Chapter 9 – I'm Gunna Kill that God-dam Bird

Aonghus waited outside the bathroom door. He herd the sound of Lara throwing up in the bathroom.

"Are you ok? Lara? You want me to come in there?" Aonghus asked.

"DON'T!" Lara shouted back. Aonghus sighed and stood outside the bathroom door. The door bell rang and Aonghus walked over to answer it, only to find Amanda helped herself in.

"Hey. Where's Lara?" Amanda asked.

"In the bathroom. She's been feeling funny all afternoon and she just got up in the middle of the movie and ran into the bathroom. She's throwing up now and she..." Aonghus rambled on and Amanda pretended to look like she cared about what was happening to Lara. Amanda thought she was an amazing person, and the two of them were actually becoming really good friends, but she still was crazy about Aonghus. "...you know? Well, she's locked herself in there, and she won't let me in." Amanda nodded. "Well, look," Aonghus added, "I need to use the bathroom so I am walking down to the gas station."

"Yeah, ok, and I will try to talk to Lara for you ok?" Amanda heard the door close and then walked over and knocked on the bathroom door. "Lara? You ok in there?" The door opened and Amanda walked in. Amanda found a seat on the edge of the bathtub, and Lara was kneeling on the floor.

"You feeling ok?" Amanda asked. Lara shook her head. Amanda went to ask another question, but Lara puffed out her cheeks and turned around and threw up in the toilet. Amanda leaned over and pulled back Lara's hair.

After Lara stopped throwing up, Amanda let go of her hair and went into the kitchen. She came back with some paper towels. Lara wiped around the owl of the toilet.

"What's wrong?" Amanda asked.

"I dunno. I just have been feeling funny lately and all of the sudden I just- ya know," Lara said. "I have no idea where it came from. I think it's gone now though."

"OK, here," Amanda said, getting up and sticking out her hand. "Grab my hand, I'll help you up." Lara took Amanda's hand and pulled herself up with a grunt.

"I'm gunna kill that God dam bird, I'll tell you that," Amanda herd Lara mutter.

"What?" Amanda asked.

"Nothing," Lara said back. The two of them sat down on the couch and decided to watch the rest of the movie.

About five minutes into the movie Lara got up to go to the kitchen and get something to drink.

Just as Lara left the room a car pulled into the driveway. Amanda heard the car door close.

"Aonghus wait up!" Amanda heard Bryant say.

"Hmm?" Amanda heard Aonghus say.

"Quick question I meant to ask you the other day. Well, two questions. One, you had... protection... when you and Lara had sex right?" Bryant asked. Amanda's jaw dropped. She then looked down, studying the ground furiously.

"Of course. I'm not stupid," Aonghus said.

"And you two... have you ever had sex again?" Bryant asked.

"No. She hasn't wanted to. I'm not going to force her to do something she doesn't want to do," Aonghus said. "Oh, but one more thing. Amanda doesn't know, or at least I didn't tell her, that me and Lara had sex, so if you could not bring it up around her that would be great," Aonghus added.

"Sure," Bryant said. Amanda herd the door knob turn, and the two of them walked in together. "So anyway, I just got back from Aunt Clara's and she told me to tell everyone that she is pregnant," Bryant said.

"Hey, Bryant can you give me a ride home?" Lara asked, coming back in from the kitchen.

"Lara? What about the movie?" Aonghus asked putting her hand on Lara's shoulder, but Lara just shifted her shoulder to get Aonghus hand off.

"Don't-" Lara said, and she walked out the door. Bryant just turned around, shrugged and walked out the door with Lara. Amanda and Aonghus herd the car start and pull out of the drive-way. He turned around and Amanda was still in the shocked position she was in when she herd about Lara and Aonghus.

"Sorry Aonghus," Amanda said, "I have to go. Mom called like 20 seconds ago." Amanda then brushed pass him and walked out the door.

Aonghus turned around and looked at his now empty living room. "Well that was some super long party."

Lara looked across the street at the Harvard campus. She always thought it was huge. It has been five years since she broke up with Aonghus and her family moved out to Colorado. She looked across the table at Noah.

"Noah! What did I tell you about throwing food?" Lara said, reaching across the table with the napkin. "No other five-year-old in here is throwing food, so why do you throw food?"

The toddler looked down. "I sorry." Lara reached over and rubbed his head.

"It's ok sport," Lara said.

The door to the little diner opened and in walked a familiar face.

"Aonghus?"

Aonghus turned around and looked back at Lara. "Lara? Is that you?"

"Hey!" Lara said, walking up and giving him a hug.

"Wow. You look... you look great," Aonghus said. "I haven't seen you since you moved."

"Yea. So you go here? To Harvard?" Lara asked.

"Yup. One more year left and I finally become a lawyer," Aonghus said.

"Just like you always wanted."

"Yea."

"Mommy," Noah said, pulling at Lara's skirt. Lara kneeled down to Noah.

"Hey. Who's this little guy?" Aonghus asked.

"This is Noah, he's my son," Lara said.

"Hey there," Aonghus said kneeling down with Lara, "So you're a mommy then?"

"Mommy? I need to go potty," Noah said.

"Ok, looks like you got you hand full. I am going to go order some food and I'll join you in a minute," Aonghus said.

Aonghus went, got some food and met Lara and Noah back at the little table.

"So Noah's your son huh? How old is he?" Aonghus asked.

"Uhhh... well, he's five," Lara said, waiting to see Aonghus' reaction

"Five? Wow. Where's the father?" Aonghus asked. Lara's jaw dropped. How did he not pick up on that? Lara thought. She studied Aonghus.

"Home," Lara said, shocked. For the next hour the two of them talked about what happened since Lara moved and what happened with them.

"Oh, shit look at the time. I'm gunna be late for my next class. I gotta go," Aonghus said. "Hopefully I'll see you sometime again, it's been fun. Bye Noah." With that, Aonghus got up from the table and headed towards the exit.

"Have you always been this slow?" Lara asked, not standing up from her seat.

Aonghus turned around. "What?"

"Noah is five years old. WE were together five years ago. For God's sake, the kid looks exactly like you," Lara said, looking up at Aonghus. Lara saw that Aonghus was starting to get it. The two of them were unaware that the whole diner was now paying attention to what they were saying.

"Aonghus," Lara said. She sighed, then added, "Aonghus, you're the father."

Lara woke up, sweating profusely. She looked around the room, then at the calendar. It read 2006. She felt her stomach. "I'm gunna kill that God dam stork."