Judged By You (Judge Me Series) (28 page)

“Are you ready to go?” Damon asked as he was coming out of the bedroom wearing a suit. The black suit with his red shirt and black tie looked sexy. I itched to touch him because I knew how hot and hard his body was underneath. But knew I had to get to the hospital to see Stephen.

“I am ready when you are
.” I said, racking my eyes up his body to meet his gaze.

He smiled before making his way back to the table. We finished our coffee’s talking about the upcoming events for today. It felt so natural and normal which was soothing.

“Nicole has an ultrasound at ten; I am going to ask Derek to sit with Stephen while I go with her.”

“Let me know if he can’t, I will go sit with him. Even though, he is a grown man, I am sure he will be fine for an hour
.”

“I know I just don’t want to leave him. I am worried that if I miss too much
, he will disappear again. It has been hard for me to have timed visits once a week for the past few years.” I stated as I picked a piece of fur off my blouse.

“Everything will work out Savannah. I can’t begin to imagine how hard it must have been for you, but trust Carter to help Stephen get out of this
.” I looked up at the mention of Carters name coming from Damon. I didn’t want things to be weird between me and Damon, or carter and me because of their past…..Mind you I still don’t know what happened between them, for their friendship since they were kids to end. “I have that ball tonight, but I will ring and cancel my place. I don’t want to leave you right now.”

“No. Damon you are not dropping crucial things to be at my beck and call. You go to your ball; I will see you at my house when you’re done if you want to come over
.” I said a bit too fast. I hope he didn’t take it the wrong way, but I honestly didn’t want him to put his plans on hold just for the sake of me. I had Derek, and he would take me home. Or carter…

“I can cha
nge my plans, it’s not that important.” He replied.

“No, please
go to your ball. You got a suit and everything. I will see you once it’s over. Derek will take me home.” I got up from the table, taking our plates and cups to the sink.

Damon put his arms around my waist and kissed my neck. I leaned my head to the side to ca
pture his mouth. Suddenly my phone rang. I broke free and grabbed it out of my bag.

“Hello
,”

“Savannah,
it's Carter.”

“Is everything okay
?” My heart rate picked up.

“Everything is
OK, just wondering when you are going to be here. I have some news for you.”

“I’m on my way
.” I hung up and turned to Damon.

He nodded and grabbed his stuff, and I grabbed my bag. We headed to the hospital.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Damon parked in the car park and offered to walk me in, on the way to the hospital he got a call to go to the office, I told him to go as he had work to do. He told me he would be coming to see me for lunch. I kissed him and said our good byes. When I got to Stephens floor, I noticed that the guards were still by his door.
Different ones from yesterday. Mentally I tried to think of how many guards you would need for a prison I came up with a lot.

Laughter filled the room when I walked in. Derek and Nicole were sitting in the arm chairs chatting with Stephen. I walked over to them all and gave them hugs, I once again hugged Stephen best I could
, without causing further injury. He looked awful today but had a smile on his face.

“How did it go this morning
?” I asked, sitting on the side of the bed. My hand felt something hard under the blanket near his feet, when I lifted it, I saw cuffs connected to his ankle. I looked up at Stephen in horror.

“It’s
, so I don’t run away you know. Because I am totally fit right now.” We all burst out laughing. It freaked me out more than anything. But it was good to see him a little more relaxed. “Carter will be along shortly. They just asked me questions and talked about my safety in that shit hole. Nothing too serious. Carter had to leave with them to have a chat or something. Hey, you going with Nicole to her ultrasound?”

“If that’
s okay? I was going to see if Derek could wait with you while I did that. We will have to leave soon to go downstairs to radiology.”

“Savannah, I am not going anywhe
re. You don’t need to baby sit me. But yes, Derek and I have a lot to talk about.” Stephen said turning towards Derek. I frowned when I looked between the two of them. The look that they both had, was what I used to see before a fist fight when they are teenagers.

I leaned up and hugged Stephen again before I mentioned for Nicole, it was almost ten, so we had to get down stairs.

Nicole told me how excited she was to see her little “tadpole” on the screen. People traffic was quite light, so we got to radiology in no time. While Nicole checked in with the front desk, I took a seat in the waiting room. When Nicole came out ten minutes later she was wearing a purple gown, I let out a laugh. She looked ridiculous.

“Nicole. Come through love
.” An older woman with black hair said coming around the corner.

“I
s my sister able to come in to?” Nicole asked, pointing to me. I couldn’t help my full teeth smile, she called me her sister.

“Of course
.” The woman said smiling back at me.

We went into the dark room. A long flat table free stood next to a machine that had a monitor on top.

“Lay on here please Nicole.” The woman asked sweetly.

Nicole
laid on the table, which I presume is a special bed of some sort. The radiologist placed a pillow under Nicole’s head and covered her with a white sheet. She asked Nicole a few questions about her last period and how far along she thought she was. The woman then asked Nicole to pull her gown up to just under her breasts, and pulled the sheet down before tucking into her underpants. To be honest I was surprised Nicole was wearing any; it’s not unusual for her to go without.

“Now, I’m just going to put some gel on your tummy, it will be cold at first
.” You could hear the gel being squeezed out of a bottle onto her tummy. Nicole yelped a little when the Coolness hit her. A small microphone looking device was then placed over her stomach running along the gel.

The screen comes to life with shades of grey, black and white. I had no idea what I was looking at, but wow…….

“Is this your first ultrasound Nicole?” The woman asked with concern.

“Yes. Why? Is something wrong
?” The panic was clear in Nicole’s voice.

I went and stood right next to Nicole head. I picked up her hand of her chest and held it in mine.

“I just need to get a consult. I will be right back.” The woman walked over to the wall and called a doctor for a consult.

I looked down at Nicole, and she had a tear rolling down her cheek. I pulled the chair from behind me right to the side of the bed and sat down. I wiped the tear off her cheek, and whispered in her ear “whatever it is Nicole, it will be okay
.”

Nicole only nodded.

The women came in a few minutes later with a doctor in tow. The doctor announced he was an OBGYN, and his name was Doctor Marcus. He picked up the small device and ran it over Nicole stomach once again. Pausing to press a button while the other women wrote things down on a piece of paper.

“Nicole my dear……. First ultrasound I am told
.” Doctor Marcus asked.

“Yes doctor. Look
is something wrong with my baby?” Nicole stuttered.

“Your babies are fine…. If you look here…..” Did he just say babies??

I looked up at the screen and saw baby A and baby B written on the screen. My heart beat picked up, and I think I squealed out loud. Twins. I looked at Nicole, and she was shaking her head, but a small smile played on her lips.

“I’m having twins
.” Nicole asked a little high pitched.

The doctor shook his head with a smile and moved the device a little to the left……. Baby C…………

“TRIPLETS” we both yelled at the same time.

Chapter 11

Nicole looked pale, like seriously white……..

I grabbed her hand in mine and squeezed until she looked at me. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, her bottom lip
was trembling. She was scared.

“Was
this a planned pregnancy?” Dr Marcus asked, whilst continuing labelling body parts on the large screen.

“No
, ”. Nicole answered with barely a whisper.

“These babies look healthy and are at the right size for their age. You will have to have close monitoring. I will be seeing you every fortnight for the next three months than we will go to weekly visits. At the moment
, you are eleven weeks and six days.” The doctor said before handing Nicole some tissues.

Nicole just nodded.

The doctor looked from me to Nicole and then at the radiologist. He excused himself and left the room, leaving the room silent, the only noises were small sobs coming from Nicole. I had no idea what to do, but I knew Nicole wouldn’t be able to do this alone. Her family would want to help, but I wondered if she would accept their help.

“Here take this sweetheart
,” the radiologist said handing Nicole a few tissues to wipe to gel off her stomach. “And here are your photos.” She hands the photos to Nicole.

“Thank you
.” Nicole took the tissues and wiped. Her eyes flicked to mine, she has a blank expression on her face. I have no idea what she is thinking, and it scares me.

“I will go see Stephen and then we are going home
.” I said offering a small smile.

“You don’t have to do that Savannah. I will get Derek to take me home
.”

“No. I will take you Nic. I want to be there for you
.” I grabbed Nicole’s hand to help her up off the bed.

I offered to wait in the waiting room while she got dressed, but she told me to meet her at
Stephens room. She would be along soon, something about making  appointments with the OBGYN. I agreed, but I offered her a hug for reassurance because right now, that’s all I could do.

Derek and Stephen were having a heated discussion when I walked into the room, but stopped abruptly when I stopped at the end of the bed.

“What
is going on here?” I said looking between the two men.

Neither of them said anything, they just looked in different directions. The tail end of the conversation consisted of, someone coming to get payback, and someone wasn’t going to stick around for it.

“Answer me.” I directed at Stephen.

“I don’t want you to freak out
.” Stephen said whilst picking at his blanket.

“I……” I trailed off as carter walked in.

“Good morning. I have some good news.” Carter interrupted, but I was anxious to hear what he had to say.

“You are being released on good behaviour. But you have some serious work to do Stephen, stay out of trouble. You need to complete a thousand hours community service, anger management program and drug rehab
.” Carter’s face turned serious.

Stephen and I looked between each other……. My brother was coming home. I started laughing as I ran to Carter throwing my arms around his body and hugging him tightly. He rubbed my back while I repeated my thanks and how grateful I was to have him do everything he had.

“Let him go Sav, I want to shake his hand.” Stephen said interrupting.

I pulled away and wiped the stray tears away. Stephen extended his hand to carter, and they shook hands. Stephen hated Carter when he first met him, but I know how grateful he is now for his hard work he has put in. It’s written all over his smug face. Nicole walked had walked in the room at some point because she was standing with Derek, both looking directly at me.

“So when can I get out of here?”

“When the Doctor lets you go.
Which is in a few days from what I was told this morning.” Carter states.

“You will be keeping out of trouble Stephen, mark my words
.” I say in a stern voice. Of course, he laughs it off. Whom am I kidding?