Chapter 6

A couple more weeks passed and Susan and David had quickly settled back into a comfortable routine. Things were better between them now than they had been in a long time and Susan felt sure that the worst days were behind them. Now they could look forward to their future together, which she was sure was going to be wonderful.

She rolled out of bed and headed to the bathroom to get ready for another day at the office, moaning as she felt a wave of nausea hit her. She barely made it to the bathroom in time before she was sick again. She had been sick off and on for several days and at first she assumed that she had just caught some sort of bug that was going around her office. But now, days later, she wondered if it wasn't something more serious. She thought maybe it could be due to all of the stress she had been under lately. Between her job and her marriage, she certainly had plenty to worry about.

"Maybe I'll feel better soon, now that everything is alright." she thought to herself, as she turned on the hot water and stepped into the shower. "But if I don't start feeling better in a day or two, I'll go to the doctor."

Then pushing the thought to the back of her mind, she finished getting ready and headed off to another day at work.

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"Hey, man. You alright this mornin'?" Mark asked, as he looked over at Glen, who was sitting in the passenger seat of their rental car.

"I'm fine. Just don't feel like talking." Glen grumbled in response.

"Still no luck finding your mystery woman?" Mark asked.

"Don't start with me this morning, Mark! I'm not in the mood!" Glen warned.

"You know, I'm startin' to get worried about you. You know we've been friends for a long time and I've never seen you like this before. You're fallin' apart, man. Your in-ring performance has gone down-hill so fast that Vince is startin' to really complain and in case you haven't noticed, you look like shit! When's the last time you actually got a good night's sleep?"

"Dammit Mark! I told you not to fuck with me this morning!" Glen yelled. "My work is fine, I'm fine, everything's just fuckin' fine! So leave me the hell alone!"

Mark glared at Glen for a long moment before finally turning his attention back to the road.

"You know, I hope to hell you find this woman soon. Hopefully she'll be willing to give you a little bit more of whatever the hell it is that's got you so tore up in the first place, then maybe you won't be such a pain in the ass anymore!"

Ignoring Mark's comment, Glen continued to stare out the window, watching the scenery fly by him. Shaking his head in frustration, Mark slammed his foot down harder on the gas pedal. It was going to be one hell of a long trip!

A few days later, Susan sat in her doctor's office, waiting on the results of her tests. She was still feeling sick and she had started having a few dizzy spells, which really concerned her. Whatever was wrong was obviously not going to clear up on its own, so she had quickly made an appointment with her physician. She sat on the table, twiddling her thumbs as she waited for the doctor to come back. Finally, she entered the room and took a seat in the chair across from Susan.

"Well, Mrs. Chandler. I think I've figured out what's been making you so sick."

"What?" Susan asked nervously, hoping that it wasn't serious.

"You're pregnant." the doctor replied with a smile.

"Pregnant?" Susan repeated in surprise.

"The sickness you've been having is nothing more than morning sickness and the dizzy spells are perfectly normal too. Lot's of pregnant woman complain of feeling light-headed for the first two or three months of the pregnancy." the doctor stated.

Susan stared at her in shock, wondering for a moment how this could have happened. They had always been extremely careful with birth control before, neither of them wanting to have a child before they were both ready for the responsibility. But Susan realized that in the weeks since they had made up, they had been less cautious, although neither one had complained about the lack of protection.

"Do you know how far along I am?" she asked, suddenly feeling excited at the prospect of being a parent.

"According to information that you gave me, I would estimate that you are approximately 6 weeks along." the doctor replied.

"Six weeks." she repeated, her hands automatically going to her stomach, amazed at the thought of the new life that was growing inside of her.

Thanking the doctor, Susan quickly got dressed and left the office, anxious to get home and share the news with her husband. After ten years together, they were finally going to start their family. On the drive home, she turned up the radio and began to sing along with the songs, feeling more happy and carefree than she had in a long time.

"Six weeks." she repeated again with a smile as she wondered how her husband would take the happy news. She hoped he would be as thrilled as she was. Maybe this baby was exactly what they needed to firmly cement their relationship. After everything that had happened, she was thankful that they had been able to work through their problems and stay together. She was glad now that she had decided not to tell David about being unfaithful….

Susan suddenly wheeled into an empty parking lot, slamming on the brakes and putting the car in park. Grabbing her purse from the floor, she dumped the contents onto the seat next to her, rummaging through them as she searched for her calendar.

Six weeks!, she thought again, as she found the current day's date and began to count backwards. She and David had only been back together for three weeks! She realized with growing horror that six weeks took her back to week of her business trip…and her night with Glen.

"Oh God!" she moaned, as she felt another wave of nausea hit her. She barely got her door open in time as she lost her lunch in the middle of the parking lot.

Once she felt the wave of sickness leave her, her mind began to race as she tried to comprehend what was happening. If the doctor's estimate was correct, then there was no way that it could be David's child. She hadn't been intimate with her husband for several weeks before she discovered his affair and they had only resumed their relationship three weeks ago.

This is not happening! How could I have been so stupid? So careless?, she thought in a panic, as she remembered that fateful night so many weeks ago.

I'm carrying another man's child!, she thought and she began to cry as the realization hit her.

I can't let this happen! I won't do this! I'll get rid of it. I'll have an abortion and David will never know that this happened, she thought, but then she realized that this child was part of her too and she knew she could never bring herself to go through with it.

"I'll just have to lie to David about how far along I am." she said to herself, knowing that three weeks was a big difference, but she hoped that she would be able to pull it off without him suspecting anything.

"I hate to lie to him again but he can't know the truth." she stated, as she finally pulled out of the parking lot and headed for home. "It would destroy our family and I'm not about to let that happen!"