Colors of Love
Chapter Four
In the Yellow
Over the next few months Jay and Emma seemed to be the happiest couple, always spending time together, snuggling, kissing, doing stuff that was sickening for people to watch.
Emma stopped hanging out at the mall so much and Jay stopped going to the ravine all together.
Alex would watch them, jealousy flaming through her eyes but there was nothing she could do.
They were bonded.
If not by love, then by the baby Emma carried that had both of their genes.
Emma had loved him from the very beginning. And he was starting to fall in love with her.
Whether it was forced or true, he felt it.
And they were in love.
Jay would go to sleep at night and dream of Emma's beautiful blonde-hair-outlined face.
Emma would go to sleep and dream of them as a family.
Running through the park with a small dog. And a baby in their arms.
As if it was perfect, like in a movie.
And the picture would be blurred slightly from the summer sprinklers spraying all around them.
In the winter there would be sledding and ice-skating.
Emma would wake up in the morning and quickly pull out a piece of paper where she wrote down her dreams.
Except they weren't just dreams.
They were the plans for her life with a baby and Jay.
One day, eight months into the pregnancy, Emma and Jay met up in front of school.
"Hey." He said, kissing her softly.
When they broke away she whispered back, "Hey.
They both smiled, hand in hand, and entered the school.
People still talked and whispered.
"Look, Emma Nelson's getting fat."
"Maybe that Jay kid knocked her up."
They would laugh.
Emma and Jay both knew it was there, but they both chose to ignore it.
No matter what other people thought, they had made a relationship that made them happy.
And the baby would make them whole.
They were in the yellow.