Chapter 18
A week has passed since Chris had left for work, leaving Sebastian at home with the girls, and so far things have been going okay for them. Sebastian still has to call Laura in to babysit the girls whenever she's not already busy, but other than that, everything has been going pretty well for them. Well... up until now that is....
As soon as Sebastian wakes up, he feels like absolute shit, and is running straight to the bathroom to throw up, before sitting on the floor next to the toilet leaning up against the wall. He's not so sure what has brought on this sudden sickness, he assumes it's just something that he ate though.
Then again... when he was in heat about a month ago, he can't quite remember if Chris had worn a condom or not. He hopes he did though, but he truly can't remember. As much as he wants more kids, he's not certain whether or not he wants to be pregnant again just yet. Especially not when he and Chris had agreed on no more kids until Sabrina is at least two or three.
Maybe he should go out to the store and buy a pregnancy test or two just in case... and call Laura and ask if she can watch the girls for him while he's out. He doesn't fancy taking the girls to the store with him when he only needs to get one thing.
Well... actually maybe he needs to get more than one thing from the store. They might be running a little low on cat food. The problems of having three cats instead of one... needing to buy a lot more cat food to feed them all. At least the three of them are easy enough to feed, Muffy and Sooty more so than Nala.
It takes him longer than necessary to get up off the floor and freshen himself up, but when he does, he heads straight back to bed to sleep off this icky feeling as best as he can until he really needs to get up. It is still early in the morning after all, and the girls will still be asleep right now anyway as it's the weekend currently. They usually sleep in lot on the weekends, which usually means that Sebastian gets a few extra hours of sleep before he has to get up.
Climbing back into bed slowly, he pulls the covers right over his head, and curls up under the blankets as he hugs Chris's pillow close to him. If Chris was home right now he'd have some form of comfort while he's feeling terrible. But for now, he's just going to try and sleep off this gross feeling until it's absolutely necessary for him to get up.
He just hopes that Laura isn't busy today so she can watch the girls for him while he goes out to the store... and hopefully by then he's feeling at least a little bit better....
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"Thanks for coming over, Laura." Is the first thing Sebastian says, opening up the front door to let the beta inside.
Thankfully when he had called her earlier asking if she could watch the girls for him today, she wasn't busy with anything.
"It's no problem, Sebastian." She smiles, waving him off, as she walks on in through the door. Though, as soon as she sees how miserable Sebastian is looking, she stops, frowning at him. "Wow, you look like shit. You okay?" She asks.
"Just feeling a little nauseous." He shrugs. "But, I'll be fine. I don't feel as bad as I did earlier this morning though."
It's true. Even though he still feels like utter crap, he doesn't feel as bad as he did earlier, so he must've slept most of it off. He has yet to throw up again, so that's good. Throwing up isn't exactly a very fun thing to do after all.
The only thing is, is that he doesn't really feel up to going out to the store, even though he has to. He's sure he can power through walking around the store to get what he needs though. All he needs to get, is more cat food, bread, milk, and a couple pregnancy tests. Maybe some chocolate... that always makes him feel better... so does pizza actually. Maybe he'll get a frozen pizza as well.
"If you want, I can go to the store for you?" She suggests. "Let's you just stay home and rest."
He shakes his head at that. "Nah, it's fine." He says. "I'm well enough to go out to the store to get a couple of things. Just, don't necessarily want to take the girls with me."
It's not exactly a lie. He doesn't want to take the girls with him when he's only getting a few things, but he's not too sure if he'll be good to go to the store. It's a risk he's willing to take though.
Though, he knows it would be better if Laura went out to the store for him, but then he'd have to tell her that he needs to go out to get a couple of pregnancy tests along with a couple other stuff. He's not yet willing to let anyone know that he may be pregnant.
"Well... if you're sure you'll be okay." She says, as they walk into the living room where the girls are sitting on the floor watching some kids cartoon on the TV.
Sebastian nods at that. He's not entirely sure if he will be okay, so he's gonna try and not take too long at the store. The sooner he gets back, the sooner he can take a pregnancy test and see if he is in fact pregnant, and if he is... well, he'll deal with that once he finds out....
There's no way he's going to be getting rid of the baby if he is pregnant though, he knows that for sure, but other than that... he's unsure of what he's going to do. He'll have to figure out how to tell Chris though, which really shouldn't be too difficult, as they both do want more kids. Only, they had planned to do so once Sabrina is around two, not when she's only just a year old.
"I might as well head out to the store now." Sebastian says, after awhile, catching Laura's attention as she sat on the floor entertaining Sabrina, while Taissa and Emma are watching whatever cartoon is playing on TV.
She looks up at him. "Alright." She nods. "And don't worry, we're good here." She assures him.
Sebastian already knows that they'll be fine. He trusts Laura well enough to look after the girls, and the girls all love her so that's a plus. He wouldn't want to leave the girls with someone he doesn't trust, or that they don't like.
"Okay, I'll see you when I get back." He says, before saying a quick goodbye to the girls, then he's out the door.
Though first, he freshens himself up a little, which isn't really much, as he really can't be bothered. After that though, he's out the door and off to the store.
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As soon as Sebastian gets home from the store, he sets the shopping bags down on the kitchen table, taking out the couple pregnancy tests from one of the bags, and shoving them into his jacket pocket. He doesn't want the girls to see them, or Laura, even though he trusts her enough to not tell anyone.
He puts everything away quickly, and puts out some food for Nala inside, and for Muffy and Sooty outside, as those two seem to prefer being fed outside now. He thinks it's because they don't like Nala at all or something.
Though he has caught all three of them curled up asleep inside on the bed in one of the spare rooms during the colder weather. Which he guesses is a good thing, as it seems that Muffy and Sooty seem to be able to tolerate Nala just a little, or enough to sleep on the same bed together.
Once he's finished putting everything away, and stashed his chocolate away in his secret hiding spot, he heads on into the living room to find Laura and the girls playing that Buckaroo game. Sebastian isn't too sure why, but it's one of the only games that the girls even like to play, but he thinks Sabrina mainly likes it because it's a horse, and it kicks everything off it that you put on it or something.
"Hey, Seb." Laura says, looking over her shoulder at Sebastian. "We're all good here if you want to go rest for a bit."
"I'll probably go do that soon." He says. "I am feeling a little better now than I did this morning though."
He still feels a little terrible, but this icky feeling has definitely begun to wear off. Maybe going out to the store helped. Even so, he's definitely going to go lay down for a bit soon. Maybe even read for a bit, but he still needs to take those pregnancy tests, even though he's about ninety five percent sure he knows what the results of the tests will be.
He should probably go take the tests now while Laura is keeping the girls occupied. After all, he may not get another chance to do so until later on tonight, and he'd rather find out the results sooner rather than later.
"I'll uh, be upstairs if you need me." He says, before heading on upstairs to his room.
As soon as he shuts the door, he's taking the pregnancy tests out of his pocket, and looking over them. He's gotten four of them just to be sure. One probably would've been enough, but he wants to be absolutely sure. Going to the doctors would probably confirm it more than a couple tests from the store if he wants to be absolutely sure, but he doesn't fancy going out again, and especially to the doctors.
It takes him some time to move away from the door, but when he finally does, he's heading over to the bathroom to take the tests. Once he's taken all of them, he sets a timer on his phone, and leaves the tests sitting on the counter on a piece of toilet paper, as he heads back out into his room and just lays there on the bed staring at the ceiling.
Fifteen minutes to spare until he finds out the results, so fifteen minutes worrying about what he's going to do. If the tests come out negative, then he has nothing to worry about, but if they're positive, he's going to have to figure out what he's going to do, and how he's going to tell Chris.
Though telling Chris the news won't be too difficult, it's just finding the right moment to break the news to him. He's not going to disturb Chris while he's at work though, so he's going to wait until Chris gets home. But how and when is he to tell him - if he is pregnant - he's unsure of. He'll have plenty of time to figure that out though. There's still about three and a half weeks till Chris returns home after all.
Three and a half weeks remaining until Chris returns home, and Sebastian isn't sure how he's going to cope until then. Especially if he's pregnant. At least during the week Taissa is at school and Emma is at preschool, so it's just him and Sabrina for now. Even so... he's unsure of how he'll be able to handle it if he turns out to be pregnant.
At least if he is pregnant, Laura is still willing to help watch the girls for him whenever he needs her to. If he's not pregnant though, well Laura is still willing to watch the girls for him whenever she's not otherwise busy.
Sitting up as the alarm on his phone goes off fifteen minutes later, Sebastian slowly gets up off the bed and heads back into the bathroom. The tests are done, and within a matter of seconds he'll find out if he's pregnant or not.
Grabbing the first test, he stares at the sign on it, before picking up the next one, then the next. Then finally the last one, before he just stands there staring at the signs on each of them, all matching.
Well, they're not really matching exactly, as all four of the tests are different brands, but all four of the tests still showing the exact same result....
Positive....