Hollywood Journey

Checkups

"Oh my God. I want to eat."

I look out the window like a child waiting for their best friend. My parents are coming over for my dad to watch Nolan while Sherry and Willow go with me to my appointment since I've been fasting and don't want to drive myself unless absolutely necessary. I feel like shit since I haven't been able to eat anything all because of a test that will take forever.

"I want burgers. Really good, amazing burgers."

"Sherry already said we're stopping for some on the way home. It will be worth the wait."

"Gampa here?"

Nolan jumps up at the window, trying to magically grow a foot taller to see out "Hold!" He sticks his arms up after a few seconds, giving up. Willow holds him, but he gets bored after a few seconds of looking at the sidewalk with nobody around.

"Wow you two are screwed if this baby has the attention span of him. He's ridiculous."

"Yeah, but that's my kid, he has to get it from one of us. I don't like staring at absolutely nothing either so I can't blame him too much this time."

"Why do you have to fast anyway? Isn't that dangerous for the baby?"

"It would be if I didn't have the appointment until later in the day. That's why I made it earlier. I wouldn't even need the dumb test if I didn't eat that cake right before the last one and push my sugar levels up really high."

"I did warn you..." Willow backs away slightly as she says it, fearing the actions of my raging hormones "That cake was really good though."

My dad walks in a few minutes later, going right past us to where Nolan is in his playroom. Sherry never walks in, so we take it as she's waiting in the car for us and go out to see her.

"Thanks again for taking me. I just didn't think it was a good idea with how sick I've been recently and having to fast."

"You know I don't mind. We love being around you guys, it's always interesting. And I really wanna get to know Willow better now that it's been a few years that we've spent time together."

"I can't wait, I miss you. We always had fun making fun of John and Brad for all the dumb things they do together." Willow pokes her head between us from the back seat "We always had fun when I would visit."

"We also used to let you get away with everything. Now I understand why that wasn't so good." I push her back into her seat, not liking the idea that she could fly through the window "Anytime someone lets Nolan do whatever he wants we're reminded of you and your cousins."

We pull up to the doctors office and I go right back to a room since they just opened. They run through a bunch of routine questions before taking blood and leaving the three of us stuck in the room until they have the results and I know I can finally eat.

"You didn't have any issues when you were pregnant with Nolan, right?" Sherry looks up from the magazine she's been reading "I don't remember much about them if you did."

"Other than morning sickness, no. I was working a lot more though, so that made it worse, but that's all."

A few seconds later, the doctor knocks on the door to let herself in.

"Well Mrs. Pitt, everything looks normal this time. Any questions or concerns?"

She gets some equipment ready to do an ultrasound since I've been measuring a little bigger than what is expected.

"No, there haven't really been any changes, I've been tired but other than that nothing crazy."

I force myself to lay on my back, which is becoming harder and harder as the days go on, and roll up my shirt revealing the bump that seems to never stop growing. She places the gel on, and moves the wand around to get a good look at the baby and everything else.

"He definitely isn't shy about showing off that he's a boy. Normally boys are much more camera shy." She continues to look around, stopping right above my belly button for a few seconds to read the screen closely "He's still measuring about a week ahead of what we originally expected, but otherwise seems great. We'll just have to keep an eye on it to make sure he doesn't get too much bigger later on."

"And Nolan was smaller than they expected... that's crazy." Sherry leans over, watching the screen to see her grandson kicking "He's just already trying to make you nervous."

"Babies do like to do that." The doctor agrees with her before finishing up everything. I sit back up and fix my clothing, waiting for her to let me leave.

"Just make an appointment for next month and you're good to go. Have a great day!"

I make the appointment while they get in the car so we can leave quickly for our food. Willow thought she would wait to eat until I could, so we're both starving right now."

"Have you guys talked about names yet?" Sherry asks as we get seated "Since you know it's a boy?"

"Yeah have you?" Willow gets excited at the thought "I hope you aren't planning on using Nol's idea of 'momma's baby'. Poor kid would be traumatized."

"We're working on talking him out of that one. He's very proud of himself for coming up with it though..." I stare at the menu, not able to decide between the deliciousness of all the options "We've thrown out a few options, but not anything serious."

"Well I'm sure whatever you come up with will be perfect."

We eat our burgers, them the normal about and me two different with lots of extra fries to make up for the fact that I haven't had anything to eat for almost 10 hours and the hunger is beyond real right now.

"So I guess we're getting dessert?" Willow hands me the menu "Or maybe multiple desserts."

"I vote multiple! Their desserts here are even better than the burgers." Sherry grabs her own menu showing Willow some thing she thinks she'll like "Especially the cheesecake."

"I think I'm getting the cheesecake and the pie. Pie is a little healthy."

The food arrives shortly after we order. After I spend minutes gazing at it, we take turns eating a little of everything we ordered to try it all. I end up eating the most, happy my test was done before all of this.

"Well, I guess it's time to go back home. Nol's gonna be waiting."

"I really miss that little brat. I'm a little jealous your dad got to spend the day with him."

"Sherry, you can have him anytime. Seriously. Just ask."