This will probably be my last update for awhile. I have school in the morning and so I'll be busy with school work this week. But I'll try my very bestest to update again. just a warning: it will take longer.

Enough about how I'm going to be very busy this week.

In this chapter, I've decided to bring some of the other characters back. You guy didn't think I forgot, did you?

Not What You Expected


Eleanor sighed and flipped the channels on the TV, going through the channels for what felt like the hundredth time. After school, Alvin dropped her off at the apartment, and then went to work. This had been their routine for months. When he came home, she'd cook and they would eat in front of the TV. Eleanor thought it was because Alvin didn't want to talk to her.

And he doesn't.

Today was another one of those days-- she was home alone and Alvin was at work again-- except she hadn't gone to school. As her due date was approaching, the doctor, Miss Miller, and Dave all thought it'd be best if she stayed at home. She expected Alvin to insist on staying with her, but he had said nothing.

She was long past the crying stage of this loneliness, but she was thinking of making herself cry just so she'd have something to do for a few hours. At first she was getting a kick out of putting her friend's phone numbers into the TV remote to see what channel they landed on, but that got old when she ran out of phone numbers. Then she decided to actually call her friends, but in mid-dial she remembered that it was Friday night. Everyone she knew was probably out having a normal teenage life while she was stuck at home, barefoot and pregnant.

She let out a small (but bitter) chuckle. Sixteen years old, and I'm already thirty. When the phone rang, she almost jumped from the couch to answer it. She obviously didn't because she couldn't jump.

Period.

Desperate for social contact she quickly picked up the phone without checking the ID. "Hello!"

"Hey, El," Alvin's voice came.

Eleanor's eyes brightened. "Alvin? Hey!" She smiled for the first time in a long time.

"Is everything okay over there?" Hells no…"Do you need anything?"

You, you, you, and-- oh, yeah-- you! "No, I'm fine." She said instead. "Are you going to be home soon?" There was an iota of hope in her voice.

She heard Alvin sigh. "Actually, that's why I called." Eleanor didn't like where this was going. Nothing good ever came from Alvin sighing. "I have a date after work."

What?! "Oh," Her shoulders slumped slightly. "Th-that's cool."

"Okay, I'll see you later tonight." He hung up.

Eleanor sighed and hung up also. Oh, well, back to wallowing. She allowed herself to fall onto the couch.

"Ellie!" Brittany squealed, letting herself into the apartment. "Get up; you're coming with me." Eleanor opened her mouth to speak. "No time for questions! Let's go!"

Eleanor laughed and sat up. "How did you get a key to my apartment?"

Brittany crossed her arms. "What did I just say?" She walked over and pulled Eleanor to her feet. "I'm not going to let you sit in this apartment alone for one more minute." She began pulling Eleanor to the door. She didn't put up much of a fight. Eleanor knew that it was pointless to argue with her sister.

But there was this nagging voice in the back of her head that told her whatever she did tonight, she would remember it forever.

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"My favorite flower is the Iris. My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate. What's your favorite chocolate? I like milk chocolate, white chocolate, but I hate dark chocolate. One time I ate dark chocolate when I was little, but I had forgotten that my gum was in my mouth. So, when I swallowed the chocolate, my gum went down too. Maybe that's why I don't like it. Hey, look the breadsticks are here! I love breadsticks; especially the ones here. Do you like breadsticks? I'm going to go powder my nose before the food comes."

Alvin sighed out of relief as his date ran off to the bathroom. It was the first silence since they sat down. He considered going to the bathroom himself and sneaking out the window, or quickly ducking out of the restaurant and driving off into the night, never having to see her again. But he didn't act on it. He was a gentleman after all.

"I'm back!" The girl squealed plopping back into her seat.

Alvin jumped. This girl does everything fast.

"That is one clean bathroom!" She giggled. "I'm not used to going to restaurants with bathrooms like that. Usually, I have to make toilet seat covers out of the toilet paper."

Alvin laughed sarcastically. How charming. He sighed. Why was he here? He wasn't even interested in this person. He only agreed to go on the date because he thought he would be able to get over Eleanor, but they only made his feelings grow. He was also beginning to feel guilty about leaving her home alone again. He looked up. His date's lips were stilling moving, but he definitely wasn't listening. He looked down at his leg at the feel of vibration.

With all the practice from school, he was able to skillfully pull out his cell phone and read the text that was sent to him without his date noticing.

Alvin's eyes went wide. "What?!"

His date's brows furrowed. "I said…"

"I'm sorry," He cut her off. "I have to go." He stood up and began collecting his things.

"Wait, where are you going?"

Alvin didn't answer. He quickly ran out of the restaurant and jumped in his car, driving towards his destination, the text he received still flashing on the screen of his phone.

Ellie's in labor!

-Britt


Well, this is moving quicker than I thought. Next: the hospital! That's the part when we wait for the baby to be born.

Usually in stories like this, that's when the characters do funny stuff or when the characters pour their hearts out. Which will I do?

I think you already know the answer.

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