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Mel picked up her tea and sipped. “Some. In the beginning. But it didn’t last too long. Oh, and Mom? Don’t worry, I still have a ton of questions for you.”
Karen smiled. “Okay, now, tell me what wedding plans you’ve made so far. I have money put away for this. And your father, he always said he would help when the time came. Have you told him yet?”
“No. I’ll call him tomorrow.”
I felt completely out of my element, standing in the exam room next to Mel as she lay on the narrow exam bed. The doctor spread some gel on Mel’s stomach then glanced at us. “You ready?”
We nodded.
She slid the wand over Mel’s tummy, and the room filled with the sound of a quick beating heart. My own heart melted as the image came on the screen. Though I couldn’t really tell what it was, I knew it was a baby, but the sound of the heart beating choked me up with instant love. At that moment, I knew I had been wrong.
I was wrong to think that love took time and needed nurturing to be real, because, in that instant, there was no amount of time that I needed to know that I loved the soul that belonged to that heartbeat.
I also knew that I’d loved my brothers from the first moment I looked into their eyes, maybe even before then.
“Do we want to know the sex?” the doctor asked with a smile, her bright blue eyes encouraging.
Mel looked at me. I shook my head. “No.” Because it didn’t matter.
