Okay so my updating is gonna be a little less frequent cause I'm back in school and, so, my time is being cut a little short. Anyways thank you for your reviews and please enjoy!
The loud blaring of her alarm clock makes her eyes snap open and her body stills—there's a moment when she first wakes up that she's able to forget. She's able to forget the baby, Liam, Karma, everything—she was just able to forget and, for a few peaceful seconds, her life was uncomplicated, boring and, above all, drama free.
She hears her step-sister's music drift in from her room, she hears her mother's humming and her step-father's heavy footfalls as he walks around the house, getting ready. A fairly normal day in the Cooper-Raudenfeld home and there's an odd sense of peace that comes with it.
And then it all washes over her like the world's suckiest wave (wave of nausea, that is) and she rushes to her and Lauren's conjoined bathroom and dumps the contents of her stomach into the toilet. And as she stays there—crouched in front of her toilet, her forehead pressed against the cool porcelain—that's when she remembers the baby, Liam, Karma and everything else.
"Might wanna keep it down" Lauren's voice makes her jump, she looks up to see her step-sister causally leaning against the doorway—she doesn't even remember hearing that door open "If Farrah hears you, she'll ask you what's wrong and then, because you're you, you'll crack under the pressure and spill your guts"
Amy lets out a loud groan as the smell of her mother's breakfast feast makes its way upstairs and settles right under her nose. She hovers over the toilet again and starts to dry heave
"Amy" Lauren's voice is softer than what it was before and she feels the blonde's hand on her shoulder "I'll go tell Farrah you aren't feeling well, stay home"
"No" it's the first time Amy's spoken this fine morning, she whips up and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand "You said it yourself—she'll ask questions"
"Yeah, I know but you won't be doing the answering" Amy raised her brow at her step-sister "Just climb back into bed, and either pretend to go to sleep or actually go to sleep then I'll just say you woke up feeling sick so I sent you back to bed. She won't be able to pester you and you get a day off—no muss, no fuss"
Amy can't help but smile "Thanks"
"No problem preggo the lesbo, now get your ass into bed" and with that lovely nickname and soft order Amy does as told. She climbs back into bed, throws the covers over her head and shuts her eyes praying for sleep to come quickly.
x
Her eyes crack open this time due to her phone going off—she reaches out blindly and grasps the offending object. Her screen is lit up with messages from Karma, Shane and even a few from Liam.
Karma's are fairly simple—where are you? Are you okay? If you're asleep, just text me when you wake up.
Shane's are, for them most part, the same. Asking where she was and if she was okay but Shane's texts didn't stop coming in—every ten minutes or so, there'd be a new one.
Two were from Liam and they were sweet enough; Are you okay? Can you please let me know if you're okay when you can?
Amy sighs and taps out a response to Karma stating she was sick but she should be fine by tomorrow, the same thing to Shane. She simply typed out 'morning sickness' to Liam and left it at that.
Swinging her feet over the edge of her bed, she slowly padded to the bathroom and let out a heavy sigh; how was this supposed to work? The blonde was left confused and annoyed at the fact that she's supposed to hide this as long as she could but her constant state of needing to throw up was already making that more difficult than it needed to be.
"Oh look who finally woke up" Amy jumps at Lauren's voice, she looks over to see the bathroom door open and Lauren sitting on her bed with her laptop on her lap "Was wondering when you'd decide to join the land of the living"
"Is it really that late?" she hadn't bothered to look at the time when she was tapping out messages
"Amy, it's noon"
"That's not so bad"
Lauren scoffs "Yeah, okay"
Amy slowly walks into Lauren's room, not wanting to overstep any boundaries. Yes, Lauren has been nothing but supportive and, yes, she was basically Amy's support system all on her own since Liam has had a day to adjust to the news that he was going to be a father but their relationship had rapidly shifted since the wedding and the last two days. They were still getting a feel for what was okay and what wasn't so as she stepped into Lauren's room—she did so with caution.
"What are you doing here anyways?"
Lauren doesn't remove her eyes from the screen of her laptop "Farrah insisted I stay home to take care of you"
"Oh" she walks over to the bed and sits on the edge; it doesn't seem to startle Lauren so she relaxes
"Yeah, oh, and I was doing a little research and—" she turns her screen to face Amy "There's a lot we need to do" Amy's eyes quickly flit over the screen and all she can gather is Lauren is possibly the most organized person she's ever met "But first things first" she closes her laptop and locks eyes with Amy "what do you want to do with the baby?"
Amy sighs and looks down—she had her mind made up last night, she slept on it and it still feels right but she doesn't want someone to say she picked wrong. She doesn't want someone telling her that and making her doubt her decision "I—I want to keep it"
A look of happiness passes over Lauren's face before she nods and her face seems to go back to normal "Okay, cool" she opens her laptop and lets out a little sigh "I'm gonna be an aunt"
And that was that.
x
Lauren was serious about planning—the blonde and droned on and on and on about prenatal pills, yoga classes and books. She already set up an appointment for next month, and how they were gonna have to stock up on ginger ale and crackers to help with Amy's nausea. She spoke of a gender reveal and even names but that's when Amy stopped her
"Okay, Lauren" the girl looked up at her "This thing is still probably the size of a jellybean, maybe we should wait a minute before we even think about names"
"But Amy, we can't go through the next four months just calling it an 'it'"
Amy sighs "Fine but if were gonna talk about this—I need food in my system. It's been a solid eight hours since I've eaten"
The shorter blonde nodded and closed her laptop "you're right, you need food" she climbed out of bed and it shouldn't surprise Amy, but it does, that she's already dressed "We can go to that diner I picked you up at last night"
"Yeah, okay"
"And we can ask Liam to meet us there"
"Yea—wait, what?" her nose screwed up "Why would we do that?"
"Because he's the father of this child and I'm not doing this planning all on my own" she plucked her purse from her desk "Now, hurry and go get dressed"
Amy does as told but sticks with the topic of planning "I can help you know—this is my baby" the words made her stomach twist but she opts to ignore it, she's just trying to make a point to Lauren right now and she doesn't need the extra stress of having to dwell on her own words.
"No, you aren't gonna help because if you helped, this child would probably be named Karma and have nothing but clothes with food on it"
Amy, despite herself, laughs "You say that like it's a bad thing"
x
Lauren does the inviting of Liam Booker;
Can you skip and meet Amy and I at the diner from last night?
It's not hard to believe that Lauren Cooper doesn't believe in text talking—she likes grammar and spelling out the full word.
Is everything okay?
Lauren feels a certain amount of pity for Liam, she knows he can be a douche and the whole reason he wanted to get with Karma in the first place was fucked and sleeping with Amy was even worse but she can't help but pity the guy. He got a girl knocked up, and while she doesn't know his home life, it's probably not gonna be all sunshine and rainbows when he tells them and then you have the fact that he and Amy were never really friends but now they're gonna have a baby together.
Peachy. We were just gonna have a late lunch and see if you wanted to join us being that you're the father of Amy's unborn child
She hopes that he knows to delete these messages.
Yeah I can be there in ten
With that Lauren closes out of the conversation and peeks her head into Amy's room "Baby daddy will be joining us"
x
Lauren and Amy get to the tiny little diner before Liam; the hostess sits them down and asks what they want to drink. Lauren says water and Amy's about halfway through the word 'coffee' when Lauren cuts her off
"She'll have water as well"
The waitress looks at Amy and Amy looks at Lauren who simply sends her a hard stare. Amy sighs "Yeah, yeah water is fine" the waitress walks away and Amy sighs "Why can't I have coffee?"
"Coffee has caffeine, caffeine is a drug—no drugs while pregnant, Amy" Lauren doesn't even remove her eyes from the menu
"But—"
"Nope"
"Lauren a little can't be that bad"
The blonde pauses, looks at Amy, and then looks back at the menu "I'll think about it"
"I'm not a child—"
"I said 'I'll think about it'"
Amy pouts and crosses her arms over her chest, Lauren's eyes flit up from a second and she snorts "Tell me again how you aren't a child"
x
Liam gets there right after they waitress brings the drinks, he opts to sit next to Amy "Hey"
"Hey" Amy says quietly.
A few awkward and tense minutes pass before Lauren sighs and places her menu down "Okay, I'm not doing this for the next 18 years of my life—Liam you got her pregnant" she looks to Amy "Amy you are pregnant with his child. You two cannot be awkward with each other for the rest of your lives if you plan to keep this baby"
"Wait" Liam looks to Amy "You're keeping it?"
"I mean, it feels right and like you said; it's the one good thing to come out of all of this"
Liam smiles brightly and so does Amy and Lauren smiles a little herself "See" they both look to Lauren "Progress"
x
The lunch isn't so bad. Lauren does babble on and on about the baby and everything that was going to come with getting ready for its arrival and raising it. Liam asks questions, much to Amy's surprise and Lauren is more than happy to answer them and before they know it, its two hours later.
"Okay so you can eat the placenta?" Liam sounds absolutely fascinated and Lauren nods eagerly
"Yes, well, Amy can"
"Like how does that work—do they cook it?"
"Some do but she can have it encapsulated" how they are having this conversation so causally is boggling Amy's mind—they literally found out two days ago that she was pregnant.
"Wow that is so—"
Amy swallows a bit of her food, an apple pie because they've been here forever and Amy wanted dessert "So not happening"
"What?" Lauren sighs "Why not?"
"Because I'm not eating my placenta" her nose scrunches up "It's weird"
"Is not—Amy there are so many health benefits to it"
Amy sighs at Lauren's pout, and her wide begging eyes "I'll think about it"
"Amy—"
"I said 'I'll think about it'"
x
They leave after Amy's finishes her pie (it's more Amy has to nearly drag Lauren to the car because her and Liam and so engrossed in their baby conversation, which is still really weird) they pile into the car and Amy lets out a deep sigh "Thank you"
Lauren's brow rises "For?"
"Being there" she looks over at Lauren "And not being a complete bitch about the whole thing"
She simply shrugs as she starts the car "I figure this is the one time I would let up on you"
Amy couldn't be more grateful.
I don't like updating if the chapter is shorter than 2,000 words and it's only about hundred words over that so I hope that's okay! Anyways—please review and lemme know what you think!