Evie hadn't gone out much since she had found out about her pregnancy. It wasn't just because she still didn't feel very well, but rather that she didn't want to go out. One reason was that she could tell whether or not she was showing, and she didn't wanna take a chance of anyone seeing her in town if she was already showing. Sure, she had clothes that would cover her up completely and she'd look like regular, but those clothes were too heavy for a month into summer- especially if you were in Evie's current position.
Evie sat on the couch in her living room watching reruns of I Love Lucy. Both ironically and sickeningly, the episode that was on was Lucy is Enceinte, the one where Lucy finds out that she is pregnant with Little Ricky. Usually, she would love watching the reruns of the about fifteen year old show, but at the moment, she just couldn't watch this episode without feeling sick to her stomach.
Evie turned off the television and sat up on the couch and let out a sigh. She looked down at her stomach and placed her left hand in the middle. "I'm sorry I'm going to be your mom," she said quietly then leaned back on the couch and covered her face with both of her hands.
Evie took her hands off of her face when she heard the front door open and close. When she looked up, she saw Cherry lean against the door and bite her bottom lip to hold back a smile. "I'm guessing your date with Soda went well?" she asked the excited redhead.
Cherry let her smile show and she nodded. "Yeah, it did," she smiled.
For the first time in a few days, Evie chuckled. "So what happened? Did Mr. Pretty-Boy sweep you off your feet like in a movie?"
Cherry let out her own chuckle. "I guess in a way you could say that."
"Well? You gonna tell me what happened or not?"
"He asked me to continue being his girlfriend."
Evie gave a slightly confused look. "Continue?"
"Well yeah. Cause we were alrady goin' out before the whole incident, so if I still wanted to be his girlfriend."
The scenario clicked in Evie's head and she nodded in understanding.
-/-/-
Over the next few days, there was a repeating cycle routine for Evie, and to some extent Cherry. Even though it was summer, both girls woke up at seven in the morning, which caused them to usually get a total of six to seven hours of sleep the night before. By 7:35, Evie had to run to the bathroom and stayed there for at most ten minutes due to her morning sickness. While Evie was there, Cherry made breakfast for the two of them, along for Esther. She didn't know it, but apparently she was a really good cook.
"You doin' alright?" Cherry asked her friend in a tone that had a bit of sympathy.
Evie covered her face with both of her hands and shrugged. "I think so," she answered quietly, "At least I will be in ten minutes. At the moment, though, I wanna die."
"Gonna see Steve today?"
"I don't know. Maybe."
"He's worried about you, ya know. That you haven't really left the house since we got home from the Dingo that night."
"I know."
"Why don't you come with me to the DX a little later?"
"Am I showing?" Evie asked suddenly, taking her hands off of her face.
Cherry gave a confused look at her friend. "What do you mean are you showing?" she asked confused.
Evie stood up sideways. She grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled it, tightening it around her torso. "Am I showing yet?"
Cherry checked for a moment for her friend. "Only a tiny bit. But no one in town'll be able to tell by that."
"You're one hundred percent sure? You're not lying to me just to get me out the house, right?"
"I promise I'm not lying."
Evie sighed, "Fine. I go with you to the DX later."
-/-/-
Lily sat on her bed listening to a Beach Boys record, Sufin' U. S. A., which was released the year 1963. The current song that was playing was the one that the record was named after: Surfin' U. S. A. She had a notepad rested against her legs, which were brought up in a way so that the notepad was at a slight tilt, as she sketched.
The image that Lily was sketching on the paper was a back view. It was a couple that was standing on the bridge over the small river at the park- the park and bridge were imaged after the one that was right in Tulsa. The couple was leaning against the front of the bridge and looking over the water. The girl's head was leaned up against the boy's shoulder. The boy had tilted his head slightly and had it rested on top of the girl's head.
Let's just say that Lily is a huge romantic.
Lily looked up from her notebook when she heard someone knock on her door a few times. When she looked up, she saw her older brother Two-Bit poking his head in between her bedroom door and the frame of the door itself. "Can I come in?" he asked her.
Lily nodded and turned off the record. "Yeah, sure," she answered, "You can come in." He walked in and sat next to her on the edge of her bed. "What's goin' on?"
"Anything wrong?"
She gave a confused look. "No… Why? Is there something wrong with you?"
"No, I was just wonderin' cause you been in here nearly the whole day. Figured somethin' might be wrong. That's all."
"I've been in here all day?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. I lost track of time then. Nothing's wrong with me, don't worry… at least I haven't noticed anything wrong with me. If you do, you tell me, alright?" she teased her older brother.
Two-Bit smiled at his little sister's joke. He could always tell they were related. He chuckled then nodded toward her sketchpad. "You're really into the romance stuff, huh, Lily?" he asked.
Lily's cheeks went slightly pink out of embarrassment. "Yeah, kinda. But that's on mom cause she always played those Cary Grant or William Holden type movies when I was little. Not to mention how we watched I Love Lucy when I was little."
When Lily was about five years old, she had started to watch I Love Lucy with her mother. She had instantly fallen in love with the relationship that Lucy and Ricky had, then when she found out that, at the time, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would really married, that sent her through the roof. She had also loved the film starring William Holden, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn: Sabrina. Then Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. Or Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain. And there were countless other films that she loved that were either dramatic romance stories, or comedic romance stories.
Two-Bit chuckled at his little sister's answer. "That's true," he chuckled, "You and me both know how much Mom loves those things."
"Yeah," Lily smiled, "And before Dad… well, ya know… while you two would be outta the house or whatever, that's when I'd stay home with her and watch 'em with her.
"Oh yeah, I remember that. I remember we used to walk in on y'all while you were watching them. I don't know why I remember this one, but the time we walked in and y'all were watching The Long, Long Trailer."
Lily chuckled to herself, remembering scenes from the film. "Yeah, that was a good one."
"So, another thing I meant to ask ya was, ya got plans tonight with Ponyboy?" Two-Bit asked.
Lily nodded. "Yeah, we're gonna go and see a movie then go to the park."
"What movie?"
"We don't know. We were just gonna decide when we got there." Before either of them could say anything else, the heard someone knock on the door. Lily ran to the window and saw Ponyboy outside smiling and waving. She smiled and waved back at him, signaling she'd be right out. "And there he is now," she smiled. She ran back over to her sketchpad and ripped out the paper with the sketch she was working on. She folded it into a square and stuffed it into her pocket.
"What's that for?" Two-Bit asked his kid sister in a confused tone.
"I wanna show it to Ponyboy."
He followed as she started downstairs. "You two an official thing yet or not?"
"Not yet."
"Seriously? You two have been going out for two months and you're not official yet? I know Mr. and Mrs. Curtis always taught those three to be respectful and not pressure girls, cause they tried to teach us all that, but this is ridiculous," he teased.
Lily laughed and waved goodbye to her brother as she walked out the house and greeted Ponyboy outside the front door.
I'm trying to not make this so depressing and I don't know if it's working. Is it working?
By the way, just so you all know, the whole plot I have with Evie, I'm kinda going by a situation with a friend of mine that happened two years ago. At my old school, when I was a freshman, I had a friend who was a junior and she was scared for a little while that she might've been pregnant (she wasn't). Now I'm not making fun of teen pregnancies, but they are a real thing so yeah. I don't have to worry about that cause I'm gonna be a virgin till I get married in the future so yeah. (I don't believe in premarital sex, at least I don't like it so yeah)
Also, I apologize for not updating recently (at least don't think I have) I start college courses again this week, but this time two at a time plus I took up another fan fiction so be patient with my please. Plus I started reading "Homefront" cause I finished "Less Than Zero" and I watched the movie of it and I swear I cried as much as the first time I saw the outsiders except I wasn't expecting it this time cause the movie was way different from the book. I was voice messaging my best friend on facebook while I watched and I was legit in tears so yeah.
Anyway, hope you liked the chapter! Peace from all the hippies of the world! =^-^=