ASPHALT CAFÉ (Jades POV)

I was just sitting down dissecting my salad when the one and only VEGA, sits down opposite me, (ergh seriously?, will this girl ever get off my back?) and of course as Tori came so did the ever so irritating duo that was Robbie and Rex, Andre, Beck and Cat also accompanied the brunette but I didn't mind as much as they were classed as friends , and Beck was MY boyfriend! God I love the way that sounds , I smile internally at those words.

"How you doing , Jade? , you've been a little quieter today, is everything okay?" Tori inquired

Although as weird as it sounds I really wasn't in the mood to shoot Vega a snarky , sarcastic comment I had bigger things to worry about so instead I replied with a "I-I guess yeah, not that it's any of your business but I have a few things I need to think about , so I f you don't mind, keep those cheekbones still, Okay? – not my best work , but It will do.

I removed my eyes from her direction and fixed them to my phone, 3 new messages , 2 missed calls, who on earth could it be? Of course that was a sarcastic comment , I knew exactly who it was, why couldn't she just leave me alone..?

TO JADE

FROM CASSIE

Hey to you my beautiful sis, have you come to a decision yet? It's just me and Ash need to know ASAP, love you xoxox

Man, that girl was pushy, she asked me just over 2 hours ago and she is already asking me for an answer already?!

Okay so I am fully aware you don't know what's happening here, but basically My sister Cassie and her husband Ash have just moved back to LA after going travelling for2 years , My mom and dad have always favored Cassie over me or my younger brother; Justin , when she lived will us they always made sure they could give her what she wants, so it came as a bit of a shock when they realized they couldn't give her the one thing she wanted more than anything ; a baby. Cassie was devastated when she was told she was unable to have children because she is disabled , when we were growing up you would always find her playing with the baby dolls , and I was the one with the hammer, much to my parents dismay.

I felt bad for Cass because it's not as if I hate her as much as my parents, she's my sister after all. She was always the one that would tell my parents to 'lay off' me when I started my rebellious stage, so this sort of determined the outcome of my decision, I guess I owed her.

Cassie , my parents and Ash looked into adoption as an alternative, however they were turned away from all the agencies as Ash has a bit of a criminal record , my dad doesn't really approve of Ash, that's why I tolerate him. Cassie went through a stage of depression, I found It genuinely hard to see her in such a bad way, she would always be crying , or refusing to get out of bed, it got so bad that she turned to self harming, I could relate to her with that one, but I haven't touched anything sharp since before me and Beck started dating, I'm proud.

There was always a lot of tension at home which would result in heated arguments between me and my dad, I usually ended up sleeping at Beck's RV, he didn't mind, he would sit up with me while I expressed my feelings about the whole situation, he knew how much Cassie wanted to be a mother, and he knew what it was doing to her and our family because she was being denied it.

This was my basically my life , until this morning when my Mom returned from work eager to share her latest discovery, I honestly didn't care, I had to get to school, until my Mom said that it concerned me as well, I was reluctant to stay but my Dad is very authoritive as you can probably imagine.. We all sat down and my mom announced a possible solution for Cassie and a way for her to become a mother, I saw a distinct difference in her compared to before when she thought she would never have children, she was happy and full of life again it was so strange seeing her like this, but at least it meant I could go to school at quit worrying that I would come home to find a suicide note next to her dead body, but there was a massive price I had to pay for this benefit.

Your probably curious as to what the solution was, well it was surrogacy. This means my parents pay somebody to carry Cassie and Ash' baby for them and give birth to it at the end of the pregnancy , it would biologically belong to my sister and her husband , but it would be in another woman's womb for 9 months. At first this seemed to be a practical idea as my parents were more than willing to pay a stranger to have their daughters baby, although there was one disadvantage…. By law the baby would belong to the carrier therefore if the surrogate refused to hand the baby over at birth , it would be allowed and there would be little anyone could do about it, this made Cassie apprehensive about the idea, she was unsure if she wanted to take this route, even though this was probably her last chance of having a baby. I totally understood my sister, I mean would you want so much uncertainty in a pregnancy?

I thought this ruled out the newly discovered solution until my dad came up with an idea… (Yeah you can probably tell it's not gonna be good)

He said that instead of a stranger carrying Cassie's baby , maybe we should think about someone close to the family… someone in the family… that someone was me. My dad was basically offering me as a surrogate, how unbelievable?! I was speechless was he fucking joking me? I honestly thought Cassie would reject my dad's offer, however she thought that it could work and that's how I am In this situation.. receiving texts and phone calls whilst I am school from my Mommy craving sister asking me to make a life changing decision ASAP?! It's crazy I know .. I am just a teenager, what would Beck say? There so many reasons why I shouldn't but then again there were just as many reasons why I should.. and that's why the following text found its way into my 'sent' folder on my pear phone:

TO CASSIE

FROM JADE

Whatever, I'll do it.. go to the clinic and get the forms – you owe me big time P.S quit being so nice to me just so I'll say yes. Got it?

Okay so how was it guys? This idea just came to me and I's thought I'd try it out.. By the way I know it's a little unrealistic - a surrogate who's 17 but please forgive me .. I have much more planned what will Beck say? Damn I hate Jades parents for allowing her to do this but I figured they don't really care about her that much, and Jade's dad thinks that she has ruined her life already by attending HA , so what difference does it make? , I will update later if you like it so far

-Badealicious