Alex: What baby?

Shane looked down.

Shane: Yours, the one you’re carrying at this second.

Alex: You’re kidding, I’m fucking pregnant?

Shane nodded.

Alex: That fucking creep knocked me up!

Alex tears flowed even more, Carmen couldn’t take it. She got up and left. She went in the hallway and sat in the chair out there.

Shane comforted her daughter as she cried.

Shane: We’ll get through this. But we need to know what you want to do.

Alex pulled her face up. It was covered in tears and her eyes were beat-red. Her eyes were glazed and she looked lost.

Alex: I don’t know

She let out another hysterical cry as Shane gently pulled her into a big, warm hug. Alex clung to her mother as if she was 2.

Alex: I don’t know what to do mom. I don’t know.

Shane: It’s okay.

Shane rocked her and kissed the top of her head.

Alex: Why is my life so fucked up? Why is everything so unstable?

Shane: I don’t know. All I know is that I’ll always be stable for you.

Alex clung tighter to her and Shane herself broke down in her daughter’s hug.

Alex: I can’t be mom. I can’t raise that idiot’s child.

Shane: It’s not just his honey, it’s yours too, this child is now a part of you.

Alex: I can’t do this.

She pulled away and whipped her eyes with her arms.

Shane: I think you can, If you want to. No matter what Alex, I’ll stick beside you.

Alex nodded and the doctor walked in.

Shane: DO you want me to stay?

Alex declined and Shane nodded before joining Carmen outside. Carmen looked at her and broke down again. Shane held her.

Alex looked up at the doctor and he smiled.

Doctor: Hello again Alex, you’re becoming a regular here.

Alex: I should just rent a bed.

The Doctor laughed and opened his clip-board.

Doctor: Before we get started, I wanted to inform you that we were having some technical difficulties yesterday. During that time, the computer managed to mix up the codes of your ultrasound pictures and that of a two moth pregnant woman. We are terribly sorry for the complication.