20 Story of Nikki Lindsey

CHAPTER 20: WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Nikki is staring blankly at the wall across from her. She keeps playing the conversation she and the mysterious guy had. She doubted him, but did she have another choice? 

He emailed his medical records, proving he is an Rh A negative like her mother. Although he covers the rest of her information, like his name and age, she would only know his identity. 

But she told him she would think about it first. He said that once she agreed, he would go to the hospital to take his blood first thing tomorrow, and then they could begin the surgery.

Hearing this was the moment she waited for a very long time. However, could she trade her freedom?

Nikki recalled his condition.

First, he wants a natural way to get her pregnant, which means they have to sleep together.

Why? 

He will tell this story to their child; everything is just a whirlwind romance between them. It sounds stupid. But there is no better version of a lying tale. 

Second, it is about medical purposes. They both know that Rh A negative blood type is a rare type. He wants to raise one. He is confident it will be 99% as her mother, Lucy, was an Rh-negative. But they have to be careful and watch out that this child won't have a problem with his growth because it was on his side who had a genetic problem.

So it was more like; he was experimenting that both blood type A with the positive and negative Rh could produce an average child.

What is this about? She wants to protest about the experimenting thing. But he may be correct. She has a relative with a special needs child; because their gene is incompatible. Until now, her uncle was taken care of by her old mother. He is moody and violent at the same time.

Now she fears that the child will not turn out healthy. It freaks her out already.

Could she take the risk? What if it turns like that? How would this man accept that?

And if she has a healthy child, she will conceive. Would they take the child from her? It seems she could not agree with this. She wants to laugh at how stupid his reasons about gene abnormalities are, but it is true. 

It was way more complicated now than she could imagine. They have a genetic depletion history leading to illness when growing up. Is this even work?

Nikki heaved a long sigh. She wishes there was someone else she would find aside from this guy. But if she has no other choice, then she will force to accept the offer. 

Sitting next to her mother, Nikki lovingly peered at the older woman. She watched her until she fell asleep in her seat. Nikki's heart throbbed with pain watching her mother only able to breathe with the help of oxygen. 

"Nikki..."

She quickly opens her eyes as tears flow down her face. It looks like her father is visiting them.

"Papa, what should I do? Could I give up for mama so you and she will be together now? Or will I fight this battle no matter what comes?"

She sobbed quietly, not for Lucy to hear her cries. She cannot just give up for a selfish reason because she doesn't want to get pregnant.

But she has too many uncertainties about what kind of man that guy is. How could she assure that he is from a good family? Also, why does he seems to hide his identity? Is he that ugly? Seriously, it should be a matter?

She doesn't know the answer to her suspicions. Nikki shook her head. Maybe someone would—

"Mama?"

Nikki heard the unstable sound from the heartbeat monitor, and the screen showed odd signs, and then Lucy began groaning.

"Nurse!" She cried as loud as she could. She also pressed the emergency button.

"Nikki!" Caitlin quickly responded and entered the Intensive Care room, and she ran outside again and called the other nurses. "Somebody gets Doctor Ryan!" she yells.

Meanwhile, Nikki freaked out and was crying. "Mama! Please, don't leave yet!" 

"Nikki? Caitlin, bring Nikki outside first!" Doctor Ben instructed the nurses and requested the medicines he usually gives during Lucy's seizures. 

Another doctor joins Doctor Ben, and after twenty minutes, they step out of the room after saving Lucy from a deadly attack. He looks exhausted. It was 3:00 in the morning, and it seemed he was waking up at the time he had shown up earlier.

"Nikki?" Doctor Ben sat beside her, who was still sobbing in a muffled voice. He's too exhausted, so he leans his head on the long couch and stretches his legs.

Nikki glanced in his direction and forcibly wiped the tears from her eyes. "Doctor Ben—"

Ben placed his elbow on his knee while clasping both of his palms. "Nikki, please be prepared yourself. The next seizure your mother has, I cannot promise that she could survive. So, please stay strong."

She could feel Doctor Ben's hand stroking her back. Her faint sobs become wails. Ben offered his shoulder, and Nikki cried until she lost consciousness.

* * *

She finds herself in the cold room. She wonders if it brought her to the room on the 7th floor. She turned to her other side when her ear caught the low voices talking outside. 

Where is she? And who're these people having a conversation with inaudible voices? Sometimes there is a distinct voice talking with a firm tone and one countering like was angry. Are they fighting?

She wanted to open her eyes, but the exhaustion of her body dragged her to return to sleep. Now she doesn't know how long she's been sleeping.

Nikki was staring at the ceiling. Is she even in a hotel room? She suddenly sat up on the bed and wandered her eyes through the entire room.

The room was grand, but medical equipment was on the corner, so she was still in the hospital. She turned her head to her right side, and what met her was a floor-ceiling window of this room. Wow, it was really like in hotel rooms. Is this the 9th or the 10th floor? She asked herself.

She checked her clothes, and she still had them on her body. Then? Did she only sleep all night? 

She steps down from the bed to open the curtain but staggers to her feet as she is dazed. 

"What are you doing, miss?" a nurse entered the room.

Nikki was still in great wonder, but she replied. "I just wanted to open the curtain."

"Oh. Just stay in bed, Miss. If you need anything in the future, you can call on me," while saying this, the nurse pressed a button on the left bedside table.

Nikki suddenly turned to look at the table, but it caused a throbbing in her head. She reached out and pressed the part that ached.

"You should stay in bed."

Another woman came in and scolded her just like that.

"Who are you? And why am I here?"

"I arranged this room for you, and if you haven't remembered, you lost consciousness last night. The test results say your hemoglobin is too low, so take the vitamins Doctor Yonah prescribes for you."

"Doctor Yonah? Who's she?"

The woman gives her an arrogant look, and she doesn't like it, but she keeps her cool.

"If you haven't known or heard yet. Doctor Yonah just came back from New York last week. She is a specialist obstetrician-gynecologist."

Nikki's eyes grow widened dramatically. What would an OB-Gynecologist do to her?

Nikki looks around for her phone, but she can't find it. "My phone? Where is my phone?"

"Miss, here's your lunch, and you need to take this vitamin." the nurse returned with a tray of food and a cup with three tablets in different colors.

"What is this all about?" it confused her. And she was uncomfortable with this woman. "I want to talk with Doctor Ben, and I need to see my mother as well as…."

"He should not be disturbed right now. The surgery will take till evening."

"Surgery? With whom?"

"Your mother, none other than, of course," the woman replied, shrugging her shoulder.

She was annoyed, but the pain in her head was getting worse. "What? But how? There is no blood yet?"

"You need not be concerned and leave it to Doctor Ben's hand. I think the better you should do now is to care for yourself first. How could you look after your mother if you get sick as well? Besides, you must prepare your body." 

"My body?" It even confused her. The woman sounded like a terror headmistress of an Academy; she was blunt and spoke with firmness in her voice. 

"It is past lunch; you better eat now," the woman ordered. 

She wants to argue, but her head is killing her. Besides, she's hungry.

"If you need anything, just press the button." What the woman told her before she left the room. "And oh, nurse, get her phone."

"Right away, Miss Erika!" 

"Who is she?" Nikki asked the nurse once the woman swallowed by the door.

"Um, I'm sorry, Miss. I cannot answer you. But I will find your phone!" said the nurse, then hurried to leave. 

What is going on?