A/N: Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four (: Thank you, everyone who reviewed! I'm up to 64 reviews now! It puts quite a big smile on my face. You guys are all very amazing! Well, enough with the blabbing, Here it is!
Disclaimer: You can't make me. . . I'm not. . . I'm. . . I . . . ugh! Fine! I do not own The Beatles or anything else you may recognize. . . Maybe.
"Hmm. . . it's quite weird, don't you think?" Paul laughed as he tickled Alice's feet with his toes. And squinted his eye at the Elvis poster across from his bed.
"Just one more! Every time I snap the picture I laugh! Our feet are going to come out like a piece of Picasso!" Alice nudged Paul with her shoulder as she wrapped her foot around his ankle.
"Piece of Picasso? What is that? Any ways my leg is tired, how much longer?"
"It's a proper phrase! And just one more picture! No laughing this time, I promise! I just want two things, and the first one, is a picture of our feet looking like their picking Elvis's nose on the poster!"
"What's the second thing?"
"It's a secret, you'll have to guess." Alice smiled as she quickly snapped the photo.
Paul mumbled to himself "I'll have to guess. . . "
"Yes, you'll have to guess. " Alice smiled playfully as she set down the camera and turned to face Paul. He had a small pout on his face and she giggled.
"So, what exactly is this photo going to look like? A pair of feet?"
"No! if I have the angle right, it'll look like our toes are picking Elvis's nose."
"Oh, I think mine was in his mouth." They burst out laughing, when Alice caught sight of the alarm clock.
"The Cavern. Lunch! If we don't leave now, you're gonna make it late." Paul widened his eyes and let out a loud sigh. He kissed Alice on the cheek and got up to pass her, her clothes.
Alice P.O.V
There they are. My black tights and my yellow shirt-dress in Paul's hands. What have I done? When I thought I couldn't fall any deeper, I have sex with him. It would be easy to say I'll never do it again, or that I regret all that happened, but I really don't know what's worse. The fact that it did happen, or the fact that I can't bring myself to regret it at all.
I take my clothes, holding the sweetest smile I could pull off.
John.
Oh god, what have I really done! I would be an Idiot to think that what I just did didn't mean anything. It obviously meant something. What did it mean? I said my goodbyes and walked right back into the direction that I had came from.
Alice slowly walked up the stairs, rang the doorbell, and waited for what seemed like forever in her mind right now. Mo opened the door with a look of surprise on her face. Alice smiled sarcastically and walked right past Mo, and threw herself, faced down on the couch. Maureen giggled and closed the door behind her.
"I did it again, Mo!" Alice said lifting her hands in the air.
Maureen slowly walked over to her friend on the couch and squinted her eyes suspiciously. "Do I want to know what you did. . . Again?"
Alice sat up with a pout on her lips. "I don't know what you call it! I pulled another 'Alice' move, I messed up, I killed it, I. . . I had sex with Paul!" Alice began to giggle at the last sentence. In most cases, she would have taken it seriously, but when she often messed up, she laughed at how ridiculous she had been. No matter how serious the matter. Maureen stared at her with a complete look of surprise and plopped herself on the couch.
"You're really good at this, y'know! Well, are you ready? For the huge speech you're about to get?"
"Hit me."Alice stopped laughing and turned completely serious.
"How could you do that to John? Alice, how could you do that to Paul! Think about it, do you think that Paul's going to wait around forever while you take your sweet time choosing who you want to love the next morning? Honestly, what goes on in that mind of yours? Tell me, has John ever cheated on you! No! In fact, I remember the first day you introduced me to him, you guys were so in love, what happened! What is so wrong in your relationship that you have to go out and cheat on someone who would give their life to keep you! And even worse, I'm pretty sure that you just so happen to be bearing his child!" Maureen paced back and forth, she had so much to say and she was trying her best to comprehend what words she should put them in.
"That's the thing, mo" Alice began to tear up. "I don't know what goes on in my mind! It's moving so fast that I barely have enough time to catch which way it's going! I can't just decide who I want to love! It's not as easy as you say it is, Love isn't decided, and even if it was, you of all people should know how hard it is for my mind to do such things! I just feel like I don't want to give myself away! I'm not John's to keep. I'm not anyone's to keep and I never had a problem with John keeping me at the beginning, but now. . . I guess I'm scared."
"Of what?"
"Of deciding I love John and in the end finding myself trapped."
Maureen's face began to soften into a look of sadness, she hated seeing her best friend like this. Alice had been with her through thick and thin. She always had the answer, and this time Maureen felt horrible because she couldn't return the favor.
"I honestly don't know Alice. I hate to say it, but sooner or later, you're going to have to decide. One second, you want a family, The other, you can't bear the feeling of being trapped. I can't tell you what you want And now that it's gotten serious, I think it's obvious what you're going to have to choose."
Alice looked down at her feet and began sobbing. After a long while, she quietly stated "I don't want it." Her words were sad and she began sobbing even harder after they left her lips.
Tears began to roll down Maureen's cheek and she wiped them with the tip of her thumb as she sat next to Alice. "Adoption?"
Alice dried her tears and began to sob all over again.
"Abortion."
There was a long silence, as the word rang quietly in both of their ears. Alice was first to speak. She tried her best to avoid eye contact.
"It wouldn't be fair if I keep it. It also wouldn't be fair to have it out there; torturing itself over why it's mum gave it up. I'd rather wait till I'm sure I want to have it, I don't want to give it a crappy life."
Maureen sighed. "I can't make your decisions for you."
Alice scoffed. "I'm going to have to leave."
"Leave? As in, Liverpool?" Maureen's voice got higher with every word she said. Her tears began streaming faster, and Alice had begun to silently cry, softer now.
"Staying here has only proven to make things worse. If it turns out I am pregnant, I'll have to give it up and leave Liverpool. That's the only way I'm going to be able to get back up on my feet."
"Right. If you're pregnant. Where would you even go? What if it turns out you're not?" Maureen asked with a bit of hope in her voice. She saw that Alice was unsure of herself. "There's always room here for more." She smiled.
Alice laughed and dried her tears. She smiled at Maureen gratefully and they both decided to head towards The Cavern. Alice thought about how her day had been a complete rollercoaster, but decided to push the thoughts aside. I talked about them, got them off my chest, now it's time to forget. They walked down the stairs that led to the main room of The Cavern and Alice met John's eyes. He smiled happily and pulled her into a hug. She smiled as best as she could. For the most part, it was convincing.
As she kept her arms around his neck, she met Paul's eyes. She couldn't exactly tell what was going through his mind, but she knew it was horrible. Without looking away, she whispered into John's ear, the simplest of words that seemed so hard for her to say at that moment.
"I love you."
A/N: Once again, please forgive me! I'm not sure at all how you guys are comprehending this chapter. I'm honestly not even sure if it was a good chapter at all. For the most part, as you can see, I'm introducing more of an insight into how Alice really works her way around life, and hopefully you are all understanding what i write when i try to give an insight into her complex feelings. Sooo, we're starting to see little by little, a more darker side of Alice. You didnt expect her to be perfect, did you?(: P.S. heres a hint; if you thought we were towards the middle of the story – think again! We're just barely starting things off!
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