Two weeks later
Azaria paced up and down in the lounge, her heart was racing and her palms were starting to sweat. It was time she came clean to Jared. The anxiety had been weighing on her heavily causing her moods to fluctuate. Jared of course hadn’t seen this as unusual: she had always been moody during high school playing the high strung teenager role quite well. As every minute passed she grew more nervous over how he would take the news. She checked the time on her phone. He was late. He was never late.
The moment he walked in she pounced before he could even give her his ‘I’m home and I’ve missed you’ kiss.
“I’m pregnant.”
“Are you sure?” He stared at her blankly, taken back by this news. She nodded and showed him a copy of the doctor’s report that was lying on the coffee table. She hadn’t believed it herself but the more she read over it the more it had sunk in.
“Two weeks ago? Why didn’t you tell me as soon as you got it?” He read the date, stared at the sonogram and turned the page hoping to find a “Gotcha!” message scribbled on the back. “I was in denial but the evidence is there in plain black and white.”
“How?” It was the only thing he could think of. They were careful, always. She had even taken her pills on time: religiously.
“He said that because the stomach bug caused a lot of vomiting the effects of the pill were cancelled. And it might have happened that night in Egypt.” She looked at him tears stinging her eyes. They weren’t ready for this kind of responsibility. She watched him make his way to the sofa and sit down.
“I know but life always has a way of throwing curve balls at us.” She sat down next to him. No matter how much she had childishly wished for the test to change to a negative she knew better. And she had already made up her mind that she was going to keep it.
“Az, don’t get angry but I don’t think I’m ready for this.”
“Well you’re not the one with a score of two unplanned pregnancies.”
He laughed softly, finding some humour in the predicament. “I guess you win by one.”
“And as loser, all you have to do is just be supportive. I’m keeping the baby, J. I missed out on the whole thing with Troye. I don’t want to deprive this baby of its mother’s love and then have to go through life regretting it.”
“No, I understand but just remember...”Previous Chapters: Generation One
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Wow, I feel for both of them. I can understand J's shock, and Az' determination to do the right thing this time. I hope J will be supportive.
ReplyDeleteWe'll have to see. Some guys start off supportive in these situations and then later they feel like they're sticking around just for the kids.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if Az will turn out to be one of those smothering mothers :/ or worse... like her own mother!