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“Bridgette C.” Says the plump woman in the waiting room.
“Hi.” I stand up, Josh steadies me with his hand.
“You’re gonna do great.”
The lady leads me down a hallway, it gets darker and I start to feel alone. Like this is my fault, everything is going to go wrong, but Josh takes me hand and squeezes it. I look up to his face and into his bright blue eyes.
“Thank you.” I mouth to him. He smiles and we get into the room. I sit on the bed and Josh takes the chair beside me.
“Could you please lift up your shirt.” Asks the lady.
“Uhh, yeah.” I scrunch up my shirt and she puts the gel on it. “Ooooo.” I say, it feels so cold on my belly.
“I know, it’s cold. Sorry about that.” She spreads it around with the ‘reader’ as she told me. A few minutes later she starts to talk.
“The baby is perfectly happy. You can’t exactly see everything quite yet, but next trip you will be able to. We can’t determine the gender either until a later date.”
“Okay.” I slip off the bed wanting to get out fast. “What do I-…” I say looking at my belly.
“Here.” She hands me a towel and I wipe all the jell off.
“Oww.” I say. It gets caught on my belly button piercing.
“Here.” Josh gets down on his knee and takes it off.
“Thanks.” I say pulling my shirt down self consciously.
“Ma’am, I’d advise to take that off once your belly gets bigger.”
“Ok.” I take Josh’s hand and we’re out of the room just like that.
“Whoa, why you going so fast Bridge?” He asks trying to keep up with me.
“I… Just... Nevermind. We’ve got two more places to go.” He opens my door and I hop in, then he slides in.
“Where?”
“Hotel!” I smile big.
“You sure?” He looks concerned.
“Joshhhhhh.” I take his face in both of my hands and kiss him. “I’m positive.”
We arrive at the hotel a short amount later.
“Wait here!” I run to the lobby bathroom and try to find the birthday card in my purse. I find it and slip it into my hand. The light in the bathroom flicks on and off, “Hello?” I ask if anyone is there.
“I’m gotta peeeeee!” Says a child’s voice.
“Sorry sweetheart!” I say walking out. She shuts the door closed and I look for Josh. I can’t seem to find him anywhere, so I try the front desk. “Excuse me miss, have you see a tall guy? Dark hair, blue eyes, black t-shirt?” I think in my head for anything else.
“Are you Bridge?” She asks.
“Mhmm.” When I look at the woman she’s pointing behind me. I spin around on my heels and see a sign that says “BRIDGE”. “Thank you.” I smile and walk to the door.
Knocking three times, I start to say hello.
“Oh no ma’am. You must enter.”
“Okay?” I say kind of creeped out. I push the French doors and see a thousand balloons with candles light all over the floor. There’s a red carpet on the ground and I see a guy at the end. I walk down the path and see the petals on the ground. “Josh?” I call out.
