Chapter 9 009
Chapter 9
For a while the entire dining room was quiet so quiet that you could have even heard a pin drop and it would have sounded like a bell ringing loudly inside the same forwards at us. Everyone exchanged looks and nobody knew how to speak first.
I decided that I could not leave my best friend hanging like that and it would seem embarrassing later on so I spoke up smiling and clapping my hands together. "Congratulations Shelly. so this is the big announcement. I'm so happy for you."
I got up from my seat and walked over to her giving her an embrace my words seem to break the ice and everyone else trying to congratulate her except for my Father-in-Law who just remained in his seat and my mom did her own congratulations rather awkwardly but it's seemed to be something more of courtesy rather than her own will probably because I was the one who said the first congratulations we soon or returned back to dinner making small talk about the pregnancy but everyone knew to avoid the landmine that was the conversation of the Father.
Everyone was already well aware that my best friend had shared of men and she never hid from anyone at any time just like to do when I have seen in man coming down from her stairs it was a regular occurrence whenever I went to her house so much so that it was probably the fact that as I didn't want anyone to be listening in our conversation that made me act a little surprise when I did see a male coming down like that the dinner continued and soon our plates were emptied and we moved over to the lounge area to spend more time together eventually I was saying goodbye to everyone.
My in-laws left first and then my mom lingered a little bit, as Shelly and Varian were talking my mom pulled me to the side and asked me.
"How do you feel about Shelly's pregnancy?"
Her question seemed strange there was a mask of troublement written all over her face and I couldn't imagine her being so bothered I mean we had all basically seen this coming as one point or another but she looked devastated by it as it Shelly's confession was something horrific that's all of us were supposed to be mortified by.
"Well my own personal feelings don't really matter. All I need is that she's my friend and she needs my support right now more than ever. We can already imagine that the father probably isn't in the picture since she didn't mention him herself."
My mom beats into her lip when I said that she said that may as if there was something she was trying to get out what she didn't just know how to weave her words, eventually she released my fingers that she was holding on to and picked up her purse dragging a smile across her face that didn't seem all that sincere.
"I'll be leaving now Honey, make sure you call me if there's anything troubling you at all and I mean anything." She sounded vaguely worried but something told me that's simply just asking how it wasn't going to have the truth spilling out on my lot I hope he does whatever was troubling my mom she would be able to tell me eventually then I returned it to Shelly and my husband and noticed that she was laughing about something and then she slapped his chest.
It was a brief playful motion and I don't know if it was just my brain flickering for a moment but it seemed as if a house remained on her chest for a second too long.
No..no! I wasn't even able to settle the issue that we still have going on it would be like shooting myself in the foot right now if I decided to bring this up the size we have all been friends since childhood there is no way that she would be openly flirting with variant rights in my face I'm sure it was just a simple harmless touch just like every other contact between them.
Yep Shelly had never shown any interest in my mate before at least not anything that I would ever count as interest not to mention that she specifically avoided any man that shared too many similar traits to my husband I guess as a form of respect to me.
"What are you guys talking about?" I said trying to enter the conversation and Shelly's smile immediately shrunk then she worked over to the cushioned sofa sinking into it and the smile on her face at that point had completely disappeared I was shocked myself wondering what I had said that would make her to react to that way and as for my husband he was looking at me as if I slapped her right across the face.
I came over to Shelly worried that I had missed something and then I saw it the woman that had been all smiles joke and pleasant conversation throughout the evening collapsed into tears she was crying so hard that I had to run and personally grab some tissues for her to wipe out here is with after a while she was rubbing her fingers awkwardly together saying that she had a request to make.
"The truth is that I'm not really earning a lot of money at my job and I don't know how I'm going to be able to maintain my standard of living while having this child. It's just one expense after the other. I really want to have this baby but I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it..."
I felt horrible hearing that and I placed my hands on her shoulders, squeezing them reassuringly until she had the strength to look at me.
"Shelly, we're going to help. I mean what kind of friends would we be if we didn't help you in your time of need?"
"Of course we're here for you Shelly." My husband said but at that time I didn't know how far he was willing to go.