The Willingness to Burn by J. P. London

Author:J. P. London [London, J. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Jace tapped his fingers on the arm of the chair in the waiting room. He had never cared for the feel of a doctor’s office. Everywhere you looked there were signs of sickness. Do you have greenish discharge? Feeling uncomfortable, you need Geralex. Do you have an STI STD or UTI? You need Penicillin or Thepraxin, Levaquill, Pelvic exams. Want a healthy baby? Better take Flurenthall. The general aura of sickness and need in the waiting room was quite literally sickening.

It was almost as though they were banking on it. And as he sat daydreaming, it occurred to Jace that they were quite literally banking on it. This room wasn’t as bad as the ones he was accustomed to. He was just more sensitive to it due to the nature of it all. The constant reminder that something was wrong with you wasn’t as prevalent as it is in a general practitioner’s office. Jace supposed it was because they know that you’re going to be coming back. Not a whole lot of people are having kids without a doctor these days.

Maddy placed her hand on Jace’s tapping fingers, and he suddenly became conscious of his annoying habit and of the other people in the waiting room. She gripped his hand and he smiled at her. Then Jace gave an apologetic look to the other women awaiting their appointments.

“Madison,” the nurse said from the door. Maddy shot her a polite smile. A smile that was laced with the grimace of a name she did not care for.

The two of them stood up and went inside.

A few minutes later, they were holding hands as a shorter woman with the name “Ruth” adorned on her name tag was liberally applying gel on Maddy’s stomach.

“Okay, this might be cold,” the doctor warned her as she lathered her up, almost too late to be a warning at all.

Maddy smiled.

“Okay, let’s see if we can find the little one.” Doctor Ruth placed a thick remote-control-looking device on Maddy’s slightly swollen stomach and began moving it back and forth.

“Okay, there’s the heartbeat.” Maddy squeezed Jace’s hand and the two smiled.

“Annndd …. There…,” Doctor Ruth paused, letting her eyes pull away from the monitor and land on Jace and Maddy. “Do you guys want to know the sex?”

“Yes,” Jace said in dire anticipation.

“Yes,” Maddy said, considerably calmer than her husband.

“Well—” she glanced back down at the monitor as though checking to be sure “—it looks like you have a little boy on your hands.”

“Yes!” Jace cried out loud and threw his hand up to high-five Maddy. He was ecstatic. Although he continued to say all he wanted was a healthy child, it was quite evident that he had his heart set on a little boy. And he had just won the birth lottery as far as he was concerned. A young man to carry on his name.

She laughed and gave him the high-five he was so desperately waiting for. Jace continued to pace about the room as though his team had just scored a touchdown.

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