Scott Pilgrim vs the unexpected
Chapter 7
RING! RING!
Scott quickly grabbed the phone before Gideon could reach it. If it was Ramona, he really didn't want Gideon answering the phone.
"Hello?"
"Scott, you got your boyfriend knocked up and didn't tell me about it!" Stacey shouted angrily in his ear.
"What? No! It's not like that at all!"
"Then, what is it then? You can't just go and decide to have a baby with some guy without telling me about it! Wait until Mom hears about this!"
"Mom is in Europe and you are not going to say anything to anyone. How did you find about this anyway?"
"You know how Gideon owns every Second Cup in the Toronto area," Stacey said quietly.
"Yeah, I practically work for him now. Both at work and at home," Scott replied sarcastically.
"Well, he threw up in our bathroom. More than once and always in the morning and according to my manager at company meeting, he had thrown up off the stage. Also he kept talking about breaking you and Ramona up by getting pregnant. I didn't think it was possible. But when he had discovered you two had broken up. He decided to use the pregnancy to embarrass you. I-I was going to tell you but it would have cost me my job. I'm so sorry, Scott."
Scott heard a smallest cry on the phone. Scott glanced around, Gideon had disappeared again. So he was all alone.
"It's okay. He's like this and I'm dealing with it. Just don't tell Mom, okay?"
"Scott, you kind of sound like one of the characters on Renegade Press or Degrassi. Stop it."
Scott rolled his eyes, she could switch out sad for happy, much faster than Gideon ever would.
"Bye Stacey."
"Bye dad-to-be." Stacey said cheerily and hung up.
Scott groaned into the phone.
"Don't remind me."
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Scott lay in bed, wide awake. He had just a dream about the baby jumping out of its crib and attacking him. Wasn't Gideon supposed to be getting these dreams? He was the pregnant one after all. Scott wondered if he did. There was a good chance Scott didn't know half the things that went on in that man's life.
"No, no, no!" Scott heard Gideon shout from the other side of the bed, "This can't be happening to me!"
"Well, that's answers one question," Scott said quietly to himself.
Gideon sat up, breathing hard. He had his hands on his stomach as if he was checking to see if the baby was still there.
Scott sat up and poked Gideon in the arm.
"Bad dream?"
"Scott, the baby came out of my stomach. I-I-It's there still there, right?"
Gideon was practically shaking.
"Just like in that movie!"Scott said gleefully.
"Scott, you are not helping at all."
"You are fine. The baby is still there. Now go back to sleep. The baby and you will be fine." Scott said lying back down.
Gideon nodded and fell back asleep, snuggled up under the crook of Scott's arm.
End of chapter 7
P.S: Renegade Press is a Canadian TV show.