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Future

Krystalled

AN: Okay, school is over! I am free for a while so I will be about to write more. I feel guilty because I had this part written last night but I didn't get a chance to post it because I went to see Conan O'Brien in Dallas last night and didn't get home till late. Awesome show by the way if you're a huge Conan nerd like me.

Chapter 10

-Liz-

Sunshine singing "Like a Virgin" during the car ride home brings a smile to my face as I try to stop myself from laughing. This woman is something else; she is everything you expect in a southern belle stripper. However, her singing as bad as it is almost brings calm over the truck which is cramped to say the least. I have a feeling that Sunshine is very good at getting people to forget their problems.

It doesn't stop the pang of fear that over takes me as we pull up to Michael's trailer. What have I gotten myself into? It only being a short time since Michael asked me to come home with him at the hospital; I am shocked I am already having these feelings. I may have only been able to stay with Tess for a few days, maybe a week but it would have been at least with someone I have known the better part of my life not with these stranger's I barely know.

Opening up the car door quickly moving out of the way for Michael to make his way out; the trailer looks a lot different than it did just two nights ago. It's sitting on land that looks like it hasn't been mowed in forever with a trailer with peeling paint.

Sunshine and Hank make their way inside leaving Michael and I standing out by the truck.

"I know it's not much. It's also not anywhere near what your use to but it's all I have to offer." Michael tells me while studying his old sneakers.

"No it's not what I'm use to." I say simply because it's the truth and I don't feel like lying anymore to him. "Let's go inside; I really am tired already."

"Ok, but I'm going to come out and tell you now it's not much better on the inside."

Michael tells me as he leads me toward my new home. Walking in the door of the small trailer I had no idea what to expect. Knowing that Michael and his dad lived here alone I expected it to be messy but the entry way is covered in beer cans. Making me question if Michael drinks a lot; so many things I don't know about him.

The smell is repulsing making my stomach turn a couple of times; taking several deep breaths trying to stop my gag reflexes that I have had a hard time controlling lately.

"Liz, are you okay? Are you going to throw up or something?" Michael asks me with fear in his voice that I had only heard once before from him when I had woken up at the hospital.

"No, I'm okay. I just need to lie down." I tell him avoiding all eye contact with him. We pass Hank and Sunshine who are sitting at the small kitchen table Sunshine talking very adamantly with her hands but I am too zoned out to hear what she is saying. The walls are bare and the paint which I sure use to be white now has a yellowish tint to them. Walking down the small hall way is a fast one considering that the trailer could fit into the Evans living room.

Michael leads me into the small bed room that is nothing but a full size bed and a small table with a cd player. The blankets are all over the floor along with dirty clothes spread from one end to the other.

I guess he can tell from my face that I'm taken back by the mess, "I'm not use to having girls here."

"I find that a little hard to believe." I start moving some of the dirty clothes from the bed to the floor that are spread across his bed.

"Yeah I guess your right I have had a few girls in here from time to time." He says with his cockiness that usually just comes off of him in waves but has been absent the last few days.

"Have you at least washed the sheets?" Eyeing them to make sure they look clean.

He gives me a dirty look as if I could ever hurt his feelings, "Yeah, do you need anything?"

"No, I think I'm just going to lay down for a while."

Without a word just a simple head nod Michael walks out of his bedroom closing the door behind him. With the door closed I feel like the walls are closing in on me.

I pull the blanket off the floor pulling myself into a fetal position in the middle of Michael's bed.

The light from outside is coming in thru the window lighting up the whole room making it hard to fall asleep.

The soft knock that comes from the door startles me. The door slowly starts to open Sunshine popping her head in. "Are you okay sweetheart?"

"I think so," curling myself into am even tighter ball.

Sunshine enters the room closing the door behind her before coming to sit on the bed next to me. She places her hand on my arm, "I know we just met Liz but I understand what you are going through. I got myself into a similar situation when I was just fifteen years old."

"Really, how did you deal with everything?" I pull myself out of the fetal position sitting up to look at her.

"That's the thing Liz I didn't. I just pretended it didn't happen." She tells me looking down at her hands; somehow I know this isn't a story of overcoming obstacles.

"How did that work out?"

"I still lead the same life as if nothing had happened but it caught up with me. I went into labor at 27 weeks. My baby didn't make it." She says wiping her eyes before the tears roll down her face.

"I am so sorry Sunshine. How did you make it through that?" I reach out to touch her hand which she just smiles at me.

"Things happened for a reason no matter how fucked up they are. I'm not telling you this to make you feel sorry for me I want you to take care of yourself Liz. The hardest thing to live with is knowing you're the reason your child isn't alive. So no matter how hard life gets these next few months always remember that it your job to take care of yourself for this baby."

"I will thank you for caring enough to come talk to me."

"Hey, just because you and Michael made a mistake doesn't mean that we turn our backs on you." In a way I feel like she is telling me that everything in the end is going to be okay with my parents as well.

"I think I'm going to lie back down and take a nap." I lay back down feeling that I can finally rest.

"Okay, I'll have Michael bring you something to eat in a while." She says returning to her perky self as if we hadn't just talked about the worst thing to ever happen in her life.

"Sunshine, what did you name your baby if you don't mind me asking?"

She turns around with a smile, "Riley." She says as she leaves the room closing the door behind her. When she finally does leave I feel my eye lids finally close.