"I can't believe this," Evie said nervously, "My parents are gonna kill me… what am I gonna do?"
Steve sighed and had a nervous look on his face. "Well, when do your folks get back home?" he asked her.
"Not for months, but what about my sister? Even though my parents won't be home, she will be."
"So?"
"So! She'll notice! It's not like this is somethin' I can hide for more than a couple months!" She let out a groan. "Oh gosh, what am I gonna do…"
Evie had gotten news that was happy to a married couple, but dreadful and scary to a teenage couple: she was pregnant. She was eighteen years old, which did make her legally an adult, but she was only going into her senior year in high school. She was too young to be having a baby! It didn't help the situation at all either that her and Steve weren't a married couple- or ten years older.
Evie knew that the baby was Steve's, so that somewhat helped. She had never slept with anyone else other than Steve, and that wasn't as many times as most people would think it would be. So far, to Evie's personal comfort, Steve had promised that he would stay with her the whole time. That did comfort her a bit, but that didn't really make her any less anxious, unfortunately.
Evie sat down on the nearest bench, leaned her elbows on her knees and buried her head in her hands. "I'm gonna be in so much trouble," she groaned.
Steve sat down next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders in a comforting way. "Maybe it won't be as bad as you think," he said.
"We're eighteen, Steve! We can't raise a kid, we're still just kids! My mom always told me that if I ever got pregnant before I ever got married I would be in huge trouble. Look where we are now!"
"Evie, maybe you should try to calm down-"
"Calm down?! How do you expect me to calm down? I'm having a baby at eighteen years old, how do you expect me to stay calm?"
"Oh, and I'm so honky dory about this whole thing? Don't you think I'm scared too right now? You don't think I don't know how old we are? I'm only sayin' you should calm down cause that doctor said you should," Steve said, starting to calm down.
Evie sighed and nodded, "Fine… fine, alright? There's nothin' we can do about it now, right? Might as well accept the whole thing."
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"I hope Evie's alright," Cherry said in a nervous tone, "They've been gone for hours."
Cherry was genuinely nervous about Evie. During the past couple weeks while she had been talking with Evie since she was staying, the two had become pretty close. Sure, sometimes it was a bit harder for the two to strike up a conversation, but that was due to Cherry's unsure feeling she would sometimes get, considering she still couldn't remember anything about her life before she woke up in that hospital- of course with the exception of talking to Ponyboy about sunsets and that she apparently didn't like alcohol more than she thought.
"Steve said he'd call to tell us what happened when they found out what was wrong. When I left my house for there, Darry said he'd tell Steve to here if called my house," Soda said.
"Do you think Evie's alright?" Cherry asked.
Soda wasn't sure what he thought. "I think she'll be alright."
As if on cue, the phone began to ring. Cherry got up from her spot on the couch and walked over to answer the phone, Soda following behind her so that they could both hear the phone. She picked up the phone and held it up so that they both could get to the receiver and the speaker of the phone. "Hello?" Cherry said.
"Cherry? This is Steve. Darry told me to call here cuase Soda was here?" Steve asked.
"Yeah. Yeah, we're both here," Soda said, "What's goin' on? Is Evie alright?"
"Uh, yeah, you could say that."
Cherry and Soda both exchanged confused looks. "What do you mean you could say that?"
Cherry and Soda heard a rustling type sound coming from the other end. "Cherry, this is Evie," she said, "And what he means is that… I'm pregnant."
Both Cherry and Soda's eyes widened at what she said. "Oh my gosh," Cherry mumbled.
Everyone was silent for a minute or so until Evie spoke up again. "Cherry? Soda? You two still there?"
"Uh yeah. Yeah, we're still here… um, are you sure that you're pregnant?"
The two heard Evie sigh from the other line. "Yeah, I'm sure… look, could you two meet us at the Dingo to talk? I called a friend of Esther's and they said she could stay over the night. If you two could drive her that would be great."
Cherry looked at Soda, who nodded. "Yeah, we could drive her," Soda answered, "And we'll be right over." After he said that, the line went dead.
Soda and Cherry went upstairs to tell Esther to get ready to go to her friend's house. She questioned who and why she was sleeping over a friend's house, they answered that her friend wanted her over and that they had called the house when Evie was home. At first she seemed unconvinced but she went to pack clothes and everything else she would need for overnight. On their way to the Dingo, when Esther was ready, Soda and Cherry dropped her off at her friend's house then headed to the Dingo.
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It took both couples a total of ten minutes to get to the Dingo. Steve and Evie had gotten them all a booth to sit at since they got there first, a minute later, Soda and Cherry joining them at the both, sitting across from them.
"So you're absolutely, one hundred percent sure about this?" Cherry asked quietly when they sat down.
Both Evie and Steve nodded. "Doctor says so. I even went to the store and bought five tests just to reassure myself. They were all positive," Evie sighed, folded her arms and placed her head down on the table.
Everyone sat quietly for a moment. "What're you gonna tell your family?" Soda asked.
Evie shrugged, her head still down. "I don't have a clue," she said, her voice a bit muffled.
Cherry looked at Evie. "Uh, Evie, would you come with me to the bathroom real quick? I gotta ask you somethin' that I really don't think the guys would wanna hear," she said. Evie looked up at her, nodded and the two left the booth and headed toward the bathroom.
Soda nodded toward his best friend, gaining his attention. "What're you two gonna do?" he asked.
Steve ran his hands over his face. "I don't know," he sighed, "To be honest, I'm scared to death."
"Ya gonna stay with her?" He silently hoped his friend would.
"Course I am. And not just cause it's my kid. I once told Evie I loved her, and she said it back. Now you know I ain't a romantic, but I meant it and so did she. I'm stayin' with her the whole time."
Soda smiled a bit at his best friend's answer.
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When Cherry had aksed Evie to go to the bathroom to talk, she had used the excuse that the guys wouldn't wanna hear it. Of course, that was a lie. Her real reason was that she guessed that Evie was in real need of a girl to girl talk on the situation. Not to mention, she probably wanted some sort of real comfort at the moment.
"What'd you wanna ask me?" Evie asked when they got to the bathroom.
"You ok?" Cherry asked in a soft voice.
She had expected Evie to just act brace and tough. She was a bit shocked when the girl she had always seen as a tough Greaser girl broke down. Evie covered her face with her hands, slid down against the wall and landed on the floor. She buried her face and hands into her knees and began to sob. The redhead sat down next to her on the floor, comforting her as best as she could.
"I don't know what I'm gonna do," Evie was able to get out, slightly muffled by her hands, "I mean, my parents are gonna kill me, people are gonna call me a slut, not to mention I'll have a kid to raise. I won't be able to finish high school this year cause I'll have a kid and I'll have to drop out… this is gonna ruin my whole life."
Cherry tried to think of something to say that might help her friend, but the only thing she could think of to do was to let Evie cry on her shoulder.
This was so dramatic and I always promised myself I would never write anything dramatic, whether it was fanfiction or not, and I made that promise to myself in eighth grade three years ago. (I'm a junior in high school now)… though I also promised myself ever since they stopped playing "All My Children" that my mom used to watch that I would never get into a soap opera, and now I watch "Days of our Lives" everyday now so we see where that went.
Speaking of days of our lives, I was watching yesterday's episode and James Read's character got arrested cause he was set up (I'm not saying for what) and he looked at the other character with what me and my mom call "crazy eyes" and I was sitting there like "I will never be able to watch north and south the same again" cause James Read was in the mini series version of the North and South book trilogy by John Jakes and he played Patrick Swayze's best friend. I can never watch those the same again now.
Anyway, so how is everyone?
Ok, hope you enjoyed this chapter, peace from all the hippies of the world! =^-^=