The days went by with nothing eventful happening except me freaking out at Phil in the park which had been one of my lowest moments, truth be told. But since then Phil had been offering more and more opportunities to hang out with him and Dan. As elated as I was at these offers, I declined at least half of them because I had been talking to an uneasy Dan in secret ever since the eggs were implanted. The day after that happened, I had received a call from Daniel.
"Jennifer tell me everything will be alright." Was the first thing I heard before I ever got a chance to say hello.
"Dan?" I questioned but he kept going.
"Jennifer listen to me, I need to know that everything will be alright. I can't talk to Phil and you said I could call you anytime so please tell me everything will be alright because I honestly don't know myself if it will be and-"
"Dan!" I erupted hurting both of our ears slightly.
"Bloody hell!" He cursed.
"It will be alright." I stated calmly. "But why the sudden unsureness of everything?" I inquired. He seemed to sound ashamed as he spoke, no doubt with his head declined in a bent position of misfortune and guilt.
"I just think things are moving way to bleeding fast. They told us it would take a very long time to find a good segregate then you came up so quickly and now you might have the fricking sea monkeys growing inside you already. And lately, me and Phil haven't really been," He tried to fine the right words as my heart was slowly breaking realizing how hard it must be for Dan to come to this conclusion. "As in love as we use to be." He finally finished. My heart fell flat in my stomach and sat there.
"Wait Dan, what are you saying, exactly?" I questioned, fearing where this was going.
"Well," Dan drawled. "Maybe Phil and I need a break from each other to realize who we are apart from each other and realize what we both want from this relationship then maybe, we'll figure that we aren't meant to be together at all." I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Are you suggesting," My throat caught on the word. "Divorce?" It came out high and squeaky with tears that were building up inside of me.
"Well, possibly." Dan confessed, my world was spinning. The two people who had more love for each other than any fairy tale ending I had ever read, were calling it quits? I couldn't let this play out, never ever.
"Dan, you can't, not when I'm possibly caring your child." I cried stroking where I imagined the baby was growing just then.
"And what are the chances of that actually happening?" He asked of me. My heart sank even lower at his icy words.
"Daniel, if you divorce Phillip, I will personally do everything in my power to make you feel as miserable as Phil will feel, not to mention your fans who have followed after all these years."
"Yeah well, maybe it's time I look out for myself and my feelings." Dan hissed. He was growing angry and so was I.
"You know what, I have to go." I growled back, both of us knowing it was a lie but not saying so. "You stop thinking about divorce and replace it with thoughts of why you married Phil in the first place."
"Really? Is this really any of your business?" He asked coldly.
"Oh, Daniel, you made it my business." I laughed coolly back. "Now, if you still feel the same way about the marriage, then and only then can you even mention it to Phil. However, if I am pergnant then you have to keep your mouth shut about all of this until this baby is all grown up and understands why it is happening and you can explain it to them." I ordered savagely. "Deal?" There were crickets for a long while.
"Fine." He promised. I was able to breathe again, I hadn't realized I was even holding my breath.
"Good, see you around." I muttered into the phone.
"Yep, bye." He replied back before we both hung up. I hit end then fell deeper into my chair and realized I may have just saved the marriage of Dan and Phil single-handed. But I didn't enjoy it for long but I had to rush to the bathroom and hold my own hair back as my stomach forced up its contents. I didn't know if it was from the nerves from the conversation or if I was getting sick but that was the first sign of any pregnancy.
As the days passed by, I got more and more signs that I was indeed pregnant. More morning sickness, weird food cravings that I experienced on my walk with Phil, foods that made me sick just by the smell of them, I was almost always tired, my boobs were so sensitive but the last thing that let me know for sure was that I was several days late for my usually prompt period. I kept in touch with Dan and Phil both separately and together throughout the two weeks but I tried to keep my distance since I freaked out at the park.
On the fourteenth day from when I had got the eggs implanted, I took the pregnancy test out of its kit. I noticed I had to drink a ridiculous amount of liquids before I could even take the test. So I made a gallon of lemonade and water, plus the Sunny D I had bought the day previous and then proceeded to guzzle it all down. Within twenty minutes, I had to pee. Just when I was in position to let loose on the stick, there was a knock at the door. I wasn't sure if I had heard anything but I put down the stick, pulled up my pants and answered the door.
I was shocked to see Dan and Phil standing there with a small bag of what looked like take out and ice cream which made my mouth water immediately.
"Hello." Phil smiled sheepishly then pulled me into a hug.
"H-Hey." I managed to spit out and tried to hide my surprise and shock.
"We had dinner earlier and were in the neighborhood plus, we hadn't heard from you in awhile and we wanted to drop by." Phil continued then both waited to see if I would invite them in.
"Come in." I opened the door wide and let them enter. Dan wasn't really saying much and tried not to look uncomfortable as he set down the take out on the table then pulled out another smaller bag from his pocket.
"Here we also got this for you too." He mumbled and handed me the small bag clumbisly. I didn't get a good grip on it in time and it fell to the floor where its contents were tossed out and flew to tap my foot. "Fuck." Dan mubled as I bent down and picked it up. It was another home pergnancy test. I blushed but not as badly as Dan did. "Right. So um, why don't you uh..." he made an akward hand gesture suggesting I stuck the stick up myself. I went redder then laughed at his ignorance at such an akward subject.
"You don't push it up, Dan." I managed between gasps for air. How in the hell would these two manage to raise a daughter? I thought then instantly took it back. They'd figure it out like they had for everything else life had thrown their way and handle it somewhat gracefully as well. "I have to just pee on it." I finished the explaination, wiping the tears away as Dan and Phil chuckled at they misunderstanding. "I was actually about to use the one that Nadia gave me." I noted then wrapped my arms around myself nervously. Phil smiled and rubbed my shoulder to try to comfort me. It worked somewhat then I headed to the bathroom again. "Since I have to pee like a racehorse, who wants to find out if I'm pregnant?" I asked excitedly and nervously which got them, more like Phil, excited and nervous too.
I shut the door and eyed up the toilet then grabbed the stick already out of the box while placing the one Dan and Phil had given me on the sink's edge. I pulled down my pants and underwear then sat on the toilet's edge.
"It's just you and me now." I muttered to the stick as I got in position. I hadn't realized how long I had been holding it and when I let loose, I let it all out in a grateful flood. Whoooosshhhh. "Pee like a racehorse indeed." I laughed to myself at the sound which reminded me of my childhood. But my flood was too great and I lost grip of the little stick. "Fuck." I whispered to myself. Once I had finished, I fished it out of the toilet's depths then looked to see if the stick was processing, which it was. I washed my hands throughly then set the stick in the sink where it had to season before it told me if I was pregnant or not.
I walked out of the bathroom with my phone in hand where a timer was counting down. Dan and Phil both looked up to see me, expectantly.
"I don't know yet." I informed them, showing them the timer in my hand. Dan nodded and went back to staring at his enterlocked fingers while Phil patted the cusion next to him for me to sit. We were all quiet as the timer ticked off the seconds with an agonizing slowness, which was maddening. I knew my take out was getting cold and I hoped someone had thought to put the ice cream into the freezer as the timer let out a pulse and a beep to inform everyone that the time had come. All three of us rose to their feet but I was the one who went back to the bathroom to find out if our futures would be entertwinded as Dan's fingers had been.
Mine were shaking as I reached for the little white stick. I looked in the mirror at the nervous girl behind the glass. She looked scared and unsure but then she smiled and nodded which made me more sure of myself as I raised the stick's proclaimation to my eyesight.