DOM-DOM-DOM…DA-DOM! New chapter! Yay me. I'm writing so much this boring night, why not write a new chapter? Though it may be short because I have absolutely NO idea where to go with this, I dug myself into a hole (bad cliché). Um…enjoy! wink (Ow, my legs hurt, I don't know why.) Oh, one more thing, I didn't really say Jordan knew about Angela and Brian, so lets just say he doesn't…yet. Oh, and if this is too overly dramatic in a bad way, sorry, it was all I could think of, so, yeah, don't hate me…again.
CHAPTER 8
At school after lunch Rayanne saw me from across the hall and ran full speed at me. "Whoa, nice to see you too."
"Oh my god, Angela, it got around to Jordan that you and Brian are…an item, and he is SUPER pissed."
"Well DUH it got around, you shouted it across the school!"
"Well it was awesome news at the time!"
"Wait, Rayanne, you don't think Jordan would…"
"Nah…Jordan's not really the type to beat the shit out of someone…that's more of a Tino thing. He'll probably just try to scare him. Rickey's looking for Brian, he's gonna tell him not to freak out, ya know?"
"Yeah, thanks." I laughed, "Brian is the kind of person to get freaked out by an ex-boyfriend. I have to go to class, see ya."
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"Hey Brian."
When Brian saw me he smiled, but not like, a relieved, but a "hey, I haven't seen you in a day" smile. I assumed he hadn't talked to Jordan yet…or Rickey. "Hey, what's up?"
I smile, trying not to think about Jordan, "Not much. I think I swallowed a piece of plastic at lunch." He laughed at me, "Shut up, it didn't feel that great."
"Are you sure it wasn't just a French fry?"
"Hmm…yeah, it was probably that." Just then Jordan walked into the room. I sat down and ignored him. Brian sat down assuming the conversation was over.
Jordan walked up to my desk. "What?" I asked him.
"You and him?" He didn't even glance at Brian when he said it. "So how long did you wait before you started seeing him, huh? Were you with him behind my back."
"No, I wasn't seeing him behind your back. That's the kind of thing you would do."
"Oh, don't start with that, we were already broken up when I slept with Rayanne."
"Oh, that makes it so much better. Besides, you were the one who tried to get me back afterwards."
"Class…Class, settle down!"
"Whatever." Jordan sat down.
"Ok, I hope you all studied for your test…"
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"Mom, I'm home!"
Danielle jumped out from nowhere, "Mom's not home."
I jumped back a little. "Ok, where is she?"
"I don't know, something about meeting someone somewhere. Anyway, you can tell me…"
I waited a second expecting her to talk more. "Tell you what?"
"About you and Brian. I mean it's so obvious, cause he was always the one chasing you around, now you're chasing him."
"That's right Danielle, and you know what that means? It means you don't have a shot in hell with him." I gave her a bitchy smile and walked up to my room.
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"Angela?"
"I'm in my room mom!"
"Danielle said you and Brian are dating now. Is that true?"
"Well, I wouldn't say dating because we haven't really gone on any dates…except to Big Guy Burger. But, yeah, we're 'a couple'"
"Hmm…ok, dinner will be ready in ten minutes"
Great she's gonna act like she's taking it well, but when dad gets home she's gonna start freaking out.
And as if my thoughts were being timed… "I'm home!"
"Hi, honey." Her voice got quieter; "I need to talk to you about something." I couldn't hear anything else from her, and then my dad spoke.
"Oh, please, Brian? He's harmless." Ha, he always takes my side.
I walked downstairs, "Hi dad." I gave him a big smile and a kiss on the cheek, and went to the table. Danielle had already set it up even though it was my day. Maybe it was to forgive me for telling mom. I sat down and my mother brought the food out to the table.
"Honey, did you cook?" my dad asked my mom.
She put on a big smile like she was proud that she cooked without burning the kitchen down. "Yes I did. I found this recipe, I think it's going to be very good."
We all dished some out on our plate. It was horrible, but we couldn't tell my mother. "Mmmmm," Danielle said, "you should make this more." She looked at me expectantly.
"Yeah," I said, "Where did you get the recipe?"
My dad tied to hold back his smiles, while my mom said, "Camille gave it to me. She said Sharon loves it."
We didn't really no what to say after that. "Today, my teacher said that the human head ways eight pounds. But that's not even the cool part. Like two of the eight pounds are, like, living bacteria."
I made up something else to say, because if anybody else responded to that the conversation would stop, then I would have to think of one. "Danielle, your teacher didn't tell you that, I did, like, three years ago."
"Well, I wasn't listening then, But I, like, have to listen in school. But I didn't really need to listen to that because we're learning about states and capitals."
I kept talking, "Yeah, teachers like to tell you useless information when they can't think of anything else to say." Like me
"So Angela, your mother tells me you and Brian Krakow are a couple. Is that true?"
"Uh, yeah. We…yeah, that's true." I nodded and just kept nodding, not saying anything more.
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When I woke up the next morning and went to the bathroom I had to check my calendar. "Shit," I said softly. I was usually off anyway, but I needed to know if I was just "off" that day, or not.
That day on the bus I sat down next to Brian, which I had been doing ever since we started "dating". "We have to cut today," I whispered to him.
"What?" he asked, confused.
I didn't want anyone else to hear me. "I'll explain when we get off the bus."
When we got off the bus I pretended to walk to class, but when we got inside I headed to the other door. I walked out, fast, and Brian followed me. When I finally got to my destination Brian was confused.
"A department store? I thought at least, like, an awesome view or something."
I kept walking, and he kept following me. I got to the isle I needed to be in, and pulled what I needed off of the shelf.
Brian's mouth dropped, "A pregnancy test?"
I nodded, "Yeah, I'm usually not on time anyway, but I just wanted to be sure."
"Ok…where are you gonna take it?"
I thought about it. "I don't know…are your parents home?"
"No…I guess we could go there."
When we got back to the checkout line, I realized I didn't have any money. Brian pulled out his wallet, not even knowing I had no money, just because he was sweet. The store clerk looked at us with, what I think was, disgust. I got away from the store quickly and we walked to Brian's house. I headed straight for the bathroom. About five minutes had passed before Brian spoke up.
"The box said it only takes a minute for results. Why are you taking so long?"
"I'm too nervous to pee. Plus, I already went this morning." I walked out of the bathroom and went to the kitchen. I got a big cup and filled it all the way up with water. Then I drank it all down without taking a breath.
"Thirsty?" Brian asked trying to be smart. I just filled the glass back up, and drank it back down. And then once more. Brian and I watched about ten minutes of TV, and then I felt it. I jumped up from the couch and ran to the bathroom, partly because I had to take the test, and partly because I had to pee really badly. About a minute later I came running out of the bathroom, and ran up and hugged Brian.
"I'm not pregnant!"
Brian put his hands on my shoulders to stop me from jumping. "Lemme see." I rolled my eyes and handed him the box and the test. He read the whole back of the box, even though there was a diagram for what was what on the bottom. He nodded, "Yep…okay, you're not pregnant." He let out a huge sigh that I didn't even know he was holding and sat down on the couch.
I went at sat next to him, confused. "Wait, aren't you glad?"
Brian turned to me. "Of course I'm glad, but I'm even more relieved. I mean, what if you really had been pregnant? What would we have done? Would are parents hate us, and kick us out of our houses? It could have been really bad."
I sighed, "Yeah, it could have. But we shouldn't think about that, OK? We should just…be happy. Together. And not worry about anything, OK?"
Brian nodded ok, and pulled me into a long, passionate kiss.
OK, took me a while to do, but oh well. I hoped you liked it, and I hope you like where it's gonna go. Now, just to tell you, the reason it's taking me so long is because I have two other stories to write, I have to go to stupid school, and of course I'm obsessed with reading fanfiction. OK, well, please review.
