Beth couldn't help but think about what had happened. She was engaged, she was pregnant, and the baby wasn't Josh's. At times she didn't even realize what she was picking up off the shelf and throwing in her shopping cart. She realized she had started crying a couple times and people were staring at her.
She wanted to hurry and get the grocery shopping done so she could get out of here. But she kept getting distracted. She had thought about it for a while, and realized, she HAD to tell Josh. It was just going to be worse if she told him later.
She looked at her shopping cart and saw she was far from done. She hadn't even got half of the stuff they needed. But she didn't care. She grabbed her purse and ran to her car. People were staring at her even more, but she didn't care. She had to tell Josh, she had to tell him now.
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She almost tripped a couple times running up the stairs, she would have taken the elevator but it was too slow. She grabbed the door knob and ran in there.
"Josh I-," She stopped.
"SURPRISE!!" People shouted. There were at least 20 people in there. Beth was confused, and then she noticed, the people were her friends and family.
"Oh…. My….. gosh….." Beth said. She saw Josh there with a smile on his face, and her heart melted. "Josh, what is this?" Beth asked.
"It's a party, to celebrate our engagement," Josh said. He looked at Beth's hands.
"Where's the grocery's?" Josh asked.
"Um…," Beth paused. "I forgot my check book here," she lied.
"Oh… k…. Well, guess were just gonna have to eat what's here," Josh said to everyone.
Josh turned on some music went into the kitchen.
"Congratulations Beth!" said Beth's friend Melinda.
"Oh thanks," Beth said.
The whole entire time people kept coming up to her congratulating her on the proposal, and she felt so embarrassed. But she couldn't show it. She couldn't tell Josh about the baby in front of everyone. Even though she was embarrassed, she wasn't going to embarrass Josh.
Finally, when Beth thought it couldn't get any worse, she was startled when Josh called for a toast.
"Everyone, quiet please!" Josh said. He motioned for Beth to go up there with him. As she walked up there, her heart was beating really fast.
Josh put his arm around her waist, "Now there's something else I didn't tell you guys, I wanted to save it for when Beth came here," Josh said.
Beth gulped.
"But, we are not only engaged, but we are also expecting a baby," Josh said.
Everyone in the room gasped, then, they started clapping.
Beth felt her face get red, she thought she was embarrassed before?? She was even more embarrassed now! She couldn't even look Josh in the eye.
"So I would like to make this toast, for me and Beth's future. And out little baby on the way," Josh said. Everyone toasted and took a drink of there champagne.
For the rest of the time, Beth felt nauseous. She thought she was going to throw up at any moment. But she tried to keep it down.
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Finally, when the last person left, Beth was exhausted, and a little scared. She knew she had to tell Josh, but now that she knew the moment was coming up, and it was actually going to happen, she didn't know if she could handle it. But she had to tell him.
She jumped when Josh put his arms around her.
"Oh Beth, I'm so excited! I can imagine you walking down the aisle right now, looking so beautiful, as always," Josh laughed.
Beth made a fake laugh.
"And just think, not only are we getting married, we're having a baby!" Josh said.
"Yeah…." Beth said depressingly, trying to sound happy.
"And we're gonna be waking up in the middle of the night to feed the baby, that's the only thing I'm dreading," Josh laughed.
Beth felt her eyes water.
No! Keep the tears in, you have to be strong, just tell him, and you'll feel better. Beth thought in her head.
"Our little baby, we better start thinking of some names," Josh said.
"OK STOP!" Beth cried. "Just stop it, with all this baby stuff! I can't take it!" Beth screamed.
"Beth, honey, what's wrong?" Josh asked as he reached for her hand. But she pulled away.
Josh felt upset, "Beth, if your nervous about it, it's fine. We're going ot get through this, I know it's scary, but just keep thinking that after all this, we'll have a baby. And all the pain will be worth it," Josh said.
"STOP!" Beth cried. "No it won't! The pain will never go away!" Beth said.
"Why?" Josh asked.
Beth held her breath, "Because, the baby isn't yours," Beth said as she looked away. She couldn't bear seeing his face. It would rip her apart inside.
"What?..." Josh said.
Beth didn't want to look at him, but she needed to be an adult, and take it like a man.
She turned around, "You're not the father…. Mick is," She said between chokes of tears.
Josh fell to the ground crying, "Beth! How could you?!" He screamed.
"I'm sorry," Beth said.
"Why would you do this to me?!" Josh cried.
"I'm just……," Beth froze. She took a deep breath. "I'm just not in love with you anymore," Beth said, as she stared at the floor.
Josh got up and paced back and forth.
Beth kept staring at him, she was scared because she had never seen him like this before.
Finally he stopped and looked at her, "What do we do then? Do we split up?" He said.
"I think we have too," Beth said.
She walked to their bedroom to pack her stuff.
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A few minutes later she came out with 3 suitcases. Josh was in the living room, drinking the rest of the champagne.
Beth stared at Josh, but Josh wouldn't look at her. She didn't want to leave him like this, but she had no choice. Then she remembered she had forgotten something. She ran back into the bathroom to get her things like, hair products, make-up, that kind of stuff.
As she walked back into the living room, Josh had went into the kitchen and started cleaning up. She grabbed her things and walked to the door. As she was about to shut the door, she walked back in.
Josh was staring at her. She pulled the ring off of her finger, put it on the counter, and walked out. Josh started to cry when he heard the door shut.
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Beth had packed all of her things into her car, and when she got in, she broke down. She felt sooo bad, but she knew she had to do that.
She had nowhere else to go but Mick's. She felt happy when she thought of Mick, and knew she did the right thing. She made a mess, and fixed it. Maybe not in the right way, but all of that was in the past, and she was looking forward to her future.
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She walked up to the door and right when she was about to knock on the door, Mick opened it.
By the look on Beth's face, he knew she had told Josh. The suitcases kind of gave it up too.
"Welcome to your new home," Mick said.
She smiled, "Thanks," Beth said.
She came in and set her bags next to the door.
"Beth, are you ok?" Mick asked.
"Yeah," Beth said. "I knew I had to do it sooner or later, but I should have told him sooner," Beth said. "But it's over, and I'm just going to take it one day at a time," Beth said.
She smiled at Mick, "But I'm glad I'm with you," She said.
"Me too," Mick smiled.
"Well we're going to have to go furniture sopping, because now that you live here, we need a bed," Mick said.
"And we also need some baby furniture," Mick said.
He turned around and winked at Beth. She blushed.
She realized she had done the right thing. She should have told Josh she didn't want to be with him sooner, and she did love him, but as a good friend.
"Now all I need to worry about is getting through this pregnancy," Beth laughed.
"We'll get through it, together," Mick said.
"Oh and we also need to go to the grocery store, we need baby food. And bottles, and bin key's, and-" Beth stopped. "Oh gosh, I better make a list," Beth said as she ran to get paper.
Mick couldn't help to laugh, and he realized he couldn't wait for the baby to come!