Chapter 11
"Hey Nikki. You fancy a drink to celebrate the end of term?" Christine asked, appearing in Nikki's classroom doorway. Nikki sighed, "I'm feeling a bit tired. But if you want to have a drink at mine I don't mind? I could do with a friend, keep me out of trouble." Nikki laughed.
"Yeah alright." Christine smiled enthusiastically.
Nikki got up off the table she had perched on whilst talking to Christine. She glanced down at her hand, noting that her hair was standing on end. She was shocked to discover that her skin was deathly pale. All Nikki could hear was a faint whooshing noise, she panicked. "C-Christi-" Nikki tried to speak but couldn't finish. Everything went black. and the next thing she knew She was on the hard floor, being propped up on the wall, her head in-between her knees. The brunette slowly opened her eyes and looked up, Christine was kneeling next to her. Nikki blushed with embarrassment and shakily tried to get to her feet, "No stay sat down for a minute Nikki, You've just fainted."
"W-what?" Nikki asked, confused and still slightly disorientated.
"Just stay still a minute darling." Christine comforted as she walked the short distance to Nikki's desk to bring her her bottle of water.
"Thanks" Nikki spoke croakily. "I've never fainted before." Nikki spoke, still bewildered, after taking a sip of water. "Well you're lucky I was here to catch you before you full on cracked your head open on on the floor." This caused Nikki to laugh at how immensely unlucky she was at the moment. "Well I'm driving you home, no excuses." Nikki slowly stood up and started picking her stuff up off the floor, "No, I'll carry that." Christine fussed over her.
Both women got into Christine's car, "Are you okay now? You don't feel sick or anything? Sonya told me about what happened this morning." The blonde asked sympathetically as she started the engine. "Oh erm. I think I'm fine now." Nikki smiled.
"Good." Christine replied as she put on the radio. Once they'd arrived at Nikki's house she parked up on the driveway. Both women got out of the car and Nikki opened the door for Christine who was now walking up the driveway. Once both women entered the house, Nikki showed Christine to the living-room. Nikki went into the kitchen where she hung her coat over the chair and got a bottle of wine out of the fridge, "you think you can manage one glass?" Nikki shouted, holding the bottle of white wine up and standing in the living-room doorway to show Christine. "Yeah. Just make sure I only have just the one glass." Christine joked. Nikki poured two glasses and brought them through to the living-room and put them on the table. Both women sat down on the sofa next to each other. Nikki leaned forward to pick up her glass but Christine gently put her hand on top of Nikki's. Confused, Nikki turned to face Christine, "Erm Nikki. Please don't be offended but erm. H-have you taken. Erm. Er. Don't take this the wrong way, but have you taken a erm. A pregnancy test?" Christine stuttered. Nikki frowned, "What are you on about, Christine?" Nikki laughed, thinking the idea was completely ridiculous. "S-sorry. It's just that well, Sonya told me about the coffee, you keep complaining you're tired, you're a bit sensitive sometimes, like more than you'd usually be. And erm you did just faint on me earlier." Christine tried to explain. Nikki just looked confused. "Wha- oh. Shit. Do you think I am?" Nikki stammered. Christine slightly nodded her head and shrugged her shoulders. "Well, I'm no doctor. But it is looking that way, Nikki." Nikki sat still. The brunette stared at her hands, which were resting on her stomach. Nikki gasped. Now she'd thought about it, her period was at-least three weeks late. 'How the hell didn't I realise?!' Nikki asked herself. "Christine, I just realised. I-I'm late, like really late."
"How late?" Christine enquired hoping Nikki only meant by a day of two.
"I must be about three weeks late." Nikki sighed. "Oh. My. God. What am I going to do? What will Hector say? What about Vix, that really will make her hate me. And Lorraine? And Eve and Stuart and-"
"Calm down Nikki! You might not even be pregnant. It could all be stress related, that would make sense too." Nikki just looked at her as if to say 'really?' The two women just sat there in silence, Nikki was too shocked to make conversation and Christine knew this was a lot for her to deal with so kept quiet, only taking occasional sips of her wine. Suddenly Nikki burst into tears as it all started to sink in. 'I could be having a baby in a few months!' Nikki internally screamed. The head-teacher leaned over and hugged her, rubbing huge, soothing circles on her back to try and calm her down. She, and Nikki herself she remembered, had been in this position before. She remembered the blind panic she'd suddenly felt when she'd realised. "Hey. Hey. A baby could be good you know." Christine comforted empathetically. Nikki just continued to sob until she fell asleep, resting on Christine's chest. Christie sighed, she really did feel for Nikki. She slowly got up off the sofa so Nikki could sleep more comfortably. Finding a blanket folded up next to the sofa, she draped it over the brunette, tucking it around her perfect figure before gently brushing a strand of almost ebony-coloured hair away from her face and placing a loving kiss on her forehead. She cleared her half empty and Nikki's full glass from the room, then wrote a note, 'I'll come round at twelve to drop you off at you're car and I've locked your door with the spare key so remind me to give you it back, I'll forget! And good luck with the pregnancy test :), Christine x'. Christine stood admiring Nikki's beauty before slowly walking out of the room, locking the front door with a spare key she'd found and driving home.
