Chapter 26
"Being apart hurts but having something back is nice"
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"Awe Daisy we're back home." Persephanie set her bags down to the floor and looked around. "Hmm now I feel so lonely again!"
Daisy flopped onto the couch lamely and just stayed silent, letting reality set back in.
"No!" Persephanie whined. She seemed to be acting more of a child than her little sister was. "No pregnant woman should be without her man! I can't survive this night! I'll probably bawl my eyes out by the time I get to bed!"
Daisy sighed. "You'll be fine. He'll call you anyways. Maybe you guys can talk on the phone till you fall asleep or something."
Persephanie tried to relax. "I wonder if I can call him now…"
Daisy shrugged. "Who knows?"
This caused Persephanie to finally snap out of her long thoughts. "Whoa wait Daisy what's wrong? You haven't been hyper as usual. Is everything okay?"
"Yeah." Daisy turned the television on and started flipping through the channels lamely.
Persephanie sure wasn't convinced, so she walked over to her sister and sat down close to her. "Okay then talk to me. What's up? How are you? C'mon I haven't gotten to you lately."
"Pssh yeah and neither has Johnny!" Daisy cried. She was obviously sad and a little resentful with John now.
"Awe sweetie we've talked about this already! John just has a lot of things on his plate right now. Don't take everything he does too hard. He can't think straight." Persephanie reasoned.
"I know but…." Md paused. "No you know what forget it. It doesn't matter I don't really care."
Persephanie ran her hand down her sister's hair. "I told you everything will slowly get back to normal." She whispered.
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John couldn't stop looking over to Reanna like an overprotective dad.
She just rolled her eyes and laughed. "C'mon John, don't be just sitting there trying to watch my every move. I wont do anything to harm your little baby okay?"
John smiled. "I'm just making sure, alright. It's better safe than sorry. Besides when you told me you were pregnant, I promised, I'd take care of you. And this is just part of it."
"Okay fine, whatever." Reanna looked out onto the dance floor. "Hmm…"
John looked on with her. "What are you looking at?"
"Uh-" Reanna leaned back to get a better view of what she thought she was seeing. "I don't know, I just thought I saw Kurt somewhere." She looked on one last time and shrugged. "Eh I guess I was wrong."
John shook his head. "Yeah you sure are. What the hell would Kurt, Kurt Angle…" he gestured. "…be doing out on a club?"
Reanna slapped his arm. "Hey!" She somewhat was defending her boyfriend, but it was just a constant reaction, making John laugh.
"Yeah well I have to go to the restroom for a minute." Reanna excused herself, and left John sitting there all by himself.
That gave Persephanie the perfect timing of a phone call. John picked it up the instant he saw it was from her. "Oh baby I miss you already!"
Persephanie smiled. "Awe really? I miss you like crazy over here!"
"Shit, I know! Only 4 more weeks to go till I see your cute little face again!" John said.
"I can't wait that long." Persephanie whined. "But I'm going to have to, unfortunately."
"That's how it is. Being apart hurts, you know?" he sighed. "Well how's Daisy?"
"If you call her not caring if she ever sees you again okay, then yeah she's okay." Persephanie leaned back. In her hands was a picture of the two at their special place. The beach. The picture never failed to make her smile.
"What?" John screamed. "Wait no don't tell me she's mad at me…"
"She's not it's just… I don't know. I guess jealousy runs in the family. You barely got to spend anytime with her, and she thought that traveling over there would give her that chance." Persephanie explained.
"Yeah and she was wrong coz of me. It's my fault, I understand." John stated sadly. He looked up hearing somewhat of an argument going on in the dance floor. There, he spotted Reanna, Kurt, and some blonde chick standing closely behind the Gold Medallist. "Oh shit babe I got to go."
"What? Why?" Persephanie asked.
John continued to look on making him worried after seeing Reanna in tears. "I can't explain now babe I got to go okay?"
Persephanie groaned. "Fine bye. I love you."
"Alright, bye." John just hung up and ran to the dance floor. Though by the time he got there, Reanna was already ready to leave. She was out the door before anyone knew it.
Kurt had a smirk on his face. "Huh, a pregnant woman sure can run fast."
John stared at him with anger. "She's barely even by her 1st trimester, of course she's still able to do things alright."
Kurt shrugged. "Whatever."
"Yeah you better watch your back if you hurt her." John clutched his fist.
"Fine you want to switch roles now? All right you can go ahead and watch out for Reanna and I'll go ahead and watch out for Persephanie. Huh, how about that?" Kurt stepped closer to John building up in anger. "I mean even I'd do a better job at that than you. I haven't faced that girl even once without seeing sadness in her eyes. You don't deserve her and she damn well don't deserve all the shit you're giving her."
"You know what you better shut your mouth, you don't know nothing about Persephanie." John pushed Kurt taking him down to the floor. By the time anyone could stop them, Kurt's lips was already busted open.
There was a crowd gathering the two apart, and John just pushed them away running out the door for Reanna. He found her in the car crying in the front seat, with her head banged onto the steering wheel.
John sighed and knocked on the window, motioning for her to let him in. "Reanna?" She wouldn't budge. "Reanna? Let me in, or at least go out here so I can calm you down."
Seconds later, she opened up her car door and stepped out. Tears in her eyes by this time were drying up but she still looked miserable.
John found himself in a position of being hurt, seeing her this way. "What's wrong? What'd that bitch do now?"
Reanna sighed and crossed her arms. "Why did you not see what he was doing?"
"No I was talk-" John was about to tell her, he was on the phone with Persephanie but he knew it'd just make her feel worse. "No, no I didn't. Why?"
"He was making out with that girl over there. So I approached him, but all he did was tell me to leave." Reanna looked down onto the floor and bit her lip.
John sure couldn't stand seeing her this way and it was making him feel weird. "That son of a bitch." He cursed under his breath and clutched his fist even tighter. Though it soon loosened bringing it over to Reanna for a comforting hug. "Here lets just go back to our hotel."
"No. I can't go, I'm going to have to face him since it's his room. I don't want to go." Reanna whined.
"Well you can't stay here all night!" John loosed his grip just enough so he can face her.
"Yeah well it beats being in the same room with him." She said stubbornly.
"Alright well why don't you just stay with me for the night?" John suggested.
"No, your girl's going to get mad." Reanna sniffled.
"No she won't. She'll understand." John led her to his car. "We can go and get your car tomorrow."
Reanna nodded and started to walk slowly with John's guidance. "I'll sleep on the couch."
"No Reanna don't be silly, you can go ahead sleep on the bed…" He paused. "I'll sleep on the couch."
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Persephanie clutched the picture in her hands and just laid there, in bed thinking about John. "Yeah being apart sure does hurt." One last tear escaped her eyes. "But having you there with someone else hurts even more."
She wiped the streak of tears off her cheeks and let go of the precious picture. It dropped down onto the floor, unnoticed. She felt so much better having that cry. Her lamp was turned off, soon after, for sleep. Little did she know the picture wasn't that only thing she would be letting go of…
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"Reanna are you alright?" John couldn't help but notice how she kept rolling around in bed.
"Yeah, I just can't sleep." She sat up and opened the lamplights. "I'm sorry did I wake you up?"
John shook his head. "No I can't sleep either."
"Awe you miss her so much huh?" Reanna asked genuinely.
"Well…" John paused. "Truthfully, it's really just because of what happened at the bar. I just can't stand what that son of a bitch did to you."
Reanna smiled. "Awe really?"
John nodded. He got up and joined Reanna in bed. "Yep. What is it that's keeping you awake?"
"I'm scared with how things are going to end up with Kurt." She said plainly.
"Well do you love him?" John asked.
It didn't take Reanna a second to answer this question. "No!"
"Well then why were you with him?" John asked confused.
"Because he made me happy. And just because someone makes you happy that doesn't necessarily mean you love them." Reanna stated.
John gulped. Persephanie makes me happy. She's one of the only few girls, maybe it's just that. He shook his head. No, no what am I saying? Of course I love Persephanie.
"I wouldn't be sad if the relationship ends, I'd actually prefer it'd end now. After what he did, there's no point in staying." Reanna said.
"Yeah like I told you before, you shouldn't be with someone you don't love. You deserve someone better than him."
Reanna nodded. "Hey John?" She looked over to him, and he looked on as well.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks. Thanks for having this talk with me, I haven't been able to feel comforted in a while."
John smiled. "No problem! It's nice to know I'm making you feel better."
"You always do." She muttered.
"What was that?" John thought he heard her say what she said, but he wasn't sure.
"Nothing." Reanna said. "Just thanks again."
John smiled. "I think you deserve a nice comfortable sleep."
"How? There's too much going on, I can't sleep, or even try to." Reanna said lamely.
"Well then what do I have to do, to get that to happen?" John thought.
"Just go to sleep, I'll take care of myself." Reanna smiled. She for once was able to get off of her bandwagon to taking John in her seductive scheme.
"Are you sure? Maybe we can go and make some hot chocolate or something…" John suggested.
"Whoa don't go softy on me now John please, I have enough problems. Don't want to have to deal with softy vanilla ice." Reanna joked.
"Naw, it's just hot chocolate was always something me and Persephanie drank to make us feel better."
Reanna frowned. "Yeah which is why you need to get some sleep! Stop dragging me into what you and Persephanie do. Okay? It's what you both do as a couple, and you need to keep it that way, and sacred."
John sighed. "Okay fine."
"Wait speaking of Persephanie shouldn't you be talking to her on the phone right now? It must be hard for her to sleep too." Reanna said.
"Uh I don't know." He took a glance at the digital clock. "She's probably asleep by now."
"Okay but are you sure she's even going to sleep tonight? I know how it feels to be with someone on night and have them gone the next." Reanna said. She was talking about that crazy night with John.
"Well what exactly are you trying to get me to do?" John asked.
"I don't know, I just think it'd make her feel better to actually have you call her. Even if it breaks her sleep, it'll actually make her have a better one." Reanna was about to go on with more advice but John stopped her with his charming smile. "What are you smiling at?"
"Nothing, nothing." He continued to smile. "It's just nice for everything to be back to normal."
"Yeah well it's not all back to normal…." Reanna smiled back at him. "…But it sure is getting there."
"Yeah…" John couldn't stop smiling.
There was a moment of silence. The two just stared at each other.
Reanna broke that silence. "C'mon John Cena we got to try and get some sleep."
"Fine geez. Get a good sleep for me alright?" He asked.
She nodded. "I'll try."
"Good." He gave her one tight hug and a good night kiss on the cheek.
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"Damn that was one of the roughest sleep I've ever gotten!" Persephanie groaned not wanting to get out of bed. It wasn't helping that she was getting hit with one of the hardest cases of morning sickness she'd ever experienced. "I need John right now!"
Tears were building up out of pain. Pain from the growing life inside her, and having long distance relationship wasn't helping either. It made it harder. So much harder.
Persephanie grabbed the phone and dialed up John's number. No answer. She tried again. No answer. Again. No Answer. "Oh my god! I swear if I have a miscarriage it'd be out of depression!"
Her heart jumped after hearing her phone finally ring, but sank right down the instant she heard someone else's voice. "Oh I have a doctor's appointment today?" She rolled her eyes, listening. "Okay thanks."
Persephanie hung up the phone. She was pissed off by this point. "Shit I'm so damn ready to already kill someone!" She was in anticipation for John's phone call, but she never got one…
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"Was the couch hard on you?" Reanna asked rising out of bed. She saw a glance of John rubbing the back oh his neck.
"Nah I'm okay, just have a mild case of stiff neck, I guess." John winced the slight pain.
"Awe here you want me to massage that for you?" Reanna got behind him and sat him down. "Tell me if you want it harder."
John laughed. "Okay I think your getting a bit too naughty for me young lady!"
Reanna slapped his head and laughed.
"Ouch! Shit you made my neck hurt even more!" John whined.
"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" Reanna ran her hand down the back of his neck lightly. "Sorry!"
He just laughed. "Just keep going but be careful."
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"Well in a couple of weeks you'll be able to find out the sex of the baby." Doctor Diggins told Persephanie.
"Oh that's perfect, the father of my child will be here by then!" Persephanie smiled. Thoughts of John never failed to put a smile on her face.
"Oh wow where is the father of your child?" Doctor Diggins asked.
"He's out on the road, long distance. Which makes it really…" She was cut off.
"Hard? Yeah I can see how hard it is for you right now, especially since your only 18-going-on-19. Depression can also be part of a miscarriage so I want you to be careful as possible. Don't take every problem too hard."
"Oh yes I know!" Persephanie said.
"Though everything seems to be going alright. Just the Depression is what I'm worried about, but as I know, you'll pull through." Doctor Diggins said. "Though I have to ask, is your boyfriend going to be out during most of this time?"
"Uh yeah. Why is this going to be a problem?" Persephanie asked.
"No, no I'm just hoping that you don't turn out to be a single parent. I'm not sure if you can survive that very well." Dr. Diggins said worriedly.
"Oh no I will, I'm sure. He'll be going back and forth between his job and me." Persephanie assured him.
"Alright then I have no worries." He later excused her free until the next appointment.
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Later that day…
"It's perfect! It'll show her exactly how much I do care. I'm sure once she sees this, all the problems will go away. Because after all those times I'm really still here." John clutched onto it tightly in his hand with an old picture in the other…
Jhen's note: Oh boy just wait what I have in store for the next chapter. There's going to be something unexpecting. (at least to some) With the storyline and the actual story plotting itself. You'll see what I mean! But I don't want to give hints just wait up…. all I can say is that there will be two chapters on the next update…and there's a good reason for that. I hope you read up on it! (On both of them that is…will you?) Thanks for the support and reviews everybody! Until next chappie, R&R.
Oh yeah whatcha guys think John's holding in his hand, and to whom is it to?
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