Memories of You by Austin Bates

Author:Austin Bates [Bates, Austin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SFB
Published: 2017-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

IT WAS FRUSTRATING how little anyone at the hospital was willing to actually tell him about anything. They took some blood and a urine sample and shoved him in a bed. Then he and Vincent just sat there waiting. Neither of them said anything for a long time.

“I need you to know,” began Vincent at last. “Whatever anyone else said about me, I really did love you back then.”

Hunter sighed. He really didn’t want to get into this now, in a hospital of all places. He looked over at Vincent, sitting beside him, and tried to smile.

“I’m sure you did,” said Hunter. “The problem is I’m not that person anymore. I explained that to you before.”

“I know,” said Vincent. “You’re better now. Before you would have just given in. You would have taken my hand without a second thought. Now you’re stronger and more independent. You’ve got this fire in your eyes I didn’t notice before. I feel like, if anything, I’m falling harder for you now than I did back then.”

Hunter frowned, unsure of how to process that confession. “Can we just be friends for now?” he asked, hoping to dissuade any further attempts to sway his love. He was done with games of the heart.

“Y-yeah, sure.” Vincent seemed slightly upset, but kept any complaints to himself. For that, at least, Hunter was grateful.

“Hunter Kilder?” a doctor asked as he entered the small room where they were waiting.

“Yes?”

“We’ve gotten your results back from the lab. Now we’ll want to do an ultrasound to confirm, but it looks like you’re pregnant.” The doctor looked up from the clipboard in his hands and clicked his pen for emphasis.

“Pregnant?” Hunter’s mouth felt dry as he spoke.

“How long?” asked Vincent, interjecting before Hunter could speak.

“Difficult to say for sure without an ultrasound. We usually see morning sickness starting around week 12, but it can be earlier or later for different individuals. We’ll know more once we take a look.” The doctor seemed oblivious to the tension that had suddenly descended upon the room.

“Twelve weeks...” Hunter’s voice trailed off.

“How is that even possible?” asked Vincent, immediately taking the lead on the questions. “He was in a coma three months ago, wouldn’t you have found something?”

The doctor looked back over his notes before answering. “Depending on when the baby was conceived, it’s not out of the question for something like this to be missed. Yes, he was in the hospital, and we did plenty of blood tests at the time and none showed signs of pregnancy. Which can only mean the fertilized egg had not yet been implanted. Implantation generally takes about a week from conception. Since you were discharged to your parents’ care in less than a week, then it’s entirely plausible for us to have missed this since it was so early in the pregnancy.”

“I’m gonna go ahead and order that ultrasound for you. Once the tech is ready they’ll take you over and take a look. We should be able to tell pretty quickly how far along you are.

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