Tim's Baby Girl Chapter 3
A week after we found out:
Tim woke with a start hearing vomiting down the hall. He walked quickly to the bathroom and saw his daughter resting against the toilet bowl looking thin and gaunt as she tried to stop the nausea. He helped her up and proceeded to clean her face just as he had been doing for the past 7 mornings. "The doctor's appointment is today so Noah, Julie and Matt are meeting us there then she's taking you to school, is that alright baby?"
Things had been hard for the last week with Noah not being as involved as he should be but Matt and Julie had a lot of support for Chloe, booking and paying for her prenatal appointment. Tim let his daughter finish cleaning up and getting ready for the day while he went to make something that may help her queasy stomach and his too. Ever since Chloe and Noah's revelation it had brought back a lot of memories for Tim, remembering Lyla leave her there in the cold with just a thin blanket and diaper covering her until Tim found her when he went to get his newspaper the next morning. His entire world was laying there her lips blue and dry tears tattooed into her cheeks.
After that fateful he turned his entire life around, no more excessive drinking, no more not going to work and no more pretending his brother didn't exist. He relied on Billy and Mindy to take care of his angel while he went and made a living. This turned their relationship around and he could safely say that he couldn't live without the company and friendship that his brother provided.
Chloe came downstairs looking barely any better than before though not for lack of trying. She had been trying hard this week to make herself seem more attractive to Noah who had been so busy with football and his recently acquired job at the Alamo Freeze that he had a lack of time to even answer her text messages. Tim felt for her and was trying to be sympathetic but understood that Julie and Matt wanted him to step up and be a father like Eric Taylor who worked hard for his family. She barely ate the thin slice of toast that Tim had made and that worried him, worried him that her problem was back.
They got into the car and drove in silence, Tim holding her bony hand the entire ride. At the entrance of the gynaecologists office stood the Saracen family all looking stressed and tired. They walked in together and no one uttered a word until they were called in.
The first thing to be done was her weight and it was found out the she had lost 11 pounds in 2 weeks. There was a collective gasp of shock from bar Chloe who at that point seemed ready to burst into tears. The next part of the process was an ultrasound. Everyone gathered around the small screen and listened for the beautiful rhythm to sound through. The small fetus popped up and even Tim and Noah shed tears looking at that beautiful being who was becoming a baby right in front of their eyes.
When the ultrasound technician left and the doctor came in, they knew it was serious but no one was willing to ask why she had such a grave look on her face. "So Chloe and Noah we're having a baby," She started, "It's not going well, Chloe is severely underweight and we need to get her weight up before we can even think about her giving birth because right now with the size of her pelvis that is impossible." Tim knew what was coming next would never be what his daughter wanted anyone else to hear. "Chloe, have you been eating right, or are you not wanting to gain weight so you are starving yourself again?" The bomb was dropped and could not be lifted.
"Again, what do you mean again...like seriously what the fuck babe?" Noah was astonished to hear that his girlfriend might be trying to kill herself and their creation, it was at that point that Noah realised that he did really want her and this baby. "Chloe, I love you and I need you to be with me and I need to have this baby with. You have to be healthy and eating whenever you are hungry. Please I can't lose you." Tim was shocked that he had it in him and was kinda proud as were his parents that maybe finally their son would step up to be the man they knew he was. The objective before the next appointment in 4 weeks was for Chloe's weight to be up 25 pounds. This would be no easy task but one everyone was willing to help with.
The drive to school was uneventful but Chloe rested on Noah and it seemed to signify that maybe they would make it as a couple. Before they even made it into class they were called to Principal Taylor's office, she had no idea of the situation and was going to simply reprimand them for being late when the words "Sorry Grandma I thought Mum told you that Chloe's pregnancy appointment was this morning" slipped out of her grandson's lips. She almost fainted in shock, but luckily regained composure enough to tell them to go to class and to ring her daughter and demand answers.
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