A Beautiful Mess

Chapter 52

Gabi walks into the room with Kendall right behind her and behind him. The same nurse that called her name is right behind him. After they get in the room the nurse closes the door behind her.

"Gabriella, please take a seat," the nurse instructs her as she points to two chairs "first, I will just ask you some questions, then the doctor will come in and you get to have your first ultrasound and see your baby for the first time,"

Gabi sits down in one of the chairs nervous and Kendall sits next to her.

"So, first, hi, I am nurse Robbins," the nurse says. "And Gabriella, you made this appointment for the ultrasound, so you already know for sure that you are pregnant,"

"Yeah," Gabi answers her "I took an at home test,"

"And, how old are you?" Nurse Robbins asks her. "In other words, when is your birthday,"

"March 11, 1994," Gabi answers her. "in other words, I am sixteen,"

Nurse Robbins writes that down on a paper on the clipboard.

"so, Gabriella, this was an unplanned pregnancy?" Nurse Robbins asks her.

"obviously," Gabi answers that. "I can't really think of a sixteen year old girl who would want to get pregnant,"

"I have actually seen a few," Nurse Robbins tells her "teenagers who want to trap their boyfriend in the relationship, or really want a baby and don't want to wait until getting married, well, anyway, next question, do you know the date of conception? If not, during the ultrasound, Dr. Lee will be able to…"

"June 1st," Gabi answers her quickly.

"are you sure…" Nurse Robbins asks.

"positive," Gabi answers her "it's the only possible day,"

"ok, may I ask about the father?" Nurse Robbins asks her.

"he is out of the picture," Gabi answers her quickly.

"and this would be?" Nurse Robbins asks as she glances to Kendall who is sitting next to her.

"a really good friend," Gabi answers her.

"ok, but, I need to know some information about the father," Nurse Robbins asks her. "like, what is his name,"

"Justin Nicholas Wilson, born December 3, 1992," Gabi answers her. "I have no information on his family medical history, all I know is his name, who he is, who his parents are and where he lives, I don't know anything about his medical well being,"

"ok," Nurse Robbins says as she writes some stuff down on the clipboard. "but what about your family medical history? Anyone have cancer, tumors, or severe diseases?"

"my grandmother had a brain tumor," Gabi answers her "that's it, other then that, my family is perfectly healthy,"

"ok, what about mental illness?" Nurse Robbins asks. "depression, anxiety, OCD, anything like that?"

"depression, my dad had that for a while, but nothing else really," Gabi answers her.

"and what about the fathers family?" Nurse Robbins asks

"like I said, I don't know," Gabi tells her "he isn't in the picture, he probably doesn't even know that I'm pregnant,"

"Gabriella, I really think it would be a good idea if you tell Mr. Wilson he is going to be a dad," Nurse Robbins tells her. "the father deserves to know,"

Gabi just looks at her for a moment.

"he won't want anything to do with this," Gabi tells her. "he made it clear he didn't care about me, and he will not give a damn about my baby, and just because he is biologically related, doesn't make him the father in my book,"

"ok," Nurse Robbins says. "now, since you are a teenager, the subject of terminating the pregnancy will come up,"

"that isn't an option," Gabi tells her annoyed, "I made up my mind on that,"

"ok," Nurse Robbins says awkwardly "Dr. Lee will be in with you in minute for the ultrasound, and you will see your baby for the first time,"

Nurse Robbins walks out of the room. As soon as she is gone Gabi stands up and takes a deep breath as she leans against the examining table.

"I am really sick and tired of people telling me to abort this pregnancy," she says annoyed and getting mad. "first my own mom, then Gustavo, and now some freaking nurse who doesn't even know me,"

Kendall stands up and walks over to her.

"like I said before, don't care what they think," Kendall says "for all I care…"

"yeah, for all you care they can think you are a white gangster who just gunned down the pope who could be planning to assassinate the president next, then after that you are going after the ambassador of Japan," Gabi finishes. "but that's easy for you to say, you are not a pregnant teenage girl who is going to be judged, I have gotten past the scared part, but confused and nervous, that's what I still am,"

Before Kendall can respond, the door opens and a petite long black haired, brown eyed, Japanese Dr. walks in with a smile on her face carrying an identical clipboard that Nurse Robbins had.

"hi," she says warmly "I am Dr. Kelly Lee, you must be Gabriella McCoy,"

"yeah," Gabi replies.

"do you go by Gabriella, or Gabi or what?" Dr. Lee asks her.

"Gabi," Gabi replies.

"and you," Kelly says as she looks at Kendall, "you must be…"

"a really good friend," Gabi interrupts her.

"ok, well, Gabi are you ready to see your baby?" Dr. Lee asks her.

"yeah," Gabi answers her.

"ok, then I need you to lie down on the examining table and lift your shirt up a little," Dr. Lee instructs her.

Gabi gets up on the examining table and lies down on her back as Dr. Lee turns on the monitor for the ultrasound that is next to her before she puts on latex gloves. Gabi then pulls her shirt up over her baby bump. Dr. Lee then grabs a bottle of a jelly liquid and pours a little on Gabi's stomach before putting the bottle down and spreads the jelly stuff around her baby bump. After that she grabs a censor and puts it to Gabi's stomach and moves it around and a black and white image appears on the monitor.

Inside what looks like a two black circles connected with a somewhat what outline.

"Gabi, that is your baby," Dr. Lee tells her with a smile as she points to the circles.

Gabi just looks up at the monitor at the picture and cant help but smile at her baby. There it was.

"and Gabi, your baby looks like it is healthy at the moment and looks perfectly fine for how far along you are, which, according to you is three months which makes it about the size of a softball," Dr. Lee tells her.

"yeah," Gabi replies as she continues to stare at the monitor. It may have only been a two circles the size of a softball, but to her, it was beautiful.

"do you have any questions?" Dr. Lee asks her.

"um… yeah, when will I be able to feel her move?" Gabi asks her.

"you will be able to feel your baby move or nudge around fifteen weeks, but, some people have felt it as early as thirteen weeks," Dr. Lee tells her. "and you wont feel a kick until twenty weeks or later, it mostly depends on the person because everyone is different, and around the fourteenth week mark, I want you back in because that will be when you can hear the heartbeat, and around 17 weeks, you will be able to figure out if you are having a boy or a girl, but, some moms can argue that they just felt it, they just knew if they were having a boy or girl,"

Gabi nods as she continues to look at the screen.

"would you like a printout of the ultrasound?" Dr. Lee asks her.

"yeah," Gabi answers her.

"ok, I will get that for you in a moment," Dr. Lee tells her.

she takes the censor off her stomach and puts it down before grabbing a tissue and removing the jelly stuff from her stomach.

"Congratulations, Gabi," Dr. Lee tells her before walking out of the room.

Gabi pulls her shirt down over her stomach before sitting up.

"was that, amazing, scary or exciting?" Kendall asks her.

"beautiful," Gabi answers him. "that was beautiful, she is beautiful,"