Sweet Mischief’s Rollercoaster Romance

It was an involuntary reaction. Mia swore she didn't mean to hit anyone. She slapped her brother's back, and the sound echoed in the living room, silencing everyone instantly. "Did you just say my baby has no heartbeat!" She grabbed her brother's shirt, pulling him closer. Her voice was harsh as she emphasized, "My baby is moving inside me. How could it not have a heartbeat? You bought a faulty device and now you're blaming my baby." "Wait, wait a minute," Cooper stammered.

He placed his hand on Mia's belly, feeling for the baby's movement. After ten seconds passed, Cooper impatiently urged his sister's belly. "Come on. Why won't you kick?"

But there was no movement. Cooper looked at his sister's face, and then pointed at her belly. "Mia, it's not moving."

Mia retorted, "Of course, my baby isn't some common creature who would just kick whenever you want. You think you're that important? Even its father doesn't get that privilege when it's in a bad mood." Andre at the side remained silent, knowing that was indeed the case.

Cooper tried again with the device on Mia's belly, wearing his headphones. "Mia, there really is no heartbeat."

Andre remained calm. He took the device and started reading the instructions, trying to figure it out, while his wife and brother-in-law continued their argument.

"My son is very temperamental, you know. You have to call him 'sweetheart' and tell him 'I love you' before he might give you the time of day," Mia explained.

Cooper questioned, "Is this baby a boy or a girl? Why is he so sensitive?"

After speaking, Cooper rested his hand on Mia's belly. "Sweetheart, I'm your Uncle Cooper. I love you. If you hear me, give me a kick."

The baby didn't respond. Cooper said, "Mia..."

Mia interrupted, "I told you, he might give you the time of day. Clearly, he's not doing that now."

Andre had figured out the problem. "The batteries were installed backwards."

Cooper could only facepalm at his mistake.

Mia looked at her brother in disbelief. "How did you manage to screw that up?"

himself, "Everyone makes

to Cooper, letting him be the first to hear the baby's heartbeat. Andre

on the headphones, and placed the fetal

"How does

scanned her belly,

say it. What's that

seeing the heartbeat on the monitor. He

intently listening to her baby's heartbeat. She tried to breathe as softly as possible, not

watching Cooper. What was he

you're carrying a baby and not a train? It sounds like wind blowing inside your belly, and then a train running against the wind, chugging and whooshing." Mia remained silent,

and handed them to Andre. "Andre, you

he was also confused. It indeed didn't sound like a heartbeat. "Honey, let

the headphones on Mia, and began looking up information on fetal heart sounds. "This is normal. I saw online that other expectant mothers also hear this sound," Mia

words eased the worry of

adults stayed home, listening to the baby's heartbeat and playing with the device Cooper had bought. The day

a new "game." She moved the scanner over her belly. "I want

had planned to return to the Cedillo family today, and Hansen called in the evening urging

his family, and the couple

Madison also returned home. They were soon pulled into listening to the baby's heartbeat by their own children. Andre felt like

Cooper had bought her.

o'clock. If you don't sleep, the baby

sometimes bulged and sometimes

baby's

the evening, after she had eaten dinner, Cooper had been studying her belly. "Mia, do you feel like you're