Chapter number 2. Vomiting dramas

A month and a half had passed since the night of the cyclone and Summer bay had gone back to it's normal old self, it was still the same small town where everyone knew everyone and everything about them. However this particular morning Martha wasn't exactly feeling like herself, well actually she hadn't been feeling like herself at all any of the mornings this week, she would feel ill in the stomach, but it would be fine by about lunch time until the next morning. But this morning it had gotten worse when she started vomiting.

"Well love I think you should stay home today, we don't want you vomiting at work, you might scare the customers away" Alf told her.

"Yeah I think your right" Martha replied from where she was lying on the couch with a damp flannel across her fore head.

"This isn't like you, your never this sick. Maybe you should go and see a doctor" Alf suggested.

Martha didn't think it was necessary though she thought she knew what was wrong, but she wasn't going to worry him about that being a possibility right now. "Yeah, maybe I should".

"Anyway I better get going, you make sure you call me if it gets any worse, ok".

"Yeah ok, bye".

When Alf had gone she pulled out a pregnancy test she had bought the afternoon before, she was still debating whether or not she should take it, but she had to know for sure so she got up and walked over to the bathroom to take the test.

About fifteen minutes later the timer went off. She walked over to were it was sitting on the vanity, picking it up to see what it said, she was pregnant.

"Wow, I'm gonna be a mum" Martha said to herself as she sat down in her bed with the test still in her hand.

Then she heard the front door open "Martha I'm home" she could hear her grandfather call.

"Hey" she called back out to him, putting the pregnancy test next to her bed and going out to the kitchen where Alf was.

"You felling any better?" Alf asked.

"Yeah actually I'm feeling much better".

"Well that's good, oh and you left your bag at work yesterday" Alf told her holding up her handbag to show her. "Do you want me to put it in your room for you?"

"Yeah sure, thanks" Martha replied, forgetting that she had left the pregnancy test right next to her bed in clear view from anywhere in the room.

"Um, Martha would you like to explain what this is" Alf said sternly, holding the pregnancy test results up in his hand.

"Um, u granddad, it's um-" Martha didn't get to finish her sentence.

"Martha I thought you promised me that you wouldn't make the same mistake your as your mother" Alf yelled.

"I'm not" Martha protested.

"Oh, good, so your going to get rid of it" Alf said calming down.

"No, why would I do something as horrible as that".

"Martha, do you really want this baby to grow up the way you did in a foster home" he said getting angry again.

"It's not granddad, I'm out of school, I have a job and this baby isn't going to have a tosser for a father who only cares about money and his business like I did" Martha screamed, running outside and slamming the door behind her. She ran down to the beach and sat down, tears were running down her face, she didn't want to even think of getting an abortion, how could someone as kind as her grandfather even think of something so horrible?

Next time:

What will Jack's reaction be when he finds out about the baby? Will he stick by her?