said.
“Okay baby look at mommy and smile.” the doctor said to the screen. Joy laughed at this and studied the screen. She couldn’t make too much out. When the doctor was finished, she wiped Joy’s stomach off and pulled her gown down. She reached on the side of the machine and tore off the paper on the side. Joy could see they were sonogram pictures. She handed Joy the last two. She kept the rest, told Joy she would be back to talk to her after she checked her test results.
They only had to wait five more minutes until the doctor returned. She said that everything was okay with the baby and with Joy. She ordered her to take it easy and to get prenatal care right away. She gave Joy a prescription for prenatal vitamins and said it was okay for them to leave.
Now inside the car, it was nothing but silence. Joy let out a loud breath. She should be happy that her baby was okay. The problem in the backseat overshadow that Joy turned around and looked at Tanya, who was crying.
Her entire nose was bandaged and her face was swollen.
“Would you shut the fuck up?”
“You broke my nose in three places. You lucky I didn’t press charges.”
“No bitch. You lucky.” Joy threatened.
Tanya saw something in Joy’s eyes she never noticed before and backed down. She slumped back and continued to whimper.
Joy turned back around and glared at Kevin. He looked straight ahead at the road. After spending five hours in the ER, Joy was exhausted. She wanted to leave Tanya there, looking pitiful, but Kevin insisted that they take her with them.
Finally, they reached Kevin’s apartment. When Tanya went to get out the car, Joy stopped her.
“Wait right here.”
She took Kevin’s keys and went inside his apartment. She returned with the bag that she guessed were Tanya’s things from out of Kevin’s living room.
“You just going to let her do this to me?” Tanya asked Kevin.
“You ask me to take you to the bus station, that’s what I’m going do.” he said, following Joy’s lead.
Chapter Eleven
After they got rid of Tanya, Joy thought her Kevin would be nothing but happier. Watching Tanya get on the bus was the last time she actually felt any kind of Joy. Three weeks had passed by and all she wanted to do was lay around and eat. She wasn’t showing but she had a slight bulge to her belly.
She couldn’t stand the sight of Kevin. Everything he did bothered her all of the sudden. She found herself putting the cap on the toothpaste after him, putting the items back he used to make a sandwich. If he breathed too hard while he slept, she would wake up and then couldn’t go back to sleep.
She chalked it up to them spending too much time together. She still had the money in her bag and she carried around where ever she went, even to the bathroom. When Kevin commented on it she just told him that she took the bag just in case she needed something and she knew that she wouldn’t feel like getting up. He left her alone, calling her lazy.
When she got back to Kevin’s the night after the incident with Tanya, she had looked for a hiding place but she wasn’t sure if it would go unfound. She wanted to spend it and at least buy some new clothes. She hadn’t left the apartment in three weeks and stayed naked.
She constantly fought Kevin off because he took her nakedness as her invitation that she wanted sex. She couldn’t stand having sex with him anymore. That didn’t stop Kevin from trying to get her in the mood.
“Kevin I don’t feel like.” Joy whined as Kevin kissed her neck.
“Can you at least suck it, something?” he took her hand and pressed it on his rock hard dick.
“No.” she said, and turned her back on him.
“Joy. It’s been a minute. You don’t even care. Other pregnant women don’t have a problem having sex with their man.”
“What the fuck does that mean?” she yelled, turned back around to face him.
“It means what I said.”
“You better not be throwing that bitch