I got down from the cab and went up the stairs directly to her apartment. I didn't see her car.
When I reached her door, I realized I was gasping for air after walking up those flights of stairs. I paused and took in a long breath of air before exhaling. I rang the doorbell once and waited.
She didn't come for the door, I didn't hear any movements indicting that, so I rang the bell again, twice now.
Still not getting any response, I decided to knock. I started off knocking quite courteously but when I still didn't hear her coming, I knocked more loudly.
Doing that for almost five minutes, I kinda gave up. What the hell was I thinking coming here anyways. With a long sigh, i turned to leave, hoping this was when she opened the door but she didn't.
Ii walked down the stairs now, it felt like I just did something stupid again. Scratching my hair, I sighed again.
When I got to the fifth flight of the stairs, I heard a door unlock. Looking back, I started up the stairs again, as quickly as I could.
"I thought I heard someone knocking." I heard another voice that wasn't Ann's say. She noticed me about to go back downstairs."You? I've seen you somewhere but I don't think I can remember where?" It was her opposite neighbor. She was the one I saw the morning after the night I spent with Ann that has now left us here.
I hissed, disappointed. I thought it was Ann. About to go down the stairs again, I heard a door unlock again. It was Ann this time.
I walked back to her door, almost hitting her neighbor. Ann was standing there, with tissue in her right hand. Her nose was red, not all of her nose though, just the tip of her pointed nose.
"Heyy." I said, thinking hoe awkward I must sound only seconds after I said what I said. She didn't say anything, her eyes were red, redder than that night when she just showered.
I was right, she didn't look good at all when she cried. I swallowed, not knowing what to say now that she was just standing there and looking at me.
"Hey Ann, you don't look too good, are you okay?" Her neighbour asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine Carey." She faked a smile, I knew she was faking it because I've seen her smile, and it didn't look anything like what she was putting up for a smile.
"You sure?" Her neighbour asked again and she nodded. Her neighbor smiled and went back into her apartment, closing the door and leaving just me and Ann standing there. I don't know how she could believe Ann when she said she was fine, with that smile on her face.
She was wearing a mickey mouse pajamas. Her hair was undecided on looking ordely or scattered, she had it packed into a bun, but some few many strands were all over her forehead.
She still stood there, looking at me with the ' why are you here?' eyes. With no planned words to start to explain myself, I hugged her.
She was surprised, I knew that because she wasn't hugging me back. I didn't expect her to return the hug, really, I just thought I should do it, I felt like she really needed a hug but right now, maybe I needed it more than she did.
Somehow, I felt better when I hugged her. The way she smelt, I inhaled it, all the air around her, that I could.
I felt her hands on my back, she was hugging me back. Maybe it was just her naturally returning a hug as part of learned courtesy at first, but after a while, her hug became tighter.
She sniffed after she left my hug, dabbing her red eyes with the tissue in her hands. She closed the door, walking towards the sofa in her mini living room.
I followed her. I could see the box of tissue sitting there on couch, where she just sat down. Her phone was there, and a red blanket and pillow.
"So you just came over to give me a hug or are we talking about this?" She asked and I could see how sad she was through her teary eyes.
"I came for the hug." I said honestly." but since I'm here, we can talk about it?" I sat next to her on the couch.
There was silence for a short while before she spoke again.
"None of my friends know." She sniffed."Not my roomie, not my course mates, no one.", I listened on, with nothing to say yet.
" I can't fucking believe that I am pregnant " She chuckled and I thought it sounded sad."What are we doing?" She looked at me, turning to face me with her legs up on the chair, wrapped up.
I took a deep breath and exhaled loudly.I was going to be honest with her.
"I am...I am scared as fuck about this, I won't lie to you but it's your body, it's your choice to make, I will support you, whatever you choose, I will try to agree with it." I was willing to.
"You will support whatever decision I make?" She looked at me with query in her eyes.
I nodded. I didn't want to be this jackass, who would just leave in this kind of a situation. I was a part of this just as much as she was.
"You know, I actually didn't wanna let you know about this." I heard her say. " I planned to take the test and was ready for the result.....I mean, I didn't expect it to come out positive." She sniffed occasionally between her words." I was that confident, I just told because you were there when I was about to leave."
I would ask her, how she could smile like that earlier this afternoon, knowing how much the test result could be a two way thing but I just got a related answer.
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