Chapter 1: The birth
Olena's first son came suddenly.
Little Karolina ran for the midwife as soon as her mother began screaming, leaving a terrified Sonya in the house.
"We have… to go… hospital" Olena panted between contractions
Yeva looked at her daughter and shook her head "That baby isn't gonna wait for you to go anywhere. He's coming, Olena – right now"
The woman sobbed and clutched her youngest's hand. "It's Ok, baby. It's… Oh, God"
Karolina returned with the woman's hand in her own, her big brown eyes as wide as saucers. Trusting her grandmother to help, she took her sister and locked herself in their room.
The two older women moved the young mother to her bedroom and began readying everything for the new baby's arrival.
The screams began soon afterwards. They were so loud, even the neighbor – a young schoolteacher – came over to find out what was going on. The sisters shakily explained the situation and turned on the radio as loud as possible to drown out the screaming.
There was nothing but agony in those shrieks – they were pure, undiluted pain, ripping out of Olena's throat without her consent.
And then, suddenly, there was silence. A silence almost as terrifying as the sounds had been. Next came a weak, watery cry – and it was heartbreaking.
Yeva trudged downstairs soon afterwards and hugged her granddaughters "It's a boy"
A boy it was. With soft, downy dark hair and eyes, none of the women had ever seen anything so beautiful. The baby's pink lips formed a little 'O' as he nursed in his sleep, dreaming or warm milk and his mother's voice.
The girls fussed over him as Olena cried with happiness "He's so… my God, thank you… oh, doesn't he look like his father?"
"Yes, and all the worse for him" Yeva grunted, her usual mood back "Though he is a looker, that one. You'll have girls chasing after him as soon as he can walk"
So Dimitri Belikov came into the world – like a ray of sunlight in the midst of pain and tears.
The next chapter is ever so much better... it's in DPOV.
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