Chapter 8: Chapter 8

A MONTH LATER

"Hey look at them ain't they pretty, they look so beautiful and just like you...... and me too, see what pretty babies God gave to us.....

Janelle tickled the both babies in her hands as their nose turned red, Rashid sat opposite her longing to have them in his hands, but Janelle won't allow him to.

"I want to hold them in my hands babe, please", he begged.

"Ohh no, I won't, they are still to small and you might mistakenly let them slip off your hands", she declined him from carrying the babies.

Rashid stood up and was about taking one from her, when someone snatched the baby away from him.......

He woke up, he was sweating profusely.

It was a dream, he sat up in bed as he shuddered..... "It's just a dream, after all we never had any intercourse", he muttered to himself as he went back to sleep.

FLORIDA

It was 9:00 am, Renee had been waiting for Janelle to come downstairs so they could both go to work together, she wondered what was still delaying her from coming down, she didn't want to go up to her room, but she had no other choice.

She quickly applied the lip gloss to her lips and brushed back her hair, she dropped her handbag on her bed and left.

She had been patiently waiting downstairs for Janelle to come down, when she saw no hint of her coming down she decided to go do her make up very well.

She knocked on the door to Janelle's room, there was no response, she quickly turned the knob of the door and walked in.

"Janelle!!!", she shouted, "You are still in bed sleeping by this time of the day?, We ought to be at work by now, what's the problem?, Are you sick?", she threw different questions at her.

She walked to the bed and sat on it before bringing the back of her palm to feel Janelle's head.

"Christ!!!", she yelped.

"You are running temperature!!", she gasped.

"Don't worry about me Renee, I am just fine, I just feel so tired... that's all, go to work, I don't think I would be able to make it today, maybe by tomorrow o would be feeling better", Janelle said in a very low voice.

"What are you saying?, If you are not going, then i have no choice but to stay at home with you, just incase you need anything", Renee replied.

"Ohh no please, Renee you know this is just a new store, it won't be good if the two managers are not around, so please just go, please!!", Janelle maintained, and there was really sense in what she was saying.

Their bouquet store was still growing and it would leave a bad impression of them if none of them shows up at work, after thinking about it Renee gave up and decided to go to work.

"When I am back from work, we are definitely going to the hospital", Renee suggested.

"Ohh no, not there please!!, I would be fine before you would be back from work", Janelle sighed.

"It wasn't a question, I never asked you if you would want to go to the hospital, I only said we would go together once I am back from the hospital....", Renee retorted as she walked out of the room, closing the door behind her and not giving Janelle a chance to drag the issue further.

Janelle sulked and was about tearing up, "She still hasn't learnt how to mind her business", Janelle screamed.

"I heard that also, but it still changes nothing", Renee replied from outside and began laughing at her.

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While Janelle was sleeping calls kept coming in, but she had no strength to pick it, she hadn't even taken her bath and it was already late afternoon, she hadn't even eaten anything.

It kept coming in she had no choice but to switch it off, after about two more hours, it was already 5:43 pm, she turned on her phone, a message popped in immediately.

"..... please call back..", she read it and hissed loudly, no one had access to her number, because she had a new number before she flew to Qatar with Rashid, not even Rashid had access to this one, apart from one person, Steff.

No one needed to tell her that it was Steff, she knew already and black listed her number immediately.

"Bastard, Idiot, betrayer.......", she kept raining different sorts of profanities at her.

After she had gotten hold of herself, she stopped and her eyes welled up in tears as she began crying again, the sight she had seen when she came to visit Steff wasn't something she would ever forget, she had lied to her, she kept things from her even when she had opened up herself to her, there was nothing she ever hid from Steff.

She heard a knock on her door, she hastily cleaned off the tears from her face and her lips stretched into a wide smile to give the person knocking a false impression that she wasn't just crying minutes ago.

Renee walked in with a tray in her hand, once she was inside, she used her right leg to close the door shut.

"You are still in bed?, How are you feeling now?", She asked.

"I don't know!!!, I feel wobbly wobbly, I just feel so tired, that's all and very very hungry, God my stomach has been making different sounds since morning, but there was just no strength to stand up from here", Janelle babbled.

"Christ!!, Did I tell you this morning that you are glowing?", Renee asked as she kept taking in Janelle's skin and face.

"Glowing!!!!, You are very funny, what do you have in there?", Janelle asked, divulging from the glowing topic.

"Ta-da.....", Renee chittered as she opened the plate of conch fritters.

The aroma of the food wheezed pass Janelle's nose, she jumped out from bed immediately and

ran into the bathroom, as she bent her head in the sink and began puking out what she had eaten the night before.

Renee trailed behind her, she held Janelle's hair back and was rubbing her back as Janelle kept vomiting, once she was sure that there was nothing else left in her, she turned on the tap and rinsed her mouth.

"You look so sick Janelle, you haven't been eating right?, You look so skinny..... what's happening?, If it's about the store then you have to quit for now please..... you look so miserable, look at your collar bones", Renee complained.

"I have been eating, but sometimes I just don't have the appetite to eat, I swear it isn't about the work....., I really don't know what's wrong with me", Janelle sighed.

"First you have to eat, and then maybe we could go to the hospital today, but if you won't be able to go today, we could leave it until tomorrow, but right now I got to fill you up with food", Renee insisted.

"I am not eating that", Janelle said.

"This is Conch Fritters we are talking about Janelle!!, it's your favorite..., why don't you want to eat it?", Renee questioned.

"It has a foul smell, I wonder how it would taste in my mouth, probably it would be worse, please you won't force me to eat that...", Janelle replied

"Janelle?, you have never rejected this for once, it had never smelt so foul before, but now....., you are suddenly complaining about the smell...., you should have a taste first", Renee insisted.

She brought a spoon of the Conch Fritters to her mouth and chewed on it, "Mmmhhh, it's so sweet, there is absolutely nothing foul about this..., I took so much time to prepare this, it should taste better, just a spoon", Renee pleaded.

"Ohh no, please I won't, and if you make me take a spoon, I swear, I would have no other choice but to puke all over you", Janelle warned.

"Alright....., now I see where all this is coming from....., First you sleep everytime, even at work that I can't count how many times I had woken you up from sleep in your office....., the rate in which you sleep nowadays is just so alarming.

Secondly, you don't have appetite for your once best food, you say it has foul odour, look at how your skin is glowing.... and now you are suddenly having the urge to puke.....

With all these theories, I would have to tell you Janelle....", Janelle didn't even wait for her to finish, she interrupted her from speaking further.

"Tell me what?", Janelle gushed.

"You are pregnant", Renee blurted as she gave her a nonchalant glance.