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"How may I help you sir? " A young woman, probably in her early twenties, sat behind the desk in the waiting room. Tord, who was missing out on an exciting adventure with his friends, was standing in front of said desk a bit awkwardly.

"I have a 10 o'clock appointment with Dr. Smiths." Speaking quietly so as to not draw the attention of the other patients in the waiting room, mostly consisting of younger children as well as the occasional heavily pregnant woman. The woman behind the desk handed him a clipboard asking for him to fill it out and that he would be called back shortly. Sitting down, Tord began on the papers, skipping any that didn't exactly apply to him. A little girl, maybe three who was dressed in a sundress walked up to him just as he finished filling out the last box on the paperwork.

"Mister will you play with me?" She held up her hands to Tord, palm out in his direction. Looking around he finds her mother is too distracted with the girl's little brother who is fussing from his carrier. Looking back to the little girl who gave him a bright smile he gave in, smiling back at her.

"What do you want to play? I don't know too many games so you're going to have to teach me how to play."

"Let's play Patty cake okay!" She walked him through the steps of the game, then the rhyme learning her name and giving his own. They played this for quite some time before being interrupted.

"-Roll it and pat it and mark it with a T, put it in the oven for Tordiee and me! " She finished the rhyme, another mother a few seats away was watching them as her son played with her phone. Tord chuckled at how the little girl said his name. Her mother stood up after being called back looking around for her daughter. Spotting her playing with Tord, she called over to her.

"Abigail come on its our turn. Say bye to your friend." Abigail hugged Tord around the waist and followed her mom but not before saying goodbye.

"Bye bye, Tordiee. Play another time?" Abigail asked waving bye.

"Bye Abby. You can teach me how to play another game next time." He didn't know why he was indulging in Abby. Maybe because she wasn't afraid of him because of his scarred face and odd hairstyle. Then again he's kinda happy she played with him.

"Mr. Larsin, Dr. Smiths will see you now." Receiving a few odd looks he got up, Tord following the nurses assistant was led to a room in the back and told to wait for a few moments. He sat on the examination table looking around the room. Tord had started messing with the hem of his hoodie when there was a knock on the door and a young woman came into the room.

"Hello Mr. Larsin, I am Dr. Smiths, but I prefer to be called Mari." She reached out a hand towards him in a move to shake hands. After the handshake, Dr. Mari started asking him questions.

"It says here that you're well here for a prenatal checkup."

"Yes."

"Do you know how far along you are?"

"I was told that I am about five weeks yesterday."

"Okay. Just to get this out of the way. Is the father in the picture?" That was the question. Tord froze up glancing down to the floor wide eyed. Dr. Mari began apologizing frantically.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up a sore subject. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to."

"No it's fine. It's just I don't know who the father is. Everything was kind-of just a one time thing between me and my roommates-"

"My roommates and I."

"Uhhh yeah. But I don't know which one is the father. So that's that as well as the point that I'm....  I guess scared? I don't know what to do." Dr. Mari looked at him in surprise. Not many of her patients had openly spoken about things such as this. Especially when first meeting her. Suddenly a loud ringing erupted in the room causing both parties to jump in surprise. Tord pulled his phone out of the large pocket of his hoodie and looked at the screen glancing up at Dr. Mari.

"It's one of my roommates I can decline the call."

"No it's fine, I'll be back in a few minutes with something." Dr. Mari then left the room closing the door behind her. Tord looked down at his still ringing phone sighing and hitting the answer call. Loud and excitited yelling filled the room not even a second later.

"HI TORD!" Definitely Matt.

"Matt shut up." There's the pissed off Whitness. Sounds cranky as always.

"He's probably still at the doctors office." And there's the owner of the other phone. Sighing, Tord spoke up.

"Yeah I'm actually in the middle of my appointment."

"Oh my gosh. We're so sorry! I'll hang up."

"No! Um your fine. My doctor had to leave the room to take care of another patient." Knocking was heard from the other side of the door. The brunette doctor opened the door a small bit. Tord motioned for her that he was about to end the call.

"She just came back so I have to go. Bye guys." Hanging up, tord looked up at the equipment she had brought in.

"Sorry about that. Their...... Interesting?"

"I understand. Now was there anything else?"

"Yeah. Is there a way that I could try hiding all of this from those three? I don't feel up to trying to explain this to them."

"Well what have you been doing so far?"

"I told them that I had a stomach bug. Though one of them aren't very convinced."

"Well I'm going to prescribe you vitamins and something to help with the vomiting. I really don't condone lying but some patients have felt weaker while taking the medicine helping with morning sickness. You can use that information to whatever lengths you wish to. Now onto another topic. Your next appointment is in two weeks. And will be every other week after that. It was very nice to meet you Tord." Dr. Mari walked out of the room, pointing towards the exit before walking into another room to  tend to a patient. Tord followed the directions given to him stopping by a window to confirm when his next appointment would be.  Behind him he heard a small gasp and felt someone grab onto his leg and hugging it.

"Tordiee!" Abby looked up at him with a huge smile. Tord smiled back while he heard her mother trying to apologize for her daughters actions.

"I'm so sorry about that sir. Abigail let go of him right now! She doesn't do this usually and-" Tord laughed a bit waving off the woman's apologies.

"She's alright. It's kind of cute." He gave smile before squatting down to be eye level with the three year old.

"Tordiee you gonna come back?"

"Of course. And we can play again next time. Now don't worry your mom too much, okay?"

"Okay! I'm gonna find more games to play for next time!" Abby was hopping up and down in excitement. Her mother began speaking to him after he stood up.

"Your really good with kids. Do you have any of your own?" Stiffening slightly, Tord looked over at the woman.

"No not yet but maybe sooner or later." He was called up to the counter and after setting up dates for his next few appointments, Tord said goodbye to Abby and her family before leaving.
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"Sorry again about that. We were just leaving the magic shop and thought it would be a good idea to call."

"How was the appointment by the way?"

"Oh it was alright. Started out with playing Patty cake with a three year old. I was also given some medicine and vitamins that should help. My next appointment is in two weeks then every other week after that."

"You? Playing Patty cake? Who are you and what did you do with Tord?" Tom joked taking a drink from his flask.

"Very funny Tom. She asked if I wanted to play and saw her mom was busy so why should I decline? She's a cute kid. Had to teach me how to play but still." Tord shrugged.

"Awww you do have a heart after all Tord." Matt joked leaning over the back of the couch.

"Haha very funny Matt. Go ahead and make fun of the foreigner." Tord smiled at his friends. They were always doing this stuff to him. The four were laughing for a while before Edd spoke up.

"I've been thinking."

"Here we go again."

"Oh shush Tom. As I was saying, I've been thinking. What are we?"

"Uhhhhh friends? Roommates? I don't know? Why?" Tom looked over thinking.

"Don't know........" Edd hums in thought before opening his mouth once more, "Wanna date?"

"Who are you asking?" Tord looked over to Matt who had straightened up before asking his question. Edd shrugged.

"All of you guys." To this statement there were three replies that were spoken in unison. All three the same thing. After that all four fell asleep on the couch cuddling up against one another. Tord looked at the others briefly before falling asleep between Tom and Edd.

'I love these dorks.'