Sprinkled With Love

Chapter Twenty-six: Positive?

    About a day after Morgan and I having unprotected s*x, I started my period, even though that happened there was still a possibility of being pregnant. So now 4 weeks later and with Christmas a few days away, I had started feeling sick. At first I thought it might be the flu after it started last week, but every day, multiple times a day I was throwing up. Thank God Jane loved me and was able to keep the shop going when I told her I was sick. Now here I was sitting in my bathroom, with a pregnancy test in my hand waiting to take it. My phone rang and snapped me out of my own head and I reached for it where it sat on the bathroom sink. I looked at the screen and saw that its was Melinda.

   "Hello," I said my voice cracking from my throat being dry from puking a week straight.

    "Ari, Morgan told me you weren't feeling good anything I can do?" She spoke. I thought about it for a minute and realized I needed someone to talk to, who better to talk to someone who's already been through what I could possibly be going through.

   "Can... can you come over?" I asked hesitating.

   "Of course just tell me whats wrong so I can bring supplies," I heard her grab a piece of paper im assuming to make a list.

   "Well I've been throwing up a lot this week, so I haven't left the house. I even made Morgan stay away." I said.

   "Okay, I think I know what I need to bring, I'll be there in an hour, don't worry about getting out of the bed ill let myself in." She hung up after a quick goodbye. I loved that she was willing to come over to help me out. I know I should be having Morgan help me but if it was the flu and not what I think it is I wouldn't want him getting sick especially since his job was a little more important then mine. I sat the pregnancy test in the drawer not having taken it yet and went to crawl back into bed. I was going to go unlock the door but I remembered Melinda had a key I had given her so she could come over and wrap presents with out anyone knowing they were here, well except me of course. I dozed off after my head the pillow, I was weak and tired. 

   I woke up almost 2 hours later, a bottle of ginger ale sitting on the nightstand with a water. I reached for the water first but as soon as I moved the nausea hit and I rushed to the restroom. As soon as I was done and flushed the toilet I heard a soft knock on the door frame and turned to see Melinda. She had a small smile on her face.

   "Good morning sleeping beauty," she said then came over and helped me stand up then sit on the edge of the tub.

    "Thank you for coming," I said and she sat down next to me.

   "Of course, I'm here, as soon as you walked through the door of my house 2 months ago I adopted you as my own," her arm wrapped around me and I leaned my head on her shoulder. "Have you taken one?" She asked and I looked at her shocked. "Oh don't think I don't know, I may be old now but I was young once," she smiled.

   "Your still young mama," I smiled then it faded as I continued to talk, " I haven't yet... I was going to earlier but honestly I'm scared..." She wrapped her arm around me again and I leaned on her. 

   "No matter the outcome, just know you will never be alone, I don't speak for my son, but if you are you'll have all the help I can give you, but now I'm a mama who raised her son right I don't think he would leave you, actually I know he wouldn't because whether he has said it yet or not I know that boy of mine loves you," she smiled her hand rubbing small circles on my lower back, the small gesture giving me a lot of comfort. "Now I'm a nosy person so I already know you have a pregnancy test in that drawer but I brought a couple different ones too, after Morgan told me you'd been sick and throwing up a lot and then I confirmed my suspicion today when you were dead asleep after I had just talked to you an hour before." She reached into the drawer I put the pregnancy test in earlier and handed it to me. "You take this and I'll go sit on the bed out there and wait for you." She kissed my cheek as she got up to leave the bathroom closing the door behind her.  I waited a few minutes to collect myself, then I read the directions. I did what I needed and sat the stick on the counter. Now it was time to wait, the packaging said it would take 3 to 5 minutes so I sat an alarm for 5. The time until the timer went off went by so slow, that I hesitated as soon as it did. Mustering up the courage I stood up and picked up the stick with out looking at it yet. I wanted Melinda with me when I did. I opened the door and went to sit with her. 

   "So?" She said.

   "I haven't looked yet, I wanted to be with you when I did." I looked at her twirling the test in my hand.

   "Well why don't we look at it together," she said taking my hand. I nodded. She counted to three and we flipped it over together. I saw one line clear as day but in the second window there was a second line not as noticeable as the first line but it was there. I looked up at Melinda and she smiled. I felt like I should freak out but deep down I knew I didn't need too. She wrapped both arms around me and hugged me, whispering 'congratulations mama," in my ear.