Well hello again people of the world. I'm here with another chapter for all you lovely people. Again thank you for reviewing, really appreciate it. I'm glad to hear that a lot of you enjoy my writing, it really cheers me up :D Anyways I hope you enjoy this one, should be … interesting :P Disclaimer – I do not own Harvest Moon or any of its Characters x
Chapter 39 – Chelsea's P.O.V
I gripped hold of Julia's hand as she steadily helped me get up of the bed. The sun streamed through the window and delicately danced on my soft skin, after pretty much bawling my eyes out to her two days ago she never left my side. Always made sure I wasn't alone with myself so I couldn't put myself in the situation where I drowned in my own emotions. I rolled my eyes at her as she wrapped her arm around my waist before guiding me carefully to my clothes that were lay out on the chair just two metres away.
"Julia, I didn't break my legs" I laughed as she let go of me to allow me to get changed. She rolled her eyes before winking and leaving the room. I was so lucky to have Julia as my best friend; she always wanted to make sure I was okay. Laughing to myself I began to put on the baggy joggers and plain black top.
Vaughn had left the islands to work as his boss was getting pretty pissed off with him; well that's what I got from the phone call as a lot of swearing screamed out of the speaker, I guess he had a lot of explaining to do. As the top slip over my head I pulled it down and felt the gentle bum that still clung to me tightly. I had an appointment with Doctor Trent to help induce the baby to come out, since it was so damn stubborn. I smiled sadly; they would have been just like Vaughn.
As soon as I was ready I opened the door and looked at Julia who immediately ran over to me and linked my arm in hers. I rolled my eyes again; it was if I was a frail old lady.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" She asked, her blue eyes finding mine. I nodded before opening the door and stepping outside. The sun danced on my skin and glistened like delicate crystals woven especially to make me look peachier than I felt. Julia nodded understandably before we made the trek, slowly, toward the familiar purple shack that situated itself on the beach.
Dread hit the bottom of my stomach as my feet felt the soft sand beneath us. His hut looked exactly the same as it always had, run down and old. But today, it seemed to match the mood of both me and Denny, and predicted what was to come. Julia squeezed my arm as we walked up to the porch and stood in front of the door. I outstretched my arm and quietly tapped on the hard wood. No answer. I looked over at Julia who nodded encouragingly as I knocked again, louder this time. There was a movement inside and a soft groan, clearly he wasn't going to answer.
"Denny? It's me, please I need to talk to you" I shouted as quietly as I could but still making sure it was loud enough to get through to him. Suddenly there was a loud crash and a shattering noise as he shuffled towards the door.
"What do you want?" He asked, his voice hoarse and tired. My heart broke as I knew I'd done this to him, I'd killed Denny. I let out a breath a never knew I was holding and walked up the door to rest my hand on it.
"Denny … I just need to see you" I said quietly, but I knew he heard every word. There was a pause before the door unlocked and opened an inch. His eye peeked out from behind the door and looked at me before he opened it fully to let me in. I smiled weakly at him as I walked inside the little hut where one of the jars from the right hand side was tipped over and smashed on the ground. I turned to Denny to look at him and stared at him. He looked bad, not like I-woke-up-a-bit-late bad, it was full on I-hate-my-life bad which tug at my chest tightly.
"Denny …" I began as he ran a hand through his messy brown curls. I dropped my gaze to the floor and awkwardly fiddled with the lace on my joggers. "I'm so sorry … I didn't want you to find out like this" I finished before looking back up at him to see his reaction. His face stayed the same and didn't react to my words.
"Why?" He croaked, his voice hard and rough, unlike his usual peppy tone. I cringed slightly before coughing nervously. I couldn't look him in the eye; his puppy dog looks looked broken and torn apart.
"I … I …" I began but I didn't have a solid reason why I … let's say 'overlapped' the relationship. Oh wait I did, Vaughn wanted me to marry him, great plan that turned out to be.
"I fell in love" I mumbled quietly. The best reason I had, that was 100% honest. He looked at the ground and awkwardly shifted his feet. I heard Julia behind me make some weird 'awe' sound that sounded more like his parrot. Maybe it was.
"Did you ever like me?" He asked, now stepping closer so I could make out every single feature on his face, from his heavy eyes to his messy hair. I swallowed quietly before nodding slightly.
"Denny I've always like you but, I don't think I was in love with you …" I quietly mumbled. His face sunk even deeper as his mind rushed with emotions. I wish I could give him a happy ending, one where no one got hurt or crushed. But that was life, there was no happy ending. If you got given one thing, then another was taken away. I looked at the ground sadly before gently stroking my stomach.
"I'm sorry …" He mumbled, looking at my stomach. I smiled awkwardly before letting my gaze fall again. He shouldn't be feeling sorry for me, after everything I did to him. But he did, and it broke me. How could I have been such a bitch to him?
"Denny, you know on the day … you know when you found me? Was there anyone you passed?" I asked, looking up at him hopefully. He searched his head for answers, recalling the day his life crumbled. The pain set in his eyes forced me to look away before he finally spoke up again.
"I'm sorry, I just saw you" He mumbled quietly before ruffling his hair again. I nodded understandably, maybe I'd just taken a tumble, maybe it really was my fault. But the funny feeling at the back of my head niggled away at me, telling me something else happened, I just couldn't place my finger on it.
"It's alright, erm … do you know which part of the forest you found me?" I asked, feeling I was pestering him too much after everything I'd done.
"You were just near the bottom of the path, next to a big boulder" He replied. I crushed my eyebrows together and searched my head. Boulder, boulder, then my heart skipped a beat. I recalled falling and smashing my head against that fucking boulder. Straining myself to think further I remember looking up at a blurry figure standing above me. Ha! I knew it wasn't an accident. Then I gasped and fell to my knees. Julia rushed to my side and caught me in her arms before I fully had time to touch the ground. It all flooded back. Sabrina. My head flooded with the conversation before. I felt her hard skin push me, and I felt the blood gushing from my legs. Then I closed my eyes and grabbed my head as the images punched me from all directions.
"Julia …" I began as I looked up at her, my vision repairing its self so I could clearly see her. I got back up from my knees and gripped Julia's arm to stop myself from both falling and flooding the room with tears.
"Sabrina killed my baby …" I cried out at her, her blue eyes looking into mine sympathetically. Not really sure what I was going through. But nothing could have been clearer; Sabrina's threat, her pushing me, me losing the baby.
"Chelsea are you sure-" She asked, looked at me worryingly. I nodded and walked over to the door to open it, adrenalin rushing through my veins. The sun hit my face as a warm breeze rushed through my hair. I heard Julia run after me as I marched back towards town. I'd only got the giant seaweed rock when Julia grabbed hold of my arm and stopped me from killing the bitch.
"Julia what are you doing?" I asked, staring at her accusingly. She grabbed my other arm and held me in place sternly.
"Trust me Chels, there is nothing more I would want than you to sort things out but it's too soon. I think it would be best to wait for you to miscarry before you go rushing into things" She said so fast I only just barley caught her words. I closed my eyes at the word miscarry, it broke what little there was to break inside of me.
"Julia, I want to sort it out" I replied gritting my teeth. She sighed before pulling me into a tight hug.
"I know, but trust me. You don't want to do this now" She replied squeezing me tightly. I sighed into her shoulder before pulling away. I looked at my best friend and sighed again, she was right, unfortunately.
"Julia I just want to get this over with. Can we go home so I can ring Doctor Trent and bring the stupid appointment date forward?" I asked looking at her. She nodded sympathetically before wrapping her arm around me and helping me back to the house, like I was incapable to walk.
I waited on the dock for the ferry to dock. Unfortunately if I wanted a sooner date I had to travel to the city to meet him. Being as desperate as I was I agreed without realizing … I had to go to the fucking city. I felt like I spent more time in the city than the actual island which really pissed me off. I didn't even like the fucking city, it was shit. The boat soon pulled up and I boarded by myself. No one there to meet me, but the only good part about this was that Vaughn would be at the docks, going through this with me. It gave me some comfort at least.
The ferry seemed to arrive pretty quickly but the voice announced that we were 15 minutes late. Walking down the stairs I caught the eyes of my cowboy all dressed in black who stood leaning against the railing, keeping out of the way of the mass of people who flooded into the docks. Rolling my eyes I walked over to him and smiled.
"Excuse me; have you seen a cowboy around here? He's about 10 feet tall." I asked him. His head looked up at me as a smile spread across his face.
"Can't say that I've seen one" He winked before wrapping his arms around me and leaning in to kiss me. His lips were warm and soft as I yearned for them. Pulling away he took hold of my hand and lead me towards his car which was parked not far away, our first step towards the heartbreak.
The car spread up down the road as the atmosphere turned quiet. We both knew why we were going but neither of us wanted to mention it. Vaughn placed his hand on mine and gently stroked it. I smiled to myself, as long as Vaughn was here with me. As we pulled up in the hospital car park I turned to Vaughn.
"I can't do this" I panicked, it was all too much. But Vaughn didn't reply, he just leant in and placed his lips on mine.
"Yes you can. No matter what, I will be there and as long as I'm there, I will not let anything hurt you" He said as his amethyst eyes searched mine. I took in a deep breath and nodded before opening the car door and stepping outside. It was really grey in the city, another thing I hated about this place. I watched Vaughn walk over to me and smiled as he squeezed my hand. Together we made our way towards the hospital. Inside was just how I remembered from just a season and a bit ago. It was like my second home.
Walking up to the receptionist I smiled at her.
"Hi, I'm here for an appointment with Doctor Trent at 14:40" I smiled although there was no joy behind my grin. It felt like it was wrong to smile, but Vaughn's hand on mine reassured me I was going to be fine. The receptionist nodded before tapping away on the keyboard. She picked up the phone and dialled three numbers before speaking.
"Hello Trent, I have a Miss Edwards here to see you" She said in a monotone voice. There was a quick reply before the phone hit the receiver again.
"He's waiting for you in Blue 24, just up the corridor and to the left, you shouldn't miss it" She smiled at me, completely oblivious in why I was here. I nodded and thanked her before following her directions. It felt as if I was in an ever going labyrinth, the walls all looking the same. Finally we came to Blue room 24 and I stopped outside. I looked at Vaughn who squeezed my hand in reassurance before I pressed my clammy hand against the door and walking in. Doctor Trent was sat on a little stool with a notepad in his hands. He looked up at me sympathetically before pointing to the bed to his left.
"Mr Thomas, please take a seat" He smiled as he stood up and offered Vaughn the seat next to the bed. He took it as he carefully watched me climb onto the bed. Leaning back I felt the crinkle of the paper underneath me and my heart suddenly plummeted. Vaughn took hold of my hand as Doctor Trent walked up to me.
"Now I just want to check which position the foetus is in to make sure I give you the right tablets" He smiled at me as he picked up a tube of jelly stuff and a scanner. I frowned at him in confusion.
"Wait, you're giving me an ultrasound?" I asked slightly confused. If I'd lost the baby then did I really have to go through the emotions of seeing them? He nodded at me and motioned towards the screen.
"You don't have to look if you don't want" He said, completely understanding my situation. I sighed before lifting up my top and revealing my swollen stomach. He dropped a large amount of the cool gel onto my belly before smearing it across with the scan thingy. I closed my eyes, I couldn't see my dead baby, it would be too hard. But then there was a gentle pulsing sound that filled the room. At first I thought I'd imagined it but then I heard it again, and again. I opened my eyes to look at Trent who stared at the screen with such intense that it set me on edge. He must have placed the scanner too close to my heart. He placed the scanner aside and called for a midwife to come up. I looked at Vaughn who had a funny look on his face. It was a mix between disbelief and confusion.
"What's going on?" I asked, turning back to Doctor Trent who had begun whispering to the midwife who had just walked in. She walked up to me and smiled warmly.
"Miss Edwards, would it be alright if I checked your stomach?" She asked. I nodded in confusion as she wiped my stomach and reapplied more gel. She gently pressed the scan back onto my stomach and the gentle rhythm filled the room once more. She turned to Doctor Trent and nodded. Trent walked up to the monitor and gently placed his finger on it.
"Chelsea, Vaughn, your baby has a strong heartbeat" He announced with a smile. I chocked on my breath as my eyes burst out of my sockets.
"What?" I chocked, if this was a joke, it wasn't funny. He smiled again and traced the outline of a little shape wriggling about on screen.
"Chelsea your baby is healthy" He grinned at me. I knitted my eyes together and stared at him, too shocked to believe him.
"No. No it can't, Trent I lost the baby. How can it …" I trailed off and looked at the little image on the screen who wriggled about healthily. He pulled up another chair and sat next to me.
"There is a large blood clot on the screen and must have somehow stopped the foetus from suffocating. The survival rate of a chronic bleed like you had was just 5%, you have a little fighter there" He smiled at me, his face completely lit up. I drank in his words before turning to Vaughn who was frozen in shock. And then I burst into tears, instead of tears of pain, they were tears of happiness.
"They're still here" I cried through tears as I searched his deep violet eyes. His face lit up and suddenly he leant down and kissed me. As he pulled away a smile was plastered onto his face and he was speechless in such astonishment. I knew they would be just like their father, stubborn.
"Would you like to know the sex?" The midwife asked, her green eyes smiling at us. I turned to Vaughn and smiled. He nodded at me and I turned back to face the lady.
"Please" I smiled, overwhelmed by the sudden lift of my mood. She smiled again and looked at the screen.
"It's a baby boy" She announced. My heart fluttered as I turned to Vaughn. His face lit up as he grinned, probably mimicking my own reactions. I didn't care if we both looked like grinning morons; we had a good enough reason to.
"You know …" I began, turning to look back at the screen. "That little baby grow you got, it's completely right …" I smiled, "Daddy's little cowboy"
It's a boy! Yay! So thanks for reading this chapter and please review to tell me what you think. I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to stay tuned for the next update :D x