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So… onto the chapter
I walked after Johnny downstairs again, and into a living room where they're sat a bunch of children and teenagers. A few of them I recognized, the girl with the long brown hair and the boy with the big afro sat in a sofa talking quietly to each other- they presented themselves as Jody and Tyler and I also recognized- also from the hallway- the boy with the brown hair and glasses and the girl with the curly red hair- whose names were Mo and Floss.
A black girl and a brown- haired boy were playing pool and told their names were Kazima and Rick. Kazima beat Rick in the game just as I came over and then held the pool stick to me wondering if I wanted to play. I shook my head at her question- I was probably the worst ever at pool and had never been much for it.
A dark girl fully dressed in pink and a blonde girl sat in one of the sofa and told me their names were Carmen and Tee- Tee turned out to be the younger sister of Johnny. And then for a blonde curly- haired boy that sat in a chair with a book about giraffes- Harry. Bailey- a black boy crazy for football. And at last- Trenton- a boy that sat in the sofa with a book about the Beatles.
"Hey." Trenton pulled out his headphones and held out his hand to shake mine. "I'm Trenton… Trenton Wilburton. Nice to meet you." I shook his hand and then shoved my hands in my pockets and sat down on the arm support by Trenton. I was starting to feel dizzy for standing up for so long- oh the joys with being pregnant!- But I did my best not to show it.
"I'm a bit tired." I said at last and stood up. "I think I'm gonna go lay down for a while." Johnny said something to me but I ignored it and hurried up the stairs and into some room just as I heard someone shout to me not to go in there. But too late, and I had barely touched the door when I felt freezing water soak all of me before a bucket full of it fell down on my head.
I threw the bucket off my head and in panic by the freezing cold water tried to shake as much as possible out of my hair to get it away from me barely noticing what was happening around me. At last I realized that I couldn't get off anymore of the freezing cold water I stopped and looked around. This was when I could guess I had screamed because everyone I had met before- including Mike and May-Li stood around.
"Sorry Kenny." Tyler said- apparently doing his best not to laugh. "It wasn't meant for you. Yours and Faith's room is over there." He pointed to the door right down the hall. I sighed- of course I'd taken the wrong door and out of any door I could have chosen I choose the one with a bucket of icy water standing on top of it. I didn't mind wasting any energy on Tyler- and also Jody who seemed to be a part of the whole thing – as Mike seemed to be shouting at them the whole way downstairs and to the office while Tee came running with a towel- I walked into mine and Faith's room- the right room this time to get away from the others and be able to change shirt to a warm and dry one.
Faith had already left the hallway and was looking for something on a shelf. I bent down and picked up my backpack to put it on the desktop and try to pull up a new hoodie and T- shirt, the only thing there was a problem with that was that I'd forgotten about the brochures I'd gotten from the hospital. About pregnancies and being single and teenager and pregnant. I had wrapped them into the hoodie I pulled up but didn't realize it until Faith had bent down to pick them up.
"Here… you dropped… these." I heard on the tone on her voice that she knew. I took them without looking at her and put them back in my backpack. I knew that she knew- that she had seen. But I didn't say one word or even look at her except for asking her to show me to the bathroom so I could go and change clothes. Right when I walked into the bathroom I turned around to see Faith stand and look meaningful at me. I sighed and turned again and walked into the bathroom.
"So are you?" Faith asked when I came back and hung the wet clothes on a chair. I knew perfectly well what she meant but I still asked what. "Are you pregnant? Because if you are I think you should tell Mike." I sighed and pulled up my phone from my backpack and sent a text message to Scotty wondering if he could send my usual clothes here.
"Yes I am." I said at last. "But I'm not gonna tell Mike- at least not yet." Before Faith could say anything else I walked out of the room and down the stairs again. The boy that had earlier been sitting and reading about The Beatles now stood in the kitchen that I found when I walked around trying to memorize where everything was- he was cleaning off the table.
"Brandon was it right?"
"Trenton" He answered my question. I started apologizing but he just waved it off. "Don't worry about it. That's just life when you've got an unusual name." I chuckled and sat down on a chair by the table. Trenton finished doing the table and then jumped up to sit on the kitchen bench. For several minutes we both just sat there during silence. My phone beeped when I had an answer from Scotty.
I'll send you your things. Don't worry. I took them out from your room before your mother woke up so it looked like you'd taken it all. Can you give me the name of someone else there? Then it won't be anyone seeing your name at it when it will have gone enough of time for the police to start looking for you- believe me they will.
"Trenton." I exclaimed starting to get nervous. "There's a friend of mine who wants to send me something. But… during some circumstances writing my name on it wouldn't be a very bright idea so… would it be alright if he sent it to you instead?" Trenton looked confused, for a moment I was afraid he would ask for the whole truth- but then he answered me yes. I breathed out and sent his name back to Scotty.
"Floss." I suddenly heard when I sat almost half- sleeping by the table, and looked up to see Trenton jump down from the bench and walked over to the girl with the curly red hair come in- in her pyjamas into the kitchen. "I thought you had gone to bed. Is there something wrong?" He kneeled down to reach Floss's height.
"No. I just wanted a glass of water." Trenton smiled, took a glass from a cupboard and poured water in it before giving it to Floss. While drinking the water Floss came walking around the table and looked to me. She reached up with the hand that wasn't holding the glass and took a tress of my darker red hair in her hand. "You've got almost the same hair- color as me." She said even though my hair was quite a lot darker than hers. "We could have been sisters… do you have any brothers or sisters? I don't know if I have any." I shook my head.
"No Floss. I don't have any brothers or sisters." I yawned, oh another one of the joys with being pregnant was getting more easily tired than usual. "It's been a lot happening today. I think I'll go to bed." I was on my way out of the kitchen when Trenton asked if I was alright- then told me that I looked a bit pale. "Yeah… I'm just tired." He thought for a second and then said to me that he'd tell Mike that I had gone to bed and I walked upstairs.
I had always been one to fall asleep as soon as I laid my head down on the pillow but today I laid awake for long after both Faith and Mike had asked me multiple times if I was alright- and I just as many times answered them that I was fine just a bit tired. Stared into the wall and went through everything that had changed today. So… I had gone from living in a house full of adults that acted like children to live in a house full of actual children. How "wonderful"!
At last, long after Faith had gone to bed and fallen asleep and I had been listening to her slow breaths for at least an hour. I turned to lay on my other side and slowly drifted off to sleep.
I woke up with a sharp intake of breath what felt like suddenly, and immediately was sure of three things. The first was that this was not a human hour to be awake. The second being that I was coming down with severe morning sickness and the third being that if I would try to get to a bathroom I would most likely throw up in the hallway. I looked around and ended up crouching over a trashcan in a corner, everything that I had eaten the last time I ate something at all making its way through me and into the can.
Of course- despite my struggle to keeping as quiet as possible I woke Faith up and she jumped out of bed before I could protest and kneeled down by me and started rubbing my back. "Okay, you're okay." She comforted and continued rubbing my back until it had stopped and I- during trying to take as deep breaths as possible rested my forehead against a wall and tried to relax. "Is it morning sickness?" I nodded. "Should I get Mike?" I shook my head. "Are you still feeling sick?" I hesitated a few seconds and felt, then shook my head again and turned so I could sit and lean my back against the wall. Faith had gone out of the room and I hoped it wasn't to get Mike despite my answer.
"Here" She came back with a wet washcloth and a glass of water that she reached to me. I slowly took small sips of the water and then wiped off my face with the washcloth while Faith changed the bag in the trash and took it outside to throw it in the dustbin and then came back with a new plastic bag for it.
"I could have done that you know." I stood up, sat down on my bed and put the washcloth and the empty glass in the bookshelf that worked as my bedside table. "And I'm sorry I woke you up." I threw an eye on my watch to see it was half past five in the morning. Faith told me not to say I was sorry and then went back to sleep. I couldn't sleep anymore so I laid with Internet on my phone for another hour and a half before I heard someone get up and make hers or his way downstairs, I waited for another while and then went downstairs myself to find Trenton make breakfast for himself.
"Good morning."
"Morning." He replied, putting a thick layer of Marmite on his bread. I grimaced to it- thinking he was looking in another direction and then heard him chuckle. "You don't like Marmite?" I shook my head. "I know… either you hate it or you love it right?" I nodded. "Want breakfast? There are other things than Marmite?" I shrugged, and then we both heard my stomach rumble- not so weird because I hadn't eaten since yesterday afternoon and on top of that thrown up. "Cheese?" It took me a while to understand what he was asking, then I nodded and took a piece of the bread that already laid on the top of the desk of the kitchen bench.
"So how come you're up now?" I asked- mostly to have something said. "It's only seven and you don't have school today right?" He shook his head, then shrugged and said with a quite confused tone in his voice that he had never been able to sleep for any longer than this after he had lived with someone he called 'Mac'" I was very sneaky by nature, but chose not to ask anything more about that as Trenton seemed to have gotten distant and sad look in his eyes that hadn't been there before.
I had always loved mornings, it was the only time a day I could be alone in mine and mum's room and do what I wanted as long as it was quiet, and just think to myself because no staff would come in at that time and mum was still sleeping. But I had to admit that a morning with sitting babbling with Trenton- eating way too many sandwiches was a pretty good morning too.
After about an hour Mike came into the room. "Oh great Trenton. You've gotten yourself a morning- buddy." He sat down rubbing the sleep of his eyes, Trenton stood up to put on coffee and Faith came into the kitchen and told us she was going out running. Right before she went out she gave me a meaning look that I knew meant that she thought I should tell Mike about the fact that I was pregnant.
Faith gave me quite a lot of those looks during that day and the next, two days later at the Thursday I still hadn't told Mike when he came out in the living room and asked if someone wanted to help him set the table for dinner. Faith shot me another one of those looks, and I stood up and said I would help him. I had been alone quite a few times the last two days cause the others had gone back to school, but now I made a decision that I was going to tell him- if that was what would make Faith shoot me those looks then…
But I still hadn't told Mike when I put the last mug on the table standing with my back towards the bench where Mike stood by the stove. I ignored the dizziness that had been nagging me all day and turned to Mike- trying not to sway because it was getting too bad. "Mike." I exclaimed. "There's something you should know." I took a step towards him but had to put a hand on the kitchen island when the dizziness started getting overwhelming. "I'm…"
"Kenny," With a worried look he came towards me. And that's the last thing I remembered before everything went black and I knew I was falling.
"Kenny… Kenny can you open your eyes for us sweetheart?" I heard May- Li's voice what to me felt like suddenly. But it seemed so distant. "Kenny please." Someone was stroking my cheek and pulling away a tress of my fringe from my face. "Kenny…" I lifted my hand and rubbed my eyes before slowly opening them to look up to Mike, May- Li and Faith standing by my bed- how had I ended up here?
"I…" I began, getting hit by a wave of nausea- Faith understood and held the trash can under my chin just in time before I threw up- for what felt like the hundredth time this week. I laid back down when it was over to see May- Li and Mike looking even more worriedly down at me.
"Kenny… you need to tell them."
"Tell us what?" Mike looked confused to Faith, then to me, then to Faith again and then to me. And I knew that I had to tell.
"I'm pregnant."
Oh… so that's…. well… I don't know.
For writing this I had two pages with stuff about side effects of pregnancy up, and also a calendar to use for another one of my stories so I was wondering. If I saved them up… and left the laptop at the kitchen table and my dad saw it… would I be able to make him freak out then? Haha, no, not even I am that evil.
