It was Just another regular day at west valley charter for everybody there except Loren Tate… Loren had her first symptom….Nausea …which she didn't think was a big deal maybe the lunch didn't sit well with her no big deal… Till the nausea continued day after day … It was friday lunchtime Since she still wasn't feeling well…Loren was thinking the worst. she was pregnant ,thinking to herself , " no I can't be pregnant me and Eddie used protection when he took me to prom . We where so careful thee other times to " or so she thought . maybe she has food poisoning .. Yeah that was it.. she thought with her being sick she should stay away from Eddie for awhile and just resort to phone calls so this stupid bug would go way in a day or two.. To lorens bad luck ,it was almost a WHOLE week ,she needed help.. someone she could trust, not to tell anyone till the time was right . That happened to be Eddies very close cousin Layla Scott , now the only problem was.. How on earth was she gonna get to san francisco to talk to her, most importantly how was she gonna get there with out anyone( especially EDDIE) knowing ?
Loren contemplated telling eddies rockstar cousin ,who happens to be the female rockstar version of Eddie.
Still back at school Loren makes plans to first call her mom ,( she grabs her phone and dials her mom)
( nora answers )
Nora: Hey sweetie hows school ?
Loren: its going good .. Hey mom I was wondering can i spend the whole weekend with melissa ?
Nora: umm sure you call me every day?
Loren: yeah I will thanks mom!
( well that was settled now too call Layla's driver )
she goes ahead and calls Layla's driver Patrick ( who happened to be in the area )to drive Loren to see Layla for help ( Loren grabs a card. From her purse which read " Layla Scott's personal driver Patrick "she grabbed her phone and called him )
Patrick: hello this is Patrick ..
Loren: hey Patrick it's Loren Tate. I was wondering if you could come and pick me up ?I'm staying with Layla the weekend , I have some business to discuss with Layla .
Patrick: hello miss tate I am in the area doing errands for mrs Layla. I can come get you in Half an hour
Loren: Thanks you so much patrick.. I am sorry for the inconvenience …
Patrick : no worries ms tate .. Have you packed for the weekend ?
Loren: well I'm Still at school, Im leaving early. But once I get home I can pack in a hurry
patrick: sounds good meet you at ur house
( Loren hangs up the phone )
Man this was so easy ..( Loren figured that since she couldn't concentrate at school she would ditch the rest of the day and get ready so Patrick could go and pick her up.. Lorens gets to her house and sees patrick already there she rushes in and packs in a hurry and they take off … About fours into the six hour drive her phone rings And sees that its Eddie .. She answers …]
[( Eddies at his place going crazy not being able to see Loren , He decides to call her )
Loren: hello?
Eddie: hey beautiful !… How are you feeling ?
Loren: better I think… What are you doing?
Eddie: oh nothing just going crazy thinking about you ..I need to see you . Let me come over ! I'll take care of you ! ( Loren couldn't have that .. She was already on her way to eddies cousin Layla's house in San Francisco so she had to come up with A lie and make it sound convincing )
Loren: as much as I would love that .. You can't come over…Mel is Coming over with soup. And spending the weekend over at my house ,where gonna have a girls night and talk about boys … I'll be talking about you all night ( Loren was so hoping it sounded convincing )
Eddie: Loren it's been almost a whole week! I miss you .. I hate talking on the phone with you ! I want to see you and cuddle with you ! …
Loren : I know Eddie, I know but hey I promise I'll see you in two days okay?
Eddie : okay( Eddie sounds sad) I'm gonna hold you to it !
( they hang up the phone and Eddie starts to think "Loren sounded like she was lying but she did sound sick "… He couldn't stop thinking about it he had to get out of the apartment … He was gonna pay papa max a visit )
(Eddie finally reaches papa max's place and sees Noras car there …He heads up to his dads apartment and knocks on the door and sees Nora answering it with his dad behind her )
Nora : hey Eddie come in
( Eddie comes in and kisses Nora on the cheek and hugs his dad )
Max: what's up bud?
Eddie: nothing I'm going crazy I haven't seen Loren
Nora: why is that?is she upset with you?
Eddie: no cuz she's sick … How is she doing?
Nora: Eddie what are you talking about Loren isn't sick ?
(as soon as Eddie hears that he automatically knows Loren was lying to him and he fell for it … He was definitely gonna get to the bottom of this himself .. But first he had to sell it to max and Nora)
Eddie : ur right I'm sorry I forgot jake is the one who's sick ( Eddie looks to Nora and says ) Nora do you mind if I go and visit Loren?
Nora: she's not home she's spending the weekend with Melissa … She'll be back on Sunday … Do you want to surprise Loren at Melissa's? I'll give you her address to show up ?
Eddie: no ill just wait till Sunday to see her … I should get going I didnt mean to ruin your night and plus Ian is in town where gonna meet for drinks at rumor ,so I should go
Max: are you sure you don't want to stay?
Eddie: nah pop I have some stuff to do
( Eddie gets up to leave and hugs his dad bye and give Nora a hug bye)
Once Eddie was out of his dads place he started thinking .. " man I can't believe loren would lie to me . I wonder where she could be .. She lied to me and her mom I wonder if she's really with Melissa? " Eddie knew he had to call Melissa to see if Loren was there with her .. Good for him Loren had called Melissa once with his phone one time cause hers had died .. He decides to give Melissa a call…she answers)
Melissa: hello!
Eddie: Mel its Eddie
Melissa: hey rockstar what's up ?
Eddie: I need to ask you a quick question? I don't have a lot of time
Melissa: okay what is it
Eddie: have you seen Lo?
Melissa : I remember her telling me she was gonna spend time the weekend with her mom .. Her mom even took her out of school after lunch … Why?
Eddie: just asking I tried calling her but she must have her phone off .. But hey thanks mel I owe you one … Bye
Melissa: bye
( Eddie was thinking and thinking where could loren be ? She wasn't at her house . Or with her mother cause her mom was with my dad .. )…
[(loren was so excited cause she finally makes it to San Francisco and heads to Layla's home .. Loren's felt like a real rebel … No body knew where she was …. After finally getting to Layla's mansions .Patrick Gets out of the car and opens the door for loren .
Patrick : shall we ms tate. ?
( Loren gets out and says )
Loren: wow! She lives here ?( Loren sees the most gorgeous mansion she's ever laid her eyes on)
Patrick : yes she does now lets get you me .
( Loren follows Patrick inside and follows him to her studio and finally Loren sees Layla who spots Loren at the doorway of her home studio and is confused as ever wondering why Loren was there .. layla cuts what she's doing and takes a break .
Layla takes off her head phones and waves to Patrick to come in with Loren and Patrick says)
Patrick: Layla ,Loren is here like she said you instructed her to be here today ( Layla looks confused and sees Loren hoping Layla will go along with it and says)
Layla: of course Patrick ! Nice to see you follow directions well! ( Patrick gives her a sarcastic look and she says) well thank you for delivering ms Tate to me. You can have to rest of the night off you earned it !
Patrick: thanks Layla ( he looks at Loren). I hope your business with Layla goes well ( he leaves and Layla looks at Loren pointing to follow her out to head to the kitchen but stops outside the recording room and sees her sister in law who's Fixing up her song, she just sang and says" sawyer I'm done for today " her sister in law signs to her okay and Layla has Loren follow her to the kitchen to get something to eat ..
Layla: Loren you hungry?
Loren: yes please !
(Layla makes sandwiches and chips for the both of them with a couple of waters and they both sit )
Layla: not that I'm not happy to see you but Loren why are you here? And Where's Eddie ? How did you get here ?
Loren: well first off eddie doesn't know where I'm at yet… And he's back in L.A… As for how did I get here? .. Well I called Patrick and said you wanted me here to talk business, even though I'm the one who needs to talk personally …
Layla: okay how personal are we talking ?
Loren: well I'm hoping not very personal I dont know yet … But if it is very personal I could be changing life's here..even yours .. I just don't know? you know ? Thats why I'm here, I need you help and need your help to tell others!( Layla didn't know what in the world Loren was talking about all Layla knew was it had to be big cause Loren was rambling.. Alot )
Layla: LOREN!
Loren: what?
Layla: I have no clue what you talking about ?Also the rambling is kind of giving Me a headache
Loren: I'm sorry … It's just I'm so nervous and scared
Layla: Loren what ever it is … I'm gonna help you threw this …so come on just say it !
Loren: okay …. Layla… I… Think …I might be ….( before she says the last word Layla gets a call and interupts her and says)
Layla: hold on Loren …eddies calling …. (right when she presses the answer button Loren says very low, Eddie can barely hear anything threw the phone line )
Loren: pregnant
[Layla's eyes widen and kind of zones out but snaps back when she hears Eddie keeps saying {hello } she puts her ear to the phone and just listens to eddie who sounded like he was muffled ]
Eddie: Layla …. You there ? ….Layla Layla
( Layla couldn't hear anything after hearing that Loren might be pregnant by finally snaps and says to him)
Layla: um hi Ed … I'm gonna have to call you back ( Loren says before grabbing the phone )
Eddie: But … Layla wait have you seen…
Loren: hang up the phone!
( she hangs up the phone And just looks at her )
Loren: well … Are you gonna say anything ?
[back in LA]
(Eddie was going crazy back at his apartment wondering where On earth Loren could be ? He kept replaying all the lies he had heard. Loren saying Melissa was staying at her house the weekend , Nora saying Loren would be at melissas house the weekend nd melissa also stating that Loren left school early and would be having a mom/ daughter weekend .. He had to give it to them all the lies he heard sound so similar .. But still he knew Loren was with someone. It had to be someone close to her . He knew Loren All to well…but then he snapped . He was missing someone … This someone knew Loren , they liked and loved her to … This someone was his own family member ,His very close cousin Layla… But Loren couldn't be with his cousin… She wasn't in town this week … Maybe Loren called her? He had to find out and call her to see if she's heard from loren… It was his last hope..before he would started to think the worst ….( he grabs his phone and dials his cousins cell .. (It rings and rings which the rings feel like there taking forever … He never anticipated how much he wanted his cousin to answer her phone just so he can ask her if she's seen Loren ) just as she answers he can barely hear anything but voices in the background one in particular … Eddie starts yelling Layla's name hoping shell hear and will take the call …
Eddie: Layla …. You there ? ….Layla Layla
( nothing! … He gives her a minute and she finally snaps and says )
Layla .. Um hi Ed… I'm gonna have to call you back!( Layla sounded busy and shocked at the same time but he didn't really care he just needed to ask a simple quick question which he tried to get it out there )
Eddie:But … Layla wait have you seen…
Loren: hang up the phone!
( eddie hears thee other voice and his eyes widen! Thinking in his head " what the hell!….Loren ? How is Loren there with my cousin?" He suddenly felt relieved loren was there… Where ever "there" was , all of sudden the phone goes dead and he hears the dial tone . "DAMN" he couldn't believe it ?! Layla hung up on him ! Eddie was so frustrated he threw his phone … He hadn't seen his girl loren in a whole week, he was going crazy and even more so , now that he heard Loren's voice over the phone with his cousin..but why? He so wanted to call Layla back but she was busy so he had to wait for his cousin to call back.
Eddie was sitting at his piano playing a new song that just popped up in his head … He stops and replays the phone call from his cousin in his head back to the voice In The background it was Loren he was sure of that. But How did she get to San francisco? Maybe Layla was in LA but forgot to tell Eddie she was there ( eddie was so confused and had many questions only Loren and Layla had the answers to … He needed to get to the bottom of this
[back in San Francisco ]
( loren waves her hand in front of Layla and starts snapping her fingers finally getting her attention)
Loren: Layla . You okay?
Layla: yeah I think so It's just that's not the type of news you hear everyday … You know ? ( now Layla focuses on Loren saying she thinks she's pregnant ) now you say that you think your pregnant?
Loren: well I took a pregnancy test and it was positive And lately I've been feeling sick throwing up a lot and my boobs kind of feel sore …
( Layla laughs )
Layla: yep I may not be a doctor but even i know your pregnant
Loren: I figured the same thing but I want to check with a doctor i just don't want my mom to find out Yet. Until I know for sure
Layla : is that why your here ?
Loren : sort of I figured if I was pregnant I'm gonna need help telling Eddie .. can you help me
Layla: the telling Eddie part can wait till you actually find out … Have you looked up a doctor you wanna go to?
Loren: um no I have no idea how to do that? Can you help me
Layla: well I actually know a good OB doctor
Loren: how good is she ? Is she expensive ? you think you can get me an appt. tomorrow ?
Layla :well she's so good people travel half way around the world just for her services … And she's not that expensive shell give me a discount considering she used to be married to my uncle and she still loves me like her niece … ANd how about we go today let's say two hours from now ?
(Loren starts to panic )
[ back in LA …]
( an hour had passed and Eddie has had enough. He waited long enough he was calling her back now … He grabs his phone and dials and as it rings after a minute Layla finally answers )
Layla: hello?
Eddie: Layla! ….. Finally what took you so long why didn't you call me back?
Layla: sorry Ed I got busy what's up?
