Chapter 6: Something Unexpected

Knight’s P.O.V:

“What is the meaning of this?” I felt something flying towards my head so I lifted one hand and caught it just before it hit me and placed, what I assumed to be a newspaper, beside me on the bed.

Then I opened my eyes a fraction to look up at Keena’s fuming face and then closed them again. “Morning sissy.” I murmured under my breath.

Suddenly, my covers were ripped away from my body and a glass of ice cold water was thrown on to my face.

“What the Hell Keena!” I sat up so fast I felt my head spin, but my glare was directed at my younger sister standing at the foot of my bed, her expression equally bone melting.

“Oh no, don’t you dare ‘what the Hell’ me! Do you have any idea what you’re doing? How your mistakes are ruining the image of the entire family?” Keena, Kareena Tyson Miller, glared at me with her grey-ish blue eyes, her dark hair with metallic blue highlights reached just above her shoulders and her brick red floral printed dress came to a few inches above her knees. From outside, no one would be able to tell that she was four months pregnant.

“What did I do this time?” I asked defeated. There was no point arguing with Keena, she’d always find something to blame on me. Don’t get me wrong, I love her to bits, but pregnant or not, she was one woman I can’t ever win an argument against.

“Have you seen yesterday’s paper?” She asked, brows drawing together. And I knew instantly what she was upset about.

“Yes.” I said, running my hands through my drenched hair and down my face.

“And?”

“And nothing Keena. It’s been taken care of, I’ve made sure of it.” And I’d never forget the lesson I’d learned while doing so.

I’d met Ava Cox during a fashion show four months ago. Tall, slender and a natural blonde, Ava was easily the most beautiful woman I’d set my eyes on. And when she’d shown an interest in me, it’d been the icing on the cake. She’d told me that she had no one she was dating or remotely interested in and I’d taken her on face value. But then had come Elaine Thunder, all long legs and brunette hair and eyes that could see right through you. Although I hadn’t noticed that about her the first time I’d seen her peeping through the corners of the storeroom doorway as Ava and I were tangled up in each other, my pants on the ground and Ava all but naked. Elain had not only intruded on a private moment, but she had made it public by selling a picture of our intimae moment to the Paparazzi. And that was when I’d found out that not only was Ava married for over ten years, she also had two sons, one seven years old and another four and it was a well kept secret in the industry.

I’d immediately stopped all contact with her until I met her again this previous week at the Galantine Spring collection show and Ava had glued herself to me on the red carpet, as if she was trying to prove to the media that her divorce with her husband was all because of me. And on top of that, her performance in front of the camera’s had been so convincing that the media had gone on to assume that we were still dating and in love and a thousand other bullshitting facts that led to the belief that we might get married. I’d tried my best to act rational in front of the camera but as soon as we were alone, I’d pushed her off me and given her a piece of my mind which had thankfully kept her away from me for the rest of the night.

Keena sighed. “Look, brother, I don’t have a problem whoever you date, but Ava is a backstabbing bitch who deserves to spend the rest of her life with a hundred and one fat, annoying little cats.” She said angrily. “I can’t believe she was able to trick you into something like this.”

“Ava’s marriage wasn’t as well known by the media. She’d managed to keep it low profile so she could keep getting bigger contracts,” I reminded Keena. “And I’ve made sure to tell that I don’t want anything to do with her ever again. I’m pretty sure she got the point.”

“But have you thought of every possibility? A woman like her is only going to find loopholes in everything you say and come back to haunt you later if you-“

I sighed. Keena had always been over-reactive about everything, but now we can’t shut her up once she finds something to worry about. Suddenly, an idea came to mind. “Hey Keena, how’s Emanuel?”

Keena stooped her ranting midsentence and turned to me with wide eyes. “Holy Molly! I completely forgot why I came here today!”

“It wasn’t about the paper?” I asked frowning.

“No! I just saw that lying on your dining table so I picked it up.” She confessed a bit sheepishly. “I came here to tell you that Emanuel had to go to New York for some business meeting so he wouldn’t be able to take me for my ultrasonography. Can you take me to my doctor today? I have an appointment in about half an hour.”

“Shit!” I jumped out of bed and flew towards the bathroom to Keena’s angry “Don’t swear!”

Elena’s P.O.V:

“This way darling,” Dr. Johnson’s assistant led me inside the doctor’s cabin. Helena stood beside me as the nurse shut the door behind us and we stood facing Dr. Johnson, who appeared to be in her late forties, almost the same age as Helena.

“Lara!” Helena went forward and shook her hand. “This is Elena; she’s just like my daughter.”

“Yes, you told me about her.” Lara smiled kindly. “Why don’t you have a seat Helena while I go check on her?”

Helena took her seat while Lara led me to the examination room that was adjacent to the office and led to the table at the centre surrounded by a thousand scary equipments and helped me on to it. I laid my head down on the pillow and she used her equipment to take my vitals.

“Well, your pregnancy seems to be proceeding just fine,” she said while poking at my belly with her hands. “But….” She pressed one area at my lower abdomen and frowned. “I’ll definitely need to do a sono. How bad is your morning sickness?”

“Awful!” I told her. “I can’t seem to keep anything down.”

“Morning sickness is common in pregnant women at the end of their first trimester, but you seem to have gotten it worse than most.” She helped me sit up and get down from the high table. “You need to alter food habits and see what suits you best. Stick to that food for the time being so your condition doesn’t get worse, but do change often so it doesn’t get repetitive. I’ll make you a diet chart that you should follow strictly until I tell you otherwise. Helena told me this is your first time visiting a doctor?”

I nodded slowly, feeling guilty for ignoring my baby for so long.

“It’s okay,” she patted my hair. “You’re here now, the rest we’ll figure out as we go.”

“Everything alright?” Helena asked us as we came out of the examination room that was separated from this room by a curtain.

“For now,” Lara told her friend. “I’ll have my assistant whip up a chart and give her the necessary vitamins she needs, but we’ll need to do a sono to monitor the baby’s progress. And I’ll also need a sample of her blood.”

“Sure.” Helena smiled at me as if sensing my nervousness.

Till now, I’d only felt that I had a baby inside me, but today I’ll be looking at my baby for the first time. I was having so many emotions run through my mind that I stood frozen as Lara gave instructions to her nurse and told Helena what to do next. But one thing I did feel was Lara’s hands rubbing up and down my spine, as if she too could feel my discomfort.

“Let’s go Elain,” Helena tugged at my hand to break me of my trance. “You need to drink some water so your bladder swells up and then we can do the sono.”

Helena and I went to the waiting room and took our seat for the time being. I needed to dink enough water so my bladder inflates and then hold back from going to the toilet so they get a clear picture of my uterus. I started by drinking slow sips of water so that I don’t need to rush to the toilet to throw up all the water that I’d drunk. Midway through our wait, Helena had to leave to take a call so I sat alone, sipping my water and waiting for the doctor to call me in so I could get this over with.

“Hey, are you okay? You look really nervous.”

I turned to the woman sitting beside me. She had short, dark brown shoulder length hair in light waves that she’d colored a stunning metallic blue at the bottom and it matched her grayish blue eyes. She was kind of petite but she was also very beautiful. “I am….nervous.”

“Oh?” She frowned before her eyes widened in realization. “Unplanned baby?”

I nodded. “It was a one night thing and we used protection. I was also on the pill, but it still happened.”

She placed her hand on my shoulder and gave it a light squeeze. “Contraception isn’t always a 100% sure. Have you decided to tell the father yet?”

I was about to tell her that the father would probably blame it on me, but then I realized that I don’t have to explain such things to a complete stranger. “I barely know the guy. We met at a bar and then he came to my home. We spent a night together and he was gone by morning.” I told her instead.

“I so sorry to hear that,” she gave me a light hug sideways. “I’m Kareena by the way, but everyone just calls me Keena.” She held out her hand for me to shake.

“I’m Elain,” I told her with a smile. It was hard not to when her smile was so infectious. “Are you here with your husband?” I’d already noticed the huge emerald on her ring finger.

“No,” her face fell. “But I’m here with my brother; he just went to fetch some coffee. My husband’s on a business meeting.”

“Oh! I s-“

“Elena Thunder!”

I looked up when the Doctor’s assistant called my name. “Well, that’s me. I guess I’ll see you around.”

“Sure. Good luck!” Keena waved me goodbye as I stood up from my chair and headed towards the Doc’s chamber.

It’s finally time to meet my baby.