"I just hate it so much Sky. I wish you were here SO bad." I said into the phone.
"I'm gonna be home in just a week and things will go back to normal." Skylar said.
"Doubt it." I said sighing. But the deep breath hurt my stomach, "ouch.." I muttered under my breath.
"You alright?" she asked.
"Yeah I think so.. just.. cramps."
"Ah, I gottcha."
"Aria!" I heard Lilia yell.
"Aria!" Jillian followed.
"I gotta go. I think Lilia and Jillian are killing each other." I said.
"Okay. Good luck. Talk to you tomorrow."
"Bye" I said while pushing the end button. I walked towards their shared bed room. "What is wrong you two?" I asked walking in still holding my side.
"Jillian won't let me hold Liam!" Lilia wined.
"Lili, you know your still to young to hold him alone." I said taking Liam from Jillian. "And wasn't he sleeping anyway?" I asked.
"He woke up.." Jillian said.
"And no one thought to tell me?" I asked patting Liams back, hoping he might fall back asleep for a bit.
"It was only a few minutes ago." Jillian replied crossing her arms.
"Lilia can you go get Mike and ask him to come up here please." I said, Because I knew she'd be glad to help, and I needed to talk to Jillian alone. Lilia ran downstairs to go get Mike.
|"Jillian, please, don't be mad at me." I said. Jillian rolled her eyes. "I told you all about Ezra..." I went on.
"Yeah, but you left out one little detail. That he was your teacher."
"Jill, I didn't want you to know that and be lying to mom and dad.. I didn't wanna put that pressure on you..."
"Whatever, Aria." she spat.
"Come on, Jill, what is it?" I ask. "You're not just mad about me not telling your he's my teacher."
She looks down at the ground. "You said you weren't sleeping with him. You didn't just hide something from me, you actually lied to me..."
"I didn't sleep with him... why would you think that?"
"The pregnancy test in your room." she said.
'Shoot' I thought. Mike came up just then.
"You needed me?" he asked me. I open my mouth to answer, but Jillian interupts me.
"I don't want any other babies in this house, Aria! I want to live a normal life like everyone else, I don't want my teenage sister to have a baby, move in with her boyfriend and forget all about me!" she said.
"I take it she knows." he said.
"Jillian, how did this suddenly become about you?!" I asked. "I was scared to death. And, I didn't sleep with Ezra. That's all you need to know and you need to trust that when I keep something from you it's because
it's what's best for you." I continued. "And just for your information, I'm not pregnant, so don't worry, your perfect little life won't be disturbed!" I didn't wait for her to reply but instead went down stairs and got some
Tylenol. Ohh, why can't it take the pain of life away as well?
"You alright?" Mike asked.
"She'll get over it." I said closing my eyes.
"No, I know things between you and Jill will be fine. I meant the fact that your eating chocolate, watching some comedy show you hate and laying with an icepack on your stomach." he said.
"Mike, really? Think about it." I said.
"Oh.." he said sitting on the couch next to me.
"Can I do anything to help?" he asked. I sat up and looked at him.
"You're offering to help? Oh gosh, am I dying?" I joked.
"I just want.. I don't know I want help."
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't know. I just kinda want to help. You just don't look good." he said.
"Thanks Mike. I'm fine. Really." I assured him.
"Alright, well I'll be upstairs.." he said.
"mhm.." I said closing my eyes again as my stomach started to hurt worse.
I sat up and brought my legs to my chin and turned the tv to a different channel trying to distract myself from the pain. I tried to push the though out of my mind, but It wasn't working.
I go upstairs and go into the bathroom. It's the only place in the entire house where no one will bother me. I get out my phone and call Emily.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Em, It's me."
"Hey, what's up? You okay?"
"Not really..." I fill her in on what's happening.
"Aria don't worry. You'll be fine in a few hours. Why don't you take some midol and take a nap?"
"But Em it's never hurt this bad before!" I said trying not to let myself cry. "It's not just normal cramps it's way worse... It's like making me nausious it's so awful..."
"Do you want me to come over?" she offered. "Make sure your sisters don't kill each other and try and distract you?"
"Lemme try a nap first and see... maybe I'll be okay... and Mike's here..."
"Sure." she said.
"Thanks, Emily..."
"You're welcome. Talk to you soon."
I hang up. I was still in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub I go into my room and grab a pillow, and blanket. I go back in the bathroom and lay up against the bathtub, and almost drift off. But the pain gets
worse and worse, till I'm crying and shaking. I try to get up to walk, but I can't even seem to do that. "Mike?" I yelled for him. Jillian knocked on the bathroom door.
"everything ok?" she asked.
"Jillian go get Mike" I command.
She gives me a weird look, probably fear, curiosity and pity, and goes to get him.
In a few minutes, Mike comes in.
"Aria, what happened?" he sat down next to me.
"Oh my gosh." Jillian said. "Aria you're so pale!"
"Jill call Ezra" Mike said handing her my phone. "Do you think your appendix burst or something?" Mike asked. I nodded. "Something like that..."
"It hurts." I said still sobbing. I never let my siblings see me crying or see me sick, or anything like that. The fact that I wasn't even trying to hide it from them made Jillian so scared, and you could see it in her face.
I hadn't cried like this since my grandma died two years, five months and three days ago. I balled my eyes out in front of all of them, not caring that they were watching me. I was the only one close to my
grandmother besides Mike and Skylar. Jillian and my parents and her never got along with her. Lilia was too young and Liam wasn't born. I cried, even though I knew know one, not even Mike, knew the pain Skylar
and I felt over her death.
Jillian was now talking on the phone to Ezra, I could hear Liam screaming his lungs out from his crib. Lilia was
standing in the door way, and I could faintly hear Mike saying "Aria, can you hear me?" my eyes were closed and felt like I was gonna pass out at any second. "Shoot, that is a lot of blood…" I heard Jillian said into
the phone. Right after that, I was sure I had passed out and was probably asleep for a while, because the next thing I heard was Ezra's voice.
"Aria.. Honey…." he said. I opened my eyes to look at him. "Aria can you hear me?" he asked. I nodded. I put my hand on his shirt trying to pull him close to me, but didn't have any strength at all. But he got it and
came and wrapped his arms around me. Then he looked into my eyes. "Aria… don't freak out.. But.. You just had a baby."
It was only a matter of seconds before a tiny, silent baby was placed in my arms. I didn't even know what to think, what to do. I didn't look down at it. I just starred at Ezra. "Did I just have a baby?" I asked crying,
even though he had just told me I did. "I didn't even know.. I mean.. I wasn't.. I'm not…"
"Hey.." He says silencing me, putting a hand on my cheek. "It's okay.. Everything's ok." he soothed. I don't know how on Earth he was even remotely calm. I was terrified, and I would freak out right now if I could. I
was too scared to look at it. Was he even alive? I looked to Mike who had blood all over his hands. Holy cow. I really did just have a baby.
"But I, but I don't even look pregnant!" I said.
"Well Aria I can guarantee you, you were…" Mike said.
"Take him." I said. "Just take him from me I can't.. I don't want to hold him or look at him.." Mike took the baby from me.
"He, is a she." Ezra said. At this I finally looked at her. She was so tiny. I couldn't believe it. She was absolutely beautiful though.
"Is she alive?" I asked.
"she's breathing, but not crying." He answered me.
"oh my gosh…." I said, not knowing what else to say or do. I'm sure I hadn't made any sense this whole time. I was in so much shock, that after saying that all I could do was cry and stare at her. Ezra tried to but his
hand on my shoulder to comfort me, but I shook my head. "Please don't" I said. I didn't want any body to touch me. I just sat there not sure what to do. Soon paramedics flew into the bathroom and immediately took
her from Mike trying to get her to breath. And then they started to ask me questions.
"Did you know you were pregnant?"
"Not until now"
"Do you have any idea when you got pregnant?"
"I...I... I don't know.. during the summer probably..." I told them not taking my eyes off her.
"did you drink or smoke when you were pregnant?"
"No.." I answered. a lot happened that I don't really remember. What I do remember is my parents showing up, and I remember crying into my moms shoulder. I remember seeing Jillian frantically explain the situation
to my father. I remember my dad saying "I cant believe it. She really didn't know, did she?"