I'm Screwed 3
"Carly?" I say leaning to my left.
"Yea?..." She says slowly closing the magazine.
"What are ultrasounds like?"
"Oh...well I've never been to one, but I read on the hospitals website that all they do is spread gel on your stomach and then they use this tool so they can see through you."
"I see..." I lean to my right, towards Freddie
"Are you nervous?" I say.
"Kind of...yea..." Freddie says grabbing my hand.
"My Mom said its nothing to worry about. But she told me to tell you the the gel is really cold..."
He continues. I grasp his hand tighter.
"Samantha Puckett?" A nurse says as she walks through the huge white doors.
I stay seated. Carly and Freddie were already standing, I was still holding Freddie's hand.
"C'mon Sam!" Carly says. Freddie just looks at me.
"I'm...I'm coming..." I got up slowly,(not because I was getting big, because I was only a bit bigger), once I reached the nurse, she held my other hand. She spoke with a slight country accent
"Don't worry,Hun! It's actually kind of fun!" I read her name tag. Darla.
"Thanks Darla" Carly said "I'm glad you are helping her out."
"Oh no problem! It's a part of the job,Honey Bunch!"
Pretty soon we reached a room that read 'Ultrasound'.
"Go on in! Dr. Kastelic is waiting for you!"
Freddie grabbed the door handle and twisted it, the door swung open with a creak.
"Hello Samantha! And friends." Dr Kastelic was an old man, maybe 65, he had a white goatee, and wore wide rimmed prescription glasses. He patted the odd looking lounge-like chair. I let go of Freddie's hand and sat on the comfy seat. He asked us some questions while the machine warmed up.
"So when did you conceive?" he asked, pen and clipboard ready.
"Ummm...It was about 2 weeks ago" I looked at Carly. She just smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
"Do you know who the father is?"
"Yes." He recorded the data.
"Who is he?"
"Freddie Benson" I couldn't see Freddie's face, but I knew he had just smiled.
"Did you consider abortion?"
"I thought about it..." I say.
"Do you plan on taking a Lamaze class?"
"I plan on being forced to take a Lamaze Class." he laughs
"Okay! That was the last question!" he turns around towards metal table with a gel tube, and some weird looking device next to it. He picks up the gel and a sort of spreading tool and gets to work.
"Please pull up your shirt." I do as he says pulling the bottom of my shirt under my chest. He spreads the gel. He picks up the odd device off the table.
"This will help me see 'through' you." he says as he put the thing on me and rubs it in. We all look towards the screen the corner.
"Hmmm...That's weird..." He says.
"What!"Carly and Freddie exclaim.
"Well...there are one too many parts..."
"What do you mean too many parts?" Freddie and Carly say in unison.
The doctor looks at them.
"Oh...you mean...okay." Freddie says
"Ohhhh...Okay...that's gross."
"It could be that the umbilical cord is in the wrong place..."
"Is that bad?" Carly asked.
"No, we could fix that...I'm going to go run some tests." He walks to the door and grabs the handle and looked back at the screen,puzzled.
"I'm going to be okay? Right?" I ask. Carly stood up and patted my hand.
"Yes, Sam. Dr Kastelic is the best there is."
We all sat there for about 15 minutes before Dr. K came back.
"Is the baby going to be okay?" Freddie asked wringing his hand.
"Yes the baby will be quite okay..."
"So then what's going on down there?" I ask I as I point to my stomach.
"Ummmmm...well...it's not just a baby..."
"What do you mean? Is Sam having some kind of mutant baby? Oh My God she is!" Carly asked. Dr.K looked at me and then to my friends.
"No. Sam is having twins, a boy and a girl."
"I'm having what's?" I say
"Twins?" he says with a hopeful smile.
"Wow..." Freddie said still wringing his hand nervously.
"That is soooo weird! Sam you have a twin! Melanie!"
"Yes that would make sense...That sometimes happens, one twin gets pregnant and has twins, its somewhat genetic."
"Thank You, Doc!" Carly says shaking his hand vigorously.
"Your welcome...Let me just wipe the gel of off Samantha."
"Please. Just call me Sam."
"Wow..." Freddie repeated.
He wiped off everything and then we left the hospital.
AT CARLY'S APARTMENT...
"I cannot believe you guys are having twins!"
"Wow..." Freddie had been repeating that one word over and over since we heard the news.
"Do you think he can hear us?" Carly whispered to me from across the room.
"I dunno...lets check!" I looked at Freddie
"HEY FREDDIE! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
"Wow..."
"Freddie?" Carly asked.
"Wow..."
"Freddie? You're scaring me." I say looking at Freddie, whose bent over with his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands.
"Wow..."
Alright he's going to ignore me? I'll make him pay... I look towards the sink and smile. I grab Freddie's hand and drag him to the sink.
"Hey,you've got one more chance. Just say hi or something."
"Wow..."
"You had your chance..."
"Sam? What are you doing?" Carly asks
"Oh...Nothing" I grab the sprayer connected to the sink and stuff it into Freddie's pants, I turn on the cold water, and squeeze the trigger.
"Wo- Aggh! That's cold! Sam? What are you doing?" I look at him and smile, then turn off the water.
"You had your chance..."
"What? Chance for what?" he turns to Carly, who just shrugs.
"Well Freddie...I can't really blame Sam...you were being annoying."
"What? I haven't said a thing !" Carly gives him the Why-You-So-Stoopid look.
"That's my babies daddy." I say Carly continues to talk to Freddie , who was having some technical difficulties getting the sprayer out of his pants.
"Well...ya kept on saying 'wow'. You must have said it at least 100 times or so..."
"Really?" Freddie asked still fiddling with the sprayer.
"It was more like 140." I say looking in the refrigerator for food.
"Seriously?..."
"Can you do nothing without help?" I say as I walk over to Freddie. He puts his hands up so I can get the sprayer out. It takes a while but I finally get it out.
"Thanks..." He kisses me on the forehead.
"Whatever..." I smile.
"Ready to go?" He asks, grabbing his coat.
"Do we have a choice, Pee-Pee pants?" I inquire as I look for my jacket
"Right here, Sam" Carly says as she tosses me the hoodie.
"Thanks!" I say as I run out the door after Freddie.
"Freddie! Wait!"
"Huh?...Okay..." Freddie says as he stops walking. His mind seemed to be somewhere else.
"We have to talk to you mother. Remember?"
"Oh..Yeah...Let go back."
"Yes...Lets!" I say holding out my hand as he walked towards me. When he got to me he grabbed my hand and smiled at me.
"What?"
"Nothing..."
"No...What's up?"
"Well...I was thinking about you and then I saw your face... and I don't know...it's stupid..."
"No It's not" I said as we kept walking swinging our hands.
"You won't laugh?" He pleaded.
"Girl Scouts Honor" I said as I put my right hand up. He laughed.
"Well...I was thinking about...how pretty...the babies would be...I guess." I stopped and smiled at him.
"You promised!" He said letting go of my hand.
"I wasn't going to laugh!" But he had already stormed off to inside his mothers Apartment.
IN 'S APARTMENT. ...
"TWINS?" She asked as she sat down with a plate of cookies.
"Yea...It feels so weird..." I say as I grab 5 out of the 10 cookies.
"How do you feel about it Freddie?" He was looking out the sitting room window.
"Fine" He said gruffly. He's still mad at me...I wasn't going to laugh...It was sweet...
"Oh...That's...nice." His mother said puzzled by her son's mood.
"There's 1 boy and 1 girl."
"Really? That's delightful!" She said she reached for a cookie, I smacked her hand. What? I'm the pregnant one... and suddenly I have a weird craving for pickles... and more cookies.
I grab 5 more and stuff two in my mouth.
"You seem...hungry..." said rubbing her hand.
"Yea..."
There's an awkward silence...Freddie's silent treatment didn't help.
"Well...It's been just cheesey talking to you!...Let's go Freddie."
"Oh...Well Goodbye! Call me if anything happens!" She called after me as I pushed Freddie through the door.
"Will do!" I say I attempt to grab Freddie's hand but he snatches it away. Then he walks faster.
"Freddie! Freddie stop! Please! Freddie!" I ran after him as he raced to elevator. Now ever so dumbly, I tripped on my shoe laces and fell. Hitting my head on the hallway's wall and floor. I was unconscious...
"I am such a bad boyfriend! What's wrong with me? God!"
"Shush Freddie! Sam's waking up!" I could hear Carly. Then I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw a curtain and some weird beeping thing, and white tile floor.
"Where am I?" I ask drowsily
"The hospital..." Carly says patting my hand.
"May I ask why...?"
"Uhm..well you fell and hit your head pretty hard...and...-" Freddie cut her off.
"And its all my fault! If I had just held your hand and walked by you...I suck...Don't I? I am a suckish person!...God! Ack! What is wrong with me Carly!" He continued this rant while I talked to Carly.
"What's up with him?" Carly inquired.
"Oh..." I struggled to sit up in my flat bed, my strength was near shot. "Well...He has ...panic attacks...but only when something happens that isn't his fault...that he thinks is...he is very..umm..sympathetic.."
"I see..."
"So why am I in here?"
"You tripped because running after Freddie. You hit your head on the wall and floor, and got a tiny skull fracture. Freddie carried you all the way to your car." Carly said as I looked at Freddie who was still pacing back and forth, talking to himself.
"Freddie?...Freddie?...Freddie!" I called after him a few times.
"Yea?" He answered semi-falling out of his guilt-trance.
"Carly? Could you give us a minute?" She looked at me then Freddie.
"Ohhhh...Ok...Hey Look! It's that guy. Hey Guy!" She walked away towards the imaginary guy.
"Freddie?" I said when I was sure Carly had left.
"Oh..." Carly winks,understanding " Hey look! Its that guy! Sup' Guy?" Carl called after the imaginary man. I wait until I'm sure Carly had left, then I pat the mattress next to me. Freddie sits down reluctantly.
"Im so sorry,Sam!" He grabs my hand.
"I wasn't going to laugh."
"What? You were'nt going to-"
"No, I wasn't. I actually thought it was sweet..."
"You did?" He asked looking me in the eyes.
"Yea... But you jumped conclusions!"
"I'm so sorry, Sa-"
"Stop, Stop right there." I cut him off
"But its all my fault! I..."
"You see? Freddie this wasn't your fault! Yet you turned it around to you! Freddie, look at me. I was hurt. It was an accident, and it would've have happened any way! Freddie you automatically thought I was going to laugh...and that hurt more than any concussion..."
"Sam ..."
"Freddie, I don't think you trust me..."
"I do Sam! I swear"
I look him in the eyes
"Do you really? Freddie, I want to be, with you but you have to truly, trust me. Okay?"
"Okay..." Freddie said with is head down.
"Alright, now help me get out of this bed..." I say sitting up.
"Alright..." Freddie grabs my hand and pulls it up as I get out of the bed.
"Text Carly that we're leaving."
"What's the magic word?" Freddie teased
"POTATO! Now text Carly..."
"It was actually asparagus..." He said as he clicked some buttons on his phone. I pulled my pants on and grabbed my purse.
"You ready, Freddie?"
"Ha..you rhymed, that was cute..." he smiled as he put his arm around me and we walked out the room.
AT SAMS HOUSE
Well when we got home I realized I was really hungry. But not normal person hungry, more like pregnant woman hungry. I told him to go get me some ice cream, a sub with a lot of bacon, some pickles, and chocolate donuts. I was watching tv when the doorbell rang. I pushed myelf off the couch and went to the door.
"Jonah? What are you doing here? Go away." I said as I held the door open.
"Slow down toots. I just-"
"Don't call me that. When you tried to cheat on me all that stopped. You do remember me breaking up with you? Right?" I said leaning against the door.
"Yea..but Sammy, babe, I miss ya! I need ya! And well..." Then he leaned and kissed me. And then I heard something shatter, a pickle jar. Oh no...
"And you told me to trust you..." I heard Freddie say as he looked at me.
"Freddie, It's not what you think! I promise! He came here and just kissed me. It didn't mean a thing!" But Freddie was already storming away.
"Freddie please! You have to believe me! Freddie!" I said as he drove off.
"You want to continue our little lovefest?" Jonah said.
"Get lost, Jonah"
"But, Sammy... I only want to be with you, I know that."
"I'm pregnant." I said sitting on the front step.
"Lying to me won't make me go away..." He said dumbly, as he put his arm around me. I shook my should to move his hand.
"I'm not! I have babies inside me and...they're Freddie's." I said taking a breath.
"Oh.."
"Yeah. 'Oh'"
"I messed up..."
"Yea...kind of.." I say with my face in my hands.
AT FREDDIE'S HOUSE
(A/N: This is in no ones POV)
"She was kissing him Mom!"
"Are you sure?"
"What do you mean 'am I sure? Yes, mom I think I'd know when I'm getting cheated on."
"Did you let her explain?"
"Explain what?"
"What happened." Freddies mom said as she sat down next to him.
"I KNOWwhat happened. He came by and they started making out..." Freddie said with a tinge of hurt in his voice.
"No, Freddie. That girl loves you."
"What?" Freddie said.
"And you love her, too. I can see it in your eyes."
"Mom? Are you ok? You're losing me."
"Samantha deserves a chance. To at least be heard out. And Freddie you HAVE to listen to her. You can't come running home whenever you have a problem. Sam and You, you are meant for eachother."
Do I love Sam? The answer was clear.
" I've got to go, Mom."
"I know." She said with her hands in her lap
"I love you, too. Mom"
"Goodbye."