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Bed-rest. Two words that did not resonate well with Lilianna. She preferred to keep busy, and being cooped up in her southern home was not helping that cause. She’d been off housework for more than two months now with consideration for her previous complications, and it was safe to say she was going a bit stir crazy. So that particular day after her husband had gone off to work, the brunette had taken it upon herself to finish decorating the nursery despite the doctor’s orders and being 8 months pregnant. It was admittedly harder to move around in the state she was in, and there wasn’t much that didn’t make her winded. But none the less, she spent the next hour hanging pictures to the best of her ability. 

It was oddly quiet in the quaint home that stood just a few miles away from where she grew up. Lily still hadn’t entirely gotten used to a house being so quiet without her family or Thomas’ around to liven things up. True, they’d only been married a year. But it was adjusting from a lifetime of background noise that drove Lilianna ever so slightly insane. She was excited to have something- someone- in the house to rid the foreign home of it’s eerie quiet roar.

After a while, Lily decided she needed to take a break as her feet began to swell. Sitting down carefully in the cushioned rocking chair, Lily smiled. Her heart was filled with a warm mixture of accomplishment and excitement. It was odd thinking about where she was in her life, and how different her life had been just a few months before. In less than a month, there would be another person who live in this room. Her person. Their person. The sound of her husband’s voice rang through her memory as she rocked slowly in the chair and breathed in the room’s scent. She knew she loved this person, and she hadn’t even met them. Placing a gentle hand on her stomach, she simply stared at her rounded belly until she heard a knock at the door.