“But it is..” she argues back quietly. “I make you worry, I say things like wanting to become a vigilante, I-I…accuse you of something without hearing your side..the car accident a-and…”
She pulled back to look at him, biting on her bottom lip a moment. “J-Jack..I-I’m pregnant…”
And the tears fall down from her eyes unrelenting. If he hadn’t hated her for the other secret, then he might for this one. She was so scared of losing him over things she had kept from him and she was amazed he wasn’t turning his tail and running already.
But for this..perhaps he might and it scares her so badly.
He stared at her for a moment.
Jack tried to take a breath but found he couldn’t.
His eyes darted down to her flat stomach, then back to her face.
So what he thought this morning… wait.
“…h-how long does it… does it take to tell if a woman is pregnant…?” he asks weakly. “It can’t be… be a day, s-surely… it doesn’t happen like.. i-instantly…”
Jack Maple 