Chapter 42

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Harry

This was the morning. The morning I had been excited for. Our first scan to see our baby. Masie had been stressing for the past 2 days that she didn't have any symptoms and I told her not to worry.

We were just in the car on out way to the hospital where we would see the sonographer to scam Masie.

"Harry something isn't right I'm telling you. I have such a bad feeling in the bottom of my stomach," Masie stresses leaning her head against the car window while her knee would stop jigging.

I sigh and place my hand on her leg. There was nothing more I could say to comfort her.

We sat in the cold busy waiting room waiting me called through. Masie was absolutely desperate for the tolite as she had to have a full bladder for them to see the baby clearly.

"God I need to piss so bad," she whined crossing her legs.

"I know baby I know," I say pecking the side of her head.

"Miss Edwards," a lady called.

We immediately stood up and followed her into a simply lit room.

"Lpvelt to meet you both. What your name?" She asked refering to mw.

"Harry Miss," i reply shaking her hand.

"I'm Paula I will doing your scan today. It says your about exactly 12 weeks today is that correct?" She asked.

Masie chews on her lip and replies with a yes.

"Please take a seat on the bed, pull you trousers down a little," the lady untrusted.

Masie slid onto the bed and I took her hand in mine. The lady squirted some jelly on her tummy and began to look.

"Give a minute just to get my baring," she says.

I watch as her eye brows furrow in...confusion? Masie's head whips to me.

"Masie have you had any bloods done?" She asked.

"No. Why? Should I have?" She replies.

"It's not routine but I was just wondering if you had," She replies.

"What's going on? Is there something wrong?" Masie's panicked voice asked.

"I'm so sorry both of you..but there's no baby..your not pregnant," it felt like someone had winded me.

I felt Masie's hand loosen in mine.

"...Why?" Her weak voice asked. "I had a positive test," she adds.

"We can have things called a chemical pregnancy it is actually a very early miscarriage, which takes place before anything can be seen on an ultrasound scan – usually around the fifth week that you are pregnant. It means that a sperm has fertilised your egg, but later on, the egg fails to survive," Paula explains to us.

"What causes it to happen?" I ask partly not wanting to know the answer.

"There are many causes. For example; inadequate uterine lining, low hormone levels, luteal phase defect, infection, or other unknown reasons. The most common assumption is that they are due to chromosomal problems in the developing fetus," she says wiping Masie's tummy.

I look over at Masie. Her brows are furrowed and she has a beautiful little crease between them.

"Hey," I whisper stroking my thumb on her cheek.

Her eyes blink to mine.

"I'm fine," Masie replies but I can tell she's not.

"We can give you an information leaflets and the services you can contact," Paula offered.

"That won't be necessary," Masie quickly snap before she pulls her trousers up and hops off the bed and out of the door. I mouth a 'sorry' to Paula who gives me a sympathetic look.

I run after Masie but until we get to my car she doesn't stop and when does it's only because I have the kids. She's turned away from me. I take each of her wrists in my hands and turn her to face me.

"Masie," I start my thumbs rubbing across her knuckles.

"Don't okay? I clearly was meant to be and who are we kidding thinking we could protect a child. When we can't look after ourselves," she rants but I notice no tears appear in her eyes which worried me.

I pulled her into my chest but she pushes away from my chest. I felt my heart squeeze in my chest feeling rejected.

"I'm hurting to okay don't push me away Masie. We may not have planned this baby but it doesn't mean for the past few weeks I havent thought and drempt about what it was going to be like to see them for the first time. To be a dad," I explain holding her at arms length.

Masie looks at the floor and bites her lip.

"Can we just go home please," she whispers quietly.

I nod and open her door as she hops in. I drove us to her flat. She goes straight to her bedroom and closes the door..locking it. I flop down on the sofa and throw my arm over my eyes. I wanted to be angry! I wanted to cry!  I wanted to ask why! But I knew none of that would be any good.

Masie needed some space so that is what I gave her and before I knew it I had fallen asleep on the sofa.

Masie

I lay on my bed just staring...just staring up at the plain white ceiling.  It felt like my world had been turned upside down yet again. I don't know how to feel! How to act!

I don't know how long I lay there but I eventually stood up and poked my head out of my bedroom door to see Harry flat out on the sofa. I slipped back in my room, I needed a drink, I need to be free, I needed out of here. I slipped on my black lace dress and heels, grabbed my clutch bag and stuff it with my stuff and headed out the flat trying not to wake Harry.

I knew Turner would be out the front in his car watching the flat so I pushed open the one way fire exit door and ran down the alley before flagging down a taxi. I then called someone I hadn't spoken to in a while but he was always one for a party.

Tyler

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