Title- A No Title Jess
Chapter Title- The News
Summary- The other Jess stories are needed. Jess got married not even a year ago. Hey! I still suck at writing summaries!
Disclaimer- I do not own The Outsiders
Note- This was unplanned. I had added the last chapter to "The Return of Jess" due to a threat from a friend. Now I was told that I had to write more. Since I love Jessica, I decided I would. The wonderful title "A No Title Jess" just came to me. Jess is 19, Soda's 18, I figure you can get the other ages from going by that.
I got so nervous. It hadn't even been a year since I had married Soda. I prayed the test would come back negative, and all my worries would disappear. And since when do I, Jessica Curtis, have such good luck? The only time was meeting Soda, and anything with Soda. Nope, of course it would come back positive. How would I tell Soda? How would he take it?
I walked around the room nervously playing with my hair. I bit the inside of my cheek. I thought out loud what I was going to say.
"Soda, you're going to be a father. No, Soda, you're gonna be a daddy." This was really hard. I walked back and forth biting my cheek and playing with my hair. I didn't rip it out yet, that was a good sign. I was pretty sure I was sweating.
"Soda, I'm having a baby. No, that doesn't sound right. Soda, you're gonna be a daddy." I liked that one the best. It would've been better but Steve had opened the door as I said that. He slammed the door in surprise. I jumped as I turned around. I cursed under my breath and looked at Steve. His jaw was touching the floor and his eyes were wide.
"You, uh, you heard that, huh?" He nodded.
"Steve," I whined, "How do I tell Soda?" He shrugged, he was still surprised.
I never had liked little kids. I always thought of them as snot-nosed sticky-fingered brats. Now I was getting stuck with one? I was only glad I waited until I was married. What would've happened if I got slammed with this smelly diaper without being married? And without such a great husband? I heard the door open and saw Darry, I was just aware that it had started raining. I waited for Soda to come home. I was so nervous. Steve told me to tell him just as it was and I hadn't even mentioned it to Darry.
"Soda," I said when he came in. He kissed my cheekand I grabbed his arm and led him into the bedroom.
"What is it?" he asked me. I nervously started to chew the inside of my cheek again. I hoped Steve had the common sense to keep Darry away from us.
"Um, Soda, you're, uh, you're gonna be a daddy," I said after a while. I studied his face really hard trying to see signs of anything. I wondered if he believed me.
"Really?" he asked calmly. I nodded. He looked excited and I wasn't nervous anymore. I gave him a hug.
"Who knows?" he questioned.
"Just Steve, he had walked in on me trying to figure out how to tell you."
"Do you want to let anybody else know?" We started to walk out of the room. I didn't need to answer that. Steve walked over and slapped him on the back.
"Congratulations man," he said. Darry looked at us. 'Thanks Steve,' I thought to myself and gave him a deadly look. I gulped and looked at Darry.
"I'm having a baby," I said and Two-Bit looked over to us.
"You mean, like, now?" I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Of course now," I snapped back. How stupid do you get? I got really nervous because Darry and Ponyboy hadn't said anything. Soda must've realized this because he put his arm around my waist. I felt a little more relaxed; Soda had that affect on me. Everything was quiet at dinner. I was really nervous; I couldn't hold my fork steady.
"Were you okay at dinner tonight?" Soda asked as I crawled into bed. I nodded, I was okay, and the silence was just killing me. Soda was next me and he threw an arm over me. I wondered how Ponyboy was doing without him in the room.
I never got a job after I had been fired from The Dingo. I should go get a job, so when I can take my pregnancy leave, I'll get paid. That's the perfect job, get paid to do nothing. Soda woke me up when he got out of bed to take a shower for work. I still wasn't a little comfortable with the girls that still drooled over him. The worst part is that they knew he was married. The whole town had found out when Sodapop Curtis, the Sodapop Curtis was married.
I rolled out of bed and got dressed. I brushed my hair back into a ponytail. I opened the bathroom door. Those Curtis boys don't lock any doors, it's weird. They can always tell when I'm in the bathroom because the door is locked. I washed my face and went into the kitchen to get breakfast. I pulled out the chocolate cake; (Darry made it, so it was good) and started to cook the eggs. Soda was right about liking sweet stuff. Grape jelly on eggs? No thank you, I'll stick with plain scrambled eggs. I made some bacon for Darry. I put out the bread and jelly and tomato and salt. I pulled out the chocolate milk and started some coffee.
"You're up earlier than usual," Soda said when he came into the kitchen. I handed him the plate of scrambled eggs and he sat down.
"I'm thinking of getting a job again, so I can get some money again." I put the other eggs down and grabbed my own. I sat down next to Soda and began to eat.
"You're really having a baby?" he asked me. Maybe he thought it was a dream. I nodded and grabbed the coffee pot. I drink coffee, but not black. One spoonful of sugar and some milk. One time, Soda attempted to make my coffee and he put chocolate milk in it. The coffee didn't stay in my mouth to long.