Chapter 2
Emma
"So I have been thinking?" Emma looked up at her platinum blond colleague. "We should go out." Emma couldn't hold the snicker back. "What's so funny?"
"You don't even know me." Emma leaned back in her chair. "I mean I have only been here for 2 months. You barely know my name or if I am even interested in woman and yet you asked." The other woman was now fidgeting and uncomfortably staring at her lap. Emma Just laughed; "just so you know I do like woman." the blond lifted her head up with a spark of hope, "and while I admire the courage it took for you to ask me out. It would be wrong of me to agree to go out with you while I am broken." Now it was the blonds turn snicker.
"We're all a little broken Emma, but it doesn't mean you are broken forever."
"While that's true, it would be wrong of me to agree to go out with you when I still deeply love this woman." Emma said sadly.
"Why?" In that moment the two met eyes "Why do you love someone who ultimately doesn't love you?"
"It's my own fault she doesn't love me. I am a player, a cheater and a bully. I am someone who doesn't care about anyone else as long as I get laid. She doesn't love me, because I was too stupid to realize that all I wanted in a woman was her. When I finally admitted that I cared, and loved her… I was too late. She had put these walls up that I could never penetrate and the rejection finally weighed so heavy on me that I was literally dying being so close to her." Emma could feel the tears building, "It's not you, and it's not her. It literally me that caused this."
Regina
"Hello Regina, it's wonderful to see you again. " The doctor said as she entered the room. "How are you and the little one feeling?"
"We are doing wonderful, thank you for asking." Regina's mother who was sitting next to her gave a confirming nod as well. At first Cora was upset and angry to hear her daughter had been so irresponsible to throw her future away by getting pregnant. In fact she was so angry at Regina that she had kicked the young woman out. For a good month she was so upset she wanted to hear anything that had to do with Regina. That was until one day she found her disheveled broken daughter shamefully sitting on a cold plastic chair of the waiting room of the hospital. Cora could see her daughter was malnourished and depressed.
"Regna!?" Cora's mother instinct kicked in, "is everything alight? Is the baby okay?" Regina looked up into her mother's eyes tear being fought back.
"What do you care?" the dark haired mother to be said. In that moment Cora realized she cared. She really cared not just for her daughter, but for her grandchild.
"Regina...I'm…Just tell me what's wrong and I will help." Cora pleaded. For a second Regina seemed resistant but eventually gave in.
"I don't know what's wrong." Finally the tears she had been holding started to fall. Cora rushed to hold her daughter to comfort her "Some-something is wrong th-ough. I-I-I can feel it and no-no one is help-ing me." Regina balled harder.
"Sssh, Its okay sweetheart I'm here now." Cora grabbed her daughters face, "Listen to me Regina, you need to stop crying. I know it's hard, but if you continue it might stress the baby out and hurt it. Okay?" Regina nodded trying to control herself, "I will be right back." Cora proceeded to talk to the receptionist. "Excuse me, but could your tell Dr. Larkin that Cora Mills is here to collect. She will know what that means." Cora only waited a few minutes when a tall white haired woman arrived.
"Cora," the woman said happily, "it's been awhile since we have talked."
"It truly has been," Cora Smiled, "yes, Ellen it has been a while and I would love to sit and chat, but I unfortunately did not come for a visit." The merely nodded acknowledging the business tone in her voice. "My daughter, Regina, is pregnant and believes something is terribly wrong do you mind taking a look. She hasn't been seen yet and she is very nervous and scared. I fear the stress is causing some major health issues." Dr. Larking checked Regina out and found the baby to be fine at the moment but found Regina to be undernourished and over stressed. She prescribed some prenatal supplements recommended and rest, lots of rest.
"That's great to hear." The doctor stated putting on her gloves. "So are you ready to see if the little one is a boy or a girl?"
"Yes," bother Regina and Cora said together. They all chat for a moment as the doctor searched for the particular area that would reveal the babies sex. Staring at the screen they both observed the baby's privates.
"It's a boy," Cora spoke as tears stared running down her's and Regina's face.