A/N: Thanks guys for reviewing! I'm glad you like it so far! I have some interesting ideas (meaning I know how I'm going to end the story, but that's it). I really love getting reviews because they help me cater to my readers and ultimately they make your reading a bit more enjoyable. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I own the idea, a few people, nearly all of the quotes, but nothing else. I mean honestly, only ASP could come up with the name Lorelai. She's brilliant.
Lorelai opened her locker door and threw her books inside. She grabbed her Spanish book and turned around straight into Lydia.
"Loreali, what's wrong? You look angry." Lydia stated, a concerned look on her face.
"I can't stop throwing up when I get to Math class. I swear, I've thrown up every day since last Wednesday. I don't know what my problem is. And the whole class just looks at me and laughs like I'm some sort of mental person and Mr. Carter thinks I'm playing a joke so I can leave the room."
"Maybe you should tell him that if he'd actually put his toupee on his head in the right place, you wouldn't be so repulsed." Lydia giggled and Lorelai smiled over at her.
"Yeah. Did you see it today? It was hanging over the left side of his head. It seriously looked like it was going to fall off. I wish somebody would tell the poor man that toupees go in the center of your head and are meant to cover your bald spots, not the spots with hair."
Lydia laughed. "Yeah. Honestly, though, why do you think he got a different color? I mean, his hair is blond so he gets a brown toupee?"
"Maybe his wife was having an affair with Carlos the pool boy and he figured she liked the brunettes." Lorelai offered. "Or maybe it was on sale." Lydia giggled at all of her suggestions and opened the door to their Spanish room.
"Here, now you can go from being repulsed by a wannabe pool boy to a wannabe salsa dancer." Lorelai peeked inside and laughed. There was her teacher, Ms. Perez, wearing a salsa dancing outfit. Her hair was done up in flowers and the red dress was tight against her skin. Lorelai wasn't sure she ever wanted to see a dress as tight against Ms. Perez's skin.
She took her seat next to Lydia and whispered in Lydia's ear. "Yow, someone call the fire department because Perez is sizzlin'."
Lydia laughed. "Maybe we should just soak her down with that Super Soaker. Put the fire out ourselves." Lorelai grinned and looked up at the Super Soaker hanging on Ms. Perez's wall. She had it for those kids that slept during her class. She'd take it off the wall, stand in front of their desk, and squirt them until they sat up. When they did, she'd interrogate them for a few minutes, give them one last squirt, and make them summarize her lecture. Lorelai would know. She'd been sleeping in Perez's class since the first day of Spanish 1 her freshman year. Now, as a junior, she knew that she would go down in history. Maybe she'd even get a senior superlative: Most Soaked by Perez. She pictured it. It looked nice. It would be one of those silly categories that she would win.
As the bell rang she could tell it was going to be an interesting class. Ms. Perez had brought her boom box with her to school and was playing Salsa music in the background. As she talked, Lorelai found that for the first time in two years she could actually pay attention. When Perez started dancing the salsa dance with a kid in the front row named Adam, Lorelai was both awed and more repulsed by this than anything else.
Lydia leaned over and whispered in her ear. "Repulsed? Because I am…"
Lorelai shook her head no. "It's only Carter. Seriously."
"Weird," Lydia replied, sinking into her seat a little more.
Lorelai sat on the swing at the park, Lydia and Laura swinging next to her. They'd walked home after school and got a quick snack, but eventually they always found themselves at the park. No matter how old they got, they loved the park. They'd met there when they were just toddlers. Lorelai liked the sandbox; Laura liked the baby swings, and Lydia liked everything. They became playmates, and then when Lorelai's parents started going to church with her when she was young, they'd been surprised to find Laura and Lydia there. They'd been inseparable ever sense.
"Hey, let's see who can jump the farthest!" Laura randomly exclaimed. All three girls grinned and began pumping their legs as fast as they can. On the count of five, they jumped off the swing and rolled into each other. Lorelai was the farthest by a hair, but that was only because she was in the middle and didn't have to roll as much. They all grinned and just lied in the grass, heads against each others and hair a mass. They giggled and looked up at the sky, taking in the clouds. They each tried to figure out the hidden picture in the cloud, laughing.
"Look! That one's a clown!" Laura pointed up at one of the clouds. Lydia giggled and looked up.
"No, it's a frog." The others were quiet and looked up at the blue sky for a long time.
"Okay, it's definitely a clown." Laura said. "I don't see a frog. I don't even see a tadpole."
"It's there." Lorelai pouted.
"Hey, is our biology project due tomorrow?" Lydia asked.
"Huh?"
"Our bio project. Is it due tomorrow?"
"Crap." Laura and Lorelai said in unison. "I completely forgot about that. We should probably go do it, huh?"
"I am a fan of not failing, yes." Lydia replied and got up, helping her friends to their feet. They linked arms and skipped home like they were in The Wizard of Oz.
Lorelai opened the front door to her house and they all went upstairs to her room. Lorelai pulled out all of the supplies they'd bought a few weeks earlier and laid it out on her floor. She handed Lydia the book to read while she and Laura tried to come up with ideas for their project. It had to have something to do with development. Anything to do with development.
Lorelai began thinking about children. First words. First steps… No… Pregnancy? No… She didn't know what to do.
"Hey Lor, do you have a tampon?" Lydia asked, wandering into her bathroom.
"Yeah, in the cupboard." Lorelai stopped herself for a moment and glanced at the calendar on the wall. It was January 27th. It had been over a month and a half since she'd last gotten her period. She felt panic rising within her. She couldn't possibly be pregnant. It had only been one time. They'd used protection. Lots of protection.
"I'll be right back," she said quietly to Lydia and wandered into her mother's bedroom. She scrimmaged through her mother's cabinets, looking for something. She didn't know why she thought her mother would have one, but her mother did. She pulled it out and read the directions carefully five or six times. She took the test and leaned against the door, waiting.
She heard a tap on the door. "Lor, you okay in there?" Lydia's voice called. "You've been in here for like five minutes."
Lorelai opened the door and looked at her friend. Laura came up behind her and looked over at the counter and just stared. Lydia glanced over and stared at the test.
"What does it say?" Laura asked hesitantly. Lorelai shrugged and slowly made her way over to the test. Picking the test up in her hands, she looked at it. She fell to the ground, looking straight ahead at the wall. Laura and Lydia quickly sat down beside her and put their arms around her. Lorelai cried until she was sure there were no more tears left in her body. She had made one mistake. Just one. And now she was going to live with it for the rest of her life.