Time After Time
Chapter 10
Paige was horrible, she had no idea if Jackson was going to take her back. She wouldn't take herself back if she were him. But she loved him with all that she had and she was not going to give him up this easily.
At Emma's house
Ashley looked the pregnancy test over and over to make sure it was right. She had taken two of them but only told Jimmy and Emma about one of them. She took a deep breath
"Jimmy, get your cell phone. Call the doctors, get me an appointment" Ashley said. Emma about dropped the phone.
"Ash, your....your...?"
"I took two of them. One is positive and one is negative." She said. Jimmy still hadn't said anything. But Ashley and Emma could hear him making the appointment, Jimmy's mom would take Ashley, she was like a daughter to her.
"Tomorrow, 3:30? OK, thank you" Jimmy hung up the cell phone.
"There, you have your appointment." He said to Ashley, just then Emma heard a knock on her door, the phone conversation had lasted longer than she expected and Ellie was already at her house.
"I gotta go, see you later Ashely" she said and hung up the phone. Ellie walked in,
"Hey Em! Who was on the phone?" She asked
"Oh, no one, someone with the wrong number" she said. Ellie had to know about this, Jimmy was just as much her friend as Emma's. Emma's thoughts were racing, if she told her she should do it now but then Ellie interrupted her thinking,
"Emma, you alright? You look like your in a daze" she said
"I'm fine, when is Sean coming over?" She said changing the subject. Ellie smiled at the sound of his name. Emma couldn't help but smile too.
"He should be here anytime now, I think we are going to go bowling, He said he was really good so he might be able to teach me something about it"
"Oh, cool the bowling alley is just right across the street anyways" Emma said, the two went outside to wait for Sean. Ellie talked about how happy she was to have him, "He had better not hurt her" Emma thought to herself. Ellie deserved to have a great relationship like this without having to worry about getting hurt. Sean showed up about fifteen minutes later. The three of them walked across the street to the bowling alley, he walked in and about five people surrounded him. Ellie looked at Emma and whispered to her,
"All these people are related to him, most of them if not all of them do and sell drugs" Ellie didn't like that part of Sean, but that was his family....not him. Sean introduced Ellie to all of his cousins. They all gave her dirty looks but Sean didn't see that. One of Sean's cousins pulled him away and started talking to him, while Emma and Ellie went to get drinks, but the two overheard part of the conversation
"Hey man, do you have it?" he said
"Ya, it's not much but I got it" Sean said to him
"You rock, we will use it tonight." Sean's cousin said and walked away the other direction. Sean turned around, not realizing that he had been overheard. The rest of his cousins called him over to them, he motioned Emma and Ellie to go with him. After about fifteen minutes of sitting with Sean and seeing how he was acting Emma leaned into Ellie and whispered,
"Is it just me or does Sean act WAY different around his druggie family?"
"No, he is different around them. In the worst way possible." Ellie said as she got up and went outside. Sean didn't even notice it until Emma stood up and grabbed Sean by the arm and pulled him to the side
"Sean, are you doing drugs?!" Emma asked. This was awkward to both of them sense they didn't know each other that well.
"Ya, I might be, so what?" Sean said looking over his shoulder. They had drawn the attention of most of the people there.
"So What?! Ellie has known you all of her life and you have never told her and now she is heartbroken because she thought you were the one person that didn't do stuff like that" Emma said to him, still holding on to his arm.
"Then she can brake up with me." He said pulling away. He walked back to the people that had been listening to them. Emma walked outside to see Ellie sitting on the steps of the bowling alley.
"I should have known that he wasn't that good." She said, crying.
"No, don't say that, he's just not what he said he was, and that's not your fault so don't beat yourself up over it" She said trying to sooth Ellie. She got up
"I'll be back" Ellie said as she walked back inside when she came out she looked at Emma.
"Well, we aren't together anymore, we agreed that I would do what I wanted to do and he would do what he wanted to do." She said, trying to hold herself together. Emma hugged her and Ellie started crying.
"You know what this calls for?" Emma asked Ellie
"What?"
"Comfort Food" Emma said. It made Ellie smile. It was now 8:00 at night but the two walked to the little store down the street. When the two got home they sat up and watched movies all night and by the next morning....Ellie was feeling a little better.
That morning at Paige's house
Paige had been sleeping, she was dreaming about Jackson and the day that she met him, but the dream was interrupted when the phone rang. Paige got out of bed slowly, in no hurry to get to the phone. It rang five times and the answering machine picked the call up
"Paige, it's Jackson" Paige's eyes widened as she sprinted to the phone.
"Hey, I'm here, how are you doing?" Paige asked
"I'm OK, I get to go home today"
"That's great!"
"Ya it is. Listen, Paige I don't want to live without you. You made a mistake and so did I, and I think we are both mature enough to find a way to get around this and make our relationship last" Jackson said. Paige sat down, she couldn't believe Jackson was taking her back!
"Jackson, I love you....I love you SO much, and I am so sorry for what I did to you and I am very willing to try and make this work" Paige said
"I'm glad to hear that, so how about tomorrow afternoon we go do something together?" He said
"I would love to, just don't get in another car accident on your way here" Paige said jokingly
"Don't worry babe I won't" He said, "Love you, see you later" and then he hung up the phone. Paige jumped up and down! She had him back! And she wasn't going to do ANYTHING to chance it this time!