Free Give Me Desire (Reason Series) by Zoey Derrick

really not want to know?"  
    I think about it for a minute. What are the reasons to not know? Other than the surprise when it's born? "I guess I kinda forgot about the envelope. I haven't seen it since you gave it to me. But yes." I smile wide. "Yes, I want to know."
    Dr. A., in a very uncharacteristic manner, starts clapping excitedly. I can't help but laugh at her reaction.  
    "Come on, let's have a look." She stands, comes around her desk, heads toward a door next to the main door into her office and opens it.  
    I stand hesitantly, not sure where she's taking me.  
    "I have a private ultrasound and exam room in here."  
    Oh.
    I follow her into the room. This room is a little bit more clinical, but it’s still decorated in the light tans with red as an accent color, and it looks nice. There are a couple of monitors near the head of a short bed that has stirrups coming off of the end.  
    "I'm going to step back into my office. I would like you to remove your pants and underwear." She hands me a blanket, similar to the one that was on my hospital bed. It is far from warm, but it beats sitting here naked. "Climb up and cover yourself with this when you're done. Once we're done with Mikah and the ultrasound, I'd like to do an internal examination, if that's alright."  
    I nod and she turns to leave.

TWENTY
    After just a minute or so I hear her knock. "You all set?" she asks through the door.  
    "Yeah," I call back, and she comes in.  
    "Go ahead and lie back," she says as the thing in her hand starts ringing. It's not a phone; it’s similar, but bigger, white with the Apple logo on the underside. She pushes a button and waits. "Hi, Mikah," she says and then turns the machine toward me.  
    "Hi, beautiful," he says to me, and I can see his smile, big and bright.  
    "Hi," I say, blushing at his words.  
    "Mikah, Vivienne has decided that she wants to know the sex of her baby. Do you want to know, too?" Dr. A. asks.  
    Mikah's face lights up. "If she wants to know, then I'd like to know, too." The whole time he says this, it's as though his eyes are boring into me, searching, seeking, wanting. Similar to the way he looked at me when I first met him at the diner.  
    "Okay then," Dr. A. says. She walks around to the other side of the bed from the ultrasound machine and places the device into a holder of some sort that is attached to the bed. "How's the view, Mikah?"
    I now notice the little image in the corner of the screen that shows what Mikah can see. It isn't much, really: a little bit of my bump, but more of the machine that Dr. Alston is now standing at. She turns the monitor toward us. "This might be a little shaky on your end, Mikah."
    "Alright. Viv, you okay?"  
    "Yeah," I say to Mikah.
    Dr. A. proceeds to push my sweatshirt and tank top up so that my belly is exposed. Once that’s done, she goes for the bottle and squirts nice, warm gel along the lower half of my belly. Then she brings out the small, flat-headed wand and gently presses it to my stomach.  
    Everything is very quiet as Dr. Alston does her thing with pushing buttons.  
    I can see the baby's heart pumping wildly. She pushes another button and the echoing sound of a heartbeat fills the room.  
    She moves the wand around a little more and the head comes into focus. It looks similar to last time, but this time it's bigger; there isn't as much black surrounding the baby as the first time.  
    She points to the monitor. "There are the eyes, nose, lips and chin. See this string of pearls? That's the baby's spine." I watch as the baby moves. "Oh, I see. A little showoff." She laughs and moves the wand again. "There's an arm, and the other one is...right there." She moves her finger up on the screen, pointing at a faint, translucent white line in the background, leading up to a cluster of shorter white lines. "The other hand."  
    She moves her hand down further on the screen at the same time she moves the wand. "A leg," she says.  
    I'm starting