Nick lay peacefully on the bed. Karolina sat next to him on the bed. She looked at him.
“What’s happening darling?”
She sobbed rubbing her stomach.
She looked at Nick and instantly tears rushed out from her eyes. Tear drops soaked the bed-sheets near him.
“I love you very much. I just don’t know what I will do if something bad happened to you.”
She sobbed and took out her handkerchief and blew her nose. She lay on top of Nick’s half-naked body. She lifted her head and looked at him.
His eyes were still moving very fast underneath the closed eyelids. He seemed to have stabilized as he was breathing normal. She planted kisses on his forehead, the cheeks and lips. She lay her head on his raised hairy chest and she closed her eyes. She could hear his heart beat rate. She remembered the first days they met. It was magical. The more she thought about it the more the tears trickled down her cheeks onto his rigged chest.
In her subconscious mind she felt Nick’s chest movements and heartbeat instantly stop. She opened her eyes and lifted her head from Nick’s chest and looked at him. The eyes were moving very fast under the closed eyelids. He had somehow stopped breathing, or she thought. Instantly Nick’s eyelids snapped open. He looked at Karolina with wide-opened eyes, haunted and disoriented. He instantly lifted his head and with a creased agonized face he looked at his chest and touched it. He breathed heavily and loudly before slumping on the bed. He breathed out air and instantly looked calm as his eyes met Karolina’s. He smiled as he saw her gorgeous face. He lay calmly looking at her.
Karolina looked at him before quickly hugging him lying on top of him kissing him everywhere.
“I am glad you are okay darling.”
She planted kisses on his lips when he tried to talk she placed her index finger on his lips. She kissed him on his cheeks, neck and rigged chest passionately. She pulled her dress up and jumped on top of him sitting on his crotch.
“What happened!”
He asked disoriented for a while. He touched his chest and looked at the inside of his hand.
“It’s going to be alright. The doctor said that you were probably having a nightmare. Everything is going to be alright.”
She rubbed herself on his well-defined body kissing him everywhere passionately. She pulled her dress up to her head level and removed it.
“I love you.”
She looked at him.
He still looked worried and disoriented.
“The doctor said that everything is going to be okay. Just a nightmare or something but nothing to worry about.”
Nick scanned the whole bedroom and then looked at Karolina.
“Just a nightmare. I thought...”
“Shh don’t talk darling.”
Karolina unfastened her bra and took it off before rubbing her body onto Nick's.
Nick breathed heavily.
“Karo.”
Karolina paused and got up and looked at him. That somehow sounded very strange. She hadn’t heard Nick call her by her first name for a very long time. It was always darling, sweetheart, honey, my-better-half, etc. She looked at him. She noticed something for the first time. His face was emotionless. He looked dull, unloving and frightened. After a quick thought she looked at him and kissed him.
“You are going to be alright darling. Okay. Nothing to worry about.”
“I know Karo. Just a nightmare.”
“I love you Nick. Very much. Even more than I did before. At one point I thought you suffered a heart attack or something. I was very scared. Never scared that way before. I thought I was going to lose you.”
“I know,” replied Nick trying to get up while touching his heart area.
“No. The doctor said you need to lie in bed for more time to gather back your strength.”
“I need to get up I am feeling aches for lying down for too long.”
Nick struggled to get up but eventually managed to sit down. He looked at Karolina for a while before planting a kiss on her forehead. He breathed heavily and staggered out of the bedroom. Karolina slumped on the bed half-naked. She lay there peacefully. She looked at the bedroom dressing table and all that she could hear was the ticking of the dressing table clock. She looked at the time and somehow found the clock very beautiful.
“Darling don’t forget today we are visiting my parents. I think it’s a great opportunity to get away from all this. Time to relax and wind down for a few days.”
“Oh, it’s this week, yes?”
“Yes darling.”
“Karolina, I don’t think I want to travel...”
“But we planned this a long time ago darling.”
“I know Karo. I just think I am not ready to travel far away.” He paused and touched his chest and looked at Karolina.
“Ooh I see. But darling there is nothing to be afraid of. It was just a horrible nightmare.”
Nick walked in the bedroom before sitting on the bed.
“What if that happens again, away from home?”
“Don’t let that stop you living your life.”
“I know babe, but I am comfortable here at home. We can postpone and go later when I am feeling better.”
“No, we have to go as planned darling.”
“Maybe go on your own. It should be alright.”
Karolina stopped and realized that maybe she was being selfish. She breathed heavily and sat on the corner of the bed.
“I thought ...”
“I am just not feeling myself. Maybe go on your own. We can always go together in the future.”
“No darling we have to go together. We need to deliver the great news together too.”
Karolina touched her stomach and smiled before landing a smacker on Nick’s cheek.
A sport utility vehicle [SUV] left a mansion and turned into the main road before speeding away. Nick looked at his wife-to-be on the passenger seat. It was a very beautiful sunny day. It was hot. They both wore sunglasses. Karolina was wearing a thin lovely pink maternity dress. She looked fabulous even in the maternity dress. A small bulging stomach was protruding. Every time Nick looked at the pregnant stomach he smiled. Every time they looked at each other it was all smiles. Very romantic. Karolina’s face suddenly sunken. Nick looked at her and instantly looked ahead as he was driving. He put his hand on her lap and gently stroked her and smiled. He looked at the dashboard and played the Carolinadeivid song Seductive Beauty.
“You like this song very much. Very sweet and romantic. I remember the first days.”
“That’s the reason I bought this album. Reminds me of the best days we had.”
There was silence but only the background song Seductive Beauty.
“Just like in the song the first time I saw you I knew I had to make you mine. Somehow my wish fulfilled. Very romantic.”
Nick smiled.
Karolina smiled too.
“I know. That first night, it was very nice.”
“I remember whisking you away from all the others. Great dancer I must admit.”
The couple listened to the song for a while.
“If it wasn’t for the dancing, we might not have clicked.”