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"Ok, let's get you in and get you something to eat, alright?" Toni said, walking into the house with AJ who hadn't said a word since leaving the doctors, "It's been a… long morning." She said, walking into the living room as AJ followed. Nothing was really sinking in yet. She never imagined being told at eighteen that she was having a baby. She just didn't know what to think.
They walked into the living room where Julio was on the phone and Dean was pacing up and down. Toni knew when her husband was in distress and she immediately began to panic.
"What's going on?" Toni asked Dean quietly, sitting her coat down.
"Phil was arrested this morning outside the Owl." Dean said quietly as AJ overhead and looked over.
"Excuse me?" Toni shook her head as Dean nodded.
"What's going on?" AJ asked worriedly as Julio got off the phone.
"They're letting him go." He said, grabbing his jacket from the couch.
"Someone tell me what the hell is going on." Toni demanded.
"Someone attacked us." Dean said, "These guys. Phil fought back and… obviously they arrest the south side kid before they even look into the actual attackers." He said, "He didn't do anything." He said as Toni sighed and placed her hand on her forehead.
"Nothing to worry about. They've released him. Can't press charges." Julio nodded, "Just… everybody stay here." He told them, "I'll be back soon." He said, walking on out of the living room and out of the door as Toni shook her head.
"Damn north siders. I'd burn them all down." Toni spat, throwing down her purse and walking into the kitchen as AJ gulped and looked over at Dean.
"Is he ok?" AJ asked him, "Phil?"
"Yeah, he's good." Dean assured her, "They won't do anything, trust me." He nodded as AJ just nodded along with him slowly, "You don't… you don't look so good." He told her truthfully. She wasn't her usually glowing self. She looked pale and disturbed by something.
"I don't feel good." AJ shook her head, throwing her jacket down and rushing into the kitchen as her nearest escape, accidentally knocking Toni out of the way as she threw up in the sink, the wave of nausea just taking over her entire body.
"Ok. You're alright." Toni sighed, rubbing her back softly as AJ continued to chuck her guts up in the sink, "It's ok." She nodded. She'd had better mornings for sure, "Ok. You're gonna go lie down, sweetheart. I'll bring you up some tea." Toni nodded. She couldn't imagine how the poor young girl was feeling, and she didn't want her around any sort of chaos that was to come later on, "Dean!" Toni called as Dean walked into the kitchen.
"Everything ok?" Dean cringed a little.
"Take April upstairs into the room and make sure she's ok. She's not feeling very well." Toni nodded.
"It's ok. I can… I can go myself." AJ nodded.
"No, you could faint halfway up the stairs. Dean is taking you." Toni said, "Try and get some rest." She nodded as AJ nodded back, turning around as Dean placed an arm around her and guided her out of the kitchen.
"Are you ok?" Toni jumped on Punk the second Julio brought him home, trying to inspect him and look him up and down, "What'd those barbarians do to you? Did they hurt you? The police I mean." She said.
"Ma, I'm fine." Punk brushed it off, "They just arrested me because they thought I started it, as usual." He said, "I'm fine."
"You're careless." Julio said, "Especially in public. I taught you better." He said.
"They jumped us." Punk said, "I had to do something."
"We deal with that personally now. In our own time. In our own way." Julio said, "I mean what kind of idiots even… jump us in the morning." Julio laughed to himself with confusion.
"North side idiots." Toni scoffed, "This just proves one thing, we are never the victim in anything so don't you boys go acting like it. They will always point the finger our way. We always need to be prepared for that." She said as Punk and Dean nodded.
"Hey, where is April?" Punk wondered, looking around the living room, wondering where she was.
"She's lying down." Toni nodded, "Didn't feel so good. Maybe you should go check on her." Toni nodded to him.
"Ok." Punk said, backing out of the living room and heading upstairs whilst Toni looked over to Julio.
"A word. In the kitchen." Toni told her husband, walking on into the kitchen as he followed her behind, "We… also have another slight issue on our hands." She nodded.
"Oh, what? What now?" Julio asked.
"April is pregnant." Toni looked up at him as Julio folded his arms and rolled his eyes.
"They're kids." Julio said.
"Who… need our support right now." Toni nodded, "April has had it tough. I don't know what she wants, or what Phil will want, but we've got to support them." She said, "Trust me, I'm as thrilled as I was with my own teen pregnancy." She nodded, "But I also regret what we did in the end." She told him as he looked across at her, "It's their decision, and we support it. Ok?" She asked him.
"Ok." Julio nodded, "Of course I'll support them." He said as Toni nodded.
Punk made his way upstairs and into his bedroom where he saw AJ sitting up on his bed reading one of the comics he'd bought her that she kept in his room, which had basically became their room as her things were there just as much as his.
"Hey." AJ said with relief as he closed the door behind him, "Are you ok?" She asked him worriedly as he nodded and climbed over her, laying down on the bed beside her and sighing tiredly.
"The longest morning ever." Punk groaned as she watched him.
"Tell me about it." She whispered, putting the comic down. She felt better after having a short nap, but she was still unsure of what to even say to him, and what they were actually going to do, "What even happened?" She asked him.
"Just these guys jumped us and I was the one who got arrested." Punk said, "Obviously."
"Can they do that? Just arrest you like that?" AJ asked him.
"If they have a hunch to believe I'm a danger, yeah. They just put me in a cell, talked to me about some shit and then let me go, like they always do." He shook his head, "It's getting boring now, and now… once my dad finds out who jumped us, he's gonna jump back, and I am… not looking forward to it." He admitted, turning on his side and resting into her as she played with his blonde hair, "Mom said you weren't feeling well?" He looked up at her as she nodded.
"Uh… yeah." AJ nodded, "Just feel sick." She said as Punk nodded, "Actually, Phil. We need to talk." She said as he looked up at her, "I think you should sit up." She admitted as he arched a brow and shuffled up the bed, sitting against the headboard.
"Ok, not that I was worried but… telling me to sit up, makes me worried." He said, "What's going on?" He asked her.
"I… was at the doctors this morning." She nodded as he looked at her in the eyes, "I'm pregnant." She said. She wasn't nervous to tell him because he scared her, or his reaction would terrify her, it just became more real, the more and more she said it and told people. She had some belief in herself that they would work it out together, someway, but she didn't think he even registered what she had actually said.
"What?" Punk shook his head, even though he heard her plain and simple, "What are you talking about?" He laughed a little.
"I'm pregnant." AJ said, "I'm like two weeks late, I feel dreadful, your mom took me and they confirmed it. I've got an appointment at the hospital next week." She said as he just shook his head the entire time she spoke.
"You're pregnant?" Punk asked, "With a baby?" He said.
"I hope so." She made a face down at her stomach, "Yes, a baby." She nodded, "I know, I am… terrified, just like you. But we are… we aren't alone. We have each other and your mom already said she'll support us whatever we do. We do have to consider what's best."
"I'm sorry I just…" Punk climbed back over her and to his feet, feeling like his legs were spaghetti, "You're really pregnant?" He asked her again as she nodded, "Oh my God, April." He groaned a little, running his hand through his hair.
"I know. I know it's scary." AJ said, "I am freaking out just like you but… we… we just have to figure out a way to deal with it, right?" She said, she was trying so hard to be responsible like her brain was telling her. Really she wanted to curl up in a corner and cry her eyes out at being placed with such responsibility at such a young age, but she knew that wouldn't get them very far.
"This is crazy." Punk shook his head, sitting down on the edge of the bed as she swung her legs around and sat beside him.
"I know." She nodded as he turned to her.
"You don't seem freaked out." Punk said, "Am I being dramatic?" He wondered worriedly.
"Hey you should have seen me earlier." She scoffed, "Almost threw up on your mom." She said as he laughed a little, "We have a lot to think about." She nodded, resting her head on his arm as he took a deep breath. He never thought he'd be in this position at this age. He loved AJ, he knew that much, and he knew nothing could bring them down, but this was a test that even he wasn't sure how to plan for. It seemed larger than life for two kids.
"Look at them. Not an intelligent brain cell between them all." Freddie shook her head as she sat at the lunch table in the school cafeteria with Lucy and Jenny, staring over at the quote on quote, popular people, who of course were the mean people who liked to bully all the people who couldn't stand up for themselves.
"They're all weird." Jenny shook her head, trying to do her homework for the next class which she was supposed to have done the night before but of course forgot.
"Why do they have to be mean to people? I don't get it." Freddie said.
"Because it's who they were born to be." Lucy said, "Technically you should be sitting with your people." She said, nodding over as Freddie turned around to where members of the well known gang her family was from were sitting.
"I'd rather sit with you losers." Freddie turned back around, "Besides, I'm not with them yet." She told them.
"Do you wanna be?" Jenny asked.
"I don't know." Freddie said, "It's not a bad thing. They're not bad people. They just have a reputation and some of them like that. I think they just look like idiots." She admitted.
"Some of them are super-hot though." Jenny nodded, "Like, even the girls. I don't swing that way but… I wouldn't mind." She shrugged as Freddie smiled.
"Well I do swing that way." Lucy said, "And yeah they are all pretty hot." She nodded as Freddie nodded in agreement, "Does it scare you?"
"No." Freddie shook her head, "You guys, they're not bad people. I know them. They're my family but… I don't know, I'm not sure if I wanted be branded. I mean… look what it did to my mom." She said.
"Your mom who you hate?" Jenny asked.
"Well she must have snapped, right? Something must have happened." Freddie said.
"You happened, when she was eighteen." Lucy said, "That's what made her snap. Most likely." She said as Jenny kicked her under the table, "What? I'm only saying the truth." She said as Freddie just nodded.
"Well that's what everyone says anyway." Freddie shrugged, "I don't know, everyone just walks around me on eggshells when it comes to her. I get showed a limited amount of pictures. My dad looks like he's about to have a stroke whenever I bring her up, my gran gets all emotional… like… I know as much as… my mom was a part of their family, a big part… so… why walk away?" Freddie shook her head. She had so many questions, not just as her mother's daughter, but as a member of the family, why her mother had just dropped everything in life and left. Nothing ever felt authentic about the story she was told.
"Look at those idiots." Jenny pointed over as Freddie turned around where the popular group were bullying a little kid, taking his glasses off with each of them passing them around and trying them on.
"Screw this." Freddie shook her head, grabbing her orange juice and unscrewing it as she walked on over to the table.
"Oh, bore off biker girl, we don't give money to charity." One of the girls laughed and waved her hand as Freddie tipped her bottle of orange juice out over her head, watching as the contents spilled out over her hair and down her face as the rest of the group looked on with shock whilst the bullied victim smiled to himself.
"You looked thirsty, girl." Freddie smiled, throwing the empty bottle down at her as she watched her swing for her, tackling her to the ground first before she got the chance as other people got involved to pull them both apart as the brawl carried on for a while, suddenly listening as the tanoy speaker eventually screeched as Freddie brushed her hair away from her face.
"Freddie Carraro Brooks to the principal's office." Screeched through the speaker as Freddie shook her head, pushing whoever it was holding her back away from her as she walked back over to her lunch table.
"So you won't be at last period class then?" Lucy asked, handing Freddie her bag.
"Doubt it." Freddie said calmly, taking her tray and putting her lunch in the trash as she left the cafeteria and headed down to the principal's office.