Nookie's Secret (Nookie 2) (Nookie Series) (5 page)

“Okay.”

On cue the nurse wheeled in the cart with the supplies. Joy looked at. There were gloves, large q-tips, some other sticks with looked like wire on the end, some packets that said surgical lubricant on them and a large plastic object that looked sort of like a shoe horn.

The doctor made small talk, trying to get Joy to relax. She explained the reason for everything she used. She handed everything to the nurse who would send it to the lab. When the nurse came back she pushed a machine in. It looked like a computer with different color buttons.

Dr. Cook plugged the machine in and turned it on. She then lifted up Joy’s gown, exposing Joy’s stomach and put some petroleum jelly on stomach. Kevin who stepped out the room to give the doctor room to examine Joy came back in. Joy was excited. They watched as the doctor rubbed what looked like a funny shaped mouse on Joy’s stomach.

At first she moved in side to side. They stared at the screen. When she found the baby she stopped and pressed a harder in that area. She stared for a while.

“This is your baby’s arm and here is a leg. Wow, this little one is moving like crazy.”

The doctor pressed some buttons and lines came on the screen. She measured the baby’s head and body. Okay, judging from the size of your baby, I will say that you are about 11 weeks and 3 days. Your due date is December 4.”

Looking at the screen, Joy couldn’t believe that she was looking at her baby. She couldn’t even think of the words to describe the feeling she had. She never felt this way before, a true and deep happiness. “Eleven weeks is about right for it to be Kevin’s,” Joy thought and looked at Kevin. He had tears in his eyes.

“Do you know what it is?” Kevin asked.

“It’s still to early to tell. In a few more weeks you will be able to find out.”

“It looks like a boy.” Kevin said.

“Okay baby look at mommy and smile.” the doctor said to the screen. Joy laughed at this and studied the screen. She couldn’t make too much out. When the doctor was finished, she wiped Joy’s stomach off and pulled her gown down. She reached on the side of the machine and tore off the paper on the side. Joy could see they were sonogram pictures. She handed Joy the last two. She kept the rest, told Joy she would be back to talk to her after she checked her test results.

They only had to wait five more minutes until the doctor returned. She said that everything was okay with the baby and with Joy. She ordered her to take it easy and to get prenatal care right away. She gave Joy a prescription for prenatal vitamins and said it was okay for them to leave.

Now inside the car, it was nothing but silence. Joy let out a loud breath. She should be happy that her baby was okay. The problem in the backseat overshadow that Joy turned around and looked at Tanya, who was crying.

Her entire nose was bandaged and her face was swollen.

“Would you shut the fuck up?”

“You broke my nose in three places. You lucky I didn’t press charges.”

“No bitch. You lucky.” Joy threatened.

Tanya saw something in Joy’s eyes she never noticed before and backed down. She slumped back and continued to whimper.

Joy turned back around and glared at Kevin. He looked straight ahead at the road. After spending five hours in the ER, Joy was exhausted. She wanted to leave Tanya there, looking pitiful, but Kevin insisted that they take her with them.

Finally, they reached Kevin’s apartment. When Tanya went to get out the car, Joy stopped her.

“Wait right here.”

She took Kevin’s keys and went inside his apartment. She returned with the bag that she guessed were Tanya’s things from out of Kevin’s living room.

“You just going to let her do this to me?” Tanya asked Kevin.

“You ask me to take you to the bus station, that’s what I’m going do.” he said, following Joy’s lead.

Chapter Eleven

After they got rid of Tanya, Joy thought her Kevin would be nothing but happier. Watching Tanya get on the bus was the last time she actually felt any kind of Joy. Three weeks had passed by and all she wanted to do was lay around and eat. She wasn’t showing but she had a slight bulge to her belly.

She couldn’t stand the sight of Kevin. Everything he did bothered her all of the sudden. She found herself putting the cap on the toothpaste after him, putting the items back he used to make a sandwich. If he breathed too hard while he slept, she would wake up and then couldn’t go back to sleep.

She chalked it up to them spending too much time together. She still had the money in her bag and she carried around where ever she went, even to the bathroom. When Kevin commented on it she just told him that she took the bag just in case she needed something and she knew that she wouldn’t feel like getting up. He left her alone, calling her lazy.

When she got back to Kevin’s the night after the incident with Tanya, she had looked for a hiding place but she wasn’t sure if it would go unfound. She wanted to spend it and at least buy some new clothes. She hadn’t left the apartment in three weeks and stayed naked.

She constantly fought Kevin off because he took her nakedness as her invitation that she wanted sex. She couldn’t stand having sex with him anymore. That didn’t stop Kevin from trying to get her in the mood.

“Kevin I don’t feel like.” Joy whined as Kevin kissed her neck.

“Can you at least suck it, something?” he took her hand and pressed it on his rock hard dick.

“No.” she said, and turned her back on him.

“Joy. It’s been a minute. You don’t even care. Other pregnant women don’t have a problem having sex with their man.”

“What the fuck does that mean?” she yelled, turned back around to face him.

“It means what I said.”

“You better not be throwing that bitch Tanya in my face. She’s a ho so I know she let you hit.”

“What? Joy you on some shit. You better not be smoking nothing with my kid in you.”

“Whatever.” she mumbled and turned her back on him again.

Kevin moved over, closer to Joy so that his dick rubbed up against her behind.

“Stop Kevin.” She yelled, trying to move away from him but she was already as close to the edge as she could get.

Kevin put his arms around her waist and moved up, rubbing her breast. Joy laid still. He took that as a sign that she was either sleep or she would let him get some. He reached down and lifted her leg up some, so he could slide in. Out of nowhere Joy elbowed him in the stomach.

“Shit. You know what…” Kevin didn’t finish his sentence. He grabbed Joy by her hair and pulled her to the middle of the bed.

“Owwww Kevin. The baby.”

“The baby will be find, just be still.”

Holding down her arms with one hand, he guided his dick inside her. He couldn’t believe how warm and wet she was. “It’s true what they say about pregnant women,” he thought, gritting his teeth. He looked down into Joy’s face. She frowned and her eyes were closed real tight. He stopped, “Joy, I’m not hurting you am I?” he let go of her arms and started kissing her face. His lips were wet from her tears. He felt ashamed about what he did to her so he climbed off her and laid next to her.

“Joy let me hold you. And don‘t elbow me.”

She turned her back but allowed him to hold her. Her body was stiff and he could tell that she didn’t want him touching her. He let her go and rolled onto his side of the bed. He would lay there for ten minutes. His dick was still hard. He looked over to see if Joy was awake, maybe he could change her mind. But she was knocked out, snoring. Kevin sucked his teeth and climbed out of bed. He threw on the clothes that he stepped out of and left on the floor.

He glanced at Joy on the way out of the bedroom. He grabbed his cars keys and left, slamming the door behind him.

Chapter Twelve

Joy had no idea how long she was asleep but when she woke up at six in the morning, Kevin was gone. At first Joy was happy to have the bed alone so she could stretch out. When she tried closing her eyes, she started imaging all the things Kevin could be doing with some bitch.

She tossed and turned for a half and hour before she dozed off again. When she woke up again two hours later, Kevin was still gone. This time Joy began to worry. She reached for her cell phone to call him. It ranged once and then his voicemail came on.

“Shit. This nigga better not be fucking a other chick.” Joy thought.

She walked out the living room, headed towards the kitchen, intending to get something to eat. She went to the front door and looked out. Kevin’s car was sitting in the usual spot. Kevin was in the driver seat, which was pushed all the way back in the backseat. He was sleep on his back with his arm over his face. Joy sucked her teeth and closed the door.

She went back in the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator and took out some eggs, milk and the butter. Recently, Kevin taught her how to scrambled eggs. It became her favorite thing to eat because it was the only thing she could make. She looked in the cabinet for the black pepper and the seasoned salt.

After making a sandwich with the eggs, Joy went back into the bedroom to eat. Before she even made it to the bed, half of the sandwich was gone.

“Damn, I should have made two.” she said aloud after stuffing the last bite in her mouth.

She sat for a while flipping channels. After only a few minutes, she got up. She couldn’t stand being in the apartment any longer. The money was burning a hole in her pocket. She was so anxious to spend it that she counted it every chance she got. When she was bored, she made lists of the things she wanted to do with the money and of the things she wanted to buy.

She threw on the only outfit she had. She had no friends, still she scrolled through her phone list. Most of the numbers were all the local fast food restaurants. She came across Josh’s number. The look on his face the moment he realized that Joy shot him flashed through her mind. She shook her head as if to shake the image out her mind. She erased the number and continued down the list. She came across the cab company. She called them to see if they had a cab available. They did, she waited the ten minutes that the operator quoted.

After making like three previous trips to the bathroom, Joy was frustrated. She was flushing the toilet when she thought she heard a car horn. She listened but didn’t hear anything. She washed her hands and when she got back to the bathroom, she picked her phone up off the bed. She noticed that she had two missed calls. She scrolled down the list. Both calls were from the same number that Joy didn’t recognized. She walked to the front door and looked out. Kevin’s car was gone. Joy sucked her teeth and closed the door.

Joy called the cab company. The operator told her that she dispatched a cab to her that arrived about ten minutes ago. A man outside the residence told him that the cab wasn’t needed any longer. The cab driver called her to confirm and received no answer, so he left.

Frustrated, Joy hung up on the operator and called Kevin. When he answered, Joy yelled, “Why the fuck did you send my cab away.”

“First of all, who you talking to like that? Second, where you get money for a cab? You going to see that nigga.”

“No.”

“Then where you was going? Like I said, you are going to see that fucking nigga. If you leave the house, you better not come back.”

“Kevin it’s not like that. I’m not going to see him. I can’t anyway.”

“What you mean you can’t? What he threw you away after he used you up. Is that why you came back to me? I mean you act like you can’t stand me and you won’t even let me touch.”

“ But Kevin.” Joy whined and began to cry, the only way she knew to get sympathy.

“You know what Joy. We’ll talk about this later, when I get home.”

“Kevin, how long you going to be?”

“Don’t worry bout it. You just better be there when I get back.”

“Kevin I just wanted to get out the house.”

“I’ll take you out when I get back.”

“Where are you?”

“I’m at my brother’s house, I’ll be there in a little bit.” Kevin’s hung up.

Joy was at a loss as to what she should do. She didn’t like how Kevin was acting. She did feel bad at how she was treating him. It was the pregnancy. She tried to tell him that.

Being pregnant with Kevin’s child, Joy knew that he wouldn’t throw her out for real. Though she was always tired, cranky, and constantly complaining Kevin never got mad or irritated with her. His problem was that he was trying to control her. She looked in the phone book for a different cab company. Once she called them, she went outside to wait.

She held her bag close. She only had about three thousand on her. The remainder of the money, she placed in Ziploc bags and taped them on the box spring under the bed. She hoped that she made the right decision by leaving it there. In the back of her mind, she knew that Kevin could throw her out and she wouldn’t be able to get to it.

The cab driver pulled up and honked the horn to get Joy’s attention. Joy was so caught in her thoughts that she didn’t notice the cab pull up. She inched up, “Damn, my belly ain’t even big yet and I’m having trouble getting up.” she said to herself as she walked down the stairs. Her hand was on the door handle of the cab when Kevin pulled up. They clashed eyes and Joy hesitated.

“Come on. Are you getting in?” the cab driver yelled out his window.

“Ummm, yeah,” Joy opened the door. By then Kevin was right behind her.

“Joy where the fuck you going?” he said, pulling her away from the door.

“Come on buddy leave her alone.”

“You shut the fuck up. Joy, go back in the house.”

Joy stood there a few seconds longer before she sucked her teeth, closed the door and went up to the apartment steps.

She heard Kevin ask, “Where were you taking her?”

The cab driver replied, “Some mall in the northeast.”

“Aight,” he said and walked away.

Joy was at the top of the stairs watching Kevin. When she saw him walking towards her she went in the house. Kevin came in the bedroom, Joy was sitting on the bed, looking down at the floor.