Chapter 215 - Two Little Rice Grains

"It feels cold and sticky. But besides that it feels okay I guess." Stella replied to her as she took in a deep breath and exhaled it out. 

Matilda chuckled at her response. "It is supposed to feel like this, so there's no need for you to become nervous." 

"It's just my first time, so...yeah! I'm hella nervous about it all." Stella replied to her as she continued to gaze at the pure white ceiling of the room. What worried her most was that she didn't have anyone on whom she could rely on. She was on her own in this, all alone.

Thinking about it, she realized that she had changed so much after Adam walked into her life. The girl who was once on her own and didn't even give it a single thought, was now worrying about the same thing. Never in her life did she imagine that the presence of a person could affect her so much. Without even realizing it herself, she had become so dependent on Adam. She was so used to having him around her, that his absence seemed like some sort of punishment for her existence. 

"I would suggest that you remove those sunglasses so that you can clearly see it." Matilda's voice brought her out of her thoughts, making her to shift her eyes to the screen on her left. Just like the doctor had suggested, she couldn't see anything on the screen except for some dark and light patches which she couldn't actually make out. 

Heaving a sigh, Stella removed her glasses and put them on the bed after folding it's sticks. A monochrome image of light and dark shadows graced her sight as soon as her eyes landed on the screen. 

"Do you see that?" Matilda pointed towards one corner of the screen after setting the probe in her desired position. 

Her words made Stella focus on the place where she was pointing at. All she saw was some contrasting shadows in black, gray and white. Even after trying so hard, she couldn't make out anything. 

As if sensing her trouble, Matilda turned to look at her. "Damnnnnn!" She exclaimed in shock as she wasn't able to hold herself from doing so. 

"Now you know why I came looking like an E.T?" Stella tried to crack a joke. 

"Even I would prefer looking like an E.T if I were you girl." Matilda shook her head. "I don't think that even a day passes by without you being in the news." 

"Yeah." That was the only thing Stella could say in return.

"Well coming to the main point. We are here to talk about your babies." Matilda added, reminding herself not to get off track. "Do you see that those two teeny tiny shadows? Those are your babies." She pressed a couple of buttons on the machine to zoom in so that Stella could clearly see the tiny shadows which were barely the size of two rice grains.

"You mean that small thing is my baby?" Stella questioned her, keeping her eyes fixed on the screen. 

"Shadows, Ma'am. Not one but two shadows." Matilda corrected her.

"What do you mean by two shadows?" Stella finally realized that the doctor was addressing her little angel in plural. 

"Two means two." Matilda frowned her eyebrows at her dumb question. 

"I know what two means. What I am trying to ask is that why would you say 'two' shadows? Is that like some sort of medical term." Stella asked her again. 'Don't say what I am thinking, please.' She was hoping that her hunch would be wrong. 

"Nah! It's just means two, like old school two. You are pregnant with twins Mrs. Levinson." Matilda's words rang through her ears. 

The room fell under silence for a while as Matilda continued to examine her, moving the probe over her abdomen as she tried different angels so that she could have better visualization. While Stella was still under shock as her mind crashed, refusing to process anything. 

"A-are you sure?" She questioned the doctor, who nodded her head in response. 

"Do you see these two barely differentiable spots?" She made Stella shift her attention to the screen again. "It usually means, twins. Though it's too early to say and the light one can just be an echo image. And I might be wrong, but the chances of them being twins are high. I am trying to get a better image of them but because of the location of the second fetus, it's too hard even for me." She explained it to Stella. 

"Oh!" That was the only word that Stella managed to speak, as her mind couldn't comprehend anything the doctor was saying. 

Matilda presses a couple of buttons and the image on the screen froze for a couple of seconds as it got saved. After taking some other shots, Matilda out down the probe back to its original place and shifted her attention towards Stella who was lying too quietly for her liking. 

"There you go." She handed her a couple of tissues. "You can wipe off the gel and change into your clothes. If you need more of these, there's a tissue box right there." She added, pointing towards a small table which was next to the stool on which her clothes were resting on. "Me and Veronica will be waiting for you outside." Saying that, the two doctors walked out of the curtained portion, leaving her alone. 

Stella quietly did what she was asked to do. Five minutes later, she walked out of the curtained area with her sunglasses and muffler in hand. 

"You can go and wait with Veronica in my office. I will get your reports and join you guys there." Matilda spoke up before heading further inside the room. She could have asked some staff member to print out her reports but she couldn't as the reports would have bared Stella's name right on the top. 

--------

Stella and Veronica were waiting inside the office just like they were asked to. 

"Are you alright?" Veronica asked the woman sitting next to her with concern. Though Stella wasn't that much talkative, but she had been way too quiet after Matilda had told her about her being pregnant with twins. 

"Yeah!" Stella heaved out a long sigh. "It's just, it's too much for me to process." 

"I can understand. It isn't easy when you are on your own. But with time, you will get used to it. Because you know that you have to be strong for your baby. And in your case, it's babies. Take it from a woman who's a single mother herself." Veronica have her a polite smile. 

"I didn't see that one coming." Stella looked at her with a shocked expression. Who would have thought that her doctor could actually understand her dilemma. 

"You'll do fine, Stella. You'll do just fine." Veronica patted the back of her hand which was resting on the arm of the chair.

Before Stella could thank her, the door to the room flew open and Matilda walked inside with a white envelope in her hand which bore the name of the hospital in bold and capitalized letters.

"There you go, Mrs. Levinson." She handed the envelope to Stella walked around the table to sit in her chair. After settling herself down, she continued. "For the next four months, you will have to visit me at least once each month. I will arrange for the appointments and inform you myself or Dr. Veronica will do that. You will have to maintain a healthy diet and eat as much as you want to because the babies depend on their mother for nutrition. I would prefer it if you can avoid alcohol until the babies are out in this world, and smoking too. You need to avoid caffeine as much as possible and make sure whatever fruits and vegetables you consume are properly washed. Do not eat raw or undercooked fish or meat." 

Stella continued to nod her head at her every word, silently making a checklist in her mind about the dos and don'ts. A little while later, she headed out of the room after her doctor was done giving her a lecture about what she should and shouldn't do. 

After exiting the elevator on the ground floor, she found herself walking towards the exit but accidentally bumped into a man who was coming from the opposite direction. As a result of the collision, the envelope in her hand slipped through her hold and fell down on the ground. 

"I am so sorry. Let me get it for you." The man spoke up politely as he offered her his help and bent down to pick the white envelope from the tiled floor. 

Stella, who was about to apologise for her absent mindedness, found the words stuck at the back of her throat after hearing the familiar voice. She internally cursed herself for being so forgetful.

********

If you are reading the story on some other site besides W e b n o v e l. com, then the content is stolen. [https://dynamic.w e b n o v e l.com/book/14227206905696705?utm_source=writerShare&utm_campaign=4301672609]

Join on discord: https://discord.gg/jgP7D