Blog Love Omega Glee: What's Our Omega Point, Baby? (1 July 2012)

Like a steel chair to the head, Francine's words stun Jake. As he pauses the video on the computer, the image that gets frozen is of Crony Crushnik putting Dong Du Dong in The Russian Bearhug, and Jake knows exactly how Dong feels. Trapped and suffocating, Jake girds himself for "the relationship talk". Dragging every little movement out as he turns around to face Francine, he just hopes he can escape somehow, but, unlike Dong, he can't just spit vodka into Crushnik's eyes and wiggle free.

"Sure, darling, we can talk," Jake says, hoping his smile conceals his terror.

"Don't call me 'darling'. You know I hate that word," Francine says, sitting down on her bed and patting the space beside her, summoning Jake to sit down there.

"Your hair looks nice," Jake says, looking at Francine's newly-dyed black hair.

"Oh, thanks," Francine says, "Now like I said, we need to have a talk."

"What brand of hair color did you use exactly?" Jake says, sitting down on the bed.

"Jake, you and I both know that you don't care about my hair dye. Quit trying to change the subject," Francine says in the stern voice that she uses when her menstrual cramps are bad.

"OK."

"Now, where do you see this relationship going?"

"'Going'?"

"Yes, 'going'. What's our final destination? What's our omega point? I need to know."

"Uh, I guess I hadn't really thought about it."

"Well, start thinking, I might be pregnant."

"P-p-p-pregnant?"

"Well, my period's late anyway. Sometimes that happens though. Or you've knocked me up."

"Wow!" Jake says, reclining on the bed.

"'Wow'? It's not that unusual. A baby is a predictable result of sex."

"But you're on the pill, aren't you?"

"Yes."

"And we use condoms. Though I don't know why, as you're on the pill."

"The pill guards against pregnancy, not STDs."

"I don't have any STDs. I told you, those scaly things were just a heat rash. We were doing it a lot. That can happen."

"All right, all right, don't get defensive. I just want to know what we'll do if I am pregnant."

"Well, we'll get married, of course."

That must have been the right thing to say because Francine smiles and says, "Well, I'm sure it's nothing, but I just wanted to let you know. And I needed to know if this was more than a summer romance."

"Of course, it started in the spring. Now, why don't we use one of those pregnancy tests and find out for sure?"

"Oh, don't worry, I either am or I'm not; we'll find out soon enough. Besides, you might have to save money for something."

Shaking his head at Francine's gearshift from alarm to nonchalance, Jake puts his arms around her and starts to think of a ring that's not a wrestling ring for once.

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel, which is available in print and as an ebook.