It was Thursday, Mary was at work. She works at Greer's fiance's restaurant as a waitress. Mary hadn't told anyone except Kenna, she didn't even tell Darnley, she's still thinking how to tell him. Darnley hadn't even questioned what was wrong with her when she returned from the hospital. He has been more distant and he hadn't pushed Mary about the tying up thingy, luckily. It makes Mary doubt though. He usually didn't give something up so easily.
It was now 1pm, she should go soon. She told Leith that she has an doctor appointment because her wrist hurt or something, he didn't seem suspicious. Mary goes to the back saying bye to Leith and the other cooks on her way. She sat in the backroom where they changed their clothes. Greer walked in, she was going to cover for Mary while she was away.
"Hey there" Greer said cheerfully as she runs into the room and changes into her work clothes.
"Someone's happy today" Mary giggles as Greer suddenly hugged her. "Hey hey what's up? Why are you so happy all of a sudden?" Mary asks.
"We got some good news this morning" Greer almost jumps.
"Okay spill the tea" Mary tries to calm her down.
"Okay, okay" the blond girl sits down next to Mary "I haven't told Leith jet but... I'm pregnant!" the words freeze Mary completely.
"Greer!" Mary hugs her friend. "Congratulations!" she lets out a sigh.
"Hey what's up by the way? Leith said there's something wrong with your wrist" Greer asked taking Mary's hands into her hands.
"There's nothing wrong with my wrists actually.. Don't tell Leith or anyone but" even thinking about it brings tears into her eyes and she shakes her head.
"What? What's wrong?" Greer asks while she pulls Mary into a hug.
"I- I'm pregnant too" Mary almost chuckles through her tears.
"But Mary that's amazing!" Greer says pulling back a bit so she can look at Mary who is shaking her head again.
"It's not Darnleys and I don't know what to do" she sobs.
"Hold up... What?"
"Remember the blond guy? When we were having the girls night out?" Mary asks and Greer takes a moment to think.
"OH the pretty boy!" she almost yells.
"That would be him" Mary lets out a sigh.
"It's his? Well at least your gonna have a super cute baby" Greer tries to cheer her up.
"What do you mean? That Darnley isn't good looking?" Mary doesn't know why she's snapping about it.
"Well the blond one is a pretty big step up from Darnley" Greer jokes and Mary let's out another sigh. "Oh my God I can already imagine you with him and the cute baby of yours"
"He has a girlfriend" Mary says and she looks to the floor.
"oh.. but look at the positive side, it probably isn't serious if he slept with you?" Greer tried, but it wasn't helping. That could just mean that he wasn't loyal.
"Greer that's not helping" Mary says as she stands up and pulls her jacket on. " I gotta go I don't wanna be late for my appointment" Mary says as she walks out before Greer can say anything.
She walks to her car, well it's Darnley's but she drives it since two days ago he was caught drunk driving and they took his driver licence away. She jumps on the driver seat and starts the shitty old car. Mary makes it about halfway though until the car decides not to work anymore and shuts down in the middle of the road. She tries to start it again but it won't start. Mary tries to call Darnley but he wouldn't pick up, neither did Kenna or Lola or Aylee. Great just great. She has about half an hour until her appointment starts and she's about 3 km away. If she walks quickly she could make it in time so she grabs her stuff and starts walking.
She walks on the side of the road hoping that one of the cars would stop and offer her a ride. It's really cold outside and she feels like she's going to freeze to death before she gets there. While she walks she tries to call almost everyone she can but no one is able to pick her up. She walks as quickly as her legs take her, she really doesn't want to be late. Until someone honks at her and stops. She sighs in relief as she opens the passage seat door and sees who's car it is.
"Nope" she says and is just about to close the door but she grabs her wrist.
"What are you going walking in the middle of the road at this weather?" Mary's mother asks.
"Not that it's none of your business but I have an appointment" Mary says as she tries to pull away.
"Let me drive you there" Marie De Guise said almost begging. They are not close with each other. Marie was never a good mother, she always tried to push Mary away when she was a kid. Mary's brother James always told her it was because their mother never got over about their father's death but Mary never believed that.
"Fine" she sighs and sits on the passenger seat.
"So where were you going?" her mother asks her.
"To the hospital, I have an appointment" Mary answers not looking at her mother.
"Why? Is everything okay?" Marie asks her as she starts to drive.
"No but why do you care?" Mary snaps.
"Sorry, just curious" Marie sighs as she continues to drive, they just sit quietly for a couple minutes before Mary couldn't just keep it in anymore.
"I'm pregnant" she says all of a sudden and Marie almost stops the car.
"What?!"
"I'm pregnant" Mary hates that she has to say it again but it's the truth.
"Is it Darnley's, are you guys still together?" she asks, Mary has been with Darnley since she was in last year of high school so it has been now four years.
"Yes we are still together and no it's not Darnleys" she admits.
"What? Mary!"
"I know I know it sounds bad... it is bad" Mary tries to calm her clearly angry mother down.
"Does Darnley know?" she sighs.
"No"
"You need to tell him" Marie says.
"I know I just don't know how to" Mary sighs. Marie parks the car on the parking lot. "Could I.. have some money?" Mary asks quietly and she hates that she has to ask for it. Marie rolls her eyes.
"I think I have 20 bucks" she says as she grabs her purse and takes the bill and gives it to Mary "Get your shit together" she sighs as Mary leaves the car.
Mary goes into the waiting room, she's scrolling through her Instagram. Okay to be honest she's stalking. She goes to Bash's profile and starts to scroll everyone he's following if she could find Francis' profile. She finds it soon and starts scrolling through his photos. There aren't many photos but he indeed does have a girlfriend, Mary looks at the picture he has with a blonde girl who looks really familiar for some reason. She looks if he tagged her and he did, she goes to her profile and the she realizes. Olivia D'amencourt, her doctor. Really couldn't universe get anymore wicked right now. She's pregnant to her best friend's boyfriend's brother who's girlfriend is her doctor.
She was sure she wanted to abort, she couldn't keep it, she just couldn't. Mary has rolled the abortion idea in her head for couple days and now she was sure. She couldn't ruin the lives of so many people, she wouldn't mind ruining her own, but she was risking of ruining also Darnleys life and Francis' and his girlfriend's. She feels like she's about to cry but then her name is called and she walks into the room.
"Can I get your name?" the older lady asked Mary while she gestured Mary to sit on the bed thingy.
"Mary Stuart" she answers.
"And how far along are you?" she asked.
"Five or six weeks I think" Mary answers with a shaky breath.
"Are you alone?" the sweet lady asked her and Mary just nodded. "Oh, it's rare for someone to come alone to their first ultrasound, usually the father is here too" she smiles and Mary bit her lower lip.
"He.. doesn't know yet" Mary admitted.
"Oh so you plan to surprise him, how sweet" the older woman smiled at her and gestured for her to lay down and so Mary did. "Okay so the gel is gonna feel a little bit cold first but it's bearable" she explained while she pulled Mary's sweatshirt up and squeezed some gel on her belly. It felt really cold but it wasn't bad, then the woman started to roll around the thingy they use to see the baby, it took her a while before she could locate the baby.
"Is that it?" Mary asked pointing at the small thing on the monitor.
"That would be your little him or her" The older woman smiled, "I can't tell the gender yet but when you are about 20 weeks pregnant we can tell you, if you want to know of course, but I can tell that everything seems to be just fine" Mary felt tears in her eyes, that little bean was inside of her was he baby, her child. She couldn't abort it, she couldn't even bear the thought now that she had seen her baby for the first time. Her baby, it wasn't her mistake to her anymore, it was her baby.
"It's so small" Mary whispered, staring at the monitor mesmerized.
"You seem to be just six weeks pregnant" the woman explained "Your baby is now around 25 inches, the size of a sweet pea." Mary just stared at the monitor, she couldn't stop thinking that that was her baby. "Would you like to get a picture of this printed?" she asked while she wiped the gel from Mary's belly.
"Yes please" Mary said and the older woman left the room, Mary stood up and waited for the woman to come back. It didn't tkae long for her to come back with the copy.
"There" she gave Mary the picture "Do you have any questions about your pregnancy?" the older woman asked her.
"Umm I was wondering that.. when am I going to start to show?" Mary asked quietly.
"Usually first-timers like you start to show around between 12th and 16th weeks" she told her. "If you don't have anymore questions I'll book you your next appointment for when you are 20 weeks along so that would be" she said while taking her calendar "November 8th, is that okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine thanks" Mary smiled and she marked the date on her phone before she left.
Mary was standing outside of the hospital, Darnley's friend Rick was supposed to pick her up, since Darnley's car broke in the middle of the road, but she couldn't see her anywhere. It was pretty chilly outside and Mary hugged her jacket tight around her to fight the breeze. Rick was already 45 minutes late, he was pretty similar to Darnley. They both always forgot about important things, they both drank, a lot. Rick was a pretty big player, always with another girl and Mary was scared that Darnley would be similar in that too. There was one point when Mary had walked into Darnley's apartment when they started dating and found two other girls in his bed, with him, naked. He had assured her that it would never happen again and for some reason Mary had believed him.
"Hey! Mary right?" she heard someone say behind her and she turned around and of course it was Olivia, Mary was already pissed that Rick was late but now that Olivia was here.. urgh. Okay Olivia seems nice but oh boy if she heard that Mary was pregnant to his boyfriend... Yeah that would be pretty bad.
"Hi" Mary answered pretty shyly.
"Why are you standing here in the cold?" Olivia asked placing a hand on Mary's shoulder "Go inside it's too cold out here" she continued.
"My friend is.. was supposed to pick me up, I think he's just a little bit late, it's fine" Mary tried.
"Mary you are pregnant, go inside, you can wait there" Olivia smiled while she pushed Mary back in. She sat Mary down on some random couch near the door. "Do you want some coffee or tea? Your hands are freezing!" Olivia said taking Mary's hands into hers. Mary hates how kind she it to her, oh only if she knew.
"Tea sound great" Mary smiled a small smile back and Olivia nodded going somewhere and soon coming back with two cups.
"There" she said giving Mary her tea while she sat next to her taking a sip from her own coffee.
"Thanks" Mary said while she wrapped her cold fingers around the cup to warm them up.
"So what's up? You had your first ultrasound today didn't you?" Olivia asks smiling.
"Yeah I did" Mary answered, she was kinda scared to look at Olivia since Mary knew that she was Francis' girlfriend.
"Are you okay?" Olivia asks, she sound actually concerned. Mary let out a sigh.
"I- I'm not sure if I should abort or not" Mary says with a shaky breath.
"What do you mean?" Olivia asks.
"Um.. the child is not my boyfriend's" Mary admits, why is she telling this to her, why.
"Oh" Olivia sighs "Have you told him.. the real father I mean, does he know?" shit, shit, shit, you really had to ask that?
"No" Mary chuckles "And he can't know"
"Why?" REALLY? REALLY? Why do you have to ask questions like this? Well because the father is your boyfriend! Mary thinks about snapping that at her but she can't. She just can't go ahead and ruin other peoples relationships like that.
"He has his own life and I have my own, it was just one night of drunkenness and mixed feelings" mixed feelings? Really? Mary mentally kicks herself. Olivia is just about to say something but something else catches her mind, the door next to them opens.
"Hi darling!" Mary hears Olivia say as she stands up and skips to the door, Mary turns her head to see that it indeed was Francis that Olivia was now hugging. Great, just great, Mary thought to herself. She felt like she wanted to just sink away, to hide somewhere.
"Hey! How was work" Jesus Christ was Francis' voice this soothing before?
"Great, I just need to take care of one thing before we go okay?" Olivia asks before she turns back to Mary. "Are you gonna be okay if I go?" Mary doesn't want to turn to look at them but she has to, she just nods and she could see in Francis' face that he recognized her.
"Mary?" he asks, well shit.
"You know her?" she hears Olivia ask through the slight ringing in her ears.
"Yeah she uh.. she know Bash, my brother, they're friends" Francis explained.
"Oh what a coincidence" Olivia smiled "Mary came to me last week thinking that she caught a bug, turned out she was pregnant" of course she had to say that, of course.
"Really?" she heard Francis ask.
"It was supposed to be a secret..." Mary breathes out.
"Oh, sorry. Speaking of secret, have you told your boyfriend at least?" Olivia asked really pressing the word at least. Mary just shook her head and Olivia let out another oh. The ringing in Mary's ears just grew stronger.
"Excuse me" Mary said quickly and basically ran to the bathroom, she locked the door and tried to call Rick to hurry the fuck up. Of course he didn't answer. She tried Darnley, Kenna, Aylee, Greer, Lola, she even tried her brother James but no one was able to pick her up. She sank down to the bathroom floor. She would wait here until Olivia and Francis would leave and then she would probably just walk home or something.
"Mary? Are you okay?" she heard Olivia ask when she walked into the bathroom "Are you feeling sick?"
"No I'm fine" Mary said quickly.
"I know your situation must be hard, but let me help you" Olivia said gently.
"You can't help" Mary said with a shaky breath while she stood up.
"Why? There must be someway I can help" she tried. "Weren't you supposed to get a ride home, has your ride arrived yet?" she continued when Mary didn't answer.
"He's already over an hour late, I think I'll just walk" Mary said as she came out of the stall to wash her hands.
"Not on that weather you won't!" Olivia almost commanded "Well drive you home"
"Oh no, you don't have to!" Mary tried but Olivia was already pushing her out of the bathroom. And oh boy that was the awkwardest car ride of her life, Olivia chatted something with Francis now and then and asked Mary couple times if she was okay, otherwise it was quiet. Expect of course the radio. They drove Mary to Bash's and Kenna's place because Mary really didn't want them to drive her home, she didn't want them to know where she lived.
A/N: ya'll shit starting to happen, a little bit but you can sense the tension... hopefully. Okay pls pls pls give me feed back and stay safe! Btw I'm still in quarantine and I'm losing my miiiiiind.