Falling From It Again

Forty 1

CHERYL's POINT OF VIEW

"Where have you been?" Inaya asked me as I laid down on her couch.

"With Shemar." I said as I closed my eyes and tried to rest a little more.

"Why are you so tired and you look...like, you've been through it, Cheryl. You good?" She asked me as she sat on the opposite couch.

"I've just haven't been feeling too well lately but I'm fine. A lot of throwing up but I'm trying to bounce back to my original self." I said as I opened my eyes and looked over at her. "And damn, how many people are gonna tell me that I look jacked up? I know this." I said as I lightly shook my head.

"So...are you two still seeing each other?" She asked me. I nodded my head yes and then yawned. "Girl, uhm....you're still hooked, huh?" She asked me.

"Sadly, yes. 9 years away and I still can't resist the man."

"Uhmmm hmm." She said as she took a sip of her wine and looked over at me.

"Inaya why are you looking at me like that?" I asked her as I slowly sat up and shook my head at her with the look of confusion on my face.

"Because you're pregnant." She told me.

I looked at her for a moment. We sat there in silence.

"You're funny as hell. You said that so randomly and out of no where. Hell no." I said as I started to laugh and break the silence in the room. "Very hilarious." I told her.

"Let's see. You've been throwing up, letting Shemar touch them guts, sleepy, feisty and over all...not feeling well. So, what does that tell you?" She asked me.

"That I'm JUST sick. I'm not pregnant. I know my body, Okay Inaya." I said as I lightly rolled my eyes and put my hand on my nauseous stomach.

"Take a test then. Prove it." She said as she then stood up from the couch.

"Where are you going?" I asked her.

"To get the pregnancy test from upstairs. Wait here." She said as she started to walk away.

"I don't feel like peeing on a stick right now, Okay?" I said as I watched her disappear out of the room.

"Why is that?" She asked me as she was already gone.

I might as well answer once she gets back.

I'm not pregnant- I know that for a damn good fact.

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"Here." Inaya said as she made her way back downstairs. She handed me the test and tilted her head at me.

"To answer your question...because I just don't." I said as I started to get nervous all over again and looked the pregnancy test that was in her hand.

"Take it and see." She told me. I looked at it and just took it out of her hand.

"Fine but I'll show you that I'm not. Watch." I said as I stood up, pulled my shirt down and went to go to the bathroom.

"I'll be waiting." Inaya said as she sat down and crossed her legs.

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Once I made it out of the bathroom and back into the living room, I looked down at the pregnancy test with shock in my eyes.

"Oh shit..." I said as I looked at the test.