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He snorted and leaned back on the bench, his smile crocodile wide.
She grinned back. ‘You obviously aren’t aware of how serious this is.’
He laughed—too long, too infectiously. Then he suddenly sobered, half groaning and rubbing his chest with the heel of his hand. ‘Hell, for a moment there I thought you were going to tell me something far worse.’
‘What could be worse?’ she asked mock-incredulously.
‘That there might have been some long-term consequences from that day.’
‘Freckles are long term,’ she said. ‘You can’t get rid of them. At all. Believe me, I’ve tried.’
‘But kids have much more of an impact.’ He shook his head and laughed again. ‘I thought you were going to tell me you were pregnant.’
Pregnant?
Kelsi laughed too—giggled like a silly schoolgirl.
But as their amusement filled her ears her brain ticked over slowly. Her giggle went into cardiac arrest.
‘Kelsi?’
She shook her head and turned away from him slightly as she tried to think harder. Pregnant. No. She’d had a period—hadn’t she?
‘It’s been a couple months, Kelsi. Shouldn’t you know by now?’
She should if she’d been paying attention to anything like that. But she’d been working even crazier hours than usual because of an account she’d won. Because she’d been trying to distract herself so much.
So she really hadn’t been thinking about her cycle or anything. Hell, she hadn’t even had the time to dye her hair again, which was why she was going for the assortment of hats at the moment.
‘Kelsi?’
Stupid, irrelevant thoughts tumbled over and over in her head. When had her last period been? But all she came up with was an empty feeling. A blankness that just couldn’t be good.
‘I used a condom.’ Clearly he was thinking the same thing.
‘Yes.’ Her voice cracked. ‘You checked it after, right?’
He stared at her but wasn’t really seeing her. She knew he, too, was thinking back on those cataclysmic moments when they’d been in the water. Thigh deep, they’d rolled and swapped positions again and again and pushed it every which way.
His face became more rigid as the seconds dragged. ‘I swam after. I just scrunched it up and put it in my pocket to get rid of later.’
So he hadn’t checked—it could have shredded. Neither of them knew for sure. And, given the sustained action the thing had endured, it probably had.
Oh, no.
‘Come on,’ he said suddenly, taking her hand in a tight grip. Next thing he was walking her out of the flat, down the path, dragging her behind him like one of those wooden pull-along toys.
He went to the driver’s side of her car. ‘Keys.’
‘I thought you believed in walking,’ she said sarcastically, needing to get a bite in.
‘Right now I really feel like running.’
Ha ha.
She got in the car and gripped her hands tight together, pressing them to her chest. ‘Where are we going?’
‘The supermarket.’
