Leah woke up. She had not one dream all night. After falling asleep on the couch, she had returned to her room for the night. It was four o'clock in the morning. She wasn't tired anymore, she felt almost refreshed. As she sat on her couch, legs crossed, like she was doing yoga, she drank her cup of fresh coffee. Thoughts of the baby went through her mind. "What am I going to do? I can't take care of myself, let alone a child!" Leah decided that she would push the pregnancy and the baby out of her mind, just as she had Ethan. Leah flicked on the T.V. There was nothing on but paid programmes.
Leah must have fallen asleep. She woke up, with sunlight pouring into her living room. Her eyes tried to close, due to the light. She groggily got up from the couch and ate a bowl of cereal. As, she was eating, the phone rang. She sighed and got up to answer it.
"What?"
"What? That's how you treat you bestest friend in the whole world" Leah smiled a small smile.
"Sorry, I just woke up"
"You just, what? It's like three thirty….. p.m."
"So, I'm sick remember"
"Oh, poor baby, ring me up, will you" Leah pressed the button and hung up her phone. She had about one minute before her friend would come into her apartment and never leave. Leah could hear footsteps out in the hallway. Leah swung open the door.
"Hey, you're alive" Leah rolled her eyes. "Don't you roll your eyes, I was beginning to think you had died"
"Why?" Leah said moving out of the way to let Sarah in.
"Well, I have been calling you for the last two days and you never came to Zach's party yesterday"
"Zach's party, that was yesterday?"
"Yeah, I'm surprised you even remember who Zach is" Sarah remarked while rummaging through Leah's cupboards.
"Shut up" Leah snapped.
"Whoa, take a chill pill" Sarah helped herself to a bag of chips.
"So, how was the party?" Leah sat down on her lazy boy.
"It was fine, I stopped Zach from flirting a couple times"
"I'm going to dump him" Sarah sat down beside Leah.
"Good, I never liked him"
"I don't blame you, I don't even like him" Leah took a chip. There was a moment of silence. Leah was thinking intently. "Can I tell her? What will she think of me?"
"Sarah, can I trust you?"
"Of course" Sarah answered while smacking her lips. "Why?"
Leah hesitated.
"No reason" Sarah gave Leah a look.
"What?"
"Nothing"
"I noticed Danny looking at you the other day" Leahsa id, changing the subject.
"No way, he was looking at me? Wow I thought everybody looked at everybody" Sarah said sarcastically.
"You know what I mean" Leah nudged Sarah's shoulder. Sarah blushed.
"Well, he is kinda cute, don't you think?"
"Yes, very"
"If he asks me to go out with him, I will"
"I can get Zach to hook you up with him"
"Okay, sounds good" "Oh, guess what? Chandra is, get this, pregnant!"
"Are you serious?" Leah was completely shocked. Chandra was one of Leah's friends, she was the quietist most mature person she had ever met, and this was unbelievable.
"Yep, I found out last night, she's like four months along"
"This is unbelievable"
" yeah, I guess"
"What?"
"Nothing"
"What, you're angry?"
"No, I justthink that she is stupid and I always knew she slept around"
"How could you say that, she's your friend?" Leah was shocked.
"Well, not any more" Leah was so surprised. She was glad that she had not told Sarah.
"Well, I guess I should call Zach"
"Alright, I'm going to go now, I'll see you tomorrow" Sarah hugged Leah.
"Bye". Leah shut the door behind Sarah. She sat on her couch, the whole time in a daze. "What have I done" Leah brought her hands up over her face and wept. She lay down on the couch, knees up to her chin. She unknowingly started to think of Ethan again. He used to hold her in times of distress. She missed him so much.
"Ethan, why? Why did you leave me? Love over comes everything!" Leah yelled and threw a pillow in frustration.
After about thirty minutes,She got off her sorry butt and called Zach.
"Hello, Zach?"
"Leah, hey babe"
"It's over" Leah hung up the phone. She went to her bedroom, where she cried herself to sleep.