Discovering Jessica

A Nightmare.

Chapter Fourteen: A Nightmare.

Jessica's POV: Before

It's hard to believe that you've been gone for eight months now. To be perfectly honest it feels like it was a different life time when we said goodbye at the airport. If you could have told me a year ago about all the things that were to come in the upcoming months I would have definitely believed you were crazy. The idea of there ever being a you and me seemed like a complete fantasy, a delusion even. Look at me now though... I have a protruding stomach that reminds me every single day that you and I were not in fact a fantasy or a dream.

I never thought I could miss someone so much. Everything seems to remind me of you; the basketball courts that I pass by every time I head to work or the locker that was once yours but has since been taken by a freshman. Even simple things like the shirt I was wearing the last day you were here. I almost burst into tears thinking about you the other day, I swear these pregnancy hormones have me a million times more crazy and emotional.

I really wish you were here, not even for me but your mother comes over here almost everyday just to talk because she feels that if she isn't kept busy than she'll just assume that the worst has happened to you. Jane spends a lot of her time here as well, she's become my closest friend since I got pregnant and I have to say she is brilliant. I love having her around, your mom and dad too. They really miss you, I hope you come home safely as soon as you can.

I got your letters, all of them. You haven't stopped writing, if anything your letters have come in more frequently. I have to stop myself from opening all of them every time that I get a new one. It will just be harder to let you go though, if I open them I mean. I don't want to trap you here, I really hope you know that. I want you to have a life, outside of this little town, you deserve it.

I miss you, come home soon                                                                                                                                Jessica

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"Parker?" I can't believe he was standing before me. I thought he was still gone and... where's my stomach? I swear that just this morning I had a huge stomach that was carrying my little baby.

"Where are we? This isn't my house. And why are you here?" I asked, question after question popping into my head. Parker just kept his back towards me, he was still dressed in his uniform and he had yet to say a word.

"I wanted to see him." Parker replied. I then began to take in my surroundings, white walls, bright blinding lights, a bed that I was confined in, a chair that looked to be from the sixties, and an old television in the corner of the room. I think I'm in a hospital.

"What do you mean? It's too early." I was really confused by now. Parker still hadn't looked at me but I knew that it was him, I could recognize him almost anywhere. When he didn't answer, I began to worry because this seemed to be turning into a nightmare.

"Parker, please answer me. I don't know what you mean. It's too early." I was quivering by now, I needed to know what was going on.

"You never told me but I wanted to see him, I needed to see him." Parker said, still not bothering to look at me. My entire body felt like it was glued onto the bed and I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. That's when I heard the sounds of a baby crying, wailing to be exact.

My thoughts were running wild. Everything didn't make sense, Parker is in the military, I'm only six months pregnant, and I don't remember going to the hospital. The whining continued but seemed to be distant, as if I was hearing it from the end of a tunnel.

"Come look at our son." Parker said. When he spoke, I felt my entire body begin to move and soon I was across the room, at Parker's side. Except when Parker turned to look at me, it wasn't the Parker I remember last seeing.

Instead there was a bullet wound that went straight through Parker's head and his entire body was covered in blood. I gasped at just the sight of it but Parker smiled down at me, completely oblivious to my shock.

"P-Parker, what happened to you?" I asked through the tears that were streaming down my face.

"We were attacked but I needed to see him before I left." He then looked down towards the floor. What I saw instead of the tile that had just been there was a small incubator. Inside was a frail little baby, our baby.

"He looks exactly like you." I whispered. Parker than grabbed my hand and interlaced our fingers.

"Jessica..." I looked up into Parker's eyes. "You should have told me, I want this. I want to be with you and with him. You should have told me." Parker then began to fade into the background-

I woke up with a face stained with tears. I clung onto my once again swollen stomach and silently cried until my body stopped shaking. The sound of his voice ringing in my ears as replayed his last words in my head.

I have to tell Parker...

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