“My eyes twitch due to other unrelated reasons. I don’t know where your thoughts are coming from but I’m not pregnant.”“We had sex, Bea.”“Yes, we did and I made sure I took my pills when I came back home.”“Why would you do that?” Daniel suddenly rose to his feet looking furious.“Beatrice tried not to get carried away by the pain she saw in his eyes.“What do you mean? I had sex with you against my will and you feel I shouldn’t protect myself?”“What’s there to protect? Stop being naive Beatrice, there’s no way I would ever hurt you!”“Oh really? You expected me to trust you after taking advantage of me?”“Please stop with this word! I have apologized to you severely for this. I may be a bad person but not anymore. What more do you want from me?!”“That’s the point, I want nothing from you. Just stay the hell away from me!”“I still don’t believe you, Bea. Just tell me the truth. I may have been cruel to you but I’m deeply sorry. I promise I’m going to change. Please just give me t
Two Weeks LaterSighing for the 100th time, Beatrice stopped checking out her upper body in the mirror. She reached for her shirt on the bed and wore it over her head. She picked up her tote bag and exited her home.It was Friday and her day off. She was meant to do this last week but fear and anxiety wouldn’t let her so she pushed it to this week.Bea strolled down to the bus station and took a ride. A part of her wished the ride was going to last forever but obviously it didn’t and soon enough, she was back to reality, standing right in front of Debock Enterprises. She reached for her phone in her bag and dialed Rita.“What’s up, babe?” The familiar sleepy voice came through. Since it was not yet noon, it was reasonable to think that Rita would be sleeping at this hour since she works overnight.“I think this is a bad idea. Maybe I should just go back home.”“Wait? You are at the office already?” Rita’s voiced out, the sleepiness slowly leaving her.“Just in front of the building. I
Finally deciding that this was probably a terrible idea and that she should have listened to her mind, Bea decided to take her leave.“Don’t leave me hanging. You saw that I was busy before you came in and I had to pause everything for you. Why are you here? What do you want?” Daniel’s voice came through.Slowly turning around, Beatrice could see that Daniel was already on his feet. He was starting to come closer to where she stood and her heart started beating fast. Bea was still allergic to certain smells and hoped that he wasn’t putting on a cologne that was going to churn her stomach again.“I want to discuss something with you.” She voiced out, hardly looking him in the eyes.“I’m all ears.” He came to a halt about three steps away from her. Tucking his hands in his pockets.Beatrice sighed internally. She had no idea it was going to be this hard to form proper words.“Look, Bea, if you are here to make me feel more terrible then I would suggest you take your leave.”“The baby is
“I don’t know what you are talking about, Bea. All I know is that we had sex, it was good and I’m glad you are carrying our child.”“You did this on purpose didn’t you?” She accused, not believing his last statement.“And how are you so sure? It could just be that the universe wants us together.”“This is definitely not the universe at work and you know that.”“Don’t be too harsh. Pregnancy happens when two people have sex.”“And don’t you preach to me some motivational quote when you could have pulled out since you were the sane one! Come on, Daniel, you totally came into my life to ruin me!"“No, don’t touch me. Just let me go.” She tried to shrug off his hold but Daniel didn’t let go.“Come with me.” They’d been standing by the door all through so Daniel brought her to the couch in the visitor area of the office and made her sit.He crouched down before her and held both of her hands. She saw Daniel get teary and wondered what was going on.“I’m mad at you for not telling me the tr
Daniel picked up his wallet from the desk after which they both exited the office. They weren’t holding each other’s hands or really walking closely but the staff could not stop taking glances at them.The driver drove the car to the front of the office building. Before he could come down to open the door for them, Daniel opened the door to the backseat for Beatrice. She thanked him before making her way in after which Daniel proceeded to the other side and helped himself in. The duo occupied the back passenger seat with an evident space in the middle while the driver drove.The ride to the hospital was a very quiet one except for the times that Daniel attended to three work calls. Beatrice occupied herself with her thoughts and after what felt like a very long journey, they arrived at Wallis Hospital. The biggest private hospital in the country, also known to have the best Doctors. Daniel couldn’t be happier that the ob-gyn was a woman because he was already thinking of how to battl
“Heartbeat?”“Yes! To see how your little one is fairing.”“As long as she takes her drugs diligently and obeys every instruction given, you have nothing to worry about.”“I have also given her my card. Please feel free to reach out to me in case of anything.” The middle-aged doctor turned her attention to Beatrice. “I’m at your service in case you need anything or anyone to talk to.”“Thank you.” Beatrice nodded.“No problem, Enjoy the rest of your day.” The doctor said after which she left the duo.“She seems nice but I hope she was good to you in there,” Dan asked as they took slow steps toward the elevator.“What would you do if she wasn’t nice?”“I will let Dr Zion know that he referred us to an incompetent person and that we want another Doctor.”Beatrice frowned at him. “Don’t you think you would be doing too much?”“Nothing is too much when it comes to you. I brought you here so you can have the best care. I just want to make sure of that.”“You have nothing to worry about. Sh
Once She was out of his sight, Daniel went back into the car and told the driver to take him to the office.Halfway through the ride, his phone rang and he answered“Oh my God, Dan!!!! I just got off the phone with Mom and I honestly do not know what to say.”For some unknown reasons, Daniel found himself blushing, instead of feeling sad that his mother extended the news to his sibling when he had hardly digested his new reality.“Congratulations!!!”“I wish I was with you now so I could hug you.”Daniel smiled.“You are being sweet. Shouldn’t I be suspicious?”“Oh, come on. This is great news. I know you to be a bully and probably an asshole but I can’t keep calm when I hear great news.”“We were all worried about you, Dan. Most especially Mom. The way you were burying yourself with work after the rejection. We’ve seen you go through phases of distancing yourself from the world but this was the scariest.”“One of the reasons I couldn’t say anything at the wedding was because I was s
“Lower your voice, Ri. My head hurts and be careful with your choice of words. I’m pregnant now. I don’t want my baby to pick up mean words.”“Yeah, you have a point and I’m so sorry about that. I’ll try my best to use good words from now on. But the baby is probably sleeping since you’ve been out and about all day so I’m sure he or she can’t hear us. Why would Debock give you a card and the next thing that comes to your mind is to trash it?”“I didn’t want to accept it. He forced me to.”“That still doesn’t give you enough reasons to trash it.”“He is doing all of these to please me and I don’t want that. I don’t want to feel indebted to him.”“No, that’s not the point. You are just being unreasonable and all I see is fear in you.”“No, I won’t call it fear. This is my decision and I would just like you all to respect it.”“It’s easier to change your perspective about people and see them in a good light when they start being very sweet to you.”“Still saying the same thing, Bea. You