Delinquent

Delinquent - Chapter 27

                It was strange bringing Eli with me for my checkup. He hadn’t been there any of the times that I was there before. Not that it was his fault, or rather his responsibility, but it just made me feel better having a man there; even if he was only pretending to be the father for my sake. There were a two other pregnant girls sitting around reading magazines and laughing with their boyfriends. They seemed so happy, and I was suddenly aware that Eli and I weren’t acting like they were. Eli and I were acting like we were friends and that’d he just come to comfort me. It bothered me knowing that we weren’t acting like a couple, but at least none of these girls went to my school—

“Cassidy?” my head snapped to where the person who had called my name was. Before I saw them I got nervous. What if they were from my school? They’d tell everyone for sure! And this wouldn’t be a secret anymore, and Eli and I would have to be really good actors to pretend like we were actually going out and—

“Come on Cassidy, they called your name.”  Eli’s voice pulled me from my thoughts. He was already standing up, waiting for me. I took his hand that was held out and stood up too. We walked into through the door that led into the hallway and followed the doctor’s assistant down the hall. She led us into a small room and told me to sit down in a chair and she found a chair for Eli as well.

“Is this your friend?”

“Boyfriend.” I corrected. I was thankful that she didn’t look at him for confirmation because his face didn’t look real convincing of the lie I just told. It did feel weird for me to say though. I guess it was going to take some getting used to for both of us.  The assistant scribbled something down, told us the doctor would be with us in a minute and left.

                I stared hard at Eli who was oblivious to the fact that I was staring at him in the first place.

“Elijah!” I said just above a whisper. Wait, why was I whispering?  “Elijah.” I said normally. Eli looked at me like he was confused. “Why are you looking at me like that? Isn’t Elijah your name?”

“No…” Eli said shaking his head.

“Well Eli is short for Elijah. Unless your name is Elliot or something.”

“My name is Eliah.”  Now if was my turn to be confused.

“I just said that…”

“No, you said Elijah. My name is Eliah. It's just like Eli-yah, can you say that little girl?" he mused

“Shut up." I blushed.

"So, what were you calling me for anyway?”

“You need to be more convincing when people ask about us.” I told him. He didn’t have time to respond before the doctor came in.

                “Cassidy, how are you doing this week?” Doctor Raymond said smiling a beautiful smile at me. Doctor Raymond was hot for a doctor. He had light blonde hair and dark brown eyes. He had dimples on both sides of his cheeks and great smile. His voice only added to it, but he was way out of my league. He had to be at least twenty nine and if not, he was older.

“I’m fine, how about you?”

“Great.” He was reading my chart the assistant had filled out.  “So, is he the father?” the doctor looked towards Eli and Eli perked up and nodded.

“Yes sir.” The doctor smiled.

“It’s nice that you came with her. Most of my patient’s boyfriends don’t do this kind of thing.”  Eli smiled.

“I’d do anything for my girlfriend.” Eli smiled towards me and my heart skipped a beat. Eli beat Doctor Raymond in the smile department. Maybe it was his dark hair that did it. I was a sucker for dark hair. The doctor smiled.

“I’m glad you feel that way. Are you ready for your check up Cassidy?” Dr. Raymond had his attention back on me. I nodded and leaned back on the table and pulled my shirt up just enough so he could rub the substance on. Dr. Raymond wasn’t like other doctor’s, or practices for that matter. He dealt with his own patients and got to know them on a personal level. He wanted to know his patients, and that was what made him different.

                We went through the process of measuring my stomach, having my blood pressure and urine test, and finally the ultra sound.  Before we did the ultra sound, Dr. Raymond seemed curious about something. It kind of bothered me, but he didn’t say anything, which worried me even more.

“Is there something wrong with the baby?” I asked him finally when he starting to rub the substance for the ultrasound on my stomach.

“No, no there’s nothing wrong.” He told me. He still sounded uneasy, but I let it go. How bad could it be, right? As long as the baby was alright, I should be fine. I laid my head back down on the table and stared at the ceiling. In five months everything was going to change.

“Holy shit.” I heard Eli say. I looked up at him.

“What? What’s wrong? I asked.

“I’m no doctor…but are those two babies?” my head whipped toward the screen.

“Two—two—two?” I could barely get the words out. “What does he mean two babies? I cannot be having two babies!” I shouted going into a panic.

“Yes, it does look like there are two babies in there.” I wanted to faint. Weren’t they supposed to detect this sooner? Why hadn’t they known? I thought I only had one baby in me the whole time.

“Dr. Raymond, there can’t possibly be two babies inside of me. There has to be some mistake. I was notified of this before.”

“Yes I am aware of that—“

“Then, why are you just now seeing this?” I didn’t mean to cut him off, but I was livid.

“It appeared to be one baby at first. Baby B was simply hiding.” From then on the Dr. and I constantly went back and forth on the issue, and finally I saw what he’d been trying to show me on the screen all along. There were two babies on there. Two of them. Not one, but two. All I had to say was FML at this point.

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I don't know how I feel about this chapter. I feel like I wasn't focused enough on it. Also, I screwed up on chapter 24. I shouldn't have put the 2 months later in that one. I mean, it fits fine, but there's so much more I could've put into those two months. I already have this story laid out and originally I didn't have anything to put into those 2 months, but after I posted it I thought of a couple things I could put in it. But there's nothing I can do about it now. I don't want to confuse anyone, so I apologize for leaving out a HUGE chunk.

On a good note, I uploaded twice tonight. Yay :) That was because it snowed a lot here and it ruined all my plans :/ So I had a lot of free time, which I'll have for awhile now because I'm on Christmas break. So I'll be updating this like several times a week probably. I can't promise I'll update the other two as much because this one is my main focus, but I will be updating them at least once or twice a week.