SITTING IN THE waiting room at Dr. Shin’s office, I mindlessly flip through magazines while my foot jiggles a mile a minute.
Trent puts his hand on my knee and grabs my hand.
Looking up at him, I give him a shy smile.
“You are going to be fine, baby. Stop letting your mind work you over,” he tells me. “You've been staring at the same page in that magazine for the last five minutes. Is it really that interesting or are you just staring?”
Sighing, I close it and kiss his hand laced with mine. “I don't know what to expect with these appointments. I've only seen him for regular check-ups. I'm just nervous, babe,” I say, looking at the floor.
Tilting my chin back up to look at him, I get lost in his beautiful brown eyes for a moment. They remind me so much of Carter's. He taps my nose, kisses it, and pulls me close to him. With his arm around me we just sit back lost in thought.
The door opens and a pregnant lady comes waddling through. She smiles at me and rubs her hands over her stomach.
Trent looks down at me and smiles. Like he can read my thoughts, he shakes his head laughing.
“Don't shake your head, that will be me before long,” I tell him.
“Yes, and you will still be beautiful while thinking you're a whale, sweetheart.” He places his hand on my still flat stomach.
“Andrea Jensen,” a medical assistant calls out to the waiting room.
Standing up I head that way with Trent right behind me.
She smiles nicely and holds the door for us to walk through.
“I'm just going to go ahead and get your weight,” she says, pointing to the scale by the wall.
Handing Trent my purse, I remove my shoes and step up.
“125 pounds,” she says marking it down in my chart. “Go ahead and step down. I'm going to get a urine sample from you, is that okay?” she asks.
Nodding, I take the cup from her hand and head in the bathroom. Let the fun begin!
Coming out of the bathroom, I set my sample in the basket marked on the counter.
Stephanie, her name tag reads, leads me to room 3.
“I'm going to get your blood pressure real quick, then I'm going to need you to undress from the waist down and use the sheet to drape over you.”
I look over to Trent to see him looking a little uncomfortable and not knowing what to do with himself. It's actually kind of cute.
“Okay, all set, your blood pressure is good. I'm just going to go and test your sample before the doctor comes in,” Stephanie tells me as she exits.
Sitting here undressed with my boyfriend in the chair, my reality comes crashing down on me. Taking deep breaths in and out, I try to relax while waiting for Dr. Shin to come in. Hearing the paper on the exam table crinkle, I feel Trent slide up behind me and wrap his arms around me.
“Baby, they aren't going to tell us anything we don't already know. Well...actually they will. They will let us know when we can expect to meet our baby and that everything is going to be okay, just like I keep telling you,” he says, kissing my head and swaying me.
The knock on the door startles us both.
The door opens and Dr. Shin walks in followed by Stephanie. “Hello, Andrea, how are you doing? You must be the boyfriend,” Dr. Shin says.
“Yes, I'm Trent,” he says, reaching out to shake his hand.
“I'm doing good, thank you. A little shocked but good,” I say, laughing nervously.
Nodding he pats my leg and walks over to my chart on the counter.
“It appears congratulations are in order, Ms. Jensen. We tested your urine for the pregnancy you were suspecting was going on. It is positive,” he says, smiling.
“What I would like to do now is see how far along you are measuring. We will do that by doing an ultrasound today. I suspect you aren't too far along based on your last menstrual cycle, so we will do an internal ultrasound.” Dr. Shin rolls over a machine. Pulling a long wand out, he rolls on what looks like a condom onto it. My eyes go wide wondering what that could possibly be.
Seeing my face, he chuckles a little. “Okay, Andrea, I'm going to have you lie back and put your legs up in the stirrups here.” He pulls the long metal contraptions down from the end of the bed. “We will be using this fancy gadget, inserting it into your vagina. I know it looks intimidating but it's not so bad I hear,” he says calmly at my raised eyebrows.
Lying back on the table, I place my feet in the stirrups and my hands on my stomach. I look up at the ceiling, not knowing where to look, as he inserts it into me.
Trent reaches over for one of my hands and squeezes. “You got this baby,” he mouths to me.
Turning my head, I smile up at him with a small nervous smile that barely lifts the corners of my mouth. I mouth, “I love you.”
While looking over to the screen as Dr. Shin types things in and moves the wand around, I try and see what could be a baby on there.
Pointing to the screen, Dr. Shin turns to Trent and me. “See that little line there on the screen? That's your baby. It looks like you're measuring about 3 ½ weeks along, which puts your due date at July 2nd. It isn't far along and the reason you probably hadn't missed your period yet,” he says.
Trent squeezes my hand tightly as I wipe the tears starting to leak down the side of my face into my ears and hair.
“We will see more progression when we do another ultrasound around twenty weeks, and there will be some semblance of a baby at that point. Do you have any questions for me?” he asks as he pulls the cart away and helps me sit up.
“Well, I do have just one,” I say.
“I was taking the birth control pills you prescribed to me and I got pregnant. I'm really confused how that happened if I took them like I was supposed to,” I tell him.
Nodding, he looks over my chart. Looking back up to me he asks if I had been sick at all and taken any medications.
Remembering the antibiotics I took when I had strep throat about a month back, I let him know.
“Well that would be how you got to be pregnant, Andrea,” Dr. Shin tells me. He chuckles at what must be the stupid dumbfounded look on my face.
“When taking birth control and antibiotics, the antibiotics will make your birth control ineffective. It basically cancels it out,” he informs me.
My eyes widen in shock. I had no idea that would ever happen, and no one informed me of this, not even the pharmacy that filled both prescriptions. Feeling stupid, I look up to Trent who just smiles tightly.
“Baby, you didn't know, and this wasn't something you did purposely. We are having a baby and I couldn't be happier that I'm having one with you,” he says sweetly, pushing my hair behind my ear.
Stephanie hands me some pictures and smiles. “Here are the first pictures of your baby.”
“Thank you,” Trent and I say in unison as we look at each other laughing.
“Okay, Andrea, I would like to see you back in a few months. Mary will schedule that with you on your way out,” Dr. Shin tells me.
“Until then make sure you are resting, eating, and taking care of yourself. Here is a list of safe medications you can take while you are pregnant,” he says, handing me the stack of information.
“If you have any problems or questions before that, I want you to call me right away.”
Nodding my head, I thank him again and wait for them to leave the room.
“You're going to be just fine, kiddo,” he says, patting my shoulder on his way out.
***
The way home is quiet as we are both lost in thought.
“Are you hungry? I was thinking we could grab some takeout on the way back to your place and just relax tonight,” Trent says.
“Actually, that sounds perfect,” I tell him smiling.
“Can we get some Chinese and rent a movie or something?”
Looking over to me and grabbing my hand, he pulls it to his lips and lays a sweet kiss on it then drops our hands onto his lap.
“Sounds good to me, sweetheart,” he says, winking.
Sitting back after stuffing myself, I snuggle up next to Trent with a happy sigh. We opted for renting Pearl Harbor on the way home. I can't even believe he has never seen this movie. I remember seeing it when I was younger with my parents, and now I want to see it again being older. My dad had told me this was a movie of history and to understand my freedom in life came at great cost. It's truly a great film and moving from what I remember of it as a child.
Watching Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, and Josh Hartnett is just beautiful. The chemistry between all of them onscreen is just undeniable. Trent pulls me back with him as we recline back on the couch snuggled up to his side. “I need to snuggle with you like this all I can now, pretty soon this will be much harder to do,” he says, kissing my head.
Lifting my face to his, I kiss his lips. As he kisses me back, the kiss deepens to almost a frantic pace.
Pulling back both of us breathing heavily, I whisper to him kissing his jaw and neck. “Take me to bed, I miss your touch,” I tell him as he moans, tilting his head to my touch.
In one swift move, he stands up and pulls me up with him. Wrapping my legs around his waist, I let him carry me upstairs to my room as I continue my assault on his neck and ear.
Laying me on the bed, he pulls his shirt off and gives me a knowing smirk. “Baby, tonight you better not be too tired,” he says as he grabs my hand and puts it to his hardened cock beneath his pants. “Feel what you do to me, never doubt exactly how breathtaking you are.”
Pulling his face down to mine, I thread my fingers through his hair and show him just how much I want him.