Chapter25: 6 Weeks later

Keleigh sat on the edge of the bathtub waiting for the timer to go off. She'd been feeling nauseous for two weeks and even though she knew what the cause was most likely, she took the test to be sure. If the test came back positive, she would make a doctor's appointment and find out all the specifics and she would go from there. The ding of the timer brought her out of her thoughts and she took a deep breath and looked at the plastic stick. A plus sign was staring back at her. She was pregnant. She called Dr. Anders and made an appointment for later in the day. She had to know the exact date of conception so that she could tell the father.

Eve started to feel a little nauseated and got up from her desk, bolting to the bathroom. She had been feeling this way since a little bit after Kofi's funeral. She rested her hand on her stomach after throwing up. She and john hadn't been real careful the night Kofi died. Or the night they had gotten a little tipsy and had sex again a month after. She never thought about it until now but there was a possibility that she was pregnant. She pulled herself up off the floor and opened the stall door and walked to the sink rinsing her mouth out and splashing water on her face. She heard the bathroom door open and turned to see Stephanie standing there.

"How long are you going to keep doing this?" Stephanie asked

"Doing what?"

"Having an affair with John. Keleigh was your friend. You loved Kofi. And now you're just stabbing them both in the back."

"I didn't plan on sleeping with John. It just happened."

"Well it's a lot easier to do when he's moved into your house. You need to come clean with K. If you don't I will." Stephanie said as she walked out of the bathroom. Eve got on her phone and made an appointment with Dr. Syfried. She had to know if she was pregnant. Then she would tell John and take things from there. She had never meant for any of this to happen. She loved Kofi. But there was something about John that made her feel safe and protected. She was falling for him.

Josie knocked on Randy's door. He had gone out and started drinking again and she knew that he would have a little bit of a hangover. He wasn't taking this well at all. He would go and spend hours at the cemetery and then he would hit up the local bars. Ted would go get him and bring him up and put him to bed. Then he would stay up and take care of her. The nightmares were not coming every night anymore but when they did come, they were pretty intense. She would sit and cry for hours afterward and he would just hold her and let her cry. She loved him more and more for that. She walked over and pulled the curtains back letting the sunlight in. Randy squinted his eyes under the sudden brightness and rolled over groaning.

"Time to get up and get ready for the day." Josie said. She sat down on the end of the bed and looked over at him. He sat up in bed and rubbed his hands down his face.

"Jo, why are you waking me up at the crack of dawn?"

"It's 11:30 and you have to get up and take me to the store so that we can get the stuff for Thanksgiving dinner. You promised. Teddy is out trying to find a Christmas tree." She said before going to his closet and picking out some clothes for him.

"Jo, I don't much feel like celebrating this year." He said sitting on the side of the bed.

"Too bad. You promised. You said that I could have some normalcy back and to me celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now get your butt out of bed and get in the shower." She walked out of the room and he chuckled a little bit. She was a lot like Rosie. When she wanted something, she didn't give up on it.

Rosie loved Christmas time and always made it special. The first year that they were together, she managed to save up and buy him this watch that he'd seen in the store. She wanted him to have it so much that she had worked extra hours at the diner. She was so sweet. She reminded him a lot of Keleigh that way. He smiled as soon as she crossed his mind. Not that he hadn't been constantly thinking about her. She'd told him about John asking for them to take a break. He'd been trying to give her space so that they could work things out. But he really just wanted to talk to her and tell her how he felt. Over the last six weeks, he had come to realize that he was in love with her and that his feelings weren't going away.

Keleigh sat back in the exam room trying to process what the doctor was telling her. She was pregnant. 6 weeks. She conceived October 11th. The day Randy's wife and daughter died. The night that they had made love in his house. She knew she would have to tell him and John. And that this was probably going to be the end of her marriage. She thanked the doctor and walked out to make her appointment. She was going to have to have to very interesting conversations in the next few days and her life was about to change dramatically. She got in the car and grabbed her phone dialing the number.

"It's me. I can't get to the phone right now. Just leave me a message and I will get back to you."

"Randy, it's me. I need to see you. We need to talk." She drove home and put Aiden down for his nap and made the other phone call she had been dreading.

"Cena."

"Hey John. It's K."

"Hey, is everything alright?"

"Yeah. I uh….wanted to talk. Do you think you could swing by here after work?"

"Sure. We can have dinner. How about 7?"

"Sounds great. I will see you then."

John hung up the phone and was a little more optimistic than he had been. Keleigh wanting to talk meant that she had thought about things. It meant that their marriage still had a chance.