So yeah, chapter two. I don't own Drake and Josh.
It had been a little over a month since I'd found out. I still hadn't told anyone. I was putting off going to the doctor, even though every day I waited could be hurting my baby and me.
Lying to my mom about it was ripping me apart. I often found myself putting my hand on my stomach. I knew I couldn't hide it much longer. I was starting to gain weight. I knew the first person I told had to be him. He had a right to know I was carrying his baby.
A week later I went to his house. His brother answered the door and led me upstairs to the room the two boys shared. There he was, sitting with his guitar on the couch. I see
him there and I feel like all the air had been knocked out of me. I took a deep breath and walk towards him.
He puts down the guitar as I sit down next to him. Neither of us says anything. Neither of us makes eye contact. There's a silence, but it isn't awkward at all.
"Why'd you come here?" He says after minutes of silence. He doesn't say it in a rude way, just in his calm, questioning way.
Why did I come here? I look down at my stomach and remember once more. I look up and finally make eye contact with him. "I…I'm pregnant…Drake." It was the first time I'd said his name, or even thought his name since he broke up with me to begin with. I thought that erasing his name from my vocabulary could erase all that hurt, I was wrong.
His eyes fill with panic. "You can't be." He says finally after what seemed like hours of silence.
"I am," I say, "But I don't expect anything from you. No money. You owe me nothing. I just thought you had a right to know that your child was coming into this world."
He puts his hand on mine, just like that day in English. The day this all started. "You have to get rid of it."
"No," I say, standing up. "I'm keeping my baby." I turn and walk to the door. "I expect nothing from you. You can just stay away from me and my baby!" I empathize the word 'my'. This baby wasn't his. Not anymore.
I see myself out, curling into a ball in the front seat of my car. "I can't do this," I whisper as I cry myself to sleep.
I wake up god-knows-how-many hours later, but I'm no longer in my car. I sit up and realize I'm in my room. Next to me is an envelope. I open it to find a letter.
Dear Maddie,
All I can say is I'm sorry. I never meant to ruin your life like this. I never wanted to get you pregnant. I'm so sorry. You have no idea. I want to be a part of our (your?) baby's life, as well as yours. I really do love you. I want to be a part of this. If you'll allow it.
-Drake
I look up to see him still sitting in a chair next to my bed. I gently tap him on the shoulder, pulling him into a hug as soon as he opens his eyes. "I love you too," I say for the first time in my life
I don't wait for his response before I pull away and slap him across the face. "You, Drake Parker, are an ass." I say in a slow calm way that shows him I mean every word.
He looks down, I see the hurt in his eyes. "I deserve a lot more than that you know." He says softly.
I sigh and wrap my arms around him. "No you don't."
The next day I told my mom. It went a lot better than I expected. She was angry, but not as much as I'd expected. Which was comforting, yet terrifying at the same time.
He and I spend as much time as we can together. I really don't know how long it will last. I mean, he's never kept a girlfriend before. But he's never had a little person growing inside of one of those girls before, now has he?
Sometimes I get this weird feeling. I know I'm carrying a baby inside of me. But sometimes, it really sinks in. In just a few months I'll have a living, breathing person that I created in my arms.
Kids at school have found out. Its days like the ones I've been having lately that make me happy I only have a month left of school. I graduate. Thank god. I guess it's lucky that I get to finish high school. He tries so hard to shield me from everything, but of course, he can't keep everything from me.
This chapter's a little short, and was originally going to be two separate chapters. Blah! But still, another update will be following as soon as I get it written. And I'll write it tonight. So yeah. Enjoy.
