Work was pretty slow at the moment, which stood me in good stead as I was feeling far too stressed to concentrate properly. I turned my head to look at Tess, she was slouched on the desk busy making a penny spin.
"Hey Tess, fancy going and getting some lunch?"
"You ate five doughnuts and you're still hungry?! Do you need worming or something?" Tess kidded sitting up rubbing her tired eyes.
"I'm having a fat day….So lunch? I need to talk to you anyway"
Tess pushed herself back from the desk and stood up grabbing her coat and bag, before looking at me and gesturing to get a move on. I quickly grabbed my coat and purse and walked with her to the nearest deli.
Tess ripped a bite out of her sandwich and gave me those quizzical eyes while she chewed what was in her mouth. I took a sip of my coke looking round the deli feeling slightly unnerved by her eyes. You would think seeing as we have been partners for so long that I would be used to it, but nope you never get used to the quiz eye.
I jumped when Tess through her sandwich down and gave that dead pan look.
"What is it Chandler…..Something is bothering you…"
"If you say anything to anyone about this, I will kill you and don't forget I know how to commit the perfect murder" I hissed to her. Tess sat back and crossed her arms, she had one of her dirty smiles across her face.
"You and Evan by any chance get down to doing the naasssttyy?"She gave me a sly wink, looking all smug as if she had cracked the case.
"No, nothing to do with Evan"
"Then what"
I sat back in the booth and looked up at the ceiling taking a deep breath in 'She is your best friend Cat, you need someone right now and at the end of the day Vincent might not be around anymore' I let the breath out before looking at Tess. Her head was cocked to one side with a confused expression spread across her face.
"Cat I'm here for you no matter what….You know that right?!"
"I do Tess…I do…It's just that…..
"It's just what Cat? Tell me…..I'm starting to worry"
"Tess…I'm pregnant"
Tess burst out laughing making the whole deli turn around and stare at us, I gave them a sorry smile before turning my attention back to Tess who was wiping away her tears whilst trying to speak between giggles.
"Th…That requires..y…y..y you to have had sex Cat"
I scrunched my sandwich paper up and threw it at her in sheer disbelief, she jumped as it hit her realising that I was deadly serious.
"Is it Evans?!"
"Why does everything have to be about Evan….There is more than one man in the world Tess." I exclaimed leaning towards her, looking at her with shear disbelief.
"Well who's the father then?" 'Oh crap….. I didn't think that part through. Well bloody done'
"It was a one night stand….You know how those things go"
"Yeah I do and I usually use protection Cat."
"I'm not 16 Tess I do know…. And we did! It must have split though" I looked away pissed off with the fact that Tess thought I could be so stupid.
"You know what I mean Cat…."
"I don't see the point of being on the pill I don't have sex often enough to spend however much a month on it"
"Yeah but just think, you could save yourself the heartache of having to have an abortion now" My head whipped round when she said that word abortion.
"No I don't" With that I grabbed my coat and purse and left the deli and went for a walk.