The New Boy

Chapter twenty-one

(39 week ultrasound)

"How are you doing?" Dr. Griffin asks and sits down in her chair.

"Good," I say back and she smiles.

"Any problems?" she asks and I shake my head.

"Everything's good I think," I say and she turns on the monitor.

This is the first appointment I've had where Jake wasn't here. He had to go to school since he's planning on missing a week or so when Emily is first born.

"Where's dad?" she asks and looks back at me.

"School," I says back and she nods. She smiles at me.

"Has she been keeping you up at night?" Dr.Griffin asks and I smile back. Emily likes to move around and kick while I'm trying to sleep.

"Most of the time," I say back and she laughs.

"Well you only have to deal with it for another week or so." she says and puts the gel on my stomach.

"And then another three years," I say back and she laughs again. I do too and she puts the scanner on. We both turn toward the screen and I listen to the thumping sound.

We go through the normal procedure of talking about her.

After we are done, she tells me everything's going great and that I should come back in a week. Jake walked to school and let me have the truck so I could drive to the office. I call him, knowing it's around 1:30 which is when he leaves lunch.

"Hey," he answers and I unlock the truck.

"I just got out," I say back and get in, starting it.

"What'd she say?" he asks and I hear the loudness of the lunchroom behind him.

"Just to come back in a week and that everything's good." I say back and pull out.

"That's great," he says back and I smile.

"Hey," I hear a faint voice say in the background.

"We're about ot go back to class, I gotta go," he says back to me.

"See you when you get home," I say and turn out of the parking lot.

"Okay, I love you," he says back and I hear someone 'awhing' in the background. "Shut up," he says back to them.

"Love you too," I say back and smile. He hangs up and I drive home. I feel Emily kick and I look down at her. I smile and place one hand on top of my stomach.

I get back to my house around an half hour later.

I unlock the door and walk in, throwing the keys on the table. I sigh and lay on the couch. I'm still really tired since Emily kept me up all night. I'm hoping she's asleep now too so I can sleep.

I lay down and close my eyes. I pull the blanket that is draped over the couch on top of me. I rest my arms over my stomach.

The thing about Emily, I'm not scared about having her. I'm pretty calm about it. I'm not worried about money as much either, but of corse I still worry about it sometimes though. I more worry about raising her, Jake doesn't have to worry about it since he lives with three people younger than him and he helped raise all of them.

Me on the other hand, I don't really have an experience with babies or kids. I mean, I know this sounds stupid, but I've looked online tips and things.

Somewhere in the middle of my thoughts I fell asleep. I wake up and slowly sit up.

"You're up," Jake says quietly and I look at him.

"Yeah," I say back tiredly. Jake is sitting at the other end of the couch with his arm resting on my leg.

"Sleep well?" he asks and I nod, rubbing my eye a bit.

"What time is it?" I ask and he checks his phone.

"Almost five," he says and I sigh.

"Jesus christ," I say back and he smiles.

"It's fine, you didn't really sleep last night did you?" he asks and I shake my head.

"Not at all," I say back and he lightly rubs my leg a bit.

"Poor you," he says back.

"You'll see when she cries," I say back and throw the blanket off of me.

"Yeah I know." he says and I slowly stand up.

"I feel like crap." I say as I walk to the kitchen.

"Only another week." he says back and I sigh.

"I know," I say back and he stands up.

"In about two weeks, someone I know is coming over," Jake says and I look at him.

"Who and why two weeks?" I ask and he looks at me.

"Jeremy and biology project. She told us about it already and we partnered up already." he says back and I nod.

"Wouldn't you rather go to his house, you know where there's not like a crying baby?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"Nah, maybe you'd still be pregnant," he says and I hit his chest.

"Jake shut up, I don't want to be pregnant in two weeks, don't even say that." I say back and he laughs.

"But it doesn't matter if Emily's here or not," he says back and I nod.

"It was cool having her in my stomach for the first few months and now, I'm over it," I say and sigh but smile a little.

"Just the anxiey of seeing her is killing me," he says back and I smile.

"The only thing I'm getting out of this other than a fat stomach and my everything being swollen, is my hair looks fucking good." I say back and he laughs.

"What?" he asks and I shrug.

"I don't know, but it has something to do with my hormones or something. That's what Dr.Griffin said anyways. But apparently after she's born, that'll fade away." I say back and he smiles.

"Do you think I should tell Jeremy about you two or just wait until he gets here to be like 'Oh yeah, I live with my girlfriend and our newborn daughter'," he asks and I laugh.

"Is he new?" I ask and he nods.

"People have mentioned it to him before but he doens't believe it and he's never asked me about it so," he says back and I shake my head.

"It's up to you," I say back and he nods. "You're so mean," I say and he smiles.

"I know," he says back and I shake my head.