Chapter Twenty-Seven
The Baby Shower Pt. 2
"We're here!" Mrs. Beaker declared, she had a gaggle of church ladies behind her.
"Mrs. Beaker," Annie said forcing a smile, "Excuse me. Simon Kitchen?!"
Annie quickly dragged her son into the kitchen, she was absolutely furious as she asked, "What is Mrs. Beaker doing here? What are the rest of the church ladies doing here?"
"Well I went to get my gift for Ruthie and the baby. I wanted to get her something cool, considering were so close, so I went and bought one of those huge stuffed giraffes. I had enough money from my first screenplay. I know it wasn't a hit but I still made a little something. I hope the one I'm working on now does better. It was pretty expensive but…" Simon began as Matt entered the kitchen.
"How expensive?" Matt asked needing to know everything.
"It was thousand dollars but it's really cool." Simon said.
"You spent WHAT?!" Annie yelled.
"That must be one big stuffed animal." Matt said, "So where is it?"
"Well after I bought the giraffe I went to put him in my car and it wouldn't fit."
"What'd you do?" Matt asked on the edge of his seat.
"I have no idea how I managed to but I got in my car eventually by sticking the head through the sunroof."
"Well then where is it?" Matt asked.
"Stuck in my car, I couldn't get it out. So I parked around the corner so Ruthie wouldn't see it." Simon said with a sigh, "I'm going to need help to get it unstuck."
"Simon what does this have to do with Mrs. Beaker and the church ladies being here?" Annie asked getting inpatient.
"Well after I got the giraffe in the car and drove to the party store. You'd be surprised at how many people honked at me on the drive their."
"Simon the point?!" Annie ordered.
"Oh so I ran into Mrs. Beaked at the store and she kind of invited herself and the other church women."
"This was supposed to be a small party to make Ruthie feel better not to stress her out." Annie said throwing her arms up. "And on top of that we still can't find Ruthie."
Martin found Ruthie a block and a half away from the Camden home she was sitting on the curb beside a tree.
"What are you doing here?" Martin asked her.
"My feet hurt." Ruthie replied, "I couldn't make it all the way to the park. It' another six blocks."
"I know." Martin said taking a seat next to her, "What I meant was what are you doing here? Why aren't you at home?"
"There throwing me a baby shower."
"I know." Martin said, "That's why I'm here."
Back at the Camden house, Annie was at the end of her rope with Mrs. Beaker. She kept making comments about Ruthie's situation, when the door bell rang. She was hoping it was Ruthie but it ended up being Mrs. Bink.
"I heard a bunch of crazy people crash Ruthie's baby shower." Mrs. Bink said causing tears to burst from Annie's eyes and stream down her cheeks.
"Ruthie's missing and if Mrs. Beaker makes one more comment?!" Annie said the tears still falling.
"It's worse than I thought." Bink said wrapping an arm around Annie. After calming her down a bit the two of them headed into the living room to hear Mrs. Beaker say, "Well this baby shower is so nice, especially for someone in Ruthie's situation, being an unwed seventeen year old that is."
"I was seventeen when I had my son!" Mrs. Bink said causing everyone to look at her.
"I was young to when I had my first daughter but then again I was married and I had graduated." Mrs. Beaker said and then turned to Annie, "We've run out of carrots. Annie, do you have some more in the kitchen that I can cut up for you?"
"No I'll do it." Annie said picking up the tray and heading into the kitchen.
"Of course I was married!" Annie mocked pulling out the cutting board, "And I'd graduated."
"You need any help?" Mrs. Bink asked walking in.
"No thanks." Annie said, "And I didn't know you had a son."
"I don't!" Mrs. Bink said with a laugh, "I just said that to shut up Beaker but it didn't work."
"No it didn't."
Ruthie and Martin found themselves in Martin's old bedroom at his dad's house. They had planned to talk in privacy only to find that now there clothes lay scattered around the room and they were in each others arms lying on his bed with the sheets tangled around them. Ruthie was already completely unclothed and Martin only had his boxer shorts left. He found himself pulling Ruthie closer to him if that was even possible. He began to kiss her passionately. Their lips intertwined in a sensual dance. They were pulling themselves closer to what they both wanted, what they both needed so desperately. And as quickly as it began it ended as Martin pulled back a bit.
"We can't." he said, "We'll hurt the baby."
Ruthie had been an emotional roller coaster, Martin should have seen it coming but he didn't. Angered she pushed him off her causing him to land full force on the bedroom floor. At that very moment Beau Brewer had come home and he heard the bang. It caused him to run straight up the stairs to find his son sitting on the floor in a daze and Ruthie picking up her clothes with a sheet wrapped around her.
"What's going on?" Beau yelled.
"Nothing now!" Ruthie said beyond the point of embarrassment that she didn't care anymore.
"Do the kids want a snack?" Michelle said calling from the stairs. Beau quickly made a one eighty degree turn and went to talk to his fiancé.
"You knew they were here?"
"Yeah they went upstairs to talk." Michelle said.
"What did you do when you were a teenager alone in a room?"
"Oh my….oh my you didn't….oh you did…you walked in on…Oh my!?" Michelle said shaking her head.
"I need some air." Beau said heading back out the front door.
Note: I know those Giraffe's cost more than that but I couldn't have Simon paying that much :)