"Demi Lovato?" They soon heard after a little while of comfortable silence. They found that they didn't have anything else to say. They didn't want to become parents so young but if they had a baby they could never imagine aborting their child. They all got up including the school nurse and they entered the midwife's office all of them taking a seat Demi up on the bed her legs swinging below her but it didn't stop her from holding Joe's hand.
"I'm not gonna sugar coat it. Congratulations, you're five weeks pregnant," She praised and Demi took in a shaky breath.
"Okay so what now?" Demi inquired squeezing Joe's hand tight. It was somehow not the news they were after. But they could never hate the baby, it wasn't their fault that they were created how they were and way before Joe or Demi even wanted to become parents.
"We can look at baby if you like?" Shelby questioned.
"We're only fourteen, we were just wondering what options we have," Demi admitted. "Other than abortion." Demi spoke quickly afterwards.
"You're only other option other than abortion is having someone adopt your baby. Or you could keep him or her and raise them yourself?"
"You guys did express that you wanted your baby." The nurse added and Joe and Demi looked at one another.
"W-were not sure yet." Joe stammered.
"I just know I can't get rid of my baby." Demi urged.
"You don't have to, how about we have a look at baby, make sure everything is going well. Then I can give you some leaflets about what your options are. There's one for young moms too, I'll give you that one." Shelby suggested and they both nodded their heads gently and Demi laid down but kept hold of Joe's hand raising her shirt with her spare hand just below her breasts.
"Do you want to see baby?" The nurse questioned.
"I've already got a connection with the baby, I don't think anything will change is I see them." Demi breathed.
"You won't be able to see too much at five weeks," Shelby replied but they would still know their child was there. Demi watched as Shelby tucked in some tissue paper into her pants and below her shirt so the gel didn't ruin her clothes. She then squirted gel onto her flat stomach. Joe and Demi couldn't help but keep their eyes on the screen as she search for the baby once she had placed the probe down. They couldn't see much like Shelby said but she soon pointed out the baby. A tiny dot on the screen about the size of a raisin. "And there is your baby."
They couldn't help but fall in love with their son or daughter.
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Demi took the envelope with the sonogram pictures in her shaky hands Joe having hold of the leaflets Shelby had given them. They both thanked her one last time before they left with the school nurse heading towards the exit.
"Do you want to come back to school or go home?" She inquired.
"I think we'll walk home from here, tell our parents and get their advice and stuff... we're not gonna know how big of a deal having a baby is until the baby is here so we've just got to take other people's advice." Joe stated and Demi nodded her head in agreement.
"Okay that's fine, come by my office if you ever need anything okay? Even if it's just someones nonjudgmental advice." She stated and they both thanked her watching as she left for a minute until they went to the front desk to book their next appointment for their twelve week scan.
"I'm kind of scared." Demi admitted as they left the building together and Joe grabbed hold of her hand again.
"Me too," Joe confessed, he wouldn't lie to her. "But we'll get through it together. I'm not going anywhere."
"That's a relief." Demi breathed and Joe squeezed her hand gently as they reached the sidewalk.
"I'm not gonna let you do this alone," Joe assured her. "You wanna go up to the tree house for a bit before we go home?"
"Yeah but I'm not in the mood to create a twin." She replied and Joe couldn't help but laugh.
"I wasn't asking if you wanted to go there to do that, I just thought we'd have lunch up there before we go home," Joe replied. "Damn I left my lunch on the school table with Shane." Demi laughed this time shaking her head at him.
"I'll split my lunch with you." She assured him and Joe smiled kissing her head gently.
