Remember Our Love_A Short Story by Chencia C. Higgins

Author:Chencia C. Higgins [Higgins, Chencia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 38483223
Publisher: Chencia C. Higgins
Published: 2018-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

I was in the second semester of my last year of graduate school and working as a teacher’s aide at a local private school when I found out. There hadn’t been any weird cravings, no weight gain, and especially no sickness to give me a hint about what was going on in my body. A routine well-woman appointment was perfectly timed and my gynecologist wore the widest smile I’d ever seen on her face when she reentered the examination room that I occupied.

I’d been seeing this same woman since I was 18 and the campus clinic referred me her way when they learned I had private insurance. We were almost friends, considering how...intimately...she knew me. So the smile on her face brought a smile to mine and I wiggled my shoulders a little in expectation of the clean bill of health she was about to give me. Jeremiah and I had been together exclusively for just under four years and the thought that something could be wrong never even crossed my mind.

“Well, Lee, I see you’ve been busy.”

We were close enough for her to call me by my nickname, at least. My brows raised at Dr. Mallory’s observation but the smile didn’t leave my face. “I’m a few months from having a master’s in education and I’m nose deep in my capstone so, yeah, I guess you could say that.”

“That’s it?” She tilted her head at me and laid the sheet of paper in her hands, face down across her lap.

“I’m in my sixth year of school, what else could it be?” I giggled and shook my head.

“Ah. Well let me be the first to congratulate you, because you’re pregnant.”

My jaw dropped. “What?!”

She nodded and handed me the sheet of paper. My eyes scanned it but quickly deduced that the medical jargon and figures only reiterated what Dr. Mallory had just told me. If I didn’t believe it, the word “pregnant” in all capital letters at the bottom of the page confirmed it for me.

“I won’t know how far along you are until we do an ultrasound but since you were my last patient of the day, I can go ahead and take care of that for you without booking another appointment.”

I nodded absently, my eyes still glued on the word “pregnant”. An hour later I climbed into my car, equipped with a sample packet of gummy prenatal vitamins, pamphlets on first-time pregnancy, and a prescription for iron pills. Not only was I pregnant but I was now anemic as well. When I got to my apartment, I put everything on the kitchen counter, and tossed two gummy vitamins into my mouth. I snatched up my cordless phone and took it with me into my bedroom as I climbed into bed after getting undressed.

Jeremiah answered after two rings. “I was just about to come over there. I thought we were going to go to lunch after your appointment.” Just hearing his cheerful voice made me smile.

“You might still want to come over.

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