Oneshots

Changes (Herophine) - part 9

Josephine

He left four hours ago. It's almost 7 pm and he is not back. I'm starting to worry. I tried to call him, but he is declining my calls, that's great! His things are in my apartment and he has no money, but I think he can pay with his phone. I call him over and over again, but no. He prefers to not pick up.

I'm just laying on the couch and I have my hand on my belly. I never thought he would react like this. He is 25 and I thought he is more mature, but I was wrong. As I'm thinking about everything, I fall asleep. But at some point, I'm waking up by some light knocks at my dor. I quickly get up and I go to open. Hero is standing there with a rose in his hands. I don't understand anything.

"Hero?"

"I'm sorry. May I come in?"

"Yeah..." I move from the door, so he can come in, then I lock the door. We walk to the couch. I don't think I'm ready to have this talk.

"Look... I'm so sorry how I reacted. I got scared. I never thought that this would happen so soon. I will be honest. I thought about you as my future and I saw us with two little kids in a few years, but not now. And I know my reaction was so childish and I regret that I left without saying a word. But I thought a lot about this in the last hours and now I know what I want."

"Look, it's fine if you don't want to be involved in this. I can do this alone. I just wanted to tell you about this."

"How you can think that I don't want to be involved?" He comes closer to me. "I want you and I want the baby, Josephine." I started to hear him so quiet, until everything went black.

Hero

Shit. She faint in my arms. Fucking hell! I quickly take out my phone and I call ambulance. I don't know what's wrong, but I hope there is no problem with her pregnancy. If this is it, it's all my fault. I gently let her head on a pillow and I go to take a glass of water and I unlock the door before to go back to her. I spalsh some water on her face and she wakes up.

"Hey... Are you ok?" I ask her worried and she's pale. "It's ok, don't talk. The doctor will be here any minute."

"What happened?" She whispers.

"You passed out, love."

I kiss her forehead and I hear a knock at the door. Thank God they are here. I get up and I go to open the door lettings the paramedics to come in. The first thing I tell them that she is pregnant. They check on her, telling us that it's something normal for first trimester, but if we want to be sure that everything is fine, we should do some test, because Jo can have anemia. They suggested her to eat something because she haven't something to eat today. She has to rest and stay hydrate, and tomorrow she will be fine.

"Let me prepare something to eat for you."

"I'm fine, Hero."

"Yeah, and that's why you fainted. So, stay there and rest and I'm going to make dinner. And we are talking tomorrow." I kiss her forehead and I go to the kitchen.

I find some ingredients and I prepare some pastas. When I'm done, I put some food on a plate and I go to feed Jo.

"I can eat in the kitchen."

"Yeah, that's not going to happen." I help her to sit comfortable on the couch and I start to feed her as a kid.

"I can eat alone. I'm not a kid."

"Let me feed you, love."

I feed Josephine, then I go to bring a bottle of water.

"You are not hungry?"

"I will eat later." I hand her the bottle.

"Go and eat. I will be here. I won't move."

"No, I'm fine."

"Hero, please... As you forced me to eat, I am forcing you to eat. Please... I will be fine on the couch and if I need anything, I will call you."

"Ok." I sigh and I kiss her forehead. "Do you need anything before I go to eat?"

"No, thank you." She smiles and I look at her. "Go!"

I get up and I go to the kitchen. I quickly eat some pastas, then I drink some water and I go back to Jo. She has her hand on her lower abdomen and she looks at me.

"When did you find out?" I sit next to her.

"This week. On Friday. I was at a normal check-up and every time I have to do a pregnancy test and it was positive. I did an ultrasound and that's it... Nine weeks and four days today."

"Do you have the ultrasound?"

"Yeah. Do you want to see it?"

"Sure." She gets up. "Do you need help?"

"I'm fine. I can walk, don't worry." She walks to her bedroom and a few moments later, she's back with some papers. She sits closer to me and she hands me a black and white paper. I don't think I understand what's here.

"I don't understand anything. I'm sorry."

"Well, I didn't understand either. But, let me explain you what's here. See this black big spot here?" She points to a black spot and I see some white things on it. And if I look better, the white spot looks like a little baby. "This is the baby's head, his body, legs and hands. He is the size of a strawberry." Ugh, why this moment is so emotional? I'm a man! I can't cry. "Hey, are you ok?" She puts her hand on my cheek and she looks at me.

"I... This is emotional and I'm trying so hard to not cry because this is my baby... our baby."

"You want to do this? You want to be involved in this relationship? You want a family with me?"

"I do. This is what I wished since we started to mess around. I want you in my life, Jo."

"And about the distance between us? I live here, you are in London... How we are going to make it?"

"I don't know, but I am sure we can do it." I drag her in my arms, making her to drop the papers on floor. I hug her tight. We're here together, love. And I'm sure we will find the best place to have this baby.