Ch: 2; "Baby Daddy Drama"
¤ 7:15 p.m Monday
TyTysGirl: "Do you think Ben knows?"
CareBear: "What? That Mer is pregnant or that he's not the father?"
TyTysGirl: "Well it would be impossible for him to be speculating if the baby was or wasn't his if he doesn't know about a baby to begin with."
CareBear: "...But he could still now she's pregnant and think it's his..."
TyTysGirl: Poor Ben =(
CareBear: You need to change your name...
TyTysGirl: Why?
CareBear: Seriously? TyTysGirl?
TyTysGirl: What's wrong with it? He's my future hubby :D
CareBear: What about Luka?
TyTysGirl: What about Luka?
CareBear: Never mind, I have to go before I puke. Love you. Night.
TyTysGirl: Love you!
CareBear is now signed off.
TyTysGirl is now signed off.
¤ 9:13 a.m Tuesday
"Where's Mr. Saltzman? Seriously I didn't think teachers were allowed to be late. I could have slept an extra ten minutes." Luka slid down the lockers and positioned himself comfily on the floor, who then tugged on the edge of Bonnie's shirt as he nudged her to sit down with him.
Bonnie of course, sat right on Luka's lap; That girl threw out more mixed signals than a broken traffic light. They were without a doubt the cutest non-couple couple anywhere and if Bonnie could just see that, Luka for one, would be a very happy camper.
But that was never going to happen with 'TyTy' around.
Caroline finally caught sight of Mer as she turned the corner, just like Mr. Saltzman, she was running late but before even being asked why; She was greeted with a question, probably not best before a regular 'Hello'
"Who's the father?" Caroline asked, cutting Mer off before she made it to her locker.
"Well hello to you too, Caroline." Meredith smiled tightly, but even being snappy or sarcastic, she was still just playful and nice Mer who couldn't help but smile after her words.
"Hey Mer." Both Bonnie and Luka said at the same time; Bon still seated comfortably in Luka's lap as they chatted to low for others to hear.
"Hello, Meredith." Care smiled, pulling her friend in for a hug as she tightly wrapped her arms around her for a second and then pulled back. "Who's the father?"
With a sigh, Mer leaned against the blue stacked lockers and dropped her backpack to the tile floor; Biting her lip as she readied herself to tell her friends.
"You remember that party last year, the one Stefan and Kat... hooked up..." Mer started, only realizing after her words were said that, that probably wasn't the best way to start off the story. "Well Stefan and I were hanging out later that night and..."
Oh my god.
Even Bonnie and Luka had diverted their attention back to the conversation after hearing Mer's words.
Caroline shook her head and took a step back, walking backwards straight into Stefan.
"I'm sorry..." She started apologizing as she turned around to see who she had just accidentally bumped into, and once she saw it was Stefan, she revoked her apology. "No, I'm not." Then, she raised her hand and slapped Stefan clear across the face.
Summoning gasps from Bonnie, Luka, Meredith as well the other students that were in the hall.
"What the hell?" Stefan rubbed the side of his cheek she hit him on, the impact hard enough that there was a small visible line of blood surrounded by redness.
It was then that Meredith realized what Caroline had taken from her words and grabbed Care's arm. "I didn't mean it was him!" Mer shrieked, both Luka and Bonnie had jumped up and by now Alaric Saltzman had arrived and was jingling his room key in the door.
Caroline and Stefan just stood there, staring at each other while everyone else looked at them in shock; the other students slowly walked into the classroom and took their seats. Sure there was some relief that Mer hadn't meant Stefan was the father, but even knowing that now, she still enjoyed slapping him. Mostly because of what he did to her.
Okay, all because of what he did to her.
¤ 11:39 a.m – 3rd Period
"She would of had the baby by then if Stefan was the father..." Bonnie whispered while Mrs. Johnson looked on, still trying to comfort Caroline from this morning's incident.
"I know... but why won't she just tell us who the father is?"
Bonnie shrugged lightly not knowing what else to say, she had been wondering that herself.
"I'm sorry..." Mer glanced over from her desk and got up, hating to see the condition that Care was in, so she walked over and sat down in the empty seat right next to Bonnie.
She gave apologetic looks and just sort of slumped back in the chair as she played with her fingers on the desk, taking a deep breath before she said anything else as Bonnie and Caroling glared at her expectantly. "As I said before... Stefan and I were hanging out, when the party ended..."
Meredith and Stefan had hung out during almost the duration of the party, except for the time he spent with Katerina of course, but she didn't find out til days later about what happened and felt horrible for not knowing what was going on to at least try and stop it.
"... Elijah's brother was there with his wife, and... we started talking and I find him charming and hot... one thing led to another and we ended up in one of the back rooms..." Mer continued.
Both Caroline and Bonnie opened there mouths to say something, but Mer quickly over talked them before they could get a word out.
"I've been seeing him a few days a week now, and we had unprotected sex a few times... I forgot to take the pill..." At this point, tears were rolling down Mer's cheeks.
"... Wait... you mean Klaus?" Bonnie asked questioningly, needing confirmation. "Klaus is the baby's father?"
Meredith nodded.
"You mean you had an affair with the Mayor's brother?" Caroline's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets as she screamed over in a hushed whisper no one else could hear but them.
Except someone had heard.
"Whoa. Sounds like something I would do." Katerina, who had walked up just a few seconds before and had been eavesdropping from the seat behind the three girls; None of which noticed because they were too engrossed with their conversation to notice her there.
"Is there an off switch to your slutyness?" Meredith snapped, turning her head around in Katerina's direction. She pushed out her chair and stormed out the classroom.
¤ 11:46 a.m
Meredith had disappeared into the girls restroom; Tears stained her cheeks as she gripped on to the sink counter and stared herself down in the mirror. It was bad enough that she knew what she had been doing was wrong, for the life of her, she couldn't understand why she kept seeing Klaus.
Now she was carrying his baby.
Mer only had a few minutes to herself when she heard the restroom door open.
Please don't let it be Katerina, she prayed quietly.
It wasn't.
Looking through the mirror, she saw Caroline and Bonnie approach hesitantly.
"We're sorry..." Bonnie gestured between her and Caroline, knowing that she was mostly apologizing on Care's behalf; Mer didn't know that much about her, but they were always friendly with eachother, just never hit the 'friend' mark.
Mer nodded without saying anything and Bonnie hugged her, as she pulled away, she whispered. "It'll be okay..." Bon's voice shook slightly, her own tears threatening to fall down her cheeks.
"We're all just pretty screwed this year..." Leave it to Caroline to say the wrong thing at the -never at right time to say anything like that- time; But it was true to say the least. Bonnie and Mer knew this, and after a second of baffled stares they laughed.
All three girls just stared at themselves in the mirror, rehashing their problems quietly in their heads as they took comfort in being near eachother and not having to go through any of this alone.
"Are you keeping it?" Bonnie asked, breaking the comfortable silence.
"I don't know."
¤ 4:28 p.m
It seemed stupid to chance her future on some stupid little child's game, but it wasn't as if she knew at all what the right thing to do was; It wasn't as if she was chanting 'He loves me, he loves me not' Now, that would have just made no sense.
"Keep the baby..." Meredith pulled one of the petals off the lily and watch it fall to the ground as she let it fall from her fingers.
"Don't keep the baby..." Again, she pulled another petal and watched it drop.
"Keep the baby..."
Petal drop
"Don't keep the baby..."
Petal drop
"Keep the..." Mer was suddenly cut off by someone placing their hand on her shoulder; Which scared the hell out of her, causing her to jump and drop the lily she had been intently picking the petals off of. She herself, nearly lost her balance and tumbled backward and she would have if it wasn't for the hand that reached out and grabbed her.
"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to scare you." Damon settled her down, making sure she was stable on her feet before removing his arm around her waist. Mer swallowed hard. "It's okay..."
She hadn't really known what else to say, she didn't know how long he had been standing there or how much he heard. Guess she was about to find out.
"I heard about what happened..." Damon started, not knowing what to say much of either. Although he was a teacher at Mystic Falls, he had a close relationship with some of his students that existed out of the classroom.
"Shouldn't you be deciding on whether or not you keep the baby on logical decisions instead of picking petals off a flower?"
It wasn't a question that needed an answer.
"I'm just a home wrecking slut. I'm worse than Katerina." Tears threatened to escaped Mer's eyes again; Damon soothingly ran his hand up and down her back. "You're nothing like Katerina, you made one mistake, everyone makes a few."
"Do you think I should keep the baby?"
"You're the only one that can answer that." Damon smiled lightly, he pulled away and picked up the flower that Mer had dropped; It was missing a few petals but still looked decent. He tucked Mer's hair behind her ear, and then stuck the flower right above it.
As Mer watched Damon walk away, for the first time since she found out she was pregnant, she didn't know why, but she felt hope.
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