Chapter 19

Note: I'm just going to pretend that Joshua has already said MaMa as well.

1 month later--May 18th,2013 (Andrew and Margaret's 2nd wedding anniversary)

Margaret woke up a little later than usual that morning. She felt fine at first, but then she started to feel a little nauseous. It lasted

a couple minutes,but then passed, so she thought nothing of it. She looked over at Andrew's side of the bed--it was empty, but she

did find a note on his pillow. She opened it up and read it:

My Darling Margaret,

You probably just woke up and am wondering where I am. I had some very important business to take care of.

Don't worry about Joshua--he's safe with me. I'll be home a little later.

Love you more than you'll ever know,

Andrew

She closed the note, and smiled. She couldn't help but wonder what that very important business was. She tried to put it out

of her mind, though--at least for the time being. She was just getting ready to get out of bed, and get ready for the day, when

the nauseousness hit her again--this time with full force, and before she knew it, she was sitting on the floor, vomiting into the

toilet.

"Mhmm," she thought to herself "this scenario seems rather familiar. Wait a minute, this is exactly what happened when...oh no...

could I be pregnant again?" "Maybe I better go buy a test--and whether it's positive or not, I'll call and make an appointment, just to

confirm it. I better go do that now" However, the nauseousness had other plans, and before she even had a chance to stand up, she

was hurling into the toilet again.

15 minutes later...

When she was finally able to get up off of the bathroom floor, she got ready, and headed down to a little convenience store not too

far away. She bought a test, and then walked back to the apartment.

She went into the bathroom, and took the test--she had to wait 2 minutes. While she waited, a number of thoughts and emotions

swirled around in her head, like is this too soon?, are we ready?, but to her, the most important one was how's Andrew going to react?"

She then thought back to what he had said around the time she got pregnant with Joshua--"As long as we have each other, I know we can

do anything" And just as quickly as those thoughts and emotions had shown up, they disappeared. She knew she had nothing to worry about.

Just then, the timer dinged. She went over and picked up the test, and looked at it, and smiled---pregnant. She felt pretty confident that

the test was right, but she still scheduled an appointment for later that morning--just to confirm it. She wanted to be absolutely sure. So she

finished getting ready, walked out the door, and left for the hospital.

Margaret pulled into the hospital parking lot, walked inside, checked in, and sat down in the waiting area. 10:45. "Great" she thought "my

appointment isn't for another 15 minutes." She did all she could think of, trying to get the time to go by faster. Just when she thought she couldn't

wait any longer, a nurse walked out.

"Margaret Paxton?"

Margaret stood up.

"Come with me, please"

They walked down the hall, and into a room. "Just have a seat here, and will be here in a few minutes--she's just

finishing up with another patient"

"Allright, thank you" Margaret replied. The nurse smiled, before walking out of the room. True to her word, Dr. Matthews walked

in just about 5 minutes later.

"Hello again, Margaret. I haven't seen you here in, well, exactly 15 months. How's Joshua doing?"

"Oh, he's doing great--he's really growing up fast"

"That's wonderful. Nowl then, what can I do for you today?" asked.

"Okay, well, I woke up this morning just feeling really quesy and nauseous. So I went and bought a pregnancy test. I took it, and

it came out positive. I just wanted to come in, and have it confirmed"

"Allright then, let me just go get a few things that I need" She walked out of the room, and was back in about 10 minutes.

"Now, let's get started"

30 minutes later...

Just when Margaret thought that she couldn't wait another second, walked back in.

"Well, I just got the results back, and the test you took was right. Congratulations! You are pregnant again."

A smile spread across Margaret's face. "That's wonderful" she replied.

"Now, why don't you lay down here, and pull your shirt up, and well do an ultrasound to see how far along you are"

Margaret did as instructed, and put the gel on her stomach, turned on the machine, and started moving the wand around."And

there's your baby--right there" she said, pointing to a rather small spot on the screen. Margaret just couldn't believe what what was happening--

and she started to cry a little bit.

"Okay, well, everything looks good here. Now, based on all of this, it looks like you are, again, about 1 month along. That means the baby

was conceived around April 18th, and the due date will be on or around January 18th of next year.~she printed off a picture of the

ultrasound and gave it to Margaret.~ Like before, I want to see you every month,and I want you to start taking those prenatal vitamins again"

she said, writing out the prescription.

Margaret had, by this point, composed herself. "Allright, I will." she said, taking the prescription. Thanks again, ." She walked out of

the room, went over and made the appointment,and walked back out to her car.

Now, all she had to do was tell Andrew--and she knew exactly how she was going to do it.