Dance For Me

Getaway

*Cassidy POV*

"Mrs. Besson, I did get your results back." The doctor finally walks back into the room.

My OB, Dr. Morris, called me in to discuss some of the test results for a lot of the tests I've been getting done.

I've been overly exhausted, with really bad headaches, and my morning sickness hasn't gone away. I've googled my symptoms, and we all know that's never a good idea. I've been panicking ever since.

Devonie has come with me to every one of my appointments, since the one I had with Daniel, so it's not a surprise that she sits beside me, holding my hand.

"Well? What's going on?" Dev speaks before I'm even able to open my mouth. This usually happens at all my appointments, the doctor usually just ends up rolling his eyes.

"You have, what's called, preeclampsia." I gulp at the word, I know what it means. "Which means your blood pressure is too high and it can cause serious complications for you and the baby."

My eyes sting with tears as Devonie holds on to my hands tighter. I nod my head towards the doctor but my eyes travel down towards my stomach. I can't lose this one, I just can't lose this one too.

Daniel was right, this is all we have left of Corbyn, and I will not let anything take this away from us. If complications get too severe, they better save the baby and not me, if that becomes the outcome.

"What can I do?" My voice breaks as I watch my own tears drip down on to Corbyn's black sweat shirt that I'm wearing.

"I'll give you a medication to take, every morning, and we'll schedule you for a c-section, for when you're around 37 weeks. So in seven weeks time, if you don't deliver before then." Dev squeezes my hand but I partly wish I was alone. I don't want her worrying about me and trying to baby me even more. I want her to finally leave with Jonah, to finally get her escape that I know, deep down, that she really wants.

I'll be fine here, alone. I know that when Jonah and Devonie leave, I'll be actually alone. No one will come visit me until I have the baby, Jack and Zach will be living their lives with their new jobs, and I don't know if Daniel will even leave the club, but I know they won't be visiting me everyday anymore. I've come to terms with it all, I don't mind, I guess.

"You'll be needing to stay off your feet, as much as you can. Nothing stressful and nothing very physical, okay?" I look back up to the doctor, with more tears running down my, probably bright red face, but I nod. "Take one of these, every morning, and I'll see you next time."

I take the small paper from the doctors hand and I begin to stand, with Dev following my lead

"Thank you."

Devonie and I leave the doctors office in silence. I know as soon as we leave the building, she'll be back to asking me a million questions, but for now, I just want silence.

She doesn't ask any questions, to my surprise. She just holds my hand tightly until we make it to Jonah's car, that sits waiting for us, just outside the building doors.

As Devonie quickly slides into the front passenger seat, I take a second to take a deep breath of the warm July air. I look down to my stomach and give a light smile.

Seven more weeks, you only have to stay in there for another seven weeks.

Opening the back door to Jonah's low set, black Audi, I climb in silently, holding onto the paper that says a fancy prescription.

"How'd it go?" Jonah asks with a smile on his face, as he watches me do up my seatbelt in the rear view mirror.

"Good, only seven more weeks." I lie through my teeth, not wanting Jonah to get involved on the issues of me and the baby, but I don't miss the look Dev gives him, as if she'll tell him later.