Paradise Bound

Chapter 46

I'm staring back anxiously at Mia as she stops mid-sentence.

"Oh God.... Mia.... Just say it already."

"You're pregnant."

My eyes widen and my mouth drops open in response.

"Are you sure? I mean....."

"Tessa, this is one of the most accurate tests going and according to this you are 6-8 weeks pregnant..... I don't think you can get anymore sure than that. Surely that would be about right. I mean you had nearly two months where you weren't with Isaac, so it must have been before you broke up..... Unless?"

"Unless what?"

"Well I know it's probably a dumb question and I think I already know the answer..... Unless you were with someone else?"

"What?.... No. I haven't been with anyone else. Isaac is the only man I have been with here."

"Okay, I kind of knew that but I just said I'd check. So there's no doubt about it.... Isaac is the father!"

"Oh dear.....Mia..."

The tears start rolling down my cheeks. Mia pulls me into her arms, squeezing me lightly.

"Hey, come on. Don't get upset. This is all going to be fine, I promise you."

"Mia..... What's if it's not going to be fine? What if Isaac freaks out when I tell him?"

Mia pulls me back to look at her.

"Okay look Tessa, if Isaac freaks out it will only be temporary, once he gets over the initial shock I promise you he will be supportive. There is one other thing that might make him a little bit more nervous or worried this time around."

"What?"

"I shouldn't be telling you this. I mean, it's only just the family that know and we only found out when mom got sick."

"Mia, please tell me?"

"I'm sure it's crossed your mind as to why our mother only ever seems to forget Isaac when she gets bad?"

"Well.... To be honest, I don't know a whole lot about the disease but it has crossed my mind that he's the oldest so surely she has spent the most time with him and I would have thought that it wouldn't be him she would forget.... But like I said I don't know enough...."

"Yeah, well Isaac questioned that alot and eventually dad told him what might have her that way. When Isaac was born, well, firstly it was a very difficult birth for my mother apparently, and afterwards she suffered from acute post natal depression...."

"Oh....."

"No like I mean the worst kind ever.... Something just flipped inside her head. Dad said she was like a completely different person. She wasn't coping with a new baby and dad tried to help as much as he could but obviously he had to work at the hotel to be able to pay the bills and everything but my mother didn't want to be left on her own with Isaac. She couldn't handle the crying and.....Well one day dad came home from work and he could hear Isaac crying, my mother was giving him a bath and....she let go of him until he slipped under the water, luckily my dad rushed in and grabbed Isaac out of the bath and he was okay but obviously he knew then something had to be done with my mother."

I'm in total shock at hearing Mia's words...

"Oh my God......Isaac?"

"I know.... While my mother was getting treatment and counselling, my dad had to work so that they didn't lose the house or the business so his brother Tony took Isaac in. He was there for nearly two years. My father obviously still spent his free time with Isaac and as my mother started to get better she would see him too. It took a while but she finally came back to herself and was able to be the mother she needed to be. Dad says she never forgave herself for not being there in the first couple of years for Isaac."