Chapter 7

"Hey," Bay walked into her dad's office where she found him sitting at his desk busy at work. "I have an appointment today for a DNA test."

"Alright." John said.

"Would you mind coming?" Bay gave her dad a pleading look. "Tank and Emmett will be there. I need help keeping the peace. "

"Are you going to ask your mom and Regina too?"

"They're coming, I just asked them." Bay pushed a stray piece of hair behind her ear. "So are you coming?"

"I'll be there." John looked at his wristwatch. "What time is it at?"

"Nine-thirty." Bay said and then headed towards the door. "Thanks dad."

Bay walked down the hallway into the kitchen where both of her moms were having breakfast.

"I talked to Daphne this morning." Bay said as she entered the room.

"Really?" Katherine said. "Does she know?"

"I told her last week." Bay admitted.

"You told her first?" Katherine was surprised.

"She's my sister." It felt much safer talking to Daphne than the adults.

"So how is she doing?" Regina said before taking a sip of her milk.

"She is great but she wishes she were here for today." Bay said as she sat down at the table where Katherine had placed a piece of toast.

"Thanks for the toast mom." Bay said before taking a bite.

"I," Katherine paused. "You've been eating it for weeks I guess I know why now."

"So have you guys told Toby the latest gossip yet?" Bay said in between another bite of toast.

"I figured you could let him know yourself." Katherine said to Bay.

An hour later Bay pulled into the hospital parking lot with Regina and Katherine. The parking lot was full of cars but empty of people. Bay had hoped Emmett would already be here.

"You ready?" Regina asked Bay.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Bay joked.

When they got into the office Bay checked in and took a seat next to Regina and Katherine. Within a few minutes John came in and not long after Emmett and Tank had both checked in. They both took a seat across from each other. Bay was slightly relieved that Emmett did not choose the seat right next to her. They hadn't spoken since their awkward exchange the previous day.

"Bay Kennish." A woman stepped out from a door leading to the back of the room.

Bay stood up but was surprised when Emmett followed.

"I didn't want the talk." Emmett signed to Bay possibly in an attempt to lighten the mood.

The woman led them to a small room labeled Triage. The woman took Bay's temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and more while Emmett sat in the chair next to her.

"I'll be right back." The nurse said to Bay before leaving the room and shutting the door behind her.

Bay sat in the silence that was not abnormal being around Emmett though this was uncomfortable.

"How was your flight here?" Bay signed hoping to break the silence.

"They ran out of pretzels." Emmett laughed.

"Oh no." Bay laughed too. "How terrible."

"How are you?" Emmett genuinely asked.

"Nervous."

"So how does this work?" Emmett asked.

"They take a huge needle," Bay said and made a motion of a syringe going into her stomach and pulling out liquid. "Then they test it to see whose DNA it is from."

"Oh." Emmett said.

"Sounds great right?" Bay joked.

The nurse walked in before Emmett could say anything.

"So we're going to go to another room for the amniocentesis was there anyone else you wanted with you?"

"My moms agreed to wait outside."

The nurse gave her a funny look but walked towards the end of the hallway. Emmett and Bay both followed the nurse into a clean room with an ultrasound machine and a patient table.

"If you could change into this." The nurse said handing her a funny looking hospital gown with pants. "The doctor will be in, in a minute."

"What did she say?" Emmett asked.

"I have to change into this." Bay motioned towards the gown the woman had given her.

"Well," Emmett signed. "I won't look." Emmett laughed.

Bay slipped her shirt off while Emmett tried to look away.

"Wow!" Emmett said stunned by the size of Bay's small stomach.

"You said you wouldn't look!" Bay swatted towards Emmett.

"I just wasn't expecting…" Emmett trailed off. "I'm sorry." Emmett apologized.

Bay put the gown over her bra and replaced her pants with the funky pajama like ones they gave her.

"Could you tie this?" Bay asked Emmett and turned around.

Emmett grabbed each string and started to tie them together. Bay took a deep breath as Emmett's hands briefly touched the skin of her back. It had been so long since they had been this close.

When Emmett finished tying Bay's gown Bay took a seat on the ultrasound table.

"I am really not looking forward to this." Bay complained to Emmett.

"Don't look at me." Emmett joked. "I'm not the one…"

Bay interrupted Emmett before he could finish. "I know you think that's funny but don't even go there right now."

"I'm sorry." Emmett started again "This..."

Bay interrupted him again. "No Emmett," Bay stopped him. "This is not about you. You have made it all about you as if it's happening to you. This is happening to me."

"What do you mean?" Emmett asked.

"After what happened with Tank," Bay looked away at a poster about preeclampsia. "You completely ignored what happened to me and left me. When I needed you the most. You ended things."

"You cheated on me!" Emmett slammed his fist hard on the chair's armrest.

"Wow! I was not aware that you were there to see what happened." Bay's eyes began to water. "Do you know everything that happened?"

"I know what you told me." Emmett said.

"Yes!" Bay said. "And I barely know what happened. "I'm not sure I know anyway."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm not sure." Bay thought for a moment. "I've been having these nightmares."

"That doesn't mean anything." Emmett put both hands up as to say 'what?'

"If you don't get it now, you never will."

"Fine!" Emmett put his hands up. "I guess you don't need me here." Emmett stood up to leave.

"I never asked." Bay said angry. "Run! Like you always do."

"What does that mean?" Emmett sat back down.

"Every time you get upset with me you take off. Instead of taking time to solve the issue you just run."

"That's not true!" Emmett protested.

"When we first got together you left me every time you got upset. You went off to who only knows where. You blamed me for everything that was happening to you."

"I wanted you to stay out of it." Emmett interrupted.

"No, I cared about you and then you went and cheated on me."

"You cheated on me too!" Emmett interjected.

"I didn't cheat on you." Bay glared at Emmett. "As I was saying you cheated on me but I tried to be your friend anyway and still every time I upset you, you ran off instead of taking the time to listen to me."

"We weren't together."

"No, but we were still friends and you treated me like I was nothing. And then I cheated on Tank with you, which you didn't mind at all. I was there for you through everything."

"I tried to make it work." Emmett interjected.

"You didn't try. You cam home, which I appreciated but you continuously, blamed Daphne for all of our problems."

"I did try."

"No, you moved on. You let yourself believe that we were too different to make it work. I was willing to do anything but you were weak."

"Excuse me?" Emmett almost yelled.

"I was taken advantage of and couldn't remember anything and instead of supporting me, you accused me of cheating and left me hanging. You never asked how I was doing. You blamed me for everything."

"I didn't blame you."

"Emmett! Can't you see? You always blame everyone but yourself for your problems. If it's not mine it's Daphne's or your dad's or your mom's. Anyone but Emmett." Bay threw her hands up in the air. "If you can't see it then I don't know what is going to make it clear. All I know is that if you are this babies father you are really going to need to grow up."

"This isn't my problem." Emmett stood back up and walked to the door. He grabbed the handle and opened the door but when he did the doctor was standing in his way.

"Sorry," Emmett signed and sat back down.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Smith." She shook Bay's hand. "I'll be doing the procedure. Are you aware of everything?"

"Yes," Bay said. "They went over it at check in."

The doctor sat down and asked Bay to push the material of her gown up. The doctor squirted some warm gel over Bay's stomach and waved a wand over Bay's stomach revealing a tiny human on the ultrasound machine much like the one Bay had seen last week.

"Is that the baby?" Emmett asked shocked.

I guess he didn't know they would do an ultrasound. Bay thought. Much like everything else he doesn't really know.

"Yes it's is. It's as big as a plum." Bay signed to Emmett.

When the doctor had completed the ultrasound another person came in to help with the amniocentesis. Bay grabbed Emmett's hand and closed her eyes as the needle went into her stomach.

A few minutes later the doctor told Bay that she was done. They took a swab from Emmett's cheek and let Bay put her clothes back down.

An hour later Bay walked out into the waiting room with Emmett.

"Is dad and Tank still here?" Bay asked Katherine and Regina.

"Your dad had to leave and Tank left after they took a swab of his cheek."

"Well they said that we can leave now."

Bay checked out at the front desk and the four of them walked to the parking lot together. Just before they got too the car Bay stopped and almost fell over.

"Owe!" Bay screamed hunched over in pain.

"What's wrong?" Katherine asked.

Emmett kneeled down to Bay trying to help.

"Something's wrong!" Bay cried. "It hurts."

Regina ran to get help and within seconds a swarm of medical professionals were there to help.