"Oh crap. Is this it?" Elsie asked, her eyes wide with panic as she glanced over at me, her voice slightly raised in alarm.

"She's in labor," Ethan said, his tone calm but urgent as he knelt beside me.

"Get her to the spare bedroom," Justin instructed, quickly stepping in to help me off the ground.

Both Ethan and Justin supported me as we made our way carefully toward the spare bedroom, each of them gently gripping an arm as I leaned heavily on them. The contractions were ...