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Chapter28
Tess
There’s no easy way to maintain your dignity while wearing a paper gown and watching your legs swing from the edge of the exam table, miles from the green tile floor.
No more than ten minutes have elapsed. Yet I feel as if I’ve been waiting here for hours while a cup of my urine hangs out on the counter.
Just when I’m about to hop off the table to retrieve my phone so I can have something to look at other than a cup of piss, the door swings open.
Dr. Redondo strolls in with a tablet in her hand and a friendly smile on her lips.
“Hello, Tess. Good to see you again.”
I force my legs to quit swinging. “Better late than never, right? I know I was due for my annual six months ago but I’m here now.”
She nods with a smile and scrolls through her tablet with one finger. She glances at the cup on the counter. The nurse had dipped a standard test strip and left it across the rim.
Since the doctor isn’t saying anything, I might as well fill the silence.
“For starters, I’d like to discuss birth control options while I’m here. The pill is definitely not for me. I’m sure it’s somewhere in your notes that I tried taking it years ago and suffered a bad reaction. Worst migraines ever.”
She checks her tablet again. Raises her eyes, tucks the tablet under one arm, and doesn’t beat around the bush.
“Tess, your pregnancy test is positive.”
“That’s impossible.” I have no idea where those automatic words came from.
I know they aren’t true.
Of course it’s possible.
Dr. Redondo waits for me to come to grips with reality.
“But I’ve had my period,” I explain. “I’m not even late.”
“You indicated on your check in paperwork that your last period began twenty-two days ago.”
“That’s right.”
I’m not wrong about the date. I remember how I brought a heating pad to bed to ease the cramping. Micah had a better idea, helping me find relief with some manual stimulation. His tactic worked. After two delicious orgasms I drifted off to sleep and didn’t wake up until the squawk of my morning phone alarm.
“Did it seem like a normal period?”
“Yes. Well, no. Lighter than usual. Only lasted two days.”
She nods as if unsurprised. “It’s common to mistake implantation pain and light bleeding for a period.”
I clutch the spongy edge of the exam table. Otherwise, I might fall off. “What are the chances the test is wrong?”
But I know it’s not wrong.
I just…know.
And what right do I have to be stunned?
DUH, Tessie.
