Newborn

There was nothing. I could not feel nor see. Although, I was self-aware of my own existence, I was simply there and nothing more than that. No thoughts, no decisions, no emotions, simply I was there. I did not have a specific shape, but I used to fill everything like a limitless body of water. I did not have any notion of time, but I know it was passing somehow. Once, a dimming-reddish light and strange, undistinguished sounds starting popping up on from surroundings.

"Here it comes. Keep pushing. Almost there…" said an elderly woman with a muffled voice.

I felt cold for the first time, I felt warm for the first time, and I felt the strange necessity to bring something inside my body, that later on I understood that was air. In the end, my body started working as if someone had whispering commands that were embedded on me.

"It's a boy! It's a healthy boy!" said the same elderly woman.

"L-let, let me hold him!" said a second voice, but in a slight higher pitch. With pauses to breath, she continued, "He is so beautiful… It's me. I'm your mom".

I could not see shapes, but only colorful and blurry images. I tilted my head towards where the sound was coming from.

"C-Can you hear me? I'm your mo… mommy" with a crying voice. A warm and soft liquid started dropping on my face while my body was being hold gently.

"How are they?!" came an abruptly third voice. This time, a male one. The man was coming in the room. He saw his wife and his newborn son. I guess he was enjoying the scene, because he stayed there for a few seconds saying nothing, neither approached us. Until, that moment was abruptly stopped.

"Boy! Haven't I told you to wait outside?! Get out!" said an old woman, screaming, and probably hitting him.

"Ow, ouch! But… I wanna see them, old lady!" the man replied, walking out of the room.

I had not cried until now, kind of strange for a newborn baby but with all that fuzz, I felt scared. I started crying.

"Oh my… it seems daddy scared you, uh? He is a buffoon, but you will get used to it" said the woman holding me with a happy and tired voice. "You must be hungry. Shall we eat?" putting on my month, her warm and soft nipple.

My first days were only drinking milk and being changed. Nothing more. The man used to come often inside, hold me while mom was doing something, and then left. The elderly woman from before used to stay more often inside the bedroom, helping mom. Casually, I used to her some children giggling and running outside or by the room's door. So far, everyone I knew was three nameless people, an elderly woman, a lovely woman that was my mother, a buffoon as my father, and maybe two faceless giggly children.

"Richard, it's your time to change him. The cloths are nearby the stove. I'll make us lunch. Don't forget to bring Alice and Jonathan inside, and make them wash their hands. Mrs. Hubson said the kids can see him now" said mom looking through the window. "Big sis and big bro are so eager to see you" looking at me this time.

My vision was getting better. I could recognize faces and more colors than before. "Look at my boy! His beautiful blue hair is growing fast!" said my father holding me. He was a bearded man with dark green hair, both with the same color. "Are you going to be a fisherman? Or perhaps a sailor?"

"Richard, you know I don't believe this…" said my mom, checking on my siblings. "Mrs. Hubson said it just a matter whose side of the family he got it from. Your dad also had blue hair".

"Mom, what will I be when I grow up?" said a little boy whose face I still hadn't seen. "I wanna be a lumberjack like father!"

"How about me, mom?! I've never seen a kid like my hair before…" said a girly voice running towards my direction.

"I'm off. Richard, you solve this" said mom, leaving the bedroom.

"Calm down, kids. Your mom is right. You guys can be whatever you want… It doesn't matter if the gods blessed you with blue, green, brown or purple hair…" father said, lowering his body down, so the kids could see me. He was standing in one of his knees and continued saying, "We often say those kinds of things because we wish our kids to grow healthy and strong. Wouldn't be funny to see Henry in a sailor's suit?" The two kids looked at each other with a smile and nodded their heads to his father with enthusiasm. "Soon you two will come to an age to be apprentices and decided whatever you wanna be. For now, look at your little chubby brother!". This was the first time seeing my siblings. I looked at them with curiosity.

"Hi Henry, I'm your big sis, Alice. I brought you some flowers! Spring is so beautiful!" showing me some dandelions. "Mom said in the next few weeks, I will be allowed to take care of you, just like how I did with Jonathan. Hope you won't be a pooper like him". She was a girl with a curly purple hair with gray eyes. She was so close that I tried to hold one of her locks, but Jonathan stepped in, mad at her.

"Dad! Tell her it's a lie! I wasn't a pooper! Mommy said it was normal for baby!" He was a boy with light brown hair just like mom and green eyes. I could see tears forming up on his eyes, but dad said nothing rather than a smile.

"You see, Jonathan. Even dad thinks you were a pooper!" said, laughing and running away from Jonathan.

"Kids, you will scare Henry. How about helping your mom with lunch? Things here will get smelly" said as holding his nose in signal of smell of my dirty diaper. They nodded and left the bedroom. "Now, let's get you changed!" From that day on, I started seeming him and my siblings more often.