Hostage

Chapter 16 - New Beginnings

Zoey and Jane were sitting in St. Joseph's Candler waiting room, waiting to be seen for a check up on the baby. Zoey was already four months pregnant with the fetus that was growing inside of her tummy. Even though she wasn't too happy about having a baby, she started to get a little bit more better about the situation.

Zoey had a magazine grasped into her hands as she was reading an article about teen moms. Although, she wasn't a teen anymore, she was considered as a legal adult, she still felt like a teenager. Her birthday had passed already, which now she is nineteen years old, but she didn't even acknowledge her birthday because of all of the shit that happened with Jason and she was distracted most of the time to keep up with the date.

This wasn't her first appointment she attended, she has been going once a month ever since she found out she was pregnant.

An audible breath escaped Zoey's lips as she closed the magazine and placed it back onto the desk that was beside her. Jane squeezed her leg to show affection. "Don't stress Zoe, before you know it you will have that precious bundle of joy in your arms, and you will never want to put it down.." Zoey smiled slightly at her mothers words, and nodded.

Jane had no idea that Jason doesn't know about the baby being his. "Jason should be coming to these appointments with you, I mean he is the father of this baby, he helped make it too." Jane rolled her eyes to the side in disgust, furling her arms along her chest. Zoey curled in her lips anxiously, trying to change the subject. "Mom, please lets not talk about him, I just want to focus on the baby."

A door swung open, a black lady with curly hair with a white coat on, stood in the door way with a clipboard in her hands. "Zoey Carter, we are ready to see you." She said with a smile on her lips. It was the same women who broke the news to her that she was pregnant. "It's good to see you again Ms.Carter, how are you?" The doctor said, opening the door to the room. "I'm good, I'm just ready for this kid to be out of me." Zoey sat on the frail pale paper that was placed along the examination table. The doctor chuckled at her response.

"In less than 5 months, he or she will be born, speaking of that, today you will find out the sex of your baby." Jane clapped her hands in excitement, curling a smile onto her lips.

Zoey lifted her shirt up over her baby bump, laying down flat onto the table. Chills ran down her spine, the room was very cold. The doctor rubbed a jelly substance onto Zoey's stomach, it was clear, but it felt either hot or cold. To Zoey, it felt warm and heated.

"Before we start, May I ask where the father of this baby is? He is not required to be here, but it would be most certainly best if he was to support you, Ms.Carter." Zoey nibbled onto her bottom lip anxiously, trying to move on from the subject. Jane answered for her, before Zoey could say anything. "He most likely won't be coming to any appointments." Jane said in distaste.

On the screen to the left of her, showed the fetus. It was all scrunched up. and kind of hard to see. The doctor had a mouse on Zoey's stomach which showed inside of her. "Wow, is that it?" Zoey was amazed, she had seen ultrasound photos before of her mother's. but it's nothing like seeing your own. "Looks like you are having a baby boy, congratulations Ms.Carter."

Zoey stared at the screen, watching the movement of the baby, she hoped it would look more like her than it would Jason, Although, Jason is pretty good looking.

Albeit, Jane and Zoey were on their way home from the appointment, the doctor only wanted to check up on Zoey to make sure everything was running good and give her medication if she needed anything.

Zoey had her head rested onto the car window, trying to drift off into a slumber, her head had been hurting her a lot since she has been pregnant. "You okay Zoe?" Zoey lifted her head up, holding the side. The pain was overwhelming her, sharp pains were daggering and throbbing from the bottom to her skull all the way to the top. She felt like death, not only that, she had been puking a lot as well.