Chapter 9: Chapter 9
THE CALL TO MOTHERHOOD
Janelle kept quite for a while as she let the words sink in, "You must be joking, me pregnant!!?, you are seriously joking, maybe it's just the flu, you know this is the time for someone to catch the flu, you should not just allow words like that to leave your mouth without thinking through", Janelle laughed.
"Flu?, tell that to a little girl who doesn't know the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, you should not be surprised, would you say you both never had any intercourse?", Renee arched a brow.
"Wait....., it can't be, that night?, It can't be it was just that night, it suppose to be something consistent, God it's a lie, it can't be", she said to herself.
"It was one night without protection, what were you thinking?", her subconscious snarled at her.
"Ohhh shit.... ohhh fuck!!!!!, Christ of Nazareth!!", she gasped.
Everything she was saying was making a whole lot of sense, it wasn't the flu, ohh God yes it's the Flu, she would not just believe that she was pregnant without any test, she had to be very sure before she does anything that could implicate things further.
"How did you know?", Janelle finally asks.
"You mean how I found out about you being pregnant when I have never been pregnant?....", Renee asks.
"No it's not that, like.....", Janelle stuttered not even knowing what else to say.
"I have lots of friends who had been in this stage before, everytime I am sick, I try to compare theirs with mine, having hope of being pregnant one day, but it never happened, and you know the rest of the story", Renee smiled.
"Here you are now Pregnant...., any choice you decide to take when it finally comes out true, I promise that I am ready to stand with you all through, I don't care what choice you make, but you should know that, I, Renee Ferdinand is forever going to stick with you, okay?", Renee assures as she placed my palms in hers and gave it a soft tug.
"Would you want to go now, so we could check it or you want tomorrow?", Renee asked.
"I am so anxious right now, I really don't know Renee, I just don't know, I think today and maybe by tomorrow we could pick up the result", Janelle suggested.
"Yeah, that's good", Renee replied as she embraced her.
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"I am here for you okay?, Just go in", Renee urged Janelle in to the toilet so she could take her urine sample.
She was given a ball-pen like instrument by the doctor so she could use it to take her urine.
After she was done she came out, "So how do I know if it's positive or negative?", Janelle asked.
"If it shows two red lines then it's positive but if it should just show one then you ain't pregnant", Renee told her.
"I would just say you wait until she comes", Renee continued.
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The lady doctor walked Renee and Janelle into her office with smiles written all over her face, once the duo were seated, the doctor looked at Janelle.
"I guess you are Mrs Janelle", the doctor stated.
Janelle nodded her head in an affirmative response to her, "Yes Doc", she replied. She ignored the fact that the doctor regarded her as 'MRS', there was no proper time for explanation.
"Congratulations, you are seven weeks pregnant", the doctor brought her hands out for a handshake
Janelle gasped, "Seriously!!", her eyes went round like saucer's.
"Yes ma, you might want to fill a form so you could start your pre-natal care, would you want to fill it now?", the doctor questioned.
"Ohhh erm, no, not now, I would want to start from next week, you know all these things are new to me, I would want to......", she stuttered, not even knowing what to say.
"If you wish then, congratulations once more", the doctor said before leaving them.
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"Stretch your limbs out a bit, now turn on your sideways, get on your elbow, raise that right leg up.....", Renee was instructing Janelle on the exercises she should do.
"Renee I'm tired, it's thirty minutes already, please let me just stop", Janelle pleaded.
"You are doing this for the babies remember?, It's juts twenty seven minutes, eight more minutes so we could round up", Renee coaxed.
"Stop saying this Renee, I don't like it. It's not double or triple, it's just one, it's a baby, not babies. You are saying the we like though it's both if us doing the exercise, it's just me and me alone", Janelle complained, clutching onto her waist while raising her legs.
"It's for the babies, oops, sorry, baby, to be strong. I'm so sorry, I just forgot....", she paused, "Now time's up, in five seconds, five, four, three, two, one, now stop", Renee counted, Janelle immediately slumped on the floor.
"Again, have you been using the dildo?", Renee arched her brow.
"Ohhh, of course", Janelle looked away while answering her.
"You are lying to me, stop that. I know it's been long you used it", Renee yelped.
"It's hard", Janelle mumbled.
"You still think of him?", Renee crouched down to knee level, to be able to get a full glimpse of Janelle's face.
"Everytime, every second that ticks, I think of him and I'm tired of everything. Once I raise the dildo up, the only thought that fills my head is him, and I'm tired. I'm seriously tired of it, I had to take a break", Janelle sighed, a tear running down her lid.
"I know baby, I know, but you have to do this, not just for your baby, but also for yourself. The hole needs to be stretched, so that labour won't be that hard on you, and when it's properly stretched, there would be a much better passage for the baby to come out, unless you want some cuts and tears on your vagina", Renee was trying to let her understand.
"I know, I will start again, I would think of something else", Janelle assured her.
"That's better", Renee smiled at her.
~~~QATAR~~~
RASHIDS' POV
"Khalid, you must be crazy, why would you just let her go, without having to know where in particular she was headed to. Do you even have sense at all?", I bawled at Khalid.
Sometimes I feel like he's just totally and completely senseless, but, right now, I know he's totally and completely senseless, not like I'm better than him though.
"Don't fucking tell me that, you aren't even better than I am, so please shut the fuck up. Where is your lovely wife, whom you fell head over heels for, where is she?, Absolutely you don't know, you have no slightest hint or whereabouts of her and you are coming to tell me shit....
This is it, no bringing up of any discussion about her, mind your shit and let me face mine, you are just here to make me feel bad and make yourself feel good, probably thinking that you are way better than I am, but let me get the shit out your fucking head.
You loose totally, I only lost half, we had no issues before she left, she just damn wanted a space, and I had no choice but to let her be. That's pure love, you have to let go of the person at a point to let her choose what she feels is best for her...., you understand?. So please...", Khalid paused, staring at me.
"It's a year since she left you, no call, no text, no fucking nothing, not even an email", I smirked at him, "You are the fool here, you should be asking yourself why she had never called you since then. Janelle cheated on me, she fucking committed adultery, you expected me to keep my hands closed, not doing anything....?", I arched my brow at him, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"You imbecile, it's nine months already, still you haven't even heard a word, not even from the family members", Khalid was taunting me, but if we kept going back and forth at each other, we aren't going to get to any reasonable place, we were just killing ourselves.
"You were fucking way too deep, you shouldn't have let that stuff, put you both apart, now she's gone, you have no idea where she is right now...., I'm sorry for you", Khalid said, before shutting down his laptop.
"Since we ain't going to club no more, I'm heading to my estate and I expect you to do the same", Khalid eyes me warily, before tossing his long jacket over his shoulder.
Since we both thought that we finally found the loved of our lives, we stopped clubbing, partying, it was just work, work, work and work, continuous working. There was no time to hang around with the opposite sex, they had done us way more harms than we could imagine, we weren't going to do that shit again.
FLORIDA
A loud yell coming from Janelle's room, woke Renee up, she grabbed her robe and began running to Janelle's room.
"What is it?", Renee questioned as she pushed the door to Janelle's room open.
Renee's gaze travelled down to Janelle's thighs which were spread widely apart from each other, "Ohh my, your water just broke", Renee gasped, as she closed the distance between them.
Janelle met her gaze and looked down to her thighs, "I think she's coming", She said in between pants.