Chapter 71 : Life''s Big Joke


    The announcement made Arabe paralyzed. Her mind went nk and she even felt her heart had


    stopped beating. The expression on her pale face was merely disappointment and highly strung.


    “Ms. Jones, Are you okay?” The doctor snapped her back to her senses. “Please see your ob-gyn for


    theplete ultrasound and check-up.” He added.


    That’s the only time, she got to blink her eyes. Staggering, Arabe walked throughout the hospital and


    stopped at the park just right in front of the building. She sat down on the bench and let go of all her


    tears that were already assembled in her eyes.


    ‘How could this happen to me?’ She kept on questioning herself. When she was young, she had


    always imagined herself as a princess living in a huge pce and a prince woulde to marry her.


    The prince would love her so dearly and she also loved him so deeply. They would marry each other


    then made a family and they would live happily ever after. Why her imagination seemed so different in


    reality? How could she end up with a baby with a father who only knew sex without love? Her ideal


    princess romance was shattered instantly.


    ‘What am I going to do?’ All she could feel was so much heaviness in her heart. The kind of


    rtionship she had with the father of her child, Bill, was not ideal nor it couldn''t be named as good


    even. ‘Why it has to be Bill?’ She was saddened by the fact that the father of her child was the person


    whom she hated the most. Of how many times she cursed his name, now, she had felt life was ying


    a big joke on her. She smiled andughed, mocking herself, then cried again. If someone could see


    her, one could easily say that she’s a paranoid or having a brain damage.


    At this moment, she was lost and her mind was in a mess. There was only one thing that made her go


    through the deepest sadness, it was the fear of the future.


    Just when a ser ball rolled towards her and hit her leg a bit. To avoid someone seeing her crying,


    she quickly wiped her tears with her hands and leaned over to get the ball but before she could touch it,


    a small boy got it first and gave her a sweet cutie smile.


    “Thank you, Miss.” The little boy with a blue eyes, red cheeks and lips, nodded and smiled at her


    sweetly before he went back to y with the other bunch of little boys.


    The sweet smile and charismatic face of the little boy made her freeze. For some reason, her heart


    became calm. A deep happiness inside her, covered her deepest sadness. Unconsciously, she put her


    hand on her belly and she gently stroked it up and down.


    Caught in between sadness and happiness, she cried again. Then, in just a minute, she stopped


    seeing someone offered her a tissue. Shocked and surprised, she looked up to see the man standing


    in front of her with the tissue in his hand.


    “Jayson?” Her eyes widened to see an old folk.


    “Hmmm… Why are you crying here? Why are you in the hospital?” Jayson asked with an unhappy


    facial expression. He was about to wipe Arabe’s tears, but she quickly got the tissue to do it for


    herself. Feeling her indifference, Jayson sat beside her with his dissatisfied expression who was


    obviously waiting for her answers.


    “Hmmm…” Arabe was staggering that she couldn’t even find just a word to say. “Hmm…” She tried


    to talk again, but she couldn’t make it. Her mind had many things inside, but when she thought of a


    word to speak out it became suddenly empty. With a heart that extraordinarily thumping, she tried her


    best topose herself.


    “Hmmm… I am here to visit a friend. Farrah. You know her, right?” She tried to put up a fake smile. “I


    cried because I haven’t seen her. The doctor had released her this morning.” Then she added with


    another lie. How could she actually tell him her real situation?


    “You actually want me to believe that?” Jayson folded his two arms in front and looked at her frowning.


    He had been with Arabe for a long time and he could easily tell if she was lying or not. With eyes


    scrutinizing and entering her bottom, Arabe couldn’t help to weep again.


    The palpable scene made the people around turned their heads to them. Being alerted by her crying,


    Jayson gently hugged her and stroked her back to calm her down. In Jayson’s arms, she felt secure


    and protected for having a shoulder to cry on. At this moment, she couldn’t help to wish of Bill hugging


    her instead of Jayson but she immediately erased her wishful thinking because she exactly knew that


    it’s next to impossible.


    After her tears ran dry, she quickly withdrew herself from Jayson’s embrace and put her gaze to the


    little boy who was ying then, she smiled.


    Judging from her reaction, Jayson had a little hint.


    “You wanna drink? Maybe we can drown all our problems somewhere?” Jayson was obviously putting


    up a breather for her and him of course.


    “Sure!” Without thinking too much, she answered. Even without Jayson, she already nned to drown


    all her sorrows with alcohol.


    Jayson drove his car and they arrived at the Luxury Bar. It was toote for Arabe to notice that they


    were exactly in the same ce where she had met Bill Sky in the first time. Memories of that night


    came in rushing to her mind as she tried to block them away. So, what if she’s here again? Those


    memories of them were nothing special. Plus, the fact that all her problems urred and her life got


    twisted because of that night, she had nothing to be thankful of. Running from memories would not take


    away the shadow, instead you have to face it and stood up in the light.


    “Shall we?” After pondering for quite a while, she smiled at Jayson and strode inside the bar.


    Everything inside was all the same. The spot where she kissed Bill caught her eyes. She had felt sad in


    an instant, but she smirked, thinking the catastrophe she went through because of the father of her


    child.


    They went directly in Jayson’s private room. Inside, all expensive liquors had been already set-up on


    the table with its corresponding sses. A huge French cheese and charcuterie on a board was ced


    at the center of the table.


    “Here’s to forget all our problem even just for tonight. Cheers!” Jayson raised his ss. Though she


    was putting an awkward smile on her face, hearing the word ‘problem’, she felt a bit sour in her heart.


    Could you really get away all problems? She thought while asking the bottle of wine.


    While sipping her wine, “So tell me, why were you also in the hospital?” This was the only time


    Jayson’s appearance in the hospital came across her mind.


    “Isn’t that sound so unfair?” Jayson looked at her with no happiness in the face.


    “Hey! I thought we are here to be happy. What’s with that look?” For long years that they had been


    together, she could clearly see he went through a bad day just by seeing his gloomy face.


    “Okay. Okay.” Jayson let go an ample air. “I promise to tell you the truth only if you promise me to do


    the same. Is it a deal?” Jayson looked at her sincerely and obviously waiting for her approval.


    “Deal!” Without thinking too much, she answered not to torture him that long.


    Drinking his whiskey in one gulped, “To answer your question, I am there for the CVS paternity test.


    With the help of money, Margaret’s ob-gyn got everything I need without her knowing it.” He drank


    another mouthful of whiskey.


    “What? What’s the result then?” Arabe couldn’t withstand the suspense anymore.


    “I was right. Margaret had yed a trick on me.” Jayson’s grip on his ss tightened as he


    remembered how Margaret had schemed him. Then to calm himself, he drank his whiskey again in one


    go. No wonder Jayson’s face was so gloomy, he had all rights in the world to feel that way.


    Thinking of Jayson’s problem and her problem, Arabe had found it a bit weird. He wanted to have a


    baby, but he had nothing and she had a baby in her tummy, but she was still undecided to keep it or


    not. One thing in her mind, she would choose what’s right. Realizing the situation, everyone had


    different problems, it’s just a matter of how you cope up to survive and quitting isn’t an option.


    “Hmmm… Well, I am happy that you found it early. What are you going to do with Margaret then?” She


    asked with a wine ss in her hand.


    “I already fired her in thepany. I don’t know, I still haven’t seen her yet.” Jayson’s face had shown


    irritation when he talked about Margaret. “Let’s not talk about her. Now, the floor is all yours.” Jayson


    then looked at Arabe expectingly waiting for her confession.


    “Hmmm… How do I say this?” Arabe was finding the right words for her confession but she couldn’t


    her lips quivered every time she tried to depart it. “Jayson, I am …” She drank again and poured more


    wine into her ss.


    “What Arabe?” Jayson’s eagerness to know was beyond her imagination. “I am what?” Jayson felt


    palpitation from her suspense. He had already something in mind, but he wanted to confirm it and most


    of all, he hoped that his thought was wrong.


    In one gulped, “Jayson I am pregnant.” Gathering all her courage and with the help of the alcohol,


    Arabe said it directly, then she got the bottle of wine and poured it into her ss. She had felt relief


    after the words finally came out of her mouth.


    “Stop!” Retrieving his shock, Jayson held her hand to stop Arabe from pouring the wine into her


    ss.


    “What? Why?” Arabe was quite stunned from Jayson’s abrupt reaction. Is he angry?


    “You are pregnant. You can’t drink too much.” Jayson said angrily while taking away the bottle away


    from her.


    “But I almost finish that bottle.” Arabe murmured.


    “Who’s the father? Is it Bill Sky?” Jayson asked with a gloomy face.


    “Unfortunately, yes!” Arabe answered with a heavy exhaling.


    “Did he know about it?” Jayson took a shot of his whiskey and cross his long legs.


    “No. And please promise me that this will be kept only between the two us. Please? Arabe’s begging


    eyes captured Jayson.


    “Why don’t you want to let him know? He had the right to know?” Jayson tried his best to be a friend,


    but the truth, he wanted to smashed everything in the room. He loved Arabe more than everything


    but Bill Sky had just ruined her.


    “I am still thinking about it. I may or I may not tell him. It just depends on the situation.” Arabe let go


    of another heavy breath. Her face was full of disappointments.


    “Don’t worry. If he would not ept that child. I am here. Don’t you ever forget that.” Jayson said with


    full of sincerity.


    “What more can I say?” Arabe had felt his sincerity, but she couldn’t just give him high hopes. Never


    in her life she would just use someone to be responsible for her.


    Hours had passed and Jayson had been already drunk. Since Arabe was prohibited by Jayson to


    drink, she just enjoyed eating the tter of cheese.


    “Jayson time to go.” Arabe said while assisting Jayson, who was already half lying on the couch.


    “Where are we going?” Jayson drunkenly asked.


    “To your house. Give me the car key I will drive.” Arabe found him like a little boy when he’s drunk.


    “No. No. No. Not in my house. Margaret is surely there. I might kill her if I see her. Just send me to a


    nearby hotel please or you can just drop me off on the street.” Jayson thenughed while clutching at


    Arabe’s shoulder to maintain his unstable bnce.


    In a narrow hallway, Arabe was busy assisting Jayson when suddenly, they stopped. Coincidentally,


    a group of six people blocked their way. It seemed the group were also surprised by their presence that


    they also stopped abruptly. Arabe then slowly raised her head to look at the first two entities standing


    in front of them, only to find out that it was Bill and Trishia.


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    Then her heart suddenly ached.