After hours

Chapter 5

I wake up to the light coming through the windows.

Jacob insnt there next to me so I am guessing he is in the kitchen. I quickly put my clothes back on and go find him.

"Jacob?"

"I'm in here" he calls from the kitchen.

"Hey." I say kissing him.

And we spend the rest of our sunday in peace, watching old 80s movies.
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Ew. There's so many sick people today.

Why don't people get their flu shots!

Speaking of I need to get my flu shot.

"This sucks." I say to Alyssa as I'm switching out patient charts.

"Yes this does. The clinic always sucks."

"I feel nauseous," i complain.

"Maybe it's all these fluy people."

"Probably. The day is almost over though."

~

"I think I'm getting sick." I say plopping on Jacob's couch. I came home with him after work today.

"Really? Let me check you're temperature." He takes my temperature, no fever. "That's weird, maybe it's just a cold." he says reassuringly.

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna go home, I'll see you at work tomorrow."

"Okay, feel better." he kisses me on the forehead.

When I get home I feel so nauseous, I collapse on my bed and fell asleep.

I suddenly get the feeling Im about to throw up. I run down the hall and to the bathroom and throw up everything I ate at lunch.

I check my temperature again and still no fever. Weird.

I sleep and sleep, and pry myself from bed the next and and go to work.

"You look like shit." Alyssa tells me as I grab today's chart.

"I feel like shit."

"Maybe you should go home?"

"No, I'll be fine."

The day went by slow. I was on Neuro's service today. I hate brains. They freak me out.

Every hour on the hour I threw up. I don't know what I threw up. There was nothing in my stomach anyways.

"Stevens. You need to go home. I was about to let you scrub in but you can't be in an OR looking like that. Go, get some rest." Dr. Montgomery insists.

"Okay, thanks Dr. Montgomery."

~

It's almost four o'clock, and I have been waiting for my new Louis Vuitton's for a couple of days, maybe they are here.

I walk out to my mailbox and suddenly get light headed, my vision  blackening at the edges.

I started to fall, I think. I don't really know.

The next thing I know there is something cold in my head. I strained to open my eyes to find Jacob sitting next to me.

"Oh, thank god," he breathes.

"What happened?"

"I don't know, I came here to see how you were feeling and I found you on the lawn."

"I must have fainted." I say trying to sit up.

"I'm really worried about you, are you okay?" he asks, his eyes full of concern.

"I'm fine." I reassure him.

To make sure im fine he checked my temperature, my pulse and blood pressure. Everything is fine.

"Maybe, I just have low iron or something?"

"Yeah most likely. Do you want to order Chinese take out and watch Friends?"

"Yeah that'd be great, thank you for coming," i smile and snuggle up next to him. This was our routine in high school, food and Friends.  i missed this.

"Anytime."

We took a short nap but I, of course. Ran to the bathroom and vomit. Jacob hurries towards me and holds my hair back. Gross.

"I am seriously worried about you."

"I'm sure it's nothing, okay? Give it 2 days."

"Fine," he sighs.

~

The next two days I threw up nonstop. It was so disgusting.

Alyssa's coming over to bring me food because I haven't gone grocery shopping.

"Hey Evi, do you feel any better I brought you some soup."

"No I still feel like shit, but thanks." Oh no here it comes. I ran to the bathroom yet again.

"Hey, Evi? when was the last time you had your period?"

Oh fuck.

"No, no, no , no, no, this cannot be happening."

"I'll go to the store and get you a test. Don't freak out until you know for sure."

She races out the door. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. What was I going to do. I sat there waiting for Alyssa for what felt like hours.

"I'm back! Hurry, go take it!"

Fuck.

I'm pregnant.