After inspecting Bianca's head Tyler had concluded that she probably needed stitches and she suspected that she had a concussion. After placing an uncomfortable phone call to her new employer to take the day off of work, Bianca loaded into her car and allowed Tyler to drive her to the emergency room.
The brief ride was all but quiet. As incredibly awkward as everything should have been after the events of the morning, there was no strangeness between them at all. Bianca told Tyler all about her new job and how lucky she felt to have landed it. Tyler told her of his passing the bar and landing a job as a defense attorney at one of his father's colleague's firms, a job he was surprised he had been certain he had gotten only because of his father because he had been minimally functional after Bianca had left. Their hands were interlaced tightly and laid upon the center console, Tyler stroked her fingers with his own. Bianca didn't want to let go of him, afraid that if she did she would wake up and be alone on her sofa again and this would all have been some strange nightmare turned sweet dream. She avoided any talk of why she had left, or of Barbara or cancer, and it was surprisingly simple they had so many other things to discuss.
"June had her baby."
"Yes I know," Tyler replied. Oops, Bianca thought. Of course, he had spoken to her father, it must have been how he had found her. Damn it dad, Bianca thought.
"How ironic that we are having a boy." Tyler added, oblivious that he alone had known that. Bianca eyes swelled with tears, not only because now she knew the gender of the sweet soul inside of her, but also because her baby had become their baby and this was an unbelievably jubilant sentiment.
"Your crying? We're you dissapointed it is a boy, you were hoping for a prissy little Bianca, not a goofy little Tyler?" He quipped.
"No, I didn't know the gender...that envelope in your pocket, i hadn't know what it said inside, I never looked at the sonogram, i wasn't sure I wanted to know." Tyler looked at her a little confused and with regret written across his eyes. "No, it's good, I'm glad you found out first, I was waiting for the moment to feel right and it just hadn't yet. But this is the most perfect way to find out I can imagine." She said smiling up at him and lifting his hand to her lips to plant a soft peck. Tyler smiled mildly back, obviously retreating back into all of the unresolved questions in his mind. Bianca, recognizing his retreat, squeezed his hand "I know you have alot of questions you need answered, i have alot of explaining to do, and I will explain everything. But just please know that your being here with me means everything. Know that I love you and that whatever you decide to do with the answers to your questions is going to be fine with me. Right now though, in this moment, all I feel is happiness and I want to hang onto that until after this hospital visit."
Tyler smiled at her kindly before replying "I'm happy too, yes full of questions, but seeing you, and we are having a baby! Darlin' I just don't have words, I think I'm in shock. I can't tell you how sorry I am that the door smacked your pretty head, I was just trying the doorknob on the off chance...and well it was... then you were trying to kill me...it's all a blur. I didn't know you were bleeding and when you were unconcious I went to get ice, when I was looking for something to put it in i found that letter from the doctors office, and obviously I was a little suprising to see that you were pregnant, I thought I may find some answers."
"I know, I understand it's okay I'm fine, and glad you found the letter." It must have been what he had been muttering in the kitchen. "I'm assuming my father told you where I was?" Tyler looked puzzled
"He knew? When I spoke to him he acted as if he didn't know anything, that sonofa..."
"No, he didn't know, not then anyway and he doesn't know about the baby, but anyway more on that later, how did you find me?"
"Your email. You left it signed in on your laptop. You sent an email with your tax information to human resources for your job, it was in your sent items. Your address was in there. I had checked it everyday, your email, trying to get some clue where you were or what was happening but you weren't checking your email or sending anything until, well, until you did." Wow, Bianca thought, I hadn't thought of that.
"Tyler did you tell anyone where I was?"
"No, I left as soon as I read it. I didn't even bring anything, I just left to find you. Are you in some kind of trouble?" Bianca laughed a little, was she? She wasn't sure.
"Well, I don't know, now that your here I maybe in a bit of a predicament. Until I can tell you everything, don't tell anyone that you are here with me okay?" Tyler raised an eyebrow at her inquisitively "please, I'll explain later I promise." He nodded.
"Alright babe, but I'm getting real eager to hear these explainations."
"I know. Let's just get through these stitches first." She gave him a pat on the leg as they pulled into a parking space in front of the emergency room.
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