We Used To Be 29

It Has To Happen

Collette

There was one thing about the deal with Casey that was majorly problematic. In order to get pregnant by Tom I have to have slept with him. It was however something I was willing to do. It wasn't like it was going to be hard to get Tom to do. I just wasn't sure how to do this. I sighed looking in the mirror one last time. I stepped out of the house and headed for school. I was pretty sure that the easiest thing to do was let Tom lead it. I saw Alex standing by herself reading. I snuck up behind her and jumped on her back.

"Hello, Collette," she said her knees bending then shifting to take my weight. She just kept on reading.

"Okay so that is so not fair," I said dropping to the ground and watching her body readjust.

"Is so," she said knowing as always what I meant.

"Uh uh," I said shaking my head she just laughed.

"You go spend 2-3 hours every day playing sports and tell me it's not fair," she said.

"So you made the volleyball team?"

"And the cheer squad," Alex still didn't stop reading.

"What are you reading?"

"German…" she said. I nodded that made sense now.

"Did Casey tell you?"

"That she's pregnant?"

"Ya," I said figuring Casey had.

"No," Alex said confusing me.

"Hum?"

"I have a tendency to figure things out, besides it was bound to happen sooner or later."

"Nice," I said shaking my head.

"Why did she tell you?"

"Because I'm adopting her baby,"
I said waiting for Alex's reaction.

"And why exactly are you doing that?"

"Because it's Tom's."

"Got it," she said, "have you told your parents yet?"

"I hinted at it a couple times," I said with a sigh. The bell rang and Alex began to walk to her class without putting her book down.

"Christ Alex are you crazy!" I heard Bill's voice. I just laughed and headed out for my first hour, Algebra, with Tom.

Alex

I heard Bill's exclamation and I laughed as I headed into the class room and took my seat. I was actually quite coordinated when I was reading and walking.

"Yes I am silly," I told him without ceasing to read I had three minutes till the bell to read.

"Don't I know it," he said with a smile sliding his fingers through mine under the table. Bill tried the rest of the day to convince me to look where I was going as apposed to reading as I walked, I listened just as well as I always do. I sighed as the last bell rang.

"I'll see you back at home," I said hugging him. He hugged me back slightly surprised.

"Volleyball?"

"and Cheer," I said with a grin.

"Enjoy yourself," he said shaking his head and heading away. I spun around and darted for the locker room. I didn't know the coach but it's always better not to be late it falls in the keep the person in charge happy. I was practically jumping up and down as I headed out. I love sports, I love volleyball. It's something I can't explain. Alma and I took our laps before most of the team was out of the locker room. The coach grinned at us. I decided I would lead stretches today. I had no idea what they usually did but I knew a lot of good stretches and when you don't stretch right people get hurt. After that we got introduced and ran through the basic warm up drills. The coach was good explaining things simply and correcting things gently, I'd had some crazy coaches and having this one was a really nice relief. After that I bolted to cheerleading where I high fived Tiff before joining the stretching group. These stretches were a lot more rigorous. I grinned I had forgotten how much I loved this.

Collette

I still think that Alex is crazy for playing volleyball and cheering but hey it's her life not mine. I walked out of school with Tom.

"What do you want to do?" he asked me nicely.

"Finish my homework?"

"Aww come on!"

"We can do what ever after but I have to do my homework!"

"Fine," he sighed and we trudged to his house where we sat at the kitchen counter and did homework.

Noelle

Georg took me to the park. I was really surprised. I was also surprised I had gone, I was starting to find myself more and more attracted to him. Now we were sitting in the part under a large tree. He had his bass with him and he took it out to play when he saw me eyeing it. Some people don't like basses say that they aren't as good as guitars but I love them. To my surprise I knew the song that Georg was playing it was The Broken Alleluia it was a beautiful song and I was surprised when he quietly began to sing it. He had a really nice voice if I hadn't heard Bill sing at the concert I might be wondering why Georg wasn't singing. I just leaned against his shoulder and he wrapped his arm around me and went back to playing. I leaned against him. It was strange this type of peace. I was always running around trying to help someone somehow but now I could just sit here, sit and listen to the music.

Collette

"There's a place I like to go," Tom said when we had finished our homework.

"Where?"

"It's a small bar and grill type of thing it's a family owned place I think you might like it," Tom said surprising himself. That was one of the places he never shared with his girls. It was the place Bill and Tom's dad took them when he came around.

"Let's go," Collette said standing up. She could see in Tom's eyes that the place really was special to him. Tom hugged her suddenly and swept the curtain of gold hair away from her face.

"Collette, I am pretty sure I love you," he said and let her go.