~~~A Shocking Surprise~~~
A month went by. Tori and Andie got settled in with Trina and Patrick. Tori admitted Andie to elementary school. He was going into first grade now. Patrick was in third grade. He promised to be supportive and protective of Andie and show him around. Tori was happy that Andie was going to have someone to look after him.
She was slowly starting to rebuild her life. She had to give up her scholarship to Julliard again, having moved out of the state. Living in New Jersey was different. It was a pretty smelly state. But it was better than where she was before. And that was how she wanted it to be.
A few more weeks went by. Tori started to feel really tired. Trina recommended that she go to the doctor and get checked out. Tori resisted, saying she just had a little bug. But when she started throwing up, that was when Trina convinced her to go to the ER.
"How much longer is this going to take?" Tori complained to her sister, checking her watch for the fifteenth time that hour.
"Shut up, Tori," Trina warned, glaring at her sister.
"Trina, we have to go pick up the kids in 45 minutes. If the damn doctors don't-" her voice was cut off by the door to the exam room opening quickly and the doctor, Dr. Heather Corbin walked in.
"Hi, Mrs. Oliver," said the doctor.
"Vega," said Tori.
"Excuse me?"
"It's Miss Vega," said Tori.
The doctor's eyebrows raised but she didn't say anything to that. "I have your test results here. You are perfectly healthy," she said looking at the charts.
"Good. So I can go," said Tori as she bounced off the exam table and headed for the door.
"Well, actually, I want to refer you to the obstetrician upstairs before you go," said Heather.
Tori looked at her. "I don't need a-excuse me?" Her face blanched and her jaw dropped.
Trina's gasp filled the room. Heather smiled. "You're pregnant," she said. "I'm guessing, about a month and a half."
"Oh my God," Trina whispered.
"Uh...uh, are you absolutely sure?" Tori choked out, staring at the doctor.
Heather nodded. "Yep. Your blood tests came back positive. You are pregnant. Congratulations."
And with that, Tori fainted.
"Are you okay?" Trina asked Tori during the car ride home.
Tori continued to stare out the window, not answering her sister.
"Tori?" "I'm fine," said Tori quickly. Physically, yes. She was fine. She had fainted but the doctor quickly woke her up and did an ultrasound. The baby was perfectly healthy and was growing steadily. The doctor couldn't tell what it was yet. That would have to be in another couple of months.
But Tori was shaken to the core. She had just lost her daughter and now she was pregnant. It was the last thing she wanted. Was it?
"Tori?"
"What?"
"Is this baby Beck's?"
Tori whipped around and stared at her sister in anger. But the anger quickly faded. She leaned back in the seat and stared straight ahead.
"Yes. It's Beck's," she whimpered quietly.
She thought back to the last time that she and Beck had made love. It was the night before Tori had packed up Andie and left. She had made the decision, that heartbreaking decision, that it was only choice she had left. Beck just wasn't there anymore. He was gone.
"Do you know what you're going to do?" Trina whispered.
Tori didn't say anything. Trina sighed.
"Are you going to tell him?" she asked.
Tori's eyes closed, her tears threatening to come spilling down. She honestly had no idea if she was going to tell him. What kind of a father would he be now? Would he even want the baby? He did deserve to know. She knew that.
But it still hurt.
And it wasn't going to make it any easier.
"I'm going to tell Andie first. Then I'll tell Beck," Tori said later that night. She was looking at the prenatal diet that the OBGYN had given her. A lot of it was looking pretty disgusting.
"Oh?" Trina didn't even look at her. She was standing at the stove, stirring the spaghetti sauce.
"And Cat and Robbie as well. I just- I can't-" Tori's voice broke.
The spoon that Trina was holding dropped to the floor with a clatter as she wrapped her arms around Tori and held her tightly. "It's okay, baby. You're going to be okay."
Tori sobbed in Trina's arms for several minutes before she finally composed herself. She swiped her hands across her face and sighed. "This sucks!" she said. "This really sucks. I don't want this-. That didn't come out right. Of course I want this. I wanted to have a baby with Beck. I wanted to have a family with him. I wanted all of it! And now it's gone! Cily's dead, Beck and I are getting divorced...and now I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant with my ex-husband's baby."
Tori's voice broke again. She quickly wiped away another tear that fell down her cheek. Trina gently patted her shoulder. "You're going to make it through this, honey." "I wish I could think the same thing," said Tori.
"Tori, you need to figure out what you're going to do," said Trina. Her voice was gentle but firm.
"I still need to think, Trina," said Tori.
"I know you do, baby. I know you do."
Tori didn't say a word to Andie that night about her pregnancy. She put on a happy face and listened to her son as he told her about first grade and how cool it was.
"I miss Cily. I wish she had been here too," said Andie suddenly as Tori tucked her son into bed that night.
Tori froze and looked at Andie. She swallowed the lump in her throat. "I miss her too, baby."
"Then why don't you ever talk about her?" asked Andie, sitting up in bed.
Tori sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed. "It hurts to talk about her, sweetheart."
"But wouldn't talking about the happy times make you feel happy again?" asked Andie.
Tori's heart twisted about. Andie really sounded like a six year old again. He always sounded thirty when times were better.
That seemed like such a long time ago.
Tori sighed. "Right now, talking about your sister makes me sad. But someday...someday soon, I will feel good talking about your sister. It will make me happy remembering her," she gently explained. "But it feels too bad right now."
Andie sighed too, giving up. "I'm sorry, Mommy," he whispered.
Tori's insides squirmed up sadly. It had been a long time since Andie had called her "Mommy".
She gently reached over and wrapped her arms around her son. Andie reached up and kissed her cheek, wrapping his tiny little arms around her waist. She kissed the top of his head.
"I miss Daddy," came her son's tiny voice.
I do too.
That night, Tori had a dream. She later would call it not a nightmare but not a good dream either.
"Mommy! Momma!"
Tori leapt up, looking around for the sound of the voice.
"Hello? Who's there?" Tori sat up. She looked around again but didn't see where the voice had come from. She realized then that she was laying on her bed.
Tori then swung her long legs off the bed and stood up.
"Momma! Out here!"
Tori slowly headed for the door. Her hand froze on the doorknob. Then she quickly opened it and stepped out into the brightly lit hallway.
"In the kitchen, Mommy!"
Tori kept going down the hallway and arrived into another brightly lit room. She realized that she was standing in a kitchen. She saw a little girl standing at the table. She looked about seven years old.
Tori's eyes feasted on the little girl. She was so adorable, with long black hair and olive skin. Tori smiled. She missed Cily so much. It was so nice to see her again.
But then the little girl looked up at her and Tori gasped.
She saw the little girl's eyes for the first time.
They were chocolate brown. Tori's eyes.
Tori awoke gently, looking up into the darkness above her. She sighed quietly, rolling over onto her side and placed a hand protectively on her belly.
She knew what she was going to do.
Sorry so short.
Sorry I took so long to update.
Whataya think? A big twist, huh?
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