Wing Of Change
Chapter 67

Frank has never felt so anxious in his entire life before as he sat there waiting for the doctor to finish reading through the file in his hands before having that talk with him.

As the clock tick by with no respond from the doctor who seemed to have forgotten he was even there_had Frank feeling more anxious than ever.

He couldn’t believe he was seating right there at that moment while the doctor was taking his bloody time to speak to him about what could possibly be wrong with Aria while on the other hand_ he could have been seating right beside her bed and making sure she is really alive and well.

“Doctor? Do I have to seat here all day or you are actually going to explain what could be wrong with my girlfriend” he paused for a bit before taking a deep breath to collect his racing thought. “..Is she going to be okay or do I have to take her to another hospital”

The doctor only shook his head as he reached over and place the file against the table before clasping both his hands together with hint of smile on his face.

“On the contrary sir, your girlfriend is just fine or should I say_both of them are perfectly fine”

“Both of them?” Frank had asked in confusion.

“Yes!_ She and the baby are doing just fine” the doctor had replied with a wide grin.

“She and the baby?”

“Your girlfriend is 12weeks pregnant” said the doctor in finality.

The word ‘pregnant’ only registered in Frank’s mind after a while before he found his voice and asked again.

“She is pregnant? My girlfriend is expecting a child?”

“Yes she is and she must have been through a lot of stress for her to have fainted. You need to take care of her and make sure she eat right and also to make sure she doesn’t stress herself more than she ought to”

Frank wasn’t listening to the doctor anymore as he quickly got back up on his feet before rushing through the door_leaving the doctor to stare at his retreating steps

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Aria stirred in her sleep a few times before her eyes flick open before trying to focus her gaze on the ceiling fan hanging above her head.

Everything was moving in slow motion with her eye lids getting heavier with each effort to actually stay awake.

Was she dead? She wasn’t sure she could move either as she lay on her back with that awful beeping sound, ringing in her ears.

Aria couldnt replace her voice when she tried to call for help and began to cough instead.

The beeping sound close to her bed was driving her crazy but that was not all. The strong antiseptic smell in the room was choking and making her nauseous and dizzy at the same time.

She decided to lay still for a bit after the coughing has subsided before she heard the door crack open with Henry walking into the room with hesitant steps.

“Hey!” He gave her a small little smile

Her eyes flick open again and just stay at him and for the first time in a long while_she felt grateful to have him there.

At least she isn’t alone!

“Where am I?” She heard herself ask Henry as he took two steps closer to where she laid.

“You are in the hospital” he answered simply before stopping beside her bed with a pained expression.

She tried to seat back up but Henry quickly held her back against the bed with both hands.

“You’re not that strong yet. Just lay down”

Aria let him guide her back to rest against the pillow before adding.

“What happened to me?”

“You fainted”

Aria only stared at him without saying a word. If she was lying in that bed at that moment then it could only be because of what Henry had just told her.

She could remember the wave of pain that hit her when she turned to walk away from him earlier. It was as if someone was trying to rip out something from her body by force.

Her mind traveled back to Frank and wandered if he was aware she has been admitted in the hospital.

Would he even care about her if he knew she was dying in the hospital? There was only one way to replace out still, so she decided to call him as she began to search for her phone around the room.

“Where is my phone? I need to call someone”

“If you are thinking about calling your boyfriend, then fret not_he is already here and talking to the doctor that attended to you in his office”

Aria wasn’t exactly sure if Henry was telling the truth because he was looking too carefree to be taken seriously.

“But how did he found out?_Were you the one that called him?”

He took a deep sigh as he shifted under her eyes.

“No I didn’t. He came looking for you after you arrived at my door and met me outside trying to get you here so here we are”

Aria’s eyes grew wider the moment she realized what it meant for Frank to replace them like that. She could just imagined all the drama that might have occurred before getting her to the hospital and she couldn’t help but laugh about it.

“What’s funny?”

“Nothing!_” she paused before adding. “…did he hit you again?”

“No but he threatened to kill me if he found out I had anything to do with what happened to you earlier”

Henry’s genuine fright over Frank alleged threat only made her to smile a bit wider before composing herself at last.

“Thank you” she told him.

He only replied with a shrug before the door crack open again with Frank rushing through.

He was about to say something before he noticed Henry standing by her bedside and paused.

“What are you doing here?”

“I was just leaving”

Frank watched with narrowed eyes until Henry finally slipped out the door before he turned back at Aria who was looking at him with hitched breath.

Aria reached out her hand_ signaling for Frank to come closer and hold her hands but he didn’t oblige her which made her to become visibly worried as she began to fidget with the sheet instead.

“What did the doctor say it’s wrong with me” she had asked staring wryly at Frank.

Frank whose anger was evident had quickly closed the distance to where she laid as he stood staring down at her with fury written all over him.

“When exactly were you planing to tell me you are expecting a child”

Aria whose mouth was agape could only stare back at Frank without saying a single word.

Did she heard correctly or he’d mentioned her to be expecting a child!

Her left hand wandered from her bedside and rested against her rather flat abdomen as she gasp for breath.

She was pregnant?

How come she never noticed the signs.

“The doctor said am pregnant?” She heard herself asked out loud.

“Oh please! Will you stop with the theatrics already? The doctor said you are three f*****g months pregnant Aria!” He practically yelled at her.

“But…but_I” Aria could only stammer not knowing how to react to all the information at once.

Frank whose patience was running thin could only throw his hands into mid air in total frustration.

“Just stop okay? Stop!. What I want to know is who the father is”

His question got Aria snapping back at him almost immediately with the same tone of voice and aggression.

“What do you mean who the father is.. Who else could it be if not you Frank?”

“Am the father? What about the one who just walked out of here? Am I wrong to think he could also be the father of your child?”

“What? You are joking right? I mean_you can’t seriously be dragging Henry into this are you?”

Frank could only answer her question with a careless shrug confirming to her that he meant exactly what he had just said.

Aria had to bite down at her lower lips in order to keep herself from bursting out in tears.

Her chest was burning out in anger while Frank on the other hand wasn’t having a merry time either as he kept pacing around before turning back to stare at her.

“Don’t blame me okay? I don’t know what to think anymore. I mean not after your f*****g neighbor came into the picture”

Aria couldnt hold back her tears at this point as they began to pool in her eyes and clouding her vision.

She couldn’t recognized the man standing before her no matter how hard she tried and it wasn’t because of her clouded vision_heck the man standing right there and injecting her with so much venom and vile could not be the same man who she has loved with everything.

This man before her was staring at her with so much contempt and disgust. So much so that he can’t even realize the truth staring right at him in the face.

She couldn’t let him see her cry any more than he already has as she began to wipe off the last drop of tears with her back hands and sniff back the rest with a new kind of rage burning through her veins.

“You know what? If that’s how you feel about this baby then you are free to leave and think whatever the heck you dim fit. But if you must know? This baby is officially mine and mine alone so get out!” She had yelled with all her might.

Frank only stared at her for a moment before he turned around and walked out the door just like she thought he would.

He didn’t believe her still.

Nothing would ever make him believe her.

Not even a pregnancy that was his.

She knows that now.