Hey everybody... okay, here´s the next chapter, I know it´s short but it´s important. anyway, hope you like it, and happy easter :p
Chapter 16: father?
Dougie´s POV:
I stood at her doorstep in front of her house in Denmark just 4 hours later. I noticed that there wasn´t a car home so Kasper probably wouldn´t be here. I opened the door carefully and immidiately heard the sobs coming from the bedroom. I stopped right outside of the bedroom and sighed. I wasn´t sure what the scene in front of me would look like. I pressed the door open just a little bit, but it was enough to see the edge of the bed where Maria sat with her head in her hands. As I opened the door wider, she eventually looked up at me. The look in her eyes scared me. She looked at me her eyes showing fear and sadness. I felt lost as I knew I probably couldn´t do anything to help her. I walked over to her bed and sat myself down beside her and put my hand on her back, drawing circles. The sobs slowed and she relaxed more. She leaned her head against my shoulder and softly cried on. I sighed and held her close to me and let her soak my shirt in tears.
As we had been sitting there for what seemed like ages, I heard the sound of a car in the driveway. I looked at Maria – who had shot up from her position as soon as she´d heard the noise – with a panicked expression on my face. She was panicking too, and quickly motioned for me to hide. I looked around in the room and scanned it for places to hide. As I heard the front door open and then close again I started panicking even more. In the end Maria motioned for me to hide under the bed.
As Kasper came into the bedroom he walked straight into the bathroom and locked the door, and I was out from under the bed. I was on my way out of the room but stopped and turned around to face her. "I better get out, call me later, okay? We should go to the doctor´s tomorrow," I whispered to her and she just nodded in answer. "You sure, you´ll be okay?" I asked just before I headed out. She nodded again and tried to smile at me.
She had called me just a few hours later, when Kasper was sitting in the living room watching a football match. We´d agreed to meet up at the hospital the next day so that we could find out who the father of Maria´s child was. She hadn´t been able to tell Kasper, that she was pregnant, yet. Even though she´d said she could just do this alone I´d refused to let her.
Now, sitting in the waiting room of the hospital she was really scared. In fact she had been hyperventilating for the last quarter and I´d been trying to tell her that she really had to relax since it wasn´t good for her baby. The second hand on the clock on the wall seemed to go too slow. I was counting the seconds to make myself relax a little so I could at least seem strong to Maria. She didn´t need me breaking down right now, even though that was what I felt like doing.
A doctor walked into the waiting room and looked in her papers. I looked at her hoping it would be Maria´s name that she would call out, instead it was a young girl with short brown hair that stood up as she had called out the name. I sighed and went back to counting the seconds again. I was a little spaced out for a moment when suddenly Maria stood up. She stood in front of me waiting for me to come back to my senses. I looked up and noticed that a doctor stood in the doorway with her eyes planted on Maria.
I followed Maria as she approached the female doctor and we all walked into a little office. I didn´t understand a thing as the doctor started talking to Maria. They talked for a while and then Maria suddenly stood up and walked into a little bathroom. She was back a moment later and was wearing a hospital dress. She lied down on the bed and the doctor took some kind of test. She suddenly turned to me then and said something that I didn´t understand. Maria said something to the doctor then and the doctor then made an "Oh" sound. As she turned to me again, she talked to me in English so that I could understand. She told me that she had to make a blood test. I nodded and she got the little needle from the table.
The time went slow again as the doctor left the room. I listened to Maria´s heartbeat and it calmed me down a little even though I was starting to get more and more nervous. The doctor reappeared half an hour later and in her hand she held a piece of paper. I looked at Maria who had her eyes closed prepared for anything. "I have the test results and it showed Dougie´s blood matches the foetus," she told us and I suddenly felt both relieved and scared. What if this would end badly just like last time? The biggest question dominating my mind, though, was: what would Maria do with this news? Would she go back to Kasper? I kept thinking this way and I didn´t really look as Maria as she took in the news.