Heartless Soul Book 2 of the Heartless Series

Chapter 20 - Intuition

Amy's POV

Finally, today we had a break from Jedi training, so me and Mel decided to go on a shopping trip to Macy's. It was a good opportunity for us to catch up on all the gossip and she could tell me all about hers and Enzo relationship.

The doors are just as I remembered, and I was instantly accosted with so many different smells and fragrances of perfumes that it was kind of overbearing but not all at the same time. As we walked through the foyer, model-esk styled women asked if we would like to sample the new perfume range of several different brands, I politely declined pulling Mel with me deeper into the store. "I need some new make-up and lingerie. Maybe a few summer outfits or even work." I winked at her and she smirked at me. "What do you want to look at?" Mel's face looked this way and that but didn't really hold interest in anything. "Erm... I could do with some new boots, maybe even something for work." She half laughed.

After I put a variety of different makeup items in my basket, I led her over to the escalator. It was still in the original design of wood which only added to the charm of the store. We looked on nearly all the floors and after we tried on many different clothes our baskets were nearly full. "Come on Mel, your holding out on me. We've spoke about every subject but the obvious one. Enzo." She bit her lip and turned a nice colour of pink which complimented the black jacket she has just tried on well. "There's not much to say. You already know our first date was amazing and our second is planned as a day date to the statue of liberty. What more is there to know?" I sighed at her reluctance and shook my head. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way? Your choice."

She held up her hands in defence. "Okay. Okay... I really like him, he just makes me laugh." She smiled widely remembering something they shared together. "One of his superior skills no doubt and you seem happy together." She nodded still thoughtful in her memory. "I am. It's just that I don't know if that's what he wants. Something long term that is, or just something for now." She had a point, Enzo wasn't exactly known for relationships. "Only Enzo I suppose can tell you that, so why don't you ask him?" She was back to nervous. "I don't want to be that girl. So I'll just wait and see." Again, she had a point, but I just don't see Enzo putting in so much effort for nothing, but I don't tell her that.

We moved onto the shoe section and each chose a pair of sturdy looking boots that didn't weigh a ton on our feet, so that if the need arose, we could get away quickly. As she looked at them in the full length mirror, she caught sight of something, and her breathing hitched. Mel clutched at her stomach and turned a full 180, her eyes roaming the store. I followed her gaze but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. "What's wrong?" she didn't answer, just stayed frozen in her stance.

I touched her arm lightly trying to reach her, but to my surprise she gripped my wrist with such strength that it bordered on pain, her eyes were dark holes. Blinking a few times she regained herself, quickly letting go and apologising profusely at her actions against me. "What was that?" I shouted at her while rubbing the sore spot on my wrist. The regretful look in her eyes made me forgive her instantly. "It's okay. Let's just go and pay for these, then we can go get lunch."

We sat at a small table in a busy café, but she still looked unsettled and panicked by whatever she saw. Tentatively I held her hand. "You can talk to me you know." She nodded as the waitress filled our coffee cups. "For the past few weeks I keep seeing this man everywhere I go. I don't know who it is and it's starting to scare me." I held onto her hand tighter adding the other in my other hand. "Have you told Romeo, Enzo even?" She shook her head. "Well at the very least you need to tell Camy, but I'm here for you." Words still evaded her, and she again just nodded and sadly looked into my eyes. We ate mostly in silence with some small talk before going back to the estate.

Carmela's POV

As the car pulled up outside the midwifes office, I felt flutters in my stomach, I took these as nerves but from my reading it could be the baby moving inside me. I absentmindedly rubbed over my now bloating belly while staring up at the huge building. Today I get to meet my baby again, but I was in two minds about knowing what we were having. I know Romeo really wanted to know, but I didn't and still don't. Do I?

"Are you ready to meet our baby?" Romeo sounded as nervous as I felt. I finally looked at him and nodded with a happy but distracted smile on my face. The constant thoughts of 'do I, don't I', going around and around in my head was making me feel dizzy. I'm just glad I don't have morning sickness now or as much anyway.

"Mr and Mrs Black how are we today?" she asked as we took seats in front of her desk. I regaled her with everything that I've felt or have been feeling to which she reassured me was all perfectly normal. "It's a good sign that you have felt your baby move. Hopefully we could get a good view of them today. I've seen from your file that you don't want to know the sex of your child. Is that right?" Romeo looked at me hopeful that I've changed my mind. "No, I don't want to know."

She stood and motioned us towards the bed. I stood and followed her slowly in the same direction, still debating if I wanted to know or not. I took off my sweater and laid down and prepared to meet our baby. Romeo took hold of my hand tightly, I could see he was already glued to the screen, even when it was turned off. Eager for a front row seat to see it, him, her. oh god, I started to panic, which he noticed quickly and started drawing circles on my hand soothingly. "It's okay Rose. If you want to know then ask, if you don't then don't." I looked at him, he was the picture of calm, which helped me to calm myself.

The jelly was applied to my belly and on screen was a blob that resembled a human form, my child. The sight and sound overwhelmed me, and I smiled so wide my cheeks hurt, but in that moment, I was so happy. The midwife did all her routine checks and I saw circles being drawn on the screen and notes being taken. "Do you know?" I asked her and she nodded. I swallowed deeply trying to force down the knot in my throat. This was it, my moment to know or not know. I looked to Romeo who just smiled at me. "It's up to you Rose." I shook my head. "I wanna be surprised." I was sticking to my guns. I will not find out until I birth my child, and then realised I had another at least 21 weeks to wait, could I handle that. Yes. I repeated my answer over and over again feeling satisfied with my decision. Yes, I could wait for my child to reveal themselves.

After the whole stress of the scan I went into the nursery for some peace and quiet. The room still looked like a paint factory, with discarded paint buckets, brushes and rollers all over the floor with dust sheets covering the carpet. Because I wasn't going to find out the sex, I didn't know how to decorate this room. As I sat on the rocking chair that was in the bay window, tapping my belly lightly in hopes I could get the baby to move without any luck, Amy came in and sat on the floor while leant up against the wall. "How's momma today?" She asked with a smile, but intuition told me something was on her mind. "She's fine. Now are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Amy sighed loudly. "It's just me being silly, don't worry about it." I shrugged knowing full well that she would tell me sooner or later.

"How was the scan?" I smiled and handed her the ultrasound scan photo that was resting on my lap. She crawled over to me and took it from my hand. She looked at it with a genuine soft smile. "And do we know what this kidney bean is?" She asked with the same hopeful look Romeo wore in the midwifes office. I sighed. "No, it will be a surprise." She rolled her eyes and frowned as she looked at the photo again. "Well please tell me you know what colour were painting this damn room." I smiled at her outburst knowing full well it was only because she didn't get her way.

"I'm going to have a zoo memorial on this wall, with baby animals." I pointed too my left and she followed my movements. "This wall is going to be a neutral colour as is the wall with the door." I pointed behind me and in front. "It's just this wall I don't know what to do with it. It will be the wall the crib goes on so I might just continue it in the neutral colours or reflect the zoo wall with different animals." She seemed impressed with my progress in making decisions finally and nodded. "I think a reflection would be good, there are let's face it more than enough animals out there to do 2 walls."

"Okay spit it out,your annoying me now." I snapped at her, I didn't mean for it to sound so sharp,but I was annoyed and uncomfortable. She looked reluctant to tell me, openingand closing her mouth several times before making up her mind to tell me. "Melthinks. Well knows she's being followed but she doesn't know who it is. Shetold me it's been about a few weeks now." I didn't know what to say to her deliverednews, all I kept thinking was that my grandfather was involved in some way and histhreat was coming true.