"Excuse me?" Jade's tone of voice was one of surprise. "Are you trying to pull my leg? There's no way in hell I'm pregnant."
"Would you like me to perform an ultrasound?"
"Um, yeah, so I can prove to you that there isn't a baby in here." I stayed outside the door and listened as the nurse prepped the machine, then put the blue gel on Jade's stomach. At first I heard nothing, and then there it was. The familiar pulse of a tiny heartbeat.
"Congratulations Miss West, it's a boy." When she got no response I heard the nurse get up. "I'll give you a minute to yourself, then." I heard footsteps come toward the door and walked away. The nurse moved right past me, and I walked into the room again. Jade looked fragile, like someone had broken her. She was looking at the now empty screen and crying, holding her stomach.
"J-Jade?" I sat in the chair next to her bed and she turned her head away from me. "I'm so sorry, I know how hard this must be. Robbie and I, we'll help you. Jose is the father, isn't he?" Jade shook her head and tried to wipe her tears. She mumbled, but I couldn't make out the words. "What?"
"No…someone else is."
"Who?"
I went back and forth between the two rooms every day until Jade had her baby. I was there with her while she was in labor, and when the baby came out I got to hold him almost instantly. Jade and I were both an absolute mess. He was tiny, wrapped in a blue cotton blanket. Holding him took me back to holding Aiden for the first time. His eyes are chocolate brown, and his hair was nothing but peach fuzz on top of a large baby head. He blinked and yawned, and finally I handed him to Jade. She was tired, but when I handed the baby to her she smiled and held him close, rubbing the peach fuzz on his head.
"What's his name?" The nurse asked, looking at him with adoration.
"Noah…Noah Liam West." Liam after her first baby boy, I knew. I didn't know exactly where Noah had come from though.
All last week, whenever I was in her room we would sit on her bed and look through baby name websites. We had a few pages bookmarked, but her heart was set on naming him Cameron. That's why when she said Noah, I gave her a look.
"Noah just…fit. It just came out, as soon as I saw him I knew his name. It's just one of those things, I guess." She looked back down at him and I smiled. When the nurse came in and said he was going to be put in the NICU to sleep I saw Jade's face turn to horror.
"Don't worry, Miss West. It's just a precaution because he didn't get his prenatal vitamins. It's nothing to worry about, he looks healthy." I don't think she was reassured though, and we went to visit him that night.
We walked into the room I had been frequenting for a while and I got nervous. The nurse pointed us to his incubator and I was shaking. We got there and I was ready to run for the door. There at the next incubator was Beck and Tori. She turned and Tori and Jade locked eyes.
"You had a baby?" Jade nodded, not ready to have this battle. Beck's eyes lit up, but then he got nervous, turning back to Evie.
"His name is Noah Liam West." Tori walked over to the incubator and looked in at the boy, her expression softening at him.
"He's cute." Then Noah opened his eyes, looking right at Tori. Jade got ready for the explosion, but Tori didn't seem to notice any similarities. I breathed a sigh of relief and went to say hello to Evie. I gave Beck a look I hoped he could read and he went to say hello to Noah.
"He is adorable, Jade. He put his hand in the incubator and Noah grabbed it, brown looking into identical brown. Tori watched him curiously, and he turned around to face her. "Tori…"
"What, Beck?"
"This baby, well, Evie and Noah, they're mine." No response came, and Tori stood there, numb. My heart broke when I saw her start to cry.
"How could you, Beck? You told me you were done with her."
"I was…until I thought Evelyn wasn't mine. My heart broke thinking that, Tor. I honestly didn't know who to trust, who I could turn to. Every day I saw you growing and thought; I really don't deserve to see her grow, to be there when the baby comes and it doesn't look anything like me. To watch her grow in place of her real father. Nobody deserves what I went through."
"But it wasn't true, Beck! None of it was true! We can get Evelyn tested if that's what you really want…" She pauses and looks down, crossing back over to Evie's incubator. I pull her into a hug and rub her back, Jade looks ashamed. Tori looks back up at Beck and says; "I thought you trusted me."
Did I mention that there was drama in this story? I love it, it's like a soap opera but better :)
So as usual, review coffee is well liked :) I'm so on task today, so be looking out for a possible Cabbie oneshot soon (maybe not today, but soon) And another chapter of my Harry Potter fanfiction too!
-Hollywood
