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WHEN I FALL INLOVE

When I Fall Inlove-Episode 43

Writen by Ruthie Lee

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Holding my two weeks old baby boy in my hand, I heard my name from the resting room upstairs and head upstairs.

 Joel’s eyes were wide open and was looking around.

Babies around his age sleeps the whole day, but no he’s just so different.

 I walked into the room and saw Kathleen smiling with Mary.

“You won’t believe me when I say Mary took a step all by herself, all the way from here to over there.” Kathleen smiled pointing the distance Mary has walked.

 She was starting to look like herself again. She was eating properly, sleeping properly, I don’t really let her do anything, the only thing she do is feed Joel, I never even let her hold him. Her too skinny figure was the worst, I wanted her to be herself again.

“She should be able to walk, she’s almost twelve months” I smiled.

“You think?” Kathleen smiled and I nodded.

“Okay now, I want you to see for yourself, tell mary to come meet you over there.” Kathleen stated.

I sighed. “Mary, come to daddy” I smiled at Mary and she just stare at me.

“Come on Mary, go to daddy” Kathleen persuaded.

“Don’t tell me you’re shy, come on sweetie, Joel’s waiting to meet you.” I said and let out a smile.

Mary giggled happily and starts to walk towards me all by herself, her body and legs were wobbling, but she made she got to me.

“Good girl” I smiled down at her.

 Her hands stretched out to me and  I held Joel’s body well and grabbed Mary with my other hand.

 Mary sat on my arm and looked down at her half brother…

 She touched his face and immediately pulled her hands back to herself laughing.

“he’s cute isn’t he.” I smiled at Mary.

 “The fact that he looks like you makes him super cute” Kathleen chimed in.

“Well I know you’re wrong cause you’re super beautiful and you passed it down to Joel.” i smiled.

“How come I don’t see me when I look down at him but you” Kathleen’s smile was capturing.

“Oh and guess what, my mother will be coming over pretty soon.” I changed the subject immediately it hit me.

“Your mother?” Kathleen seemed thrilled.

“You know, I haven’t really tell her about you, or you being pregnant and then giving birth, she’ll probably choke me to death if she finds out without me telling her, so I’ll be breaking the news to her tonight.” I explained and Kathleen nodded and took Mary from me when Mary reached for her.

“I think Mary likes me more than you” Kathleen smiled..

“That’s because you spoiled her to.” I smirked.

“No I didn’t” Kathleen gasped.

“Yes you did.”

“Oh so, that’s why you’re trying so hard, so Joel can like so much.” Kathleen rolled her eyes.

“If that is what you think!” I arched my brows.

 Joel starts to move and was about to cry I think.

Kathleen looked down at her chest, I’m starting to get soaked “He’s hungry.” Kathleen smiled. 

“Oh” I said.

Kathleen dropped Mary and room Joel from me.

 I gave her privacy to feed Joel and went to make dinner, not that none of us cares about privacy.

 I prepared dinner and by then, Kathleen had already put Joel to sleep and had placed him in Mary’s crib, the crib no longer belongs to Mary but Joel.

  We had chicken fried rice that evening and of course Mary and Kathleen seemed to enjoy the meal more than me. Mary’s basically eats everything we eat now, she’s not a baby anymore, I mean she is but she’ll be one year soon. She has complete twenty teeth.

She’s growing up so well, even though some of her mates are still being breast fed, she’s still doing better.

“I love you soooo much..” Kathleen breathed out after dinner. 

“Just say you love the food. Don’t use me as an excuse” I scoffed and she laughed. 

“Okay, I love you both, but I love the food more.” Kathleen laughed and I rolled my eyes. 

She definitely didn’t look like someone who just gave birth, she still acts cute, juvenile, she’s funny and still ask a lot of questions too. Ymir has been coming here lately though, acting like an older sister to Kathleen, playing with Mary. She’s like almost part of the family. 

Family….! 

 I glanced at Kathleen who was busy telling Mary to let go of the plate so she’ll clear the table, I sighed to myself and shook my head. 

What the hell am I waiting for. 

  That moment a knock came in at the front door and I went to answer it. 

Nobody usually knocks on this door, but lately I think I will count it up to a hundred times, that I’ve heard that door being knocked over by none other than ymir or doctor Liam. 

 I opened the door and wasn’t surprised when I saw Liam. He seemed to be in a hurry. 

“Here! It’s getting late, this is what you asked for, I’ll be off then” Liam said shoving some papers in my hand and rushing to his car. 

 I closed the door and Kathleen quickly walked up to me…

“What’s that and who was that?” she asked curiously. 

“That was Liam.” I replied looking down at the papers carefully. 

  Days ago doctor Liam had take a blood sample from Leo. 

“This is Joel’s birth certificate” I smiled and Kathleen took it from me immediately grinning from ear to ear. 

“Wow” she breathed out. 

“Wow indeed, and this is the result for Joel’s blood test” I said and my lips curved into a happy smile.

 Kathleen’s blood test result clearly read that she wasn’t human, it showed in between a Nile tilapia and a human. But looking at Joel’s blood test it was showing how human he was.

 I took the certificate from Kathleen and smiled. “I’ll go put this where exactly Mary’s own is.”

“Do you have a birth certificate” Kathleen asked.

“of course” I laughed “Everyone does”

“I don’t” Kathleen frowned.

“Well that’s no problem cause we’ll make one for you” I smiled. 

“That’s great” Kathleen Beamed. 

 She looked down and then up again. 

“But i don’t have a birthday, the way we calculate our age is not the way you guys do.” Kathleen shrugged. 

“How do you mean.” 

“We get a year older each time the moon is full” Kathleen expound. 

“What the hell, who the hell implemented that messed up rule.” I scoffed. 

“Neptune” she replied. 

“It’s as stupid as him, anyways you can share my birthday! I’m August twelve” I smiled.

“perfect. And If I’m twenty six, I think you should be around twenty two?” I don’t know but she looks twenty two to me.

Kathleen seemed excited over that and that night she slept soundly with Mary beside her.

 That night I called my mother.

Her voice seemed like she was just waking up from a deep slumber.

“Hey mom” I said very lowly.

“Joseph? Why are you calling so late.” my bad, she sounded very sleepy.

“Sorry, I just want to talk to you about something, mom I have another son.” I quickly said.

“Another son?” my mom didn’t seem too surprised. “Let me guess, is it from that Kathleen girl”

I was stunned.

“How did you know Kath, I’ve never told you about her before.” I stated.

“Liam told me about your sweet Kathleen months ago, I wanted to come over to see who she was, but I didn’t want to be named as a nosy mom or a pushover, I just believe you know who you want best.” my mom words made me smile.

“I want you to come over mom, and you can be as pushy and nosy as you wish. You’re my mom anyways” I said.

I could feel her smile. “Go to bed,” she said and hung up.

 *

  *

 “Is this dress okay?” Kathleen asked arranging her, it’s growing long again, but well, she’s pretty either long or short.

“Just toss a shirt over your body and you’re looking good” I sighed.

“But your mother is coming over, how do you expect me not to look my best” she said shoving me over and unzipping the dress on her body.

“You’ve changed almost four times kath, you look great” I said stopping her from moving and zipping her cloth back up.

“look, my mom will love you” I smiled…

“You think so” she breathed out.

“I know so”

I took her face in my hands and kissed both her cheeks, she smiled and nodded.

 The suddenly opened and my mom walked in, for all the reasons in the word, she believes she’s not supposed to knock.

And wow she got here real fast.

 Kathleen seemed nervous all of a sudden. I held her hand and walked up to my mom.

“Mom” I smiled at her and my eyes immediately dart to my father who was walking in with a wrapped gift box.

“Dad” I smiled.

“Yeah, Joseph, go get me a glass of water, your old man’s thirsty” my dad said dropping the gift bag on the floor.

 I was about to go get it but Kathleen chimed in. “I’ll go get you a glass of water”

 Kathleen left for the kitchen and my parent’s eyes never left me as they asked.

“is she the Kathleen?” my mom asked.

“The one who just gave birth?” my dad added.

“Yes she is.” I replied.

“When did you guys even meet, everything is happening so fast or am I growing too old and now you have a second child” my mother scoffed and I laughed.

“We’ve met way back before Liam could tell” I Lied.

“So that means she was pregnant for before Suzanne left you?” my mom asked.

“Seems like it.” I Lied.

It’s better to lie this way than her being caught.

“So you both cheated on each other, you guys are the worst together, I never really like Suzanne from the start” my mom said and I laughed.

“You’re happy aren’t you?” my dad asked and I nodded.

“More than happy.” I smiled.

“And that’s the only thing that matters, now where is my little pumpkin pie” my dad asked.

“Ever since she starts to walk on her own, she’s been walking and sneaking around the house lately.

 My dad found Mary at the back of the couch and grabbed her immediately.

 Kathleen came back with the water and handed it to my dad in the most polite way, and seeing Kathleen Mary reach for her leaving my dad.

“Gracious goodness, you’re beautiful” my dad laughed staring at Kathleen as he took his water.

“Thank you” Kathleen glanced at me.

“She sure is” my mother smiled.

“Th..thank you Mrs… Mrs..

“Oh please, call me mom,” my mom rolled her eyes, and I could tell Kathleen almost burst with excitement hearing that.

“Now where is my grandson?” my mom asked…

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“Are you sure he’s a boy?” my dad asked looking down at sleeping Joel in his crib.

“What? Are you indirectly saying boys can’t be pretty?” I scoffed making Kathleen laugh and Kathleen also making Mary laugh too in her arms.

“boys can be pretty, but what your father meant is, Joel has a feminine beauty. He is sure going to be a heart throb.” my mother smiled.

“A heart throb?” Kathleen repeated. I know she doesn’t understand what that meant.

“He’s going to be a lady’s man, girls are going to go crazy for him, we’ll make sure to lock him up” I said and my parents Burst out laughing.

“The only one you should lock up is Mary over here, she’s not up to one year and she’s already a throbber, who’s not willing to stay intact” my dad said and I laughed.

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T. B. C 

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WHEN I FALL INLOVE

When I Fall Inlove-Episode 40

Writen by Ruthie Lee

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“Good morning” I said.

“Good morning dear Joseph” Doctor Liam said and he seemed to be in a really good mood. More of an exciting mood.

“And may I ask why you’re in such a glorious mood?” I smiled.

“Oh I’m so glad you asked, the girl in which I drew her blood yesterday, I went back to my lab, even though you didn’t accept my result saying my computer produced fake result, I still managed to work on the blood test and you wouldn’t believe what i found out about it. “

Oh no.

“You could have just left the case, I mean–

“I wanted to, but I’m glad I picked up the test again. And I was shocked.” Liam smiled  taking out some papers from his bag.

“Here”, he said and  gave me two different kind of papers.

 He brought out an extra paper and placed his brief case on the couch. The smile he held was more than I’ve ever see from him.

 He told me to look down at both of the papers.

“Now look, this a blood test result from a human, and this other paper is a blood test from a fish, this is just a common Nile tilapia fish blood test results. Now look at the lady’s blood test result I drew out days ago” Liam smiled and placed Kathleen’s blood test result in front of my eyes.

    “Now if you study this three results in front of your eyes, you can see how the lady’s result is almost the same to the fish result and the human result, And believe me, this is huge.” Liam laughed.

“I… I don’t think this is correct, maybe you should recheck.” I stuttered.

“No can do” Liam laughed. “I already checked this results more than twice, four in total and it kept saying the same thing I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Liam smiled.

I didn’t know what he said, I just watched as he smiled gloriously smiling at more papers he took from his bag.

“Is that copies of Kathleen’s result?” I asked.

“Yeah” He smiled looking at them.

“Can I see all of them?” I asked.

“Yeah sure” He gave me the papers taking off his glasses and cleaning his eyes with his handkerchief.

I took the remaining copies from him and tore it into pieces.

 He was dumbfounded by my action.

“Why did you do that?” he finally asked.

“It was an accident” I smiled.

“Well that seemed beyond an accident, it’s a good thing I had to back the file up in my computer.” Liam breathed out a sigh.

“Well how about you delete that file immediately you go back to your office!” I smirked.

“Why…? Why would I do that?” Liam asked blinking rapidly.

“Personal reasons.” I smiled.

Liam looked at me carefully, he moved his grey hair back and smiled.

“Do you know something Joseph?” Liam scoffed.

“Know something, what do you mean, know something?” I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Joseph I’ve known you all your life. You can’t possibly keep anything from me can you?” Liam asked sitting down.

“And what can I possibly keep from you?” I threw back the question.

“I don’t know, but I think you do!” Liam stated.

“What are you implying?” I scoffed.

“Nothi-

Doctor Liam paused when he noticed Kathleen walking into the living room. 

“Joseph…” Kathleen called walking up to me with sleepy eyes. 

“Miss Kathleen!” Liam suddenly smiled and walked up to Kathleen. 

Of course Kathleen recognized him and put up a warm smile immediately “Doctor… Li..

“Doctor Liam” Liam helped and Kathleen smiled. 

“How are you and your baby?” Liam smiled. 

“We’re both fine.” Kathleen smiled. 

“Good to hear” Liam smiled.

“So I checked your blood and the test resu–

“Kathleen!” I called cutting Liam off. “Can you uhm… Give Liam and I a moment?” I smiled at Kathleen and she nodded and walked away.

“Why won’t you let me talk to her.” Liam was furious.

“Look, Liam, I know you as not the inquisitive type, and I just called you here to tell me how Kathleen will be doing if she’s going to be alright, what is actually wrong with her, but here you are telling me about how you mixed a fish DNA and a lady’s DNA, just tell me what to make her feel better.” I sighed.

 Liam seemed discouraged by my attitude and he sighed and opened his briefcase fully.

“She didn’t seem to be going through stress or anything, she’s very healthy, but I don’t understand why she got so tired that here, but I brought some shots for her that will totally make her feel better, I mean she’s pregnant and women and their type of bodies. If you want i can come here, every Tuesday and Thursday to give her some treatments that will help her with her stability, cause she’s more skinner than the last time I came here” Liam shook his head.

“No kidding.” I sighed.

“When my son’s wife was pregnant-

“she almost weighed one hundred pounds in one month, you’ve told me that story a million times Liam” I smiled and he laughed.

“What I’m just trying to say is, she might get more skinner than this but it’s just her body and the baby will be okay.” Liam said and I nodded.

Even he sees how skinny Kathleen’s getting.

“How is dear Mary!” Liam asked.

“She’s asleep and fine.” I replied.

“I remembered when Suzanne was pregnant with her and how she always–

“You do nothing else but always remember.” I cut him off and he laughed.

“Anyways Jojo I’ll be leaving after miss Kathleen take these shots.” Liam smiled.

“I warned you not to call me that anymore when I turned fifteen, I can’t believe you” I shook my head Negatively.

“And you should know by now that I don’t listen to what you say.” Liam added and we both laughed.

    Though Liam was way older than me to be a father, he was like a best friend and a family too, he was just a doctor who helped my mom through her pregnancy days for me, and suddenly became our own private doctor and now he feels like family too.

*

  Kathleen came back to the living room to take her shots doctor Liam got for her, while the syringe was piercing into her hand she didn’t even flinch. And when I got a flu some years ago and had to take some shots, I almost cried and Suzanne just laughed at me.  

 After giving Kathleen the shots, she gave her some pills and told her when to take them. 

Before Liam left, he asked me. 

“Do you know anything about the test results?” 

“I don’t know what or where you’re trying to get to but can you drop that Liam for me…” I said and he sighed. 

“But this is huge, how can a human blood reads a human and also a fish and believe me when I say no body has ever disc–

 Liam stopped talking when he read my eyes.

“Alright, I’ll drop the case, it’s stupid anyways” Liam sighed.

“Yeah it is, cause if I can read your mind you’re basically thinking you’ve discovered something new, but what if you got some fish blood into Kathleen’s blood and now you’re ranting about how this and that are fish, are you trying to say Kathleen blood is abnormal?” I arched my brows at him and he laughed.

“Of course not. You know what. Let’s not talk about this anymore, send my greetings to your parents.”  Liam smiled before leaving.

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 That night right after dinner, Kathleen took out her pills and I thought she was going to swallow it with the help of water, but after bringing out the different pills and amount she’s supposed to take she threw it all in her mouth and starts to chew it, before I could tell her about the swallowing which was way easy.

 Kathleen faced squeezed tightly and she turned to me.

I laughed. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s bitter.” she squeezed her face even more.

“I understand, you haven’t taken pills before, but pills isn’t candy, you didn’t even let me tell you how to take them.” I laughed.

 She grabbed the water in front of her and gulped it in one go.

Kathleen breathed out a sigh. “That’s better.” she smiled.

 “Yeah, water makes everything better.” I smiled too.

“But do you think all these pills and portions I’m taking are going to help me? You know I’m not like you guys.” Kathleen.

“Not like us?” I scoffed. “We’re a the same Kathleen” I let out a warm smile and she Beamed.

 Mary made a gag in front of us and we smiled at her too.

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 That night we slept soundly and the next day, Kathleen seemed to be fine again.

 Days turned into weeks and Kathleen’s stomach grew more than it was supposed to, it was scary because it seemed unreal, every Tuesday and Thursday, I had to go meet doctor Liam in his office to get Kathleen’s pills because I was afraid of him coming to my home and seeing Kathleen’s stomach grow Like it was already completing the eight to nine months stages.

   From my views, the pills Kathleen took was really helping cause as the stomach grew she grew skinny but not a day, she felt weak, I still kept my words and I supported her with every bone in my body, though I was worried.

 Weeks turned into months and that’s we lived, everything at home was for Kathleen, she eats like a lion and changes mood every single Second, she was mostly happy and half angry, whenever she was angry Mary was the only person who could calm her down, cause anytime she would be angry, Mary would never fail to smile at her, it was like Mary was reading her.

It was like deja vu of Kathleen’s medicine every single day, but still yet I enjoyed her company and never liked to imagine what the house would be like without Kathleen or Mary here. 

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 Kathleen and I celebrated when we noticed Mary’s teeth has gotten to eight, it was four at the bottom and four at the top, it’s been two months now and whenever she’s alone, she’s always trying to stand on her own, even if she can’t stand without holding on to something. Kathleen stomach became scarier and so did she, it was like her skin had dried against her bones, I always try to think it was nothing, doctor Liam had stopped prescribing pills for her saying it was for the best and I didn’t for once dare to look at Kathleen like she was going to break even if she looked that way.

–

  It was sunny afternoon, Kathleen, Mary and I were in the living room, while Kathleen and Mary were bonding like real mother and daughter, I sat on the couch with my phone having a text conversation with Martins.

 I knock came on the door and I went to attend to the door. It was Ymir, it’s been ages since she came here.

“Where is Ymir?” she quickly asked “she hasn’t given birth yet right?” she rushed her words.

“No she hasn’t, its just three months why would she give birth.” I scoffed.

“I’m sure her stomach’s bigger than your head, it should have been the perfect explanation for you that, the baby inside Kathleen’s stomach will be out in any days n–

Ymir and I both heard Kathleen’s voice from the living room and we rushed to her immediately to see her on her feet panicking, underneath her open  legs, the floor was a bit wet.

“I think I peed” she said in a panicked voice.

“It’s not pee, your water just broke.”  Ymir stated.

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T. B. C.

WHEN I FALL INLOVE

When I Fall Inlove-Episode 40

Writen by Ruthie Lee

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“Good morning” I said.

“Good morning dear Joseph” Doctor Liam said and he seemed to be in a really good mood. More of an exciting mood.

“And may I ask why you’re in such a glorious mood?” I smiled.

“Oh I’m so glad you asked, the girl in which I drew her blood yesterday, I went back to my lab, even though you didn’t accept my result saying my computer produced fake result, I still managed to work on the blood test and you wouldn’t believe what i found out about it. “

Oh no.

“You could have just left the case, I mean–

“I wanted to, but I’m glad I picked up the test again. And I was shocked.” Liam smiled  taking out some papers from his bag.

“Here”, he said and  gave me two different kind of papers.

 He brought out an extra paper and placed his brief case on the couch. The smile he held was more than I’ve ever see from him.

 He told me to look down at both of the papers.

“Now look, this a blood test result from a human, and this other paper is a blood test from a fish, this is just a common Nile tilapia fish blood test results. Now look at the lady’s blood test result I drew out days ago” Liam smiled and placed Kathleen’s blood test result in front of my eyes.

    “Now if you study this three results in front of your eyes, you can see how the lady’s result is almost the same to the fish result and the human result, And believe me, this is huge.” Liam laughed.

“I… I don’t think this is correct, maybe you should recheck.” I stuttered.

“No can do” Liam laughed. “I already checked this results more than twice, four in total and it kept saying the same thing I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Liam smiled.

I didn’t know what he said, I just watched as he smiled gloriously smiling at more papers he took from his bag.

“Is that copies of Kathleen’s result?” I asked.

“Yeah” He smiled looking at them.

“Can I see all of them?” I asked.

“Yeah sure” He gave me the papers taking off his glasses and cleaning his eyes with his handkerchief.

I took the remaining copies from him and tore it into pieces.

 He was dumbfounded by my action.

“Why did you do that?” he finally asked.

“It was an accident” I smiled.

“Well that seemed beyond an accident, it’s a good thing I had to back the file up in my computer.” Liam breathed out a sigh.

“Well how about you delete that file immediately you go back to your office!” I smirked.

“Why…? Why would I do that?” Liam asked blinking rapidly.

“Personal reasons.” I smiled.

Liam looked at me carefully, he moved his grey hair back and smiled.

“Do you know something Joseph?” Liam scoffed.

“Know something, what do you mean, know something?” I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Joseph I’ve known you all your life. You can’t possibly keep anything from me can you?” Liam asked sitting down.

“And what can I possibly keep from you?” I threw back the question.

“I don’t know, but I think you do!” Liam stated.

“What are you implying?” I scoffed.

“Nothi-

Doctor Liam paused when he noticed Kathleen walking into the living room. 

“Joseph…” Kathleen called walking up to me with sleepy eyes. 

“Miss Kathleen!” Liam suddenly smiled and walked up to Kathleen. 

Of course Kathleen recognized him and put up a warm smile immediately “Doctor… Li..

“Doctor Liam” Liam helped and Kathleen smiled. 

“How are you and your baby?” Liam smiled. 

“We’re both fine.” Kathleen smiled. 

“Good to hear” Liam smiled.

“So I checked your blood and the test resu–

“Kathleen!” I called cutting Liam off. “Can you uhm… Give Liam and I a moment?” I smiled at Kathleen and she nodded and walked away.

“Why won’t you let me talk to her.” Liam was furious.

“Look, Liam, I know you as not the inquisitive type, and I just called you here to tell me how Kathleen will be doing if she’s going to be alright, what is actually wrong with her, but here you are telling me about how you mixed a fish DNA and a lady’s DNA, just tell me what to make her feel better.” I sighed.

 Liam seemed discouraged by my attitude and he sighed and opened his briefcase fully.

“She didn’t seem to be going through stress or anything, she’s very healthy, but I don’t understand why she got so tired that here, but I brought some shots for her that will totally make her feel better, I mean she’s pregnant and women and their type of bodies. If you want i can come here, every Tuesday and Thursday to give her some treatments that will help her with her stability, cause she’s more skinner than the last time I came here” Liam shook his head.

“No kidding.” I sighed.

“When my son’s wife was pregnant-

“she almost weighed one hundred pounds in one month, you’ve told me that story a million times Liam” I smiled and he laughed.

“What I’m just trying to say is, she might get more skinner than this but it’s just her body and the baby will be okay.” Liam said and I nodded.

Even he sees how skinny Kathleen’s getting.

“How is dear Mary!” Liam asked.

“She’s asleep and fine.” I replied.

“I remembered when Suzanne was pregnant with her and how she always–

“You do nothing else but always remember.” I cut him off and he laughed.

“Anyways Jojo I’ll be leaving after miss Kathleen take these shots.” Liam smiled.

“I warned you not to call me that anymore when I turned fifteen, I can’t believe you” I shook my head Negatively.

“And you should know by now that I don’t listen to what you say.” Liam added and we both laughed.

    Though Liam was way older than me to be a father, he was like a best friend and a family too, he was just a doctor who helped my mom through her pregnancy days for me, and suddenly became our own private doctor and now he feels like family too.

*

  Kathleen came back to the living room to take her shots doctor Liam got for her, while the syringe was piercing into her hand she didn’t even flinch. And when I got a flu some years ago and had to take some shots, I almost cried and Suzanne just laughed at me.  

 After giving Kathleen the shots, she gave her some pills and told her when to take them. 

Before Liam left, he asked me. 

“Do you know anything about the test results?” 

“I don’t know what or where you’re trying to get to but can you drop that Liam for me…” I said and he sighed. 

“But this is huge, how can a human blood reads a human and also a fish and believe me when I say no body has ever disc–

 Liam stopped talking when he read my eyes.

“Alright, I’ll drop the case, it’s stupid anyways” Liam sighed.

“Yeah it is, cause if I can read your mind you’re basically thinking you’ve discovered something new, but what if you got some fish blood into Kathleen’s blood and now you’re ranting about how this and that are fish, are you trying to say Kathleen blood is abnormal?” I arched my brows at him and he laughed.

“Of course not. You know what. Let’s not talk about this anymore, send my greetings to your parents.”  Liam smiled before leaving.

.

 That night right after dinner, Kathleen took out her pills and I thought she was going to swallow it with the help of water, but after bringing out the different pills and amount she’s supposed to take she threw it all in her mouth and starts to chew it, before I could tell her about the swallowing which was way easy.

 Kathleen faced squeezed tightly and she turned to me.

I laughed. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s bitter.” she squeezed her face even more.

“I understand, you haven’t taken pills before, but pills isn’t candy, you didn’t even let me tell you how to take them.” I laughed.

 She grabbed the water in front of her and gulped it in one go.

Kathleen breathed out a sigh. “That’s better.” she smiled.

 “Yeah, water makes everything better.” I smiled too.

“But do you think all these pills and portions I’m taking are going to help me? You know I’m not like you guys.” Kathleen.

“Not like us?” I scoffed. “We’re a the same Kathleen” I let out a warm smile and she Beamed.

 Mary made a gag in front of us and we smiled at her too.

+

 That night we slept soundly and the next day, Kathleen seemed to be fine again.

 Days turned into weeks and Kathleen’s stomach grew more than it was supposed to, it was scary because it seemed unreal, every Tuesday and Thursday, I had to go meet doctor Liam in his office to get Kathleen’s pills because I was afraid of him coming to my home and seeing Kathleen’s stomach grow Like it was already completing the eight to nine months stages.

   From my views, the pills Kathleen took was really helping cause as the stomach grew she grew skinny but not a day, she felt weak, I still kept my words and I supported her with every bone in my body, though I was worried.

 Weeks turned into months and that’s we lived, everything at home was for Kathleen, she eats like a lion and changes mood every single Second, she was mostly happy and half angry, whenever she was angry Mary was the only person who could calm her down, cause anytime she would be angry, Mary would never fail to smile at her, it was like Mary was reading her.

It was like deja vu of Kathleen’s medicine every single day, but still yet I enjoyed her company and never liked to imagine what the house would be like without Kathleen or Mary here. 

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 Kathleen and I celebrated when we noticed Mary’s teeth has gotten to eight, it was four at the bottom and four at the top, it’s been two months now and whenever she’s alone, she’s always trying to stand on her own, even if she can’t stand without holding on to something. Kathleen stomach became scarier and so did she, it was like her skin had dried against her bones, I always try to think it was nothing, doctor Liam had stopped prescribing pills for her saying it was for the best and I didn’t for once dare to look at Kathleen like she was going to break even if she looked that way.

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  It was sunny afternoon, Kathleen, Mary and I were in the living room, while Kathleen and Mary were bonding like real mother and daughter, I sat on the couch with my phone having a text conversation with Martins.

 I knock came on the door and I went to attend to the door. It was Ymir, it’s been ages since she came here.

“Where is Ymir?” she quickly asked “she hasn’t given birth yet right?” she rushed her words.

“No she hasn’t, its just three months why would she give birth.” I scoffed.

“I’m sure her stomach’s bigger than your head, it should have been the perfect explanation for you that, the baby inside Kathleen’s stomach will be out in any days n–

Ymir and I both heard Kathleen’s voice from the living room and we rushed to her immediately to see her on her feet panicking, underneath her open  legs, the floor was a bit wet.

“I think I peed” she said in a panicked voice.

“It’s not pee, your water just broke.”  Ymir stated.

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T. B. C.