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I Bet You Think

I Either Moved On Or Hate You

'Cause Each Time You Reach Out

There's No Reply

Steve sat in the waiting room shaking his leg and wringing his hands, one thing him and Jenni seemed to have in common. Two-Bit was sitting close by, after an argument that they knew they didn't have time for. Lily was at the cafeteria; the boys had given her a quarter to get out of their sight.

Steve spoke, "Why the fuck are you here anyway?" He glanced quickly at Two-Bit.

Two-Bit shrugged slowly, obviously debating something inside his head. "She's my friend too."

"I never said she wasn't. I'm just saying, you two haven't been very close since-" He stopped himself. His hands were awful sweaty.

"Why don't you go to the snack bar with Lily?"

Steve shook his head, "I'm not leaving." And somehow it was as simple as that.

XXX

It seemed like they had been at the hospital for hours although it had really only been 90 minutes or so. Steve reached the nurses' station. "Have you gotten any word on Jennifer Brooks?"

The elderly nurse didn't take her eyes off of her crossword puzzle as she shook her head slightly.

Steve tapped his fingers impatiently, "Well could you check?"

The woman looked up, a stern gaze on her grim face. "If I hear anything, I'll let you know."

Steve rolled his eyes and turned around, just as the doctor mentioned Jenni's name. He spun back quickly and Dr. Johnson looked at him with a smile. "You can see her if you'd like."

Steve nodded slowly, "So she's okay?"

It took the doctor a minute to answer. "Her cervix is currently two centimeters dilated, that's not very common this early in the pregnancy."

"So what is that supposed to mean?"

Another pause.

"If it doesn't close, she could lose the baby."

XXX

"We're gonna keep her overnight just to be sure but when she goes home in the morning I'm putting her on bed rest."

Pretty much all of Dr. Johnson's words were going in one ear and out the other but Steve did happen to catch the part about the bed rest. Great so I have to try and keep Jenni in bed all day. "But what about school?"

The doctor shook his head, "She won't be able to go. We have to eliminate any activity that takes too much effort, this is about the child, not what's fit to your schedule."

Steve wanted to cuss the doctor out right then and there for his attitude but he stopped himself for Jenni's sake. "Can I see her now?"

Johnson nodded and directed Steve to the right room.

Jenni's face lit up and Steve couldn't help but smirk, "How do you do that?"

She tilted her head in curiosity, "Do what?"

"Act like I'm your favorite person in the world."

She pouted, "You are."

Steve smiled, "Oh yeah? I thought it woulda been Tim." He was only teasing her but something in her feverish eyes said that the statement wasn't very funny. He changed the topic, "Speaking of Shepard, he gonna be here soon to see you? Or does he even know you're here?"

"No."

"No what?" Steve pressed on.

"He's not coming to see me and he doesn't know I'm here." Her voice raised ever so slightly.

Steve huffed, "What a good boyfriend he is."

"He's not my boyfriend." Jenni whispered.

Steve vaguely wondered if that fact had something to do with Two-Bit's bloody knuckles but he pushed the thought aside, they didn't have anything against the Shepard gang. Steve shrugged it off, "So it is me over him?" He smirked.

Jenni wrung her hands together, "It always has been."

It took Steve a moment before he pulled the diamond ring, hanging on a chain, out of his pocket. He slowly leaned forward and hung it around Jennifer's neck.

She stared at it for a few seconds before Steve cleared his throat, "I'm not saying we're together or anything Jenni; I'm just saying, it's always been you too."

And I Just Want To Tell You

It Takes Everything In Me Not To Call You

And I Wish I Could Run To You

And I Hope You Know That

Every Time I Don't,

I Almost Do

Credits-

Song: I Almost Do

Artist: Taylor Swift

Book: The Outsiders

Author: S. E. Hinton

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