I watched Ron as he hung up the phone and sighed. I didn't say anything, instead, I waited for him to say something. I think he could tell I was scared though.
"Don't worry, honey, nothing is going to happen," Ron said, sitting down next to me on the bench. I sighed.
"That was my biggest fear," I said quietly, after sitting in silence for a few minutes. "I figured everybody else might be surprised, but I didn't know how she was going to react. Honestly, I was just hoping that she would never find out."
"Well stay away from her," he said. "She might try to talk to you or something, but just ignore her, and it'll all pass. Once she realizes that you're not affected by her, she'll find someone else to torture."
"I guess I should probably do some actual work today," I said after we sat in silence for a few minutes. Ron shrugged.
"I never do work, so it'll be okay if you don't work for a day," He said. I smiled for the first time today.
"Well, I am unlike you, and I actually want to do my job, and I have to turn in a report I have yet to start by this afternoon," I said, standing up.
"You better take it easy," he said. I gave him a look before walking out.
I finally made it to my office, and I sighed when I realized how much work I had to do. I had a shift at the hospital at three, so I had to hurry.
"Here," I looked up to see Tom standing in front of my desk. He had just set a salad on top of my work.
"Thanks," I said with a small smile. I was hungry, and I had actually been craving salads.
"So," Tom said, pulling the other chair up to my desk. He had a salad for himself, too.
"What do you want?" I asked, a little confused at how he was acting. Yes, there was a time over a year ago when we had dated, but that was a very brief time.
"It's not mine, is it?" he asked quietly, dropping his voice an octave. I sighed.
"Can anybody do math here? Tom, you and I broke up almost a year ago, it's impossible that it would be yours," I said. "Leslie and Chris asked the same thing."
"Well I just wanted to make sure," he said. "So you really had sex with Ron." I nodded.
"It seems to be that way," I said. He made a face. "What? You can't imagine Ron and I together, can you?" He shook his head.
"How long have you two been together?" Tom asked.
"Three months," I asked. His jaw dropped.
"So you two have been sneaking around for three months and I'm just now finding this out?" he asked as I shrugged.
"I don't usually come and tell you everything. I didn't even tell Leslie until this past weekend," I said. "Ron and I had decided to keep it a secret for a while. We probably would've kept it a secret longer, but we figured since I'm starting to show we had to tell."
"Well I figured you'd want something to eat," Tom said, standing up after a few minutes. He motioned to the now empty container in front of me. "And obviously the baby was hungry." I smiled.
"Thank you for lunch, Tom," I said. "And also, you and Leslie need to take some math classes!" I said as he walked out of my office. Stewart, who I had to share my office with, walked back into the room, obviously glad to see that Tom was gone.
I worked nonstop until 2:30, since I had to leave to get to the hospital by three.
"You do realize that we only took one vehicle today, right?" Ron asked me once I got to my car. He was leaning against my car and he had my keys in his hand. I sighed.
"I have to be at the hospital in twenty minutes," I said. "I can't believe I forgot that I was working both jobs today."
"Well you're in luck, because I have some free time so I'll be nice enough to drive you to the hospital," he said. I smiled as we got into my car.
"You always have free time, don't you?" I asked as he shrugged.
"I seem to have some time between not doing work and listening to Leslie," he said. I giggled.
"Well I'm glad to know that you're working hard," I said sarcastically as we pulled into the hospital parking lot. "So I get off at eight, do you think you could pick me up then?" I asked, a little guilty that Ron was going to have to come back to the hospital.
"Of course," he said. I smiled.
"Thank you," I said simply, leaning over and kissing him. "I love you."
"I love you, too," Ron said. "You probably want to get inside." I nodded as I noticed the time.
I hurried into the hospital, and I clocked in with a minute to spare.
Luckily, the hospital was pretty busy, so the time went by quickly. My favorite patients to work with now were the the pregnant ones. It was always interesting to see what was to come in my pregnancy.
When the clock hit eight, I was exhausted. I had to finish up with a patient before I could go, and my phone had died (great move, I know) so I was just hoping that Ron would understand.
"Hey," I jumped at the voice behind me. It was Ron. I smiled.
"Hey honey, how did you know where to find me?" I asked, a little surprised that he came inside to find me.
"I asked the receptionist. I think she seemed a little reluctant to send me back, but she did," he said.
"I'll be ready to go in a minute, I just have to go and give a patient their medicine," I said as he nodded.
I hurried and gave the medicine to the patient. See, I had avoided telling my coworkers at the hospital about Ron and me being pregnant, so I was just hoping that we could get out of there without anyone noticing. Of course I was wrong.
"Ann! Who is this?" Sarah asked me, motioning to Ron. Ron could tell that I didn't want to tell her about us.
"I work with Ann at City Hall. Her car broke down so I offered her a ride," Ron said. I nodded in agreement, hoping that she would fall for it. She did.
We walked out to the car in silence. Once we were outside, I hugged Ron.
"Today has not been a good day," I mumbled into his coat. "Thank you for the cover-up in there."
"Why didn't you want her to know?" Ron asked, obviously interested.
"Well once I tell them that I'm pregnant I'm not going to be allowed to do everything I do, and I don't want that," I said once we were in the car. He nodded in understanding.
"Well you'll have to tell them eventually," Ron said as I shrugged.
"I know, but I think I might just wait until I can't hide it anymore," I said. Luckily for me we were finally home.
I kicked off my shoes and went straight to bed and laid down.
"It's not even nine yet," Ron said, sitting down next to me.
"Well the sooner I go to sleep the sooner tomorrow will be here," I said. "I just want today to be over with." Ron moved closer to me. I eventually gave in and laid my head on his chest.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Ron asked. I felt a little better just at those words, because I knew that Ron wasn't always one to talk about stuff.
"Well now everybody knows that I'm pregnant so they're going to treat me differently. And I am too wimpy to tell my coworkers at the hospital, and I don't feel good and nobody can do math so Tom thought it was his, and on top of everything, I feel like I weigh an extra fifty pounds and I look like a whale," I said with a sigh.
"They won't treat you that differently," he said after we sat in silence for a few minutes. "And you can just wait to tell everyone at the hospital, they'll understand why you waited so long to tell them. And Tom is an idiot, I'm not surprised that he can't do math," he paused. "And you're beautiful, Ann, and you definitely don't look like a whale." I smiled.
"Well it's so easy for you to solve my problems," I said as he smiled. I leaned over and kissed him. I ruined the moment when I yawned.
"I guess since you really are tired, you should probably go to sleep," Ron said as I nodded, suddenly exhausted. I curled up, still with my head on his chest.
"I love you,Ron," I mumbled as I fell asleep.

I overslept the next morning, which was bad because I had a doctors appointment. Ron, of course, was trying nicely to wake me up, but he wasn't having any success. I groaned when I finally realized how much time I had.
"Ann, honey, you have to get up," Ron said gently. "We have to be at the doctors in an hour." I sighed as I finally rolled out of bed.
I hurried into the shower. I ran a brush through my hair and threw on the first outfit I saw. I knew I looked like crap, but at the moment I didn't care.
"I made breakfast," Ron said when I walked into the kitchen. I smiled as I leaned up and kissed him.
We ate breakfast quickly, and then we were out the door. I was a little scared to go to the doctors today because supposedly we were going to find out the sex of our baby. I didn't really think about this before, but now that it's here I'm totally stressing over it.
"Good morning, Ann," Doctor Jones said as he walked into the room. "And who's this?" he asked, looking at Ron.
"Ron Swanson," Ron said simply.
"Okay, well, today we're going to do an ultrasound and we'll see if we can tell the sex of the baby. You do want to know, correct?" he asked as I nodded. "Okay, then let me get this machine going and we can get this show on the road!"
Doctor Jones put the cold gel on my stomach, and started moving the ultrasound probe around. He worked in silence for a few minutes.
"Okay, well your baby is perfectly healthy," he said with a pause. "And it looks like you're having a girl! Congratulations!" I beamed at that statement. My little baby was a girl. I looked over at Ron, and he was smiling too. "So let me write this down, and I'll see you back here in about a month," Doctor Jones said, bringing me back to reality.
Once Ron and I were walking towards the car, he stopped me.
"I'm happy that we're having a girl, because then she'll turn out just like you," he said. I smiled.
"She'll probably be her daddy's girl though," I said. Ron smiled as he kissed me.
"Well whatever she is, she'll be perfect," he said as I nodded in agreement.
"I love you," I said, kissing him again.
"I love you too, Ann," he said as I smiled.
We rode to City Hall in silence. When we got there, I followed Ron to the parks department.
"I'm going to tell Leslie," I said when he gave me a confused look. He nodded and walked into his office. I walked into Leslie's.
"Can Leslie and I have like, five minutes alone?" I asked Tom. He nodded.
"I'll just go talk to Jerry or something," he said sarcastically as he walked out. I rolled his chair over so I was sitting across from Leslie.
"So?" She asked. I had told her that I was going to find out the sex of my baby, and I promised to tell her as soon as I found out.
"It's a girl!" I said, excitedly. Leslie squealed.
"Yay! Now we have to go shopping for her," she said as I nodded. "Have you thought of a name for her yet?" I shrugged.
"Not really. I mean, I have a few names I like but I haven't really considered any of them yet. Plus I have to discuss it with Ron," I said.
"Well I still can't believe that you have a baby girl growing inside of you," Leslie said. I nodded, knowing that sometimes it was weird for me to think about. "So have you and Ron discussed anything about marriage yet?" she asked as I shook my head.
"I'm not going to be the first one to mention it, plus we've only been together for almost four months," I said with a pause. "That's really not that much time."
"Well its obvious how happy you two are together, and I think you should get married," she said. I smiled as I thought about what she said. I did want to marry Ron, and if he asked me today, I would definitely say yes. "I could casually mention it to him," Leslie said.
"If you did, you have to make sure you don't mention that I ever even discussed this with you. Maybe just stick to those lines you just told me. How you think we're so perfect together," I said as she smiled.
"Of course, of course!" she said. I could tell that I probably made the wrong decision telling Leslie to go talk to Ron, but I figured she might as well try.
"Look, Leslie, I would love to stay and talk, but I really need to get to my work, so just text me or something, okay?" I said as I stood up. I stood up too quickly and I for very lightheaded, so I sat back down. "Well I'll get to my work in a second."
"Are you okay?" Leslie asked as I nodded.
"I just realized that I haven't really eaten anything today, since what I did eat, morning sickness got rid of for me," I said, taking deep breaths. Leslie opened one of her desk drawers and held out a banana to me. I smiled. "Thank you, Leslie." I graciously started eating the banana.
"Well I didn't want you passing out in my office, especially since you're the person I would call if anyone else passed out, since you're the greatest nurse ever," Leslie said. I laughed.
"Well thank you, but if I passed out you just wait it out a few minutes, at least before you call 911, deal?" I asked as she nodded. I finished eating the banana and slowly stood up. "So I'll talk to you later?"
"Of course," Leslie said as I walked out.