Chapter 8:

The next day Ria was feeling uneasy. Not nauseous but uneasy of finally knowing if she was pregnant or was sick. Her morning routine did not take as much time as usual, because she stopped eating in the mornings a few days ago. She usually drank a coffee, but decided against it today, because she heard that pregnant women should not drink coffee. She patiently stood at the curb where Gillian let her out yesterday night and waited. She was only standing there for a few minutes as she saw the silver BMW pull up next to her. She looked inside the car and saw a very cheery Gillian.

Ria noticed that Gillian was in some way glowing. Gillian seemed pretty excited about the whole idea of Ria might being pregnant. Ria thought what a great mother Gillian would be. She was successful and had enough money to support herself and the child. Her job was safe because she was Lightmans Partner and she was old enough. Ria was certain that she was too young to be a mother. She was only 24 and still had many plans in her life. Dreams she wanted to realize but would be impossible if she were to become a mother. And the father was even more immature than she was. Eli might be 25 almost 26 but he lived a childish bachelor life. She war at his apartment once and that was in the night of their one night stand. She only had a vague memory how it looked when she woke up in his bed, but she knew that it left a really bad impression on her.

Gillian pulled up to the parking lot of the gynecological hospital and Ria was forced out of her long sting of thoughts.

"This is it" Gillian chirped. Her cheerful attitude made Ria even more uncomfortable. They entered the clinic and all Ria saw were the colors light purple, light pink and light blue. Gillian approached the nurse at the reception "We are here to see Dr. Coleman. This is Ria Torres we have an appointment at 10 o'clock" The nurse looked down on the appointment calendar and handed Ria a clipboard and a pen. "Please fill that out." Gillian and Ria took a seat in the waiting room as Ria went through the questions. First there were basic questions like name, age, height and weight but as she came further down the questions became more and more personal like when was the last time she had been sexual active, did she have any sexually transmitted diseases and so on. Ria filled everything out, feeling very uncomfortable. She returned the sheet to the nurse at the reception and was asked to wait until her name was called.

Gillian was thumbing through a magazine about pregnancies as Ria looked around. She saw a lot of different kind of women. She saw some with children, some that were far along in their pregnancy, some with their husband or boyfriend, some with mothers or girlfriends. She even saw a girl barely 17 or 18 with a huge baby bump.

"Ria Torres, Examine Room 15 Please" Ria heard her name and snapped up immediately. Gillian held her hand and asked "Do you want me to come with you?" Ria took a moment to think about Gillians offer and accepted. She really appreciated her support on the whole situation. The two women made their way to the named room. Inside was another nurse. "You can take off your clothes behind that curtain" she told Ria and handed her one of the clinic gowns. It was a light pink matching the whole interior.

Ria just finished changing as an elderly looking man entered the room. "Hello, I'm Dr. Coleman. You must be Misses Torres" he introduced himself. "It's Miss." Ria corrected him. He took her comment to notice and said "Please take a seat Miss Torres." She seated herself in one of the gynecological chairs. Dr. Coleman turned to Gillian and gave her a warm smile "Well hello, Gillian. I haven't seen you here for quite some time." "Well it has been busy lately. With work and everything. But I always have time to be there for a dear friend" she answered him as she went over to Rias side and took her hand.

Dr. Coleman had a look on his chart, then turned to Ria and started to examine her. "So Miss Torres, since when have you been feeling off?" Ria thought for a moment and answered "For about 3 weeks. First I constantly felt tired. Then I started feeling nauseas and vomiting and started to get headaches." Dr. Coleman was feeling along her abdomen. As he went lower Ria hissed in discomfort.

"When was the last time you had your menstrual bleeding?" he continued scribbling down some notes. "Well I think about 2 months ago. But that is not to unusual for me. If I have a lot of stress I tend to skip my period for a month." Ria tried to make herself believe that it was impossible for her to be pregnant.

"Well we should take a look to be certain." He draped a surgical towel over her legs and bagged and lubed the ultrasound device he was going to insert into Ria.

As he did so Ria held her breath and shut her eyes. It was not that it hurt or anything, at that moment she prayed to every kind of god she could think of, to not be pregnant.

Gillians eyes were fixed on the monitor as the Dr. Coleman was looking for a fetus.

"Well, Miss Torres, I'm 100% sure that…"

AN: So little stop here, trying to keep the suspense :D Hope you enjoyed it. Please comment if you like it or not up until now. If not, why? So I can improve my writing skills or something like that.

If you don't like the pairing, well that is to bad for you, then you should not have read the story ;P