Caught In The Twilight Zone

“Hey babe it’s me, give me a call when you get this message ok?”

That was the message waiting on my cell when I got off work that day. I really didn’t want to call Jordan back; I just wanted to go home and crawl into bed. But it turned out I didn’t have to call him back, he called me not even ten minutes after I clocked out, I was still in the store because I had some shopping to do.

“Hey!” Jordan seemed surprised when I answered my phone. He asked me how I was, I told him I was ok and asked him what was up. “Well,” he said slowly, drawing out the word much more than he really needed too. “I was wondering if you would like to have supper with me tomorrow night.”

“Don’t you have Jenna tomorrow?” I wasn’t sure if I wanted to hang out with Jordan just yet, there was some thing about what Logan told me while I was there that didn’t sit too well with me and I knew that was stupid.

“Yeah, I do but I figured that you wouldn’t mind if she was there with us.” He paused, “Was I wrong?”

“No,” I told him. “I just…” I sighed and then asked him what time. We made plans to meet at Moxie’s around seven the following night. “Was there any special reason you wanted me to go to dinner with you?”

“No,” he said quickly. “I just haven’t really hung out with you lately; I thought this would be a good way to catch up.”

“Ok.” As we said bye I remembered that Mike had asked me to drop some thing off to Nick for him, so as soon as I hung up with Jordan, I called Nick.

“Sorry Anna,” Amy said with a yawn. “Nick is still at work; he’s working until 8 tonight. Was there something you needed him for?”

“No,” I told her that I just wanted to see how things were going. “You sound really tired Amy, is everything ok with you?”

“Yes,” she said with a little sigh. “I just haven’t been sleeping all that well these last couple nights.”

“Oh? You just can’t get comfortable?”

She started to tell me how she couldn’t get comfortable in her bed when there was a second of dead air. “Oh!” She cried out in surprise. “Nick is trying to call me, I have to go.”

“Ok, tell Nick I have to talk to him later.” I told her before she quickly said ‘bye’ and hung up the phone.

I spent another ten minutes walking around shopping when I decided to give Mary a call to see if they needed anything at home. “Oh yes,” Mary said when I asked her and there was a moment of rustling before I heard her voice come back on the line. She gave me a list of about 20 things that they needed and added, “If you don’t mind picking that up for us.” I didn’t mind, my brother was letting me stay there for free and his only requests were for me to help Mary out whenever she needed it and if I wanted stuff that they normally don’t buy, to buy it myself.

The list that Mary gave me only took me about ten more minutes to find and add to my cart. I was about to head to the check out when I remembered that I forgot to grab my water bottle from the horseshoe; if I left it there it would be in the garbage by the time I got in the next morning.

I was heading back out of Infants when I heard a familiar giggle followed by, “Mommy I have ‘Piderman?” I turned to my right and spotted Jesse sitting in a cart with Mister Bear in his arm as he reached out of the cart and grabbed onto the Spiderman t-shirts that were hanging off to his side.

“Let me see,” Carol turned around and glanced at the shirt that Jesse held. “Honey you already have that shirt, why don’t you pick some thing else out? How about…” She scanned the racks around her and pulled out a 2pc set: blue cords with a blue and white striped button up shirt. “This would look so cute on you Jesse,” she held it up to him and smiled.

“I no want that one mommy,” Jesse pouted.

“No?” Carol put the 2pc back. “Then what would you like?”

“I want…” Jesse held his finger up to his chin, tapping it as if he was thinking really hard. “This one mommy,” he reached out and grabbed the 2pc that Carol just put back.

“Oh!” Carol raised a brow. “This would look so cute on you,” she said once again. “I don’t know why I didn’t think of it,” she said with a laugh.

Jesse shrugged his shoulders and held up his hands, “I no mommy,” he shook his head and giggled. And then he saw me. “AMA!”

Carol stiffened a little as she turned in the direction Jesse was pointing and saw me standing there watching them. I thought she was going to walk away with Jess but she gave me a weary smile and said hello.

“Ama look!” He held up the 2pc that Carol had showed him earlier. “Mommy say it for Jesse birday.”

“Wow,” I stepped closer to them and smiled at him. “I bet you’ll look so handsome in that Jesse.”

“Hansome like daddy?” He inquired, when I said yes, just like his daddy, he turned to his mom. “I go daddy now?”

“No Jesse,” Carol brushed his hair back from his forehead. “Daddy is working; you’ll get to see him tomorrow.”

“Oh,” Jesse turned to me. “Ama see daddy?”

“Actually,” I leaned in closer to him. “I was talking to your daddy earlier; he told me he can’t wait to see you tomorrow.”

“Excuse me for a minute,” Carol cut in quickly and with her hand on her belly she made her way towards the bathrooms by layaway.

I didn’t think anything of it; I continued to talk to Jesse. When Carol came back out a couple minutes later she looked really pale. “What’s wrong?” I asked her.

Slowly she turned towards me, “My water broke.”