My heart stopped completely. I let out two small words. "Excuse me?"
The doctor seemed happier than I did at that moment. "Congratulations Helga! You're pregnant!"
Right as I was about to say my next choice of words, Rob slammed the door open and said, "I couldn't bare waiting any longer! I can't hear anything through the door! Is it anything serious? What's wrong Helga?"
"Rob...I'm pregnant." I stared into his eyes, hoping to see his eyes light up. I got what I wanted. He rushed over to me, and grabbed me. He cupped my face with his hands and gave me a tender kiss. He looked into my eyes and whispered quietly, "We're gonna have a baby..." He smiled and hugged me one more time.
"Helga, we believe you are about one and a half months pregnant. Once again, congratulations! I'll let you two have some alone time." With that, he walked out, and closed the door gently behind him.
Immediately, Rob started rubbing my stomach. He sat up and said in disbelief, "We're having another baby! Oh my god, we're having another baby!" By this point, he was shouting, and tears were running down his face. I grabbed my cell phone and called everybody we knew. The people I didn't call we're my parents and Arnold. My parents weren't supportive of me getting married at such a young age, and having children so early. And Arnold didn't deserve to know.
When I arrived home, I realized that since finals were over, I didn't have any classes for 4 months! I could relax, and go through morning sickness at home, rather than at school.
I hoped because I had no classes I could spend a lot of time with Rob, but sadly work took up his whole schedule. He went on 2 business trips in a span of one month! He wouldn't tell me what they were for. I trusted him that it was more important than spending time with his family.
Every day when Rob would leave for work, I would take Caressa to the park and bring a notepad to write down possible names for the baby on the way. Because of my love as a little girl for poetry and literature, I wanted to name my baby something unique that not many had heard of. Caressa was the name of my favorite poet when I was 13.
I was now two months pregnant, and my baby bump was invisible. As I looked at the clock, it said 10:30. Caressa and I had been playing with blocks on the floor of our living room.
"Mommy, I want a cookie!" she exclaimed suddenly.
"Alright sweetie, since you've been such a good girl for mommy, how about we go get you a cookie and a drink?"
"Yay!" Her face lit up as she waddled towards the kitchen. I followed behind her and opened the cabinet. "Sweetie, I'm so sorry but we ran out of cookies!"
I looked down at her and found a pouting lip quivering in sadness. I picked her up and told her, "Because you've been so sweet today, I'll take you out to get some ice cream. How does that sound Caressa?"
"Yay!" She screamed! She jumped out of my arms, and ran towards the front the door. She opened it quickly, and darted to the stairs.
"Caressa, wait for mommy! I don't want you hurting yourself!" I yelled.
I caught up with her, and because The Coffee Hut wasn't far from my apartment I walked there to get in some well needed exercise for the day.
Because Caressa loves to walk I haven't used the stroller I months. I make her hold my hand though because the streets are busy.
On the way to The Coffee Hut, Caressa had collected a bouquet of small flowers and various weeds. She was so excited to get ice cream she crushed the flowers in her petite hand. She didn't seem to mind.
I opened the doors, and got in line. I got Caressa a vanilla ice cream and some apple juice. When I received my coffee, we headed to sit at a table. As my eyes scanned the room empty spots, I spotted a familiar head. One that was football-shaped. I was staring at him in disbelief, and suddenly his eyes met with mine. I turned away as fast as possible, pretending I hadn't noticed him. I just prayed that Caressa wouldn't become aware off his presence because if she did she would run over to him, and I would be forced to make contact with him. It would make it even more awkward because he was with his girlfriend.
I sat down at a table across the room Arnold, making sure my back was towards him so that Caressa's view would be blocked. After sitting for a few minutes, I was relieved Caressa hadn't noticed. All I needed to do was obscure Caressa's vision for a few more minutes. My luck changed in a split second. I shifted my body to grab my phone out of my pocket, so I was no longer covering Arnold. Caressa saw this immediately.
She grabbed her crushed bouquet of flowers, and ran over to Arnold and his girlfriend. I had to talk to him. I was now being forced to.
"Arnowld!" She yelled as she came to a halt next to him.
"Um…hi Caressa! How have you been?" His voice sounded shaky and worried.
I got up out of my seat and made my way over. I wasn't prepared for this.
"Sorry, you two. She moves so quickly nowadays it's hard to grab her before she darts away."
"It's alright Helga." Caressa poked Arnold, who bent down and looked at her. She handed him the bouquet of flowers. "Thank you Caressa! They're beautiful!" She gave him one last smile, before heading back to finish her ice cream. She was only two, so she had the attention span of a goldfish.
"Sorry about that again. I'll just leave you two alone now." I was just about to turn around, when Arnold said, "Its fine Helga. I'll see you around."
The whole time the incident was taking place, Arnolds girlfriend was staring at me with a dirty look. I remembered how the last time I saw her I was slapping her boyfriend in the face. She also looked somewhat surprised to see my head without my locks. I shot her an equally dirty look before twisting around to get back to Caressa.
As I sat down, I could feel Arnold's eyes digging into the back of my head. I tried to ignore it but it was too difficult. The first conversation in weeks between us and it was the most awkward conversation I'd had with anybody.
Rob came home late, yet another night. This time I didn't wait up for him. He came into our bedroom, trying to tip-toe. It didn't work. I sat up and stared right at him. "Why are you home so late?" He froze and turned only his heads towards me.
"Sorry honey, works been so hard. I tried to get home earlier today!"
"Stop lying to me Rob! You keep telling me it's for work, but you can't keep telling me that lie everyday! What were you really doing?" My voice was rising, but I kept it at a modest level trying to not wake Caressa.
"I swear honey, its work! I would never lie to you." He came over to me and rubbed my head. He placed a kiss atop it and then went to get changed for bed.
I had to keep telling myself that my brain was going crazy. He would never lie to me.
I walked into the doctor's office, and sat in the waiting room. I had an appointment to see how the baby was doing, and I was finding out the sex!
"Ms. Pataki, you can come in now."
I walked into the room and lay down on the seat. The nurse came in and asked me questions about how the pregnancy was going. She then proceeded to put the gel on my stomach and began the ultra-sound. As she was doing the procedure, a smile grew on her face.
"Ms. Pataki, have you noticed your stomach is a little larger than when you were 5 months pregnant with your last child?"
She was right. I had noticed it was bigger. "Yes, I had noticed that."
"Well, the reason is quite a big one. I'm getting two separate heart beats on the monitor. You're having twins!"
My heart started fluttering. "Are you sure?" I tried to say as quietly as possible. I didn't want to sound too frazzled.
"I'm positive. And would you like to know the sexes of the babies?"
"Yes, I would love to know."
"By what I can see, you're going to be getting the best of both worlds." She pointed to the screen. "The one on the left is a girl, and the one of the right is a boy. Congratulations!" she said cheerily.
Twins. It's a good thing I was in a hospital because I felt like passing out.
Sorry guys for not giving a lot of drama in this chapter! Also, sorry for the quality of my writing not being too good! The next chapters I swear will be drama filled and much better! Keep giving me reviews!