Settling Down

20

May 13, 1993

Lindsey walked into the bedroom after he got the kids ready for school, they had one more week left and they were not at all motivated. Stevie was laying there, he could see her bandaged chest as she was just sitting in there in that.

"What's the matter?" He asks.

"I just puked..." She trails off.

"So you're good then?" He asks.

"I think so...I mean I'm a week into recovery and I haven't been bleeding. I haven't had any pain." She tells him.

Knowing that the topic at hand is still a little sore, all Lindsey does is he kisses her head.

"Will you be okay here while I go to work?" He asks.

"I have been for like six days." Stevie shrugs.

"I mean the puking, it can't feel good at your incision site." Lindsey shakes his head.

"It was more uncomfortable than painful." Stevie informs him.

"Alright, if anything happens..."

"Call you I know, we've gone over it for the past six days." Stevie rolls her eyes.

"Okay...oh when are you starting the IVs?" Lindsey asks.

"We have to figure out where I stand with the baby before we figure that out." Stevie tells him. The next part of her treatment out of the silicone poisoning was to get IVs, she didn't know how many, and she didn't know how long for but she knew she had to get them to cleanse the silicone from her body.

"Alright, I have to go...I love you, shall I pick up a pizza for dinner?" He asks.

"If you do get me a salad...just the thought of grease makes me want to puke." She shakes her head.

"Okay...have a good day Angel."

"Bye Linds. I love you too."

***

She was tired of sitting in bed, and though the only restrictions she has is to not lift heavy objects, she didn't want to leave her bed at the same time. Because she wanted to make sure that the baby in her belly was okay. With that in mind she threw her magazine onto Lindsey's side of the bed and she reached over and grabbed the phone off of the hook.

Karen had been apart of her life since they moved but not as actively apart of her life. Currently she was figuring out what to do about Stevie's album. She had been recording it off and on and for a year and now that she was having a baby it was going to be pushed back a little bit more.

When Karen walked into the master bedroom, Karen handed her the little baggy and Stevie just gave her a small smile.

"Are you sure you wanna do that?" Karen asks. When Stevie called she informed of her of literally everything that had happened from the moment that baby was most likely conceived and she was just trying to be hopeful.

"I just need peace of mind Karen...I know I have another week until I'm fully healed, but I just need to do this." She shakes her head.

"Alright, have at it...they're some new stick test thingy's...I didn't really understand the box so good luck." Karen shrugs.

Stevie cocks an eyebrow and peels open the baggy pulling the box out of it. She puts her glasses on her face and skims the package and then she looks at Karen. "Go downstairs in the pantry and get me one of the plastic disposable cups that we use for barbecues."

"A red solo cup?"

"Yeah sure...or a Dixie cup." Stevie rolls her eyes.

Karen makes quick work of returning to the bedroom and Stevie goes into the bathroom. She pees in the cup and dunks the test in it so the little thingy is thoroughly soaked and then she lets it drip into the sink. She calls Karen into the bathroom and they both sit in the bathroom against the soaker tub and then they just wait.

"So if you are still pregnant what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to have a baby sometime in January."

"So what about your album?"

"I need to push the release. Summer of 94 so I have time with my baby." Stevie looks at her.

"You're excited about having a baby aren't you?"

"You know what, I am...I'm...I didn't think I would be because I don't want to put my career on a back burner but being with Emily and Stella and watching them, it made me want to have my own...I missed...god, Stella was already nine when I became part of their lives, Em thirteen...and I'm glad I get to experience the teenage years with Lindsey because he's hopeless...Did I ever tell you about Emily's first period?"

"I know we picked them up from school and took her shopping for pads and bras, Stella was tagging along, but that's all I know."

"She got it at my house, Lindsey had come over and helped me hang Christmas Lights, and I thanked them by asking them to stay for dinner. She went to the bathroom and came out looking like a deer caught in the headlights. When she told Lindsey he went white as a sheet and he was panicking. That man is not equipped to raise teenage girls by himself, but I missed those first volatile years. Those kids are my kids, but I wasn't there for their first steps, their first words, first day of Kindergarten, and I just want to experience that with Lindsey...because I love him so much and a little baby made from our love...It would just be so special." Stevie shakes her head.

"Those kids have changed you boss...I don't know yet if it was a good change or a bad change but you've changed." Karen chuckles.

"We need to look at it." Stevie bites her lip.

"Go ahead...I'm right here for moral support." Karen pats her thigh.

"Alright here I go..." She crawls over to the sink and raises up on her knees and grabs the test. "Oh my god."

"What?"

"It's positive....I'm still pregnant...the baby's okay."

"For now." Karen points out.

"No, they're going to be okay." Stevie has the biggest grin on her face.