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with his customers. She had always
obeyed his rules, until now. However, there was no turning back. She found out
that she was pregnant six weeks after Don left Cuba to return to New York. She
knew it was his child; she wasn’t sexually involved with anyone else.
    One
day Maria woke up with heavy pains in her stomach. She rubbed her protruding
belly and bit her bottom lip. She rocked back and forth trying to bear the pain
of the rapidly increasing contractions. Maria screamed out in pain causing her
aunt Maleese and the maid Edella to rush up the stairs and into her bedroom.
They found her screaming in agony and tears excessively streaming down the side
of her cheeks.
    Maria
threw the blanket from her body. Despite the pain she was in, she searched for
Don’s phone number. She found it in her night stand next to the bed.
    “Oh
my God, let’s get her to a hospital!” Maleese insisted while watching her niece
struggle. Maria sat back down on the bed as the pains resurfaced.
    “Maria,
calm down, you’re moving too much.” Edella said as she helped Maria to her
feet. Maleese ran over and grabbed Maria’s coat from the closet and placed it
around her shoulders. Maria could barely walk. Her legs felt like they were
made of rubber and she was extremely woozy. The three of them slowly walked
down the stairs, when Maria felt a warm sensation running down her leg. She
slowly put her head down and watched as the clear fluid oozed from her vagina
and down her leg. She was leaking onto the marble floored stairs. 
    “My
water just broke!” Maria automatically assumed. They rushed her to the front
door where one of their drivers picked Maria up.  They were off to the hospital
in a flash.
    Maria
was sweating profusely throughout the entire ride. Her mind was overwhelmed
with the thought that she was already having the baby. They arrived at the
hospital in enough time to get her on a stretcher.
    Maria
passed out several times due to the pain before she officially made it into the
room where she would deliver her baby. When she was finally conscious, she
turned on the radio and listened to some Cuban music. The doctors told her that
she wasn’t ready to have her baby just yet; she was just having a little leak.
Maria lay in the hospital bed and stared up at the ceiling.  She was in deep
thought about what she would tell Don, when and if she finally spoke to him.
    Several
minutes later, she had the urge to pee. She sat up in the bed and looked around
for a way to call for help. She found the call button on the side of the bed to
call for assistance. She seriously had to pee, and it had already begun to
trickle down her leg. Finally the nurse came to Maria’s aide.
    “Are
you okay Maria?”
    “Yes,
I’m fine.” Maria smiled as she tried to get up, “I just have to use the
bathroom.”
    “Hold
on, let me help you.” The nurse moved in closer to Maria and pulled back the
sheets. Both of their jaws dropped as they stared at each other in amazement.
    “You
already had your baby.” The nurse was astonished. She called for the doctors to
come cut the cord and assist with anything medically that she could not. 
    “What?”
Maria started crying with tears of joy streaming down her cheeks. She couldn’t
believe that her baby was already here. It amazed her that she didn’t have to
push or endure hours of painful labor. Tears flooded her eyes as she gazed at
her beautiful baby. She had a new baby girl. The baby was wide awake and didn’t
cry at all. Once she was cleaned off, she was handed to Maria. Maria lovingly
gazed into her daughter’s eyes. 
    “That
was the easiest birth I’ve ever seen.” The nurse chuckled.
    “I
had no idea.” Maria shook her head side to side, “I thought I had to use the
bathroom or something.” They all laughed. Maleese and Edella rushed into the
room.
    “Maria,
she’s so beautiful.” Her aunt smiled as she sat on the side of the bed.
    “Thank
you.” Maria held her baby girl in her