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Previously in "Distracting," Rick worried about Lily's health, Lily later vomited up blood in the WIXP restroom, and Grace told Jessie that she suspects Lily and Judy know about Jessie's budding relationship with Katie.
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Part 5: "Nothing Too Terrible"Jessie's Locker, High School
Jessie was relieved to escape the Grace-mobile, but she still didn't quite know how to take the news. She supposed that her source was Grace, so maybe her information was skewed. But, deep down Jessie believed Grace. After all, she and Katie hadn't been the most discreet of late, what with the holding hands during the ceremony and cuddling through the reception. It wouldn't take a PhD to discover that she and Katie were "friends" in a different sort of way. Truthfully, now that she figured Lily knew, Jessie felt strangely better about the entire situation. Lily hadn't mentioned a thing about anything, which means she couldn't be too terribly upset by the news… unless she was too freaked out to mention the Katie thing.
Jessie had just about tapped out her mind's capacity to analyze when she spotted Katie waiting for her by her locker. Katie grinned at her, and with the smiling and all Jessie momentarily abandoned the internal monologue she'd been entertaining.
"Good morning, Billie," Katie greeted, giving Jessie a hug. "I see you survived another car ride with Grace," she teased.
"Barely." Jessie rolled her eyes as she unlocked her locker.
"Another installment of Grace's Life Endangering Driving Chronicles?" Katie asked. (She loved these installments.)
"Not exactly. I mean, we did sit at a green light for a good minute before she decided to go, but it wasn't really the driving that nearly killed me."
"Wow, mark today on the calendar."
"I know."
"So if it wasn't the driving, then what?" Katie asked, leaning against a nearby locker, settling in for what would probably be a long story.
"She wanted to talk," Jessie said, the disgust showing on her face. Katie groaned in sympathy.
"God, she wanted to talk?"
"You mock. But yes, she apparently had something on her mind."
"Sounds dangerous," Katie mocked. Jessie gave Katie the 'will you shut up and quit making stupid jokes' look. "Oh, c'mon," Katie pleaded, snapping to her feet to defend her point more rigorously. "That was funny on so many levels. See, it's funny because Grace thinking is dangerous AND at the same time I got to belittle your point." Jessie was still only mildly amused. "Uh, so what did Grace have on her mind?" Katie asked with a poorly disguised smirk in remembrance of her under-appreciated earlier attempt at humor.
"She said that she overheard Lily and Judy talking about you and me."
"And?" Maybe it had been her preoccupation with her former amusing comment, but Katie failed to see the problem.
"You and me," Jessie repeated.
"You and me?" Katie repeated, confused.
"As in you and me," Jessie paused. Realizing that Katie wasn't coming any closer to understanding what she was trying to say through simple repetition, she added, "together."
"Together together?" Katie asked, finally picking up Jessie's hint. Jessie nodded.
For a split second Katie found herself about to make light of the situation. She felt somewhat relieved that Lily knew about them. But that's when Katie remembered her Sunday morning trip to the Sammler's. And, she remembered the conversation she and Lily had, and that as she was leaving, Judy was pulling up the street. Katie realized of course that Lily was not blind, nor was she an idiot, but it wasn't the fact that Lily had figured out who Katie had been confiding about that really irked her. She was pissed because apparently her "confidential" conversation with Lily didn't remain confidential for long.
"It's not the end of the world," Jessie commented, seeing how concerned Katie had become. "It's Grace we're talking about after all," Jessie added.
Katie was more upset about the obvious disrespect Lily had shown, than about the fact she and Jessie had been "outted." Katie had been distraught and sought Lily out for advice. She had trusted her.
Katie was silent, a phenomena which didn't often occur, so immediately Jessie could tell something was up. In fact, Jessie found Katie's reaction pretty unreadable. Was she nervous, angry, confused? It was nearly impossible to decipher, and unfortunately class indefinitely impeded Jessie's ability to figure it out. Katie left for class with an absentminded goodbye and a promise to meet up for lunch.
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Dr. Wellman's Office
Lily sat in an exam room, wearing one of those paper gowns. After the incident in the bathroom stall, Lily had immediately called her doctor's office. She set up an appointment and talked to the syndicators about pushing back promos until she was feeling a little better. They weren't thrilled with the turn of events, but eventually settled on a few days the following week that would work.
In the hour or so that had passed since the incident, Lily had begun to feel much better—it figured that the second she called the doctor her body began to feel better. (It seems to be some sort of unspoken law.) In fact, Lily was beginning to think she had been a bit over-sensitive. After all, it wasn't a lot of blood. Her stomach lining was probably just a bit irritated from the morning sickness.
The door to the exam room opened and a nurse walked in. She introduced herself and then began asking the standard obstetrical questions.
"When was your last period?" the nurse asked, opening Lily's chart.
As she answered the nurse's questions, Lily realized that with the timing of everything, they must have conceived the baby that afternoon Rick had been working on the car and they had used the backseat—
"What kind of symptoms have you been having?"
"Umm, well the normal things—I've been nauseous. I've had some back pain, some headaches, really nothing out of the ordinary besides the blood."
"Any abdominal pain, trouble urinating?"
"A little I suppose, uh, but nothing too terrible."
The nurse made some notes on Lily's chart. "The doctor will be in to see you in a few minutes."
Lily didn't have to wait long before Dr. Wellman arrived. She took a moment to peruse the chart and the notes the nurse had made. Then she did a quick examination of Lily and inquired about Lily's symptoms again. As the doctor began to press on Lily's abdomen, Lily showed obvious signs of discomfort. After a gynecological exam, Dr. Wellman decided on a course of action.
"Well, what I'd like to do is run some tests, just some standard procedures. I'd like to have some blood drawn for a pregnancy test, for the record. Your abdominal area seems to be a bit tender, so I'd like to do an ultrasound. Also, I want to schedule you for an endoscopy to check for ulcers or abscesses in the stomach." Lily nodded.
The doctor left and sent the nurse in to draw blood. As they were finishing up, Dr. Wellman reemerged with some materials for the ultrasound.
"While we wait for the lab results, I thought we could go ahead and do the ultrasound. Peak around a bit."
Dr. Wellman began the procedure. Lily kept a close watch on the screen. As the ultrasound made its way about Lily's abdomen, a round object about the size of a half-dollar appeared on the screen. Lily's breath caught in her throat; she could feel herself tearing up.
"Is that the baby?" Lily asked her doctor.
Dr. Wellman, who seemed to be intently studying spot on the screen, shook her head 'no.'
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Next time in "Distracting," Rick and Sam meet with Colin to turn down the project and Lily's test results come in.
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