"We meet again"

17

"Symptoms of stomach flu?? Flu in gen??"
That is the text I send to Lacey, a good friend of mine, who is also Blake Comeau's wife. She's a nurse so there's no one else better to ask. The only problem was I texted it to her at 4:37 in the morning. I was only asleep for about 3 hours until my stomach woke me up. I started feeling sick and had a headache since we got home from Jens house. I think it might've been from the food at Dallas market... or the burger I ate on Thursday.
> "Damn E, earliest you've been up since you were born. Chills, muscle ache, headache, nose runny, sweating, loss of appetite, getting sick, there's soo manyy. Why what's up? Are you feeling okay?"
< Shushh ittt. I went to bed at like 1, been up since 4 in the bathroom. Don't know what's goin on. Feels like a virus?? I'm not a doctor. But I have a lot of that. My body hurtsss, head, I'm cold and hot, I don't want to eat anything and you know me... I wouldn't miss a chance to eat. "
> "If you aren't doing anything later, I can stop by. I'm going on work now, should be out about 2ish. Just gotta check on patients and paperwork today. Might be out even sooner, text you when I'm about to leave. Feel bettaaa soon!! Turkey day is tomorrow E!!"

I decide to take a hot bath, bubbles, candles, the whole deal. When I feel sick, this is my favorite thing to do. Tyler is a deep sleeper so the water shouldn't wake him up. But, of course, this time it did. He had to pee so that's why he woke up.
"What are you doing Ellie? It's 5 in the morning." He says still with his eyes closed, his head looking over at me.
I didn't answer because I was half asleep myself. "Are you okay?" He asks concerned.
"Hmmh." I make the noise quietly. "Not feeling a hundred. That's all."
"Let me join" he starts getting in the big jet tub before I even say a word. He knows the answer anyway. He scoots over beside me, his arm around me holding my head on his shoulder. I love this. I can get used to this. I've never knew there were guys out there that acted like this. It's an amazing feeling.

45 minutes goes by and I start to feel my hands get shriveled from being in the water too long. I get out, dry off and put a pair of black joggers and Tyler's red sweatshirt on. I put my hair up in a messy bun and go back to the bed. I'm still surprised Tyler is up and awake still. We turn on Netflix to find something to watch trying not to fall asleep since it was about 7am.
I hear the living room tv turn on and dishes getting set on the table. I bet that's my mom about to make Tyler breakfast like she said last night.
"I kind of forgot other people were in here since I haven't seen them yet" he laughs. "I smell waffles."
"She told me she was going to make you breakfast. Do you want to go out and get it over with. I bet David's still in the room. I want you and my mom alone first." I ask Tyler. He gets up and grabs some clothes to put on since he's just wearing underwear. He throws on basketball shorts and a T-shirt.
I'm so nervous and I don't know why. I never had my mom meet any boys except for one in high school.

I walk out into the kitchen and my mom is scooping off the waffle to put it on the plate. It has chocolate chips, bananas, strawberry's, and blueberrys on it piled high. She really went all out.
"Mom" I say standing in the walkway startling her.
"Ellie I didn't see you. You're up too early. What's wrong? I heard you at like 4 o'clock this morning."
"So Tyler's here." I say sitting on the bar chair at the island. Tyler comes trailing behind me and sits in the chair next to me after giving my mom a hug.
I just sit back awkwardly and let them talk. David came out around 9am and that's when they had met. All they really spoke about were sports.

I've been laying on the couch for a few hours now falling in an out of sleep.
"Babe, do you want to stay home? I'm sure they will understand your aren't feeling good. I can call to cancel the reservation. There's no problem with that." Tyler asks me.
"No. I'm good. We can go. Just let me go get ready. I can make it. I don't want to ruin these plans for them Tyler"
My mom hears from the kitchen table. "Ruin what honey?"
"Nothing" I say looking back at Tyler.
"Ellie. You said you guys make plans for us today. I don't care if we sit right here all day together. I'm with you. I met Tyler. I love him. That's all that matters. We did something yesterday and I can come back anytime you want since you know, I'm retired now"
"I just haven't felt good fir a couple days. Yesterday I was fine until the end of the night. Today I feel like total shit. I feel so bad for doing this. I was going to try to go but you 3 can go and spend time together. Tyler, it's your bye week. I don't want you to stay inside the house with me. And you guys came all the way from a different country mom." I tell them how sorry I feel about everything.
"E, it's totally okay. I'd rather stay here and rest on my bye week. We can hang out, play some games or whatever and tomorrow's thanksgiving. I don't want you to go force yourself out when I know you aren't really feeling good." Tyler assures me how he feels. So does my mom, "it's probably just a virus that's going around. We went shopping and had fun yesterday all today Ellie. I'd like to stay in. We can all go to the store if Tyler doesn't mind. We can pick you up some feel good things and some extra stuff for tomorrow. Rest and get better. I can tell that you aren't feeling good at all today"

When I decided to take a nap, Tyler, David and my mom went to Costco to pick up some things. I wonder how nervous Tyler is being alone after meeting them a few hours ago. I think him and my mom get along very well though like it's her own son.

I hear knocks at the door and grab my phone to see who it is on the camera app. It was Lacey.
"Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. I fell asleep and forgot you were coming. What time even is it?" I explain to her.
"Don't worry. I wasn't going to just come over and knock unexpectedly but I tried calling you and you didn't answer. I wanted to make sure you didn't pass out or something. Dr.Coco is here to check ya out... medically" she says I laugh at the ending.

She started to check my temp, my blood pressure, then she stopped.
"How long have you been feeling like this"
"A couple days. This is the worst I've felt though." I answer her questions Incase it means something.
"Umm, have you ate anything today?"
"Just literally a bite of a waffle. And a little bit a fruit and yogurt."
"Did it upset your stomach?"
"Yes. The waffle did."
"Ellie. I don't think this is the flu. It could be a virus but El, I need to ask you something and don't freak out... do you think you could be pregnant?"
So many things started to go through my mind. "Hell no. Not at all Lacey. We do have sex.. a lot but I'm very protective. I can't get pregnant. He can't have a kid right now in this stage of his career. At our age. At my life point."
"Okay. Okay. I said no freaking out. I picked up a pregnancy test in my purse. Two of them. Just please for the sake of it. Go take them. Please. Even if you 1000% don't think so, do it anyway. This isn't the flu because everything else is normal." She pulls out 2 clearblue tests that read it digitally on the screen. Pregnant or not pregnant.
I go into the bathroom to take it for Lacey. I'm not even nervous because I know I can't be pregnant. I have it in my hand as we're both sitting on my bedroom floor. I keep staring at it making jokes and keep telling her it's just a stomach virus.
"Where is ty anyway?" She asks.
"Costco. With my mom and her boyfriend"
"Mom? She's in town? When are they getting back?"
"Should be soon so we gotta hurry. They don't know you're coming over and they think I'm fine."
I hear a few beeping sounds wondering what it was.
"Uhm el, are you going to look or you went me to?"
"Oh" I laugh. "I didn't know what that noise meant. I'll look bc I know what it's going to say." With no hesitation, I grab the test off of the sink and read it. Staring and looking back at it a few times to make sure I read it right.
'Pregnant'

My face drops. "What is it?"
"Wow. I can't believe this." A year falls and Lacey brings me in to sit on the bed and gives me a hug.
"Lace, what am I going to do? I can't be. Oh my gosh. I had a few drinks. We've had sex. How long am I? Will this kill the baby? Oh my gosh I didn't even know." I start to panic. "I'm sorry I'll text you. You have to go before they start to walk up. I don't want them to see you were here. Thank you for having me do this. Thanks for being here doctor."
"It'll be all okay Ellie. This is a great thing. Tyler will be happy. God put this baby with you guys for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. You know I got pregnant when I was 19 years old. With another guy before Blake. And look, I made it. You will too. I love you. If you need anything, you know where I'm at. Don't thank me. Im happy you texted me out of everyone"

When Lacey left, I hid the tests in the drawer in the bathroom where all of my hair and beauty things are. Where Tyler never looks. It was a close one because Lacey left 5 minutes before they all walked through the door. I don't think I can tell anyone for a little bit longer. Lacey and I are going to see a real doctor to take a for sure pregnancy and blood test sometime and an ultrasound to see how far along I am. Lacey said I'm about 5 weeks along.

I was laying in bed when Tyler came to check on me. My eyes looked red, like I was crying and I had a scared, confused, bit my normal look on my face.
"Ellie. Is everything okay? It looks like you were crying. Please tell me babe"
"No. I'm fine. Just my stomach pains are so bad right now. Could you get me a hot pack so I can put it on my belly. Ill be better after that. Thank you. This and a nap is all I need"
He lays next to me in bed taking a nap himself also since he's been up with me. I feel like such a bad person for holding this in.

My mom and David went out for dinner and walk around the town to explore themselves. They didn't want to bother me since I was asleep resting. I hope tomorrow I feel fine since it's thanksgiving and basically the last day in Dallas for my mom.