Forced out of bed by a sudden extreme feeling of nausea, Alexis bolts to the across the hall with a hand over her mouth as she barges into the bathroom. She almost knocks into someone but she doesn't care as before she drops down to her knees and hunches over the toilet, violently coughs up her dinner from last night. She groans, mentally cursing at this happening again but really she has months left of things like this. She had thought the morning sickness was starting to be over but, nope, apparently she was wrong. She finally stops coughing for a brief moment.
"You okay there?" A familiar female voice speaks up causing Alexis to look to the source only to see Vicki Donovan, looking at her while leaning against the sink. Alexis furrows her brow slightly, wondering why she is here but she can't speak up or continue that thought before she hunches back over and vomits again. Vicki screws up her face in sympathy and distaste at the action. Regardless, she's not too fazed about it instead she shakes her head as she moves to kneels beside Alexis and speaks up.
"Little one giving you trouble?" She huffs out carefully but there's a chuckle and a certain fondess in her voice as she puts a hand to rest on the girl's back. Alexis lifts her head and somehow smiles a little, tilting her head tiredly at her unborn child's aunt loving how Vicki talks about the baby.
"Most of the time." The pregnant teen huffs out quietly and fondly, making the older girl smile more next to her. Alexis's eyes fall shut as she lets out a deep breath before opening her doe eyes again. "I think the little one is starting to ease up now." She says thoughtfully as one of her hands go to her belly resting and gently moving over her bump in an affectionate way. Her bumps gotten so much bigger in the past few weeks and she can no longer squeeze into most of her jeans, settling for looser pants or shorts or even skirts most of the time. She's thankful she can feel the nausea easing up now that she has thrown up and does not feel like she'll do it again at this moment. Vicki lets out a small fond laugh at the girls words before she actually really looks at Alexis and presses her lips together.
"Damn, You even sleep last night? You look like-" The older girl questions, cutting herself off, noticing how tired and not very good her brother's girlfriend looks right now.
"Felt like I was in a sauna. It felt so hot and I couldn't sleep." Alexis admits because last night was so bad, she could hardly sleep, tossing and turning all night. She felt like she was on fire and she was sweating like crazy. Hot flashes, night sweats, more pregnancy symptoms she gets to look forward to endure for the next few months. She feels so tired right now and all she wants to do it maybe try and eat something then crawl back into her bed while talking to Matt on the phone as she falls asleep.
"Well, that sucks."
"Mhmm." Alexis agrees, letting her eyes slip shut as she tries to rest for a moment.
"Don't you have another appointment today?" Vicki question, hand moving soothing on the girls back but it pauses and Vicki speaks up before the mother-to-be can answer the question. "Matt told me about it yesterday at work, he's pretty excited."
"Me too." Alexis smiles. "But it's tomorrow." She corrects, wishing it was today because she gets to find out if she's having a little boy or a little girl and that's exciting.
"Are you sure? Matt said today? But still." Vicki starts and it seems she's going to mention Matt more but she gets sidetracked as Vicki goes to brush some hair out of the younger girls face and her hand stops across the girl's forehead. "Fuck, you're, like, actually really burning up."
"Mhmm." Alexis agrees, before she sits up more and look to the girl with more clarity. "You know what I need?"
"What?"
"Ice cream." She determines before slowly pushing herself up and Vicki smiles at the girl before helping her. A few minutes later the girls are standing in the kitchen as Alexis pours hot sauce onto her vanilla ice cream and they're talking. Alexis admitting finds it a little weird her brother and her boyfriends sister are together She loves Jeremy she does and she hopes he does not try and lead Vicki back down the drug user path she is close to finally getting off of. She hopes Jeremy will take a note from Vicki's book and try to quit as well. Some of Vicki's words just stay in Alexis thoughts as after a while Vicki heads back upstairs to brush her teeth and go back to Jeremy.
While looking for some toothpaste and a spare tooth brush she opens the medicine cabinet. The first thing the girl sees are two pill bottles and out of curiosity and a moment hesitance before giving in she reaches and grabs them out. The descriptions on them identical apart from the names. One reads Alexis Gilbert the other Elena purses her lips as she thinks, she puts Elena's back telling herself this is wrong but she looks back to the other in her hand that was Alexis's. One more day/night out, tomorrow will be the last Vicki tells herself as she looks the bottle over. The container is practically full compared to the others but for obvious reason that Alexis is pregnant, it's not like she can take these anyway and the girl probably would notice if they went missing either. The girl reasons with herself. Plus, What's the worst thing that could happen? She asks herself as she takes the bottle before finding the toothbrush and tooth past like she didn't just steal prescription drugs from a girl considers her family.
Alexis is still feeling off even as she eats the ice cream drenched in hot sauce which some how eases all the unwell feelings she has. She's sitting at the counter half dressed and hair a mess when Jenna walks in. "Morning, Jen." Alexis greets her aunt and Jenna smiles at her for a moment before she walks over to the girl, leaning over and look at what Alexis is eating.
"Morning, What are you eating? Is that hot sauce on ice cream?" Her aunt questions, screwing up her face looking at Alexis like she's insane.
"It's good, right now at least." Alexis shrugs before eating another soon full. Pregnancy cravings, over the past week more have started to show so Alexis eating spicy ice cream isn't that strange when she thinks about it. Jenna pulls back shaking her head before looking her niece over with a careful and caring look.
"You okay, you seem..."Jenna speaks, trailing it off and fishing for whats wrong rather than accidentally insulting the pregnant girl who sighs.
"I don't feel good." She feels like she can't really concentrate, she's so clearly exhausted from a night of hardly sleeping and Jenna can clearly see this girl can't go to school today.
"Okay, Just stay home today until your appointment." Jenna tells the girl because Alexis looks like she needs it and Jenna isn't afraid of her missing just a day since she knows Alexis is probably in front with her school work anyway. Alexis looks up surprised by the mention of the appointment, she really had thought it was tomorrow.
"That's today? I thought that was tomorrow." Alexis speaks up putting her spoon down, lips quirking up and a hand going to her belly but she still feels odd as she looks up at her auburn haired aunt.
"No, it's today and it's at 4:30 this afternoon." Jenna corrects her.
"Oh my god." Alexis breathes out, feeling excited at going, finding her child's gender and just seeing her child again, despite how off she is feeling. She's almost bouncing at how excited she's suddenly feeling.
"But I need to talk to you..." Jenna continues. Alexis pauses at those sudden words, the sudden change of tone, her face falling and she furrows her brow, looking up to meet her aunts eyes.
"What about?" The brunette teen question, feeling concern pick into her and some fear not knowing what is wrong or if she has done something wrong. Jenna looks at the girl with a soft but serious look Alexis knows all too well.
"You and Matt." The older women tells her and Alexis presses her lips together because she knows exactly where this is going to go.
"Je-" She starts but her aunt is deadest on this topic so Alexis is cut off harshly and firmly.
"No, Alexis, You need to talk to him about what happened because it'll blow up in your faces if you don't. You need to talk to him about what happened, about everything." There's such conviction in her words and Alexis knows what her aunt is saying is true. Jenna was there that morning after when Alexis had run home and hide away in her room crying her heart out. Alexis opened up in that moment to her aunt in every way telling her absolutely everything. She knows Alexis's loves that boy but she knows just how broken and stupid the girl felt the morning after, babbling about how she thought Matt must have just thought she was Elena and she saw just how upset she was. Alexis needs to talk to Matt about it or the girl would forever have those insecurities lingering in her mind.
"I'm starting to understand that." Alexis breathes out in understanding, remembering Vicki telling her something very similar earlier.
"The timing of all of this, I have no idea how you're coping with it all. I'm barely coping...But promise me you'll talk to him."
"I will." Alexis promise, forcing a tight lipped smile and Jenna sighs, relieved but still concerned. She knows talking to Matt about what happened won't be easy but it needs to happen, she can't keep putting it off and now they're actually dating and have a baby on the way they need to talk. Before they can continue to talk about everything they are interrupted when Elena storms into the kitchen, shaking her head. Elena stops in her tracks, looking at Jenna with a questioning and shocked look. "Jenna! Are you aware of what's going on upstairs?" Elena asks disbelief in her voice as both the others look at Elena. It clicks in Alexis's mind straight away that her sister must have ran into Vicki upstairs and apparently it also clicks in Jenna's because the women starts nodding slowly.
"Uh-huh." Jenna tells her and Elena looks surprised that her aunt knows and has done nothing about it. Alexis's eyebrows hitch up at that but she supposes it isn't that surprising as Vicki has been seen around here more often then late, not even trying to hide.
"And you have no objection?" Elena huffs, eyes also flicking to Alexis before back to Jenna because Alexis surely should object to her brother sleeping with her boyfriend's sister.
"He could be craftier about it, at least make an effort to sneak her in and out." Jenna shrugs because out of everything Jeremy does, having a girl in his room isn't that bad. Elena's eyes flick to Alexis in such an obvious way and Jenna seems to understand straight away while the younger twin does not. Jenna gives Elena a reassuring and knowing look. "Don't worry, I put a new box of condoms in his room yesterday." Jenna assures them and Alexis lets out a noise of realization which Elena laughs a little at because..well..it's not hard to know one of the main reasons Alexis is pregnant. Elena shakes her head before she actually looks to her pregnant twin sister, brow creasing with concern. Alexis looks...just not right, annoyed looking on her face and brow creasing in pain from an on coming migraine. She's in her underwear her hair is down and is a mess, she's eating something strange and she has dark circles under her eyes. Alexis looks restless and tired, like the best thing she could do is crawl back into bed.
"Whoa, are you okay, Alexis?" Elena worries for her as she steps over to her twin, closer to the counter of which Elena stands on the other side of. Alexis puts a hand on her forehead, shaking her head.
"I look that bad?" Alexis asks softly, looking up to her sister dragging the hand from her face.
"No..." Elena has that cautious face that says she isn't telling the truth to try and spare her feelings. The younger twin just gives her a look and Elena caves, making a face, trying to think of the right words. "But...you look like you don't feel good." Elena breathes out, managing to settle on those words with a gentle expression on her face as she leans closer to her sister, over the counter. Alexis tilts her head pressing her lips together because honestly Elena is right and Alexis doesn't feel good. Alexis feels uncomfortable, odd, off and just not good.
"Mmmm, I really don't feel good." The pregnant girl admit, pushing the rest of the ice cream away from her, not knowing if it helped or not.
"She's staying home today, I'll call the school soon." Their aunt speaks up looking to the girl next to her and both girls nod slowly. "Oh, and just so you know, I won't be home for dinner." Jenna tells them after a moment, suddenly remembering that having been side tracked by Alexis and Elena.
"Oh, so you're actually going to do it." Elena questions, smiling a little as she's surprised her aunt is actually going on a date.
"You're gonna go out with Logan?" Alexis pipes up, voice quite because of the ache in her head.
"I'm going to show up and torture him, yes." Jenna confirms in a huff and teasing smile before looking to Elena. "And have you heard from Stefan?" Jenna question and Elena lets out a huff as Alexis frowns. Alexis hasn't heard from Stefan for quite a few days and it hurts because she doesn't know what to feel. He knew what Damon was doing but he also warned Alexis..she just needs to talk to him about it, not just sweep it all under the rug or ignore it. Its been over a week now since what happened and she'd like more answers.
"Not since he left that very vague message four or five days ago. "Hi, um, Elena, I, um, have something I have to do. I'll, uh, explain in a few days." Elena huffs out, shaking her head.
"Haven't you called him?" The redhead question while Alexis keeps quite, thinking about the situation.
"Nope. Not going to either." Elena tells them both like it's no big deal but they don't believe her.
"And you're okay with everything?" Jenna asks, arching a brow not thinking Elena is for even a moment.
"No, I'm not okay with any of it. But I'm not gonna cry about it, either. You know, I was going to write in my diary this morning and then I thought, what am I going to write? Honestly, I'm not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy." The older twin rants a little bit loudly and her eyes flick to Alexis as she finishes talking which she realizes was a mistake when a hurt look flashes over the girl's face. Those words were a stab at Alexis, even if Elena didn't mean it. Alexis is already not in the best way this morning so she just lets out a huff, getting up from her chair and walking out of the kitchen, not wanting to really deal with anything at the moment. "Alexis!" Elena calls after her but she doesn't listen, she just heads back upstairs to her room.
Hey! Sorry this is sort of a filler and toke long, schools just been insane at the moment. But next chapter Baby gender reveal!Please leave name suggestions because next chapter baby name discussion and serious talk will take place -that might be in the chapter after (depending on how busy i am) but its def happening in one of them. If alexis seemed a little weird or ooc this chapter i was trying write ot so she'd be a little off ya know. (Im upset about Vicki tbh)
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