Crumbling World

Chapter 27

 

 

Jareth’s mother and sister stared at him, waiting for him to start the meeting since he called it.

“I called this meeting to say that my Sarah is a genius-”

He got caught off by his mother and sister agreeing with him, he continued “that since our mother is the high queen and can change laws, that you can make it where you and Alfred can get married and he can take his rightful place beside you as king” Jareth said

Marta smiled widely, her eyes got wide she was happy “I forgot I had the power to do that”

“But you could all this time” Josie said

Marta shook her head “I can’t change the laws if it had to do with me, but if someone was to ask me to change a law that would fit my needs I could do it, and since Jareth asked for it, I can change it”

Josie smiles at her mother and says “so you can change this right?”

Marta looked at her daughter happily “of course I can dear”

She hugged both her children and disappeared.

“Now all we have to do is wait” Josie said

“Maybe you should go back home, I will call you if I need you” Jareth said

“Yeah, your right” Josie said

She kissed her brother on the cheek and disappeared.

 

Sarah started to moan in pain; Alfred quickly went to her side.

“What’s a matter dear?” he asked concerned

“My stomach” Sarah said holding her stomach

Alfred panicked and started putting his hand on her stomach and checking her. He looked down at her “dear it’s time”

Sarah started to shake her head “no, it’s too soon”

“You’re early by days dear, everything will be fine”

Jareth was in the hall pacing back and forth.

“I want Jareth” Sarah moaned

“Sorry dear, not enough time for me to get him, you have to start pushing NOW” he told her

Alfred got to the end of the bed and pushing up the blanket and her nightgown, luckily she didn’t have underwear on.

Sarah moaned and started pushing, Alfred looked up at Sarah afraid “wait stop pushing a moment”

Sarah lifted her head to look at him scared “what is it, what’s wrong”

“The baby is an uncomfortable position, try not to panic” he told her

Sarah started to breathe deeply and gushed out “try not to panic, how can I not panic after that”

“Calm down Sarah breathe” he said gently

“You’re telling me to calm down, you try having something big come out of a hole that’s small, and see if you can calm down” she said with anger in her voice

Alfred laughed and tried helping the baby to move “okay I moved the baby, now push”

Sarah pushed and grunted really hard and kept repeating until she heard a baby cry then stopped, she laid down on the pillow, sweating and out of breath. Alfred took the child to clean it off, Sarah watched him.

Alfred came back with the baby wrapped in a blanket, he handed it to Sarah “Sarah you have a baby girl”

Sarah smiled holding her baby, she started making faces at her and talking in baby talk, Alfred took that time to get Jareth.

“Jareth” Alfred said

Jareth stopped pacing and went up to him “is Sarah alright”

“I think you better come with me” he said

Jareth followed afraid, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to show him and really hoping it wasn’t Sarah dead.

They both walked into the room, Jareth quickly walked to Sarah, he noticed her holding something in a blanket, and Alfred closed the door to give them some privacy while he called the family.

Sarah looked up at Jareth, who looked down at her with worry “Jareth meet our daughter”

Jareth beamed with pride.

Moments later Alfred, Marta and Joise’s family walked in, Lily quickly ran over to the bed to climb up on it, with Jareth’s help, she sat next to Sarah looking down at the baby in her arms.

“What’s her name?” Lily asked while looking up at Sarah

“We haven’t picked out a name for her yet” Sarah told her

“Can I name her?” Lily asked smiling

Sarah looked at Jareth, he nodded his head at her, Sarah turned back to look at Lily “sure you can”

They watched Lily’s eyes look up and could tell she was deep in thought; she then looked at Sarah and said “Carnation”

Everyone giggled, Lily looked around confused, Sarah looked down at her daughter and said “Carnation” then thought for a moment and continued speaking “I will call her Carnie for short”

Lily looked at everyone and smiled, everyone took turns holding the new princess Carnie.

No one noticed that Marta and Alfred couldn’t stop looking at each other, they looked very happy; everyone was too busy paying attention to the new addition of the family.

“I have an announcement to make” Marta said

Everyone stopped what they were doing and paid attention to her, Sarah had her baby back in her arms.

Marta noticed she had everyone’s attention she continued speaking “I changed the law, so Alfred and I can marry, and we want to do it as soon as possible”

They all cheered quietly since Carnie is sleeping and they don’t want to disturb her, then everyone hugged, then they decided it would be best to leave the new family alone for the night. They can always celebrate some other time.