Hi everyone! This chapter's considerable shorter, but still eventful!Let me know what you think, especially abut what happens at the end...wy do you think it happened? Enjoy it, and thanks so much!
-Jen
Two Weeks Later - September 24, 2011
AriellaSnow: hey NY, ready for the surprise concert? I'll be rolling into Times Square at 3 PM! =D
Ariella sent out the Tweet at noon, giving people three hours to get there. Two weeks had passed since Olivia and Elliot had decided to have the baby that could save Ariella's life. Just yesterday, the embryo had been implanted in Olivia. Now, they just had to wait and see if it resulted in pregnancy. Because she'd just been implanted, she had to take it easy and had a few days off of work, so she was going to ride in the bus, as were Maureen, Kathleen, and Lizzie. Dickie was grounded, and Kathy wouldn't let him out. She'd been good about letting the twins out though, she didn't try to keep any of the kids from spending time with Ariella, or their father. Last weekend, They had all, Olivia included, gone to Six Flags, with Eli. It had been really fun, Ariella would always remember it.
At that moment though, she was running. The hotel had a VIP gym, and her security was at the door. When she was stressed out, she ran off the stress, and so she was having a date with the treadmill. She'd been doing that a lot lately. Thomas had shown no contact, but she was still nervous, still freaking out. She knew she'd have to stop soon, she was pouring sweat as she ran, moving on to the tenth mile, listening to music on her iPhone. She'd have to shower and get ready, and Olivia and her sisters would be there soon.
Taylor had left two weeks previous to go see his family. It was hard, not having him around now, after she'd grown accustomed to having him there. She missed him, especially at night when she had to sleep alone.
She let out a scream as she felt a hand on her arm, and she looked over to see Olivia and her sisters, and a surprise was that Elliot was there too. she pulled her headphones out, and began slowing down the treadmill, until she could stop. She tossed back half of a water bottle, before saying, "Hi!"
"Why were you doing that?" Olivia asked, "You weight nothing, you don't need to loose weight!"
"I run to relieve stress," Ariella shrugged, "I've been doing it a lot lately. It makes me feel good."
"How can you run that much?" Lizzie asked, "It says you ran ten miles!"
Ariella shrugged, "I'm in shape, I guess. Running around on stage helps. Anyways, Daddy I thought you had to work?"
"The captain let me off early," Elliot shrugged, "Plus, we wanted to talk to you."
Ariella raised her eyebrows. "Oh? What about?"
"Can we go up to your room?" Olivia asked, and Ariella nodded, leading the way tot he door. Once up in her room, sitting on the couches she asked, "So what's up?"
"Well you've been here for a month, and I know you plan on staying until the end of November," Olivia said, "And we both thought it might be good if you maybe...stayed at my apartment. That way we could be together more, and maybe it'd be more comfortable."
"Oh!" Ariella said, shocked. "Wow."
"If you don't want to, I'd understand, I just thought that maybe..."
"No, mom, it's not that I don't want to. It's just that, I'm not sure if they'll let me, and I just want you to know what it would mean...people would realize I was staying there, and the paparazzi would be all over it. Plus, the security would invade the building." She explained.
"We took that into consideration, and we don't care." Elliot said...he'd been staying in Olivia's guest room. Maureen had said that Kathy wasn't very happy about that. "We want to try and be a family, since we never got too."
"And sometime soon, I'm going to look at houses, so when the baby comes there'll be enough room." Olivia added. "Once I'm pregnant for sure."
Ariella knew she'd say that, but she was ahead of her. She had Brooke looking at houses in the area, pre-screening them to find ones for Ariella to look at. Ariella was going to get her mother a house, a house with enough room for Elliot, her sisters and brothers, the baby, and her.
Just then, Mary came in. "Ariella Karina Snow, what on earth are you doing? Get in the shower, we still have to get there early to make sure the sound system is working!"
"I will, Mary, just-"
"Now! Go!" Mary said, and didn't leave until Ariella was in the bathroom, shower on.
Brooke came in after Mary stormed out, apologizing, and chatted with them to wait for Ariella.
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"Brooke, can you come here?" Ariella called after she'd been out of the shower for a while, and Brooke disappeared. In Ariella's room, she found her sitting on her bed, in a bathrobe and hair wrapped in a towel.
"Hon, why aren't you getting ready? Mary's going to have a cow!"
"Olivia wants me to stay at her apartment for the rest of the time I'm in New York." Ariella said, and Brooke looked surprised, sitting beside her.
"Oh? And..."
"And I never expected any of them to care this much, Brooke!" Ariella said, "They weren't supposed to care enough to have a baby for me, or want me to live with them. Because what if all of this crashes? What if I die anyways? That'll just make it harder. I don't want them to get hurt, too."
"That's what family is, Rellie." Brooke said gently. "You give and take for your family. You do things you'd never do for anyone else. You risk everything for them. If this still doesn't work, then the outcome is inevitable. But they're fight so that doesn't happen, Rellie, and that's what matters. It might hurt, on all sides...but it's family, so it's worth it."
"Ariella!" Mary then screamed, knocking on the door, "Let's go!"
Ariella grinned at Brooke, hugging her. "Thanks...now I'm gunna get ready, before Mary murders me!"
xXxXx
Almost five hours later, Ariella jumped off of the bus, grinning, onto the floor of the warehouse where it was being kept. "We rocked it!" She called, high-fiving her band.
"Did you see all of the people, Ari?" Her guitarist, Paul, exclaimed.
"I know!" Ariella exclaimed.
"So, what're we doing to celebrate? Party at the hotel?" Caitlin asked.
"Actually, I can't...I'm...moving into my mom's aparment today, for the rest of the time I'm in New York." She said. Olivia looked at her when she said this, grinning.
"That's cool!" Caitlin said, "I'm getting a flight out of here tomorrow, back to Tennessee though, so call me and stuff! Love you girl!"
"Love you too!" Ariella said, hugging her, and the rest of the band, goodbye.
"Really?" Olivia asked, once she was alone with her family, plus Brooke.
Ariella nodded. "I told Brooke earlier, and that I wanted to right before I went on."
Brooke took over, saying, "We've arranged to have the security team outside your door at all times, even one person when Ariella isn't there. The landlord agreed to rent us an apartment for the security to go between shifts and things like that, and for me. Ariella is my only family," She explained, "So I'm with her all the time."
Olivia smiled, hugging her daughter, "Thank you," She said to Brooke, over Ariella's shoulder, and brooke nodded, smiling.
"Whenever you're ready for her, she can move."
"How about now!" Olivia exclaimed, and Ariella shrugged, "Sure!"
Several hours later, it was nearing midnight. Elliot and the girls had just left, the girls back to Kathy's and Elliot to the new apartment he'd found at another building a few blocks away. They'd had dinner and hung out until just then, and now Ariella was exhausted. For the first time in hours, she picked up her phone, which she had left on the nightstand of the room that was now hers. Olivia had decorated it, too, and it was beautiful.
She checked her messages, and answered a few from her friends Demi (Lovato), Miley (Cyrus), and Ashley (Greene), before she got to the one Taylor had sent her, only an hour ago.
From: Taylor
To: Ariella
i don't think i can do this anymore.
Her heart almost stopped. What did this mean? Was he...breaking up with her?
She quickly called him, heart beating faster and faster.
"Hi." He answered, a voice so unlike him, and she just knew.
"Baby, what do you mean," She said, voice breaking, "What does this mean."
"It means what I said, Ariella...I just...I can't do this anymore." He said.
"But...but everything was fine a few days ago! What happened, what's wrong, what did I do?" She said, beggining to cry.
"Nothing. This has nothing to do with anything you did, Ariella, this is all me," He said sincerely, but still sounding so strange.
"Don't do this," She begged, "Don't do this, Taylor, I love you."
"I know!" He practically yelled, "I know, please don't make this harder than it has to be!" He said.
"You're the one doing this!" She shrieked, "You're the one doing all of this! What, was this all a lie?" She cried, "I gave you everything, Taylor, everything! You know what that meant! You...you're just one of those guys." She whispered. "I was the stupid one, I should've seen you were just like him!" She shouted.
"No, Ariella, no! I'm not like him!" He said, "You don't understand, I just..I can't, baby, I can't..." He said, own voice breaking.
"Don't call me that!" She shouted, "Don't you dare call me that you bastard! I-I hate you! I hate you for doing this to me, how could you!"
"Ariella, please, I'm so-" He didn't get to finish, because she hung up, throwing her phone across the room at her bags as she let out a sob.
A moment later, Olivia knocked gently on the door, and came in. "Ariella? What's wrong?" She said, hurrying over.
"He broke up with me," She sobbed, holding the pillow tightly to her chest, "T-Taylor."
Looking shocked, and unsure how to handle a child's heartbreak, Olivia said, "Honey, I'm so sorry."
"I don't even know why!" She exclaimed, "I love him," She sobbed, reaching for Olivia, who sat on the edge of the bed, as Ariella wrapped her arms around her waist, letting her head rest against her as she cried.
"I know, baby," Olivia said gently, "It's going to be ok."
For the next few hours, Olivia did something she'd never been able to do: comfort her through heartbreak. When Ariella had discovered that Nick had cheated on her, it had been Brooke, and her friends that had helped her through the pain.
Now, it was her mother doing what she should have been able to do the first time. Olivia lay in Ariella's bed with her, holding her as she cried for hours into the night, until she eventually fell asleep, still holding tight to her. Olivia, though upset that Ariella was upset, smiled as her daughter slept. No matter how old she was, she didn't care. Olivia always wanted to be there to hold her while she cried...it gave her time to figure out how to kill the person that made her cry without being caught.