The Very Best of Me

6 - Expect the Unexpected

- There is about a 2 month time jump in this chapter

I was sitting at my desk, in my office, when I heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" I call out.

The door swung open and in walked in my favorite co-worker, Daphne Winters. I smiled at her before pushing my chair away from my desk.

"Do my eyes deceive me? Has the great Daphne Winters graced a commoner like me with her presence?" I joked.

"Get your laugh in now. I just came to see if you had the police report for the Philips case. I know it's only Thursday but I wanted to look it over." Daphne says as she walks further into my office.

I start digging around my desk to look for the report. I find it and pull it out of the pile it is buried under.

"Here you go. It's-." I begin before I cut myself off.

It can't be Thursday. No way in hell is it Thursday.

"It's not Thursday." I tell Daphne.

"Yes, it is." Daphne reassures me.

"Are you sure? Like, absolutely sure?" I questioned.

"Of course I am, Ava. I had the arraignment for my John Doe case today." Daphne states.

I stand up from my chair and walk towards the door. I grab my coat and my purse off the hook as I tell Daphne to tell our boss that I had to leave early.

I rush down the stairs and out the front door, trying my hardest not to fall while I hurriedly run to my car.

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"Yep, you're definitely pregnant. From the looks of it, you're about 6 weeks along." Dr.James tells me ecstatically.

I throw my head back against the bed and groan.

"This is a good thing, no?" he asks.

"No, yeah. I wasn't trying to get pregnant, though. Being a mother wasn't in my plans for at least 3 more years." I reveal.

Dr.James sat on his little stool and came up by my head.

"Sometimes, God gives us a blessing even when we didn't need or want one." he says, which didn't bring me the comfort he thought it would.

"Dr.James, that did not help at all. I am freaking the fuck out." I exclaim.

"How about this? You have 6 more weeks to decide if you do or do not want to terminate your pregnancy. I can give you the information on proper termination and a prescription for the prenatal vitamins in case you do decide to keep it." Dr.James offers.

I thanked him as he wrote me a prescription for a bunch of prenatal vitamins and gave me the pamphlets on termination.

My entire mind was a blur as I left his office. The last thing I remember is getting back into my car and suddenly, I'm at Tommy's house.

I don't even remember knocking on the door but here I was, standing in a daze with Malcom Merlyn standing opposite me.

"Hi, Mr.Merlyn. Is Tommy home?" I query.

"Yeah, he's upstairs, Ava." Mr.Merlyn replies.

I thank him and walk into the house. I walk up the stairs as if I'm scared of them and when I finally reached the top, I stalked to Tommy's room and slowly knock on the door. When it swung open, I burst into tears.

"Ava, what's wrong?" Tommy asks.

"T, we fucked up. We fucked up really bad." I weep.

He leads me into the room, closing the door behind me, and we sat down on his bed. The tears keep flowing and he takes a deep breath.