Chapter 25
Olivia was happy and she was nervous. Today was the day she would find out about her baby. The baby she and Fitz had made. She placed her hand on her belly and smiled. "It's me little one, your momma."
She walked through the sliding glass doors and to the elevator. The elevator door opened and she walked in. She was glad she was the only one in there. She was grinning like a hyena. She wasn't sure she should be this happy but she was going to enjoy herself. She was the wife of Fitzgerald Grant and she wouldn't let anyone interfere with that happiness right now not even Mellie. She now had a baby to love and protect!
"Olivia Pope here for a 9:30 appointment."
"Sign in Ms. Pope the nurse will be right out to take you back."
"Thank-you."
The nurse came out right away and she was taken to the back. She was weighed and her vital signs taken. The nurse asked the prerequisite questions. This was Olivia's scheduled annual check-up. She didn't mention her pregnancy to the nurse. She didn't want to share her thoughts with just anyone. She had provided a urine sample and the nurse had taken three vials of blood from her. Dr. Morse was a very personal friend of Olivia's from Georgetown. She could depend on her for discretion; she didn't want her news shared with anyone but her husband right now.
"Hi Olive Oyl how are you? You know I always bring you back myself but I was delayed this morning with a surgical procedure. You look great girl, you have the glow. You and that fellow of yours finally back on track," Dr. Monica Morse asked as she gave Olivia a wink?
"Yes we are back together and I am very happy. I know this is supposed to be just an annual check-up but Neeka I took myself off of birth control a little over two months ago. I wanted to get pregnant. My life has changed; I have made a solid commitment to the relationship. He wants more children and so do I. My eggs have a shelf-life and my man is fifteen years older than me. He is built like a Greek god and he looks like one; but he is just a man Neeka. As you know he has had children before, but not with me. I have to get the ball rolling. I want to have a family to share with him. It is important."
"That is wonderful Olive. Just so you know it usually takes a couple of months for the effect of your particular form of birth control to get out of the system. You are healthy with no notable medical history. From all aspects I know about your immediate health you should be good to go. I bet you the next time you come through those doors you will be preggers."
"You didn't let me finish. I haven't bled in over two months. And the "little bits" are growing." Olivia rubbed her tender breasts. "I feel different Neeka, things are different with my body. They are subtle differences, but I can see them. I think I am already pregnant. But I don't want to say anything until I am sure. We have had so many disappointments, not pregnancy related ones, but I want to be sure when I tell him. This will be the most precious thing we have done, making a baby together. A baby made through love; you can't imagine how much we want this child Neeka!"
"Olive Oyl, I am going to get you for this one. You could have called me as soon as you suspected. You know that don't you? When was your last monthly? Our friendship has a twenty-year span girl. You and Abigail let me honker down with you two when I had no place at all to go. You two fed me and Olive you literally gave me the clothes off your back. Those years you two afforded me succor and comfort I will never forget. Get out of those clothes. I'll be right back; I want to get the ultrasound machine."
Olivia had been coming to Dr. Monica Johnson for over four years. In fact she had been coming since she had opened her practice here in DC. Olivia had long wanted a doctor she could be totally honest with and Neeka was that doctor. She had been she and Abby's unofficial roommate at Georgetown for two years.
She doubted if anyone in the entire world deserved to be a doctor more than Neeka. She would go to classes all day, work until almost midnight, come home, study, do assignments, get a couple of hours of sleep, and be ready for her first class at 9:00. She was an amazing woman. But weren't they all? They had all been in the top ten of their graduating class. She and Abby had become attorneys and Monica a physician.
Olivia had no reason to be shy in front of her friend. They had seen all each other had to offer. Olivia black-haired, petite, and mocha brown had the medium tits and tight curly black hair on her mons pubis. Abby the tall White girl of their trio was an honest to god red head with the matching hair on her pussy to prove it. She also had the smallest breast in the group. Monica who was mixed had the Marilyn Monroe breasts. They were perfect and she and Abby had been envious. Monica had a deep brown hair color. From a distance it appeared black but it was indeed brown on her head and below.
Monica had been abandoned at birth. She later found out from her birth mother that at fifteen her White parents had insisted she give Monica up for adoption because her father had been Black. But Neeka hadn't been adopted in backward thinking Mississippi. She had started her life filled with abuse being shuttled from foster home to foster home.
She finally had fostered with this older White couple that had taken her in at age twelve. They taught her to love herself and their love for education. She had entered Georgetown on scholarship. She had two full years but her re-up had not come thru. Her foster parents had come to love her so much they used their savings to give her most of the money she needed for her last two years. But she had no housing. That is where she and Abby came in. Neeka's story of years of abuse that was overcome with love had floored them. Though neither Olivia nor Abby had been physically abused they both had suffered notable psychological abuse from their parents. As they all told their stories they had cried for hours.
After Georgetown not having the financial backing Olivia and Abby had Neeka had gone on to make a five year commitment to the Navy. They would pay for her medical training and in return she would be in their service. Her five year stint had turned into ten. She had been all across the globe serving her country. About five years ago, she left the service and decided to settle in DC. Her two best friends in the entire world had told her it was the place to be!
Olivia stopped musing and got up on the examining table. She had the small paper gown on but she still felt exposed. But it was Neeka right? She knew most of her secrets anyway! Neeka had returned and begun her examination and she was thorough with her friend. She checked her eyes, ears, nose and throat. She listened to her heart and lungs. She palpated her abdomen. She checked femoral and carotid pulses. She checked her lymp nodes. She had checked her reflexes. Finally she had asked her to lie down. Olivia placed her legs in the stirrups and waited.
Neeka sat on the rolling stool and manipulated up between her legs and started laughing. "Olive, you and the arrow that points straight to your honey pot it is hilarious."
"How else is a boy supposed to know where he is supposed to go? Plus my guy absolutely loves it. He said the first time he saw it he elongated at least another inch or so. And that Neeka is an awesome feat and sight! Plus it is more of that wonderful thing for me," she laughed out loud.
Dr. Morse laughed as well. "Olive I want to do just one quick thing before I do the ultrasound. No speculum, just a little finger check okay? Olive what were you up to this morning or late last night? I see that wonderful thing has been busy!"
Olivia shrugged and blushed from head to toe. She was always getting caught by Neeka. She smiled and some of the tension and nervousness she felt left her. She still had not heard the magic words though. Suppose she had wanted to be pregnant so badly she was having a hysterical pregnancy. The body changes she had seen had she imagined them? She should have told Fitz' and maybe even had him come with her. He could have made it happen. More realistically he would have had Neeka come to the White House. Get a grip Olivia. You made a decision to see first and then tell him. Stop over-thinking this!
Neeka had turned on the machine. "This is going to be cold Olive so brace yourself. I know you don't even like ice cubes in your water. Watch the screen Olive Oyl and let's see what you and Popeye have done. Look right there. There it is!That is your baby Olive. Of course your blood work and urinalysis will verify it for us. But I am not the best in the business for a reason. YOU ARE PREGNANT Olive. You and the man have made yourself a baby!
Olivia closed her eyes and let out the breath she had been holding. Tears slowly flowed from her eyes. She was going to have a baby; she and Fitz had made a baby. She was going to love this baby with all her heart and never for one minute in its life would he or she know abandonment. And Fitz had promised to be the best father he could be. Making a baby with someone you loved was going to be the best he had said. And she believed him. When she could speak she asked Neeka for a tissue to wipe her eyes. Neeka was crying too.
"Thank-you Neeka for confirming what I already knew in my heart. I am so happy and Fitz is going to be so happy too. God this has been a journey. I confided a lot to you but there is so much to our story. One day I will have to sit down and tell you all." She had confided her ongoing affair with Fitzgerald Grant, President of the United States of America to Neeka when she had finally told Abby. They had shared absolutely everything three musketeers that they were.
"Reveal at your own pace Olive. I know all I need to know. Your man loves you and you know that. That is what a relationship is about. Naturally let me get all your test and verifications back before I send you out the door. It was great seeing you girl. You know I love you like a sister right? I am going to see you back here in three weeks just because, and I will talk to you about some screening test we will do as your pregnancy progresses. You are not exactly high risk but you are getting the royal treatment. Ah there they are your tests are back. Your hCG levels are doubled. You are confirmed girl! Get dressed and go tell him the good news Olive."
With that the doctor walked out the door. As Olivia was getting dressed she spied her image in a mirror. She didn't look a bit different, but everything was different, she was going to be a mother. She was wife to a President. She had a husband and now she was to have a baby, my goodness how life had changed for her after the swirl!