Headshrinker

Chapter 14

I woke up the next morning with a completely different frame of mind. I was having a baby. It was finally happening. The idea that I could let it go now couldn’t even cross my mind. Now I had to be a grown up.  

The on campus GP agreed to see me in a week. I didn't know if I could wait that long but my only other option was to try the family's doctor and I wasn't prepared to go there. I just needed them to confirm my baby. I just needed five minutes from them.

Since I had to wait to see the doctor I tried to put my focus right back on studying. There weren’t assignments to finish for a few more weeks (I was already plenty early on them) but I still had a lot to read for seminar work. Although I was keeping up, all I could think about was the baby especially when morning sickness began to hit.

In class and with my mates at uni, I tried to pass it off as a sickness bug or a really bad hangover or something. They didn't question it but I doubted they believed it. I never really got ill when bugs went round and they knew I hadn't been drinking.

“Has that band had you on the persian rugs?”

“What?” I took a second to work out what they meant. “No, they don't share.”

“When are they gonna do a gig?” Another mate asked. “They were rate good before.”

“I keep asking. I'll get us all tickets the moment they do.”

Even as I was making the promises, I knew I was never going to deliver on them. If they wanted to see the band they’d have to get tickets themselves because I couldn’t associate with Oasis anymore.

…

Noel came over to me while I was stood outside the library. I was taking in the fresh air (It was April, it was sunny and warming up a bit) before I went back to studying in the library. I was certainly surprised to see him.

“Knew I'd find you here.” he said, happy with himself. “Bone said you're always in the library today.”

“What're you looking for me for?” I asked, interested to hear it.

He didn’t look like Tony had told him the truth about anything unless he was suddenly going to change his mood as we talked.

“I'm interested in this place.”

I looked down. “Y'know I don't really know how you'd get a gig here.”

“Yeah I’m aware Tony was lying. I'm not arsed for whatever that's about.”

“What then?” I asked, relieved.

“I wanna go to a lecture.”

“Okay erm…” I tried to think how that could work.

“I'm not arsed what about, history, whatever. I just wanna know what it's like.”

For once I didn't mind dropping my study plans. I didn’t have any lectures to go to but there was plenty of lectures we could sneak in to. I looked at my watch and realised lectures were starting in about ten minutes so I took him off to the lecture theatres.

We approached a student queueing up for their lecture. They could've been studying anything. Hopefully something Noel would be interested in. “Sociology.” they told us. “Should be Functionalism and crime today.”

“What about the fuckology lecture?” Noel asked in my ear.

“If you go in, you've got to behave for about an hour.” I warned, not appreciating his Sex Pistols reference. I was sure he would take it seriously but I still felt the need to tell him, I wasn’t getting in trouble for him.