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Chapter 8
AN: Hey guys, sorry I didn't update last night I just went home from uni for the weekend. Thanks for all the support, it makes me really happy to see people reading, reviewing, following. Please keep letting me know what you think :)
As for the name? You're gonna have to wait for that but there is a bit of a hint in the next chapter.
Disclaimer: only what you don't recognise from the Finding Sky books is mine.
Zed
Finally. I can finally take Sky out anywhere I want and I can see her anytime I want to. This is gunna be so much fun. She is four months pregnant and she has a tiny barely there bump that has now become the resting place for my hands. I'm surprised no one has said anything to us about it yet seen as how Sky used to have a flat stomach. Sky told me why she wanted to keep the baby a secret and while at first I just wanted to tell everyone, it's actually kind of exiting that people don't know. Not even our friends. I don't think we'll be able to keep it quiet for much longer though, not now that Sky's had to get a whole new wardrobe full of baggy clothes to hide the ever growing bump. We've decided we're not going to tell anyone until someone asks us. My brothers have even started taking bets on how far gone she'll be before anyone asks if she's pregnant. I'm betting on round about five months, Xav thinks six but Trace is convinced it will be this month. Mom, Crystal and Di just want us to hurry up and tell them because they want to organize a baby shower but everyone has been forbidden from buying anything or talking about the baby anywhere people can hear until someone asks us if Sky is pregnant.
Sky
Five months. This bump is getting difficult to hide now and people are suspicious of why I haven't been doing PE for the last two months and I barely participated for ages before that but I'm not saying anything until someone asks me if I'm pregnant. I'm actually getting quite exited now. I quite like this being pregnant malarkey, I keep getting cravings for cheese on toast, I have no idea why but it's great because I have all the Benedict boys – Victor included – running around making me hot chocolate with all the trimmings and cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce and tomato ketchup. I know it doesn't really go but still I NEED it. The girls and I have decided only to make the boys deal with my cravings because they need the practice for when they get their girls pregnant. (No Karla I'm not encouraging them. Only when they're married. Although I'm sure you wouldn't mind another grandchild regardless of if its parents were married or not).
"Right Sky that's it, tell us" wow Tina sounds pissed "tell you what?" I'm not saying anything just please come out and say, it I want you to know. "You know what Sky. Why haven't you told us? Were supposed to be your friends" well they know but can't they just come out and say it? I'm sure everyone in school knows by now so why can't someone just come out with it? "I have no idea what you're talking about". This time it's Nelson "you know exactly what we're talking about Sky we've been waiting for you to tell us". Well you're going to have to tell me or we can't talk about it. "Sorry Nelson you're just going to have to spell it out for me" Zoe blurts out "you're pregnant and you never told us!" except lucky for me she shouted it out in the middle of the cafeteria so now everyone has shut up and all attention is on me… great. I hate being the center of attention thanks Zoe. Zed a little help here? "Yep" oh my god that is such a lame answer they're gunna kill me for that one. Tina looks incredulous "YEP!" she screeches "that's all you have to say? Yep?" I better not lose my friends over this. "No that's not all I have to say but you started talking just as I was about to explain why we have only told our families about it" that shut her up. You alright Sky? Finally he decides to grace us with his presence Yeah Zed I'm great I might just be about to lose my friends for not telling them anything and I have everyone staring at me. Yeah Zed I'm great. What took you so long? turning back to my friends I start telling them how at first we didn't want to tell anyone before it sunk in which they accepted and could understand but then came the tricky bit about the bets. "Hang on a minute, stop there. You didn't tell your best friends you're pregnant because of a few bets?" tricky one to answer but before I could even think of anything to say Zed started talking from behind me, it didn't escape my notice or anyone else's that Zed had his arms around me and his hands in their new favorite place, on my bump. Typical Zed he hasn't even noticed where his hands are yet. "Yeah that's right. Well at first we didn't want to tell anyone until we had decided what to do, then I wanted to tell everyone but Sky didn't and then we started on with the bets until Sky kept going on about how she wanted to tell you guys but me and Xav reminded her that it was only me and him left in the running so no one gets to know until one of us won. I won by the way. Cya" and he dragged me outside with everyone's eyes following us out.
Zed
"Why do they think they have a right to be told? It's not like it's their baby. They have nothing to do with it. They can't expect us to tell them every detail of our lives. They have no reason to be angry Sky. The only opinions that matter are ours." why can't people understand that this is our life not theirs. What has us having a baby got to do with the school counselor, everyone in school, everyone outside of school and just random people? I hate seeing Sky upset and I can't help but think that this is all my fault. People started treating us differently after the canteen episode and that was a month ago. Sky is now six months pregnant and the day started out great. We went for another scan this morning, it's amazing seeing how much the baby has changed. All I wanted to do was go home and show Mom and Dad, but no, we have to get stopped by Mrs Hoffman don't we. Where does she get off interfering and commenting on other people's lives, it's not like we want her opinion. So now Sky is upset and I'm pissed off. It's not that long ago that Sky was called to the school counselor's office for a 'baby talk' except I wasn't allowed to go. They said they didn't want Sky to feel like she was under any pressure to say certain things. They had the nerve to ask Sky if it was what she had wanted, if I had asked her permission before I touched her, did she feel pressured into it. They expected her to say 'no actually I didn't want it, Zed raped me and I can't get away from him, I don't want this baby please help me' and start crying all over them. I'd seen it all in their thoughts when I was waiting for Sky to come out. And come out she did. She was in there for all of five minutes until I heard her give the councilor a piece of her mind which included a lot of swear words and threats. I was quite proud of my little soulfinder, I'm quite sure that was the first time she had ever done anything like that in her life. She made it her personal mission to defend me to everyone. When she came out people in the corridor were watching her to see what she would do because we had all heard what she had said. She turned to everyone and shouted "Zed Benedict did not rape me. He would never do that to anyone. How dare you put a label on him, especially one as incorrect as that. He is my boyfriend. He loves me and I love him. Whatever we decide to do together is personal and private between the two of us. We should not have to explain ourselves to anyone. And to think that you would expect me to stay with a rapist for two months before finding out I was pregnant with his child and then to be still with him now is unbelievable. How dare you think that of us? What we do with our lives is of no concern of yours. The only opinions that matter to us are our own and that of our families!" and with that she dragged me away, the crowd of stunned teachers and students parted for us to pass through.
I didn't have a clue what to say to her so I just looked at her until she said the first thing that came into her mind "what do you want for your birthday Zed?" I looked at her like she was speaking mandarin or something and then we both burst out laughing "you do know we're only in May right?" god she looks so cute when she giggles "yep" I just shook my head "my birthdays in August baby" now she's looking at me like I'm stupid "are you really suggesting that I forgot that?" I had to hug her "no baby" she looks like she's gunna laugh again, oh please do I love it when you laugh "good. I just need prior warning that's all" well I was crying. "Who needs three months to buy a birthday present?" now she's looking at me like I've just asked the stupidest question in the world "Well what happens if it's something that's hard to find?" I just had to smile at that. "That's a good point what do you want for Christmas?" she was off again. When she stopped laughing she said "oh well what's the point I'll think of something".