Rikki's Pov
I pulled the blankets off of me, standing up from the messed up bed. I looked over at the clock, realizing it was already 11 in the morning.
"Great, just great." I thought, walking over to the bathroom.
A week ago I went to the pharmacy to ask i if i needed to take anything through out the pregnancy and he recommend these pills to help the baby grow healthy. I wasn't sure if medicines were safe to take but he said it was all good and that it would actually help the baby develop better.
I carefully filled the glass of water up, swalling the pill while taking a sip from it. I looked into the mirror, seeing my horrible messed up hair in the reflection of it. I fluffed out my hair, feeling to lazy to comb it.
I was still rooming around in my pajamas, which were some shorts and a loose t-shirt. I pulled some random clothes from the door and placed it on the bed.
I took off the shirt and snapped a bra on me. I think the pain in breast have gotten worse. They were always aching and if i slept sideways, it would hurt them. I probably shouldn't be complaining now since I knew it was just going to get worse.
And that's when it strike me. I turned around to admire myself in the long skinny mirror and there I saw a small bump in my stomach. I placed my hand over it, as it felt a bit hard. Shocked, i cautiously walked over to the mirror to see myself up front.
There you saw it. That stupid round curve that went over my belly. Well its not that I looked pregnant. In fact, I didnt look pregnant at all. It just looked like I had a big breakfast or something. It was the fact that I was starting to show; which meant that soon enough everyone would know.
I haven't even found the time to tell my dad or the girls that I was pregnant. Every time i did, i would just freeze and nothing would come out.
I grabbed a light blue shirt and placed it over myself. The shirt wasn't tight or loose but ether way, I still didn't look pregnant. No one would ever assume now. I wasn't even supposed to start showing until the 2nd trimester.
Luckily, I think the morning sickness has stopped. But that wasn't a good sign ether. I was supposed to stop morning sickness by the end of the first trimester, well at least that's what I've heard. But i should still be on my first trimester of pregnancy. I'm only 2 and half months pregnant... or was it 3?
I shook my head trying to forget this whole situation. I slipped into some shorts and went into the kitchen.
"Morning dad." I tryed to fake a smile.
"Hey pumpkin. I made breakfeast. Want one?" My dad asked, flipping over a pancake.
"Su-re..." I paused in the middle of the word, knowing it was ether I was hungry or, it was the damn baby.
"So you not sick?" My dad asked, handing the plate over to where I was sitting at.
I pecked at my pancake with a fork, taking a small bite out of it.
"Sick?" I asked in confusion.
"Ya, with the stomach flu?" He asked.
I paused but quickly recalled what I was "sick" with.
"Oh ya that! Totally don't have the flu anymore. All better." I gave a fake small smile, taking another bite from the pancake.
"Well that's good. But just wondering... Are you still taking medication? I still found the bottle of pills in the cabinet." He mentioned.
I froze in place.
"Oh wait. You know. I can take them... since I don't need them anymore." I ran over to the bathroom and placed it inside one of my bags.
I rushed out and towards the front door.
"Hey, arent you going to finish your pancake. You only took a few bites?" My dad pointed out.
"Ya, wasn't that hungry anyways. I'm going to meet up with the girls. Ill catch you latter." I opened the front door but my dad spoke out before I left.
"Sweetie..." He finally said.
I slowly turned around to face him.
"Yes...?" I catiously asked.
"I love you." He said with a smile, but also in a slightly sad voice.
"Love you too Dad." I wanted to get out of here but he quickly called me back one last time.
"Rikki." He finally said.
"Ya." I turned around with a bit of annoyance.
"You know, you can tell me anything. If you need to talk." He mentioned.
"Dad... I'm fine. I'm just going out with the girls. Ill return this afternoon." I reassured him.
"Ok. have fun. Come back before 5." He said as I closed the door behind me.
I gave a bit of sprint from out of the trailer but started walking as I started to hike onto the rocky path that went along the other trailers in the park.
Immediately that horrible gut feeling came into my stomach. Nope, not the morning sickness feeling but that stupid feeling of guilt. I pressed against the clothes that was covering my stomach and felt the small hard bump. I took a deep breathe.
I was supposed to meet over at Cleo's house to discus what we were going to do with the full moon tonight but now thinking about it, why shouldn't i just tell them now? They deserved to know.
No, that would be a stupid idea. They would be going off to collage in about 2 weeks so they would just remember me as that stupid friend who got pregnant.
I sat down on the grass that was next to the rocky rode. What the hell ami doing? Im ruinning my life. I shouldn't be doing this! I should be packing my bags going to collage with everyone else. I should be hanging out with Cleo, Bella, and the rest of them instead of staying home, pretending to be sick with some stomach flu.
I should be the one, trying to figure out what's going out in Mako, swimming with everyone else instead of Cleo. Being my old, sarcastic self and getting a pinch of trying to annoy everyone.
I stood up, walking back onto the trail. I couldn't do this anymore. I had to tell someone about this. I couldn't rely on Zane to help me. I couldn't just hope everything would come out right. I needed someone to talk to.
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I walked down the side walk and towards Cleo's house. I was already 20 minutes late since I slept in. I softly knocked on the door as I heard someone running towards it.
The door immediately swung open and I saw Cleo standing there with a bit of upsetness on her face.
"Oh Hey Rikki." She forced a smile.
"Every one's already here. You can come in." She opened the door wider so that I could walk past her.
Everyone was huddled up in a circle in the center of Cleo's living room.
"oh, here's Rikki." Will smiled as I sat on one of the coaches Bella was sitting on.
"Where the hell is Leiws?" Emma annoyingly asked, admiring her finger nails.
"I don't know. Lewis said he was going to be here in 10 minutes." Cleo responded.
"And when did he say that...?"" Emma snapped back.
"Uh... a while." She sat down a bit upset.
"And whats got you all down?" Bella asked.
"Kim told my dad." She softly said.
Confusion was on every ones faces but after the words came through their minds, they realized what she meant.
"Oh wow. What did your dad do?" Bella asked.
Cleo sat up.
"He didn't actually do anything. He just looked... upset but mad at the same time. He was disappointed but I told him I didnt even want to get married til after collage and then he walked out. I really don't know what he's going to do. I think he went out to play golf." She mentioned.
"Ah so thats where Lewis is. He must be hanging out with your dad." I mentioned.
"No way. Last time Lewis played golf with my dad, he nearly killed himself it was so bad. Why would he all of a suddenly go now?" She crossed her arms.
"Maybe your dad's leturing Lewis to never go near you ever again." I teased.
"Oh shut up!" Cleo threw a pillow at me, putting my hands up in front of my face so that I could protect myself.
She just laughed.
"Guys. This is serious. No pillow fights." Emma lectured.
"Ya we've been sitting here for 20 minutes. Maybe we should discus what we should be doing for tonight." Bella agreed.
"Why plan things? Its just a waste of time." I complained.
"Cause we need to be prepared. We dont want to end up killing someone" Emma specifically looked over at me.
"Oh and why are you looking at me? Like you didn't do anything before?" I put my hands on my hips.
"No, just saying some people should have some control of themselves when the full moon is out." Emma slowly turned her head away with a bit of an attitude.
Before I said anything Cleo interrupted us.
"Guys! Were not blaming anything on each other. Whatever happened was a mistake. There has to be something triggering the moon to affect us." Cleo explained.
"Ya but since we can't find the source of it then were stuck here trying to avoid everything when the full moon is out." I rolled my eyes.
Cleo sighed.
"This is such a disaster. What if we get affected on school campus in collage. We would be so screwed." She mentioned.
"What if Lewis is right about the crystals?" Bella mentioned.
Thats when it hit me. What if I was the cause of the full moon reacting. With the baby and all but, me and Emma attacked each other out by Mako before I got pregnant. It just didn't add up. Shouldn't I be the only who was getting affected, not Emma or possibly any one else. My throat clogged up as I tryed to speak. My hands were a bit shaky but I took a deep breath.
"Guys. I need to say something." I softly mentioned.
"Well you just did." Emma said with a bit of annoyance.
"Can you take something seriously with out being all defensive about it!" I snapped back.
"Fine, what is it you need to say." Cleo asked kindly but it didn't do.
"What is it huh? That I'm the one who is causing the whole problem? That you some how found out whats causing the problem out by mako? Plus who is sick for 5 weeks anyways? That's ridiculous unless you know something we don't know and your the one who triggered the moon." She snapped back.
"Emma." Cleo gasped in shock.
"How can i trigger a full moon? Thats impossible!" I yelled.
"Come on Bella. You know somethings up." Emma turned around to face her.
"Don't you get involved!" Cleo snapped at Bella.
"Ok guys. Maybe we should just have Lewis-" But Will got ineruppted.
"Oh and what about me? You don't think ive been trying to do something? Ive been out by Mako more often than any of you guys." Cleo sternely said.
"Unless Rikki was camping out there for the past 5 weeks." Emma mentioned as she turned her head to face the ground.
"Emma seriously!" Bella yelled.
"Ok Cleo! I was just saying that maybe Lewis could help!" Will exclaimed.
"Oh ya but you just think he's smarter than me cause I didn't get a scholar to collage at the same time as him." Cleo yelled
"Well maybe if you stopped blaming people on each other then we would have this solved!" Bella yelled at Emma.
Immediately everyone broke out into an argument.
"This is impossible! I'm not the one blaming stuff on people! Oh you don't think i havent been doing anything etheir! Ive been supporting you guys the whole time! Oh you take that back! Well maybe if you didn't go off to mako and started a fight then we wouldn't have this porblem! Oh and you think i did it on purpose!" There was screaming and yelling going through out the whole down stairs. I couldn't even hear my own thoughts.
"Guys." I started saying. Everyone countinued to yell at each other. "GUYS!" I screamed but its like my voice was just a whisper to them.
"I'm- I'm Pregnant!" I yelled, making everyone go quite.
Everyone turned around to look at me with weird faces. It was silent for a few seconds as I bit my lip.
"Very funny Rikki." Cleo sarcastically said while rolling her eyes.
Emma just smacked her forehead with her hand.
Bella frowned.
"I'm serious." I softly said with a bit of aggression in my voice.
"Great. Now we just solved another one of our issues." Emma sarcastically said.
"If this is some kind of joke" Bella started saying but I cut her off.
"I'm not joking!" I yelled in furry making everyone frown.
With the looks in my eyes, they saw the seriousness in me. It was dead silent for a minute, everyone trying to figure out if i was just messing with them or if i was telling them the truth.
"Your- your... pregnant?" Bella asked in shock.
I looked down at the ground for a few seconds, everything quiteas I softly nodded my head.
Cleo sat back, trying to sink the information into her head. Will eyes were wide open in shock.
"That's why i've been gone for the past 5 weeks. I didn't have the flu... I had-" But Cleo cut in.
"Oh my god! Wait woah!" Cleo said in shock.
There was still some disbelief in Will's eyes but it didn't look like I was faking it. Emma crossed her arms, not knowing what to say.
"How long have you known?" Bella asked in concern.
I stayed silent, knowing there response reaction wasn't going to be good.
"2 months..." I softly said.
"Wait woah! You've known you were pregnant for 2 months and you never told us?' Cleo snapped, a bit offended.
"I was just- I didn't know how to say it to you guys... I was actually planning an abortion." I mentioned.
At this point, I had everyone convinced, including Will who was now just trying to process all the information in is his head.
It remained silent for a minute. Everyone looking down at the ground.
"Who's the father?" Cleo asked making everyone lift up their heads in curiosity.
I stiffened up, wanting to remain that last piece information out of the conversation.
At this point everyone had an idea of who it was. Emma crossed her arms.
"Who do you think?" I said a bit upset
"Ok. Please don't tell me you had sex with that son of a bitch doshebag." Will mentioned, making Bella give him the evil eye.
"Wait a sec. If you and Zane broke up 5 months ago then, why aren't you showing." Bella asked, making Emma smile deviously, amused by the conversation.
"Oh you did not!" Cleo gasped in shock.
"Wait! You had sex with him after-" Bella kinda yelled.
"Ok! I get the point! It was stupid! I didn't even know what I was doing at the time. It just, I dont know. It happened so fast" I yelled.
Everyone sat back, shaking their heads with disappointment.
"So what are you planning on doing?" Bella asked in concern.
"I- he said he was willing to help but I don't think I can depend on him. I might just raise it on my own if he leaves." I said.
"Wait so Zane knew before us?" Emma asked defensibly.
"Well he was the father." I argued.
"So, how long has he known?" Cleo asked in curiosity.
I stayed a bit silent at first but sighed.
"A month." I softly said.
Emma frowned.
"So you decided to tell your ex-boyfriend you were pregnant before you considered telling your best friends?" Bella crossed her arms.
"One of the reasons I did that is because I knew how you would react!" I snapped back.
Everyone sighed, trying t process all the information I dumped on them.
"I just don't understand why you wouldn't feel open to tell-" and immediately the front door swung open.
Confused, everyone turned around to see Lewis running into the living room. He was breathing heavily and it looked like he just ran about 10 miles.
"Guys, I- You, would not... believe... who I just saw." Lewis panted heavily, making it hard to understand him.
Everyone sat there puzzled, not knowing what to expect..
"Um, were kinda in the middle of something important." I snapped at him.
"No, this is urgent. It's... I... I" Lewis tryed to talk but the words didn't come out.
All you could hear was the sound of him breathing as he tryed to relax. He had his hands on his knees and he looked at everyone sitting down in the center of the living room. His face was slightly red and the expression he had, did not look good. It looked scared, and cautious.
"Spit it out Lewis." I yelled at him impatiently.
Lewis stood up straight, as everyone went quite. His eyes were filled with terror and his breathing went down. He curled up his hands as he took a deep breath. At that moment, it felt like time stopped as Lewis opened his mouth to speak.
"It's Denman... She's back."