on the dance floor,” Dana said. Julie’s eyes
were now wider than ever. “He also might have been a college
guy,” Dana added in a soft voice. Julie looked at her boss in
surprise wondering whether she was proud or embarrassed.
“ Just
how deep was this dance?” she asked.
“ Well,
let’s just say that his business was on mine and I didn’t
resist when he cupped a feel of my ass,” Dana said. She looked
at Julie and shrugged. “And the fact that I had an orgasm while
dancing says a lot about my sex life,” Dana said.
“ Okay, I
don’t want to be the one to legitimize infidelity but first
make sure you sort out your marriage issues first before you even
decide on bedding random college guys you meet in a club,” she
said as she looked at her boss.
Dana shrugged and took another
bite of her food.
“ That
depends on whether he will even give me the time of day,” Dana
said but Julie didn’t hear her. She was having another tidal
wave that was her cramps. She knew that cramps were a normal
occurrence in a pregnancy but at this point, she was questioning all
the information she had read from mybabybump.com.
“ Just
don’t do something stu…darn it!” Julie suddenly
said as she shut her eyes tightly.
Dana looked at her and raised an
eyebrow over the other.
“ Okay
it’s not that bad,” Dana said as she took another bite of
her food.
Julie looked at her and tried
forcing a smile as she took a long sip of her ginger ale. She was
fine for the next few minutes but it was not long before she felt
another wave ripping through her tummy. She was trying as hard as she
could not to show Dana that she was feeling anything but Dana had
already noticed a few minutes earlier. When Julie took a bite, she
suddenly cringed when she felt a pain shoot through her. Dana looked
at her and raised an eyebrow in concern.
“ You
okay? Because you look like you just bit through a salty patch in a
blueberry muffin,” she said.
Julie
rubbed her tummy and took a long deep breath.
“ Nothing,
just a cramp,” she said before taking one last sip of her
ginger ale. She was just about to order another one when she felt yet
another cramp. This was so much more intense than the last one. When
the pain wave finally passed, her cheeks were flushed.
Dana
looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
“ Aren’t
you supposed to give birth next month?” she asked. Julie
nodded. “Juelz, I don’t want to alarm you or anything but
I think we have to get you to the hospital,” Dana said as she
threw a few bills on the table.
Julie
put a hand up and shook her head.
“ Oh
come on, I am still a few weeks shy of popping this big ol’
bump,” she said trying hard to smile.
“ Yeah
but still…you are not supposed to be in pain,” Dana said
as she stood up. She grabbed her purse and Julie’s purse and
helped her up. “Come on, we have to go,” she said as
Julie got on her feet. She turned around and looked at Dana.
“ So,
are you trying to say that I’m in labor or something?”
she asked.
Dana
sighed. She had no idea what this was all about and she also didn’t
want to upset Julie.
“ I’m
no doctor but this is definitely not good,” she said. Julie
took a long deep breath as she felt another cramp coming on. “How
far apart are the contractions?” Dana asked.
Julie
looked at her, confused and scared at the same time.
“ Contractions?”
she asked in a loud voice.
“ Ahem…um…I
mean the cramping,” Dana said trying to calm her down.
Julie
looked at her and shrugged.
“ I
don’t know…every half hour maybe,” she said. Dana
reached for her phone and handed it to Julie.
“ Call
your doctor. Tell her we are on the way,” she said as they made
their way outside.
*****
Steven
looked around at the show house and smiled. It was the most beautiful
thing he had seen in a long time: a five bed four bath bachelor pad
with a poolside dining room. He had even asked for black marble
flooring to complement the
Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia