Chapter No 29 Media Attention

She got up with morning sickness. She was throwing up for two hours.

“Patricia why medicines are not working?” asked Ivan.

“Ivan I think we should take her to the hospital” said Patricia, worried.

“Where is Manfred?” she asked.

“He went on meeting” he said shortly.

“Okay let’s take her to doctor” said Patricia.

“I am fine, I don’t want to go to hospital” Matilda resisted.

“Don’t be stubborn, it’s not good for the baby’s health” said Patricia.

“Fine” she said, throwing up.

“It was not that worse in your time” said Ivan while making faces. Patricia rolls her eyes.

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Doctor Henry was checking upon him. “Hmm she had diarrhea, did she eat something unhealthy?” he asked.

“No doctor, she is on a clean and healthy diet” said Patricia.

“Miss Patricia being a doctor you know morning sickness are common symptoms of early pregnancy now Miss Huston has passed her first two months, all is going fine” said doctor Henry. Patricia took a deep breath.

“Where is her irresponsible boyfriend?” asked Henry, annoyed.

Patricia looked at Matilda as if they were talking through eyes.

“I have never seen anyone as irresponsible as him” he said. “He is the worst father….” He continued when Matilda had abruptness.

“Doctor he is not my boyfriend and he is not the father, he is a friend” said Matilda exhausted.

“Oh, sorry I thought he is the father, where is the father then?” asked Henry.

Both Matilda and Patricia exchange looks.

“Well we need to fill the form so we need father’s name” said the nurse next to Henry.

“Okay, write Easton” said Matilda with stone expressions.

“Okay Miss Huston you are fine and after a month and half we can reveal the gender” said Henry. Matilda smiles and gets up.

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She was sitting over the sofa reading some archeology book she got from Patricia. Patricia was in the kitchen making lunch. Azalea was doing her color book.

She started playing with her necklace and got lost in deep thoughts. Patricia walked towards the sofa and sat beside her.

“What are you thinking?” asked Patricia.

“Thinking about my career and baby’s future,” she said, still staring at the blank screen of Tv.

“What you thought?” asked Patricia sipping tea.

“I am thinking of opening my own antique shop and library, this would be best” she said.

“That’s a great idea,” said Patricia happily.

“I have savings and I am thinking of working on it” she said, playing with her necklace.

Patricia took the Tv remote from the table and turned on the Tv. She was randomly changing channels.

“Sometimes I wonder why I believed in something so stupid, such ridiculous love,” she said.

Patricia smiles over her. “Everything happens has a reason and has chain events connected to our situations, if you did not fall in love, how come you experience something so beautiful? Motherhood, a power to woman, a gift to woman from nature and trust me nothing is better than being a mother” said Patricia and then they heard a thud. They looked behind the sofa where Azalea was sitting; she spread the colors across the floor.

“Yeah sometimes painful” said Patricia while rolling her eyes. She got up and went towards Azalea. Azalea had put colors across her face.

“Come on, let’s get clean, you naughty girl” she said and took Azalea with her.

Matilda took the remote from the table where Patricia had left it.

She was changing channels randomly until she stopped over one channel. It was a news channel showing Easton and Manfred and in between, she saw her picture. She was watching Tv as if she was watching a horror movie.

There was Slug under the picture “Who is the father? Evans and Fanaggaen baby war” she read the slug more than twenty times.

“What the fuck” she muttered. Her phone starts ringing. She looked at her phone with horrible expressions.

“No,No, No,No this can’t be” she muttered.

She grabbed her phone and answered the call.

“Hello Miss Huston? This is Anna from the Reports, I want to ask who in the powerful family is the father?`` She heard a famine voice from the other side.

“Sorry wrong number” she said and hung up the phone.

“My reputation it’s totally ruined” she thought while holding her head.

Her phone was ringing time after time. Now Patricia’s phone was also ringing. She called out Patricia.

“Patricia?”

“Yeah coming coming” said Patricia and walked towards the table where her phone was placed.

“Yeah Ivan? Why? No I did not watch” she said, turning towards the TV.

“Jesus what on the earth is this?” she screamed. All the TV channels now show the same news.

She walked towards the sofa and sat upon it.

“What on the earth is happening?” she asked.

“I don’t know, some jerk has leaked the pregnancy news” said Ivan.

“Now what will happen?” asked Patricia.

“We are coming home” said Ivan and hung up the phone.

“What am I gonna do now?” asked Matilda. Patricia gives her sigh.

After a while they heard a car horn out of their house. There was not one car but so many cars. They walked towards the window.

“Oh no the reporters, they, they are here, now what will happen?” Matilda was worried.

“Don’t worry I will handle this shit” said Patricia. “Go inside Ivan and Manfred will be here after a while” she said walked out of the house.

“Hello, we want to talk to Miss Huston, Is she home” said a reporter.

“I am afraid Miss Huston is not home, she went to a friend” said Patricia.

“You are famous Gynecologist Patricia Baker, you are friends with Miss Huston. You know who the father of the child is?” asked a blond boy in his early twenty.

Patricia took a deep breath.

“This gonna be difficult” she thought.

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She was taking a warm bath when her phone rang. She grabs her phone and answers the call.

“What a rush?” she asked, annoyed.

“Check the social media, it’s everywhere, It is related to our plan” he said from the other side.

“What is on fire?” she asked angrily. She did not like this call during her relaxing bath.

“Everything is on fire, you hottie is on news” he said from the other side.

“Easton?” she asked and hung up the phone and checked her social media. Her eyes widened because the news was like an explosion.

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This is the exclusive news, we came to know from our unknown source who is the father?” said a journalist on the Tv.

“Yeah an exclusive news” he repeats.

Ivan and Manfred were home.

“What do you think? Who let it out” asked Ivan.

“The hospital” said Manfred angrily.

“Only they knew” said Patricia.

“Easton Fanaggaen is the father, exclusive news, Miss Huston is carrying Fanaggaen’s heir” said the reporter.

“They knew now” said Matilda in a whisper.

“Relax, we are here with you” said Patricia.

Matilda touches her stomach. Manfred’s phone rings. He looked at Matilda and left the room.

“I am trying to talk to Media, I am trying to calm the situation, why are you screaming? I was upset over you because you were being jerk” said Manfred over the phone.

Someone was scolding him from the other side. He rolls his eyes.

“Hey don’t say a thing about my ass” he said annoyed.

“Fine, please don’t I am working on it” he said and hung up the phone.

“What we will do now, everybody knows” muttered Manfred.

Matilda looks so worried.

“Mel I have to do something for that” he thought and dialed a number.

“I want all of the media people out of my Fiancee’s business or else I will sue you, someone has misled you. I am the father, stay out of our business and I want all the reporters who tried to harass my Fiancee banned from the media industry now” he screamed over the phone. He looked so exhausted.

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“So that’s true” said Jim.

“Indeed it’s true he is the father” she said angrily.

“In that case…” said Jim.

“In that case the bitch should be killed. I don’t want anything to come in between the plan” she screams.

“Work would be done” said Jim in a sinister voice.

“I want that bitch killed,” she screams like a mad woman.

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It’s been one week since the news was broadcast on TV. She was secretly expecting Easton to show up but he did not show up.

She was looking forward to opening her antique shop. Patricia went for the groceries while Azalea was playing. A door’s bell rang and she went to open the door. She opened the door and a tall black haired girl was standing in front of her. The woman was wearing a punkish dress and she had red streaks in her hair. She was holding some flower pot in her hand. She raised one eyebrow and looked Matilda from foot to head. Matilda was feeling nervous.

“Who are you?” asked the woman.

“She must be his new fling” thought Matilda.

“I am Matilda Huston” she said, a smile appearing over the woman’s face.

“Oh I see” she said in a whisper. She seemed a bit odd.

“I am Nina” she said shortly. “So what are you doing here? You must be his new fling” Nina said.

“What? No way I, I am not his fling, I am his friend” she said awkwardly. The hard expressions of Nina turned soft.

Matilda felt a bit relieved.

“I am his best friend” said Nina.

“Yeah he had told me” said Matilda smiling. “Come on, let’s go in” she said happily.

Nina walked inside the house.

“Same as the last time here” said Nina while taking a deep breath.

“Where is he?” asked Nina.

“Must be on work” said Matilda.

“I know his work,” she muttered.

“So you live here?” asked Nina. Matilda smiles.

“Yeah till I manage to get my own place” said Matilda.

“No No I did not mean to offend just asking” said Nina smiling. Matilda smiles in return.

“Sit, I have made a coffee” said Matilda and went towards the kitchen. The doorbell rang again. She went out of the kitchen but Nina had already opened the door. It was Manfred with some random girl. He was holding her hand while she was kissing him. Nina was staring at them angrily, crossing her arm around her chest. Manfred stopped kissing the woman and noticed who opened the door.

“Pumpkin is that really you?” he screamed and hugged her while she hugs him unenthusiastically.

“Yeah, I happen to visit Canada so I thought to stay at your place” she said smiling. Matilda could tell that she was faking it.

“Most welcome my partner in crime” he said.

The woman who was standing next to him was playing with his hair.

“Lets have lunch together outside” he said,

“I am tired” she said shortly. “See you,” and left for the room.

He stared at her while she climbed the stairs. Matilda shakes her head and leaves inside the kitchen. The woman tried to kiss him.

“I am sorry I am not in the mood” he said, slightly exhausted.

“But…” she tried to say something when he stopped her.

“Leave” he said while looking inside her eyes, she tossed her left foot and left.

He was still staring at the room where she had disappeared across the upstairs.

Matilda was pouring coffee inside the cup and was looking at his expressions. She smiles.

She took the cup with her towards the position where he was standing and handed him the cup.

“Here” she said.

“Since when did you start offering me a coffee kitten?” he said smiling.

“Made for ya friend but she…..left” she said mischievously and left. He smiled and shook his head.

“Love love is strange, very very very strange” she sings.

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