Trapped In Lace

Marcus widened his eyes in surprise. "She is pregnant?"

Henry nodded with a hint of pride on his face.

For a moment after seeing Henry's confirmation, Marcus was speechless with excitement.

Finally, he dramatically put both his hands over his chest as if he was gasping for breath and exclaimed, "Oh, my God, this is crazy. We didn't even have the time to digest the fact that you're getting married and now, you're springing this on us!"

Henry shrugged. "All I wanted to tell you was that I'm getting married," he said casually.

"Yeah, well, you were being so obvious that I would have to be an idiot to not guess it," Marcus muttered playfully.

All of them laughed and congratulated Henry from the bottom of their hearts. The whole room was lit up by the jovial mood of this group of friends.

But Rachel, who had never imagined that she would hear such news, was itching to talk to her friend.

It was 1 p.m. when they finished lunch, but she had a lunch break until half past two in the afternoon and it would take barely ten minutes to get back to the hospital, so she was in no hurry to leave.

But first things first; she excused herself from the table, went to a quiet corner, and called Lea.

It was impossible for Lea to not tell her that she was going to get married.

As she had expected, Lea was surprised to hear what had happened at lunch. "What did you say? He took out the household certificate?" she asked.

Rachel chuckled. "Yes, to show us that you're getting married."

"He's crazy." Lea shook her head an

Day by day, she started to feel more and more like she and Jack were really a couple. Recently, their life had been nothing but peaceful, without any problems to face.

And yet, she had an unshakeable feeling that something was wrong, as if she had missed something.

She shook her head in an attempt to get rid of those thoughts. Maybe she was just feeling weird because her period had been delayed and her hormones were acting up.

In the bathroom, Jack unbuttoned his shirt and threw it over the hook. Then, as he turned around, something in the trash can suddenly caught his eye. His heart beating fast, he bent over and picked it up.

It was the pregnancy test kit that Rachel had thrown away that morning. Jack turned it over and saw a single red line on it.

Then, he expressionlessly threw it back into the trash can. He wasn't surprised by the presence of the pregnancy test, nor was he disappointed at the result.

But since Rachel hadn't said anything about it, he wanted to pretend that he hadn't seen it.

Then, he walked to the shower and turned it on.

As water sprayed out from the shower head and fell on his broad back, Jack looked down and stared thoughtfully at the floor.

After a while, he raised his head to feel the water run down his face, so that he could distract himself from the thoughts that he was struggling with.

He just didn't know what to do.

There was something that he was still hiding from Rachel, but he didn't know how to tell her about it, or if he should even tell her in the first place.