Time Away

Hot Mama

I sat there in shock, quietly crying to myself. After fifteen minutes his phone begins to ring. It's Chantelle.

"Daniel, your phone is ringing." I shook him lightly. He mumbled.
"Daniel! Chantelle is calling your phone!" I hollered.
He jumped up staring at me almost as if it were apologetically. Still letting the phone ring. The called ended and just as quickly, it rang again.

"Well don't let it ring. I wouldn't like it if that were me." I said angrily, tossing him his phone.
He answered, as I raised my eyebrow and crossed my arms.

"Heeyy Chantelle." He dragged out her name. I couldn't hear much of what she was saying.
"Yeah... yes, I'm here with my friend Sloane. She's been sick so I... Chantelle!.... I'm just checking on her... yeah... yeah I'm coming.. bye." He hung up, looked at me, and grabbed his things and left.
"Fuck." I mumbled.

...

A few days later, Daniel called me.

"Heeyy Sloane." Guess he was gonna drag out my name too.
"Hey what's up?" I asked nonchalantly.
"Nothing really. Just calling to check up on you. Feeling any better?"
"Not really. I've still been throwing up, kinda feel like shit. I was thinking of going to the doctors today. I mean, it's been a week now." I said, fiddling with my thumbs.
"Oh, well I'd come along but I'm with Chantelle right now." He sighed lightly. I could tell something was off.
"Oh okay. Uh, how is sh-" I was cut off my Chantelle on the other end.
"Dig who are you talking to?" She snatched the phone.
"Who is this?!" She said aggressively.
"It's Sloane, how are you sweetheart?" I said sweetly. She scoffed.
"I'm fine. Why are you talking to my man?"
"More like why is your man talking to me? And he was checking on his SICK FRIEND honey." I replied with an attitude, but she just came right back.
"Don't honey me bitch, I know your his ex girlfriend and I'm-"
"Chantelle!! CHILL!!" They were fighting over the phone. Daniel got the phone and just hung up.
Wow, did she just call me a bitch? I said to myself. I think I was just honestly shocked he was dating a girl like that.

I got a call an hour later from Daniel again.
"Hello?" I answered hesitantly.
"Hey S, I'm really sorry about earlier with Chantelle, she didn't mean-"
"Ohhhh, no Daniel! She meant every bit of that." I laughed. He laughed lightly on the other end. It fell silent.
"Hey hun, I gotta start heading to the doctors n-."
"That's actually what I was calling about. I thought I'd offer to take you, as an apology for Chantelle." He said.
"You sure you wanna do that? Did you even tell her you're taking me?" I questioned.
"Uhh, let me worry about that okay?" He said sneakily. Daniel was never one to be secretive in any way.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Oh okay, badass." I said while opening the door.
"That's Mr Badass to you, little lady." Daniel said, leaning into the threshold of my door.

Andrea walked in just then scanning the doorway.
"Oh hey honey! How are you doing?" Andrea ran up hugging Daniel as if she were my mother.
"I'm good and you?"
"Good, good." She smiled at us longingly.
"We're going to the doctors." I chuckled at her, looking at my feet to avoid her gaze.
"Oh okay, fill me in later babe." She rubbed my shoulder and closed the door behind us.

After an hour in the waiting room, they checked me in and me and Daniel were waiting for a doctor in a room.

"What do you think it is?" I asked Daniel. I was really worried that it was something bad. I'd been really sick all week.
"Whatever it is, you'll be fine." He smiled, holding my hand. Just then his phone buzzed.
And buzzed.
And buzzed.

"Is that your girlfriend?" I said smirking.
"You're actually enjoying this, aren't you?" Daniel said frowning.
"No, not really." I said, averting my eyes to my shoes. Just then the doctor walked in.

"Hello! My name is Dr Crawford, how are you both doing this evening?" He said in a charming, sing-song tone.

"He's great. I'm sick." I said, frowning playfully. He laughed whole-heartedly.

"What's the matter sweetheart?" He asked.

"Well I haven't really been able to keep any food down. I've been throwing up a lot lately and my body just aches a lot and uhh," I got up to whisper to the doctor, "I can't poop."
He was a bit shocked.

"Um, do you try to use the bathroom often?"
Daniel chuckled.
"Well, yeah. I just pee a lot." I responded shyly.
"Are you fatigued?" Dr. Crawford asked.
"Hell yeah." I said.
"She practically slept all week." Daniel said.
"Sore breasts?" He asked shyly.
I felt my chest.
"Yeah actually." I felt my chest lightly, flinching.
"Okay, that was easy. You're pregnant." He smiled.
"We'll run tests to be sure and make sure the baby is healthy."

Daniel and I looked at the doctor in shock.
"What?" He said, taken aback.
"Not really what I was expecting Doc." Daniel said, his head in his hands. I held my stomach.

"I gotta throw up again."