Chapter 49
I've been following Nurse Miller schedule from the last week. Paul's house. School. Hospital. Paul's house. Home. She one time during the week came on my street and looked at the Bella's house then my house and kept on going. It's been the same till she hit the night time and she went the bar where Paul met her.
I know he told her or didn't. I'm guessing she's planning something. I haven't seen her going to Dr. Roberts's clinic nor has she confronted me. I haven't seen her in school nor do I go but I'm guessing she knows something up because she has no business driving down here when her house is on the other side of town. Another way to get to the tribe but she always goes this way. I guess to catch Mr. Howard in the act of being in my home.
He visits my house. The affair is still going on but I don't know till how long because I know his wife is about to be up. He hasn't brought up what he seen or anything. I wanted to make him forget but I guess he doesn't say anything about it. I'm waiting on him to speak first then me bringing it up.
Speaking of Jacob, he's sitting in the exam room with me after begging me to see about Sarah. I had experienced spotting this morning. So, Dr. Roberts squeezed me in to see me. The pregnancy is still high risk. Jacob hasn't said a damn thing and I know he heard about Bella and everything. So, he glances at me and try to start small talk.
The door opens up to Dr. Roberts who's carrying a medical chart. "How you doing? Jacob? Lacie?" He asks sitting on a stool and wheeling towards me. "I'm doing fine but having a little bit of spotting lately." I say and I wait on Jacob to speak but he doesn't. "It's okay, Lacie. I hope everything is okay, Jacob." Dr. Roberts say taking my blood pressure using his watch.
"It is." He say. "He got the love of his life. She still trying to explain herself to Paul. He ain't trying to hear it. It's just one big fest." I say to Dr. Roberts. "And, why your blood pressure is up." He say to me. "I'm enjoying life and they said once you get rid of the baggage life is going to be well." "Like sleeping with your teacher." Jacob snidely say. I look at him. "Are you, Lacie?" Dr. Roberts asks me.
"No, I am not. He's just bitter and mad that he doesn't have me and he messed it up assuming things plus he can't hang with Mr. Howard." "i'm not trying too. You having an affair with a married man." "Don't hate because no such thing is happening. You're just mad your life is gone." Jacob opens his mouth. "Let's not argue." Dr. Roberts say rolling back to the doctor's counter and grabbing the medical chart.
"You're experiencing spotting. You have an yeast infection and you're blood pressure is high. How's your sex life?" He asks putting the chart down. Jacob looks at me. "The same as Jacob is." "We're not on Jacob. He has nothing to do with your pregnancy, Lacie. I'm asking you. How's your sex life?" "It's fantastic. It's the best when they say it's amazing when you're pregnant, Dr. Roberts." "Because it's a married man." Jacob adds.
"And, not someone else's soulmate who's still knocking on the door begging for another chance." "That's not me nor Bella." "Whatever, asshole." I spit out. "Lacie. Jacob, you don't want to get her upset and send her into early labor." "She's supposed to be taking it easy, Dr. Roberts." "How can I? I have so much work to do." "Not going around traveling when you're supposed to be on bed rest." "I'm visiting the father of my child. Ain't that what you and the rest of everybody came up with?" I ask him.
"Okay, you two." Dr. Roberts say before Jacob can open his mouth. Dr. Robert grabs both my hands and massages my wrist. "It's a technique to calm the heart. Lacie, how is your sex life?" He asks. "It's okay, Dr. Roberts. I don't feel no discomfort from my partner." "Who is your best friend." Jacob adds. Dr. Robert grins. I calm my anger. "My spotting and yeast infections." "It's frequent because you're pregnant." My heart pick up speed and I put my head in my hands.
Dr. Roberts wrap me in a hug. "It's just so hard because this man broke my heart and he have the nerve to keep at it." I say trying not to cry. "It'll be okay, Lacie." He say rubbing on my back. "I just need a break or a vacation. I'm going to visit my parents." "You're not leaving with my daughter, Lacie." Jacob spit out. "I already paid for the plane tickets and we'll be going to Hawaii."
"Are you really?" Dr. Roberts asks me. "Maybe. I don't know. I need to get from everybody for a few days, Dr. Roberts. I'll be back for a few days. Just give me some cream for my yeast infection and I'll be going about my life." I say. "Okay, Lacie. It's not safe for you to travel while you have a high risk pregnancy and you know that." "And, I do. I just need to get away and my Aunt is in the hospital. So, I have no choice." I say. Jacob tries to open his mouth but I keep it close and he glare at me.
Dr. Roberts nod his head and goes to his doctor's counter. Jacob still looks at me. "How long will you be gone?" Dr. Robert asks writing in the medical chart. "Maybe three or four days. It depends on my parents. I love my aunt to the core and will do anything for her. Maybe even kill." I joke. "We all have that one aunt." "We do." I say still looking at Jacob. He glare my way.
Since coming from the doctor's office, I been doing nothing but throwing up left and right in the toilet. It's a lot of throw up and it's too much for it to be considered normal for a mother like me. I'm starting to think that it might be supernatural. Dr. Roberts won't understand it. My body has been going out of wack for the last couple of days.
I haven't mentioned it because I thought it was normal for a pregnant woman to especially feel tired. Six months into my pregnancy and nothing of the abnormal has happened. I'm sensing it's trying to tell me nothing. My throw up can feel the whole big unless someone been in my house. I flush the toilet one last time and head towards Sarah's nursery and open the door up.
Oh, yeah. Her room stinks to the core. Who been in her room? It smells of yeast infections. Damn Nurse Miller. I walk towards the window to see Nurse Miller car in the driveway. It's so strong. Oh, she stinks of Paul and yeast infections. Oh, it is strong. She not coming into my house no matter what. I'll call the police or some crap. I open the window up to let the air out. She knocks on my door and I lean my head out.
"You not coming into my house." I shout. She steps off the porch and looks up at me. "You're still sleep-" "Get from my house or I'll call the cops. None of your business." I say. She steps back even more. "Lacie, you are sleeping with a married man." "Nurse Miller, you is sleeping with a seventeen year old." "No, I am." She say keeping her composure. "How you going to tell me? That's my friend." I say.
"He is a marri-" "None of your business. I am not and you are not going to come to this peaceful neighbor hood spitting out lies because you're still chasing behind a man who doesn't want you." I say. "Same for you." "Nothing about me because I love my life and who I am. Nothing wrong with being friends. I don't stalk and chase like you." I say hitting a note with her but she fixes her face. I see the curtain from the house across the street opening up. An old woman looks out of the window.
"You have no business sleeping with a married, Lacie" "And, I am not. Don't come to me and you mind your business. Get from my property." I say as she walks forward and start knocking up a storm on my porch. I look at the old lady. She closes the curtain. "You're a grown woman acting like a child by knocking on my door. Nurse Miller." I say trying not go downstairs and grab my bat.
She stops and walks off the porch. "You will not ruin my relationship with Mr. Howard." She say. "Nurse Miller, you need to get from my house acting like a child. The neighbors are watching and some students live on the same street. Think of your job." I say. "Stay away from Mr. Howard." She say. "Leave from my house." I say to her. "I'm serious, Lacie." I nod closing the door and locking the window.
She knocks up a storm on my door again and I just exit out of the nursery room leaving the door open. I don't want that smell all around her clothes and crib. I walk down stairs and make look out of the living room window to see her getting in her car and driving off. I shake my head sitting on the couch. Something needs to be done about Nurse Miller. I open up all of the back windows to air out of the funk. She stinks and I don't know why. Where is the Council? Right, my problem till it get out of control then they come in.
I get back up and walk into my living room closet and walk out of Paul's close to see him and another random girl having sex on his couch. She screams covering her chest and grabbing her clothes off the floor. I cover my eyes and hear her running into the bedroom closing the door behind her. I remove my hand to see him putting on his shorts. "You should save that hair down there. It's nasty and I know it stinks from having twenty girls in a week, Paul." I say closing the closet door and walking towards the fridge.
He has a new fridge. I open it up to see he barely have any food in it. He walks over and sit by the kitchen counter. He just looks in my face. "I'm sick of you coming in and out of my house at will, Lacie." "I don't know what you want me to say, Paul. I am here because I am carrying your child." I yell loud enough fr the girl to hear. She opens the door and run towards the front door and open it up with pitiful looking Bella standing there.
She looks at me while Paul looks me in the face. "Oops." I say shrugging my shoulders and the random girl run past Bella. She looks at her. "Is it true, Paul?" Bella ask him. "Bella, get from my house." "You slept with my wolf and you still here begging for forgiveness. It might work." I say walking around the kitchen counter and towards the front door. She just looks at me.
"You broke his heart." "Coming from a bitch going left and right with Edward with Paul. He has no heart." "He has a heart." "And, you was there for him after you said fuck Paul." "What goes on between me and Paul is none of your business." "Oh, Bella has a back bone." I whine out. "I been had one." She say. I just stare at her. Obviously, she's lying. I look at Nurse Miller's car driving by the house. She looks at me and Bella and keep on driving.
"You broke Jake's heart." "I don't care about no damn Jacob nor Jake." "I do." She say. I turn around to see Paul looking in my face. I turn around to see Bella looking at Paul then turning to me. "What about Edward?" I ask her. "Not together. None of your business." I nod and slam the door in her face. "Can't say nothing to her." Paul say to me. "I'm going back and forth with Bella. She can have Jacob. My life is not revolved around her. You the manwhore can be like you was when it came to Edward. In the back or the front. Whatever." I say walking to the window as she tries to start her truck.
She make eye contact with her. "Must be something." Paul say walking up behind me and sitting on the couch. "Nope, it's nothing. I just love the drama. I have someone." "He doesn't want you. He has a wife." "And you have the smelliest tongue ever in the world and have the nerve to talk in my face." I say sitting next to him on the couch. He doesn't say anything. "I'm not fighting over Jacob because he's not worth it. I am not going left and right with Bella. She can have him. She's your imprint and not mine. So, I wanna see how that work out. They stay together or not. I'll happy to be free from Jacob. I know you will too, Paul." I say.
He doesn't respond. I play with his hair. "I'm not wasting tears over Jacob because he set in stone early how he who he wants to be with. If he does come back to me, it shows that he didn't get Bella. It is on Bella's decision if she wants to be with him, you or Edward. Whatever it is and Jacob is left out of it. He is not coming to me nor our daughter. He ruined it and let him hear that." I say looking at him running out of the forest.
He just keep on running towards Bella's truck. "Sorry, I ruined your sex with that random chick. You can't be going around being mad at anybody and damn not me. Let me find out you trashed my house, Paul." I say and a knock on the door. "Lacie." Jacob yells. I get up from the couch and walk towards the closet and walk into it and walk out into my living room. I am so tired. I lay on the couch and take a nap.
I rub on my stomach while watching the news. I haven't watched the news in a minute. Why watch the news when I can't do nothing about it? I'm on bed rest. I sigh rubbing on my stomach. Six months in and you have not kicked yet nor have I felt you moved. I haven't told Dr. Roberts about it but I'm sure you're okay. I see you in my dreams playing with me. "And, your daddy." I say rolling my eyes.
I see a picture of Nurse Miller popping up on the news. Oh, lord. "Anyone has information on the whereabouts of Sandra Miller's, you're advised to please call your local police department. Now-" I turn the TV down. So, she seen me and Bella at Paul's house. Found out that I was still sleeping with Mr. Howard. Obviously, her mind is not stable and from everything that went through her from that and losing her baby. I'll disappear too. I'm sure she'll turn up.
Mr. Howard walks down the stairs. "I don't smell nothing in Sarah's room, Ms. Thorne." He say. "I was just wondering because it stink." I say turning to him. "Your nose is extra sensitive. So, you'll smell things ten times more then us." He say taking a seat next to me. I nod my head putting my legs in the chair. "What's going on?" He asks glancing at my stomach.
"Did you know Nurse Miller has been missing?" I ask him. "She hasn't been to school for the last three days. Her family called and said she didn't make to their house." I nod. "When was this?" "I said three days ago, Ms. Thorne." He say looking my stomach. It has grown very big. "And, where does her family live?" "In Seattle." He sadly say. I pause before speaking. "I accused her." "Yes, you did and it wasn't true."
I swallow the lump in my throat. I lay my head on the back of the chair. "I don't wish nothing on nobody but the way that she came at me from dealing with you to Paul." "You mean Neil the seventeen year old who you said she was sleeping with." "And, she was. His name is Paul." "She said that's not his name." "We can go back and forth because she is nothing but a liar." "You don't know nothing about her." He seriously say.
"I know enough that she knows when to come to my house." "She's my wife best friend, Ms. Thorne." He snarkly say. "You said she was not." "I lied. I don't have to tell you about my life after how you attacked you." I am not going to deny that because it might start something up. "She talks to you-" "Because she is my friend." "And, she talks to me in another way. As someone who is so called messing-" "It's the true."
"Okay, then you should know how a woman is to that other person." I say out of breath. I been getting out of breath lately. I need to see Dr. Cullen. He looks in my face. I scratch my hair. "Did she talk to you?" "Yes, she did." "When?" "Three days ago. It was that day during the afternoon after I came back from seeing Dr. Roberts. I left and went to my friend's house. She drove pass and seen me there and kept driving. I guess her feelings was hurt."
"What friend?" "Paul. We was in the biker and fight gang before he met God and turned his life around. Dr. Roberts seen Paul before." "Where at?" "At the bar." "When was this?" "Like months ago before Christmas. You didn't know?" "No, I did not." "I thought you did and you was the one who sent him to come get me. It was fun and funny." I say nodding my head. It was. I'll have to go back and visit Earl.
"What did she say to you?" "You should know if she brought up the age then you should know." "I wanna hear from your mouth, Ms. Thorne." "Stop sleeping with Mr. Howard and I told her to mind her own business. That was it. I'm very sorry." "I'm sorry too." He say getting up and grabbing his coat. I bite on my lip. "She's probably dead." "And, I am very sorry." "You never said anything to her."
"And, I just said mind your own business and that was it. It was nothing more and nothing less. She didn't even come to into my house." I say getting up to walk him to the door. He just button up his coat and walk towards the front door. "I am very sorry, Mr. Howard. I am praying for her." "What we all are doing." He say opening up the front door and leaving out. I close and lock the door behind him.
I sigh walking towards my living room closet and walking out of Paul's living room closet. This is new. He's actually watching TV. I wonder if he watched the news. I close the door and sit next to him on the couch. He doesn't even acknowledge me. "Nurse Miller is missing and I thought you might want to know that they're going around looking for her and you might be a suspect." I say getting back up when I see Mr. Howard walking back to my front door. I hurry up rushing towards the closet and trip on my own two feet and landing on my stomach.
I hold my stomach scream and he rushes towards me turning me on the side. "Told you about running around in my house." He growls out in my ear as I hold onto my stomach. He runs me out of the back door and into the forest. I let out a scream into the forest and hear a couple of howls in response.
We're in Dr. Cullen's office while he's checking out of my stomach. I didn't bleed or anything. Jacob hasn't looked at me one bit since coming here. He won't even hold my hand. All he been doing is standing near and staring at my stomach. "Sorry about the hair, Dr. Cullen." I say looking at it under my nabel as he pour gel on my stomach. "It's okay, Lacie." He say.
"You worried about hair after you fell on your stomach." Jacob growls out. Quil shake his head in disbelief at me. Embry just rubs on his face. "I was just saying because I know she'll be alright. She protected herself, Jacob." "She's a baby. You're the mother. You had no business running." He growls out and Embry put his hand on his shoulder. "You're too close to Lacie." He say.
Jacob breathes out taking a step back. "Let's have a look." Dr. Cullen say moving the ultrasound probe around my stomach. Jacob just looks at the screen. "Is it a heartbeat?" I ask. "Her heart is strong, Lacie." Embry say. I sadly put my head in my hands. "What's that?" Jacob asks. "I never seen it before." Dr. Cullen say. "She protected herself." I say. "Lacie, shut up." Jacob growls out. I keep quiet.
"I'll have to do extra tests to determine if the baby is alright." Dr. Cullen say taking the probe off my stomach and wiping the gel off my stomach. "Thanks, Dr. Cullen." He say. I hear the door opening up and closing. It get silent. "What was you doing at Paul's house?" Jacob growls out. "I was going there to tell him that Nurse Miller went missing in Seattle." I say taking my head out of my hands.
"So, she's either dead or another vampire." Embry say. Quil shake his head. "I am so sorry, Jacob." I cry out feeling tears running down my face. "Fuck you, Lacie." He spit out. I put my head back into my hands. "You supposed to be on bed rest and not running all around in Paul's house. This is the second time you did this. I lose my daughter because of you. I'll snap your neck." "Jacob." Quil say. The door opens up and is slammed shut a few seconds later.
I open my eyes to see that I'm in the exam room empty. I pull my shirt back up and rub on my stomach. My baby Sarah. The door opens up and I look at Dr. Roberts walking in and closing the door. "How you doing, Lacie?" He asks me. "I'm doing fine. I fell on my stomach." "I heard from Quil. Dr. Cullen looked at you." "Yeah, he said he'll run more test. I don't know what I was thinking." I say holding my arms out.
He hugs me wrapping his arms around me and I rest my head in my stomach. "What was you doing?" "I was jogging a little bit to a room when I tripped over my own two feet." He breathes out. I can tell that he's mad. "Lacie." "I know. I don't know what's been going on lately. You'll tell me if my baby is stillborn, right?" I ask him. "I'll tell you, Lacie. Do you feel odd or uncomfortable?" "She hasn't kicked nor do she moves." I say.
"It's very normal, Lacie." "It's the six month, Dr. Roberts." "It's very normal, Lacie. Nothing is wrong with your pregnancy." "But, you're mad because of what happened." "I am. You was told to stay in the house and on bed rest and you been doing nothing but going up against my orders." "I just needed to get word out that Nurse Miller is missing." I say. I feel his body tense up. I know he liked her.
"I'm very sorry, Dr. Roberts." I say looking up at him. "It's okay, Lacie. We're praying that she comes home." "How long has it been?" "Three days but I don't want to talk about her. We're here for you and Sarah." "I hope she's okay." "I'm sure she's okay, Lacie. You had no business leaving your house and putting Sarah in danger." I just nod my head because I know he's right. If Sarah doesn't make it, I don't know what I'm going to do but I will be snapping Jacob, Bella, and Paul's neck. I promise that.