Love's Crazy Twists

by Johns, S. A.

  Julie’s eyes had begun to well up with tears and she said, “Cheers.”

  They both drank deeply from their glasses and Shane gently took the glass from Julie and put it on the table with his and led her to the bedroom. He was amazed at the beauty of the room and of the time and effort she must have out into making it so perfect. The bed was covered with rose petals and there were candles all around the room and the scent of cinnamon candles was intoxicating. He picked Julie up in his strong arms and laid her on the bed. There he began to kiss her neck and trail kisses down over her beautiful breasts and down over her belly and down her legs, one at a time, and then back up to face her and kissed her without any restrain on his part.

  He climbed up on top of Julie and they began to make passionate love.

  Wow! What a daydream. If that it the way it happened it would be awesome! Julie set about looking for a special piece of lingerie...she didn’t think she had a teddy like the one in her daydream, but she was looking for something anyway.

  As she went through the top drawer of her dresser she suddenly felt dizzy and had to sit down on the side of the bed for fear of passing out. She sat there for a few moments and again thought that she was going to throw up. She ran to the bathroom and was very sick. After she came back out she started thinking that she was still getting the flu or something. She started to look in her drawer again, and she found a white lacy teddy, it was beautiful. Then she remembered where it came from. It was a gift from Matt. How could she wear lingerie for Shane that was given to her by her ex? And she had already worn it for Matt. There was no way. She thought that if Shane knew it was a gift from Matt, he might get a little upset. So she kept looking. She finally found one! It was in a little bag shoved to the back of the drawer, she didn’t even remember it being there. It was a black lacy teddy with a garter and thigh highs. ‘This is great,’ she thought to herself, ‘now I can live the fantasy. It’s a good thing Jen got me this for a prank. Now I can really use it!’

  A little while later Julie realized that she was feeling much better. Actually, she couldn’t believe how she was so sick and throwing up this morning but now this afternoon she felt great. Then she remembered that it how she felt yesterday, too. Almost sounded like morning sickness, but nah, it couldn’t be. Could it?

  She started thinking about it and got her calendar out and began to count the days and she realized that she was about two weeks late.

  “Oh my gosh! I’m late!” Her head was spinning. “I have to call Jen.”

  She picked up the cordless phone and dialed the number. It began to ring.

  “Hello?” Jen answered.

  “Jen! Thank God!”

  “Jul? What’s the matter?” Jen asked.

  “Jen, I think that something’s...um, well.”

  “Julie,, just say it. Did Shane do something? Or Matt? It was Matt, wasn’t it? What did he do?”

  “No, no Jen, it wasn’t Matt or Shane. Here’s the thing...I’m two weeks late and the last two days I’ve been really sick in the morning and then in the afternoon I am fine.”

  “Oh my God! Julie, are you pregnant?” Jen asked.

  “I don’t know. I want to take a test, but I don’t want to be here alone. Can you come over?” Julie asked, already knowing what her answer would be.

  “Of course, I’ll be right there. Do you want me to stop at the market and pick up a test since I’ll be driving right past it?”

  “Uh, yeah, that would be good. Thanks.”

  “OK, I’ll be there as soon as I can get there. Bye.” And Jen hung up.

  Julie went to the rocking chair and began to rock. Rocking always made her feel better. While she was rocking her thoughts began to race. Then she remembered something. She had slept with Matt right after they broke up...but that was right after she had already slept with Shane! If she were to be pregnant who would the father be? If it turned out to be Shane it would be better that if it turned out to me Matt. If Matt were the father, Shane would be crushed! But Julie didn’t know how Shane would react if were him. As she sat in her chair rocking, waiting for Jen to show up with the pregnancy test, she kept thinking about all of these things and others. A tear struggled out of her eye and rolled down her cheek. Another one followed, and then another and another. She started crying. If she took the test and it was positive what would she tell Shane when he got home tonight?

  “OK, Julie, you’ve got to calm down. It’s got be a fluke. You’re not pregnant. You’ve been under a lot of stress lately and stress can mess up your system, That’s why you’re late. It’s fine. You’re just over stressed.” She told herself.

  Just as she had convinced herself that it was nothing, and that she wasn’t pregnant, Jen arrived. Jen burst through the door and made her presence known. “I’m here!” She sang out.

  “Good. Did you get it?” Julie asked.

  “Yep. It’s right here.” She said holding up the package. “I got a double pack just in case you want to try it again later.”

  Julie took a deep breath, “Hopefully we won’t need to do it again, but thanks.” She paused, “OK, where do we start?”

  “It says here that you have to pee on the stick and wait three minutes. One line is not pregnant, and two lines are pregnant. Sounds easy to me. Oh wait, it says here that you can pee in a cup and hold the stick in it for ten seconds and then wait three minutes to read the results.” She handed the box to Julie and said, “Well, go to it.”

  Julie opened the box and headed to the bathroom, “I’ll be out in a minute.”

  Julie went into the bathroom and just stared at the pregnancy test. The little stick seemed way to small to pee on, so she decided to get one of the plastic bathroom cups and use it instead. She sat down on the toilet and peed into the little cup. Then she dipped the stick into the pee and waited 10 seconds. She sat the stick down on the counter and walked into the kitchen to set the timer for 3 minutes. She went and sat back down on the couch and just looked at her friend.

  “Julie, are you all right?” Her friend asked, now concerned.

  “Yeah, I guess so.”

  “What are you going to do? You know, if it comes back positive?”

  “Jen, I really don’t know.” She fumbled with her hands, “I was thinking, before you got here, that if it was positive, I wouldn’t know who the father would be.”

  “What exactly are you trying to tell me?” Jen asked.

  “Well, I’ve been sleeping with Shane for a while now, but back after Matt and me broke up I slept with him again too. So I’ve slept with two guys both within 2 days of each other. I won’t know if it’s Matt’s or Shane’s.”

  “Oh wow. I see what you mean. But you are hoping that it would be Shane’s, right?”

  “Of course.” She started and then the timer started beeping. “I guess it’s go time!”

  “Yeah, good luck.” Jen said as Julie went to shut off the timer.

  “Jen, would you come with?”

  “Oh, yeah, of course.” Jen answered. “Do you want me to you the results or just come in with you?”

  “Just come with me, OK?”

  Jen nodded and followed Julie into the bathroom. Julie picked up the test and before she looked she said, “1 not and 2 is, right?”

  “Yes, that is right.”

  Julie held her breath and closed her eyes, after a few seconds she slowly opened her eye and looked down at the test. She let out a gasp. Jen reached out to her but Julie just handed her the test and sat down on the toilet.

  Jen looked at the test. “2 lines. Honey, I think you are pregnant.” She looked to her friend just as she started to cry. “Hey, Jules, it’ll be OK. I promise you. No matter what I’ll be here for you and the baby. And I’m sure that Shane will be too, even if it ends up being Matt’s.”

  “I can’t be pregnant. Shane wants me to travel with him while he is truck driving. Pregnant women can’t do that. Maybe the test was wrong. I need another one.” She cried.

  “Well, Ju
les, it is a double pack, do you want to try the other?” Jen asked.

  Julie was desperate to find out if she was really pregnant or not so she did try the other one, and it came back positive too.

  “Jen, what do I do now?” Julie asked. “Don’t I need to go to the doctor’s and get blood work or something?”

  “Yeah, I think so. But where can you go now? It’s nearly 5 o’clock.”

  “Well, what time does the Clinic down on Simpson Street close? I thought it was open into the evening.”

  “I don’t know. Do you have a phone book? I’ll call and find out.” Jen told her.

  Julie got the phone book and they looked up the number and Jen called it. They found out that the Clinic was open until 8 o’clock, and Julie was welcome to stop in any time for a pregnancy test and to have blood drawn. So they decided that there was no time like the present.

  They both got into Jen’s car and headed down to the Clinic. When they got there Julie was called back right away and escorted into a small room with a scale and a chair. She sat there for a moment and then a woman came in to attend to her.

  “Julie Boyd?” The woman asked.

  “Yes, that’s me.” Julie answered.

  “OK, and it says here that you want a pregnancy test, is that right?” The nurse asked her.

  “I don’t want a pregnancy test, I’ve already taken 2 of them tonight, and they both say that I am pregnant.” She tried to explain.

  “Yes, well it is procedure to do another one. Even though you’ve already had two positives, we still have to do it. So here is your cup, the bathroom is right around the corner, go ahead in there and pee in the cup. There is a little door in the wall to the left of the toilet, when you are finished, put the cup inside the door and I’ll get it from this side.”

  Julie took the cup and went to the bathroom. She put the cup inside the door and went back out. The nurse then weighed her and took her blood pressure. Then she checked the test, and it was positive.

  “OK, it says positive too, so now I’ll need to draw some blood. OK?” The nurse asked.

  “OK, whatever you say.” Julie answered.

  The nurse went on with her duty of drawing Julie’s blood to run the blood test to further check for pregnancy. When she was finished she turned to Julie, “The results will be here in a few days. When they come in someone will call you and schedule you for your first prenatal appointment.”

  “I have to wait that long? There’s no way to get the results now? Or even later this evening?” she asked.

  “No, I’m sorry. The lab is closed right now and there is no one here who is able to read the results anyway. Someone will call you when we get the results. If you are wondering whether or not you are really pregnant, I’d say its a pretty safe bet that you are. You did have 3 positive tests after all.”

  “OK, thank you. I’ll be waiting for the call.” Julie said before she walked away.

  Julie found her friend in the waiting room and said to her, “Take me home.”

  “Well, what did you find out?” Jen asked.

  “Well, I guess it confirms what we already found out at home.”

  “So you are pregnant?”

  “Seems so.”

  They rode the short distance from the Clinic to Julie’s house in silence. When they pulled in Julie turned to Jen and said, Thank you for everything, but I’d like to be alone right now. You understand, right?”

  “Yeah, that’s fine Julie. I understand. And you are very welcome. Like I said before, I’ll always be here for you and the baby. No matter what. I love you.”

  “Thanks, I love you too.” Julie got out of the car and went into the house.

  She sat down in the rocking chair and started crying. She instinctively put her hand on her stomach as she realized that there was something growing in there. And she was afraid. For the first time in a long time she was really afraid. What if she told Shane that she was pregnant and he got angry and left her? What it she wasn’t a good mom to this little baby that was growing inside of her? She was so scared and yet it was beginning to sink in and she kept rubbing her stomach and talking to it. Now she just had to find a way to tell Shane that he was going to be a dad.

  She decided to go ahead and get everything ready for Shane’s return in what she hoped would be only a few short hours. So she set about putting candles around the room and finding just the right music to play that would set the mood for when Shane arrived. She had to forget about the wine giving her newly found out condition. She didn’t have roses for the table or rose petals for the bed, but after she went around and lit all the candles it did look pretty good to her. “Romantic, if I do say so myself.” She said out loud. “Now all I have to do is wait for Shane.”

  Then she remembered the lingerie. But is it still appropriate to wear sexy lingerie when you are pregnant? She didn’t think it would hurt anything, because she knew that pregnant women were allowed to have sex until their doctor told them to stop. After contemplating it for about 15 minutes, she decided to go for it. After all she would soon be gaining lots of weight and then she wouldn’t want to wear sexy lingerie at all.

  So she went to her room and picked up the lace teddy and the feel of the delicate material running through her fingers made her smile. ‘Shane will definitely like the feel of this.’ She thought. She pulled off her blue jeans and picked up the black thigh highs. She rolled them on one leg at a time. The sheer act of the thigh highs on was making her feel sexy already. After she successfully had the hose on, she took off her blue t-shirt, black bra and underwear and replaced them with the black lace teddy with the thong. She looked in the full length mirror that hung on the back of her bedroom door and was amazed.

  “Damn, I look good.” She said. Then she saw a pair of black strappy high-heeled shoes lying right inside her open closet door, and she put them on. “That is much better. Shane is going to be so surprised to see me in this.”

  She felt kind of silly sitting around in lingerie all by herself in a dark house lit with nothing but candles and she wished desperately that Shane would soon be here. She lay on the couch and waited.

  There was a knock on the door and Julie jumped up and ran to the door as fast as she could. She swung the door open, reached out and grabbed Shane and kissed him hard on the mouth. When she pulled back she saw that it wasn’t Shane, it was Matt!

  “Wow! Julie! You look amazing. I guess your mom was right, I should stop over tonight and see you. “She must have set this whole thing up so that we would get back together.”

  “Matt! What the hell are you doing here?” She screamed, “And what are you saying about my mother?” She demanded.

  “Your mom told me that I should stop in this evening to see you. I see that you were waiting for me to arrive. I can’t believe that you want to get back together and not cancel the wedding.”

  “What?” She yelled walking away to grab a robe. “I don’t want to get back with you, and I don’t want to marry you! My Mother is crazy! I told her all about you abusing me all these years and she said that she was happy for me. She was happy that I am finally happy with Shane. I never once said anything us getting back together. NEVER!”

  “Then why did you answer the door dressed in practically nothing!” He yelled pointing to her clothing or lack thereof. “And why did you kiss me like that?” He demanded.

  “Matt, listen to me. I’m sorry if you got the wrong impression just now, but I don’t want to be with you. I was waiting for Shane to come home, that’s why I look like I do. I love Shane and that is just how it’s going to be.” She looked at Matt, and could see his face harden and braced herself for the worst. “So could you just please go?” She asked sincerely.

  “Listen, Julie. I still love you. You have to know that. I’m so sorry for everything that I’ve done. I’m sorry for Chelsea and I’m sorry for all the years of being such an asshole to you. I know that you loved me at one time, and I was so hoping for out love to be rekindled. If Shan
e is what makes you happy, then so be it. I just want to see you happy. That’s all I want. And if I can’t make you happy, then I am glad that someone else can. I’ll go now. I love you.” And with that being said he walked away.

  Julie shut the door and thought, ‘Shane, where are you? I need you. If you aren’t coming, please call me.’ She walked back to the couch and started to wait again. Luckily for her she didn’t have to wait much longer. About fifteen minutes after Matt left there was another knock on the door, this time she ran to the door and peeked out before opening it. It was Shane! She threw off the robe and opened the door.

  “How you doing, Stud?” She said as she was reaching for him. He pulled her to him and kissed her on the mouth.

  “Oh, Baby, I’ve missed you so much.” He said and kissed her again.

  Julie pulled him into the house and shut the door behind them. Shane held Julie up against the door and kept kissing her. “You look so sexy.” He said. “I don’t want to let go of you.”

  “Then don’t.”

  “I want to look at you.” He held her at arms length and looked at her. He caught his breath and just stared at her. “My you are beautiful. I can’t believe that I could be so lucky as to have you for my own. I love you.”

  “Shane, I have one request...” she started.

  “Anything.” He replied.

  “Make love to me.”

  “Well, that I can do.” He said and kissed her again. He picked her up and carried her to the bedroom and laid her on the bed.

  He kept kissing her while his hands roamed over her body. He couldn’t get enough of her. He pulled away from the kiss and looked at her again, he still couldn’t believe how happy he was. He began to kiss his way down her body. His hands stopped on her breasts while his lips kept heading south. Julie arched her back, she wanted more. She didn’t know if she could wait much longer for him to enter her. Her body burned with desire. His hands were on her thighs and she parted her legs for him. He lowered his mouth and kissed her on the outside of the lacy teddy. His hands followed and he was even more surprised to find that her lingerie was crotch-less! He put a finger inside the fabric and could feel her hair and he noticed that it was already damp. He smiled as she moaned and said, “Please. Please Shane, touch me.”