Black Orchid (Student/Teacher)

Chapter 15

3 days.

And Hannah was still here. 3 days of watching Dominic laugh at her jokes and wait on her hand and foot, while I, the pregnant girlfriend was left alone. I rolled over in Orlando’s bed and groaned when I was hit with another bout of dizziness. I knew that feeling sick was normal through the first weeks, this was excessive and I knew something was wrong.

I picked up my phone and dialed Valerie. “Hola, mamacita. How can I help you?”

“I need you to come over, now.” She must’ve noticed my blatant sick tone and she agreed quickly, then hung up. “Dom?” I couldn’t even really get my voice high enough, but luckily he heard me. I guess him taking the day off to hang out with Hannah came in handy.

Note my sarcasm.

“Yeah, babe?” I rolled my eyes at him and scoffed in my head. He only called me babe or Querida when we were alone and not by ‘Hannah’. I turned away from him and closed my eyes to prevent the tears that came with my frustration.

“Can you just answer the door when Val comes?” I felt him come closer to the bed and I turned further away from him. He sighed and left the room, saying nothing.

That hurt too.

I think I fell asleep because next thing I knew, Val was in my face looking at me worriedly. “I need to call an ambulance for you.” I tried to sit up, but changed my mind because I was physically too tired.

“No, just sit with me.” He face steeled and she shook her head.

“I’m calling the ambulance.” I closed my eyes again and once again I found myself being loaded into an ambulance with Dominic and Valerie hovering over me worriedly.

“Charlotte? What’s going on?” It sucked that it took me getting ridiculously sick for Dominic to notice me again. “I’m riding with you.” Before he could step into the ambulance, Valerie grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

“I don’t know what you did, but right now you need to be away from her. If it got to a point where she called me to your house instead of telling you, should be evidence enough. I’m going with her.” Dom looked like he wanted to complain, but something stopped him. He never said it, but you saw the look in his eyes change, they became enlightened.

The last thing I remember is an oxygen mask being put on my face.

***

“I’m sorry. I should’ve been truthful from the beginning and now I might lose you. I don’t think I can lose you, Querida. You are my life, my heart, my child’s mother. You’re everything to me, so I’m going to come clean to now and again when you wake up because I love you so much.”

Thank god my heart rate didn’t change, but his words had roused me from my sleep, but I wanted to hear what he was going to say, so I kept my eyes closed and breathing steady. I was afraid of what he was going to say because I loved him too and no matter how much I loved him, I wouldn’t degrade myself for him.