Beyond our eyes | COMPLETED

Chapter 1

It was a busy midday, just like every other lunch hour of the week.
Customers coming in to get energized and continue with whatever assignments they had for the day.
It's always worse on Wednesdays, because that's when the realization of how tired they are kicks in.

The door bell ringed indicating that someone walked inside the restaurant.
It's Jessica, she's a close friend and also my best friends wife
I made my way to counter

"You're here earlier, everything alright??" She was supposed to meet me at 5 then we'd go baby shopping. She's six months pregnant.

"It's an emergency" she said looking too serious.
Jessica isn't the most serious person so when she says 'it's an emergency' looking all serious, you know it's serious.

"What's up?" I asked, tho I'm assuming it has something to do with her husband, Emmanuel.

"I- well- the- I'm confused" she gabbled
"Okay, first of all, let's go in so we can talk comfortably" I led her to my mini office, grabbing some snacks on my way.

"Sit" I ordered when we got to my office.
I placed the snacks on the desk, went to the dispenser and got water for her
"Drink" she collected it from me, maintaining eye contact.
She gulped the water, then sighed

"Tell me what the matter is slowly" I said emphasizing on the slowly.
She looked at me again and sighed then searched through her purse and handed me a paper

I scanned through the report looking for clearance

POSITIVE

I looked at her, then looked at the paper again before laughing.
" this is impossible" I said shaking my head, while sitting down.

" Dinah, this is the third test"  she said looking at me wide eyed
"So what exactly are you trying to say? I'm a virgin Jessy" I said with a straight face.

"I don't know. The first one was an actual test, that's very accurate. the second one was a strip test, that could've been a mistake, the third one, an actual test again. They all have the same result, all saying the same thing, It definitely can't all be mistakes" she explained

"I am a virgin, that means I have never, never, ever had sex" I mad a face while saying this.

"D. I'm honestly not going to judge you, you ca-"
I cut her off "Why would I lie? You think I care about you judging me?" I rolled my eyes

"Look, let's run another test, if that one comes out positive, which it won't, then I'll assume I was fucked in my sleep or something" I ended the matter.

She stared at me with a straight face and I stared back.
"You know I mean no harm D, it's not like I don't believe you but it's hard when this is saying something else" she pointed at the pregnancy test
"But fine, we'll take another test" she agreed

I smiled "Good, cause I definitely didn't have any angel visiting me"

Shortly after Jessica left, I sat in my office and stared at the pregnancy report.
The accuracy with the last two reports matched. Horrific.

I admit I wasn't taking this serious
Screw that, part of me is still not taking this serious cause I know it's impossible but three reports are saying the same thing.
What happens if the next one says the same thing?

I put my head on the desk
Am I the new Mary? Is this a sick prank?
Thinking about all is becoming painful
My head hurts.

I can't do this right now
I picked up my bag and left my office.
Grace and Kate, my employees were working.
"I'm heading home, I trust you both to take care of everything"