Chapter 6- My Baby
Mercer House-
Jack drove up in front of his house and led Nikki to the door. Sophie answered when he knocked and let them in. They walked upstairs so she could do the test. They had to wait ten minutes for the results so they waited in Jack's room.
"Play something," Nikki said.
"Like what?" Jacked asked surprised.
"Anything that will make me feel better," Nikki said spinning around in Jack's desk chair.
He tried to think of something he could play her. Playing a love song sounded cheesy so he startedto sing and play "In the Club," by 50 Cent.
They both burst of laughing as he sang the chorus.
"Ok, ok you don't have to play anything," she said still laughing.
"Right, I leave the rapping up to Fiddy," Jack said putting his guitar down.
The timer in the bathroom rang. The pregnancy test was done. They both sat down on the edge of the tub and waited for one of them to speak.
"You do it," Nikki said nervously.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked her as he walked over to the sink where the test was.
"Go ahead."
Jack looked and dropped it. He turned to her a hugged her.
"What, what?" Nikki yelled.
"It's negative," jack said crying and laughing.
Nikki grabbed Jack closer as she cried with him. She never felt so close to him before. She looked up to see what his reaction was. He was smiling from ear to ear and he knew that he finally connected with her. She had removed her brown contacts and took her hair out of the ponytail. Her make up had rubbed off when she started crying back at the clinic. She looked so natural, Jack thought to himself. He had her in his arms and for the first time he felt something from her.
'Do it'
When she wiped her face with her hand Jack reached for her arm. He took her by surprise when he wrapped her arm around his shoulder. He reached in and kissed her ever so genteelly on her rosy pink lips. She didn't hesitate to kiss him back. They kissed for a couple more seconds then she backed back. She took a quick look at him. He thought he was being to forward so he started to apologize, "I'm sorry, I…"
Nikki moved forward and grabbed the end of Jack's shirt with both hands. She lifted it up and over his head. They began kissing again. This time it was a more forceful and lingering kiss.
"Yak, Yak!" Sophie called from Angel's room.
They broke their kiss and Jake answered, "Yeah?"
"Yak, a cell phone is ringing in your room," Sophie said.
"That's mine," Nikki said unlocking the door to retrieve her phone.
'Wow'
Jack replayed the last three minutes in his mind. He wished to God that they hadn't been interrupted. "Hello?" Nikki said answering the phone.
"What up Nikki?" the person on the phone said.
"Hey what's up?" Nikki asked.
"What are you doin' rite now? Come ova"
"I can't I don't have a way to get there," Nikki said covering her mouth to the phone.
"Didn't someone come by and remind you that you need to start coming over more? Now get over here NOW!"
Click
Nikki looked at her phone and it said called ended. She rushed back to the bathroom to tell Jack she had to leave.
"Jack," she said frantically.
"Hey," he said pulling her close to him.
"Jack stop, I need to go home," Nikki said running out of the bathroom to get her purse.
He ran after her, "What. Why?"
"I forgot I need to do something," she said as she pasted him standing in the doorway.
"Wait hold on Nikki," Jack called as she rushed down the stairs and out of the front door.
"Jack come on I need a ride home," she said out of breath.
"Did he call you?" Jack asked grabbing her by the arm.
"No, Jack I really need to go home," she said.
"Not until you tell me who was on the phone," Jack demanded.
She gave him a dirty look and said, "Fine I'll walk."
"You can't walk to Jerry's house. It's like fifteen minutes from here, and that's by car," Jack told her.
"Jack, please just take me home," Nikki asked as she batted her eyelashes and smiled at him.
"Fine, get in," he told her. He couldn't resist her smile.
"We probably should have gotten rid of the test. It's still on your bathroom floor," Nikki said settling into the passenger side of Bobby's car.
"Oh shit, I forgot about that," Jack said as he went back into the house.
He found the test on the floor right where he dropped it. He was glad that only Sophie was home and she didn't go in there yet. He threw it way in the bathroom trash bin.
Jerry's house-
"I promise I'll call you later," Nikki told Jack.
After Jack had dropped off Nikki at Jerry's house, Nikki called her boyfriend back. No answer. She couldn't get a ride from Camille or Jerry so she decided to walk. While she was getting ready her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" Nikki answered.
"Hey Nikki I needa talk to you," the girl said.
"Oh, hey Kiesha. Bout what?" Nikki asked.
Kiesha was the girlfriend of the guy who visited Nikki on her birthday. He was best friends with her boyfriend Troy. Kiesha hardly called Nikki because they were always together at parties or just chilling with their group.
"Don't tell anybody I told you this, but Troy knows you're pregnant," Kiesha said.
Nikki dropped her cell phone on the floor and then she picked it up and said, "What!"
"He knows, and he's not happy."
"How did he found out?" Nikki asked her as she sat down on her bed to collect her balance.
"I don't know, but somehow someone saw you at a store with some white guy. You left the receipt behind."
Nikki thought back and remembered that Jack had thrown the receipt out the window once they pulled off.
"Oh my God. Is that why he wants to see me now?"
"Just watch your back. I'm worried about you. By the way how long have you been doin' that white boy?"
"Kiesha! I haven't been doing him. He's a family friend," Nikki said blushing.
"Well I don't think Troy will care. You didn't tell him therefore…"
"Kiesha?" Nikki asked. Kiesha hung up on her.
She didn't want to go visit Troy, but she knew she had to go over there and explain. If someone saw her with Jack, she could be in big trouble, or worst, Jack could be in a lot of trouble.
Mercer House-
It had been four hours since he dropped Nikki off at home. Jack sat on his bed like he had done every night since he met Nikki. He would make up cheesy songs or use old ones and stick her name in them. It helped time go by because every minute he wanted to be next to her.
He looked at the clock. It read 7:30. He didn't feel like playing the guitar anymore because Angel and Sophie were making so much noise. He decided to go downstairs and talk to Bobby.
"There going at it again?" Bobby asked Jack while he sorted through an old family photo album.
"Yeah, that's about the fourth time today," Jack said cracking a smile.
"Hey, do you remember when…" Bobby started to say.
"Bobby, what was that about today?" Jack asked shutting the album.
Bobby walked around the room and looked at every picture on the wall.
"Bobby," Jack said.
"You just gotta be careful Jacky," Bobby said to him.
"Be careful? Of what?" Jack asked trying to understand.
"Jack just, be careful alright," Bobby said as he left Jack in the dinning room.
Jack was sick of Bobby ignoring him. He would give him half assed answers and Bobby would always leave in the middle of a discussion. Ever since the accident everyone treated Jack like he was the helpless one legged puppy. He went back up to his room because he became inspired to make a new song for Nikki.
Ring Ring
The phone rang three times before Angel yelled, "I'm kinda busy right now."
So Bobby picked up the phone because there wasn't a phone in Jack's room. He use to call girls at all times of the night and this drove his mother crazy so she took away the phone in his room.
"Hello," Jack heard Bobby say from downstairs.
"You serious?" Bobby said. "We'll be there."
"Jacky, Angel, Sophie! We need to get to the hospital. Now!" Bobby called from downstairs.
Angel, Sophie, and Jack came running downstairs.
"What for?" Angel asked Bobby while they all put on their coats.
"It's Nicole."