Chapter 12When Emily and Molly pulled into the parking lot of Dr. Brown’s office they were surprised to see a picket line of people outside the office with signs and posters doing anything they could to draw attention to the office. There were police cars with lights flashing and cops running around frantically trying to make some sort of order with everything going on. Emily wished she wouldn’t have come here, she wished she would have just stayed home and enjoyed the time she had with Molly even if they didn’t need to do anything to get Dr. Brown arrested.
Emily and Molly got out of the car and walked over to the group of people crowding around the door. They pushed their way to the front just in time to watch detective Stevens and 2 other officers escorting Dr. Brown and his office workers to the police cars. Emily noticed when Dr. Brown looked up and their eyes met. She knew he blamed her for this. It wasn’t until that moment that she felt scared. Not only for herself but for Caleb and Molly, and any possible children either one of them would ever have.
The whole way home neither of them spoke a word. Molly knew how Emily was feeling and she felt the same way.
When they got home Emily was surprised to see that Caleb was home from work already.
“Where were you?” He asked barely giving her 2 minutes to walk through the door. He blushed when he saw Molly follow behind her. He had forgotten that she was coming this week.
“I got a call from detective Stevens today, they arrested Dr. Brown I went to be there at the office when they arrested him, and I don’t want to hear you get upset about it either, I needed to be there Caleb.” She said not looking him in the eyes. She loved him very much but she knew that he wouldn’t understand why she had to do it. To her surprise he didn’t fight with her but wrapped his arms around her for a big hug. She felt safe in his arms.
The week went by fast for Emily and Molly and soon it was Saturday night and they were saying goodbye at the airport. They promised to keep in touch by phone and email and Emily watched Molly’s figure become nothing as she walked into the terminal to board her plane. She walked back over to Caleb who was reading a magazine trying to give them some privacy. He wasn’t the type to complain but a whole week with 2 women was more than enough for him and he was happy that they were going to get the chance to be alone again.
Before Emily knew it 2 months had passed and Dr. Brown and everything that had happened seemed to be a huge blur to Caleb and Emily. Before they knew it they found themselves in Dr. Hayes office one more time but this visit was not what they expected.
They were not escorted to an exam room but back to Dr. Hayes office where they sat down in some chairs facing her desk. They waited as the nurse brought in Emily’s files and then she began to speak.
“Caleb, Emily…. Well before we were to start this next round of treatment for Emily we always run a full blood panel.” She said.
Emily looked at Caleb scared. She just knew there was going to be bad news. Something didn’t feel right in her body she knew something was wrong. Dr Hayes could see the fear in Emily’s eyes so she continued.
“Emily your HCG levels came back very high. Emily you’re pregnant.” Dr. Hayes said.
Emily couldn’t believe her ears. She was surprised because she had gotten a negative pregnancy test at home and didn’t really think she was pregnant. Caleb hugged her tighter than he had in a long time.
“Congratulations you two, now let’s get at time set up for your next appointment and I will write you a prescription for some prenatal vitamins and then we will go over into the next room and get a look at that baby.” Dr. Hayes said.
Emily was so excited and in shock she didn’t remember much of the rest of the appointment until the ultrasound when she saw something happen to Dr. Hayes eyes as she re-scanned a spot more than once. Emily was starting to worry and Caleb couldn’t see the screen where he was sitting. Finally after a lot of careful concentration Dr. Hayes turned to them with a huge smile on her face.
“Emily do you remember me telling you the risk of multiples with IVF?”
Emily nodded her head, she couldn’t believe it. They were having TWINS!!
“Well Emily…. Caleb….” She said turning the screen towards them. She used her finger as she pointed to the screen and counted out loud to them.
“One, two, three and four.” She said. “You’re having quadruplets.”
