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The Next Day

Alex

I woke up and yawned. I looked at my clock. Five thirty, a half an hour earlier than usual, but I was starving so I didn't go back to sleep. I got up and ran to the bathroom where I puked out all last night's dinner. I cleaned my mouth off and rethought about me going to eat something. I decided to keep it light. A cracker maybe. I headed down stairs. I took a bite of the cracker and ran to the kitchen trash can where I threw up some more. Justin came down and held my hair out of my face. Once I was done I wiped off my mouth.

"Thanks Justin," I said.

"You're welcome, you sure you want to go to school?" he said looking at me.

"Yeah, I'll bee fine," I said. Rikki came down ready to go. I could tell she just had stopped vomiting. Justin left us and went downstairs. I stayed in the kitchen looking for something that wouldn't upset my stomach. Then Rikki and I headed upstairs to get our things. There was a knock on my bedroom door.

"Now you decide to knock," I said as I opened my door to see Justin.

"Rikki is our guest," he replied. I wanted to throw a pillow at him! Only knocking for Rikki? Ugh!

"Well, what do you want?" I asked a bit irritated.

"Dad wants to talk to you," he replied simply.

"Well this better be good," I said as I walked down the steps to where Dad was standing.

"Good morning Alex," he said.

"Good morning Dad," I said just to be polite and cover my irritated voice.

"So, Alex, you're friends with Juliet?" he asked. Oh no! Justin told Dad about Juliet's pregnancy? This is bad!

"Well yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I said trying to act dumb but I couldn't hide the alarmed tone in my voice very well.

"Well, you're brother was well," he didn't know how to complete the sentence. What age did he think I was? Five?

"Smart? Stupid? Reckless? Careless?" I threw words at him trying to make it sound like I hadn't eavesdropped.

"Irresponsible," Dad said. I nodded.

"He's never irresponsible though," I said trying to keep my cover.
"Well he was one night with Juliet," again he didn't know how to say it. Just say it already! I mean really? Am I suddenly four years old again?

"Let's just say they slept with each other, with their clothes off," Dad said. Nice, he had to put it in baby language. I didn't mind. I so did not want the talk right now.

"Ok, and?" I said trying to keep him talking so I can go back up stairs.

"Juliet's pregnant," he said. Wow! Shocking! Justin would become a dad at fifteen? Gasp! Not! Like I didn't know something was going on when he wanted everybody out of the house. How stupid does Dad and Justin think I am?

"Ok?" I said.

"I don't want you being under bad influences," Dad said. I was going to blurt out Rikki's secret but I bit my tongue. I couldn't betray a friend like that, not even a cousin, and especially not if I knew that person for a day.

"Dad, it's not Juliet's fault. And second of all, I think I can make my own decisions and say 'no' when it comes to sleeping with somebody," I said going up the steps. Dad was silent. Good, so I had won this argument. I wasn't going to leave Juliet just because Justin was 'irresponsible'. I went upstairs and looked at Justin like he was crazy, because he was.

"Why did you tell Dad?" I asked.

"Because he should know if he's going to be a grandfather or not," Justin said. Rikki looked at me to Justin to my stomach.

"Is this about Juliet or Alex?" she asked.

"Alex is pregnant?" Justin asked.

"Didn't we go through this yesterday? I think I am. And Juliet is and yes we're talking about Juliet, but seriously why'd you tell him? He's going to be asking me all sorts of questions that I don't particularly want to answer," I said angry at Justin. Max came in.

"Hey Rikki, Alex, Justin, what you guys talking about?" Max asked.

"Don't you ever knock?" I asked.

"It's none of your business Max," Justin said. Rikki sat there on the bed.

"Hi Max, uh we're talking about Health Class, so if you would excuse us, I think we have more to talk about and we don't want you getting grossed out," Rikki said.

"Ok, the bus is here in fifteen minutes," Max said.

"The bus?" I asked.

"It's a yellow long car that transports people," Justin said like I was dumb and two again.

"I know what it is!" I snapped at him. I had really lost my patience with this guy! He was really going to get it!

"What do you mean by the bus?" I asked again.

"It's coming in fifteen minutes, that's what he means," Justin said. I was so going to kill him!

"I know what he means! What I'm asking is, is why!" I yelled.

"To pick people up, duh," Justin said with a smirk on his face.

"WHY! ISN'T! DAD! DRIVING! US! IN!" I yelled.

"Because we get bus transportation here," Justin said. The light above me shattered.

"Dad!" Justin called a bit worried. The lamp next to my bed flickered and exploded. Dad came rushing up seeing that I was beyond angry. Then the vase broke and water splashed all over Rikki and me. Rikki ran to the bathroom and so did I. The door shut and locked behind us. I fell to the ground. I looked over at Rikki. I was shocked when I saw an orange tail just like my blue one.

"You're a mermaid?" we both asked each other at the same time.

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