Shallow Love by Georgia Mantis Page A

had felt quite ill after David’s gruelling confession to his mates about her flab, but she didn’t know why the nausea persisted. She made a desperate call for an ambulance and she was immediately rushed to hospital, in which she had stayed overnight. They ran some urine and blood tests the next morning and by late afternoon, Jackie had received some unexpected news.
    “Are you serious? She asked the nurse who was looking at her test results in front of her.
    “You bet I am,” the nurse assured her, “congratulations you are going to be a mum.”
    Jackie was stunned and felt faint, but kept her composure, “thank-you,” she said to the nurse, “but I can’t believe this has happened?”
    “Well believe it! You are eight weeks pregnant love, my congratulations to the father.”
    Jackie’s heart sank! David was the father of her unborn child, they had had regular sex often using protection, except that one time, when the condom was faulty, and had split. It was not like her to be irresponsible when it came to sex, but that must have been the time she had fell pregnant.
    “Well, let’s make another appointment,” offered the nurse.
    “Of course,” replied Jackie and later left hurriedly, tears streaming down her face.
    She was wearing black leggings, a black loose fitting t-shirt and a black leather jacket. And it was going to be another day of mourning for Jackie, as the ugly realisation, that she was carrying David’s baby was shattering.

Chapter Nine
    J ackie didn’t want to think about the father of her unborn child, knowing it was clearly David, but only when hell freezes over! He didn’t know how to be a loving boyfriend, let alone a loving father. No! He didn’t deserve the daddy status! He was never ever, going to know that she was carrying his baby. That was her secret and she would take it to the grave, before her soon to be ex-boyfriend ever found out. She had always wanted a child to fill the mass void in her life, but she would keep her secret, David didn’t deserve to know, not after the way he had treated her. The baby was going to be all hers and she didn’t need him to support her, she was a strong independent woman, who’s worth wasn’t defined by a man. She had struggled to find a man who would meet her emotional needs, but she was going to be there for this child and no one was going to take that happiness away from her.
    She made herself a hot cup of organic chai and sat fantasising about, whether it was going to be a girl or a boy. And she couldn’t wait for her first ultra sound, she was both overwhelmed at the prospect of becoming a mother, but also felt anguish, that her child would never know her father. She kept torturing her brain, wondering if she was making the right decision and keeping it from David. But she just couldn’t stop thinking, how he had bad mouthed her to his mates and how repulsed he had felt thinking about her.
    She decided to log on to the internet and check out David’s status online and what she discovered, made her puke. David’s previous girlfriends Tara and Bec, had posted something nasty about her on his page. She read it aloud, her hand covering her mouth and she felt ill.
    Tara: I see you are dating a fat chick, I thought you never dated fat chicks, what the fuck David?
    Bec: To think you traded me in for a fat chick named Jackie, hey David isn’t she an old woman too, you loser?
    And there it was! Two very offensive comments from David’s former ex-girlfriends, the nerve of those nasty bitches, thought Jackie, as she clicked on their individual timelines and discovered they were both anorexic and ugly. There was nothing appealing about them, only they were a lot younger than her, if that meant anything. They looked scraggy and bordering on aneroxic with piercings all over their bodies and no tits, furious she posted on David’s timeline in an act of revenge.
    Jackie : Who wants to date a bag of bones, with no boobs, nasty bitches!
    And there