Chapter 3
The Waiting Game
Jade was out running a few last minute errands before the couple were leaving town to go on vacation. They were going to the French Riviera where they would be staying at the vacation home of Santos Emmanuel and his wife Isabel. They were rather good friends of the couple. Santos used Beck in many of his films. Isabel was a fashion designer who designed many of the dresses Jade wore to special events. She was a saucy French woman and one of the few Hollywood wives Jade could stand being around. The couple had become friends very fast. Jade had just finished her last errand, which was her most important errand.
"Hey, babe. I just finished my errands," Jade informed her husband.
"Ok, did you get the pregnancy test?" Beck responded.
"Yeah, I went to Walmart so I could do self checkout. It was really ironic because I saw a tabloid when I was in line and it said "Will the Oliver's Be Welcoming a Special Delivery Soon?"
"I'm on my way home now. So I'll see you in a few," Jade told her husband as she sat in traffic.
"Ok, I'll see you in a few. I love you," Beck replied.
"I love you too."
Fifteen minutes later Jade got home. Beck brought the last bags into the house while Jade headed upstairs to take the test which could change their lives forever. It had been two months since Jade went off the pill. She was late and she thought she might really be pregnant since she had felt a little off the last few days. As Beck entered the room and sat at the foot of the bed the timer on Jade's cell phone rang. She rose from their bed to take a look. She immediately came back out and Beck looked at her expectantly.
"I'm too nervous you look," Jade claimed.
Beck took a deep breath and made his way to their bathroom taking Jade's hand in his.
"It's negative," Beck informed his wife.
They both tried to hide their disappointment but they knew realistically they had only just started to try.
"Well, good thing were going to the French Rivera tomorrow. We'll have plenty of time to work on getting you pregnant," Beck told his wife as he took her in his arms and gave her a peck on the lips.
She put her arms around his neck and seductively whispered in his ear, "Just wait tell you see some of the things I backed."
It was certainly disappointing to see a negative pregnancy test but that night as they lay in bed waiting for sleep to find them they both thought back to a time they were relieved to see a negative pregnancy test.
It was the first pregnancy test Jade had ever taken. She was nineteen and a stressed out college freshman studying for finals. She was four days late and that was unusual. She had spent the last two days going to the bathroom every hour to check to see if she had started her period. She remembered forgetting to take two pills. You couldn't get pregnant from missing two pills you just had to double up so you could catch up. She hadn't planned on telling Beck that she was late but the worry had made her lash out at Beck, which made him lash out at her. She had finally broken down and told Beck. It was nine o'clock at night. He drove her to the store to buy a pregnancy test. When they arrived Beck took off his seat belt to go inside with her but she told him to wait in the car. Jade felt paranoid in the store and kept looking around to make sure no one saw her. When she reached the aisle with pregnancy tests she let out a deep breath and tried to inconspicuously choose one. She didn't know why there were so many different brands and types. She knew she sure as hell didn't want one with a smiley face or frowny face on it. She chose one with a simple yes or no reading as faces disgusted her and a positive or negative reading also left her unsatisfied. Jade added mints and a People magazine to her purchase. She hated mints and gossip magazines. Jade felt that the cashier had judgy eyes so she made sure to send her a Jade West glare. They returned to her dorm room where Jade kicked out her roommate. Her roommate, Amelia, was use to Jade's harsh behavior. Amelia hardly ever spoke, was goth, and Jade was pretty sure she was a wiccan. When Tori and Cat met Jade's roommate they warned their friend not to piss her roommate off because she might put a curse on Jade but Jade wasn't scared of anyone. Although at the moment she was scared of the possible human growing inside her. So Jade went to the common bathroom she shared with a dozen other people, took the test, hid it in her purse, and walked back to her room. She was certainly experiencing a college freshman cliché. Beck was waiting on her bed. He looked nervous. He was never nervous.
"What are we going to do if I'm pregnant?" Jade asked as she sat beside her boyfriend.
"Let's just find out then we can deal with the result," Beck suggested as he rubbed her back in an effort to comfort her.
"No matter what the result is we'll figure it out together."
Jade pulled the test out of her bag and held it in her left hand between them.
"It's negative. It's negative," the couple chanted as they let out a sigh of relief.
As Jade drifted to sleep she assumed that in the morning when she woke up the disappointing news would not be weighing on her mind. However, her night was filled with tossing and turning and when the sun came up Jade felt a burden weighing her down.
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