GleeJunkie007: Yeah, I'm also happy that Mike got Derek to stop. But too bad it's not stopping there. I'm glad you liked Jeremy and the way I wrote Kim. I hope you like it here and in the future too. Thank you for your review
Indigosky17: Yep. Chaos, chaos, chaos. Although when is it not chaos at the dumping ground? Thank you for your review.
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Bracken99: Thank you. But yes, it will be chaos. Although, when is it not chaos at Ashdene Ridge? I'm happy you think Michael seems interesting, he's rather hard to write. Thank you for your review
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So what are you all thinking about the new series? And about the new characters? I like the twins and I like Mischief, although I'm not so sure about Ryan. But Finn is just adorable. And just so everyone knows- NO not any characters or scenarios from Series three will appear in this story. But I really want to write the new characters, so when these series are finished in the fall, I might start another tdg story.
"Mike I'm fine." I stated when Mike put a glass of water in front of me on the kitchen island. "I'm fine… I just stood up for too long, didn't get a chance to sit down for a second and my blood pressure was low when I wasn't pregnant so…"
"Drink!" I sighed and started sipping from the water. "Are you feeling alright? Do you have a temperature?" He felt my forehead. "Are you still dizzy?" At last I slightly pushed him away and showed him to be quiet. "Sorry Ken. You know I'm just worried about you because I care for you." He smiled slightly and sat on the stool right by me. "Go get some rest, okay? You are not allowed to do any more helping without having rested and can truthfully tell us you're alright- and no heavy lifting!"
"I'm fine Mike!" I protested. "And since Kim's going to share room with me I should probably help her to get installed." Mike gave me a meaning glare. "Fine, I'll go rest. Can I at least take some of Kim's things and bring them up with me." Mike hesitated. "Nothing heavy?" He finally nodded and I pushed myself of the stool and made sure I wasn't going to get dizzy again and then grabbed one of Kim's bags from the hallway and brought it with me upstairs where Kim was for some reason sitting on my bed while May- Li was discussing with her.
"Look, Kim, we are going to put another bed in here for you but you cannot take that one because we put that in here especially for Kenny." I raised an eyebrow, then held up the bag I had brought and put it by the wall. "And Kenny needs her resting so you're going to need to move from her bed now." Kim sighed, and even though it was clear she didn't want to, she stomped over the floor and threw herself down in the arm chair. "Kenny!" May- Li gestured to me and I knew that neither she nor Mike would give up until I was lying down.
But still I couldn't help but tease them a little. I showed to Kim that I had taken her bag up and put it on the floor when she showed that she had seen it and then turned around and went out the door meaning to go downstairs and get something else of Kim's to take that here. And walked right into Mike who crossed his arms over his chest and looked sternly at me.
I sighed, and didn't have to wait for Mike to speak his mind before I turned back towards the room and slumped down on my bed and sank back towards the pillow and started tapping with my fingers towards the bookshelf right by my bed that I usually used as a bedside table. I was bored- and I'm not talking the usual boredom when you just don't feel like doing anything but the real one when you want to do something but can't.
"Can you stop that?" Kim fizzled suddenly, I had dreamt away while continuing to tap my fingers towards the shelf for a while and when I returned to reality Kim sat on the floor with her notebook and pencil in her hand. "It's annoying and I'm trying to concentrate." I nodded and turned to my side, then silently watched Kim for a few minutes, but she didn't look up from her notebook anything.
"What are you writing?"
"Nothing that is on your business." Kim answered rudely and threw her notebook closed. "God! Isn't there anywhere you can get some privacy around here." Kim went out in the hallway and slammed the door after her just as I pushed myself up and started playing some weird game on my phone while I kept an eye on the clock to see if enough time had passed for me to get out of bed without Mike forcing me back.
At last, an hour and a half after I was forced into bed I stood up and walked back out to the hallway. I noticed some of the others were sending weird looks after me and Floss whispered something in Belle's ear and they both looked weirdly after me but I probably couldn't have cared less. They would all have gotten tired of it before the end of the day anyway.
Trenton was in the kitchen cleaning off the kitchen bench after everything that was left from breakfast. He was softly humming on some Beatles' song I didn't know what it was called and seemed far gone into his own thoughts and I stood in the door for several seconds before Trenton could see me in the corner of his eye and jumped high of the surprise.
"Oh… Kenny." Trenton smiled. "Are you okay?" I nodded and jumped up to sit on the kitchen island. "Whoa. Take it eas… Okay, I know. I know. You think you're not fragile but it's not just about you here so please just take it easy." I glared at him. "I know." He threw the cloth in the sink and jumped up on the kitchen island next to me.
I leaned to the side and leaned my head against Trenton's shoulder. We were both all silent, this moment just wasn't the right one to say anything at all. Trenton lifted the arm that was closest to me and laid it around my shoulders. I closed my eyes for a brief moment and there just was a connection… not like the one people talked and cared about for when two people would fall in love and it would just click. But more like a click that occurred that meant that I knew that I had a friend in Trenton and that I could always trust him.
I hadn't known Trenton for long, maybe a week. But it already felt like I had known him forever. Like we from the start had been meant to be just best friends. And I didn't lift my head and sat on my own before I heard footsteps coming closer to the kitchen and I sat up just as Mike came in.
"Kenny. Feeling better?" I sighed- sometimes I just thought that I should have waited a while with telling anyone about the pregnancy as it made everyone worry so about me it was only having me annoyed. "I know kid. But… I was thinking we should probably tell Jessa, Kent and the new ones before they found out from somebody else okay?" I nodded and jumped down from the kitchen bench. "Whoa, take it easy." I didn't even answer to that, just rolled my eyes and followed Mike through the hallway and into the office, through the office and into the room we used for when someone needed to talk in private.
"So… This is Kenny?" Derek seemed surprised and it wasn't hard to guess why- about hundred percent of everybody would be sure I would be a boy after hearing my name. "Hey, Derek." He shook my hand even though I already knew his name. "And, I think you've already talked to my daughter Jessa." I nodded. "So… we were told by Mike that there was something that you should tell me and Jess form the beginning and then also tell our children later. What was it?"
"Well…" I started and glared at Mike. I had rather seen that he'd talked to me first but… I guessed they would all have found out some way in some way then and that could not have ended well. "My name is Kenny, I'm fourteen and I… I'm…" I glanced up at Mike who nodded slightly at me. "I'm pregnant." I laid a hand towards my belly while Jessa frowned and Derek's chin dropped. And for several seconds they were both all quiet. I couldn't blame them though- fourteen years old and pregnant. How wonderful!
Derek was slowly closing his mouth again and continued with only looking around the room, first to Mike. Then to me, then to Jessa, then back to me. He kept on looking at me as the look in his eyes seemed to change until it was so cold it made shivers go through my spine. He still hadn't said anything and I still couldn't blame him for not knowing what to say or what to do.
"Should I go get the children of yours?" May- Li had come into the room and turned to Derek and Jessa. "The ones from Elm Tree House already know Kenny's pregnant so we should probably tell them before they hear it in the wrong way from someone of our children." Derek nodded. "I'll go get them then." Out the door she went and left the room awfully silent while we waited for the others.
Alfie came first, he still seemed grumpy after what had happened earlier- oh well I was starting to wonder when he wasn't grumpy. He silently walked into the room and sat down on the arm support of the couch by Jessa. He had just sat down when Jeremy came in and right after him came Belle. So came Xavier and Michael. By that time the couch was crowded and Jessa helped to support Xavier and Jeremy so they could sit on the back support while Michael and Belle squeezed into the one spot in between Derek and Jessa. And so at last Kim came too. She seemed as angry as ever and decided to not even sit down where she stood with her arms crossed over her chest and looking down at us others as she was so very much better than any of us others.
"So guys." Derek started this time. "I guess most of you at least know that but this is Kenny. And she's got something to talk to you about." I scratched the back of my hand and wondered how to start it while Derek wanted to continue but was interrupted when Michael suddenly got a look on his face as if he was afraid of something "What is it Michael?"
"Did I do something bad?" He asked with big eyes. "Did I say something wrong or did I do something wrong when Kenny fell?" As he stopped talking his voice seemed tiny and I couldn't help to beat myself up for what had happened earlier.
If I had just flipping sat down some time I would never have fainted and Michael probably wouldn't be in front of me all frightened and seemed to want to crawl out of his skin with fear. And that made me want to crawl out of my skin with shame of having done that to him.
"No, Kel. You didn't do anything bad." Jessa said calmly. "Let… Kenny say what she needs to and we'll take the questions later okay?" Michael nodded and their turned their heads back to look at me. "So… Kenny… Take it at your own pace I guess." I nodded and rubbed my palms against each other and took a deep, shaky breath to save some time.
"Well… I guess there's no way to say it that would make you less surprised but… the thing is… I'm pregnant." As freaking usual the room went completely silent for several seconds and I just shoved my hands into my pockets and waited for the reactions to come. And they didn't wait for themselves to get heard.
"So… You're pregnant?" Kim asked, I nodded. "So you… Oh… No! EW. Ew! Ew, Ew, Ew! Only so you know. I refuse to share a room with her." Kim had been standing up during talking and was talking to Mike and May- Li while pointing to me. And then she span around and stomped out of the room, slamming the door after her.
God! When didn't that girl slam that door?
"What does peggant mean?" Belle asked with a five- year- old's innocence and laid her head to the side curiously eyeing me do. "Has it got something to do with eggs? And what did Kim mean that you had done?" I could see Derek and Jessa hopelessly looking to each other. Then they both looked at me and I felt about as hopeless as they looked.
"Oh you can say anything you want I am not taking 'the talk' with a five- year- old." I flew onto my feet and flew from the room before I'd have any more questions thrown after me I was out of the room and the office and up the stairs. One good thing this early in the pregnancy (I guessed) was that I could still get up the stairs three steps at the time. I had a feeling I wouldn't be able to do that in another few months.
I had expected to find Kim all packed and everything and on her way to escape through the window. But she sat back on the floor with her notebook and scrabbled letters down quickly, with a troubled look in her eyes and seeming far gone into her own thoughts. I decided not to bother her anything more so I just lied down on my back in my bed and stared up into the ceiling.
I was only following the thin cracks in the wooden boards in the ceiling, silently over and over and over again. Maybe if I just was really quiet I wouldn't bother Kim. And then just maybe she wouldn't be so rude all the time. Not to me at least. Because I had a feeling that sharing room wasn't so much fun when the one you shared with snapped at you about once every three seconds.
"You're one of those aren't you?"
"What?" At Kim's questions I flinched getting right back pulled into reality. "One of who?"
"One of those who as long as you were with your parents got everything you ever asked for?" I pushed myself up at my elbows to look at her. "Mummy's got the wardrobe big enough to get lost inside and is always perfect and always kind and always baking and always doing your favorite foods and everything. While daddy…"
"MY DAD…" I shouted so loud Kim silent, and then I knew I had to continue. "…Killed himself before I was born. Nothing was ever given to me in life, if I wanted something I'd have to work for it and no matter how much I did people would go on about my family. Is that enough for you?"
"Enough of what?"
"Well I wouldn't know would I? Since the only one who would is you. And believe me Kimberly. If you keep on treating people like you do. Then you're going to end up very, very lonely." I didn't stay to hear Kim's reply but span around and slammed the door after me before I turned and walked straight up to the attic to get to be alone.
In the attic I found a pillow, then I put one fist towards my mum so my shouts wouldn't be heard while with the other fist I hit over and over and over again as hard as I could.
I didn't know how long it was until I finally stopped. But I knew that when I finally did stop I came to the realization that this was the very first time I had really wanted to just turn back time and prevent all of this from happening or whatever that would mean that I didn't have the decisions that I had right now in front of me.
I had punched the pillow a good few times. So hard I'd punched right through and into the wooden floor so hard I knew I would get some bruises on my knuckles. I hadn't noticed I had started crying but I must have been because my cheeks were all wear with silent, salt tears still rolling down my cheeks.
"Ken." Without me having noticed Derek Kent had come into the room and I still didn't notice until he held a hand towards my shoulder. At first I thought he was trying to comfort ne but so I saw the ice cold look in his eyes and knew that that would impossibly be the truth.
"Yes?" I did my best to dry the tears but Derek didn't wait.
"Here." He sat down on a small dresser where I wouldn't have to turn my whole head around to see him. "Now I want you to listen to me and I want you to listen to me very closely. Don't try to pull that crap on me that you've been telling Mike and such things. I believe you're pregnant however the rest… ha! Not so much."
"What do you want?"
"But you must know that a baby cannot be raised in a place like this huh? So… Kenny… or Kennedy or whatever your name was. I will help you to get to the hospital and back home and everything. But there is no doubt you cannot not do it." I raised an eyebrow at his expression. "Oh well… I will book a time so you're scheduled."
"Scheduled for what"
"An abortion of course. You might have wrapped Mike all around your fingers. But I'm not that easy. So I will get you scheduled and then I will be your legal guardian and then the choice will be as mostly up to me as it is to you?" My stomach clenched at the mention of abortion, and I looked away not to let him see that.
"You can't make me kill my baby!"
"Oh believe me." Derek's both eyes and voice were cold as ice. "I can after I've taken over and became your official legal guardian. Just trust me."
Is it only me who doesn't want to hug Derek when he is all like that?
Random fact (I'll start putting these in every chapter)
The fact that Kim is writing all the time will make more sense in the storylines further into the story. I hope you're looking forward to that