One Big Mistake: a friends to lovers rom-com by Barbetti Whitney

Author:Barbetti, Whitney [Barbetti, Whitney]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Me: That’s… uplifting.

Keane: Yeah, it is. Space is fucking great. How are you, btw?

The smile that had formed on my lips faded a bit at the acronym. It was dumb. It was just an acronym. But in the entire life of my friendship with Keane, he’d never needed to ask me how I was doing by the way. He’d known already.

But it was my fault, really. I’d been the one to push him away, as subtly as I could.

As I thought of how to answer, the door Violet had disappeared through opened and Violet was there, waving me back.

“We’re doing the ultrasound,” she said, her eyes bright. I couldn’t immediately tell if they were bright because she’d been crying or if it was excitement that lit her up. I took her hand at the door, and she squeezed, giving me a reassuring smile—probably an echo of the one I’d given her before she’d left the waiting room. I breathed a sigh of relief.

I followed her into a small, darkened room, where an ultrasound technician was waiting. She handed a gown to Violet, led her to an adjoining bathroom and explained to her that she’d need to undress from the waist down after emptying her bladder.

I needed to text Keane back, but a sign on the door said NO CELL PHONES PLEASE so I kept my phone safely tucked away. When Violet exited the bathroom—the gown wrapped around her waist like an unflattering skirt—she did a little twirl.

She looked so happy for a moment, so carefree. She reminded me immediately of the days in elementary school, when we’d walk to the daycare across the street. The moment the snow melted every spring, Violet would be in a skirt and twirling the entire walk to daycare.

“Is this your sister?” the technician asked as she prepped a white wand with a condom-looking thing and lube.

“Yep.” Violet hopped up on the bed.

“That sheet is for you, to cover up if you’d like.”

Violet spread the sheet over her lower half, and I scooted closer to the bed.

“You’ll need to bend your legs,” the sonographer instructed as she held the wand in front of her. “This is going to be awkward, so I’ll have you insert this inside of your vagina and then I’ll guide it. Okay?”

Violet nodded and after an awkward second, she inserted the wand inside her, and the sonographer turned the monitor toward us. After only a moment’s wait and some finagling by the sonographer, a grainy image appeared. She manipulated the wand until she made a little sound as she stared at the screen. At the center was a black circle and at the center of that was a tiny little moving baby. Or, rather, something that closely resembled a baby. A loud whooshing sound came through on the monitor.

“You hear that?” the tech asked, turning to us with a smile. “That’s your baby’s heartbeat.”

I hadn’t realized until that moment that I was holding Violet’s hand, which squeezed mine hard. “It’s so fast,” Violet said in awe.

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