"Sure."

He needed to rest for a few days to think about his relationship with

Chantel.

Thinking of her, he cast a look at the door and realized that she was already gone. Gifford had been too wrapped up in his thoughts to notice.

“Huh! Did she realize that she had done something wrong? Is that why she is avoiding me?’

Later at the hospital, Chantel was sitting on a bench uneasily.

Her appointment had gone without incident so far. She was waiting for the examination result now.

Waiting was excruciating; the ten minutes she spent on that bench felt like ten hours. Finally, the doctor called her name, “Chantel Rodgers!"

“I'm here!" the girl called back. She hurried to the window, where she was handed a report. She scanned the page, trying to find the results first.

But before she could understand what she was reading, the attendant of the color ultrasound room told her, “Sign here and take the form to the doctor."

“Okay, thank you," Chantel murmured. After signing her name, she headed back to the outpatient department of gynecology.

The doctor there glanced over the results, then raised his head.

"You're five weeks pregnant," he explained dispassionately.

"Do you want to keep it?"

‘I'm really pregnant, ‘ thought Chantel. The thought seized on her mind so thoroughly that for a moment she forgot where she was-until the doctor spoke again.

"Do you want the baby?”

"Yes, yes!" she cried, coming back to herself. It would not be easy for her to have Gifford's baby. But how could she give it up?

Joy that she could not contain Lit up her face.

“Okay. Take care, and don't tire yourself." The doctor spoke with

Chantel at length about all the things that she needed to pay attention to, and she Listened attentively and tried to remember them all.

He had even suggested that she be put on record in their hospital so that prenatal checkups would be convenient for her. However, she was nervous, and so, she refused.

After leaving the hospital, Chantel wrapped her scarf tightly around her neck and took out her phone to message Erica.

“Rika, the doctor said I'm five weeks pregnant.”

Chantel nervously checked her phone several times, but she received no reply from Erica. She guessed that she hadn't seen the message. So, she placed her phone back into her pocket and took a bus to school.

As soon as she found a seat on the bus and sat down, her cell phone rang. She took it out and glanced at the caller ID. She was so scared that she almost dropped the phone.