Chapter 7: I'm pregnant
"Do you know you have an employee name Seaman?" Cole said as he entered the office.
"Yes, he is the head of our technical team," Phoebe replied.
"Hmmm," Cole said.
"Okay stop!" Charlotte snapped, "I don't give a fuck who Seaman is, I just want to know what the hell happened," she added.
"Okay Charlotte, you want to know what really happened? Well I was mad, she was mad, we got heavily drunk and then bam! We woke up in the same bed naked, that's what happened and it's already happened, what do you want me to do about it?" Cole said angrily.
Charlotte was about to say something when Phoebe stopped her and said, "Cole that's not it, there is something else," she paused before she continued, "I'm pregnant."
"Ha ha haha," Cole laughed before saying, "you are kidding right, you're kidding me right now aren't you?"
Phoebe shook her head.
"No she's not, you bastard shot her straight," Charlotte said.
Nobody say that and how are you sure I'm the father of the baby.
"Because I'm six weeks pregnant and as embarrassing this may sound, I haven't slept with another guy since then," Phoebe said.
"You are kidding?" Cole asked.
"I'm pretty sure, I've been really busy lately and even if I'm not busy I'm not a whore, looking for someone to have sex with," Phoebe replied.
"Come on, I can't be a dad….. I'm 18 years old, I can't even legally enter some bars," Cole said as he sat down on the office couch.
"Miss Kane?" Felecity said as she opened the office door.
"Yes?" Phoebe answered without looking at her.
"Your parents are here, Miss Sawyer…. Your parents are here too," Felecity said.
"What! My mom and dad are here?" Cole asked Felecity as he springs up from the chair.
Felecity looked at everyone in the room dumbfounded without saying anything.
"Yeah, they are here for an inspection," Phoebe said. She turned to Felecity and asked, "where are they?"
"They are still on the ground floor when Linda called, there is a good news….. The virus that has been attacking our system was cleared about thirty minutes ago by a guy named Cole Saul….." Felecity said.
"Saul? Seriously Cole that's the best you could come with?" Charlotte asked.
"Hey! I was not going to tell them I am a Sawyer, so they treat me different," Cole replied.
"You did that?… The virus, you cleared it?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, it was no big deal don't worry about it," Cole said trying not to boast.
"But my employees have been trying to solve that for more than a week," Phoebe asked again.
"I think we've already established some certain things about me, but I got to get running now," Cole said.
"Where do you think you are going?" Charlotte asked.
"I don't know anywhere but here," Cole replied.
"I'm sorry, but I'm just going to leave now," Felecity said as she walked out and closed the door behind her.
Charlotte turned back to Cole and asked, "what about the baby, your baby?"
"We'll talk about later," Cole said trying to find an opening to escape from Charlotte questions.
"Talk about what?" A voice said from the door.
"Dad!" Charlotte said she hurriedly walked to hug Philip.
"How are you doing?" Philip asked with concern in his voice.
Philip and Megan have been actually lonely the past few weeks and always fighting because of Cole. Megan always brought up the topic about Philip saying Cole would come running back home, whereas he was wrong.
"Cole, what are you doing here?" Philip asked as he saw Cole standing in the office.
"Hey dad, it's not nice to see you too," Cole teased.
"Cole sweetheart!" Megan hollered as she entered the office with Oliver and Rita.
"Hey mom, it's so nice to see you again," Cole said as he walked to hug his mum, "I'm sorry if I made you worry, but you can stop worrying because I'm doing fine," Cole added.
"You're right I've been worried," Megan said with tears in her eyes, this hurt Cole bad but there was nothing he could do now but to prove his dad wrong.
"Mom, dad it's nice to see you," Phoebe said as she turned around to sit on the couch.
Rita and Oliver didn't say anything because they knew Phoebe was still mad at them.
"Everyone can get seated, for the meeting to start," Phoebe said.
Immediately everyone sat down except Cole, who had been looking for an excuse to leave.
"So I'm just going to leave now since I don't belong to this meeting," Cole said as he made way for the door.
"What are you talking about? You're part of the Sawyer so you part of this meeting….. So take a seat," Oliver said.
"Yes Cole, please take a seat," Megan said.
Cole contemplated for a while, "what's the worst that can happen?" He thought, then he sat down.
"Okay, I can see you took care of the computer virus problem," Oliver said.
"How do you know about that?" Phoebe asked surprised.
"I got my ways," Oliver replied.
So you are spying on me now right? Phoebe asked angrily.
"I won't call it spying, we own the company," Philip replied.
"But I run the company, so you guys just disrespected and insulted me, in the fact that I am incompetent," Phoebe said.
"No that's what we meant at all," Oliver said immediately.
"That's what it sounds like to me," Phoebe said.
Cole chuckled.
"Is anything that just happened funny?" Philip asked
Cole was still looking down and didn't notice they asked him a question.
"Cole? Aren't you the one I'm talking you?" Philip asked.
Cole snapped back to reality and said, "uh... Are you guys talking to me?"
"Yes, of course," Philip replied.
"Come on, not again," Megan said as she walked to Phoebe office table.
"What's this?" She said as she picked up Phoebe medical test result lying on the table.
Charlotte saw what was the paper in her mother hand and she hurriedly stood up and rushed towards her, "hey mom you shouldn't look at that."
"Why? It belongs to Phoebe not you," Megan replied as she tried to read the result.
Rita stood up and walked to Megan, both of them started looking at the test, suddenly Rita took a step back and points at the test paper and said, "you….. You are pregnant, it said you are pregnant….. The test says you are pregnant, is it true?….. Are you really pregnant?"
"Mom I can explain," Phoebe said as she stood up and walked towards her.
"Are you really pregnant?" Oliver asked.
"It's complicated," Phoebe replied.
"How is that complicated? How you pregnant or not?" Rita asked.
"I don't think it's right to ask her about this," Cole interjected.
"What are you talking about? They are her parents, they have the right to know if their daughter is pregnant," Megan said.
"Again I ask, Phoebe are you pregnant?" Rita asked again.
Phoebe looked at everyone but didn't say anything.
"Phoebe sweetheart, please answer the question, are you pregnant," Oliver asked.
Cole who had been sitting nervously bitting his finger and had trembling legs, saw a bottle of water on the stool by the door, he stood up and head towards the bottle of water.
"Where the hell do you think you are going to?" Phoebe asked as he saw Cole heading for the door. "You are not thinking of leaving me here to face this alone? Because if I recall you are the father and we are kinda in this together," she added.
"What? I was just going to get that bottle water by the door, now you've blabbed everything out, nice job," Cole said.
Everybody in the room except from Charlotte open their mouths in shock.
"Oh," Phoebe said as she slowly turned around and saw everyone looking at her surprised.
"You….. You and him, the two…..of you," Rita stammered.
"Yes Mom, that's why I said it's complicated," Phoebe said.
"How? When? Why? I don't just understand," Megan said as she sat down on the couch.
"Yes, what happened?" Oliver asked.
"It's a short story but long when telling it, I'm just gonna leave that part for Phoebe to handle," Cole said as he also takes a seat on the couch.
Suddenly the door of the office opened, all eyes turned to see who is it, Felecity walked in the room with Mr Seaman and then she saw the expression on all their faces and asked, "I'm sorry, is this a bad time?"
"Yeah cleary," Cole replied.
"I'm sorry but Mr Seaman said it was an emergency," Felecity said, then she walked out of the office leaving Mr Seaman.
"Okay I'll get straight to it, the virus are acting up on the other systems," Seaman said.
"Again?" Cole asked.
"Mr Saul? You're here?" Seaman asked surprised.
"Saul?" Philip said.
"It's a long story," Cole replied.
"Mr Saul, the virus is showing up on the other systems but not the one you fixed," Seaman said.
"Okay in that case, just copy the code I used in your system and paste in any other affected system, but check for the system number," Cole said.
"Thank you Mr Saul, you've been very helpful, and thank you everyone," Seaman said before hurriedly leaving the office.
Cole turned and looked at everyone staring at him in surprise, "what? That's me, let's get back to the issue at hand," Cole said.