Companionship in pain

Turns out Dad wasn't calling because Nicolene told him that I was pregnant but because she told him that she was expecting a baby. She didn't even drop any hints when I saw her this afternoon. I guess she has wanted to tell Dad first before telling anyone else as I had wanted to tell Jack first before telling anyone else about it. I knew Dad was not that old but I did not think that he would be young enough to still be a new father. 

I was scared out of my mind and worried that I wouldn't know what to do but having Nicolene tell me that we were in this together lifted a lot of that burden. I didn't have a mother in my life whom I could ask and although we might be going through this together I really did see and accept Nicolene as my mother as she is the closest thing to what a mother needs to be and mean to her daughter. 

Turns out I was two weeks farther along than Nicolene. She realized that she had more or less felt the same as I had described to her the