Nick stepped out of the doctors surgery and looked around for Brian who was waiting anxiously in the car.
"What did she say?"
"I'm pregnant." They sat in silence for a few minutes.
"We'd better get back to the hotel." Brian said, Nick just nodded mutely. "Do we need to stop of at a chemists or anything on the way?" Brian asked, noticing the piece of paper clutched in Nick's hand.
"It's a leaflet." Nick replied. "Telling me about my options."
"Your options?" Brian echoed as he manoeuvred the car out of the parking lot.
"I guess she could tell that I wasn't exactly thrilled when she told me so she gave me this. It's about adoption and abortion and stuff like that."
"Adoption and abortion?"
"I don't need a fucking echo, Brian."
"Sorry, it's just hard to get my head round it."
"Tell me about it."
"So are you thinking about those, as options I mean?" Brian asked.
"I dunno. I guess I should consider every option. The doctor said that abortion isn't as simple for men as it is for women and it would probably mean that I would never be able to carry a child. I don't know how I feel about that really." Nick sighed.
"Yeah, you might want to one day." Brian agreed.
"I don't know if I'd consider adoption as a serious option. How am I supposed to hide the fact that I'm pregnant from the public. Even if I disappeared out of the public eye the press or the fans would find out, they always do."
"They don't mean any harm by it, or at least the fans don't anyway."
"I know. I really don't want to tell Kevin, Rok."
"I know, but there's no other way round it. He has a right to know, and he deserves a chance to do the right thing. What he does after that is out of our hands. You're absolutely sure that it's his?"
"Yes, Brian. God. do you really think I'd be putting myself through this torture if I wasn't? It'd be so much easier to just pretend that I didn't know and have to wait until the baby's born to have a paternity test. That way he can't say it's not his."
"You think that's what he's going to do?" Brian asked.
"After he's hit the roof and yelled at me for being stupid and letting it happen. It'd be so much easier if it was yours or AJ's."
"I know. Maybe you could just pretend not to know."
"I suck at lying, Brian, you know that. And I'm even worse at it when it's Kevin that I'm lying to." Nick sighed and sunk lower in his seat.
"What else did the doctor say?" Brian asked curiously.
"That I need to take it easy. No smoking, no drinking, no eating mayonnaise and crap like that. I need to make an appointment at the hospital for a twelve week scan..."
"You're twelve weeks already?" Brian gasped.
"No, I'm 2 weeks, I told you. But I have to make an appointment and I need to go in before that as well to talk about my due date and everything." Nick pulled a face.
"Can I...I mean..Can I come with you?" Brian asked, not sure how Nick would react.
"Well I'm not going on my fucking own." Nick replied.
"Ok, we can make the appointment when we get back. When do you think you're going to tell Kevin?"
"How does never sound?"
"Great right now but you'll regret it later."
"I can't win either way."
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