The Clinic

It was 11am and Melanie and Jake were sitting in a cafe in LA eating breakfast.

Melanie and Jake had spent the entire flight last night talking about the future. Jake had reassured Melanie that no matter who the father was that he would stick by her and the baby. Jake had told her that it was up to her what they told people, Jake was more than willing to tell everyone that it was his baby and raise it as his own. Jake had also told her that if she wanted Andrew to be involved he would support that as well. Melanie didn't know what she would do if it was Andrew's, she thought that people deserved to know where they came from, but she didn't want Andrew to be any part of her and Jake's life.

"I love you" said Melanie spontaneously interrupting the silence

"Where did that come from?" asked Jake as he put down his knife and fork

"I was just thinking how lucky I am to have you. I don't know what I did to deserve you." said Melanie

"Hey I'm the lucky one, to have such a gorgeous wife." said Jake smiling

"That not sure if the baby she's carrying is yours"

"I thought we talked about that last night. It's not your fault. I'm not going anywhere. I love you too much to leave you." said Jake as he moved his chair closer to Melanie.

"I know I just wanted to tell you I love you and after all the things you said last night, it made me love you even more and I didn't think that that was possible."

"Okay then" said Jake as he put his arm round Melanie "I love you too and you'll never know how much" he said before he kissed her head, "now I don't want you to worry about the clinic okay, it's not good for you or the baby"

"Okay"

Jake and Melanie finished their breakfast and then made their way to the clinic. They had to wait in the waiting room for about 15 minutes. Melanie was terrified and she couldn't get a song out of her head.

When I'm lost in the rain,
In your eyes I know I'll find the light
To light my way.
And when I'm scared,
And losing ground,
When my world is going crazy,
You can turn it all around.
And when I'm down you're there
- pushing me to the top.

You're always there,
giving me all you've got.
For a shield from the storm,
For a friend, for a love
to keep me safe and warm
I turn to you.
For the strength to be strong,
For the will to carry on
For everything you do,
for everything that's true
I turn to you.

When I lose the will to win,
I just reach for you and
I can reach the sky again.
I can do anything
'Cause your love is so amazing,
'Cause your love inspires me.
And when I need a friend,
You're always on my side
Giving me faith
taking me through the night

For the arms to be my shelter
through all the rain,
For truth that will never change,
For someone to lean on,
For a heart I can rely on through anything,
For that one who I can run to...
For a shield from the storm,
For a friend, for a love
to keep me safe and warm
I turn to you
For the strength to be strong,
For the will to carry on
For everything you do,
for everything that's true
I turn to you.
For a shield from the storm,
For a friend, for a love
to keep me safe and warm
I turn to you.
For the strength to be strong,
For the will to carry on
For everything you do,
for everything that's true
I turn to you.
I turn to you...

Melanie turned to look at Jake and she knew why she couldn't get the song out of her head, she did always turn to Jake when things went wrong, ever since she was 10 years old, he was her protector. Just then Melanie and Jake were called into the doctors office, they went in and sat opposite the doctor. "Hello it's Mr and Mrs Perry isn't it" asked the doctor "Yes" said Jake "Alright well I'm doctor Murray, but you can call me Louise" "Okay I was just wondering about um... privacy for us. We don't want the whole world knowing we're here" said Melanie "Don't worry, we have the strictest confidentiality measures possible. There really isn't anything to worry about" said doctor Murray "Good , see I told you there was nothing to worry about" said Jake squeezing Melanie's hand.
"Okay, now do I need to explain how this works?" asked doctor Murray "Uh no not really, the only thing we really want to know is if this could harm the baby in any way" asked Jake "No it's completely 100 harmless to the mother or the baby. What happens is we take a sonogram picture and then we put it into our machine along with the mother's details, age, weight etc and then the machine gives us the date and time of conception. Do you understand?" said the doctor.

"Yes" said both Jake and Melanie

"Okay then you just have to fill out some forms and I need to give you a physical to get the details I need and then we take the sonogram picture."

Melanie looked over at Jake and he looked at her and squeezed her hand again, and she just knew that everything would be alright as long as she had Jake.

Melanie filled out the forms, had the physical and the sonogram all with Jake by her side the whole time. Jake and Melanie walked out of the clinic hand in hand, but what they didn't know was a reporter for the New York Times had saw them and recognizes Melanie as Andrew's ex fiancee.