Chapter Nine

The Baby

The only reason I knew all that (if you were wondering) is because Elizabeth was hiding behind something listening to everything. Then, of course, she told me! By the time I woke up Peter wasn't there, well he was, he was running off hoping I didn't notice him. "Ok Liz, what is up?" I asked after she told me all that.

"Wow, no one has called me that since I was five."

"Stop trying to change the sub-," I said cut off by her running to the edge of the ship and…well, hoe do I say this in a way that is not gross. Ok, there isn't a way! She was throwing up. Right then I knew. "OH MY GOSH!!! You are pregnant!" Right now we were the only ones on deck.

By now she stopped. "SHHHHH! Will doesn't know yet. I haven't told him because I don't know if he wants the baby." I wasn't really listening. I was busy looking and rubbing her stomach. Come to think of it, she was getting a little bigger.

"You mean you haven't told him yet?!? How long has it been?"

"Uhmmmm…five months. I have just been eating more so Will thinks I am just gaining weight."

"Well you kinda need to tell him don't ya think?"

"I guess I should. But, Lana, will you come with me, please?"

"Sure." I said thinking of how to tell him. "Let me handle it and you just stand there and look cute. Ok?"

"Yo! Get up!" I said punching Will in the stomach. He was still asleep.

"What do you want?" he said waving his hand telling me to go away. He was also was ducking under his covers.

Then getting annoyed at him for being so stubborn. So I just pulled the covers of him and through them on the floor. "Listen," I said sarcastically. "Elizabeth is going to have a little baby."

"GO AWAY! I'M SLEEPING!" he yelled angry.

"Be right back, Liz." I went to go get a pail of FREEZING water. This should be fun, I thought to myself. Then I entered the room and poured the water on him. I was quite funny because then he screamed like a little girl.

"What do you want?!? I am awake now!" he yelled at me.

"Your wife here is going to have a baby!" I yelled back.

"Lizzie are you really?" he said running up to her.

She just nodded. "Ok, I will leave you two love birds alone now," I said stepping out of the room.

"What was all that about, love?" Jack said as he walked by me.

"Elizabeth is going to have a baby," I said as if nothing happed.

"She is! Oh, the crew will get a kick out of this!" he yelled running around and telling people.

As I turned the corner I tripped over a leg. When I hit ground I noticed it was Peter's leg. "Are you ok?" he asked rushing over to me.

"I'll be fine," I said looking into his eyes. They looked so…worried, like I was about to die. I could tell he was trying to avoid me (when I was awake) because he was embarrassed about the other night. "I think the question is are YOU ok?"

"What do you mean?" he said surprised I had asked.

"What I mean is, you have been acting weird lately. Like you have been avoiding me?"

"Well, I kind of have, I didn't think that you liked me after what I said the other night," he said looking away.

"You were sweet, and I have liked you since you stood up for me in the very beginning when Jack was going to shoot me."

"I liked you when you crunched down in the rum seller hiding from me. You looked so scared and innocent."