Page ౩ ) A New Life

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' ' means thought

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[Location: A bedroom, ???]

"Congratulations, my Lady! It's a healthy boy!"

"Huh?"

'Who was that? How is there a woman's voice on the shuttle? Am I delirious?'

"His name shall be Ray Penber."

'What the HELL is going on?!'

"Why is my baby not crying? Why can't I hear my baby?!" A weak woman's voice was heard.

"Slap his butt, that'll wake him up." The man's voice sounded.

*Slap*

"Wah!! Waaaaahhh!!"

'What the hell is going on?! How did I feel pain?! Why the heck am I crying like a baby, and why does my chest hurt so much to breathe?!'

"Give me my baby."

"Yes, my Lady." Saying so, the woman handed over the baby to another woman who was lying on the bed.

"My little Ray, my bundle of joy, look at mama."

Just then, Toni managed to open his eyes, his vision blurry, but he was barely able to make out the face of a woman who was smiling at him.

She possessed jet black hair that cascaded down her back, round eyes, with warm red pupils which were overflowing with motherly love and affection.

"He has my eyes, dear, look." she spoke to the man who was standing by the bed.

The man took Toni awkwardly into his arms, not knowing how to hold a baby, worrying whether he would hurt such a delicate existence.

"This boy will be my heir." he stated, looking into Toni's eyes.

Toni looked at the man, who was his father who had black hair with slightly greying sides, sharp, hazelbrown eyes.

'So this is my father Huh? Well, he looks pretty good, so I probably would be handsome in the future as well. Gotta get all the women in the future after all.' he joked to himself, no so jokingly though.

'But what is this... "feeling"? For some reason, I'm able to "see" the entire room, although I can't see more than 12 inches, and i seem to only "see" this much only when my eyes are closed.'

(Xerotia[Author]: Babies when born aren't able to see well, they can only see for about 8-15 inches in front of them, so all of those fanfics and novels you read of babies being able to see longer distance like the people in the room and stuff is wrong. Just putting some biology info out there...I'm definitely not writing this just to increase the word count, I swear *crosses fingers behind back*. Ahem, well getting back to the story.)

'And for some reason, when I "see/feel", my mom and dad seem to be glowing with colors... am I high?'

As he pondered over conundrums of the Universe, he was suddenly interrupted by a sudden and unbearable sense of hunger, thus making him cry again.

'Damn this baby body! What in the flying f*ck is this? Am I on the shuttle anymore? Is this some sort of advanced simulation? Or maybe... just maybe... reincarnation? No, that's impossible! I've never seen any proof of it throughout my life!'

"Dear, give him to me. It seems that he is hungry and started crying. Step out of the room so that I can feed him." his mother said to his father.

"But you are-"

"Don't worry dear, I still have enough energy to feed him, I was lucky to have a easy delivery, and seeing Ray was enough to heal me a bit" she said, smiling at him, extinguishing any worries he had about her condition after her delivery, after all, it wasn't uncommon for the mother to die after delivery due to the exhaustion of giving birth and the immense blood loss that took place along with it. Luckily, it seemed that she did not have to suffer too much while giving birth to Toni.

"Very well" he replied, handing Toni back to her, then putting on his fedora and coat which were hanging on the coat hanger and walked out the room along with the servant who was present in the room during Toni's birth.

"Here, my little Ray, stop crying have some of Mama's milk" she cooed at him as she removed her upper garments and brought his mouth to her breasts.

'No! I may be hungry, but it's really weird to drink breast milk, I may have sucked on some breasts in my last life, but never drank any milk-'

His thoughts were interrupted by the warm milk he suddenly felt in his mouth.

'On second thought, it's not so bad, it tastes quite good.' he thought as he instinctively held onto his mother's chest, eliciting a smile out of her.

"My cute, sweet baby, I pray you will grow up to be a strong, kind man. God knows that you will have a challenging life ahead of you, and I hope you will have the willpower to go through it." she earnestly said and she she kissed his head.

A few minutes later, he no longer felt hungry and promptly stopped sucking her chest.

'Ah...that was filling, now I feel sleepy...' he thought as he slowly closed his eyes.

'He seems full and now wants to sleep... go to sleep, little Ray.' she thought to herself as she observed his slowly closing eyes as she wiped the traces of milk on his mouth with the hem of her clothes.

To let him sleep easier, she started rocking him in her arms as she hummed a relaxing tune, one that quickly put Toni to sleep, after which she slowly and delicately, put him in the crib which was present next to the bed before looking at him affectionately for a while, poking his chubby cheeks as she smiled happily before the exhaustion of the delivery finally caught up to her as she took one last look at him and finally fell asleep, with a smile still on her face.

As she was just about to fall asleep, the only thought she had was-

'Cute.'

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