Page 74 of Some Sort of Crazy (Happy Crazy Love 2)
“Hi, Miles. It’s me.”
“Hey, you.” I smiled and leaned back on the couch. “Took you long enough to call me back.”
“Sorry. I’ve been busy.”
“Yeah? I’ve missed you. What have you been doing?”
“Um, working. Painting the house. Helping Skylar with some wedding stuff.”
“Cool. When’s the wedding again?”
“September twenty-fourth.”
“That’s right. I’m supposed to go to it, I think.”
“That’s OK, you don’t have to. I know those things give you hives.”
Had I said that? I couldn’t remember. Sounded like me, though. “I might brave one, if you want me there,” I said, feeling like the biggest person ever.
Silence.
What the hell? Was she still upset with me? “Natalie? Do you want me to come to the wedding?”
“Um, before we talk about that, there’s something I have to tell you.”
Oh fuck. She got back together with the Douchebag.
I braced myself. “You’re back with Dan, huh?”
“No.” She paused and took a shaky breath. “I’m pregnant, Miles.”
I had to have heard that wrong.
“I’m sorry. What did you say?”
“I’m pregnant.”
“Like, with a baby?”
“Yes. Like with a baby. Your baby.”
I held the phone away from me and stared at it in shock. I had a baby? What the hell was this?
“Miles?”
Slowly, I put the phone to my ear again. I’d never had an out-of-body experience before, but this is what I imagined it would be like, where everything around me, even the air I breathed, felt foreign and wrong. Was this real?
“Miles? Did you hear me?”
I cleared my throat. “Yeah…but I don’t understand.”
“Not much confusion about it. We had sex. I got pregnant.”
Silence.
I had no fucking clue what to say. This had never happened to me before. What did she want to hear? Sorry? Congratulations? There were any number of possibilities but none of them seemed right.
I finally found my voice, and of course I said the wrong thing. “Are you sure?”
