Chapter Six: The Aftermath

Adrianna wakes up and looks around for her sister. She's was'nt there so she assumed that she was upstairs. She goes and takes a shower. Twenty minutes later she hops out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her.

"Manny," she jumped finding her on on her bed, "What are you doing here?"

"I came over to see you," she says getting up. She hugs her and asks, "Adi, are you okay?"

"Yea," she replyed returning the hug.

"Ill just let you get changed," she says letting her go and leaving her room. She stands still feeling vulnerable from last night, so she puts on baggy jeans and a light blue tee shirt and a pair of slippers, and found Manny watching T.V. in her living room.

"I'm gonna go eat something," she says running up the stairs. She finds your parents sitting at the table again.

"It's Wednesday," she says hugging them good morning, "Shouldn't you be at work? The shop even?"

"We took the day off. We didn't want you getting hounded," replies her dad.

"Hounded?" she asked confused, "What do you mean?"

"There are news vans in front of the house," says her mom not looking away from her novel. She walks over to the window in the living room and peeks out the curtains. There are at least three vans parked outside her house. Adrianna goes back into the kitchen, grabs some cereal, and walks back downstairs to find Arianna with Manny.

"So I guess you had to fight to get here?" she crunched through her cereal.

"Yeah," replies Manny, "they kept hitting me with questions. I didn't know the answer to any of them. Your mom and dad told me what happened when I got here."

"Oh," she says finishing her cereal. Looking up at her Hello Kitty clock she realizes it's almost noon. The door bell rings causing her to glance away from the TV. She can hear people outside as she, Manny, and Arianna make their way upstairs. She sees her mom and dad let Craig, Jimmy, Marco, and Sean in. She looks over at Manny who is suddenly uncomfortable with the sight of Craig. Looking down at her stomach. She gets up and greets them while Manny and Arianna go back downstairs.

"Hey guys," she says.

"Hey," they say as her parents leave the room.

"You guys," she starts, "What are you doing here?"

"Well," says Jimmy, "We came to see how you were doing."

"These are for you," says Marco handing her a small bouquet.

"Aww, thanks guys," she smiles. "Umm head downstairs. I'm just gonna grab a vase." They head downstairs as she runs into the kitchen to grab a vase and a couple bags of chips for everyone. Then it hits her. She just invited Craig downstairs! Where Manny is! She hurries downstairs to find Manny and Arianna on the floor playing cards and the guys watching TV. She puts the chips on the coffee table and head to the bar for water for the flowers. After she fills the vase and introduce the guys to Arianna she heads straight for the mini-fridge.

"Anyone want a drink?" she asks poking her head over the bar.

"What do you have?" asks Sean.

"Pepsi, Sprite, Kool-Aid, and water," she replys. The guys pick either Pepsi or Sprite, Arianna has a Kool-Aid, Manny has water, and she haves a Sprite. Manny finishes her water and tells Adrianna that she has to go do some stuff with her mom. By now Jamie has showed up so she and Arianna are outside playing. So shes left alone with the guys.

"Thanks again you guys," she says taking a sip of her drink.

"It's over. Don't worry about it." replies Sean.

"Wheres Spinner?" she asked.

"With Paige," reply Craig and Jimmy at the same time.

"Oh," she replys sliding off the couch onto the floor, "Marco?"

"Yeah?" he says.

"Umm my curiosity's gotten to me. Are you gay?" Everyone just stares at her surprised at how blunt she is.

"Yeah," he states somewhat embarrassed.

"Don't be embarrassed. Quite a few of the cute guys are," she replys. Again the guys are taken back by what she said.

"You think I'm cute?" says Marco.

"Yeah! Isn't that what I just said?" she smirks.

"Hello?" waves Craig, "What about us? The three straight guys?"

"Oh you're straight?" she smart alecky replys.

"Ohh!" chorus Jimmy, Marco, and Sean.

"I'm kidding!" she laughs playfully hitting his leg. After more talking and innocent flirting with Craig, Jimmy, and Sean, the four head home. It's around 4 so she goes to see what everyone's up to. Her parents went out for a while and Arianna is upstairs with Jamie. She goes back downstairs and goes on the internet. She logs on to MSN and starts chatting with her old friends from Vancouver. They've all heard what happened because her friend, Magan used to live in T.O., likes to keep up with the news in the city she spent most of her life in. So they're all checking on how she was. Soon her parents get home and has to leave. Her dad and sister starts teasing her about the guys. Saying stuff along the lines of: Aww! She likes them! They're her boyfriends!

Adrianna ends up having a pretty good day that seemed to make up for the bad night. By Friday morning, the news vans have stopped parking outside her house. So she figured it was okay to go out. she's spent the last two days with her family and Manny, so she figure it was okay to go out with the guys today. But she didn't have any of their numbers or emails. Instead she goes with her dad to the shop. Her dad was doing interviews today while she set up clothing racks. It's around 2, she started unpacking boxes admiring the clothes and her dad was on his 4th or 5th interview. The shop door opens and in walks in Marco with another guy.

"Hey Adi!" he says.

"Hey" she said smiling. They talk for a while and he introduced her to Dylan. She got the guys number and Marco left her to her work.