Chapter 101

We both stare at the image on scream in complete disbelief, and I can’t get my head around it. Even though it’s right there, plain as day, I can see it. Nothing she is saying s filtering into my skull except complete disbelief.

“Six weeks on the button.” My mom says and pushes the hard-plastic tool on my abdomen around a bit more for a new angle. She’s engrossed in her screen and sounds professional and detached, and I honestly don’t believe any of this.

“How?” I blink again and stare at what looks like a little bean with a pulsing spot on a black fuzzy image that makes no sense.

“Twins most likely… You only lost one, but one is still a viable pregnancy.” She smiles through glazed eyes at me and goes back to looking at the screen, clicking the keyboard to make measurements and pull-down menus. Double checking and doing whatever she needs to do.

“How is that possible?” I blanche again, still having a hard time believing any of this is real, but Arrick is still