The Curve

Twenty-three

Natalie

I couldn't throw up anymore. There wasn't anything left and I was tired and my body ached like I've been hit by a truck.
That truck being Shawn but still...
I couldn't have been happier.

I lean back from the toilet and Shawn is staring down at me with disgust...

"You look like shit." He was never one to hold back. But I didn't care.
I was happy.

"That's expected when you're pregnant."

"Get rid of it," he spits at me as he walked away.

I have no idea how I got up so fast but I did.

"You can't mean that!!" I shout at him.
He sits down in his chair and looks at me as if I am nothing. This is normal.

"I don't want anymore then I already have." He tells me as he looks down at the paperwork on his desk.

Again with this shit with Destiny.
He never mentioned her. Just the babies as I've learned.
Twins. He wanted every detail on how the pregnancy was coming along.
But this is what it was really about...
The bitch was still in the way.

I couldn't kill her I already had a buyer. It would cost me millions and I was a woman about her money. I wouldn't fuck that up by slitting her fucking throat just to watch her bleed out as tempting as it is.

But he was still hung up on her.
He was letting it cost us our family...

"Tough shit!! I'm keeping this baby.
I am your WIFE!!"
I slam my hands down in his desk. He would NOT ignore me on this.
"You want the babies that you're having with that bitch, you're gonna love the one you made with me." Why did I have to threaten him about those fuckin' things.

"I'm the one that will be giving you a legacy. Not her."

"I don't give a fuck about your bullshit legacy, Natalie." He looks me up and down.
"And frankly I have better shit to do then to be sitting here talking about nothing with you." He couldn't be for real!!!
I didn't know if I wanted to shoot him or slap some sense into the bastard.
This was all her fault!

"You know Shawn, You should really stop fighting me." I stand up straight and run my fingers across my forehead to move my hair from my eyes.
He would see it my way. And soon.
"It's only gonna make others suffer."
He needed to get his shit together. As soon as possible.
I turn and walk out the door with him staring daggers at my back and white knuckling his pen. I hear it snap in two just before I close the door.

Destiny

It could have been easier if I'd just let the chips fall as they may. Let them care for me and my babies until they were born.

But the fact that when they were born they would be ripped from my arms, and taken away forever, that's what had me fighting these people.
It got to the point where Cho held a gun to my head when the doctor comes in. They don't tell me shit about my babies, or how their doing. Just come and go as they please...

At this point I figured that I was set to have my babies in a month or two and they would be given to God knows who.
And the bitch was gonna sell me too!!
The gun pointed at me was a solution that I should take. It was mercy.
One that I only thought about but I just couldn't take.

Shawn would come for us.
I just know he will.
Natalie thought that I didn't know him.
Spitting lies to make me second guess him.
I know Shawn.
He loves me and our children.
The bitch came from nowhere and thought she would break us up?
I mean I was gonna sit down with him when this was all over with. He needed to tell me about all his crazy exes.
But that was when this was over with and our family was home and safe.
Shawn would come for us...

"Good afternoon, Destiny ." Natalie said to me from the doorway.
The smug look on her face makes me want to get up and scratch it off. But I don't.

"I can't with you today, Natalie. So you can just go." I didn't need her fucking with my head.
Not right now.

"Aww I just wanted to share the good news!!" She walks into the room. I notice that she doesn't close the door. It's wide open with nobody guarding it.
Freedom.
But she just strolls over to me and sits down on the bed. Not a care in the world.

"And what could that possibly be?" I really wasn't interested. But her talking her little bit of nothing could give me time to think.

That door kept calling the words freedom to me...
Until her words.

"I'm pregnant." She beams.
"And I have a feeling twins run in the family!" The bitch!
I knew where she was going with this...

"Your a fucking liar!" I tell her.
"He would never!" She was trying it.
The smile she gave me pissed me off.
I wanted to reach over and snatch her.

"Oh, but Destiny. He did."
She reaches into her purse and pulls out her cellphone. On the screen is a video recording of a bedroom, ready to play. I push play and in walks Natalie. Throwing the last of her clothing to the floor. Shawn yelling at her. He had a gun in his hand. The look on his face was scary. Natalie had her back to the camera but her hands are on her hips naked and unfazed by his anger.
They exchanged words, then Shawn shows a side I've never seen before. Rushing Natalie and choking her, within a matter of seconds he throws her to the floor, pointing the gun at her head. But the next scene is the one that puts an end to my happy ever after fantasies.
Shawn fucks her angrily. But he fucks her.

Natalie slides the black and white proof in front of me.
Two little blobs in the middle of four sonogram pictures.
I check the name and the dates.
Natalie was pregnant.
With twins.
And from what she just showed me from this video, the father was Shawn...