Wreckers or Checkers: In It to Win It (22 page)

“I’m so sorry for everything.” She told them.

“It’s not your fault and I’m sorry for what I said earlier, I knew he was up to no good when he showed up here.” Jerod said and hugged her again. 

I handed Jason the sonogram picture, “What’s this?  Does she have internal…wait…(he looked at the picture closer) that’s…” he looked at me.  I smiled and nodded my head. “Twins?” he asked with big eyes and handed Jerod the sonogram.  

Jerod looked at it, “I don’t see twins.” He said as he looked closer.  Jason slapped the back of his head and pointed at the two babies on the paper. 

“Well hell
cousin, go big or go home I guess, one boy one girl.  Wreckers or Checkers Little sister breaks hearts and brother comes in and finishes off the dude that hurts his sister.” He said.

“What in the hell are you talking about?” I asked.

“This one (he pointed at bean one) is the girl I’m calling her Wreckers (he pointed at baby two) that’s the brother he’s Checkers.”

“Oh my
god, you are so weird.” Chassis told him.

“And they are my blood!” he said and waggled his eyebrows smiling big. 

“Great.” She said and rolled her eyes then started laughing. 

We got back to the house, I went in to the bathroom with Chassis and stripped her clothes off then mine.

I stepped into the shower and pulled her in with me, she held her face under the water and brushed her hair out of her face.  I wrapped my arms around her waist and splayed my hands across her abdomen.  Her head fell back against my shoulder, we stood there in silence as I rubbed small circles, “Twins…” I breathed with my chin resting on top of her head.

“Yeah…twins…” she said with a smile. 

“Are you okay?  I mean do we need to find a counselor for you to go see about what he did to you?” I asked and turned her in my arms. 

“I think I’m okay, I blocked most of it out when it was happening, I let myself go numb.” She told me.

“He should be lucky I didn’t kill him.”

She nodded her head and laid her head against my chest, “Twins…what did you do?” she said and I felt her smile against my chest.

We were interrupted by Asher, “Get out here, her family is here and they are pissed off!” she yelled through the door.

Chassis backed away from me, “I love you!” she stood on her tip toes and kissed me gently.

“I love you too.” I smiled and cupped her face in my hands, “Are you sure you’re okay?”

She nodded her head, “I’ll be okay.”

Chassis

****

On the ride to the hospital the EMT’s were very gentle and didn’t touch me without telling me what they were going to do first.  Asher sat beside me and held my hand, we both were in shock. “Miss Heart, when we get you to the hospital there is going to be the female officer present, and a triage team to perform a rape test on you.  I’m very sorry that this happened to you.” The EMT named Annie said as she took my vitals.

They unloaded me out of the ambulance and wheeled me through the emergency room doors and into an exam room.  An elderly doctor, the female officer, and two nurses came into the small room.  Asher sat on a chair in the corner out of the way as they spoke gently and
soothed me each time I started crying.  The female officer held my hand as Doctor Kline performed a vaginal swab test, “Miss Heart is there any chance that you could be pregnant?” He asked as he put the swab in a test tube.

“I’m on the pill.” I told him. 

“We’re going to perform a pregnancy test.” He told me.

“I took one a few weeks ago, it was negative.” I told him and watched as he drew blood out of my arm.

The female officer and the nurses left the room following the doctor, Asher came over to the bed, “I’m so sorry he did this to you.” She cried causing me to cry.

About ten minutes later the doctor came in with a machine and placed it beside the exam table.  “I’m going to open your gown and perform a sonogram okay?” he spoke gently.

“Umm, okay?” I said, not sure why he was doing a sonogram.

He shut the lights off, squirted some cool blue gel on my abdomen,
and pushed a couple of buttons on the keyboard.  ‘
whooshwooshwooshwooosh’
“Okay Miss Heart, it appears that you are indeed pregnant.”

“WHAT?” Asher and I both yelled at the same time.

He looked away from the monitor to me, “See these,” he pointed at to spots on the screen, “your babies are about the size of my thumb!” he smiled.

“Ba…Babies?” I stuttered out.

“Yes Miss Heart, twins, do you know when the first date of your last period was?” He asked as he continued to move the wand around on my lower abdomen.

I rattled off the date to him, “Are you…no I can’t be!”

“I’m sorry but it’s right there, THEY are right there, at twenty two weeks we can do another sonogram to try and determine the sex.” He smiled, the monitor shut off.

Asher looked at me with a shocked look on her face, “Chassis, not to sound bad but are they…”

“They are Jets, I never had sex with anybody, well besides Kyle that night but he wore a condom.”

She
squealed and hugged me, “I’ll go tell him to come in.” she smiled then literally skipped out of the room.

The doctor smiled, “I know that you had something very traumatic happen tonight so we really need to keep a close eye on you.  Is there any other concern you may have?”

“I had no idea, I mean I took a test a few weeks ago or so, but it was negative.  I’ve drank, alcohol in that time.  I’ve been drunk a few times, oh god, they’ll have that alcohol fetal syndrome!” I said with big eyes.

“We don’t know that yet, we’ll take it day by day and if you have ANY complications, you come to the ER immediately okay?”

I nodded my head, and stared at the ceiling, then Jet walked in.  My heart felt like it was going to pound out of my chest. 
‘Twins, he.is.going.to.faint, no he.is.going.to.kill.me’
I said over and over in my head.  The worried look on his face when he looked at me instantly had me in tears.  I needed to feel him close to me, he walked over to the bed and bent down so we were chest to chest.  I sobbed against his shoulder, he moved so his forehead was resting against mine, “I love you.” He kept repeating over and over while wiping my tears away with his thumbs. 

Doctor Kline cleared his throat, Jet straightened and shook the
doctor’s hand.  The doctor explained to Jet what they had discovered during the rape kit, Jet squeezed my hand so hard I winced.  He quickly loosened his grip, then the doctor flipped the lights off and showed Jet that I was pregnant.  Jet swayed and looked like he was going to pass out.  Doctor Kline rushed around to help Jet set down as he stared at the screen. 

I knew that Jet was thinking about the pregnancy scare, now my current pregnancy, when I told him I didn’t have to keep the babies his eyes flashed with pure rage and anger.  “Please don’t take them from me.” He said and squeezed my hand while staring deeply into my eyes. 

“TWINS”, that’s all we could say as we drove back to his house.  “You sure you’re okay?  I know you flipped out when you thought you were pregnant, you said you didn’t want to be a mom yet and you weren’t ready.” He said when we pulled into the driveway. 

I blew out a breath, “I freaked out, I’m sorry, we’ll get through this.  I will for the rest of my life blame YOU for it.” I told him with a smile.

“Blame me for whatever you want baby.” He said and pulled me across the seat and kissed me.  Jerod and Jason beat on his window and flung the door open, “You up for a shower before your family gets here?  I’m thinking they are probably going to kill me.” He said as we climbed out.

While we were in the shower
, Jet washed me gently and kept asking me if I was okay.  I kept apologizing to him for everything, I couldn’t stop the tears as they flowed.

“Chass, it’s not your fault,
Kyle’s fucked up but he’s never going to hurt you again okay.” Jet said and bent down to look in my eyes.

We finished our shower when Asher yelled through the door that my family had arrived. 

“This is going to suck!” Jet said as he pulled on clean clothes.

“Mom is going to cry and I’m sure my Uncle is going to want to punch you.” I told him as I combed through my hair then pulled it up into a pony tail.

“You’re really helping my nerves here.” He said then walked up behind me.  I closed my eyes when he kissed my neck, “Twins…” he whispered.  Our eyes met in the mirror and we both smiled.  I exhaled then grabbed his hand as we walked out of his bedroom.

~~~~

“Oh Chassis Brinn, sweetheart!” Mom sobbed when we walked into the living room.  She got up from the couch and ran over to me, enveloping me in a big hug.  She pulled away, wiped the tears off my face and studied the bruises and the cut on my lip from where Kyle had slapped me. “I should have known he was up to no good transferring here.” She told me then pulled me into another hug.  

Uncle John walked over and hugged us both, “I’ll kill the little bastard when I see him.” He whispered.

I shook my head, “I’m pretty sure Jet put the fear of God in him.  It’s partially my fault I led him on and shouldn’t have done anything with him.  I gave him the wrong idea…”

“Did you tell him to stop?  Did you tell him no?” My mom asked.

I nodded my head yes, “When a woman says stop or no then the man has got to stop, he should never ever lay a hand on a woman.” She wiped at a tear that was falling down her own cheek.

My Uncle turned to Jet, “Where were YOU when this happened?” He asked and glared at Jet.

“I was at the fire scene, we left and went to her dorm.  I’m sorry I shouldn’t have left her there in the first place.”

Uncle John shook his head, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have snapped at you.  I just can’t imagine what would have happened had you guys not showed up.”

We all sat down, Mom and Patrick sat on the loveseat together, John stood behind his wife that was sitting in the recliner. Jason, Jerod, Asher, and Mitch stood at the back of the couch where Jet and I had sat down. 

I looked at mom and then at John, “I’m pregnant.” I blurted out.

Mom sat there blinking and speechless, John’s eyes were big.  “What did you just say?” Mom said.

“I’m five weeks pregnant with twins.”
  I said and handed her the sonogram picture. 

“You god damn asshole!” John started towards Jet.

“Stop, just stop!” I said. 

For the next hour and a half my mom cried, she would look at the sonogram picture then at me and Jet and start crying again.  John paced the floor, and glared at Jet.

“Are you going to keep them?” Mom asked.

“Yes she’s keeping them!” Jet answered.

“She’s so young Jet!”

“Mom I’m not getting an abortion!”

“I meant give them up for adoption…”

“Please Alice, I’m begging you…don’t just don’t.” Jet said and looked at the floor.  “I love her and I’ll love those kids more than you can even imagine.” He told her then looked at John.  “It wasn’t all my fault, but she has already said she’s going to blame me.  So, I’ll take full responsibility this time, next time it’s all on her.”

“I’d like to talk to you outside.” John said and walked out the front door.  Jet kissed the top of my head and followed him out the door.

The room was silent, mom looked at the other guys, “Go make sure he’s not beating the hell out of that poor boy.” She told them.  They laughed and all went outside.

Asher sat down beside me and grabbed my hand, mom looked at the sonogram picture.  “Twins?  That’s not from my side or your dad’s side.” She said with a small smile.  “Nathan has brothers that are twins, I remember seeing them at the track.”

“That’s what Jet said,
how long are you going to be mad?” I asked.

“I’m not mad, I think I’m more shocked that you were so careless.” She told me.  “Your whole life is going to change when they are born, I just wanted you to get through college and get your feet under you before you started a family.” She said.

I nodded my head, “I’m sorry…”

Asher spoke up, “I’m here for you all the way, because I’m sure that Jet is going to be in the dog house ninety nine percent of the time anyways.”

I laughed and so did mom, “Well, now that that’s out of the way.  How are you feeling after what happened?” Mom asked.

I told her all about it and how I tried to just let my mind go numb, “If I have problems I’ll see a counselor.”

The guys all came back inside, Jet would glare at my Uncle and my Uncle would glare at Jet.  “Everything okay?” I asked Jet in a whisper.

He clenched his Jaw and nodded his head.  We visited for a while longer, the fire chief called Jason to tell him where the fire had started, so we all went over to the race shop.  My stomach sank when we pulled up to the large building that had once housed the race cars, hauler, trophies, and all their racing gear.  We walked up to where the big overhead door was
rolled up and the fire chief was standing.  He shook our hands then led us to where the fire had started.  He handed Jason a glass bottle with a shredded rag inside of it, “This was tossed through the window and landed right next to a barrel of fuel.  That obviously ignited everything, with all the fuel in here it was just a bomb ready to go off.” He told us.  Jason asked if they were able to see anything on the surveillance footage.  We walked over to his pickup where he pulled out a laptop and plugged a flash drive into the USB port.  He pressed play and we all watched as Kyle looked in the front windows of the building while carrying two bottles, one in each hand.  Jet stood there shaking his head as we continued to watch as he walked around the back of the building.  The camera on the back of the building showed Kyle looking around before throwing one bottle through the window, lighting something in the other bottle then throwing it through the first window pane that was broke.  He watched the window as the flames got bigger then took off running as the entire inside of the building grew brighter with flames.  The video footage stayed playing for another few minutes before the fire chief shut it off.  “He’s going to be charged with arson for sure.” He told us.

My family went home the following day, something had happened between my Uncle and Jet but neither would say what.  So after they left I tried asking Jet what was said, “Nothing, he’s just not
very happy that’s all.” Is all he would tell me.  I tried to stay at the dorm one night but ended up freaking out and slept in bed with Asher, on the nights that she was home I stayed in her room.  If she stayed at Mitch’s, I would stay with Jet. 

Kyle
was going to be charged with assault and battery and rape.  At his first court appearance he pled guilty, that meant that I wouldn’t have to go to court and tell the story over to a jury.  He was later sentenced to two years supervised probation.  He was not allowed with one hundred feet of me, Jet, Jerod, Jason, Mitch, or Asher.  He ended up moving back to Kansas and continuing school at Wesleyan.  He eventually had to go into rehab so he was going to finish his first year through online course.  His family apologized repeatedly to my family and informed them that he was in counseling for his mental issues.

As the weeks went by Jet would only kiss me and rub my stomach, he wouldn’t have sex with me or even touch me in that area.  One evening I got out of the shower and he was on his laptop, I walked over and stood there completely naked.  He glanced up from his laptop and looked me over from head to toe, “Yes?” he said.

“Is there a reason you don’t want to touch me anymore?”

“I want to, I just don’t think I should.”

“Really?”