The subsequent morning the trio set out on their aquarium journey vibrant and early to beat the crowds. Keeley could not keep in mind the final time she had been to certainly one of these. Most likely when her mother and Kaleb had been nonetheless alive.

Undersea life was each unusual and delightful. Watching the colourful fish and different sea creatures glide peacefully via the water was very stress-free. It helped her neglect the troubles she could not fairly depart behind in New York.

Her favourite exhibit was in all probability the one imitating a tropical rainforest. Why they’d that in an aquarium she wasn’t fairly positive however they did that typically. The final one she went to had snow leopards in it for some cause.

Keisha’s favourite was the tunnel beneath the shark tank. Sharks and different fish may swim proper above your head, which was each wonderful and somewhat scary. Jeffrey most popular the jellyfish exhibit.

All of them made positive to get loads of photos at every. Keeley took a few of simply the engaged couple collectively and in flip they took solo photographs of her. Once they wished everybody within the image they needed to ask a stranger for assist. Selfies do not precisely work if you wish to see what’s within the tanks behind you correctly.

After leaving the aquarium, they wandered round taking a look at the entire historic sh.i.p.s for some time. A few of them had been from the mid-1800s, which was loopy to consider. They had been nonetheless afloat after greater than 100 and fifty years.

There was a submarine too. Kaleb had at all times questioned what it could be wish to go inside one however by no means bought the prospect. She made positive to take an image of it for his sake and hoped he noticed her do it.

It was a beautiful day till they went to a seafood restaurant close to the harbor and Keeley needed to run to the toilet to puke. The very odor of fish was making her gag.

Keisha got here after her a couple of minutes later. “You okay in there?” she referred to as from the opposite facet of the stall door.

“I am going to let you already know after I sto—” she needed to minimize herself off to puke once more. Gross. “Cease puking.”

“Did you eat one thing unhealthy earlier? We have not even gotten our meals but.”

“No,” she mentioned miserably. “All I had this morning was a granola bar and an apple.”

Keisha went ‘hmm’ earlier than asking her subsequent query. “Do you’re feeling sick wherever else? You had been wonderful a couple of minutes in the past.”

“No. I all of the sudden needed to puke as a result of the fish smelled horrible.”

“The fish smelled horri—lady, are you pregnant?!” she requested in disbelief.

What little blood was left in her face drained proper out of it. Not doable. She and Aaron solely did the deed as soon as and she or he took the morning after tablet!

“No…I took the tablet after…I am unable to be,” Keeley mumbled earlier than retching once more.

“When did you’re taking it?”

She thought again. She meant to take it proper after work that Monday however then Ryan bought in the way in which…she did not take it till Tuesday night time. She missed the 24 hour window. It was inside 72 hours however did that make a distinction? 

“About 36 hours later.”

Keisha sucked in a breath. “Oh honey, these issues are 95% efficient within the first twenty-four hours however after that it drops all the way down to 89% and after seventy-two hours it does not work in any respect.”

So she had an 11% probability of being pregnant? That was so small and but…

“I feel I would like a being pregnant check. Proper now,” she mentioned feebly.

“Okay, open the door and I am going to provide help to. It is a lady emergency; we do not have to clarify it to Jeff. I am going to let him know we’re going someplace for some time.”

Keeley teared up. She was being so good about this. “Thanks.”

Her nausea had handed so she shakily bought to her toes and left the stall to clean her palms. A look within the mirror advised her she appeared horrible. There was no use stressing out about it but. This may simply be a coincidence.

Keisha wrapped a protecting arm round her shoulders as they exited the restaurant and headed again in direction of city. There was a drugstore just a few blocks away.

She picked out a field that had three being pregnant assessments in it so folks may triple examine and caught it in her purse after paying. Keeley adopted numbly in her wake.

The final time she took a being pregnant check was about two years after getting married in her first life. They’d been making an attempt to have a child for about three months when she lastly missed her interval. She had been so excited seeing these two blue strains seem. Now she felt sick.

This could not be occurring to her. 11%. There was no means she was that a lot of a statistical anomaly. Besides…she had already been reborn and the possibilities of that occuring had been means lower than 11%. Statistics weren’t in her favor.

They made it again to the home earlier than Jeffrey did and Keisha ushered her into the toilet after giving her a paper cup to pee into so it could be simpler to do all three assessments without delay. Ready for the strains to look was probably the most annoying three minutes of each of her lives.

Keeley was so grateful she did not have to do that alone. The opposite girl’s arms had been round her your entire time as they each peered onto the counter on the check sticks.

Pregnant. Uncertain. Pregnant.

Two of the three assessments had clear outcomes. Her knees buckled and Keisha needed to catch her so she did not smash headfirst into the counter.

“Settle down,” she mentioned. “Deep breaths. It is going to be okay. Let’s get you over to the sofa and we’ll determine what to do.”

Do? What else may she do? After traumatically having her child aborted with out her consent and getting her reproductive organs eliminated within the course of there was no means she would take a life with no consideration. She needed to give beginning to it.

Keeley had wished to be a mom sooner or later within the subsequent few years anyway. The issue was Aaron. He can be thrilled however he would additionally wish to marry her straightaway.

She did not need that, proper? Wasn’t she preventing towards her outdated life as Mrs. Hale this complete time? Logically, she knew that Aaron had modified however she was petrified of going again to the way in which issues had been.

She could not undergo all of that once more. The stares. The whispers. The fixed judgment. He mentioned he would depart excessive society behind for her however may he actually escape it? What about his dad and mom? He would not have the ability to conceal her without end!