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Chapter 37
An hour later Liz sighed as she woke up from crying herself to sleep, rolling over she rubbed her belly which had been aching. Maybe it was the time of the month she pouted; she felt so horrible. She looked at the clock in defeat it was still early in the morning 11:15am, where on earth was Leah, she should have been back by now.
Talk of the devil, Leah floundered into the bedroom with lots of shopping bag.
“Hey sweetie… Oh god you don’t look to good” Leah replied, as she dropped her shopping down and stepped forward.
Liz sighed.
“Leah I still feel sick…”
“Have you eaten?”
Liz shook her head in refusal.
“I don’t want to eat anything…”
“Liz you need to keep up your strength!” scolded Leah, as she reached inside her bag and pulled out a BLT sandwich.
Liz scowled at the sandwich. “Are you playing doctor?”
Leah frowned. “I am your doctor! NOW are you going to eat it?”
Liz shakes her head.
“No? You don’t want it? But I thought it was your favourite sandwich?”
Liz pulls the duvet over her head.
“I’m not hungry! Leave me alone!”
Leah raised her eyebrow in slight amusement and annoyance at Liz hiding underneath the duvet. She looked at the sandwich and back at Liz. She looks at the sandwich again and rips it open.
Liz throws the duvet off her head at the sound.
“What are you doing?” Liz cries.
Leah frowns, pulling one sandwich from the packet and attempting to take a bite.
Liz pouts.
“But I thought that was for me…”
“It was but you don’t want it!”
Liz looks at the sandwich with sad eyes.
“Fine!” Leah sighs as she handed the sandwich back to Liz.
Liz grabbed it greedily and started too munch away. Literally minutes later it was all gone. Liz looked at the packet expecting another sandwich to re-appear like magic; she shook the empty packet and scrunched her nose. Leah looked at her with a smile and dug her hand into her bag and pulled another one.
Liz smiled happily as she ripped open the next packet and started munching.
“I take it your hungry.” Leah said rolling her eyes.
Liz munched and nodded happily.
“Hmm mmm…”
Leah couldn’t help but sigh and she pulled out the paperwork.
Liz looked up as she munch.
“Mmm watts tat?” as she swallowed a bite. “Sorry what’s that?”
“The last of the tests…”
A flash of panic flashed past Liz’s face as Liz stumbled out of bed.
“Liz sweetie sit down.”
Liz shook her head in refusal.
“Just tell me Leah, just tell me please!”
“Well Liz all the tests I had done came back negative apart from the last one, this one.”
Liz gasped.
“What is it?! Actually I don’t wanna know! Leah I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be ill no more!” she cried.
Leah pulled Liz into her arms and hugged her.
Liz cried into her arms.
“Liz…” Leah whispered.
Liz sniffled.
“…Liz you’re not going to die. You’re going to live. Don’t you want the good news?”
“There’s good news?”
Leah smiled at her good friend.
“Liz you’re pregnant, you’re going to have a baby.”
Liz stumbled out of her arms and sat down on the bed.
“I can’t be!”
“You are sweetie. 6 weeks in fact.”
Leah knelt down and in front of her friend who looked confused and lost.
Liz looked down at her stomach and caressed it. Oh my god she was pregnant. She was carrying Max’s baby. Leah pressed the piece of paper inside Liz’s hand. There it was in black and white. Liz was 6 weeks pregnant. After the initial shock and minutes passing by a smile appeared across
“I’m pregnant… OH MY GOD LEAH IM PREGNANT!”
Leah grinned and brought the bags over. She emptied the bags over the bed. Teddies, bibs, dummy, bottles and growths fell out of the bags.
“I’ve got you lots of pressies!”
Liz grinned as she looked through the presents. There were so many teddies.
Leah shook her head in amusement as she watched Liz. Leah pulled out her newspaper from this morning; it was the first time she had seen it. Usually she would read it with her breakfast but this time because she was so eager to get the results she didn’t have chance. She pulled off the elastic and unrolled it to the first page…
But it was one of those days where she wished she didn’t read the newspaper. Leah gulped at the sight.
Liz saw the confusion on her face.
“Leah you okay?”
Leah smiled.
“Yeah I’m cool…”
But Liz saw that the smile didn’t reach her face.
“What is it Leah?”
Leah sighed as she dropped the newspaper to the bed.
And there in black and white was a photo of Max coming out of a jewellers and another photo of Tess coming out of Hospital holding her growing stomach and another photo of them together. AND A HEADLINE: businessman will marry millionaire heiress lawyer!
Chapter 38
Max had to take Bob to the veterinary. He sat there as they had to sedate him and stitch his foot. Max was so worried about the break in, Bob and missing Liz; he never noticed people staring and whispering behind him.
“Here you go.” replied Dr Pillard as he handed a sleepy Bob back to Max.
Max stumbled up as Bob whined in his arms.
“Will he be okay?”
“Yeah he’ll be okay, though it isn’t advisable to let him walk on it as I stitched his foot up.”
Max nodded with a sigh.
“Max are you okay?” asked Dr Pillard, he was wondering how Max was coping with the fact that his love-life was splashed across the front cover of the local newspaper.
“Yeah I’m fine!” bite out Max.
“Sorry…” whispered Max.
Dr Pillard let out a breath; he wasn’t going to push Max into talking.
“So I’ll see you in two weeks time so I can take out Bob stitches.”
Max nodded and picked up the medicine and left the building.
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Max stepped out of the building as his phone began to rang. He sighed as he shifted Bob into one arm and answered the phone.
“Maria what do you want?”
‘Max how could you want to marry that bitch?’
“Maria what are you talking about?”
‘Max it’s all over the newspaper.’
“What?” exploded Max. “What are you talking about?”
‘Where are you Max?’
“At the vets”
‘Don’t come here Max and definitely don’t go to Tess’s!’
“What?”
‘Reporters Max! Photographers! Paparazzi! They want to do a follow up story!’
“WHAT STORY MARIA?”
‘Max the story that on the front page of the BOSTON TIMES. It says that you and the bitch are getting hitched.’
“WHAT???”
Max stormed back into the vet building and grabbed newspaper of the counter. AND THERE IT WAS IN BLACK AND WHITE.
Max stumbled back in the seat with a thump, Bob yelped. Max couldn’t believe it, there was a photo of him coming out the jewellers from weeks ago of buying Liz’s ring. NOT TESS’S! HOW COULD THEY GET IT SO WRONG?
Dr Pillard came out of his office at the request of the receptionist and he saw the devastation on Max’s face. This was wrong, all very wrong…
TBC
I KNOW another cliffy. please dont kill me. 
