Part – 46

"You Never Understand Life Until It Grows Inside You!"

(Mithra's POV)

Ting! Tong!

"God! Karthik's come home. I am so thrilled." I hurry to open the door. After taking a deep breath controlling my excitement, I open the door.

"Hey!" I greet Karthik as I lean on the door, shyly. He looks at me from head to toe with a frown before bursting out laughing.

"What's this, Mithra?" He asks me. He obviously finds my dressing funny. I am wearing an over sized hoodie jacket & shorts showing my slender legs.

"Surprise!" I whisper. He shoots an eyebrow up with a sexy smirks playing on his face as he takes a step towards me and I take a step backward.

Looking at him I pull down the zipper of my jacket, very slowly, biting my bottom lips till it hurts.

"Ahaan! Now, I get what game you are playing." he smirks again & with his leg he kicks the door shut. Good move. We don't want any intruder.

"But why you are wearing this funny jacket? Are you not wearing anything beneath it?" Karthik asks. I shake my head in no. I should have actually done that nah? Stupid me! Well, I do know why I am wearing this jacket.

"Are you wearing the red color lingerie, my favorite one?" he asks me as he nuzzles my hair & trails down kisses on the back of my ear, my neck, my throat & then he lifts his face up to meet my lips with his.

Momentarily, I get lost in his kiss but then he reminds me something which I am dying to show him by removing my jacket off my shoulders.

"How is this?" I ask. He frowns seeing the loose white T-shirt I'm wearing under the over sized jacket.

"Good" he smiles & pulls me towards him by hooking his fingers in my T-shirt & jerking me closer to him as his fingers brush against my cleavage. Oh my!

"Hey! Gently" I panic.

"Baby, I missed you so much... it's been so long... I need you."

Aww!

"Let's not fight! I hate fighting with you. I love you so much, baby" he says in between his kisses.

"Karthik, see this" I point to my T-shirt again.

"I love my Daddy" he reads out loud what's written on my T-shirt.

"Shouldn't that be 'I love my hubby'? After all you love me more nah?" he asks with a wink. I glare at him. Doh!

"Is today your dad's birthday? Is that why you have done all these candle light decorations? But it looks cozy... not so like a party night. Are you hiding something from me?" he asks. Yes, dumbo! I am giving you hints but you are not picking it.

"Look at this, idiot?" I shout again as I point my finger to the cute baby pic in my T-shirt & the baby holds a card saying 'I love you Daddy'. If you still don't get it then I am going to break your head, Karthik. I thought gritting my teeth. My patience is wearing thin.

"Cute baby!" he says but then again he gets busy kissing & licking & sucking my neck, and then grazes his teeth over my jaw. Gah! He is turning me on but I need to give the good news first for which we were yearning for years now.

"You want?" I ask near his ear.

He pulls his head up from my neck & frowns at me.

"T-shirt?" he asks. God! I am not taking about the fucking T-shirt. He is making me really mad & forcing me to use the F word. I don't usually use the F word. I don't like it.

"Sure, get me one too. We will wear matching-matching T-shirt" he says casually & pulls me again to him. Mithra! His brain is not functioning today so you better blurt it out loudly.

"Not that, idiot!" I growl.

"Then" he asks utterly clueless.

"You want a baby?" I whisper hugging him. He stiffens.

"I have you, baby" he says & kisses the top of my head as his hands rub the side of my arms gently.

"I have a baby too" I say softly.

"I know" he says.

"You do?" Finally! I smile, relieved.

"It's me, right? I am your baby nah?" he asks. I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Oh course my husband will always be my cute baby like how I am to him but now I am talking about our baby. A real honest to goodness baby! I thought my husband was a smart guy but no, I was wrong. He is a fool! An idiot! A moron!

"You are so dumb!" I shout.

"Hey! I am too smart & sharp!" he argues.

"Then why the hell can't you find it out?"

"Find out what?" he asks, his frown deepens. I sigh. God! I am growing tired and the blush creeping up my cheeks is pissing me more.

"That... That I am..." I breathe. I don't know how to tell him. I feel so shy and nervous. My palms are getting sweaty. My legs are going weak. Karthik steps closer to me & brushes the strand of hair off my face & tucks it behind my ear. Then leaning down he kisses my lips tenderly.

"Better?" he asks & kisses me once more. I nod & straighten my shoulders, determined to tell him the good news as I can't wait any more to see the happiness erupting from his beautiful face.

"Karthik..."

"Yes, darling" he encourages me as he places his hands on my hips & waits patiently for me to tell.

"Karthik... We..."

"We?" he nods asking me to go ahead.

"We... We are pregnant" I whisper so softly that I am sure he hasn't heard me but the dazed expression on his face tells me otherwise.

"What?" he gasps as his grip on me loosens & he takes a step back in shock.

"I am pregnant with your child, Karthik" There! I have said it out loud & clear.

At least now react, please. I look straight into his eyes but no reaction from his side. I thought he will go down on his knees & kiss my belly and them me? But he stood there so still, so shocked. He doesn't even blink his eyes.

"Karthik?" I gently call him placing my hand over his chest. I can feel his pounding heart beneath my palm.

"A baby?" he asks as his eyes glisters with moisture & then his face lights up with a gigantic smile.

"I'm going to be a daddy?" he asks with a smile & a tear drop rolls down his cheek. Oh don't cry my dear husband. I want to say that but my throat constrict with emotion.

"Yes" I nod my head with a huge smile.

"Oh my sweet lord!" He laughs merrily as he looks upwards as if thanking the God. "I love you, baby... I love you so much" he pulls me in his arms & kisses my lips soundly. I have been waiting for this day...waiting to see this happiness in my Karthik's face. Now, I realize how much a baby is important to him. He is crying in joy, hugging me. I too start weeping clutching his arms tightly. I have started & now I can't hold back my tears. My legs give away & I sink to the floor. Karthik kneels down as well & holds me close to his chest.

"Shush! Shush! Don't cry, baby" he coos near my ear & kisses my hair.

"I am so happy, Karthik... I never thought I could ever conceive a baby... but it's a miracle." I tell amidst my sob.

"But I always knew you would give me a baby, one day" he says gently feeling my belly. I stop breathing. Oh my! This feels great. I love his gentle caress. I feel so loved and protected.

"When did you come to know about the baby?" he asks still caressing my belly lovingly.

"Today. Tara came to see me & we were talking about how to seduce you & get you in bed to make love..." I tell blushing & he chuckles.

"And?" he is so impatient. He sits properly on the floor & leans his back on the wall. Then he pulls me on to his lap and I rest my head on his chest. He still hasn't taken off his hand from my belly. He is holding it protectively. I feel safe. We feel safe.

"Wait a minute" I say & lean up. He looks at me puzzled. I pull my T-shirt off & throw it aside. Now, I am only in my bra & shorts. This way he can caress my bare skin. This feels even better. He smiles & again starts caressing my stomach.

"Do you feel anything strange?" he asks.

"No!"

"How old is our unborn baby?" he asks eagerly.

"I am two months pregnant"

"What?" he couldn't believe so am I.

"Did you check with a doctor?" he asks. I nod.

"When?"

"When I fainted this noon, Tara took me to a gynecologist." She is really smart. When I fainted she sprinkled water on my face & got me back to consciousness and the very next moment she took me to a specialist guessing I must be pregnant. I should grudgingly agree that Tara has more knowledge about sex life.

"You fainted?" Karthik panics. "And you didn't bother to tell me?" he asks angrily with edging on his eyes.

"Relax, Karthik. I am fine." I rub his chest to calm him down. His eyes soften & he kisses my forehead.

"You are alright nah, baby? He asks in concern. I nod smiling.

"Mithra, you should tell me first whatever it is. I don't like you hiding things from me just because I worry. Promise me you will tell everything to me?"

"Okay, baba! Promise" I promise him.

"So what the good doctor said about your health condition?"

"Oh Karthik... the doctor is really good. He is so hot & handsome. I was drooling at him all the while he tests me."

"He?" Karthik asks with a frown. I nod. "We are changing the doctor then!" he says.

"Oh no! I will get a heart attack if you do that." I throw back the words he said when I asked him to change his doctor, Naira.

He scowls at me. "I am sorry." I peck his cheek.

"He was surprised that I didn't get any symptoms or I didn't bother about missing my periods..." I stop & frown. Then my eyes start to well up again. All the while I was pregnant but I failed to realize it. If I had realized it much before then maybe nothing would have happened to my Karthik. My poor darling husband suffered because I couldn't realize I was pregnant. Shit!

"Hey! Stop it!" Karthik reads my mind so he quickly cradles my head to his chest & kisses my head over & over again.

"Karthik... if I had found out, at least, three weeks back then we could have avoided all the stress and worry, right? Because of my mistake you suffered...I'm such a bad wife..." I cry.

"Stop blaming yourself, darling. You didn't know. See, you always got irregular periods so it's not your fault that you failed to keep track on with your last periods date. Even I missed to notice you... I mean to notice the changes in you. I missed to notice this little one growing in you" he circles thumb over my belly making me feel ticklish so I stop him by holding his playing thumb.

"I felt dizziness when you were in hospital but I thought it was due to fatigue."

"It's okay. Just forget it." Karthik kisses my temple. He is so sweet. He will always erase my guilt and uneasy feeling.

"Baby, please stay safe here. Papa & Mama loves you so much" I tell softly to our baby looking at my flat belly as a tear drop falls right on top of Karthik's hand.

"She will be safe here because she got a lovely protective mother to take care of her. And no more tears, okay?" Karthik says wiping my tears away & kissing my soft lips softly.

"Did you take a scan?" He asks me. I shake my head in no.

"Doctor advised me to take a scan today to see the baby's growth, moreover, it's already late to do the first scan but I told him no..."

"Why?"

"I want you to be with me and want us to see our baby for the first time, together." I shrug.

"Thank you, darling" he smiles & kisses my temple.

"So you didn't tell anyone yet?" he asks.

"Nope. You are the first one to know. Well, Tara knows about my pregnancy as she was with me but apart from her I didn't tell any of our family members."

"Okay, we will give them the good news tomorrow as it's already late."

"Okay. And tomorrow you will take me for scanning right?"

"Of course, Mithu. I am dying to see our cutie pie" he says with a heart melting smile.

"Yes and I want to introduce my hottie doctor to you. Ah! How I wished to marry a doctor when I was a little girl" I sigh dreamily. Karthik rolls his eyes & bites my earlobe making me yelp.

"So tell me, the doctor is more handsome than your husband?" he asks casually but I can tell he is jealous.

"It's actually close... but you win my darling hubby" I throw my arms around his neck and touch his nose with mine.

"Really?" he asks incredulously.

You don't trust me?

"Yep! You win! No contest at all!"

My Karthik is the handsomest man in this world for me.

"Oh and don't worry, he is married!"

Ah! This piece of information makes him to flash a smile at me.

"I love you, baby"

"And I, you" then we sit in silence, in peace. We could clearly hear the sounds of our breathing & heart beats.

Soon one more member will be joining us, a very special member... our little baby. Our world! Thanks to the Almighty for putting an end to our worries & bringing happiness in our lives.

"Today, you made me the happiest man alive on the planet, Mithra" he says resting his cheek on my head. I smile happily. Finally I made my love happy!

"Come, we will have dinner and then I will put you to bed."

"Yes, I am hungry... not only for food"

"Then what else?" he asks. What is wrong with him? He is so blunt tonight!

"For what you had in your mind when you entered our house"

"Sex? No! No! It's not in the agenda now. We can't..."

"Why?" I ask him with a frown.

"No, Mithra. We should be really careful. We can't bring any harm to our baby" he says as he finally takes off his hand from my stomach realizing he might be hurting the baby.

God! He has started being over protective, already.

"Nothing like that, Karthik. We can have sex during pregnancy... I have read about it in an article"

"I am not going to take any risk. Not with our baby's life."

"If the doctor says it's fine to do it?"

"Then we will think about it" he is still reluctant. Why he always makes me sound so desperate for sex?

"Better I call Tara. She has prior experience and you call Sanjeev to know for yourself whether they had sex when Deepa was pregnant or not?" I suggest.

"We will wait one day. Let's confirm it with your good looking Doctor" he says in finality. I sigh sadly. So no sex tonight too? I pout! I should have broken the good news after we made love.

Karthik places me on the floor from his lap and swiftly standing up to his feet, he helps me up too. Then he picks me up in his arms, bridal style.

"Hey! Put me down. You should not carry heavy weight." I worry instantly and my hand starts caressing his chest.

"You are not heavy weight... you are light weight. And stop worrying about me. You need to take care of your health as it's not only you now. You have my little heart in you now so let me take care of you both" he is back to his control freaking tendency. I shake my head but smile happily.

I love this man, my man, my world! I put my arms around his neck & kiss his jaw as I let him carry me to the kitchen and there he places me on the kitchen counter top.

I watch him gracefully moving around the kitchen as he dishes out the food on the plate. He feeds me with his hand & I feed him back. After dinner we went to bed & cuddling each other, we slept peacefully after a long time.

~~0~~

"Hello Dr. Rishab" I greet my Gyn with a smile.

"Hello Mrs. Karthik. Please take a seat" he smiles at me & gestures to sit.

"This is my husband Karthik & this is my hottie Doctor" I shamelessly introduce him as 'hottie' to my husband. Both Karthik and the doctor looked embarrassed but still managed to share smiles. I just grin.

"So you ready for the scan?" Dr. Rishab asks me. I look at Karthik silently asking 'are we ready?" and he nods with a smile. I look back at the Doctor & nod my assent.

"Well, then we will proceed." he asks his nurse to show us to the sonogram room. Karthik & I follow the nurse & within few minutes Dr. Rishab joins us.

Karthik helps me to lie on the bed & I roll my shirt a little up exposing my belly. Karthik stands next to the bed & takes hold of my sweaty hand. I know he is nervous, so am I.

The doctor puts some cold gel on my belly for lubrication & then gently places the ultrasonic transducer on my belly & moves it around.

Where are you hiding baby? I lift my head up a little to see the screen clearly.

"Don't move" Doctor says as he concentrates on the screen. Karthik holds my head in place with one hand & with other he holds my hand.

"There" Doctor presses a button & freezes the screen to show our baby clearly but nothing finds clear to me on the monitor. "Your baby" he points to the screen.

"Is that 'kidney bean' our child?" I ask. Doctor chuckles for addressing our baby 'kidney bean'. Karthik scoffs at me.

"Am I having twins?" I ask. Karthik looks at me wide eyed.

"No, why?" Doctor asks me.

"So what's that other kidney shaped thing?"

"No, they are just bubbles. Only this is your baby. Singular" Doctor clarifies & clearly points out our baby.

"Only one? I hoped for twins. I love twins" I tell them. I have read somewhere that if you undergo treatments for conceiving, it might lead you to multiple births but I guess that's not happening in my case. I sigh.

"It's hard to handle twins Mrs. Karthik. I am speaking out of personal experience. My wife gave birth to twins & the little ones are keeping her running on her toes & even I have my share of work to do too as they are very demanding & naughty kids." Dr. Rishab says with a fond smile. I can tell he loves his kids so much.

I love kids being naughty. I feel naughty kids are smart just like me. Ha Ha.

"Oh really?" I ask with a smile. "How old are they? & what are their names?" I ask.

"They are four years old. Aarav, my son, he is the elder one & Aaradhana, my daughter, my little angel."

Karthik smiles hearing that and says "That's so nice"

"Karthik, let's have two kids... one boy & one girl. Just like Doctor. Okay?"

"Let's have this one baby for now & we will think about having another in future." he says softly.

"Okay" I agree.

"Doctor..." I call.

"Yes"

"Can we know the gender of the baby?" I ask eagerly.

"Nah-nah" he shook his head. "That's not allowed"

"You have seen my medical history, right?" I ask. Doctor nods. "Karthik and I have been yearning for a baby for three long years and finally we are blessed with a baby and now do you thing we will harm our baby if we find out it's a girl?"

"I love girl babies" Karthik says quickly looking at me.

"I can understand you, Mrs. Karthik but... I have to face consequences if I do ultrasound for gender determination..."

"Doctor, please. I am dying to know what baby I am having" I plead him.

"Mithra, let's not kill the surprise. We will wait and know what baby we have at the time of birth" Karthik says appeasing me.

"Doctor, honestly tell me, you would have gone against the law and told your wife about the twins gender before their birth right?" I ask. He looks surprised at me. Ah! I locked him there. "Think me as your sister and tell me, please" I plead pouring all my cuteness.

"Alright but keep this confidential" Dr. Rishab laughs as he gives in to my demand. I squeal in excitement and hug Karthik's waist.