AN: The song is "Honey (Sam La More Remix) by Lovers Electric" a great new Australian band.
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Chapter 10: Morning Glow
~We can't see what we don't believe
we can't dream of reality
with our heads in the clouds
and our hands in the air
we try to catch something
but nothing is there
We fall down before we start
we only want to play our part
Yeah our minds are a wash
with all this talk
Am I making sense?~
The music in the night club blared, people danced to the DJ's remixes, they drank, they laughed and they just enjoyed the clubs atmosphere, especially a petite Blonde, who sat at the bar, cocktail in hand watching the club patrons as they danced, their bodies sliding in supple rhythm, like making love on the dance floor.
~Tell me honey can we ever find the truth?
tell me honey will we ever see one view?
I can't connect if I can't relate to you
and we can't accept what we do not get to choose
tell me honey, what is it we do?
remind me honey, what did we just lose?
We push the thoughts and words come out
they could be lies, they could be doubt
but throw enough money at it's feet
and all the lies become perfectly sweet~
She noticed that someone had slid up beside her, so she looked over at them. The handsome looking guy flashed her a brilliant smile.
"Hi," he said, he leaned in to be heard, "I'm Jake!"
His eyes were the most vivid shade of sea green, offset by dark eyebrows and think black lashes. His face had a rugged, chiseled handsomeness, a strong square chin, ready smile with a couple of dimples. He was about six one, with a good athletic build, but not overly muscular.. his hair was short and jet black, he had it spiked up with hair putty. His navy blue sweater and blue jeans seemed to fit his demeanor…right down to his slack Etnie sneakers. All in all, quite handsome for a twenty-something club-hopper.
She smiled, "I'm Jennifer." She felt herself strangely hypnotized by this man's eyes.
~Tell me honey can we ever find the truth?
tell me honey will we ever see one view?
I can't connect if I can't relate to you
and we can't accept what we do not get to choose
tell me honey, what is it we do?
remind me honey, what did we just lose?
We push the thoughts and words come out
they could be lies, they could be doubt
but throw enough money at it's feet
and all the lies become perfectly sweet~
They continued the small talk, Jake leaning into her personal space and Jennifer smiling coyly, laughing at his jokes. She learned his last name was Wrangler, which brought images of some rakish cowboy hero, or some fantasy sword-slinger to her mind. Suddenly, Jake took her hand, bowed slightly and gave her a 'come-hither' look as he guided her onto the dance floor.
Jake drew her to him, pressing her length fully against his front, his arm snaked its way around to her bare lower back. Jennifer shuttered a little; his hands and skin were freezing! Maybe it was fatigue. Maybe it was the fact that she felt totally devoid of feeling and hope…or maybe her will to give a damn just flew out the window a while back, Jennifer didn't know.
~You know I've tried to understand
I know you've tried to hold my hand
But try as I will I can not see
am I making sense?~
She wasn't thinking, just feeling. Feeling Jake's hands sliding over her body; the tenor of the music as it thrummed through her senses. It was almost intoxicating. So she didn't see Jake withdraw a pen-like object from his pants. She only felt a slight prick, as he jabbed the small hypo-needle into the back of her neck. Then, the room became a blur of sounds and globby shadows.
Jennifer felt like she was floating somewhere outside of her body, watching Jake guide her stealthily to the back door. Somewhere in her brain a voice screeched, "JENNIFER! Snap out of it woman! Get away…Do Something Idiot!" But her arms and legs felt like melted rubber, as Jake edged her into the alley.
~Tell me honey can we ever find the truth?
tell me honey will we ever see one view?
I can't connect if I can't relate to you
and we can't accept what we do not get to choose
tell me honey, what is it we do?
remind me honey, what did we just lose?~
Once in a while, one tends to want to ask one's self, "What in the Hell were you thinking?" The ramification of such an action, however, is merely an afterthought, which usually rears its ugly head later on—at the worst possible time. On the other hand, if we let fear take hold—stifling and gobbling up our convictions to do what we know is right, the consequences of that inaction would be far worse than any Hell we could think of.
They were Jennifer's thought's as her last breath fell from her lips and her world faded to black for the very last time.
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The early Monday morning glow of the Melbourne sun shined in through the curtains.
Matt and Jennifer laid sleeping soundly together, Matt had his arm around her waist, his hand resting on her stomach. Jennifer was the first person to wake realizing that Matt was still sleeping.
She looked at him and smiled and trailed her finger lightly over his cheek, she gently moved a piece of his hair that had fallen over his face out the way of his eyes before trailing the tip of her finger along the pink of his lips. Matt remained still, his body was uncovered and the blankets were all pulled over to Jennifer's side of the bed.
She reached over and pulled the blankets up to his waist before taking in the view of who she had been sleeping beside every night for the past four months. It was dim in the room, all she saw of him was his figure from the glow of the sun.
As she pulled the blankets up to his waist, he woke, placing his hand on hers pulling her close. He kissed her lips, without his opening his eyes.
"Morning," she said with a giggle as he kissed her again. His eyes opened slowly, looking at her. She got lost in the deep mocha of his eyes.
"Morning Jen," he mumbled back. Sending a smile across his face. He put his hand through her blonde hair moving it away from his face. It was so soft he thought.
Pulling away quickly, Jennifer tossed back the blankets and darted towards the bathroom.
Matt followed her, when he found her in the bathroom curled around the toilet, emptying the contents of her stomach into it.
Matt knelt down beside her and gathered her hair from around her face, pulling her into his arms after she had finished being sick."How are you feeling?" he asked her as placed the palm of her hand in his.
"Better" she responded "And I know I'm not alone" she rested her head on his chest as she sniffled.
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After quickly ducking out to go to the chemist, she took the pregnancy test out of the paper bag and opened the box, following the instruction on the slip of paper that was inside.
After she sat the test on the counter and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She noted that she was putting on a little weigh, her skin was glowing and the last thing that confirmed her suspicions was the test that sat in front of her.
She looked down at the test stick. Two blue lines.
"Oh my god…" She whispered, tears threatening to fall down her cheeks. She looked at the stick once more, only to see the little blue lines, taunting her. Standing up, she took a deep breath and walked out of the bathroom, test in hand. Wiping furiously at her eyes, she flopped onto her back on the bed and looked at the test in her hands again.
She rested a hand on her stomach. She was surprised. 'God this was really going to happen,' she thought, a small smile playing on her lips.
"Jen?" Matt asked ducking his head back into the room. Jennifer shifted her eyes over to Matt as he sat down beside her on the bed, worry filling his deep brown eyes. Jennifer sighed again, biting her lip.
"I'm pregnant." She whispered, extending her hand out to him, handing him the test stick. He stared at the test stick and then looked up at her, a smile on his face.
Matt had no idea what to say, he was happy, hell he was excited at the fact that he was going to be a father, happy that it was going to be with Jennifer.
"Matt? Say something." Jennifer said, not sure how he was taking this news, but by the grin that had now formed on his face, he was happy.
"I'm… I'm going to be a father!" he said, joyfully embracing Jennifer in a hug, kissing her on the lips.
Breaking apart from the kiss, Jennifer quickly made her way to the bathroom again.
Matt looked at her concerned, then he heard her emptying the contents of her stomach into the toilet, he quickly made his way out to the fridge and got out the bottle of ginger beer that Jennifer had bought when she went out earlier, getting a glass out of the cupboard and pouring a glass and making his way back into the bedroom where Jennifer was now sitting huddled up in bed.
"Here," he said, handing her the cool glass of ginger beer.
"Thanks," Jennifer said, taking a mouthful before handing the glass back to Matt.
Matt sat the glass on the bedside table and placed a soft kiss on Jennifer's lips and then placed his hand on her abdomen.
"Hey," he said, talking to her stomach, to their child growing in Jennifer's uterus. "I'm your daddy,"
Jennifer let out a small laugh at Matt.
"I think it knows that,"
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They looked at the young blonde girl that lay in the bushes, her body slashed so badly that you could see her insides, her hair was splattered with blood and her clothes were torn to shreds.
"Oh my god," Jennifer muttered in disgust, raising a gloved hand to her mouth. "What sort of animal is this sicko?"
Matt knelt down beside the girl and brushed her hair from her face, his eyes widened as he quickly stood, crahing into Duncan.
"Whoah! What is it Matt?" Duncan asked at Matt's shock then looked down at the girls body, his reaction was the same as Matt's.
Sensing the guys shock, Jennifer looked down at what caught their attention, when she looked down, she swore it was her own reflection looking back up at her.
One of the uniformed officer came over to them with the girls licence.
Matt watched as Jennifer hastily made her way back towards their car.
"It's like we're looking at Jen's exact twin." Duncan said, looking back down at the body.
Taking the licence from the female uniform, Matt looked at it. "We basically are, Jennifer Zucorman, born 21st February 1980, age 29. That's exactly the same birth date as Jen."
tbc...