A Welcomed Surprise-Ch 1
Penelope Garcia reached up and wiped away a stray tear that was streaming down her cheek and she said, "are you sure Sherry"?, the young doctor put her hand on Penelopes and said, "I'm so sorry honey but their is only about a 15 to 20% chance that you will ever conceive". Sherry sighed and said, "but if you can't carry a child of your own have you thought about adoption"?, Penelope said, "I I I don't know about that".
Sherry said, "you've been through a lot over the past several months with all of the testing so here let me give you a card for an amazing adoption agency, they have helped a lot of my patients that couldn't have a baby naturally". She took the card and stood up and said, "thanks, I'll think about it", Sherry hugged her friend and said, "and if you need anything, even if it's just somebody to talk to don't hesitate to give me a call, any time, okay"?, Penelope nodded her head yes in agreement before turning around and walking brokenheartedly out of the room,
Sherry shook her head and said, "poor Penelope, I hated to tell her that she probably wouldn't be able to conceive because she'd make an amazing mother and any child would be lucky to have her". She tapped her finger to her chin and then she smiled as she picked up the phone and dialed a number and after a few rings she said, "Anita, we need to talk".
Penelope climbed out of Ester and slowly made her way toward the front door, she weakly smiled at her neighbor and said, "thank you" as he held the door open for her. The elderly man said, "what's wrong honey, you look so sad"?, she hugged the older gentleman and said, "Oliver, I just got bad news from my doctor".
Oliver said, "oh no, honey are you sick"?, she said, "no, no, nothing like that, I just found out that their is only like a 15 to 20% chance that I'll ever be able to have a baby". He said, "nonsense, if you can't have a baby naturally just adopt, my son and daughter in law did that 4 times and they are thinking about adopting another baby".
She smiled and said, "really"?, he said, "yeah, their are millions and millions of kids out there that need parents and I have no doubt at all that you will make an amazing mommy for any child out there". She kissed his cheek and said, "thank you Oliver you my handsome hunka man have just made my day".
Oliver laughed and said, "glad I could help honey, glad I could help", he then followed Penelope toward the elevator and as she stepped on he waved and said, "remember what I said okay"?, she nodded her head and blew him a kiss and said, "ohhh I will Oliver, I will". As the elevator doors closed he said, "she's gonna make a wonderful mommy some day" as he walked inside his apartment and closed the door behind him.
When Penelope walked into her apartment she closed the door and pulled out the card that Sherry had given her, she put it down on the table in front of her and said, "come on Garcie you just found out less than an hour ago that you might not be able to have kids, isn't this a little soon to be thinking about adoption"?, she took a deep breath and said, "ahhhh shut up, I want a baby, I want to hear a little girl or boy call me mommy, that's what I want more than anything else".
She picked up the card and said, "hmmmm, what could it hurt to call and see what I need to do to be put on a possible list"?, she tapped the card to her chin and said, "come on Garcie do ittttttt, do itttttt". She said, "I'm gonna do it" and picked up the phone and looked down at the card and started dialing.
After a few rings she heard, "Harmony Adoption Agency this is Anita Harmony how can I help you today"?, Penelope took a deep breath and said, "Mrs. Harmony my name is Penelope Garcia and I would like to see what I need to do so that I might be able to adopt a child". Anita grinned and said, "sure Ms. Garcia I'll be glad to help you out with anything I can do", the two women then spent the next 90 minutes talking as Anita told her everything she would need to do to get the process started so that she could possibly adopt a child.