One Night With Keanu Reeves

Chapter Four: Moment of Truth and Serious Discussions

Two days later, I sat alone in the doctor's waiting room, Keanu again in the cafe next door so as to not draw attention to himself, resulting he said in the media wondering who I am and what I was to him. We had talked a lot in those two days about being together regardless of whether it turned out I was pregnant or not, something that both delighted and at the same time terrified me because with an older brother and none of my friends being parents, I didn't know the first thing about how to take care of babies.

"Melody you are indeed pregnant" Dr Ellis said as she helped me up onto her examination table where I saw an ultrasound machine that was obviously new, sitting next to it. "Qualified to use ultrasounds means I can look for things faster than the time it would take to get in to see the technicians down the road" she explained as she ran the transducer across my naturally flat stomach and sure enough there was a small mass on the screen, its heart beating away as the black-and-white image flickered, "I would say that you're about seven weeks along" she concluded.

I had driven Keanu and I there in my Mazda 6 sedan, which my late grandmother had bought on learning I had passed my driver's test the first time around and when I came out of the office of my doctor, I saw him leaning against it and he obviously saw me as he pushed himself up off the car and waited for a 'click' that would say the car is open. Getting in, he turned his body as best he could to look at me but all I could do was nod as I stared out the windscreen, still shocked.

I drove back home in silence, one hand on the wheel and the other on the gearstick. I could feel his eyes on me every once in a whlie as he tried to think of something to say to get me to talk but in the end he gave up and simply held my hand in his, a move that completely surprised me as I thought he would be furious that someone he barely knew was carrying a part of him within her, instead of someone with who he had been involved with for a while and subsequently gotten to know.

"Melody please say something" was the first thing Keanu said after I had let us back in my house after what seemed to me at least like an endless drive back from the doctors. "What is iit that you'd want me to say Keanu because I really have no idea" I replied as I collapsed on the sofa; my head in both hands. Feeling the sofa dip, I knew he'd sat beside me and put an arm around my back, pulling me to him and while everything in me is saying 'push him away' there is another part that said 'no'.

"I realise it may sound like a psychiatrist talking but what I would like to know is how do you really about this" was his first question to me after we sat there in silence for what seemed to be close to an eternity. Glancing up at him through my hair that now covered both sides of my face, a move that earned a slight smile from his handsome face, I simply said that I didn't know, but what I wanted to know was how he really felt about it, and he really surprised me what his answer to that question.

"It might be overstating the obvious here but while this isn't an ideal situation; I am actually happy it's happened with someone I've grown to know and trust in the last two months" he replied as he tilted my head upward, my hair falling out of my face so that he could look me right in the eye as he spoke softly, "There is a pretty high chance that this might sound completely bonkers Mel but right from the start; when I was soberly checking you out in New York something said that you were someone who I could completely trust".

Before I could respond to that statement in any way, a knock at the door. Groaning somewhat I got to my feet and checked through the curtain beside the door, a look of horror coming over my face and my emotions as I realised it was my father standing there so I warned Keanu to prepare himself as best he could mentally for a bit of a dressing-down from him and whlie there was clearly humor in how he perceived my words he knew that this was a serious matter and not one that should be taken lightly in the slightest.

I introduced my father to Keanu and him to my father before sitting in an armchair while the two men sat opposite each other on the sofas in the lounge. "So Mr Reeves how is it that you have come to know my daughter" my dad, Nick, asked in what started out to be a neutral tone but soon developed into something a little more angered when Keanu answered him. "You will abort this child at once" is how my father reacted, stunning both Keanu and I into momentary silence before Keanu came and sat on the arm next to me.

"With all due respect to you Mr Christianson that is really not the sort of decision for you to try and be making; especially now that Mel is over the age of eighteen and able to decide things for herself and we have already talked about it" was Keanu's response, "Even if Melody and I never become a couple I will do everything she asks in regards to this child as you so dismissively put it and should she someday decide that she wants to try to be together then that is what she and I will do without external influence".

My father stood, shook Keanu's hand out of manners, turned and walked out the door, undoubtedly making a point to slam it behind him as I collapsed again, though this time into the armchair. I felt rather than saw Keanu on both his knees in front of me, taking both of my hands in his as he got me to look at him. "I've already lost my mom Keanu and now it looks as though I've just gone and lost my dad as well" I said, not surprised in the slightest if he tried to turn Lauren against me as well.

His hands ran up and down my forearms as they now rested on my knees. "That may be Melody but you will always have me regardless of what may happen" he said as he led me a few steps to the sofa, pulling my legs across his as he held me in his arms and as weird as it might sound to a lot of people, I actually felt comforted being there, like with his arms around me there was nothing in the outside world that would be able to get to me without trying to get past him first.