My Lighthouse

Surprise or...

Although she didn't get her job back, Louis was glad with the news she got for him. She called the hospital to check again, if what she had found out was true. If they hadn't made any mistakes. The hospital advised her, that if she had second thoughts about it, she had to try to get Jacky into the hospital for another ultrasound. But how did she do that, without giving her any suspicion that she didn't trust what Jacky had told them? Sheila called Christie and asked her for advice. Christie got all excited when Sheila told her what she found out. If that's really true sweetheart...., Christie said with a voice full of emotion and then silenced. But mum, what do I have to do, to get her into the hospital for another ultrasound? Easy! Christie answered. Every pregnant woman wants to see her baby as often as possible. Tell her, Mark wants to know if the baby is still alright and that he wants another ultrasound to be sure. She will be going along gladly, even together with you. Just wait and see.

Christie was right. The next day Sheila had an appointment with Jacky, to go to hospital and check on the baby. Jacky walked up to her with that awful self conscious smile of hers. But this time Sheila smiled back the same way. Just wait and see, young lady, Sheila thought to herself. She introduced herself to the gynecologist. Sheila noticed, the doctor felt a bit uncomfortable by this situation. As long as she didn't say anything and just did her job, nothing was the matter. Jacky as well as Sheila got the pictures of the baby and although Sheila knew she wasn't looking at Mark's and her baby, it still made her emotional. Just the idea she might never see a picture like this of her own baby, made her feel so helpless. She said goodbye to Jacky, who asked her for more money again, because of all the things she had to buy for the baby and left the hospital smiling. How stupid can this young model actually be? Playing with lives the way she did, only because she smelled the big bucks. How wrong she was! Sheila smiled and looked at her suitcase and the box of delicacies on the backseat, started the car and got on her way to London.

Sheila opened the door to Mark's house and put the suitcase down when she walked into the hallway and down to the kitchen. Mark had a lovely home in London, but unfortunately they haven't had much time to go there the last few months. When Sheila wasn't Mark's girlfriend, she and a friend of hers who lived in London, always took care of his house. Together they undid the house from dust, which loved to lay down on everything it got its "hands" on, filled his fridge and put fresh flowers in a vase, to make him feel at home whenever he came here. Unfortunately she also had to clean up other subjects back then, especially after a party. She found beautiful lace underwear, condoms, empty bottles of champagne all kinds of stuff she didn't wanted to know. It had broken her heart over and over again, but Sheila never said a word and she had been glad every time he came home to her and told her, how glad he was when she was around. She made his house feel like a proper home and he wouldn't be anything without her. She had always felt her heart overflowing with love for him when he said that, but never really admitted it to herself.

She had put the groceries into to the fridge and into the cupboards, brought her suitcase upstairs and walked downstairs to put on her coat again to do some more shopping. She had all kinds of things in mind which started with a well known lingerie shop in the neighborhood of Oxford street. Sheila smiled , thinking of Mark's face when he would find her in his house and heard what she had to say. She payed the lady of the lingerie shop and went straight to Harrods where she bought the best pâté of London, some olives and caviar. She was in a very good mood, so when she saw that expensive Chardonnay in the shelves, she didn't doubt for a second and bought that too. She walked back to the elevator when she suddenly saw a beautiful white silk shirt hanging in the man's department. She smiled with a naughty look on her face and walked towards the salesman to tell him what she wanted and in which size. The salesman nodded approvingly with her good taste and when he asked her, if it was a present and if he had to wrap it in, Sheila smiled seductively and giggled, I will wear his present, he may unwrap me. The salesman blushed and got all red, I am sure your husband will going to like that. Sheila took the bag from the counter and smiled, I hope so too. She blinked at him and got smiling into the elevator out of the shop and back to Mark's house.