Chapter Two Babies
It was the summer after they graduated. Beck and Jade had been dating for roughly four years. Jade was in his RV, her head in his lap. They would both be going to college in a few months. Jade had moved in with Beck, even though she practically lived there before. Beck didn't mind, though. He loved having Jade around. He was playing with her hair as she looked up at the ceiling. Seemingly lost in thought.
"If we ever get married, we're not having kids." she said, abruptly, breaking the peaceful silence.
"Why not..?" he asked, braiding small sections of her hair.
"Because. Pregnancy would make me a hormonal mess, plus I'd be even meaner and I'd be huge. Then, labor is supposed to be extremely painful. Once I finally did give birth, the little demon might be too much. I don't want to become like my parents." she said, matter of factly.
Beck sighed, realizing what this was about. "You'd be a fine mother, if that's what you're worried about. I'm sure as soon as you held that child in your arms, you'd love it. And all the pain and hormones would be worth it."
Jade hit his arm, hard. "Sap. No, I'm not worried about being a bad mother. I'd be a totally bad ass mother. I just don't like kids."
"Ow. And, you'd love a kid that was ours."
"Maybe. But, we won't have the chance to find out, will we?"
"Who knows. You could change your mind, in the future."
She shrugged. "Highly unlikely." Even though, she did kind of like the idea of a little human that was half her, half Beck.
"If we did ever have a baby, it would have your blue eyes." he said, airily.
"It better have your dark skin, though. I'd pity any baby as pale as me."
"You're not that pale."
"Whatever."
"What's up with all this talk about babies, anyway?"
Jade bit her lip and looked back up at the ceiling. "Cat was texting me earlier. She said that if we had a baby it'd be adorable. It'd have my eyes, your skin tone and hair. She wouldn't stop talking about it." she said, quietly. Knowing that wasn't the real reason.
Beck nodded. "It'd be a pretty cute baby."
Jade nodded in agreement, looking at the ceiling.
Jade made dinner that night, and they both sat in the small RV, eating spaghetti. Beck loved her cooking, but he wasn't exactly enjoying it that night. The day had been rather quiet and Jade certainly wasn't acting herself. She was being much too quiet. He looked up at her, some spaghetti sauce on his face. "Babe, something wrong?" he asked. She shook her head. "Other then the fact that you're covered in spaghetti sauce. No. I swear, you're just like a child." Beck sighed and wiped the sauce of his face.
They finished dinner and Beck was stuck doing the dishes while Jade channel surfed. "There's nothing good on TV." she groaned.
"You could always help me with the dishes."
"No. I cooked."
"Fine."
"Anyway, if I helped you with dishes, who would sit here and complain?"
"No one..? Which would be rather nice."
Jade rolled her eyes and threw a pillow at him. Beck laughed and finishes with the dishes then sat down beside her. She stretched her legs across his lap and smiled. They were stuck watching infomercials, cause Jade had lost the remote. Right now it was playing an infomercial for some sort of nightlight that soothes babies to sleep, quickly.
"We should get that." Jade mumbled.
"Why..? There's no babies, here. And I doubt it'd actually work." Beck said.
"There'll be a baby here. Soon."
"What..?"
"I'm pregnant." Jade said, boredly.
"You're...what? How? ...When?" Beck asked, sitting up straighter, a bit shocked.
"Pregnant. I'm pretty sure you know how. A couple weeks ago." she shrugged.
"You waited until now to tell me?!"
"I wanted to be sure. In fact. I don't even know if I want to keep it..." she said, lowering her voice at the last part.
"I'm not forcing you to keep it... But, we shouldn't kill it because of our own mistakes." Beck said, pulling his girlfriend into his arms.
Jade nodded. "That makes sense. But, there's no way in hell I'd go through all that torture of pregnancy just to give the little monster to someone else."
Beck laughed softly and kissed Jade's forehead. "Then, I suppose we better prepare for you to have a baby..?"
She shrugged. "We can still go to college. Cause, we'll be going to the same one. So, the pregnancy shouldn't effect it that much."
"You already have this all planned out. Don't you?"
"I didn't want to tell you then have you conjure up some idiotic plan."
"Wow. Thanks."
"Anytime." Jade said, laughing a little.
"Hmm.. Well, I suppose I better call that number." Beck said, smirking. However, Jade pulled him down and kissed him. "Or not..." she whispered, kissing him again. He smiled, kissing back. Even though Jade was going to be a handful, he couldn't help but look forward to this. As they kept kissing, Jade leaned back and the remote stabbed into her side. "Found it." she laughed and they changed the channel, curled up close to each other and watching reruns of Friends.
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