"I'll be a grandma? OMG… Do you know how hard it is to have a kid with this so-called gift?"
"Mom…"
"Melinda, I don't want to tell you what to do. But I want to warn you. Those nightmares are hard… When you were young you did barely get sleep. Sometimes you didn't sleep for days. But, hey, I'm gonna be a grandma and I'm happy about that!"
"I know that this won't be easy but I won't run away from it." Then she told Beth about the ghost. "Could you please come with me when I'm talking to him? Jim doesn't want me to do that alone because of my safety…"
"Sure I'll come with you."
"So… Could you come next Wednesday?"
"Yeah, I'll be there at 4pm."
"Okay. Thank you. Bye"
"Bye." They hung up.
Melinda told Jim about the call.
"Wednesday 4pm?" he asked sharply.
"Yeah. Why? What's wrong with that date?"
"You have your examination on Wednesday."
"Gosh. I totally forgot that!"
"As I didn't realize that…"
"I gotta have a rain check."
"No Mel. Either you'll go there on Tuesday or you'll have to put a rain check to the appointment with your mom!"
"C'mon Jim… We're fine! I can feel that."
"But I want to see and hear it from a doctor. "
"Jim."
"No Mel. You don't eat much, you don't sleep much and you go to work. This all are things I'm not okay with. You had an accident… Please do me the favour and let check if everything really is fine."
"Okay. I'll go on Tuesday then."
"Great. Can I come with you?"
"It doesn't matter what I say… You'd do it anyway, right?"
"Right."
"So why are you asking?"
"Dunno" he smiled.
Melinda turned around and went upstairs. Jim followed her. The few next days were passing by. Melinda didn't go to work because she had morning sickness and Delia didn't want to see her in the store in that condition.
On Tuesday Jim and Melinda went to the hospital for the examination.
"OMG… That's such a miracle" Melinda had tears in her eyes when she saw the foetus on the screen!
"Do you know how happy you are making me? I've been wishing that for such a long time."
"Yeah, I know. Gosh… Listen to the heart beat… it sounds so…" she couldn't end her sentence because of the happiness.
"As you said… Like a miracle" he gave her a passionate kiss.
"I'll give the pictures to your doctor. You can get your clothes on again and then you can go to see your doc" the nurse said.
"Okay, thanks" they said together.
Melinda put her clothes on. They went hand-in-hand to David's office.
"Hey" David said.
"Hey, David"
"Well… How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine except the morning sickness…"
"So everything is fine. As it seems everything is okay with the foetus but you should take prenatal pills. The pills support the pregnancy. We also need to do more examinations as usual because of your accident. And you really need to watch out for you. If you have more accidents the foetus could get hurt."
Jim looked at her with his that's-exactly-what-I-meant-look.
"Yeah, okay. But that doesn't mean that I have to stay at home, does it?"
"No, it doesn't."
Melinda was relieved but Jim didn't seem to be happy that she was allowed to go to work.
Then they went home.
"Hey Jim, what's wrong with you? Our baby is fine. Why aren't you happy?"
"You know what's wrong…"
"Is it because I'm allowed to work?"
"Hmmm… You know how many ghosts come and visit you in the store. Some of them are dangerous and as I know you you will do all things which aren't good for you right now."
"C'mon. Do you really think I'm so irresponsible that I'd do that? Jim…"
"You always do what you want. I'm used to worry about you but it's different when it comes to our kid."
"So you think that I'm irresponsible?!"
"I never said that. But look… You were in a coma; you had a car accident… Our kid was strong enough to survive that. Who knows what else will happen. Who knows if our baby will survive the next accident you have?!"
"Yeah, I understand. But, Jim, if I stay here it'll be like hell for me. And nothing bad can happen to me if I'm just sitting at the counter next to the register and sell antiques?"
"But you wouldn't just sit there. You would hide up boxes, heavy boxes from the basement. And that's not good!"
"Jim, please…"
"Mel…"
"Delia can hide up the boxes. But what's wrong with me redecorating the store?"
"Nothing. If you promise not to go to the basement in order to get some boxes I'm okay with it."
"Yeah, I promise. Thank you" she stopped talking. "Gosh…"
"What is it, Mel?"
"About tomorrow… I never did the cross over thing with my mom. I don't know how that's gonna be."
"Do you want me to come with you? I can get Bobby covered for me…"
"Would you really do that for me?"
"If not for you, for who then?" he smiled.
"Okay, I'll never ask again. It would be great to have you with me tomorrow."
"Although Beth's with you then?"
"Yeah… I'm afraid that Jack would feel… Get angry because I get help. I don't think my mom knows how to help me then. At least not as you do."
"Honey…"
"What? Please help me. I feel like I've never done this before."
"I don't get you! On the one hand you want your freedom and go to work and do dangerous stuff and on the other hand you need me to stand behind you."
"I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm so confused. Maybe because our lives had turned upside down recently?!"
"But that's always like this if a baby is coming."
"Why do you know that?? Do you have another family I don't know about?" she asked angrily.
"I don't have another… Mel?!" he looked at her.
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