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Moon Dance

You Need A Doctor

This whole week has been hell and I’m happy to say that it all ends today, I’m taking Aurora to the doctor’s office in a couple hours. I voulunteered to do it in hopes that we could talk but she has been growing so distant and the smug look on Chris’s face isn’t helping me at all. I’ve tried avoiding them both by staying in my room, or going out when they’re home since neither want anything to do with me but, I can’t understand why I’m seen as the bad guy. I at least told the truth, I wasn’t ready for a kid and we couldn’t raise it with us being on the road, it would never see it’s father and I didn’t want that for my child. It’s not that I don’t want a kid it’s just not the right time and I’m so tired of being the bad guy when Chris didn’t even want kids at all. I turn off the shower and step out wrapping towel around my waist and I see Aurora sitting on the toilet seat cover.

“Ange.” She said.

“Yes Aurora?”

“I’m really nervous about today.” She said running her hands through her hair.

“Why don’t you talk to Chris about it then?”

Her green eyes blazed and I realized that had come out harsher than I had implied it too. I walked over to the sink and sighed leaning against it.

“Are you ready for a child?” I asked.

“I don’t know.” She whispered.

As we sat down in the cold, hard waiting room chairs I looked around at all the people sitting around us and saw some girls that had the same look of fear in their eyes that Aurora did. When she confided in me earlier that she wasn’t sure she was ready it had made me feel a tiny bit better, almost like she understood where I was coming from.

“Aurora!” The doctor called out the doorway.

She stood up and grabbed my hand pulling me up even though she said earlier she wanted to do it alone, and we walked back into the rooms with the nurse.

“Okay Aurora, I just need to get you’re height and weight,” The nurse said, “alright step on the scale. Looks like you’re 120 lbs and around 5’ 1” so you’re weight is normal for your height.

What brings you in today?”

I could see Aurora biting her lip, “Well, I think I may be pregnant.”

“Alright, well the doctor will be in in a few minutes.” The nurse said leaving us alone in the quiet room.

“I never knew you were so short.” I laughed.

She glared at me but started to smile, “No, you’re just a giant.”

“I’m offended!” I smiled and we started laughing all over again.

I missed this laughter, the playfulness of us even if it is nervous laughter because we might find out something that can change our lives. Aurora came over and kissed me softly, it was a sweet, sad, longing kiss and I wrapped my arms around her.

“Promise me we’ll never be like this again, promise me we can talk about everything.”

“I promise.” I said.

“Okay, so I got back the test results and you are not pregnant, just a false alarm it seems.” The doctor said examining the chart.

Aurora and I sat in a shocked silence as we took in the information.

“Are you trying to have a child?” The doctor asked.

“No!” we said at the same time. “Well at least not right now.” I added.

“I see. Well you are all set to go miss.” The doctor said and we followed her out into the waiting room.

When we got in the car it was still really quiet and I could tell Aurora was deep in thought but, I didn’t want to ask her what she was thinking. I felt a little happy knowing we weren’t expecting a child anytime soon yet surprisingly at the same time I felt a shred of disappointment. We pulled into the garage and walked inside to see Chris standing in the doorway waiting for us to come in.

“Well?” he said looking at Aurora.

“I’m not pregnant.” She said putting her hand in mine and squeezing it.

“Well, isn’t that just convenient for you Ange. I’m sure you are overjoyed at that news.” Chris grumbled.

“Chris, please don’t.” I groaned.

“What? You never wanted the kid anyway.” He growled.

“Yeah and you never wanted kids period. Move the fuck out of my way Chris, I’m not in the mood for your shit.” I pushed past him into the house and he tried to grab Aurora as she walked past but she weaseled out of his grasp and followed me into my room crawling into bed with me and resting her head on my chest.