Chapter 76 - Intern

I had been at work for only one month and it had been absolute hell.

It was very demanding and tiring to say the least and I though of quitting everyday but I just turned up to work instead.

I was an intern so I didn't expect everything to be easy peasy, but could these people give me a break at least?

I was always running around printing, copying, grabbing coffee etc. and I was getting real tired of this.

Although I was pregnant I didn't want to use that as an excuse for slacking off but sometimes I really wanted to yell at the top of my voice at these people to leave me the fuck alone.

I know that I should be grateful for this opportunity and the benefits and the pay but I was more afraid of something happening to my babies for ever since I got here my health had been deteriorating.

The legal field was already as tough as it is and I did not appreciate these people making it harder because they are qualified employees for this noble company and I was just here for a short while.

Just two more months of this torture and I will be leaving even if it means to scrub toilets or work as barista. Those jobs seem less demanding and more enjoyable than this hell hole.

It wasn't all that bad though for I lucked out and got this nice old lady, Miss Kang, as my next door neighbor who would always look out for me and I would return home tired in the evenings to a nice cooked meal.

She was the sweetest and I was really getting attached her and her me seeing as she has always wanted a daughter and it made her even happier that I was expecting.

She would ask to feel my stomach every evening and I was happy to obliged for her smile as my babies kicked was enough to wipe away all the memories of my bad day.

Lia's belly had been growing as well and they found out that they were having a son and were just as excited when they heard that I was having twins and we would plan our kids futures together when ever we meet up for lunch or whenever it is that we were free.

Minjae had started working at another law firm and we would often gossip about our work place and how much we hated it making sure to include Lia by trying to seem interested and pretend as if we understand when she geeks about her engineering stuff.

Life was okay for the most part and I was in frequent contact with my family for they were so worried about me but I am Atalia Carter, I can handle anything at least that is what I thought until one day when I was rushed to the ER in the fear of having a miscarriage from over working.

It had been a rough day and I was busy running about when I felt sharp pains in my stomach but I just ignored them at first because I thought they were just hungry cramps for I had skipped  breakfast due to almost being late but then the cramps just kept coming harder and harder.

I had two weeks left of working here and I was not even 8 months pregnant as yet so what was happening?

I was scared for not only my babies' lives but also mine for I swear I saw Jesus' hand but I had to hold on further for I couldn't leave like this.

I fortunately didn't have a miscarriage, but I was told that I had been putting myself and the babies' under stress and that they had no other choice but to take them premature.

My pressure was too high and blood sugar low and it was dangerous for me to carry them even further and I had to make a choice for C-section for which I eagerly shook my head yes, signing the documents with out reading the fine print which I knew would come to bite me in the back.

I cried and begged them to do everything that they could to save my babies even if it meant that I would die.

I cried and cried and cried some more at the thought of me being the cause of my babies' death when I haven't even held them in my arms and shower them with kisses.

My family was on the phone consoling me and Minjae and Lia were at my side but I couldn't stop thinking of the worse.

After 6 antagonizing hours the doctors finally came and numbed to get me ready for the C-section emergency delivery then  they got to work.

I silently sobbed as they cut me open taking my babies feeling guilty that they had to come into this world with out being ready and in this condition as they took them from my uterus and placed them in the towel but I didn't hear a cry from the first one.

Wait?

What's wrong?

Shouldn't babies cry when they are born?

Why was that one so blue?

What did they do?

"Why isn't my baby crying!? What did you do?" I screamed trying to get up from the bed but the nurses just rushed to my side holding me down as I screamed and cried.

I  seemed to have summoned the  of a hundred men and they found it hard to restrain me so they placed a mask over my face and I kept resisting as I tried to fight them away from me but I stopped resisting when I heard a faint baby cry followed by another.

My babies were here and they were safe.

They were okay.

"They were okay~" was my final thought as I drifted into a deep peaceful sleep, a sleep that I have been craving for these past two months and a half.

I drifted to dream land where I was having lucid dreams of me and my babies smiling and playing together in a wonderful house somewhere in the country.

I smiled as I watched how good they were with each other then I looked to my left and saw Minjae and Lia waving to us as they pulled up with their son and he ran over to us hugging me before he ran to play with Adriel and Adrian.

They were toddlers strangely and Lia waddled over with her huge belly as Minjae held her up and we hugged before heading inside leaving the kids with Minjae.

We were talking and having a good time when I felt familiar hands around my waist before the culprit placed a kiss on my cheek and I smiled.

"Hey babe. You're home early from work." I turning around smiling instantly as I came face to face with his gummy smile.

"I missed my princess too much" he said and I blushed before he pulled me closer for a kiss, "come here."

"Mommy mommy!" I heard one of my kids cried and I immediately broke the kiss to give him attention.

"Yes Adrian what is it baby?" I asked gently as ran into my arms.

"Mommy" he sobbed and my heart tighten in fear not knowing what was wrong, "its Adriel. She's, she's blue."

What!?

I felt my heart pounded in fear as I handed my son to his father and ran out to where I saw my daughter last and I saw Minjae holding her looking frightened and as white as  ghost.

"Adriel!" I cried taking her into my arms as she stared up at me her mouth wide open as if crying but no tears were falling.

I looked up at Shiwoo who held Adrian in his arms crying for I didn't  know what to do but when I looked back down at Adriel she was gone and was being taken away by doctors who were holding me down and placed a mask over my face.

My cries were muffled and they pinned me to the ground as they went for Adrian taking him away as well and I lost it.

I tried my hardest to fight them and get my babies but I was too weak and broken as I watched then drive away with my babies.

When I thought things couldn't get any worse they color of the sky changed and it was now pitched black and Minjae, Lia and Shiwoo were pointing their hands at me shaking their head blaming me for all that happened.

"This is all your fault. You did this. If you had taken better care of them this wouldn't have happened!" they all said in unison and they were right.

I felt the floor between me started to break and I saw the pits of hell and I was trying to run away but I just fell in with their disappointed and judgmental stares being the last thing I saw.

I woke up in cold sweat panting and sobbing as this nightmare definitely had meaning for where was my babies?

I will not let those doctors take my babies even if its the last thing I do.