Time After Time

Chapter 9

Later that night at Emma's house

The game was over and Emma was beat, after pizza with her dad she was ready to go home and go to bed. As she put her uniform in the laundry she remembered that Ashley was suppose to call her. Here we go again, thought Emma. And just as the thoughts entered her head the phone rang...Emma answered it on the second ring,

"Ya" Emma said preparing herself for the conversation that was ahead of her.
"Hey Em, it's Ellie"

"Oh, hey Ellie" Emma said letting her breath out. Maybe if she stayed one the phone long enough with Ellie then Ashley wouldn't be able to get through.
"I can't talk long, but Sean wanted us three to go do something tomorrow night, is that OK?" Ellie asked her.

"Oh, ya that's fine, I don't have soccer so be at my house whenever" Emma said

"OK, see ya then!" Ellie said as she hung up the phone. Emma had no choice...she had to face Ashley...and most of all....Jimmy. Emma picked up the phone and dialed Ashley's phone number. She was tired of waiting.

At Paige's house

Paige was getting ready to call up Jackson and tell him about what she had done with Dean. Would he ever forgive her? Paige was crying already just thinking of the thought of not having him there. She called his house, on the other line was Jackson's mom

"Hey Paige, I have something to tell you, but you might want to sit down before I say it." Jackson's mom said.

"Oh God, what happened?" Paige said worrying and now crying even more.

"He was with his friends and they were drinking and they got into a car crash." she said, but hearing Paige's tears quickly added, "He is doing OK, really, he just hurt his wrist that's all, but it did ruin his car"

"This is all my fault" Paige thought to herself.

"Here, I will give you the number for the room that he is staying in at the hospital" His mom said as Paige grabbed a pen and pencil

"Thanks, I'll call him up" Paige said. Paige had to tell Jackson what she did, if she didn't tell him now then she never would and she knew that. She called Jackson

"Hey sweetie!" Paige said when he answered the phone

"Oh Paige! I am so sorry I know I promised you I wouldn't drink anymore," Jackson said. Paige was crying even harder now

"Hun, what's wrong? I'm OK, really." Jackson said. Paige took a deep breath. "It's now or never" she thought to herself."No, Jackson you didn't do anything wrong. It was me, I messed up" Paige said

"No, this isn't your fault, don't even think that" Jackson said confused, why was Paige making such a fuss about this?

"I- I did something. And it was horrible, so horrible..." Paige said "I .... I ... Slept with Dean." Paige said, she couldn't believe the words that came out of her mouth. It got harder and harder every time she had to say it.
Jackson about dropped the phone,

"You what?!"

Back at Emma's house

"Hello?" Someone on the other line said

"Hi, is Ashley there?" Emma asked holding her breath

"She went to bed already, can I tell her to call you back?" the other person said.
"No, that's OK, I can just talk to her tomorrow" Emma said and hung up the phone. She was saved! Emma went to bed, she had a long day ahead of her tomorrow.
The next morning Emma woke up, Ellie was going to be there in a few hours so she needed to get ready. She took a shower and got dressed and was ready to sit on the couch and watch Saturday morning/afternoon cartoons when the phone rang.
"Jeez people just give me some time to myself!" Emma said out loud reaching for the phone.
"Ya" she answered

"Hey Emma, sorry about last night I was just so tired so I went to bed" Emma sunk into the couch. She had almost forgotten about having to face this. But then she heard another voice on the phone.
"Hey Em..." Jimmy said, taking his chances on talking to Emma "Oh....hi Jimmy..." Emma said. She really didn't want to deal with him so he had better not try and apologize.
"OK you two I have it with me right now, I took it earlier but I haven't looked at it yet" Ashley said. She had the pregnancy test in her hands. Positive meant pregnant and all three of their lives changed dramatically. Negative meant not Pregnant and the three could go back to how life was before, how all of them liked it. Ashley turned the test over, and gasped.

At Paige's house

"I didn't mean to. It just...happened" Paige said trembling, she hated what she had done but she knew that Jackson hated it even more

"Just happened? Paige, stuff like that doesn't just happen!" Jackson said. He heard her cry, and he hated hearing it, but how could Paige do such a thing!
"I'm sorry, the only thing I can do about it now is apologize and I hope that you will forgive me" Paige said. She knew he never would, she was surprised he hadn't hung up on her yet.
"Well, someday I might. But as of now, I don't want to talk to you." Jackson said and hung up the phone.

Paige laid down on her bed. And cried...all day...and all night.