Still with a wide smile on my face, I now leaning on a wall across the ladies restroom of the clinic. Jennifer needs to go to restroom before we go home. Today has been the happiest day of my life so far. Not only I am now engaged to the woman I love the most, but also I could hear my baby girl's heartbeat for the first time. It's like.. all my life I was being cursed and today the curse finally is lifted.
"Bennet !!" A voice, female voice, forces me to draw back from my reverie. "You're Bennet, right ?!"
I look to the owner of the voice. I've seen her face before, but I forget when or where. "Yes ?" I reply while still trying to remember her.
"I tried to contact you several times, but your number was said inactive ?" The woman says when she finally in front of me.
Now, I remember her. "Yeah.. I lost my phone," I say, lying of course. I deliberately gave her Tim Chang's number back then.
"Can I have your current number then ?" She asks to urge me.
I am about to give her an excuse to not giving her my number when I hear Jennifer calls me, "I'm ready, Babe."
Just like that and my world seems going in a slow motion for some moment. I can see Jennifer walks to approach me while rubbing her belly demonstratively. The girl, who I don't even remember her name definitely see the little bump on her belly and turns her head to me, demanding an explanation. I feel like I am being caught doing an adultery while obviously I am not.
"Who is she ?" Both women ask me the same exact question at the exact same time. I can feel a drop of sweat on my forehead.
I clear my throat before rounding my arm on Jennifer's waist. "This is Jennifer, my fiancee," I introduce Jennifer to the woman, to announce where my foot is placed.
"And this is .." I turn to the woman and smile apologetically, "I'm sorry.. what is your name ?" I ask her.
The woman widens her eyes in displease. She then turns her head to Jennifer and sneers. "I'm Laurel," she introduces her self. "Don't get me wrong. There is nothing between us. We only had a fantastic one night together around 2 months ago.." she continues.
Her words may seem harmless but they are not. She can guess from Jennifer's belly that she is expecting more than three months. It means she was saying that I was cheating toward Jennifer with her two months ago. Little did she know that we. Jennifer and I, were separated at that time.
I am about to respond this woman's words when Jennifer raises her eyebrows. "Aah..," she says in light and encloses her body to me. She deliberately acts more intimate in front of this woman. She turns to me. "That one time you told me that you had to faking it, right ?" she asks me. Not once she glanced at the woman. But she raises her voice loud enough to be heard, not only by the woman but by all people on the aisle.
I can see how red the woman's face becomes. I also have my face red, but I of course won't change my side no matter how much Jennifer ridicules me. "Yes, Baby. That one," I confirms her question.
"Really ?!" the woman shrieks in disbelief. I turns my hear to her and shrugs.
"Sorry, but it's true," I say to her. I swear I can see a fuming hot breath comes out of her nostrils.
Jenifer, on the other hand, shrugs her shoulder unchantantly and says, "Well, I rest my case." She then walks away from us.
I give the woman an apologetic smile before catching up with Jennifer fast steps. I'm sure she doesn't have any interest of my number anymore. Even if she still did, I don't have any intention to give her anyway.
Even after entering our car, Jennifer is still in silent. She actually is not a much of a chatterbox, but she is also not usually this silence. Even more, when I see her face, she is actually pouting, which actually makes her look even cuter in my eyes. But I know better to coax her now before anything going any sourer.
"I don't mind to apologize to you, Honey. But I have to know where did I went wrong first," I tell her and rub her thigh.
"You don't have to apologize," she says still in pout. She even swipes my rub.
"Well, you definitely are annoyed by me up until you swiped my hand," I urge her.
"Let's just go home," she says.
I shake my head. "Nope. I won't let my self sleep on the couch without knowing what I am wrong of," I reject her request.
She sighs but refuse to stare my eyes. I keep them stare at her deeply. "Baby.. what is it ? I told you about her before. I told you how I ended up with her that night and you laughed about it.."
"You didn't tell me she is pretty," she snaps at me.
"Well.. " I lost my words for a second.
"You didn't tell me that she is curvy, and has E-cup boobs, and.."
"That's because I don't think she is pretty.."
"You lie!"
"I'm not! She is far from pretty compares to you," I continue my cut words.
Jennifer huffs. "She is still attractive," she mumbles in disdain.
I scratch the back of my head. "Well.. I wouldn't be on her bed if she is not attractive, would I? I mean.. I only have sex with beautiful and attractive women. The more beautiful the woman the more frequent I had sex with her."
Jennifer gives me a sharp gaze.
I chuckle. "I am just being honest with you. I remember one time I had sex 12 rounds in a night, then countless times more in the next day. And then after her apartment exploded, I asked her lived in my apartment, and we fucked almost everyday like crazy.."
Jennifer tries to hide her smile to realize I was talking about her. She throws away her sight outside the window. At this time, I have driven the car to our apartment.
"How many girl you have in your phone ?" she suddenly asks.
"In the past.. maybe 20 or so," I answer truthfully. "Now.. none."
From the corner of my eyes I can see Jennifer grabs my phone that I put on the dashboard. "746978," I tell her the key code. "That is JEN in ASCII."
She stares at me for a second then continues checking my phone. "You deleted them all ?" she asks.
"No. I lost my phone when your apartment was exploded, remember ?" I answer and ask her at once. "When I bought my new phone, I didn't have the need to save any girl's number anymore."
"Who is Tiffany then ?" Jennifer asks me.
"Oh, except that one," I laugh but immediately stop it to see Jennifer winces at me. "She is my team mate, the hacker I told you once."
"Your hacker is a girl ??"
I nod. "Yeah. She is only 19. You've seen her in news, I think. She is the daughter of presidential candidate, Whittaker." Jennifer bulges her eyes in disbelief.
"She was my client once. But then she helped me a lot, and I made her my partner." I continue.
"Why did you keep her in this phone, not your working phone ?"
I laugh. "Baby.. I have no working phone anymore, remember ? I kept her number, because she is one of two friends I have. I only have two friends, I don't want to lose one of them."
Jennifer doesn't say any more word after that. She only puts my phone back and closes her eyes.
I sigh. "I'm sorry if you think that woman is pretty, but I don't think she is, so I didn't mention it to you."
"No, you're not wrong. It's just my hormonal," she murmurs. "But I'm sleepy now," she continues without opening her eyes.
I can only smile and slowing down my already slow speed to disturb her less by the car movement. I guess this pregnancy will be an interesting roller coaster ride after all.