Shocked

"Congratulations miss, you are six weeks pregnant," the doctor said after reading through the report generated on the system, at first Tamara wasn't sure if he was talking to her as she had the habit of zoning out on conversations. When he looked up and saw her being in a daze, he tapped the table to bring her back from her reverie and repeated what he had just said, Tamara almost laughed at the absurdity of his claim, how was that even possible? Was he trying to pull a prank? The serious look on the doctor's face confirmed that was no joke. Is she going to have a miracle baby?

"Are you sure that is my test result, doctor?" she asked in an attempt to correct any error, but the doctor was annoyed with her and simply told her he had other patients to attend to, and she was wasting too much of his time. Tamara tried so hard to understand what was happening but came up blank, nothing was making any sense. How do one go from being sick and having a strong urge to puke to becoming pregnant? Perhaps there is a mistake, maybe the doctor was a quack who doesn't know the first thing about his job but acts like he knows it all. Tamara felt numb after leaving the hospital. Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her up but he had texted her that he was caught up with work and would wait for her at home. Alone and sitting on a bench in the bus stop, she contemplated about her next course of action before making her way to the drug store close to her house. There was only one way to confirm the ridiculous claim from the doctor that supposedly knows everything. Taking a deep breath, she marched into the store and went to aisle that held what she needed, praying to God that the doctor was wrong and might have gotten her result mixed up with someone else's.

The clerk looked at her weirdly when she presented two packs of her purchase but rang it up without a word, and when she paid, she rushed out of the store as if the devil was chasing after her.

"Hi babe, where have you been?" her boyfriend, Johnathan Wright said brightly when she walked into her family home, she clutched her tote bag firmly against her chest and acted as if she had been caught, her heart beating rapidly as if he would ask to see what she was hiding inside her bag in the next minute, her sister, Anya who has been keeping Johnathan's company in her absence watched her with her hawk like eyes and broke into a huge grin. Tamara realized she should have used the ladies at the convenience store instead, that would have reduced her anxiety.

"Why are you sweating so much? Did you do something bad?" her sister said with a jeer and Tamara's face turn red.

"What's wrong? Are you still feeling ill? Should I call my family doctor over?" Johnathan asked worriedly, concern lacing his every word.

"N…no, I'm fine, I just need a minute" Tamara said and quickly dashed into the bathroom. Making sure the door was bolted, she emptied the contents of her bag on the floor. She took out six packets and peed on them all, her heart in her mouth as she waited, after a minute, all the sticks showed two lines, she was indeed pregnant but who was father and how did it happen? Is the child even a human? Tamara couldn't wrap her head around this new information and felt her head spinning, it can't be, what would everyone say? What about her dad? He has so many expectations of her.

"Are you still alive?" Anya asked banging on the door after what seemed like an hour, "Your boyfriend is about to leave," she said and Tamara very carefully packed up her pregnancy test kit, wrapped in a small plastic bag and dropped it back in her bag, unaware that one of the sticks was still on the floor and had found it's way to lodge beside the WC, splashing some water on her face to make herself look a little presentable, she walked out with a smile on her pale face. Her sister wasn't expecting to see her come out of the so soon, in fact, she was praying she never did so that she might have the chance to see Johnathan off and was unhappy when Tamara did.

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***