"You are pregnant!!"
My eyes almost bulge out of their sockets as the doctor delivered this news to me.
"P. P. Pr. Pregnant?" I stutter with my mouth wide open.
"Yes my darling. You are not far long at all but I expected you to know about this, now I feel bad for blurting it out like that." She face palms.
"I'm pregnant!?"
"Yes darling, I just said that a minute ago and I'm sorry for not giving you that special moment with the father."
{The father? Alexander freaking Hart!!}
I start hyperventilating.
"Oh honey calm down, should I go get him outside?"
"He is outside?" I ask confused.
"Well I suppose he is the young man that brought you here?"the doctor says craning her neck towards me.
"He probably isn't the one. The father doesn't go to my school." She stares at me for a while with something unreadable in her eyes.
"Ok then. Congratulations darling, have a nice day; you are free to be discharged, I hope to see you again under better circumstances."
The lady's happiness is quite contagious almost making me want to smile despite my situation.
{The one time I have sex, I end up pregnant. Just great.}
I walk out my hospital room to the front desk so I can sign my discharge papers. I look around for anyone who could be the guy that brought me here but he is no where.
The lady at the front desk seems less bothered about attending to people. while typing on her keyboard, she asks for the details before letting me sign.
"There was a guy here. Said he had to be somewhere. Gave this to me." She hands me my car keys.
"Thank you."
She acknowledges me with a slight head nod and gets back to her typing.
I walk out of the hospital and towards my car, which was parked just in front of the hospital.
{Who could be the guy that brought me here?}
"Oh shoot! The drugs." I whisper yell.
I walk back into the hospital and go to the pharmacy to get the drugs prescribed for me.
As I'm about to walk out the hospital, someone's shoulder brushes me.
"Hey, watch it!!!" I turn around to see a handsome guy staring at me stupidly.
"Now that is no way to talk to the guy who brought you here." He smirks and I stare him down.
"Are you actually the one?" I say a little embarrassed for yelling at him.
"Do you have chocolate scented air fresheners in your car?"
I smile a bit "I guess I owe you an apology and a thank you."
"No problem, I was just helping a damsel in distress."
"Speaking about that, are you okay now? No internal bleeding or brain damage?" He asks genuinely interested in my well being.
"I fainted, not fell from a bus ." I roll my eyes.
"I'm just trying to show you that I care. I'm Aaron by the way." He grins and pulls out his hand for me to shake it.
I reluctantly shake it and clear my throat "Bella. Look I'm grateful for what you did and all that but I best be on my leave"
"No!!, I mean ummm...the gentleman in me won't allow you go home on your own." He says scratching his head.
"It's okay I can drive, remember" I dangle my keys in his face.
"The more reason not to let you go, someone in your condition shouldn't be driving."
A single sweat breaks from my face.
{Does he know I'm pregnant? No he can't Bella. Stupid, stupid, stupid.}
"Ummm... earth to Bella!"
"Hmmm?" I look at him, my eyebrows drawn together.
"The keys." He stretches his hand to grab them but my hold on it is strong.
"I'm sure you are busy and have better things to do than waste time driving me home." I drag the keys closer to me.
"Actually I don't." He drags them back to himself.
"But how are you going to get home?" I drag them back.
"I'll take a cab, I drove you to the hospital, had an emergency and left but I'm here now. Don't you think it will be a waste of my time if I went through all that for nothing?"
I think about what Aaron said and decide to end our childish banter and hand him my keys.
"Thank you." He says with a smirk.
The drive to my house is nothing close to silent. I and Aaron have so much in common, it's like he is reading my mind. His humor can almost make me forget my worries
"Okay, so what major?"
"Fashion designing, you?"
"Electronic engineering."
"Oouuu you are one of the nerdy ones." I say mockingly.
"What ever you want to call me B, I just love the smell of wires and chips and of course chocolate."
"Firstly eww, secondly so that is why you wanted to drive me home." I gave a disappointed look.
"That and some other reasons." He wiggles his eyebrows and I can't hold in laughter.
I see the apartment in my line of vision. "Okay this is it, thanks a lot."
"You are welcome B, can I call you that"
{B, that is the same thing Bianca calls me.}
"Sure" I smile widely thinking about how he and Bianca will get along nicely. He gets out of the car and hands my keys.
"What about your number?" He asks with his eyebrows raised.
"Yeah I guess." I type in my number on his phone and wave goodbye.
I step into the apartment and see Bianca isn't home from work yet. Walking up to the kitchen, I see a sticky note on the fridge..."I bought ingredients for lasagna, wink." I read out loud and laugh.
{Typical Bianca. Always not wanting to cook but loves to eat.}
I made the lasagna and waited impatiently for Bianca to come home.
{I have to tell her about my pregnancy.}
I hear the rattling of keys and I stand up instantly from the couch, like I had sat on a pin.
"Bianca you are home, I have to tell you something." I rush to her and pull her to take a sit.
"What is it B?" she asks in an alarmed tone. I tell her everything starting from the beginning of my day to how Aaron dropped me off. Her mouth is open widely in an O shape when I am done. After a while she closes it and speaks.
"Okayyy, what did he say?" She asks with fear written all over her face.
"Who say?"
"Alexander of course!! Wait don't tell me you didn't tell him?"
"I look shyly at the ground. No I didn't, I just found out and I'm not planning on telling him anyways, it's my baby and I'll raise him or her on my own" I say with determination laced in my voice.
Bianca's eyes go wide. "Are you crazy? You can't raise this child on your own, most especially when the father is more than capable!!" She says and stands up abruptly, I stand too.
"How are you even sure he will believe the child is his?"
"He best believe it, because he didn't think about all this when he was sticking his willy in your honey pot, did he!?" I choke on my laughter.
"This is not the time to laugh B, this..." she points to my stomach "...this is serious!!"
My mood instantly changes. "I know"
I open my hands wide for a hug, Bianca walks into my arms. "I'm sorry for yelling at you B."
"I'm sorry too." I start crying.
{Crying, I have been doing a lot of that lately.}
"But B, you have to tell him."
"I will." I sniffle.
Bianca holds my shoulders and pushes me back so we can be face to face.
"Now." she says softly.
"Okay."
I walk up to my room and take Alexander's business card from the jeans I wore that God forsaken night.
When I leave the room Bianca's eyes follow me as I grab my phone from the kitchen counter. I dial the number on the card and after three rings some woman answers.
"This is Eva Salvatore, secretary to Alexander Hart of Hart Enterprises. How may I be of assistance to you?"
"Umm....I'll like to schedule a meeting with your boss?" I ask, unsure of what even I am saying.
"My Boss is very busy ma'am and if I may ask, who is speaking?"
"Tell him it's Bella I promise he will agree."
She takes a while to answer then exhales loudly. "Ok ma'am, I'll get back to you shortly." She puts me on hold and then comes back.
"Mr Alexander is free from 10:30am to 11:00am tomorrow."
"Oh great, thank you so much."
"I'm just doing my job, goodbye." She hangs up before I got a chance to reply.
"Bianca looks at me with expectant eyes."
"So, what happened?"
"I guess I better start preparing to meet my baby's father."