"You're going to come right?" Jon asks from the doorway. He and Colby were about to meet up with Joe for their first FCW taping, and it was also Jon's first night wrestling a show there. "I promise it's nothing like CZW." He assures me.
"I wouldn't miss it." I smile, setting down a sweatshirt that I'd just folded. I was clearing out mine and Jon's winter clothes and shoving them in the basement. Since it was generally 65 degrees and up here, we wouldn't be needing them for a while. He comes up behind me and circles my waist, his lips brushing against the softer skin on my neck. "Are you nervous?" I ask him.
"Hell, yes." He breathes.
"Don't be, you'll be great." I tell him, turning around to meet his gaze. "You're always great." I add, pressing my lips to his quickly.
"Everyone is pretty nice." He tells me. "I'll see you later sweet pea."
"I love you." I say to him.
"I love you more." He grins from the doorway, before disappearing on the other side.
"Can you work tonight?" Text from Lissette.
"I really can't… :/ Promised Jon I'd go to his show." Text to Lissette.
"No problem, I'll make Shawn do it." Text from Lissette.
"Kelly, what time are we leaving?" I call out, hoping that she can hear me from where ever in the house she might be. I continue folding clothes and setting them in the rubber maid tub.
"I don't know, like 6 I guess." She shrugs, appearing in the doorway. "So the guys are gone, you should do it now." She tells me, her pretty features going serious. Ok so lets just say that the kid talk with Jon a few weeks ago wasn't all curiosity. We'd been slightly reckless the past few times we'd slept together and my period was two weeks late. Needless to say I was about in a full panic when I told Kelly last week.
"Yeah…." I murmur, my stomach doing a flip. "What if-"
"No what ifs." She says, putting her hand up to stop me. "We're not going to worry about this until it comes up with a little pink plus sign." She says.
"Alright." I state, pushing myself up off the bed. She hands me the test and I sulk to the bathroom. "I can't pee…" I mutter.
"You're too nervous, relax. Ya gotta do it." She tells me, leaning up against the counter. "Why aren't you on birth control? What's wrong with you?" She asks me, just like my mother would.
"Can you not lecture me right now?" I mutter, pulling the test from between my legs and setting it on the edge of the bathtub. "Be my friend not my fucking mother." I add.
"I'm sorry." She sighs.
"I can't, I need something to do." I say, throwing my hands up in the air in frustration, or panic I"m not sure. I walk out the door hastily and into the kitchen, pulling a Sprite out of the fridge and cracking it open. Minutes seemed like hours as I sat up at the counter. My heart was in my throat and I couldn't breath.
"Annabelle…" Kelly murmurs, bringing the test out of the bathroom. I bite down hard on my bottom lip and look at her expectantly. I really didn't want to hear the answer. "It's positive." She says softly, setting it down in front of me. Sure enough, there was that stupid little pink plus sign. My emotions were so mixed I didn't know what to do, or what to feel.
"He's going to be pissed. He's going to be pissed and leave me." I say in panicked tone, burying my head in my hands.
"He isn't going to leave you. It takes two to make a baby." She tells me. "First, you need to figure out if you want to have it… If you don't, you could get away without telling him." She suggests.
"I can't do that." I tell her, shaking my head. "And I can't have an abortion, I'm not built like that." I sigh. "I just have to time telling him right, and it's sure as hell not tonight. Don't you dare tell Colby." I warn her, pointing a finger at her.
"I won't say anything before you tell him." She promises. "Don't stress over it right now. Lets just get ready for the show tonight, and support our men." She smiles.
"Yes." I nod in agreement. Even though I felt like I was going to pass out I nodded. "We should have waited until after the show to do that, how am I going to act normal around him now?" I mutter.
"You can't tell him before the show." She warns me.
"I'm not going to." I tell her. "But he's going to know something is wrong. I'm going to shower." I say to her, retreating back into the bedroom.
**…**…**
"This is a lot nicer than CZW." Kelly comments as we park the car. "And it's nice that they don't perform in the same place all the time." She adds, sliding out of the car. I don't respond, my stomach was still doing little flip flops. "Chill out." She insists, giving my shoulder a rub.
"I'm ok." I tell her. I had no choice because Jon was poking his head out the back door with a stupid, goofy grin.
"You guys are early." He comments, throwing his arm around my shoulder. "Whew, sweet pea you're hot." He exclaims,
"Do you have a fever?" He questions, putting his hand against my forehead.
"I hope not, no time to be sick." I tell him with a smile. "I'm excited for you." I add, my smile growing wider. For once as we walked down the back halls of Melbourne's infirmary the other women there smiled, and gave an occasional 'hey'.
"Nice change of pace, yeah?" He asks.
"Uh, yeah!" Kelly says. "Where's Colby?" She finally asks. I was wondering how long it would take her to ask where her man was, he wasn't waiting at the door with Jon.
"He's getting changed, said he'd meet us." Jon answers.
"Joe!" I exclaim, happy to see the big Samoan. I ran towards him and jumped in his arms, wrapping my legs around his waist. "God I missed your face!" I tell him.
"I missed you to nani." He chuckles, returning my hug. "Florida is agreeing with you." He adds, noticing my dark tan. Our skin tones were nearly the same color now. I see out of the corner of my eye that Colby was with Kelly, and Jon was waiting very nicely for me to unravel from Joe. He'd come a long ways from when I first met him, an action like this would have flown him off the deep end.
"I know, tan right!" I laugh, getting both feet on the ground. "I've been riding almost every day since we moved." I say to him.
"Come on sweet pea, we got to get you and Kelly sat down." Jon says, pulling my elbow gently.
"You guys are ringside. It's definitely not the WWE but it's better than CZW." Colby says.
"See you later. Hey, why don't you come over and stay at our house tonight?" I suggest to Joe, "Than we can spend time with you, feels like I haven't seen you in years." I say sadly.
"I'll stay." He assures me. "Go, sit down." He smiles.
**…**…**
"You can go jump off the dock if you're hot." I tease Joe from across the fire pit. We were all sitting outside by the river, chairs around the fire pit and a beer in hand. Well, except for me. I had a pepsi, which was really hard to explain to Jon as to why I wanted a soda instead of a beer.
"I'll jump if you do." Joe challenges.
"Lets do it!" I agree, hopping up from the chair.
"Are you serious?" He questions, cocking an eyebrow at me.
"Do it…" Jon eggs us on in a low tone. "Man if you don't jump off that dock and she does, I"m taking your fuckin' man card." He tells him, pointing a finger in his direction.
"Aw hell." Joe mutters, pushing himself up off the lawn chair and setting his beer down on the ground. "Lets do this then." He says, motioning to the dock. He follows me down to the very edge.
"I call bullshit. Neither one of them is gonna jump." I hear Colby say from his chair.
"Now we gotta do it nani." Joe whispers, taking my hand.
"On three?" I ask.
"One… Two…" He starts, his body preparing for take off.
"Three!" I shout, leaping off the edge of the dock taking him with me. "You hair is perfect, even after a river jump. I"m so freaking jealous." I tell him when he comes up next to me. The water actually felt pretty perfect right now and I kind of didn't want to get out.
"You need to use that oil I told you about." He says seriously, walking back towards shore. "Come on, before the gators get us." He smirks.
"They'd eat you first, more meat." I chuckle. He extends a hand and pulls me out behind him. "Jon…" I grin mischievously, stalking towards him like a cat.
"Don't you dare." He warns me, trying his best to look serious. I'm about to sit down when he hops up from the chair and backs out of my reach.
"You don't love me." I mock disappointment. He rolls his eyes but opens his arms and I hop into them.
"You're wet and cold, and not the wet that benefits me." He comments, setting me back down.
"We should turn in… It's almost 3:30 in the morning." Kelly laughs. "The people next door are going to hate us." She adds.
"Nah, they're a nice old couple. They already love me." I tell her in a matter of fact kind of way.
"Lets go to bed sweet pea." Jon murmurs, nuzzling his face in the crook of my neck. "It's been a long fuckin' day and I'd be lying to say I wasn't tired." He comments.
"Night guys." We tell the three still by the fire. Jon wrapped his arm around my waist and led us into the house.
"You sure you're feeling alright?" He questions. "You've been off all night." He tells me, pulling his shirt off and tossing it into the hamper.
"I've got to talk to you." I say, as calmly and evenly as I could. The last thing I wanted to do was put him into a panic.
"What's wrong?" He asks, a obviously worried.
"You love me right?" I ask him, sitting cross legged on the our bed.
"Of course I love you." He says, offering a small smile.
"And if something didn't go as planned, you wouldn't flip out on me and leave right?" I ask, chewing furiously on my bottom lip.
"Sweet pea, just spit it out." He says. "There's nothing you can say that's going to send me running." He assures me, sitting down next to me.
"I'm pregnant." I tell him. Just lay it on the table right?
A/N: So I took a HUGE crazy leap in this chapter, and some may think it's too soonbut I think it's something the story needs in order for me to go on and I promise I'll make it work... Have faith in me! :)