still felt like a pissed off whale. However, tonight she would try to be ‘happy mom to be’-pregnant and less ‘kill me now’-pregnant. 

Making her way to the bar, Graciella ordered a glass of soda with a lot of ice and lime in it. Honestly, mostly happy to find a seat. As the young mother noticed someone approaching her she tried to find some niceness inside of her angry pregnant brain and forced a smile on her lips. “Hi, there.” She greeted the person approaching her. 

CLOSED STARTER   //    graciella&nico    @ofseattles​ 

Graciella had always enjoyed attending medical lectures and conferences like these ones. However, being in her 37th week of pregnancy, she did not enjoy it as much as she usually would. Graciella would never understand women who loved being pregnant. This would be her second child, and Graciella was very happy to be pregnant, as she knew many women struggled to get pregnant and she personally wanted a big family. However, the months of being pregnant sure was long and painful. Graciella had never been one to enjoy being pregnant. She constantly felt sweaty, swollen, nauseated and needing to pee. On the other hand, having left her three year old son with her husband at their house as she spent the week at the hotel, where the conference were held, was not half bad. For all of the conferences and long lectures, Graciella always tried to look professional and pushed her pregnant body into proper dresses, but the second she was back in her hotel room, she got her most comfy maternity clothes. Just having changed, Graciella headed out of her hotel room and down the hall. Earlier that day she had met her old friend Nico and they had decided to meet to talk. Wearing a Winnie the Poh fluffy onesie with the hood up, her pregnant belly adding a true Winne the Pooh energy to it, Graciella stopped outside of Nico’s hotel room and knocked on the door.