THE END OF THE WORLD
So here is the newest chapter. I'm sorry it took so long but as I said lready, I have been out of town. I'm back from vacation early so I think I will be able to upload more chapters by this afternoon. Okay the week long wait is over! And to thanks you for your patience a really really long chapter that I debated over making into four very short chapters! Yeah, its that long!
"Did I hear you correctly? Did you just say that you are pregnant?" his mom asked. It was a retorical question but she felt the need to ask.
"Uhm..." I stuttered and looked to Cappie for help. He looked back at me like a deer in headlights.
"Uhm...mom..." he stumbled and looked back at me to finish.
I had no idea what to say. If I said no than I would have to explain everything that had happened and about our arguement. If I explained that then I probably wouldn't be allowed back into his room unless he asked for me which he probably wouldn't. If I said yes than I would have to pretend to be carrying Cappie's child. These same thoughts seemed to be whirling inside Cappie's head as well.
"Uhm...well...we..." I started to explain it all. Everything would be cleared up and we wouldn't have to get married yet.
"Oh! You were telling Cappie! I'll pretend I didn't hear that!" she said grinning from ear to ear. She thought that she was going to be a grandmother. Well my mom might but she definately wasn't going to be getting a grandchild from me anytime soon.
"Mom. Casey and I were discussing something very important would you mind?" he asked and his mom left the room.
"I'm sorry. I'll go. You haven't gotten any time with your parents. I'm just making things worse..." I said grabbing my purse and getting ready to go.
"Casey don't go. We need to talk. What do you want to do about this?" he asked me and grabbed my hand. I sat on the edge of his bed and sighed.
"I don't know. I might be pregnant..." I started.
"Wait! What?" a bewildered Cappie said.
"Don't worry it would be Max's. I'm way late and I would be atleast 6 weeks pregnant," I said not believing I was actually telling him this.
"Have you taken a test or anything?" he asked clearly uncomfortable with the subject and not sure what to say in this situation.
"Not yet. I just realized how late I was," I said quietly admitting my mistake. I should have taken a test before I told him. It would only matter if it was positive.
"Ok. You go home and get some sleep. Take a test then call me. If it's positive, I'll say it's mine. It'll give us an excuse for the marriage," he said rubbing my hand with his. When he realized that I was getting worried, he pulled me into his arms ,"Don't worry everything happens for a reason. If you're pregnant it's not the end of the world."
I pulled myself from his arms and kissed his cheek before leaving. My first stop was at the KT house to tell Rusty about Cappie. Rusty could tell the other KTs. Then I went back to my room and flopped onto my bed. Ashleigh was waiting for me with tissues, ice cream, chocolate and chick flicks. She knew that today was the day my world was supposed to end.
"Where
are the uncontrolable tears and shaking?" she asked shocked by
my happy attitude.
"There's no need for them! Cappie is
awake!" I said happily before retelling everything that
happened.
"Do you need anything? You've been at the hospital
all day! You really need to get rid of that hospital spell!"
Asheigh said after I got her caught up to the part that Cappie's mom thinks we are getting married because he knocked me up.
"Well actually there is one thing you could get me," I paused to see her nod her head in response and I took a deep breathe before continuing, "a pregnancy test, please."
"Wait. What? I thought that he just woke up. How could you already need a test?" she asked thinking I meant to see if I was pregnant with Cappie.
"No. I might be pregnant with Max's kid not Cappie's but Cappie said that if it is positive he will say it's his," I explained to her.
"That is so sweet! He is taking responsiblity for something that shouldn't even be his problem! I'll go get one. You should take a shower and get changed. You know how the hospital smell makes me feel," she said grabbing her purse and running out the door.
I did as she suggested. I tried to put on my favorite jeans. They were tight to start with but there was no way I was going to fit into them. I can't believe I hadn't realized that before. I guess that I had been spending so much time at the hospital so I wanted to be comfortable and had been wearing sweats. I pulled on another favorite pair of jeans. I had bought them a size bigger than normal for when I was bloated. It had been Ashleigh's idea. She knew that when I got my period I got really bloated. When I finished, I came back into my room and found Ashleigh sitting on my bed. She had bought eight tests and had laid them out infront of her.
"Okay. Which do you want to take first?" she asked me.
"Any
one. It doesn't matter," I said as she handed me the first one
in the arrangment on my bed.
I had finally taken them all. They
were laid out in a row on the floor of my room. When I looked at that
row I burst into tears. Eight plus marks stared back at me.
"You
need to call Cappie. He should be the first to hear that you are
pregnant. I'm sure he's waiting with his phone in hand,"
Ashleigh said after she had helped me stop crying.
"You're
right," I said and took a deep breathe as I pulled out my phone
and called Cappie. I held my breathe and prepared myself for what I
was going to say as the phone ringed ...once ...twice ...three
times...
"Hey Casey," he answered nervously awaiting my response.
"Hey Cap. Well...I guess you know why I'm calling. I took like eight to make sure. They were all positive. I'm pregnant," I said quietly. I had seen it, heard it, but now I was saying it. I was finally admitting it.
"Ok," he said after taking a deep breathe, "Call your parents and ask them to come up here next weekend. We can tell them that we were planning on getting married after college. But then when my parents almost took me off of life support you had to say something and then you found out you were pregnant."
"Ok.
Thanks for everything Cappie. You know, I never stopped loving you.
You are always there for me when I need you," I said as Ashleigh
reentered the room.
"I was always there for you because I
always loved you. I will always be there for you because I will
always love you," he said before we said goodbye and hung up.
"So?" Ashleigh asked jumping onto the bed next to me.
"He is keeping his word. He said that I should invite my parents up next weekend and we can tell them then," I said playing with my phone charm and not really paying attention.
This wasn't the kind of stuff that happens to girls like me. I wasn't ready to be a wife and mom. I was supposed to finish college, get a job, have an amazing boyfriend for awhile, get engaged in the most romatic way, have a beautiful wedding, then have kids. Everything was out of order. But everything was right. I was in college and planned on finishing it. I could find a job. Cappie was an amazing boyfriend and we got engaged in a pretty romatic way. We were going to get married. And I was pregnant.
"So while you call your parents, I can make a doctors appointment or go get books or something," Ashleigh said trying to be helpful.
"Thats ok. I want to do that stuff for myself," I said but when I saw her smile fall I continued, "but I will want help with other things. You know it's my first kid and I want to be the one to make an appointment."
"Ok," she said somewhat upset.
"You are my best friend Ash. You get to do stuff like planning the baby shower and bachelorette party and of course you get to be my maid of honor," I said trying to cheer her up.
"Yay!" she said getting excited now.
"Better now?" I asked and she nodded happily in response, "Ok. I need to call my parents now then I should probably go to the hospital and see Cappie."
"Ok. I kind of needed to go anyway but I didn't want to leave you if you needed me. But since you don't I can call Fisher and tell him that I don't need to cancel our date," she said as she skipped out of the room to call her boyfriend.
"Ok Casey. You can do this. All you have to do is call your parents and tell them that they need to come up here next weekend. You don't have to tell them that you're pregnant or marrying Cappie yet," I said to myself trying to calm down and prepare for the call I was about to make when I heard someone gasp at the door.
"OMG!" the person practically yelled. I recognized the voice immediately to be none other than Rebecca's.
Okay! So that was a nice long chapter. I'm gonna need a lot of help with the next few chapters because I have never been pregnant so I really have no clue what to write about. I have seen tv shows where people end up pregnant but I don't know how realistic that is. I need all the help I can get.
