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Bex cried like a baby, something I never expected from her. I stared at her, astounded.
“What?” she defended herself. “I have feelings!”
I laughed. “Yes, but I thought they’d be happy feelings!”
Bex pointed at her mottled, tear-streaked face. “Don’t I look happy?”
Mara laughed and pulled both of us into a hug. “I love you guys,” she whispered fervently, her arms tight.
I felt Bex’s arms come around me tightly and I found myself sandwiched between them.
“We’ve got you,” Bex promised. “Okay?”
I sniffed. “Okay.”
Bex snorted. “Crybaby.”
Mara made us lunch. Both Bex and Mara insisted on coming to the appointment with me. I texted Junie and Minty to tell them I was going with Mara. I saw Junie’s three dots bounce in the text line. Then nothing. Then her three dots came again. Then nothing. A text message came through from Minty.
We’re coming. We’ll meet you at Mara’s.
Which is how all of us came to pile into Mara’s little car, Mara and me in the front, Junie, Minty, and Bex across the back.
“We’re like a clown car!” Junie commented, delightedly. Bex leaned across Minty and high-fived her.
“Remember, you can’t tell any of the guys, all right? I have to at least tell Barrett before the rest of them know.”
At the doctor’s office, they let me go in by myself, but for the ultrasound two hours later, they all piled in.
“This is an unusually large crowd for an ultrasound,” my doctor commented.
I shrugged. “These are my sisters. You want to decide which one gets to come in?”
She scanned the stubborn faces gathered at the foot of the bed and laughed. The doctor knew my history, she was going to let it go.
“It’ll be a tight squeeze when the ultrasound tech gets here, but we’ll make it work.”
Just then, the tech opened the door and came in.
She looked around, startled, then chuckled. “Well, all right, then. Let’s see what we’ve got.”
In short order the tech lubed me up and passed the wand over my lower tummy. The pressure on my bladder was uncomfortable but not excruciating.
After several minutes of quiet, where all that could be heard was Junie’s heavy breathing, the tech spoke.
“There it is.”
We all looked to the monitor to see a tiny blip, a heartbeat, on the screen.
“Oh!” A tiny sob hitched in my throat at the sight, one I never dreamed I’d see. “I should have let Barrett come for this!”
Mara squeezed my hand. “There’ll be more, chickie.”
“Holy manoli,” breathed Bex, staring at the monitor.
Junie whipped out her cell phone. “I’ll record it. Don’t worry, lady,” she said to the protesting tech, “you won’t be in it!”
The tech waited patiently. From the number of tear-streaked faces in the room, she knew this was something big.
