The Good Life

*Jack*

On the way to my car I looked at my phone and saw I had a message from Cassadee.

To Jack:

Hey can you take me to the doctor today at 2pm?

To Cass:

Yeah of course. What’s wrong? Are you sick?

I waited ten minutes for her to reply back.

To Jack:

Don’t tell Rian or Alex but I think I’m pregnant…

I couldn’t stop myself from grinning at my phone. I loved kids! I couldn’t wait to have my own someday. I guess she wanted to surprise Rian with the information which is why I couldn’t tell him, and Alex probably isn’t too good on keeping secrets. I wanted to talk to her in person about it; I couldn’t wait to see how happy she was.

To Cass:

I’m coming over right now!!

To Jack:

Okay.

I stopped driving towards my house and started going towards Alex’s place. I knocked on the door and Cassadee answered it not a minute later. She had tears running down her face and she was sniffling, not at all what I was expecting.

“Hey, those better be tears of joy.” I wrapped my arms around her and walked her over to the couch so we could sit down. Letting her rest her head on my chest for a moment.

“These are nowhere near tears of joy! What the fuck am I supposed to do, Jack? Rian and I aren’t ready for kids yet!” She started shaking in my arms. Sobbing to my tear-stained shirt.

“Why do you think you’re pregnant? When you threw up the other day it was because you had too much to drink right?” I felt bad for her, she was so scared. I rubbed soothing circles on the small of her back.

“My period is late and it hardly ever is. I don’t trust the ‘do it yourself pregnancy test’ so I’ll just see what the doctor says.” She calmed down a little bit and I tried to let her know everything would be alright. I told her to go take a nap so she could relax for her doctor’s appointment.

I woke her up twenty minutes later because we only had thirty minutes before her appointment. She didn’t look relaxed at all, but she stopped crying. The car ride to her doctor’s office was silent, but I had no idea what to say to her that would make her feel any better.

She checked in and fifteen minutes later they called her back to see the doctor.

“Will you come with me?” She looks as if she was going to start crying again and I couldn’t just let her go alone, so of course I agreed. A nurse came in and asked Cass questions about her health and after a while made her go pee in a cup. She came out and handed it to the nurse, who took the cup and left.

“Thanks for coming with me, Jack. I just didn’t know who else to call.” She said, breaking the silence that filled the air.

“It was my pleasure, really. I couldn’t imagine you coming here all by yourself, I wouldn’t want you to.” I replied. I hugged her cause she looked like she needed some kind of affection. We sat in the room for twenty minutes waiting until a young, good looking doctor to finally come in.

“Nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Pope. I’m Dr. Kettle.” He said as he came through the door and shook both of our hands. I looked up at him confusedly while Cassadee snickered in the background. I’ll never understand why doctors assume two people in a room are automatically married.

“Uhm? Actually we’re not married.” I mentioned as he opened chart and looked over it.

“Oh, well I’m sure you’ll pop the question sometime soon.” He smiled and looked at Cassadee and me. I didn’t feel like correcting him so I just nodded in return.

“Okay, Ms. Pope, the test came back negative so you’re not pregnant, but I want to run some test to see why you’re periods are irregular, okay? So, I’m going to have one of my nurses come in to take your blood.” He opened the door walking out and a new nurse walked in. Cassadee was doing a happy dance while sitting down until she looked at what the nurse was holding. She had alcohol pads a sterilized needle and a band aid in her hands.

“Jack, hold my hand!” Cass face dropped. I didn’t understand why she wanted me to hold her hand though.

“What?” I asked so she could clarify.

“I don’t like needles! So, hold my fucking hand!” she yelled and grabbed my hand causing the nurse to look at us and laugh.

“It’ll be over before you know it, sweetheart.” The nurse tried explaining to Cass, but she just closed her eyes and buried her face into my shoulder. I tried my best not to laugh over how ridiculous she was being over a small needle, but I couldn’t help myself. I felt her bite my arm and screamed out in pain.

“Ow! Cassadee!?” I tried to move away from her, but she just grabbed on to me tighter.

“Okay, be very still.” The nurse warned. I watched her clean Cass’s arm, stick her with needle until she had enough blood and covered it with a band aid. Cassadee didn’t scream or yell like I thought she would, she whimpered and grabbed me so tightly that I’m sure I’ll have bruises.

“All done! Now give us thirty minutes for us to test this.” Cass and I sighed out loud, because we were getting so bored just sitting there doing nothing.

I lifted my arms to stretch and my shirt raised up exposing my hips and causing Cassadee to gasp. I felt her lift my shirt up more and rub her fingers on bruises I didn’t even know were there.

“Ow, what in the world are you doing?” I moved her hand away because the bruises hurt like hell.

“Where did you get this bruise? It looks new, what did you do today?” she looked at me with concern filling her eyes. I was about to tell her that I went to visit Alex today, but then I thought about it. Alex was the one who created those bruises early in his classroom. I put my best poker face on and tried to think of a quick lie.

“I…um don’t know” I was literally drawling a blank; I’m not a good liar at all.

“The only time I get bruises on my hips like that, is when Rian and I are…wait Alex said you were going to have lunch with him today.” She narrowed her eyes at me and I watched her put two and two together. “You guys had sex and in his classroom?! Jack!” She yelled out loud and looked at me in shock. He eyes are narrowed and jaws dropped, damn this girl.

“What?! No! No, we did not! I hit my hip on his desk on my way out!” That was the best lie I could think of, but I knew she wouldn’t buy it.

“Oh, yeah? Well let me see your other hip.” She got up and walked to my other side and lifting up my shirt to see another bruise on that hip. “You hit both of your hips on his desk?”, She raised an eyebrow at me.

I sighed and decided to tell the truth, “Alright, alright! You caught me. I had sex with my boyfriend, sue me.” I threw my hands in the air drastically, laughing.

“You guys are freaks, he’s supposed to teach in his classroom not fuck in it. And you’re supposed to wait until you’re married to have sex, you harlot.” I rolled my eyes at her. She could be ridiculous sometimes.

“This is coming from the person who just had a pregnancy scare, right?” She shoved my arm playfully and we both laughed. The door opened and Dr. Kettle walked in with a serious look on his face.

“Mrs. Pope, I have some bad news.”

Notes

Sorry for the cliffhanger!!