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He gently slid his index finger down the outside of the soda filled glass, the condensation tingling his skin. Thoughts of the conversation he had with his girlfriend from the previous morning suffocating his mind. Ashley was pregnant. Almost a month and a half pregnant. She wanted to keep it. It. Her child… his child. Their child. "Christ," he breathed out, his face dipped and covered in haunting confusion.
"Would you like your check?" questioned a waitress after she wrote down the orders from a table behind him.
Lifting his eyes to that of the waitress', he nodded with tight smile. The woman walked away and came back a few moments after, placing the check in front of him. "Thank you," he muttered as he pulled out his wallet and took out a five dollar bill.
"Your welcome," she replied. Before she went off to other customers, she spoke softly. "You have a nice day."
He noted the actual sincerity in her tone and bit his bottom lip. The five dollar bill landed on the table as the teen walked out of the diner and made his way toward home.
Everything was going to be complicated. That was a given, but he was willing to take the responsibility that had been dealt to him. The emotion of befuddlement he was feeling was more toward what it meant with him and Ashley. They were still together, but about a month ago they 'unofficially' broke up. Ashley had confessed to him about her feelings for… well, girls. He gave her the space that she silently asked for through her brown eyes when she spoke to him.
He halted the familiar steps to home and got out his ringing cell phone. Not bothering to read the caller id, he flipped open his Motorola and answered. "Yeah?"
"I want you to come over, Aiden."
The dark haired boy sighed, "Madison, what do you want?"
"I want you to come over… maybe have a little fun, you know?" The Latina on the other line added suggestively.
"You do remember that I'm with Ash, right?"
The girl snorted, "Right, that's why she's hasn't been anywhere near you or vice versa for the past four weeks. Come on, I know you want me-"
As she kept chattering, Aiden closed his eyes and tried to block out the bitchy cheerleader's voice. He thought of something better, he hung up. Chuckling at what he did, he continued his trek for home.
An image of him and Ashley popped into his head. He missed being there for her like he was before they got together. She was way more open to him then. The teen inwardly released a laugh of relief as he made his decision with the brunette. He was going to be apart of her life and it was going to be as a friend and a father to their child. That was it.
Turning his back on the path to his house, Aiden took another familiar direction and headed to a certain residence that held a resident with the name of Ashley Davies.