Lisa had finally started sleeping normally again for a change when another noise woke her up. It was like nobody wanted her to get any rest. She decided she had enough of dealing with people for the day. If she ignored them long enough surely they would get the message and go away. After 15 minutes of the person knocking and then pausing periodically waiting for her to answer the door she realized her plan wasn't going to work. Obviously the person wasn't just going to go away like she had hoped. Finally she decided that she had no choice but to get up and answer the door. She just hoped it wasn't more bad news or another unexpected visitor.
Lisa opened the door to reveal Landon leaning in the doorway.
"Hey, beautiful are you feeling any better?"
He didn't wait for Lisa to invite him in and entered the living room.
Lisa blushed at being called beautiful. She thought she probably looked like shit right about now.
"Yeah, much better. Thanks" Lisa said faking a smile that she hoped he would buy. She had always been a terrible liar though.
"You don't look like you are feeling much better"
"Well, I just got up. Maybe that's why." That wasn't a complete lie. She had just gotten up. She just chose to leave out the phone call that had woken her.
"Oh, I didn't wake you up did I? I'm sorry Leese, I knew I should have waited longer to come check on you." Landon felt like a complete ass now for waking Lisa up when she needed to be sleeping to get better.
Lisa knew she couldn't let Landon think he was the reason she woke up. He would feel awful knowing that and she couldn't let him feel awful for something he didn't do.
"Actually I was already awake when you stopped by." She mentioned while making herself comfortable on the couch. "I just had music on and didn't realize that you were at the door."
"Oh really" Landon asked intrigued thinking maybe Lisa was lying just to spare his feelings. He joined her on the couch taking the spot next to her. Instinctively he started rubbing her back trying to relax her and hopefully make her feel better.
"Yeah, the phone actually woke me up"
"Was it the doctor's office? Did they call with the results of the tests they performed yesterday? Is it anything serious?" Landon asked not even pausing to take a breath between questions. Lisa knew he was anxious to find out what was wrong.
"Wrong number actually." She wished that the phone call had been a wrong number. She was a terrible liar and her eyes refused to make eye contact with him afterwards
"Are you sure it wasn't the doctor's office calling?" Landon asked. He had noticed Lisa's eyes were avoiding his after her last statement. A horrible thought stuck Landon then. He gently lifted Lisa's chin so she was facing him again "You don't have some fatal disease or something that you don't want to tell me about, do you?" The thought was too terrible to be real. He couldn't imagine losing Lisa after they had had so little time to spend together.
"No, it's nothing like that" Damn it she thought right after she said it. According to her the doctor's office hadn't even called her yet. She wouldn't know that it wasn't some kind of disease and Landon had picked up on this little bit of information.
"How do you know Lisa, I thought you said the doctor office hadn't called yet?"
Lisa could no longer hold back the tears that had been threatening to break through ever since she opened the door and saw Landon standing there. She didn't want to start crying in front of him but the tears started forming at the corner of her eyes anyways.
"Earlier, when I said that the phone call was a wrong number I lied." Her voice was cracking from being so upset.
"Its okay, Leese. It was just one little lie. No harm done" He stated as he brought her closer to his chest and held her against his body while rubbing her back.
Lisa didn't want to but she pushed away from him. "No, it's not okay. Things are never going to be okay ever again." Lisa yelled at him. She didn't know why she was taking her anger out on him. Jackson was who she should be taking her anger out on but he wasn't there. Landon was just trying to help and she felt bad for yelling at him.
"Whatever it is you can tell me and I'll be here for you. I would never leave you Lisa. Haven't you figured that out by now?" he reassured her.
"Really, no matter what?" she asked looking up at him with tear-filled green eyes.
"Never"
"The doctor's office did call." Lisa answered not wanting to explain anything further
"And?" Landon asked anxious to hear what the doctor had to say.
Lisa grasped both of Landon's hands in hers. "Landon, according to the doctor I'm pregnant."
