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“I have to wrap up a few things before the New Year, baby. I think I will be back just after lunch, and then we have the rest of the day together,” Matt said. Jessica could tell that he wasn’t the biggest fan of leaving her alone on New Year’s Eve either, but he had no choice.
Getting ready for office, Matt left Jessica with a kiss to her forehead, and she slept in late for a couple more hours. She was feeling unusually fatigued this morning. The maid had come to wake her up, but she had asked them not to interrupt her this morning as she came down with a headache. A little after 9 am, Jessica couldn’t stay in bed any longer. She felt a sudden nausea building in her stomach and bile rising up her throat, so. she held her hand to her mouth and ran straight to the toilet. She barely made it there before she emptied the entirety of her dinner from the previous night into the bowl. Even after emptying her stomach, she kept hurling. After washing up and brushing her teeth, she came back to the room and slumped into the bed, completely exhausted. She checked her forehead for any signs of fever and found out her temperature was just fine, but her forehead was all clammy, and she had the distant feeling that her pressure had fallen pretty low. Concerned for her health, she called for the maid to bring her some breakfast into bed.
After a small breakfast of eggs and toast and orange juice, she felt a little better. She didn’t feel like eating the bacon for some reason. She was concerned because it was very unusual for her pressure to fall lower than normal. She only had low pressure very rarely during her menstruation sometimes, but other than that, she never faced problems in that department. Jessica called her doctor and got an appointment the very noon.
At the hospital, the doctor took her blood for conducting a few tests. By the time Matt said he’d be back, Jessica had come back home from the hospital and feeling a lot better. As promised, he made it home just after lunch time, and they spent the rest of the day together. They went out in the evening and spent their first New Year’s Eve together in New York City. Matt had taken her out to an expensive restaurant, and she had been reminded of the first time they went out to eat and how the place had been so extravagant and expensive. She had remembered how she had told him that she would be fine in a burger joint as well, as long as the food and company was good.
“What are you smiling about?” Matt asked while they were having dessert.
“Oh, nothing. Just thinking about the first time we ate out together. Seems like a lifetime ago,” said Jessica.
Matt chuckled. “Yeah, you were disapproving that day.”
“I wasn’t disapproving.” Jessica laughed, sticking out her tongue, but she was feeling a little emotional too. A lifetime of things had indeed changed since then.
After dinner, they decided to randomly walk the streets of New York until the countdown. There were people everywhere. The city was more crowded than ever in New Year’s Eve, and Jessica found that beautiful. When the countdown happened, they were at a random street. Matt was initially worried that they weren’t in any touristy spot or anywhere special when the countdown happened and asked if Jessica wanted to drive somewhere quick, but Jessica had held on to his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. I love this moment with you here. I don’t care where we are,” then kissed him. The countdown had ended, and the whole sky had lit up with fireworks as they had kissed each other.
They had come home pretty soon after because Jessica had wanted nothing more than to just be close to Matt. Matt had made sweet love to her that night and they had had a wonderful beginning to a new year in their lives. Their first year together as a married couple, madly in love with each other.
A few days after that, Jessica was browsing through some of the hospital applications she had prepared so she could start applying for work. Matt had gone to work, and she was sipping some coffee after having breakfast on the balcony. Her phone rang, and it was her doctor.
“Hello?” Jessica said.
“Hello, Mrs. Miller. I have your test results from when you came in the other day,” came the voice of her doctor from the other end of the line.
Jessica sat up straight. She had been anticipating this call. The sudden incident of her getting low pressure had bothered her.
“Should I be worried doctor?” she asked.
“Absolutely not. If anything, you can be excited. I just received your test results, and the reports say you are perfectly healthy, and so is your baby, Mrs. Miller. You are five weeks pregnant,” said the doctor.
Jessica didn’t know if she had heard her right. “I’m…pregnant? What?”
“Yes, Mrs. Miller. Congratulations!” The doctor assured her that her symptoms are normal for a pregnant woman and that she need not worry about her blood pressure because it was normal to fluctuate during pregnancy. After she hung up the phone, Jessica sat on the couch, absorbing what she had just heard.
I am pregnant… We are pregnant… Oh my God.
She felt a sudden rush of excitement and fright at the same time. So many thoughts raced into her head all at once.
How do I tell Matt? Will he be happy about the idea of being a father?
They hadn’t exactly talked about kids. It was still pretty soon after their wedding, and Jessica didn’t want to rush him into anything. She had always wanted kids though. It had always been on the plan to someday get married and have a family of her own. She just didn’t know that life would present her the opportunity so soon and in such an unexpected way. Then again, these things seldom happened as planned. An hour later, she got her test results compiled in a file that the doctor express mailed her.
Holding the pregnancy positive results in her hand, Jessica finally let the tears take over her eyes. She couldn’t believe she was going to have a baby! She was already getting so emotional, and she hadn’t even known this for even half a day. She decided to tell Matt right away after he got home that day.
Jessica wasn’t dramatic in any way when she broke the news to Matt. She had all the feelings of a person who couldn’t tell him the news soon enough. She was raw in her reaction of awe and nervousness about the baby. Matt had been struck dumb, and for a few tantalizingly slow seconds, Jessica’s heart feared that maybe Matt didn’t want for this to happen. Maybe he was disappointed that they’re pregnant so soon and that tell her that he doesn’t want the baby, but soon, his face broke into a huge smile, and Jessica noticed there were pools of tears at the corner of his eyes. She had felt foolish for fearing anything else from him. This was her Matt, the guy who loved and valued his family over anything. Watching his reaction, she had finally broken down into a messy ball of tears and sobs. Matt hugged her and told her he loved her and that she was going to make him the luckiest man alive.
50
Two weeks later, Matt and Jessica were visiting her parents’ house again. Jessica had wanted to meet them face to face when she broke the news of pregnancy. She was a bit worried about how they will take it. They were just beginning to come to terms with Jessica’s sudden and unexpected wedding to Matt. Things between them were still kind of rough, and Jessica was worried that this sudden pregnancy news would disrupt the progress they had made. Understandably, her parents, specifically her dad, might think she was going too fast or that she was being coerced into these decisions without her full intention.
Jessica and Matt arrived at her mother’s place. Before entering, Matt had squeezed her hand, silently giving her strength.
“If the need arises, I will make sure they know that you are a daughter to be proud of. If they can’t see that, then that’s their loss. I love you.”
After dinner, when they were sipping a hot cup of tea and lounging in their living room, was when Jessica thought was the time.
“Okay, Mom, Dad, we want to share news with you guys,” Jessica began.
