During the early hours of the day usually, it would be just my mom and I rushing to get ready for school. But today it was different. Everyone in the house was awake and rushing to get ready. For the first time in years, I was getting ready to go to the hospital instead of school on Independence Day. It was about time I became an elder sister.
There was one question that l think lingered in everyone’s mind, what is it going to be? A boy or a girl? It didn’t matter to me. I just wanted a sibling. And I was about to get one today. It was the happiest day of my life. The nurse did bring it down a notch, you’ll soon know why.
After my mom was taken to the operation theatre I was sitting between my dad and my grandma, anxiously waiting to hear anything from inside. When the doctor stepped out of the operation theatre we rushed towards him. He was holding a baby on this right hand, the head held in the palm and the body dangling on his arm. He told us we have been blessed with a baby girl. Though she was still covered in blood she looked beautiful. The cutest baby I had ever seen. And the amazing thing about the whole situation was I didn’t have to get anyone’s permission to hold her. She was mine.
The doctor took her back inside. It took some time before she was brought back to us, wearing a pink dress from the hospital. I was standing first in line to hold her. I had already told my dad and grandma, I would be the first person to hold her. It cannot be anyone else. But the nurse chose to hand her over to my grandma. That did break my heart a little but my dad slid her from my grandma’s embrace to my arms. And at that moment I felt complete. Months of waiting for her to come in my life and the years before were all worth it. She was perfect. She felt perfect in my arms. I could hold her all day. She was the best thing I could ever ask for. In that instant, I knew I loved her.
My happiness didn’t contain just there. After a few days when I went back to school, I was celebrating. Usually one distributed chocolates on their birthday but I was going around distributing big chocolates to anyone and everyone I found in school. Teachers, classmates, friends, everyone. Every day I would go to the nearby store with my dad and buy a box of chocolates. I didn’t know when to stop. Every day in school I would wait to get back home to be around her. I would often find her sleeping and though I would wish to wake her up I knew better. I would lie down beside her and keep watching her as she slept. She wasn’t just my sister, she was my baby.
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