The Trouble Within

Chap 7

Randall slept all night long. He had been truly exhausted.

In the morning, Mrs. Bing called her doctor's office and arranged an appointment for Randall to have an exam. It would be the following day first thing in the morning.

When Randall awoke, he was actually wanting some breakfast. He had kept the stew down last night.

"Here Randall, eat these. These crackers will help keep your stomach calmer." Mrs. Bing offered him some crackers.

"Uh, thanks." He took them and ate them.

"I got a doctor appointment for you tomorrow morning." She said.

"That soon huh?"

"From what you have said, you really need to see one."

"Yeah." He muttered.

"Do you know how far along you are?"

He shook his head. "I don't know officially. It has to be close to three months though."

After awhile, she fixed him some oatmeal for breakfast. While he was eating he said, "What I wouldn't give for a cup of coffee."

"Too much coffee is not good to have while you are pregnant. Your sense of taste may not like it now anyway. How much would you drink typically?"

"I practically lived on the stuff for a long time."

"Having one cup a day might suffice, but any more is not good for you or the baby."

Randall hated the excuses 'because of the baby.' He wished he hadn't gotten pregnant. This baby never should have happened. It was the punishment of being raped.

"I hate the restrictions placed on me because of the kid."

"It's only for a few more months."

"Yeah, and I don't know where I'm going to be in a few more months. I don't have the right feelings to be able to raise this kid. I had such a hard childhood after my mom died and never knew my father. I was raised in foster homes, and I had a sister. She has a son now and she didn't want me around because of my bad ways that I regret now." Randall explained sadly.

"Well, bad ways are not good for a child to grow up with."

"I know. I just had so much rejection and was turned down a lot and mistreated that something in me some years ago just snapped. I would have been the top scarer at Monsters, Inc if James P. Sullivan hadn't been there. He was my main competition. No matter what I did I just couldn't beat his numbers. Everyone loved him. At college, just because he was Bill Sullivan's kid, it was like he had everything handed to him. I just didn't trust someone like him. He beat me in the Scare Games too. He beat me at everything."

Mrs. Bing listened intently.

He continued to tell her everything else. He just needed someone to truly hear him. And no one, not even his sister knew what really happened or how he felt about it all.

She sat down beside him on the couch and rubbed his back. She easily noticed the swollen belly. But Randall needed someone to be there for him in his time of need right now. His pregnancy was seeming to affect his mental state too.

But he was sure authorities were going to be after him. Prison was no place to have a child. Nor was it good to be on the run.

Randall might have be willing to go back to jail and serve his time for his crimes, but he needed to do the right thing for this child too.
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The next morning came and Mrs. Bing took Randall to the appointment that she had arranged. Mrs. Bing got the sign up papers and Randall did what he could to sign in. Everything he was doing was a risk.