"Hello?" Jessica said. "I miss you" came the reply. "Inui! I miss you too. How are you?" "Lonely, but busy" he replied. "Me too" she replied. "I'm packing for college, I found a place to rent there." "Very good, I'm packing as well. I leave next week," Inui said. "Why so soon?" "I need to get settled, registered, and brush up on the Queen's English." Jessica laughed. "Just add a U to all words that have an O in them, and add E's on everything." Inui laughed with her. "Jessica… once I get there, I don't know what's going to happen. I do know that I will be buried in studies." "Don't worry" Jessica cut in, "just email me when you can if you want. I will be busy too and I don't have a telephone number yet." "I just don't want you to think I had forgotten about you. I will never forget my promise that we will be together again." "I know Inui, you need to get focused for this though, and you'll be under an enormous amount of stress." "I will be all right … I love you." He said quickly. "I love you too, Inui."

She moved away from home, sitting in her small house with piles of boxes surrounding her, Jessica felt tears sting her eyes. She let herself cry. It's stress from moving. Instead of sitting here crying, she should set up her bed so she could fall into it. She was dead tired and sore from all the lifting and toting.

She woke up the next day staring at the ceiling until her brain registered where she was. Time to get up and find the coffee pot, she thought. She sat up and felt very dizzy. She swung her legs off the bed to stand up and immediately knew she was going to vomit. She ran to the bathroom where she spent the next half hour retching. She moved slowly unpacking, afraid to eat or drink anything. She finished hanging up her clothes and realized she was famished. She grabbed a yogurt and a pear and wolfed them down.

"What the hell is wrong with me?" she asked the toilet. For three weeks she was sick nearly every morning. "It's got to be stress …the studying, my job at the lab at night." Jessica took a job at a Bayer pharmaceutical research and development facility. She was only a tech assistant, but it was a start. Jessica recalled her conversation with the tech she worked with last night. He was married and had 3 kids, and he enjoyed his work. He told her she looked like she needed more sleep. She said she definitely needed that, but wished the stomach bug she had would go away. "I didn't know you weren't feeling well," he said. "I feel fine now, it just hits me in the morning. Maybe I just eat too late," she pondered. "Or maybe it's morning sickness," he said laughing. Jessica paled (think, think, last period?) "Nahhh" she thought, "I'm never regular." For ha ha's she would stop by the pharmacy later on.

Two pink lines, she reread the instructions a third time, two pink lines equal pregnant. She wanted to call him, but he only had a dorm phone that no one answered. She sat down to email him, and then deleted it. Knowing he was deep in his studies, she suddenly felt like it wouldn't be right to contact him. Knowing Inui he would leave school immediately. No, she wouldn't tell him yet. She had to tell someone, so she called her best friend Ashley. Ashley was stunned and disagreed about not contacting him, but Jessica remained firm and asked for her friend's confidence. "Call me if you need me Jess." "Thanks Ash."

Time flies …….