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thankfully it was the only smell today that didn’t make me sick. “Trust me. You don’t want to kiss me right now.”
    Joe gave me a crooked smile and pecked my forehead just as the doctor tapped on the door as she entered.
    “Well, hello, Molly. Long time no see.” She quipped, giving Joe the same head to toe perusal all straight, red-blooded woman did.
    “Yeah.” I huffed. “Right.”
    “I’ve got good news. I know why you’re sick.”
    “That was fast. I thought you had to send the labs off somewhere.” I replied with a frown.
    “The urine test was plenty. It’s your birth control.” She replied, and relief washed over me.
    “Okay. So I should stop taking them?” I asked.
    “Yep. Pregnant women shouldn’t take the pill.” She responded dryly, and I recoiled as if she’d struck me.
    “What?” Joe’s tone was flat and his face expressionless. The doctor cocked an eyebrow at him and took a seat, plugging in her computer.
    “There must be some mistake.” I stammered, turning from Joe to the doctor.
    “HCG in the urine doesn’t lie.” She tapped at her keys without looking at me. “Remember when I said you needed a backup method for the first month on the pill?”
    My stomach dropped like I’d just crested the top of a roller coaster. “Yes.”
    “That wasn’t a suggestion.” She scolded. I turned to Joe, whose eyes were wide.
    “But…we did.” He took the words right out of my mouth. His eyes narrowed and then darted from left to right, as if he were replaying every time we’d ever had sex.
    “Every time? For the full four weeks?” The doctor stopped typing and turned to us. She looked doubtful.
    “Yes…” I nodded. “Religiously.”
    “Hmm…” She crossed to me and started pushing on the area below my belly button. “Any condom malfunctions?’
    “Not since she’s been on the pill.” Joe’s serious face left no margin for error.
    I remembered the broken condom a couple of weeks before I started the pill and when Joe’s eyes met mine I could see he did, too.
    “Well…we did a urine pregnancy test the day I wrote you the prescription. It’s possible that you might have been too early for it to detect the HCG.”
    “Wait.” Joe sat forward, his sharp eyes fixed on her. “Are you saying she’s been pregnant since before she started the pill?”
    “Based on the size of her uterus, yes.” Something on the doctor’s face disturbed me. “When was your last period?”
    “Umm… June? I’ve had a little spotting since I started taking the pills, but when I called the office the nurse said it was normal to have some breakthrough bleeding.” Thinking about these details stripped the gears of my mind. All I could think was ‘baby’.
    “I really want you to see an OB/Gyn.” She now wore a poker face that made me miss her smart ass comments. “Let me see if they can work you in today.”
    “Is something wrong?” Joe demanded, and my eyes shot to him. His face looked pale. “Can taking the pill hurt the baby?”
    “That’s very unlikely. But based on my exam, she really should have seen an OB already. Let me make a call. You can go ahead and get dressed, Molly.”
    She unplugged her computer and left the room in a flurry. I sat up and stared at the closed door in shock.
    “What the hell just happened?” I turned to Joe, whose gaze met mine. He blinked at me blankly.
    “I…I guess we’re having a baby.” He replied. We simply looked at one another for a full minute. Unable to process in my state of shock, I started to dress in a daze. When he spoke again, there was amusement behind his words. “I told you not to open the wrappers with your teeth.”
    I whipped my head in his direction and the twinkle in his eyes stunned me. “Joe, this isn’t funny.”
    He looked down, appropriately admonished and that made me laugh.
    “Okay…it was a little funny. But seriously!” I threw my shirt over my head and felt my cheeks burning. “If it was that night after