A Beneficial Friendship {Montgomery De La Cruz}

Nine

A/N: There's a surprise twist in this chapter! Thought about doing it all along 😘 I wanted to get yalls opinion on the situation by giving a different idea, not the one I was going to actually use.  AND I'm a licensed Medical Assistant and went to school for my BA in health science, so any medical things I mention in any of my books, is 100% accurate.

Two weeks later...

I heard a knock on my bedroom door, so I chose to partially unwrap myself from my comforter cocoon and call out a faint "come in". I wasn't surprised to see my mom whenever she walked in, considering she's been checking on me nonstop for the past two days. The past two days that I've done nothing but hole up in my room, not associating with anyone except my parents. Not even Monty. "How are you feeling, honey?" She asked while sitting down next to me on the bed and gently petting my head. "The same." I mumbled quietly and she nodded her head. "Have you made sure to eat today?" She questioned and I rolled my eyes but still nodded my head. "What about water? Have you been drinking plenty of it?" She asked while peeking into the cup next to my bed. "Yes, mother." I mumbled again before rolling onto my back. She laid down next to me and rolled onto her side so that she could look directly at me. "What about Monty? Did you talk to him yet?" She questioned timidly and I shook my head. She sighed and I rolled my eyes. "Honey..." "Stop, mom." I interrupted before she could finish. "You have to tell him. Shutting him out isn't right. He's freaking out right now. He has no clue what's going on with you." She informed me and I sighed and placed my hand on my stomach subconsciously. "I know that this is a crazy situation... none of us expected it. But everything happens for a reason and it was just meant to be. You have to accept it." She told me. "I never said that I'm sad about it... I'm just shocked and... scared." I admitted with a little whimper at the end. "Baby, we're all here for you. You've just gotta let us be. And you've got to tell Montgomery. His parents are even starting to question your father and me at work about what's going on with you because you've completely shut him out..." she paused for a second to kiss my head and then continued. "He's really torn up, Evelyn. He doesn't know what he did wrong." "He didn't do anything wrong." I interrupted her. Now I was starting to feel really guilty. "I know that but he doesn't. What's he supposed to think whenever you go to the doctor and then randomly just cut him and all of your friends off?" She tried to reason with me and I nodded my head in understanding. "I just needed some time to process." I explained while sitting up in my bed. "You need to finish your processing time with him." She told me gently but still in a firm tone. I knew that she was right. Whenever I went to the doctor though, I just got so scared and completely froze up. I didn't want to talk to anyone except my parents. I was scared how Monty was going to take the news. I knew what I had to do. "Should I go to the baseball game tonight?" I asked her and she nodded her head while sweetly smiling at me. "Okay, I'm gonna talk to him tonight. I'll get cleaned up and go." I told her while crawling out of the bed. As I was stretching, she walked up to me and gently placed her hand on my stomach, causing me to jump. "It was meant to be." She whispered and I nodded my head. "We'll figure it out, angel. Just do what you have to do tonight." She said before kissing my head and walking out of my room. I grabbed some clothes and took a quick shower. Once I was done, I fixed my hair and did my makeup before getting dressed. Once I was done, I ran down the staircase and I could feel the nervous knots already forming in my belly. "I'm off." I mumbled to my parents while standing in the archway of the living room. "Good luck, baby. Everything will be okay." My dad assured me and I nodded my head with a soft smile. We all said our "I love you's" before I left. As I was driving down the road, memories of the events that led up to this fled my mind. 

"I can't possibly be 10 weeks pregnant. I had an abortion." I rushed out to my doctor but she gently shook her head. "Sometimes abortions aren't always effective, sweetie. It's very rare but it can happen. It doesn't help that you went to a free clinic instead of coming here to me to have the procedure done. You're just now lumped in to that small group of women who had failed abortions." She explained to me and I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. "Is it okay? I mean, I tried to kill it. I did a ton of drugs and drank a ton of alcohol and I smoke cigarettes..." "We're going to do an ultrasound to make sure." She interrupted my rambling while motioning to the ultrasound machine next to me. I couldn't believe this. My abortion didn't work. They botched it at the clinic. My baby has been alive inside of me this whole time that I've been moarning it's death. Whenever I got to the doctor to get birth control, they had to do some standard blood work and it came back that I'm not only pregnant, but that I'm 10 weeks along. Which is exactly how far along I would've been at this point. My doctor had me lay back on the table and lift up my shirt. She placed the cold gel onto my stomach and then got started. My heart was racing a million miles a minute but it stopped whenever I heard my baby's heart beat for the first time. Whenever I saw it on the little screen. "It's alive." I whispered with teary eyes and my doctor nodded while continuing to check everything out. She did some measurements and took some pictures before turning towards me. "This is one strong ass baby... excuse my language." She chuckled and I couldn't help but to do the same while hot tears made their way down my face. "So... it's okay?" "It's perfect." She responded immediately and I let out a breath that I didn't realize I was holding. "What do you want to do, Miss Gonzalez? Would you like to continue with this pregnancy or would you like me to properly terminate it?" She questioned and I vigorously shook my head. "I'm keeping it. I regretted having... well, trying to have... an abortion so much. So did my boyfriend. This baby wanted to live. I'm keeping it." I told her confidently and she nodded her head with a soft smile. After finishing up with my appointment, getting some prenatal vitamins, and being told that I have to ween myself off of cigarettes starting at 5 or less a day... I left the doctor to go home. I was so in shock and so scared. My whole body was literally shaking and I didn't know what to think or how to feel. I reached for my phone and saw a text from Monty but I couldn't bring myself to respond. I immediately turned my phone off, not wanting to talk to anyone except my parents. I sped home and ran through the front door with tears streaming down my face. "Honey, what's wrong?" My dad asked concerned as soon as I busted through the door. "The abortion... it.... it didn't work." I cried and both of their eyes went wide before they ran over to me and embraced me. "So how far along are you?" My mom asked after a minute. "10 weeks. I'm so sorry, I tried to prevent this from happening before..." "Evelyn, we told you that we were disappointed in you for having an abortion. This... this is your do over in life. God has given you the chance to have your baby." My mom comforted and I sniffled while nodding my head. "Have you told Monty?" My dad asked and I shook my head. "I don't want to talk to him or anyone right now. I just need to be alone for awhile. Please let me do that?" I whimpered and they both nodded their heads while petting mine. "I need to go lay down for a little while." I whispered before walking off quietly and heading up to my room. As soon as I laid down on my bed, I broke down in hysterics. I wrapped my arms around my stomach and cried. "You're alive... you're really alive." I cried to my unborn baby for hours. Once I finally fell asleep, I kept to myself for two days until I knew that I could handle this the right way.