"OK Bren, stay calm. It could just as easily be negative as it could be positive. Just don't jump to any conclusions." Brenda whispered to herself as she stood in the bathroom waiting for the result of her home pregnancy test.
"Bren, come on. I gotta get in there." Chelsea called out knocking on the bathroom door.
"Gimme a minute Chelse." she answered before picking up the test stick and looking down at it. "Damn, two lines. You have got to be kidding me." she whispered looking down at it. She put the test stick in her pocket of her bathrobe and hid the box before opening the bathroom door. "Sorry Chelse. You can go in now." she said looking over at her as she went towards hers and Roger's bedroom.
"Is everything OK Bren?" she asked looking over at her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I have to wake Roger up. He has a doctors appointment." she said looking over at her.
"OK sweetie, but if you need to talk I'm here." she said standing in the doorway.
"I know Chelse, but I'm fine. Really." she smiled before going into the bedroom.
"Roger. Roger, you have to get up. Roger." she called out shaking him out of his sleep.
"Yeah, I'm up Baby. What time is it?" he groaned looking around the room.
"It's 7:45. Remember, you have an 8:30 doctors appointment." she said looking down at him as she sat next to him on the bed.
"Thanks Baby. Is everything OK? You look weird." he asked sitting up looking over at her.
"It depends on how you look at it." she said looking down at him.
"What does that mean?" he asked looking over at her worried.
"Um.. Roger, I'm pregnant." she said looking over at him.
"You're what? When?" he asked looking over at her.
"I was late for my period, so on my way home from dropping Rosie off at school I bought a test and I just took it. I'm pregnant." she told him as he began getting out of the bed. "Roger, what's the matter? Talk to me." she asked looking up at him.
"We're pregnant? Baby, this is big. I mean, really big, but how? I mean, we use..." he started when she interrupted him.
"Not 100 percent effective. It's only about 80 something percent effective against pregnancy." she laughed getting up to go to him.
"This is great Baby. We're gonna have another baby." he whispered taking her face in his hands before leanind down to kiss her.
"It is?" she asked looking up at him.
"Are you kidding? Bren, this is amazing. I love you so much." he smiled wrapping his arms around her waist before picking her up to kiss her again.
"I love you too Roger." she smiled holding him tight.
"Is anyone home?" he asked looking up at her.
"Yeah, Chelse just went into the bathroom and I think Mark is still here." she laughed as he put her down.
"We have to tell everyone. And you're going to the doctor today too." he smiled looking down at her.
"OK Baby. I'll go." she laughed looking up at him.
"I'm gonna go tell everyone, you get dressed." he smiled looking down at her.
"Roger, don't you think we should tell them together?" she asked smiling up at him.
"You're right. We'll take everyone out for dinner and we'll tell them then." he smiled looking down at her.
"OK, but do you think you can keep it from Mark long enough to wait for dinner?" she asked looking up at him.
"Of course I can. What do you think I am a woman?" he laughed looking down at her.
"Oh yeah, now remind me, who was the first one to tell Collins when I was pregnant with Roger?" she asked smiling up at him.
"OK, that was me. But in my defense, it was my first time and I was young. I promise, I'll be good this time." he smiled leaning down to kiss her.
"OK Baby. We have to get ready for the doctor." she smiled looking up at him.
"OK. I do love you Brenda." he smiled looking down at her.
"I love you too Roger." she smiled as she watched him leave the bedroom.
"How are you feeling Mrs. Davis?" the nurse asked as she followed her into the examing room.
"I'm OK. I took a pregnancy test this morning and it was positive." she smiled as they entered the room.
"Congratulations. Those things are pretty good. It's very rare that you get a false negative on those. When was your last period?" she asked looking up at her as she got on the examining table.
"Last month on the 14th." she said looking over at her.
"According to that you're 5 weeks pregnant." she smiled looking over at her.
"Really?" she asked looking up at her.
"We'll do an ultra sound just to make sure, but according to our chart, yeah." she smiled looking over at her.
"Can my husband come in?" she asked looking over at her.
"Sure. I'll go get him. The doctor will be in shortly." she smiled looking over at her.
"Thank you." Brenda smiled looking up as the door closed behind her. As she sat on the examing table she looked around at all the posters that were on the walls warning about diseases, birth defects and smoking. As her eyes fell on one poster inparticular, she began to get scared. It warned about practicing safe sex to ward off unwanted pregnancy's and STD's including HIV. HIV? Pregnancy? She and Roger always used condoms because of his HIV, but now she was pregnant. If she could get pregnant, could she be positive too. As she waited for Roger and the doctor to come into the room she worried about the chances of her or the baby being positive. She hopped off of the table and began pacing the room.
"Hey Baby. What did the doctor say?" Roger asked as he entered the room.
"Roger, if I'm pregnant, could I be positive too?" she asked looking up at him wit tears in her eyes.
"No Baby. Why would you think that?" he asked sitting her down in the chair in the corner of the examing room.
"That poster says that practicing safe sex wards off unwanted pregnancy and HIV. I'm pregnant Roger. If that got through..." she started as the door opened.
"Mrs. Davis, it's OK. It is possible to be pregnant and not be HIV positive, but we will continue to test you just to make sure." the doctor said standing in the doorway.
"Really?" she asked looking up at him.
"Yes really. It's OK Mrs. Davis. We're gonna take good care of you and the little one." he smiled looking over at her.
"See Baby. Everything is gonna be OK." Roger said looking up at her.
"I hope so Roger. If anything happens..." she started when he interrupted her.
Don't think about that Bren. Just think about taking care of yourself and the baby." he told her leaning up to kiss her head.
"Do you feel better Bren?" Roger asked looking down at her as they walked back to the loft.
"Yeah, I do. I'm sorry for the melt down back there." she said looking up at him.
"It's OK Baby. But you can't worry so much now. It'll effect the baby." he said putting his arms around her.
"I know. I have to be careful now that I havce the baby to think about." she smiled looking up at him.
"Don't worry Baby. I'll take care of you." he smiled leaning down to kiss her head as they continued to walk to the loft.
