"Well, the last time I had my period was..." For a long while, Jean searched her memory, but in the end, she sighed apologetically and said,"There had been too many distractions lately that I wasn't able to pay much attention to it. I'm sorry, but I really don't remember it." Jean shook her head in resignation.
After hearing Jean's reply, disappointment crept on Zelda's face. She, too, tried to remember the last time she had bought tampons for Jean.
Zed took a glance at Zelda, and seeing her expression, he turned to Jean and urged her to keep recalling. "Jean, can you think harder about it? It's really important."
Jean's face showed confusion as she wondered why there was a tinge of hesitation in Zed's voice. Then again, she got a feeling that her answer was of great significance to them today.
She nodded at them and gave it a thought again, racking her brain. "I know that my period is always very punctual. It comes in the middle of the month consistently. Hmm, counting the days of my last period, it was..."
Jean thought hard, and then suddenly, as if a light bulb flashed above her head, she finally remembered when the last time was. Because of this, her expression couldn't be deciphered.
Zed immediately noticed the change in her expression and couldn't help but ask about it in haste. "What's wrong, Jean?"
"I... Well..." Jean couldn't form her words. She scratched her head and then gave them a wry smile. "It seemed that I haven't had my period last month."
Ecstasy immediately appeared on Zed's face. He felt the excitement rise inside of him, like a lion eager to prowl, but he kept his composure outside. "Jean, are you sure about it?" He asked in a trembling voice. He glanced at Zelda, who mirrored his expression as well.
Jean nodded and replied,"I am sure." However, in contrast to Zed's feeling of euphoria, Jean felt afraid and panicked. She furrowed her eyebrows into a frown. "I was in the hospital then, and I definitely haven't had my period when I was there." Jean turned to Zed with a worried look. "Zed, do you think I'm sick? Have I got some fatal disease?" After saying that, her eyes widened in shock. Zelda tried hard to hide her amusement at Jean's innocence.
"No, silly, you are not sick. It might be, because you are pregnant." Zed reached his arms to hold her, and as he rubbed her back gently, he said with excitement evident in his tone. "Of course, it is just a guess for now. Why don't we make sure? You eat something first, and then we can go to the hospital for a check-up and get the doctor's confirmation."
Jean's brain went blank all of a sudden after hearing the word 'pregnant' come out of Zed's mouth. This was too shocking for her, and she didn't know how to grasp it just yet.
Clearly, she hadn't thought about being pregnant until now. She was too busy trying to absorb this possibility into her brain that she zoned out completely, not hearing what Zed was saying at the moment.
'I could be pregnant?' Jean said out loud in her thoughts once more.
It was true that both Zed and her had been married for a quite a long time now. Moreover, after she met Zed's parents the last time, they hadn't used any contraceptives as advised by Zed's parents.
Indeed, quite a long time had passed since then, and also enough to have conceived a child. A child...Did she really have a life growing inside her?
A life created by the love she and Zed have for each other?
She took in the news slowly, and the panic that she felt moments ago was now replaced by an overflowing happiness inside of her. She unconsciously reached her hand to slowly touch her still flat belly, her heart thrilled at the thought of a living being inside of her.
'Is this for real? Am I really going to be a mother?' Jean thought, feeling the same euphoria Zed felt.
Moore stood there and watched Jean's reaction. He saw the happiness on her face and the gentleness that now appeared on her eyes as she stared on her belly.
He smiled at how Jean didn't seem to hear Zed talking to her right now and just focused on the feeling of elation for the possibility. He heaved a long sigh in his heart.
If life wasn't so difficult and troublesome for Jean, she would already have known right away that she would be a mother instead of worrying about her health.
Ever since Jean was a kid, she didn't have a mother by her side. She had to swallow her cowardice and toughen up so as to avoid getting bullied. This probably was the reason why Jean grew up stronger than anybody else. 'Even without the guidance of a mother, she still became a wonderful woman and better than anyone else who grew up with one, ' Moore thought.
Life was unfair to Jean, and God didn't give her as much as others, but seeing her feeling her belly with joy and content, Moore couldn't help but smile.
His heart that had long been worried was now filled with relief.
He was concerned that Jean might reject her child after learning she was pregnant.
She had suffered a wretched childhood, so deep down, Moore had thought that Jean might not want to give birth to another life. There were other people he knew that wouldn't want to have children even though they love having one, just for the reason that they don't want their children to suffer the same pain and fate they did growing up.
That they were afraid their pain would be passed on to the next generation, like a chain reaction.
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