I squeaked and whirled around to find Sierra standing in the doorway of Cam's office, smirking.
"You did not just say that!" Cam exclaimed, jumping to her feet behind her desk.
"I'm sure there's more than one way to get knocked up, but that's the most popular one."
I had to laugh. Sierra was completely irreverent and outrageous and if she wasn't already in love with and married to Benjamin Murphy, I would have fixed her up with Scott. She was exactly the kind of woman he needed to date instead of the ones who expected him to fix all their problems before they broke his heart.
"See? Lee thinks it's funny," Sierra said, gesturing toward me. "Don't get your panties in a twist."
"Okay, I'm going to head out," I said, clapping my hands together to interrupt them. "What time should I be at your parents' house, Cam?" I asked her.
"We eat around one or one-thirty, but I'm pretty sure J.J. said something about picking you up, so I'm sure he'll be in touch."
I bit back a sigh. Yes, he likely would. He would also be disappointed because I intended to drive myself to the McClanes' on Sunday. Until I decided what I wanted to do, and if I seriously wanted to consider the marriage proposal J.J. had only uttered once, I didn't want his parents to think we were together.
I liked Colette and Malcolm and I didn't want to get their hopes up.
Cam snickered, breaking me out of my thoughts. "Oh, Lee. I'm actually kinda glad J.J. knocked you up. He has no idea what hit him or even what he's in for."
I frowned at her, a bit offended. "I'm not going to do anything mean to him."
She waved a hand at me. "I didn't mean it like that. It's just that J.J. is used to women giving him exactly what he wants because of that pretty face and his nice manners. The fact that you aren't falling into line with his plans, well, it's gonna throw him for a loop."
I didn't tell her that other than the one time he mentioned marriage, J.J. hadn't said a single thing about future plans between the two of us.
I was too afraid of what I might see in her face.
Cam was right about J.J.'sintent to give me a ride to his parents.
But she was wrong about him being thrown for a loop.
When he called me Saturday evening to see what time he could pick me up for lunch the next day, I told him that I was driving myself and I would meet him there.
He took it in stride without so much as a word of argument.
After a short conversation, we disconnected and I spent the rest of the day either napping or feeling vaguely disconcerted about the lack of response from J.J.
Cam seemed positive that he would behave a certain way. And, honestly, I'd expected him to bring up marriage again, as well.
But he hadn't done either of those things.
I wondered, and not for the first or even tenth time, if he'd changed his mind about wanting to marry me for the baby's sake.
It shouldn't have bothered me, especially since I'd rejected him the first time he'd mentioned it.
But it did.
I also had no idea what to do about it. In the past, if one of my few female friends in college had an issue with their boyfriends, I'd tell them to talk to him.
I'd even made that suggestion to my brothers on multiple occasions, but they seemed to have a switch that flipped directly to "self-destruction in progress" any time there was a woman involved.
Now, in my current predicament, I wanted to go back in time and smack some sense into past me. Granted, my situation was a little different than the complaints that my friends had made about him not wanting to spend time with them. Or him ignoring them for his video games. Or him acting differently in front of his friends.
It wasn't like I could just approach J.J. and say, "Hey, let's talk about that marriage thing you brought up before."
Because that wouldn't be weird or uncomfortable for anyone. Least of all me.
I knew that worrying about this would do me no good, but I was still waiting for Cam and Sierra to tell me what they'd come up with for health insurance for me. Or if they could do it at all.
