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I can't say it wasn't laughable when we all walked into Burger King at eight at night.
Tori charged the counter like her life depended on it. A pimple faced guy in his uniform turned back to find Tori drumming her fingers against the grey surface of the counter.
"Hi." She smiled at the guy, then turned back to the menu. "I'll have two double cheeseburgers, a large fry, a large coke.." she searched the menu again with narrowed eyes. She turned back to the guy. "You know what? I'm gunna get another double cheeseburger." She turned back to us. "I'm trying to cut back." She explained. Derek turned to me with an amused expression.
The guy behind the counter gave Tori a look. "Uh, ok…that'll be…"
Simon turned to us. "What do you guys want?" He asked.
"I'll just have fries and a coke." I shrugged. Simon nodded, and then turned to Derek. "I don't really care." He mumbled. Simon smiled and turned away.
Derek and I found a booth in the corner, and settled in to it. I looked around to find the place pretty much abandoned.
Tori's order came up surprisingly fast, and we watched the realization on the counter guy's face when he saw Tori's stomach. Simon followed his gaze to Tori and dramatically coughed. Counter Guy blinked and turned back to Simon.
Tori sighed as she slid into the booth, right next to me. She smacked her tray down on the table, and took a sip of her coke. Derek gave me another look.
About three minutes later, Simon slid in next to Derek, across from Tori.
Tori shifted in her seat and was silent as Simon handed me my food. I thanked him quietly.
Tori took a bite of her burger, then turned to me. "What team are you on?" She asked, wiping her mouth with a napkin. When she saw the confused look on my face, she nodded toward a group of cardboard cut outs which I could only identify as Bella, Edward and Jacob from "Twilight". I smiled.
"I'm undecided." I announced. Tori smiled. "I know. They're both hot." She laughed and I joined in.
She turned to Derek.
"What about you, Uncle D?" She asked. He looked at the card board Edward and Jacob with an amused expression. He turned back to us. "I'm Team Derek."
Simon and I smiled, and I noted how he hadn't objected to being called "Uncle." For all I knew, he even hadn't picked up on it.
From that point on, we talked about the babies. Their genders, what Tori would name them, ect.
I admit, I didn't really think before I asked her, "What's it like to be pregnant?" I twirling my straw between my fingers. A stillness came over the room.
"It's…" Tori paused for a second. "It's weird. But weird in a good way. Knowing a…a miracle is growing inside you…" I looked up to see her eyes distant, but the corner of her lips were turned up in a smile.
I smiled a bit myself. Someday…maybe…maybe I would be a Mom.
I looked up to Derek. He had an uneasy look in his eyes.
Simon studied him. Tori pursed her lips and unwrapped another one of her burgers. I looked down and continued to munch on my fries.
After that, everyone seemed almost afraid to speak. Tori finished her food relatively fast, as did Derek. I finished most of my fries, and gave the remaining to Tori.
We got in the car around eight thirty. Things seemed odd between Derek and I, every since I had asked Tori…
I lost myself in thought for a moment. Do I…would I want to have kids? Could Derek and I? Or would it be too dangerous? Would I purposely bring a child into this madness?
Some part of me, deep down, wanted too. I wasn't sure if I could live a life with out being a Mom. It had always seemed like the…normal thing to do. And now, thinking about it, a sudden ache formed in my chest.
Simon pulled out of the lot and on to the road, taking his sweet time. He turned up the radio to a slower song whose artist sounded a bit like Cold Play.
We were one fourth away from Mr. Bae's when Tori screamed.
Simon stomped on the brakes. "What wrong?" He shouted. Tori clutched her stomach and squeezed her eyes shut tight. Derek scooted next to her. "Tori? Are you alright?" He asked, his tone overwhelmingly worried.
Her breathing picked up, and she let out another horrifying scream the sent chills down my spine.
"They…" she tried to say in a rough voice. "Coming. They're…." She screamed again and clutched her stomach, sweat dripping down her face.
Tori was going into labor.
"Call Kit!" I yelled to Simon. I threw him my cell, and he caught it in mid air and immediately flipped it open, searched for the contact, and held the phone to his ear.
"Breathe." Derek said, trying to be calm, but the panic was evident on his face. Tori desperately grabbed my hand and squeezed it so hard, I let out a little yelp myself.
Now, sitting closer to Tori, I could literally feel her stomach moving.
Now, I didn't know much about pregnancies, but I knew that was not normal, at all.
Tori let out an ear-shattering scream as Simon tried to yell over her into the phone, "DAD?"
A car beeped past us, the older woman in the car looking horrified as she heard the scream and saw we were right in the middle of the road, just waiting to be hit.
Another car squealed to a stop behind us, but we didn't pay attention to that. Because at that moment, blood trickled down Tori leg and she let out a terrified squeal.
"Dad? It's Tori! She's going into labor! We need you to…"
Two police man with confused expressions tapped on Simon's window. He jumped, then opened the car door.
Tears streamed down Tori's face, and she tried to tell us something, but it was muffled.
I saw Simon explaining dramatically what was going on, with a lot of horrified expressions and hand movements. The police men looked at us in the back of the car, and one of the ripped the door open.
"Come on , 'Mam." He said in a deep voice, which had a strange tone to it, like he didn't understand how dangerous this was.
I had to remind myself they were normal people, they didn't understand how horrible the situation was.
"Hey!" Derek stood up out of the car as the police man carried Tori away to his car, her muffled screams growing distant. I ducked out of the car next to Derek.
"You can't take her away!" Simon yelled, in outrage.
Another police man (one different from the one that took Tori away) emerged from behind our car, and came to stand in front of us. I looked between them, confused.
A look of agreement passed between them, and panic flickered inside of me.
All I really remembered was something hard, maybe metal hitting me hard in the head.
Then everything went black.
R&R…
