Motherhood 6
Hey guys, just to let you know, if you have a suggestion for something you'd like to see happen in this story, I will do the best of my ability to make sure it happens, just as long as it's not something dumb, like Beth dresses up as a clown and is walking across the street when she gets hit by a car. As long as it makes sense, I'll put it in the story!
It was Beth's first day of school after having Abagail and Melanie. She was nervous, but her mother reassured her.
"Don't worry," Quinn said. "Even though people may have been horrible to you while you were pregnant, they'll be different towards you now. Now they'll be sympathetic towards you for being a teen mother."
Beth nodded, and then looked over her "back to school" outfit. It was an oversized tuxedo jacket, tie, smokey gray tights, Converse, and cutoff shorts. She had dressed her girls in white T-shirts and cute little dark wash jeans. They were the sight of perfection.
Beth was running around that morning, making sure she had done everything she had to do.
"Well, Beth," Quinn said. "Your lucky."
"Why?" Beth asked Quinn.
"You just have to put up with a few more months of doing this, going to high school, before you graduate. I was 16 and a sophmore when I had you, and I went through three years. I didn't graduate with honors, like I hoped I would. I didn't have the time, since I had you to take care of. I'm surprised that I managed to graduate at all."
"Wow, Mom, thanks for being so encouraging," Beth said sarcastically as she made sure she had her purse, her keys, her diaper bag, and her book bag.
"Wish me luck," she called as she made sure Abby and Melanie were safely strapped into their stroller.
"Bye," she said, walking through the door and pushing them to the car. She unbuckled them from their stroller, and then strapped them into their little infant car seats. She folded the stroller up and set it in the passenger seat so it would be in easy acess for when she got to the school.
She got into the car, and began to drive. She was extremely nervous driving her babies, and she made sure to go one mile under the speed limit at all times.
When she got to the school, she moved quickly, getting her stuff and babies out of the car, unfolding the stroller, and buckling them in. Then, she started pushing the stroller through the parking lot onto the street up the ramp and into the building. She pushed while she looked around, trying to find the nursery.
"Excuse me?" Beth asked a teacher, who was dawdling and checking something on her phone.
"Yes?" the teacher asked, looking up at Beth.
"Hi, can you tell me where the nursery is?"
The teacher directed Beth to the nursery.
"Thanks!" she said. She started walking in the direction the teacher had shown her. When she got there, she peeked in. An old looking girl in an apron was there. She had pretty blond hair tied in a bun, and hazel eyes.
"Hi," Beth nervously said. The woman looked up. "Oh, you must be Beth Puckerman!" she said. "Quinn and Noah's daughter? The one who recently gave birth to twins, who are named Abagail and Melanie, one of which has sensory integration and Down Syndrome?"
"Yup, that's me," Beth said. Any nervousness she had before about this woman was gone. This woman didn't treat her like a slut who got pregnant at seventeen. She treated Beth like an adult, like a regular person. Like an adult.
"Bye!" Beth said, cheerfully waving to Abagail and Melanie. Abby lifted her hand at Beth, attempting to wave back, but Melanie just smiled at her mother.
Beth left the comfort of the nursery and headed into the reality of high school. Even scarier then the adult world.