"Nothing. I'm just too happy." Jack waved his hand and smiled. The smile on his face reached his deep-set black eyes. He was so happy that he almost cried.
Rachel frowned. She couldn't help thinking inwardly, 'Is he happy that I've gotten so many pregnancy stretch marks?' All the while, she was worried that he would dislike her if he found out that her belly had become so ugly. She didn't expect that he would just say he was so happy.
She tried to figure out the possible reason for him to feel happy about the stretch marks, but she couldn't, so she gave up.
The next day, Rachel and Lea had afternoon tea. Rachel casually talked about Jack's reaction about her stretch marks. "It was my first time to see a man laughing when he saw pregnancy stretch marks. He wasn't disappointed at all."
While stirring her coffee, Lea commented, "Maybe it made him feel that you are really pregnant."
"I don't know. Actually, I was afraid that he would find out, so I hid them from him. I even stayed in the bathroom for a long time every day to secretly apply anti‑stretch mark cream on my belly." Thinking of what she had done before, Rachel couldn't help laughing at herself.
At the hospital, she heard a lot of nurses complaining about their pregnancy stretch marks before. Since she wasn't pregnant yet at that time, she felt it wasn't really a big deal.
But now that it also happened to her, she realized that it was indeed a serious problem for women. More serious t
d forth anxiously and kept mumbling, "I don't know how Rachel is now. She must be in severe pain."
Two hours of waiting had quickly passed.
The door of the delivery room was finally opened from the inside. The nurse walked out and said with a smile, "Congratulations. It's a baby boy."
As soon as Tracy heard that it was a boy, she smiled happily and held Jonathan's hand. "Great! We finally have a cute grandson."
Jack didn't mind what the nurse had said. When he saw that the door of the delivery room opened, he immediately walked up to Rachel and looked at her lying on the bed. Her hair was wet with sweat. She indeed looked messy.
His deep-set black eyes filled with pity. He held her hand and kissed it gently. "Honey, thank you."
The nurse carried the baby to the crib. He was crying so loud, but Jack seemed not to hear him.
After a long while, Jack finally came back to his senses. That was the only time that he noticed the baby's cry. He stood up and picked up the baby from the crib. But then, he frowned and said, "Why is this baby so ugly?"
The baby might have understood Jack's negative comment because he cried out loud again. Perhaps, he felt depressed being called ugly by his own father. Jack didn't know that babies really didn't look cute at first sight they were born.
Rachel and Jack named their baby boy Andrew Fu. For his first birthday, Rachel had planned to invite the whole family to dinner with a birthday cake to celebrate.