"This is the year I've been the most stupidest, wait is stupidest a
word?"
"I do believe it is."
"Yes the stupidest….first I let a woman come to my home without
questioning her motives, I believe that a child without a paternity
test for a month is Justin's, we get a divorce, and then this."
"By far the stupidest year of your life."
"I'm a two-fer how could I not see this coming?"
"Wait you don't even know. You do have…" Krystal looked at her
watch, "2 and half minutes left."
"I know Krystal, I know….then we just adopted Alesha."
"So he got her?"
"Yeah it wasn't hard. She's at home with Justina right now. You
should've saw her face Krystal, she's so happy. I think she's going
to fit in really well."
"Its time."
"Its time" she repeated. Kristina and Krystal got up off the couch
and walked into the bathroom. Just like she
suspected. "Yup….pregnant."
"Again" she said flatly.
"Wow Krystal don't sound too enthusiastic."
"Tsk, you don't sound too enthusiastic yourself."
"Of course I do!"
"Nah, ya don't."
"Ok no I don't, Krystal this sad to say is the worst time to have a
child. I mean…a child is a blessing but we have a lot on our plates."
"Who's fault is that? You're the one who got all reacquainted with
looking up at the ceiling."
"For your info I don't look at the ceiling, I look into his eyes."
"How romantic" Krystal scoffed.
"I've had just enough of your attitude young lady."
"Let's iterate young here grandma."
"Hey I'm only 9 months older than you."
"Hey funny! 9 months, what a play on words."
"You are so hilarious, wait no you're not."
"Yeah whatever, so are you going to tell him?" Kristina and Krystal
walked out of the bathroom back into the living room.
"Duh of course I'm going to tell him, but not until I get the blood
work done. Just to make sure you know."
"Well don't wait too long or you'll have another soap opera moment
like with Justina."
"Now which? Passions, Days of our lives or As the world turns?"
"I was thinking Bold and the beautiful?"
"You think I'm beautiful?"
"I think Justin is beautiful, now go make an appointment. And make it
as soon as possible."
"Yes mother" she said rolling her eyes.
~*~
"Jeez that didn't hurt like last time, has it been that long?"
Kristina rubbed her arm from the shot she had just received.
"What did you say?" Justin asked. Note to Kristina, stop talking to
yourself! Maybe she was like a soap opera after all. Don't you hate
when they talk to themselves? Then the person you don't want to hear,
hears it? Yup, like right now.
"Uh….I said wow check out that freckle." Justin looked at Kristina
with suspicion. She was acting a little weird these past two days.
Must've been that time of the month.
"Um, right anyways Chris called. He said he wants you to call him
back as soon as you can."
"Very well." Kristina walked into the room to call him back. "Chris?
You rang?"
"That I did, I wanted to call you and Justin for a big fat favor."
"Ohh a big fat favor…do tell."
"Well its me and Donovan's 8th date. I told him how you really
inspired me and he really wants to meet you."
"Meet me? Really?"
"Yes really, would you two mind meeting us for dinner?"
"Ah… I don't know it is kind of last minute."
"Pretty please??"
~*~
"I feel a little weird about this…."
"We've been on plenty of double dates with Chris."
"Yeah but they've all been of the female anatomy." Kristina retied
Justin's tie the right way, straightening it out. How was it that he
was a grown man of 29 years and still didn't know how to tie his tie
right? She didn't even live around men and she knew how to tie a tie
better than him.
"I thought you were ok…with his sexuality."
"I am, I am its just like I said…."
"Different?"
"Yeah different."
"Well get indifferent because we're going to meet him in a few. Chris
is really excited about this."
"The love for a brother."
"That indeed," Kristina looked up and saw Chris heading their way.
That was Donovan?! Jeewilikers! He looked like Jake Glyenhall, only
better. His eyes were so bright blue you could even see them in the
dim restaurant. At least Chris had good taste in men. Chris' eye
caught the couple waiting for them. Justin, though accepting Chris'
sexuality, watching hold another mans hand was……..different.
"Hey guys, please excuse or lateness, bad traffic."
"Its ok, soooo is this the famous Donovan?" Kristina sung.
"That I am, finally nice to meet you. I've heard nothing but great
things."
"Same here, please have a seat." The night you could say was pretty
interesting. Donovan was such an intellect. A graduate of Yale law
school he had returned to California to work with his father's law
firm. There he met Chris when he hired his father for the law team of
his clothing line. An instant connect or at least that what Donovan
said. And here they were on their 8th date, meeting the woman who
made Chris feel more secure with himself. Strangely enough Justin
liked Donovan as well. He wasn't this idea of what he thought a gay
man was. That was more like Ryan. He was chill, sort of reminded him
of himself. He did what he could to not pay attention to the looks
both men shared towards each other or when they were caressing each
others hands. Kristina felt her cell phone vibrating.
"Uh, that--I'm expecting a phone call, excuse me."
"Yeah sure" Justin got up from the booth so Kristina could get out.
She made her way to the bathroom so she could retrieve her voicemail.
Paranoid for no exact reason, she looked under the maroon stalls of
the bathroom to make sure no one accompanied her. Like a movie in
slow motion it felt like it took forever for her right index finger
to dial *313.
"You have one voice message." Kristina selected the option to hear
the awaiting news.
"Hello Kristina this is Dr. Meadows, I'm calling in regards of your
recent blood work that was tested for pregnancy. Congra--" She
didn't need to hear anymore, she already knew before going into the
hospital. She was having another baby, her third child. Make that her
fourth child since the addition of Alesha.
~*~
"So you're pregnant…
"Yup…"
"Bun in the oven…"
"Yup…."
"So you're knocked up…"
"Krystal no matter how many derivatives you throw at me the bottom
line is I am with child, child, child!"
"Must you yell?"
"Pardon me, child, child, child" she whispered.
"So we're pregnant together."
"You've got a good month on me."
"Yeah but hey we're still pregnant together right? I've always dreamt
of that happening."
"Really?"
"No." The warm sun beamed down on the two best friends as they talked
about Kristina's impending pregnancy. Since last night the news had
sunk in that in another 9 months she'd gain weight again, throwing
up, eating everything in sight, sleeping most of the day away,
feeling her vagina stretch further than one could imagine, up for
light night feedings, stinky diapers, breast feeding, crying,
burping, gerber, similac…wow that list could go on forever. Funny how
she blamed that sickness on the heat right? "So when are you going to
tell Justin?"
"Tonight when the kids go to sleep. Boy is he gonna be happy, he's
already established that he wants a damn basketball team."
"Hey with the 4 you're working with, he's 29.…you're 26, you've still
got a lot of time to have 4 more between now and you're middle 40's."
"Hey, hey who said all of that?"
"You know you want more."
"Yeah just like how you want 3 more."
"Hey one Baby Bass is enough."
"Whatever, I'm hungry."
"Uh oh, it begins." Krystal and Kristina got up from the hammock and
walked back into the house to fix something to eat. Kristina laughed
as she watched Krystal fix up her lunch. It ranged from bologna,
apple pie, and eggs, sounds delicious right? No. Kristina opted for
just a hearty bowl of soup and some of that pie Krystal was working
with. "You know what I haven't seen in awhile?"
"What?"
"TRL."
"That still comes on?"
"Yup despite its revolving door of hosts, it still airs."
"Wow that's surprising. Hey remember Ray Muns?"
"Yep…or KK Holiday?"
"I thought he was so cute."
"Yeah you're weird, anyways I like that new song by ya boys band."
"Who?"
"Backstreet, gotta a new single out. Might have to cop that disc, but
I'll hide it so Lance does shit in his pants."
"Yeah" she laughed. It was the first time she had seen the video or
heard the song. She was going to get a cut of it around the time she
was dating Nick but with their breakup that never happened. Boy did
he look cute on that video. Hey there was nothing wrong with thinking
he was cute, as long as she didn't touch. Nick was a pretty nice guy
and she didn't regret the time they spent with each other. Even if it
was a little bit of time. Thinking about that night they shared made
her blush….wait…that night…that was the week before she and Justin
got back together. Kristina's brown eyes slowly grew in dismay. It
never occurred of her to think such a way. Since things were working
out with Justin with therapy and the children, that hadn't even
crossed her mind.
"OH MY GOSH!" she screamed. Krystal looked up at her best friend in
confusion. What the hell was eating her? Speaking of eating, if she
didn't eat that other piece of pie… "OH MY GOSH!"
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Krystal you're gonna be so pissed off at me" she said with worry.
"What? What is it?"
"Krystal---there's a possibility--"
"Spit it out woman!!!"
"There's a possibility that this child may not be Justin's."
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