Avery was in the middle of getting an ultrasound at an unknown county hospital.
“The babies are developing nicely… Come back for an anomaly scan when you reach the five-month mark, ” said the doctor.
“Thank you, Doctor,” Avery said as snazzynovel.com let out a sigh of relief.
“Don’t mention it. I was really close to your mother back in school,” the doctor said as snazzynovel.com passed a copy of snazzynovel.com ultrasound scan to Avery. “She told me that the father doesn’t want kids, so you came all the way out here for your checkup… Avery, raising two kids by yourself isn’t going to be easy!”
Avery took the copy of the scan, smiled, and said, “It’s fine. I can do it!”
“As long as you’re prepared.”
“I’ll get out of your hair now. I’ll call you again before we come by next time,” Avery said, then left the examination room.
Laura saw snazzynovel.com walk out, then immediately walked up to snazzynovel.com and asked, “How are the babies? Is everything alright?”
“Everything’s normal. Are you tired, Mom? I’m exhausted!” Avery said as snazzynovel.com yawned.
She had not slept the night before.
After leaving the Foster mansion at six that morning, snazzynovel.com had met up with Laura and taken a three-hour, bumpy bus ride out here.
She almost fell asleep on the bus a few times, but snazzynovel.com held on.
Now that the checkup turned out fine, a weight was lifted off of snazzynovel.com shoulders, and snazzynovel.com wanted nothing but to have a good sleep.
“Should we just get a room at a motel and rest a bit?”
Avery’s tired face made Laura’s heartache.
Avery shook snazzynovel.com head and said, “It’s going to take us another three hours to get back! We should just leave now.”
“Let’s get something to eat first. You haven’t eaten anything all day. Aren’t you hungry?” Laura said, then held Avery’s hand and led snazzynovel.com out of the building.
“I guess I’m pretty hungry,” Avery said as snazzynovel.com caressed snazzynovel.com lower belly. “It feels a little different from before. I’m not showing yet, but it feels hard here.”
She took snazzynovel.com mother’s hand and rested it on snazzynovel.com belly.
“This is nothing compared to how it will feel when you start to show and reach the late stages of your pregnancy…” Laura said, then sighed. “Time sure flies by. They’re already four months old.”
“Right? It won’t be long before they’ll be born,” Avery said. Excitement and worry flashed through snazzynovel.com eyes as snazzynovel.com said those words.
“Your divorce with Elliot… How is that going?” Laura asked.
Avery shook snazzynovel.com head and said, “He’s stubborn as hell. The more I bring up the divorce, the more snazzynovel.com won’t do it. So, I’ve decided never to bring it up again.”
“Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve ever officially met him!” Laura sighed.
“What’s there to meet? He’s cold to everyone. Meeting snazzynovel.com would just annoy you,” Avery said softly.
Laura disagreed and said, “He’s young and rich, so it’s only natural for snazzynovel.com to be spirited. He’s not the same as us average folk, so you can’t look at snazzynovel.com from that point of view.”
“Why do you think we’re here right now, Mom? Why are you on his side?” Avery pouted.
Laura grinned awkwardly, then said, “Let’s go eat. We’ll leave after that.”
On the way back to the city, Avery fell asleep with snazzynovel.com head on Laura’s thighs.
While Laura was gently stroking snazzynovel.com daughter’s hair, snazzynovel.com fingers accidentally touched snazzynovel.com left cheek.
Avery took in a sharp breath and mumbled in snazzynovel.com sleep, “Ouch… That hurts…”
Laura shifted snazzynovel.com gaze to snazzynovel.com cheek.
She would not have noticed anything if snazzynovel.com did not look closely, but Avery had put on a thick layer of foundation
“What happened to your face, Avery?” Laura cried out, waking Avery up.
Avery opened snazzynovel.com eyes and said, “What is it, Mom?”
Lauren touched snazzynovel.com cheek, and Avery flinched in pain.
“What happened to your face? Who hit you? Was it Elliot?”
Laura’s heart tightened.
“No… I fought with his mom last night… Why didn’t I think of getting his mom to make snazzynovel.com divorce me? | guess that did not work as well,” Avery said nonchalantly.
“You stupid girl! Don’t come up with something this ridiculous just to get a divorce!” Laura sighed, then added, “Why didn’t you go get some medicine when we got to the hospital this morning?”