Hola muchachos! It's been a while since I updated, I know. I had to move into school mode. I should be able to update about once a week at least though. Anyways. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy :)
Cory handed Topanga her plate of eggs and hash browns and brought his own to the table to sit next to her. He turned to look at her and saw she was staring at the table with her jaw clenched, holding her breath.
"Topanga?"
She nodded and said, "I'm fine." She let the air out of her lungs and looked at him. "Really, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
She nodded again. "That was about ten or fifteen minutes apart. It's nothing to worry about right now." She picked up her fork and began eating.
He looked at her for a moment, concerned, before taking a bite. He looked up at her again, watching her eat, concern still on his face.
She saw him out of the corner of her eye and put her fork down, giving him a look. "Cory. I'm fine."
"Okay," he said, putting his hands up in surrender.
She continued eating again. "The doctor said we don't have to go to the hospital until they're about five minutes apart and I can't talk through them. We're still pretty far away from that."
"I know. I just don't want you to pretend you're fine when you're really not. Promise me you'll tell me when you think it's too much."
She sighed, giving him another look. "I promise, Cory."
They ate in silence for a while before Topanga finished her plate and said, "When are you going to tell Eric and Shawn?"
"I don't know," he answered, shaking his head. "I don't want them to be upset. You want me to tell them now, don't you?"
She gave him a sweet smile and he sighed, standing up. He took their plates and set them in the sink.
"What are you going to do while I'm over there?" he asked her.
"I'll just watch some TV or something," she said, pushing on the table to stand up.
He grabbed her arm and helped her stand. "Alright. I'll be back in a few minutes."
She smiled and nodded, watching him walk away. She walked toward the couch and then felt another contraction beginning. It caught her by surprise, making her stop and wince.
Cory immediately turned around, practically running to her, putting his arms around her, supporting her back.
"Cory, I'm fine," she said, her eyes scrunched up.
He sighed, his eyes crinkling around the edges as he watched her go through the pain of the contraction.
"Let me at least help you to the couch," he said, guiding her in that direction.
After a few more seconds, she took a deep breath and opened her eyes. "It's about done now."
He helped her sit down and handed her the remote. "I'll be back before the next one, okay?"
She nodded and he leaned down to kiss her forehead, making her smile ever so slightly. He walked away, still looking at her, and then left the apartment. Topanga took a few more deep breaths before turning on the TV.
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Cory knocked on the door to Eric's and Shawn's apartment. There was no answer.
He sighed and knocked again. "Eric? Shawn?"
Finally the door opened, and Eric was standing there, giving Cory a look.
"What?" Cory asked.
"What?" Eric repeated.
Cory sighed again and said, "Can I come in? I have to talk to you and Shawn about something."
Eric opened the door wider, allowing Cory in, and said, "Well, you're out of luck, cause Shawn's not here. He left a few minutes ago."
"Where did he go?"
"I don't know," Eric said, shrugging.
"Well, when will he be back?"
Eric shrugged again.
"Well, fine, I can at least tell you."
"Is something wrong?"
"No. Well, kind of, I guess."
Eric sat down on his couch and Cory followed.
"Topanga will be going into labor soon," Cory began.
"Dude, really?! Alright! I get to meet my niche soon!" he said, grinning.
"Yeah," Cory said, with a smile. "But because of that, Eric, Topanga wants me to…well, she wants our apartment to just be our apartment, you know? We both do."
"What does that mean?" Eric asked, oblivious.
Cory sighed. "We love having you guys as neighbors. It's awesome to always have someone there, right next door."
"I know, right?"
"But we just want to be neighbors."
Eric looked confused.
"Well, we're going to be raising Riley together, and she's going to be pretty noisy and we just thought you guys probably don't want to hear that all the time. She thought that now would probably be a good time to get our keys back for our apartment."
"Like, my key?"
"Yeah."
Eric looked down for a second. "If that's what you really want, Cor. I mean it is your apartment."
"Eric, it's not that we don't want you around. We do. We love being neighbors with you. And we don't want that to change. We just decided it's time that we start, you know, living on our own. I mean, we're starting a family."
"No, I get it," Eric said, nodding. "I guess I can tend to just let myself in sometimes."
"Please don't take this the wrong way, Eric. We don't want you to go anywhere."
"You don't?"
Cory shook his head. "There's no one else we'd rather have as neighbors than you and Shawn."
"Oh, alright," Eric said, smiling. He pulled Cory into a hug and then took the key off his keyring, handing it to his brother.
"Thank you. See you later," Cory said, smiling.
"See ya," Eric said, waving at Cory as he walked out the door.
How'd you like it?! It was kind of a short one I guess, but that's cause more is coming later. Stay tuned. There's going to be an interesting twist coming up.
Are you excited for baby Riley?!
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