Chapter 3: pregnant?! How!

My eyes flips open and I’m feeling a dull ache in my head. My eyes scan around and I see cannulas connected to my wrist but I’m a thousand percent sure the bed I’m lying on isn’t as rocky as a hospital bed and neither is the room.

The room kinda looks and smells familiar but I’m unable to figure out whose room I am or how I got here in the first place but thankfully, the door flips open and Aaron trudges in clad in his medical coat.

“You are awake!” He drops the pile of files he’s holding on the cabinet and rushes towards me on the bed.

“How are you feeling now?” He inquired and I pulled myself up to sit down, he quickly guided me up.

“I’m feeling a slight headache. What happened? To me?” I mutter, my memory in jumbles.

Last I remember, we were all in court and I’d Divorce Lennox. What happened after that?

“You passed out yesterday at the court, so I had to bring you down here.”

I passed out? “What happened, I mean what’s wrong with me?” I rasps, getting worried.

Aaron smiles and drops his hand gently on my thigh. “Shushhh. Don’t panic. It’s nothing serious. you just collapsed out of excessive stress because your system couldn’t adjust to your current condition.”

“Condition? What condition?”

“I don’t know how you would take this but...” he trails off and stands up. My eyes closely follow him walks down to the cabinet. He shoves out a sealed envelope and comes back, passing it to me.

Me wondering what it is, begins to check it out but then he drops the bomb.

“You are pregnant.” He finally divulged and I flinch, almost jumping out of my skin. My eyes catch the ‘positive’ on the pregnancy result before it drops down.

“What? Pregnant?!”

How?

On every normal day, Pregnancy is supposed to be good news but why does it feel like I just heard the three most terrible words of my life?

“Yeah. And you really need enough rest considering your current medical condition. While running some cheeks on you, I discovered you’ve hypotension. You have to...”

Whatever Aaron is saying isn’t even making any sense to me. I stopped listening at some point and the only thing swirling in my head is the pregnancy.

“I will remove the baby.” I eventually blurts out of the blue, cutting off whatever Aaron is saying.

His brow pull up in shock, he went dazed like I just said something abominable.

“But why? I mean you can’t just remove the innocent baby. Okay... look... Hear me out. I know you just had a fall out with your hus... your ex-husband but that doesn’t mean you should take the life of an innocent baby.”

I scoff. Honestly I wasn’t even thinking about Lennox.

But the baby itself... If it will end up in miscarriage like the rest others why should I bother keeping it and getting attached?

I really don’t want any more heartaches.

“It’s not about Lennox, Aaron. I'd rather not wait for it to be miscarriage before I take it out myself. I don’t want to put my hopes on something that isn’t there. and maybe you are right. I want to forget about Lennox too so I wouldn’t want to have anything that’ll connect me to him.”

“But What if the child ends up staying?”

“That’s impossible. It won’t.”

“You can’t be so sure.”

I shake my head and scoff. “Let’s not argue about this. I am removing the baby and that’s final.”

“Look if it’s about the baby, trust me you’ll be fine. I’m pretty sure, the series of miscarriages was due to your poor health condition. Like I said earlier, you’ve hypotension. You’ve a very weak system. Which means you needed excessive rest during the first trimester of pregnancy at least. But then you were always draining yourself with the hospital stress and all that.”

I knew I had minor hypotension but I never really paid it any mind. I mean I had no room to slack back from my duties. It has always been about pleasing my ungrateful parents. So even when I take it in, I’m always in the hospital working.

“Can we try that at least?” Aaron's voice pulls me out of my thoughts and I give him a confused look. “You’ll stay away from hard jobs, even mundane tasks for the first three months of the pregnancy.”

“What...? We?”

“Yes. I’ll support you the best way I can, if I have to, till you get back on your feet. I wouldn’t advise my patient to take the life of an innocent baby.” He countered and I found myself chuckling.

“C’mon Aaron I’m not your responsibility. You’ve done more than enough already and I appreciate it. Besides, I intend to leave this city once I get back on my feet. I want to start a new life.”

“Then that’s not a problem. I got called by this hospital I’d been applying for in Texas. I resigned from the hospital today and I’ll be moving down next week. We could move together... that’s if you don’t mind.”

I stare at Aaron unable to formulate any word. He had already done enough for me and I still can’t believe he’s still having my best interest at heart?

Well, maybe it wouldn’t hurt keeping this baby after-all. As long I won’t be seeing Lennox ever again.