Authors Note:
Sorry everyone for the long wait the story was written just not typed I was working this summer and my moms is a teacher and she taught summer school and she was on the computer typing all day long.
Then school started and you know how that goes. Chapter 7 is already written it just needs to be typed it should be up by Tuesday at the latest.
Well any way, this chapter of The Cause Deep Inside takes place in early May. Ashley is now 6 months pregnant.
Chapter 6-Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...
3 months later
A couple of weeks later, Ashley, Jimmy, Paige, Spinner, Craig, and Manny were over at Jimmy's house.
"So have any of you ever tried role play?" Spinner asked, wanting to know. "No, why? Have you and Paige?" "No, I was asking because I saw it on a talk show on how to improve your sex life." "So, you and Paige need improvement in your sexual lives? Ashley asked in a preppy schoolgirl way laughing. "No, it's just you two seem to have sex often and I wanted to know how you do it?" Spinner said with a serious look on his face. "We are definitely not going to go into this." Jimmy said.
"So Manny what is child birth like?" Jimmy asked changing the subject. "I don't know why you're asking, you're not going to experience it." Ashley said looking at him then at Manny. "So Manny what is childbirth like?" Ashley asked.
"Ashley it is possibly the worst pain in the world." "First, you have the contractions which feel like your being stabbed in your lower stomach and back." Manny said rubbing those areas. "Then when your fully dilated and you begin to start pushing... that's when the real pain starts." "It feels like there is a watermelon coming out of your.... "Please lets stop discussing the pain." Ashley said
"So, Ashley when are you due?" Manny asked. "I'm due on August 7th." "That baby will be here before you know it, you only have 3 months to go." "Do you know what you're having?" Manny asked excitedly "No because I missed my appointment last month due to a family emergency... "No that's not the real reason the real reason is that you couldn't find the shoes you wanted to wear." Jimmy said interrupting. "So what I was having mood swings, and any way I think I'm having a girl." Ashley said smiling "Jimmy you don't want a son? Craig asked "No, actually I want a daughter, I don't know why but I want somebody to protect." Jimmy said laughing. "Excuse me but you have me." Ashley said hitting him, while laughing. Well it's time for us to go and we will see you later." said Paige. "Bye everybody."
Ashley was in the kitchen throwing something in the trashcan. When Jimmy walked in and grabbing her from behind, when he realized something was wrong.
"Ash, baby, what's wrong?" he said facing her. "It's just I don't think I can go threw this childbirth and being a mom think." She said starting to cry. "Everything is going to be okay." "That's easy for you to say, you don't have to feel the pain." "Ashley haven't I always been there for you." "When you took ecstasy and Paige wasn't talking to you, when you found out your dad was gay, when you went through your Goth stage, when you dumped Craig, when you found out you were pregnant and I'll be there till the day I die." Jimmy said giving her a kiss. "I love you, Ashley Christina Kerwin." "I love you too, James Anthony Brooks." She said giving him a kiss. "Now can you take me home." "Sure anything for my baby."
About a half hour later they arrived in front of Ashley's house. She kissed him one more time before getting out of the car. She walked towards the front door of her house then turned towards the car and walked back. Jimmy rolled down the window.
"What's wrong Ash?" Jimmy said. "I'm having a craving for some Cookies n Cream ice cream with gummy worms, Oreos, and chocolate syrup with some spinach and chicken pizza." Ashley said. "It's after 11:30 at night Ashley, and you want me to find a pizza place open right now to make spinach and chicken pizza on a Friday night." Jimmy said in a calm but loud voice. "Yes, I' am asking you to go get me some got damn pizza." Ashley said in an angry voice. "Ash every place closes at 12 and it's gonna take me 30 minutes to get up there." Jimmy said "Well you better get going." Ashley said walking into the house and slamming the door.
About a half hour later Jimmy, rung the doorbell to Ashley's house. Ashley answered the door with a more furious expression on her face than before.
"Here is your pizza and ice cream." Jimmy said yawning. "I don't want the pizza anymore, but I'll take the ice cream." Ashley said taking the ice cream out of his hand. "You don't want the pizza, after I went looking all over to find a place that would make this type of pizza, and your saying you don't want it.' "Keep cause I'm not taking it home with me." Jimmy said handing the pizza to her. "Well I can give it to Toby and J.T. they'll eat it for sure." Ashley said. "Well you do that and I'm gonna go home." Jimmy said getting into the car and leaving. "Bye." Ashley said closing the door
"Oh my Gosh." "Oh my Gosh!!!" Ashley said screaming while dropping the pizza and ice cream. "What's wrong sweetie, is the baby coming?" Kate said running down the steps. "What's wrong is everything okay? Toby and J.T. said. Ashley said still shocked said "The baby just kicked." "Here's some pizza for you and J.T." "AHHHH everybody said.
After 10minutes of touching Ashley's belly everyone went to bed.
The Next Mourning
At 11:00 Ashley heard someone knocking on the door.
"Coming." Ashley said walking towards the door and opening it. "Hey, I thought you forgot about the appointment." "How could I forget about the one appointment where we find out the sex of our baby." Jimmy said smiling and wrapping his hands around Ashley's waist and giving her a kiss. "So are you ready?" Jimmy asked "Yup" Ashley said while walking out the door and closing it.
About 20 minutes later they arrived at the doctors office.
"Hi, how might I help you today." Said the happy receptionist. "I have a doctors appointment with Dr. Lewis for 11:30." Ashley said with a fake grin on her face. "Okay you can take a seat and I will call you when he's ready to see you.
Ashley and Jimmy sat down in the waiting area. "Jimmy are you nervous on what the baby is going to be?" Ashley asked while picking up a Cosmo girl magazine. "Am I nervous... not at all, not at all." Jimmy said in a kind of nervous tone of voice. "Why are you?" Jimmy asked. "No, long as it's healthy, I don't care about the sex of the baby." Ashley said smiling.
"Ms.Kerwin the doctor will now see you." Said the receptionist. "Tramp." Ashley said rolling her eyes at the receptionist. Ashley sat on the cold table waiting for her doctor to come in. "Are you ready Jimmy?" Ashley asked. "More than I'll ever be today is the day we find out whether were having a girl or a boy."
"Hello Mrs. Kerwin, how are you feeling today?" The tall skinny black haired woman said smiling. "I'm fine and yourself?" Ashley said smiling back at her. "Good and you James?" "I'm fine it's just these mood swings she has been having are making me feel crazy." Jimmy said laughing. "There are perfectly natural and annoying." Dr. Stevenson said smiling back at them both.
"Okay let's get down to business, checking on this baby." "Now the gel might be a little cold but you'll get over it." Dr. Stevenson said laughing while turning on the monitor. "Okay there is the head, both of the arms, both legs, two eyes and two ears, and look there's a vagina, Congratulations. Dr.Stevenson said while printing out the picture.
At the Jeremiah residences.
Craig, Ellie, Emma, Paige, Marco, JT, Toby, Liberty, Hazel and Spinner where setting up for Manny's baby shower.
"Guys what do you think it is? Ellie asked while blowing up the last balloon. "It's not an it, it's a girl." Emma said handing Caitlin a bottle of Ginger ale. "Well whatever it is, lets hope it's healthy." Craig said coming downstairs with Alexis.
"Hey everybody." A very pregnant Manny said walking through the front door. "Mommy, mommy, guess what I did today." Alexis said very excited. "What did you do Lexis tell me, tell me please." Manny said with enthusiasm. "I went to the bathroom by myself without any help, of course daddy was there but other than that I went by myself." Alexis said in a baby voice. "My baby went to the bathroom all by herself, that's mommy's little angel." Manny said getting ready to give the little girl, a high-five but started tickling her. "Manny how did you get in the house?" Craig asked after giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Oh the front door was open." Manny said walking into the kitchen.
"Why is my front door open?" Joey said walking in the house with grocery bags followed by Spike holding a 2-year-old Jack's hand and Snake.
"Hey everybody" Ashley and Jimmy said walking in the front door that was still open. "Can you close the door." Joey said. "So what is it?" "It's A Girl" Ashley said smiling." "Oh my gosh I'm going to have another niece." Paige said screaming while jumping up and down then hugging Ashley tightly. "Ohm Paige the baby." Ashley said. "Oh sorry hun I'm just so excited." Paige said out of breath. "Not another girl." Spinner and J.T. said at the same time. "Congratulations." Manny said trying to hug Ashley but neither one could hug the other seeing as though their bellies were in the way. "Okay lets get back to why were here." Ellie said giving Ashley a hug and congratulating her.
"So what are you and Craig naming the my nephew?" Jimmy asked Manny. "Well I like the name Ian." Craig said sitting on the arm of the chair that Manny was sitting in. "We already decided on a name. Craig" Manny said rolling her brown eyes at him but still had a smile on her face. "What do you mean by decided you picked it not me remember." Craig said looking at her. "Well what is it." J.T. said. "Well what do you think we should name him, although we have a name picked out already." Manny said. "We picked two names with meanings since that should have some impact on his life, like Alexis means helper or defender, and Caprice means unpredictable and that's how Alexis is.
"How about Andrew?" Marco said. "Well does it mean?" Manny said looking at him with the baby name book in his hand. "Well in the book it says that Andrew means manly and brave just like that boy Andrew that works at the movie theater. "Oh I know who your talking about he's Hot." Paige said slapping Marco's hand. "Ohm excuse me back to the names." Spinner said. "Can you just tell use what you named him." "We decided to name him after Emma." Craig said smiling. "Wait a second, you're naming your son Emma?" "No you idiot, were naming him Emmit Ian Manning." Craig said hitting Spinner on the head. "Okay what does Emmit and Ian mean?" Jimmy said taking a sip of his Pepsi. "Emmit is the male form of Emma, Emma means whole and complete, and Ian is Scottish for John." Craig said laughing.
"And our lives are complete, because I'm not having anymore kids anytime soon, cause I only wanted two. This is probably the hardest thing I ever dealt with, yesterday Alexis asked me about death cause she over heard me and Craig talking about going to see his mom. She is now potty trained and that was hard work." Manny said laughing. "You thing that's bad wait until they hit puberty and start asking about sex and start liking boys." Spike said laughing while looking at Emma. "Mom." Emma said with a sighing.
Everyone ate some food and played a couple of baby shower games. An hour later, everyone begun to leave.
"Bye everybody thanks for coming... again." Manny and Craig said together standing in the door waving. "Where is Alexis?" Craig asked walking into the kitchen to take the trash out. "She's taking the gifts upstairs with Paige and Emma." Manny said patting Craig on the back. "This is so exciting, my best friend is having a baby and it's a girl how good is this." Paige said coming down the steps holding Alexis hand.
"Yeah, it's exciting." Ashley said sarcastically walking over to the couch and sitting down. "What's that suppose to mean, Ash?" Jimmy asked sitting next to her. "Nothing but know I'm starting to think how our lives are gonna change once I have this child." " I mean you can't do your music thing, I can't do my music thing, no more parties, no more hanging out, and you can forget about going away to college." Ashley said starting to cry. "So what are you trying to say Ash?" Jimmy asked her. "I'm saying maybe we should consider adoption, cause I can barely handle the stress I have now and to add that on top is even worse." "Every time you can't handle your problems you run away from them." Jimmy said yelling at her. "I'm not going to let you put my child up for adoption." Jimmy said standing up. "She's half of mine to Jimmy." Ashley said angrily. "Well you don't act like it." Jimmy said walking to the door. "Oh yeah find yourself a ride home, since you wanna give up your child I'll treat you like one." Jimmy said slamming the door behind him.
"How is that treating you like a baby?" Ellie said walking over to a crying Ashley.
Will Ashley go through with it or won't she?
Please Review I like to hear what you really think and be honest give me tips on names for Jimmy and Ashley's baby. And remember it's girl.
Thanks Everyone,
Monae