Ebony sat in the booth with Jay, Tai-san and Lex. Bray and KC had gone to play video games. Jack had yet to show up and Cloe was sitting by herself at the bar. Mackenzie and Ved were sitting at a table, alone, eating.
"So what do you think is going to do down with this whole Jack and Cloe thing?" Tai-san asked Ebony.
"I don't know. But I hope they get over it soon. I hate to see them acting so dumb." Ebony said looking over at Cloe.
"I think it's funny." Lex said with a mouth full for fries.
"You're the only one that would Lex." Ebony said rolling her eyes.
"So Jay why don't you tell us something." Tai-san said smiling over at Jay.
"What do you want me to tell you?" Jay asked.
"You could start by telling us what the hell you're doing there." Lex said looking at him. "This isn't the normal place for a person like you to hang out."
"What you do mean a person like me?" Jay asked getting annoyed.
"Lex, don't." Tai-san said looking over at him. "Why do you always have to be an asshole?"
"I'm just asking." Lex said looking back at Tai-san. "And you know what I mean by someone like you. Someone with a letter men's jacket."
"Jay, don't answer him. You can be a real ass Lex." Ebony said sliding out of her seat. "Let's go." She said looking down at him.
"Where?" Jay asked getting up and looking at her.
"Anywhere." Ebony said smiling. She wanted to spend time with him, and she was annoyed that Lex was acting like a jerk around Jay. She knew it was going to be hard to get her friend to accept him.
"There's a party at Ram's." Jay said as they sat in the car.
Ebony looked up at Jay. "If that's where you want to go, then let's go." She said forcing herself to smile. She needed to give his friends a second chance.
"Just for a while." Jay said knowing that Ebony didn't like being around his friends anymore than he liked being around hers.
Cloe sat with her eyes glued on the door. She hopped that it would open soon. She really needed to tell someone what was going on. She was startled when Josh, the waiter, started talking to her.
"You okay kiddo?" Josh asked looking at Cloe over the bar.
"What? Oh, yeah, fine." Cloe said smiling up at him.
"You sure?" Josh asked leaning on and bar and looking her in the eye.
Cloe nodded her head and smiled. She glanced back at the door then looked back at Josh.
"You want the normal?" Josh asked standing up straight.
"Yeah." Cloe said nodding her head.
"I can never remember ketchup or no?" Josh asked before going back to the kitchen.
"Extra ketchup." Someone said from behind Cloe.
Cloe could feel her stomach rise. She turned around the face the person. "I'm glad you came." She said looking up at them.
"Yeah well something told me I should." The person said sitting down next to Cloe. "This better be important because there are other things that I could be doing right now."
"Patsy for once will you stop thinking about yourself?" Cloe snapped looking over at her.
"You know, I didn't have to come here at all." Patsy said looking at Cloe. "Why don't you just tell me the news, so I can go?"
"This isn't news that I can just say and then watch you walk away from." Cloe said softly. "I'm going away."
"And you're telling me this why?" Patsy asked.
"I'll be gone for about nine months." Cloe said lifting her head and looking over at Patsy. She knew that by the stunned looked that raced over Patsy's face she understood what she meant.
"You're-" Patsy said but couldn't make herself say it.
Cloe just nodded her head.
"Is it Jack's?" Patsy asked still in total surprise.
"Who's else would it be!" Cloe said with anger. She couldn't believe that someone that was once her best friend in the whole world would think that she would sleep with just anyone.
"I don't know, there is a lot of gossip." Patsy said softly. "Have you told him yet?"
Cloe shook her head no. "You're the only other person other than my mom and dad that know." She told Patsy.
"How'd your parents react?" Patsy asked. She knew Cloe's parents to well to know that they took the new of their perfect daughter getting knocked up well.
"Just as I hoped they wouldn't." Cloe said looking down at her hands.
"Oh god Cloe. What are you going to do?" Patsy asked.
"Give the child up after I have it." Cloe said still looking at her hands. "There is no way I could keep it. I mean I'm still a kid myself. My parents are sending me to this group home place until it's all taken care of."
"You sound like your mom." Patsy said a little taken back at the way Cloe was talking. She had never known Cloe to say anything that her mother might say.
"I know but it's true. I'm not ready to let go of my childhood. And there is no way I'm ready to be a parent either." Cloe said looking over at Patsy.
"Are you going to tell him?" Patsy asked remembering Jack.
"Yeah." Cloe said nodding her head. "I tried to tell him today but we broke up and well things aren't going smoothly." She said glancing up at the door when it opened and watching Jack come through it, alone thankfully.
"Good as long as you tell him." Patsy said standing up. "Look Cloe I'm really sorry to do this to you right now but I've got to go."
Cloe looked up at Patsy in disbelief. How could Patsy being doing this now?
"No don't take it like that." Patsy said looking at Cloe and smiling. "I'm on a date and he's waiting outside. I told him this would only take a second. I can't just leave him out there."
"Yeah." Cloe said smiling at Patsy.
"Look I'll call you when I get home and you can tell me more of what's going on." Patsy said leaning down and hugging her.
"Yeah, okay." Cloe said hugging her back. "I'll talk to you later." Cloe said as Patsy walked away from her.