"What's that on your face?" Matt asked as he frowned at me and I chuckled.
"That's a love mark," I told him teasingly and laughed as my best friend's eyes widened.
"On your nose? What the hell's wrong with Big Sis?" he asked incredulously and I laughed some more as I scratched the tip of my nose.
"Yesha pulled at it while I was sleeping," I answered as I sat next to him. We were at the bar sharing our Friday night drinks like usual.
"I didn't know she had a nose fetish," Matt added as he continued to frown at my face. "That looks painful."
"Not really," I told him as I glanced at the red line on my nose.
Since a week ago, Yesha had been eyeing this particular part of my face a lot and would tug at it when I wasn't looking. I didn't understand why but she seemed to be fond of my nose that I would find it so funny if it weren't painful.
Yesterday morning before I left for work, she had requested to pull it one more time and had sulked when I refused. In the end, I let her do it and it ended up longer than the usual and she pinched it while I was in dreamland too.
"Well, I can't say I'm luckier than you since Jane has her own quirk. My wife likes to bite my ear that we fight about it every day," Matt shared woefully and I laughed. "Hearing about Yesha's weird hobby made me feel a little better. At least there are two of us versus those pregnant sisters," he added which made me stop, the smile frozen on my lips.
"What did you say?" I asked casually but my eyes and ears were focused on Matt.
"I said I'm relieved because we're on the same boat," he repeated and I shook my head.
"Not that. About the sisters," I prompted and Matt bobbed his head.
"Ah, you mean the pregnant sisters?" he asked amusedly and my blood ran cold.
"How far along is Jane now?" I asked again, my voice still controlled, though my hands were already shaking.
"Jane's two months pregnant now," he replied with a fond smile. "Those two crazies, who would have thought they'd get pregnant at the same time? I was still shocked when Jane told me almost a week ago after she and Big Sis went to see the doctor. But I think that's better because you're going to be attending Lamaze classes with me, buddy," he continued as he patted my back and I decided I had enough.
"Matt, I forgot I have to do something," I said and excused myself.
As if being ran after by demons, I walked back towards my car and drove back home in record speed. I was raging mad.
"How could she?" I snarled as I marched towards our apartment but found it empty. Yesha might have gone to the supermarket.
Like a mad man, I started going through our drawers to look for anything that would prove Yesha's condition.
Pregnant!
For the life of me, I could not understand why she would keep that information from me, I thought as I checked boxes and bags but found nothing.
Desperately, I walked in our shared bath and went through the cupboards there too but there was nothing there still. With frustration building up, I sat at the edge of the bathtub and frowned at the floor when the trash bin caught my attention. A brown paper bag was inside and when I kneeled to check its contents but found nothing.
Without giving up, I dug further until I found what I was looking for buried under discarded tissue paper. A pregnancy test stick was inside, stuck at the bottom that it escaped being collected last week, and when I pulled at it, it showed me what I had been expecting to see. Two blue lines greeted me.
"Adam, are you there?" I heard Yesha call out and I remained unspeaking as she stepped in the bathroom and gasped upon seeing me with the stick. "Adamâ¦"
I turned to her with my narrowed eyes as I stood up. She looked pale and she was visibly trembling as my eyes scanned her face down to her still flat stomach.
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"When are you planning to tell me?" I asked softly and saw her flinch at my question.
She looked frightened and fragile standing there, but I wasn't in the mood to pamper her at the moment. I felt betrayed. I knew she didn't love me, but keeping something like this was too much.
"WHEN ARE YOU PLANNING TO TELL ME?!"
"Adamâ¦" she whimpered as she tried to reach out for me but I stepped back. I didn't want to be touched by her at the moment.
"Or are you not planning to tell me at all?" I asked as my chest heaved remembering the past. My hands fisted on my side as I controlled my temper. I felt like shaking her but I refrained. My old trauma about this issue surfaced and my fear took the better of me.
Yesha had a week to tell me she was pregnant and she never said a word until now that I found her out. What could she be thinking?
Without realizing it, my past demons had emerged and swallowed me whole. My mind was frozen â my heart cold. I was scared, and I was furious.
"You," I snapped as I pointed at her. "Don't you ever think of hurting that child," I warned her. "You will carry my child to full term. Try to run away and I'll make sure you'll regret it for the rest of your life," I continued as I stormed out of the bathroom, grabbed my jacket and walked out the door.
I heard Yesha calling my name, asking for us to sit down and talk, but I was in no shape to talk about anything. Like this, I left the apartment in my car and drove away to nowhere.