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~Dazzler 916~

Chapter 24

A Turn For The Worst

(Ella's P.O.V.)

It's been a week since Randy and I have had our little heart to heart coversation.. Things are really good between us, we've actually become great friends.

Unfortunately, things with Seth have got even worse.

I can't even look at him without crying cause all of this pressure is starting to cave in and we're still not sure what we want to do.

I take that picture of the baby with me everywhere only because I don't want it to fall into the wrong hands, plus I'm always looking at it.

Today's the day we tell my parents. It's gonna happen after school and after I get back from work. It's Friday so this talk with my parents could go all night and I am absolutely terrified of their reaction.

Seth and I have hardly spoken all week and yet we still hold hands going down the hallway.

It's been atleast a week since we last kissed each other and i'm starting to forget what its like. Things have never gotten this bad between and i'm starting to think that not keeping this baby might be the best thing.

I still have another hour till I have to be at work so for the time being Chloe and I are hanging out with a few of our old friends.

Macy, Lucy and Natalia don't even know what's going on with Seth and I. They just think that i've been really sick...and I have a feeling they're gonna flip.

Thank God I have Chloe to back me up.

We were in Port Angeles towards the calm side of the town where the boats come in.

"You sounded pretty nervous on the phone so what's going on...Seth's been pretty out of it the last time I saw him." Lucy said.

I looked over at Choe and she gave me an encouraging nod.

"I'm pregnant." I said in a low whisper.

Natalia pratically choked on the sip of water she took from her water bottle. "You're kidding right?" She asked me.

I reached into my purse and placed the ultra sound picture on the table.

Lucy picked it up and I watched as her eyes lingered from the picture and then to me several times.

"Oh my God." Macy stood right behind her looking at the picture.

"I'm already three months along." I muttered.

"Three months?" All three of them said at the same time looking at me.

"I just found out a couple weeks ago so don't start that with me. I'm still trying to figure out what i'm gonna do here." I explained.

"Well you better hurry up and make your mind...cause someone's getting a baby bump." Natalia said.

"Thank you Captain Obvious. It's my body Nat, I notice these things too!" I snapped. Now other people are starting to notice? Now I'm screwed.

"Excuse me..." Natalia mumbled under her breath.

"Weren't you guys using protection." Macy asked.

"Yes! We did but it obviously wasn't enough." I mumbled.

"Aww Ella," Lucy came over and hugged.

"No matter what happens you know we'll always be here for you." She told me.

"Thanks." I sighed.

"You're not keeping the baby are you? Cause I'd hate to see you end up like her." Natalia said.

All of us just looked at her and we all know that she was just saying that to attack Chloe.

"What's that suppost to mean?" Chloe stood up.

"That's none of your business." Natalia snapped.

"Natalia stop it!" I glared at her.

"Have you guys told your parents yet?" Lucy asked me.

"Sue, Charlie and Leah know...but my parents have no idea. We're gonna tell them tonight when I get home." I said.

"Whatever happens, if they kick you out then you can come live with me." Lucy said.

"Thanks but I don't think your parents are gonna want a me living in your house with a baby, plus then you have your brothers."

"Oh please Gabe's getting an apartment in Forks so he'll be closer to his community college. You can have his room." She told me.

"Lucy I love you...but I don't think that would work plus i'm pretty sure i'd be at Seth's house if my parents kicked me out—okay we have stop talking about the possibility of this. It's scaring me." I shuddered.

"No no we understand, but why didn't you tell us about this sooner?" Macy asked me.

"Seriously, I feel a little betrayed here. You tell little teen mommy man stealer over here first and you're just now telling us—"

"Okay Natalia we get it! Now could you please stop acting like i'm not standing right in front of you? Or are you just doing this on purpose because I am so tired you and your little side comments about me and my daughter and MY boyfriend. I've known Ella alot longer than you have so who the hell are you give my best friend all of this crap. If you really are Ella's friend then you damn well better stop harrassing me cause it makes just as unhappy as I am. I'm done trying." Chloe snarled.

Natalia just gave Chloe this look and tilted her head down, then she turned her head away and continued drinking her water.

"Whatever," Natalia mumbled under her breath.

I just shook my head and let out a heavy sigh. This is what I didn't want to deal.

Natalia's doesn't understand the meaning of "being nice" when it comes to Chloe. Actually she just doesn't understand the meaning of being nice anymore.

"I've been very unsocial these past few weeks only because people are just constantly in my face and Seth—he's just trying to make this decision easy on the both of us and I feel like i'm being overly indecisive about everthing. We're falling apart...and I feel like the only thing to make things better for us is to just—"

"No Ella, no. You know that's not true." Macy tried to reassure me.

"And what if it is—"

"Natalia! Shut up—better yet just leave cause you're obviously not helping." Lucy snapped.

"Fine..." Natalia grabbed her stuff. "Looks like you two bitches can just walk home. Good luck Ella." All of us watched as Natalia walked off.

"Well that went well," Macy mumbled under her breath.

"It's fine, I'll just have Gabe pick us up." Lucy pulled out her phone.

"He said he's on his way right now." Chloe said as she continued texting before Lucy could dial her brother's number.

"How's Nora doing by the way, I wanna see her soon." Macy said.

"You two can babysit her tomorrow if you want—"

"Done!" Lucy and Macy said at the same time.

"Ahaha okay okay. You can pick her up from my parents house in the morning." Chloe said,

My phone started ringing and a smile had spread across my face. I answered.

"Hey,"

"What's wrong?" Jeez, I wasn't expecting him to figure it out all already.

"Just told some of my other best friends..." I mumbled.

"It didn't go well?" He asked me.

"Sort of..."

"It doesn't sound like it did. You wanna talk about it?"

"Later, in person. I gotta go. Bye Randy." I hung up the phone.

All of the girls were looking at me. "What?" I shrugged.

"Since when did you and that hot dancer guy that you think is annoying start talking?" Macy asked me.

"Last Thursday, after Seth and I got into fight about the baby...again." I added.

"Does Seth know about this? And by this I mean you talking to Randy." Lucy asked me.

"Seth doesn't like Randy as it is and i'm not even gonna bother dealing with that right now. It's just gonna give us another reason to fight and i'm sick of fighting. Randy is my friend and Seth's gonna have to get over it. Okay so I might have misjudged Randy at first but he's a great guy—a great friend. I guess you could say we understand each other cause we've kinda been through some of the same stuff. Personal experiences y'know? Either way he's just about the only person I can talk to that's helping me get my mind of things." I told them.

"Look, whatever happens tonight, you call us." Macy said wrapping her arm around me.

"We don't care what time it is. If anything happens you call us and we'll come get you. We've got your back—you too Chloe." Lucy assured us.

God, I love these girls.

Chloe and I arrived just in time before our students started to show up.

"Miss Ella!" A small voice screamed my name.

I looked up to see one of my students walking towards.

"Hi Lexi!" I smiled. She ran up to me and gave me a great big hug—it startled me a little bit seeing that I didn't think she was gonna squeeze me this hard.

"Okay!" I had to pry her off of me. "Now get ready. Class is gonna start soon." I told her.

I turned around and started rubbing my stomach. I didn't think a 9 year old would have such a hard grip. The more I started rubbing my stomach the more I started to realize there was a definite bulge there. It was squishy. I looked at myself in the mirror.

3 months and I'm already showing? What the hell?

I turned around to look at myself in the mirror from a different angle...yea that's definitely a baby bump.

I tried sucking it in to see if wouldn't be as noticable.

"Just wait till your 4 months. Then you'll really start to show." Chloe whispered from behind me.

"Don't scare me like that." I muttered.

"Sorry, trust me I use to do the same thing but you might not want to look at your stomach out here cause you don't want people staring."

"Yeeeeeeaaaa. Good idea." I nodded.

"You okay? You look like you're gonna throw up—"

"I'm fine Lo. Don't worry. I don't feel sick at the moment but if I have to...you'll know." I assured her.

"Oh—Peutrova wants to see you in her office...she said it's mui importante."

"Kay, Thanks. If I'm not out in 10 minutes you and Lindy start without me." I said walking towards Madame's office.

I wonder what she wants to talk about this time.

"Madame?" I knocked on the door.

"Come in," I heard her say.

"Ella so glad to see that you're feeling better." She said as I walked inside.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I bit my lip.

"I've talked to all of the scouts who are looking at you and several other dancers for college and they all agreed that they think that would like to come and watch you perform in the showcase. Therefore that will be your auditions. It saves money for all of you and each of you senior girls will perform a solo that you make up on your own. I will coach each of you individually so you are prepared. I have scheduled your private studio time to start in 2 weeks and I wanted to be sure if that will work for you."

"Ummmm. Yea. That works." I nodded.

"Good. That's all, you can go now."

"Thank you," I slowly started to walk out of her office.

Shit, now i'm screwed.

I walked back out to see Belinda and Chloe were already starting to warm the girls up.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom real quick. I need a moment." I told them.

"Go ahead." Lindy whispered. "We got you covered."

"Oh and Ella...you might wanna check your messages. Seth called 3 times." Chloe handed me my phone.

"Kay, Thanks." I walked back into the hallway.

If he's called me 3 times in the past 10 minutes then it must be important. He ended up answering on the second ring.

"It's really important that we talk." He said.

"Well I'm working right now. But I have a break at 5, so we can talk later. I'm sorry I can't right now I have to go. Love you."

I hung up the phone before he could say anything else. I didn't want to talk to him right now. Hearing the distress in his voice just makes me see that he's just as scared as I am.

The next hour was a complete blur only because I just couldn't focus. Everything is starting to become too much for me to handle.

Seth showed up right after my class ended and we walked out into the back so we could talk.

"Go ahead. Shoot." I told him.

"Well I..." He seemed pretty hesitant and it must be big escpecially if it's taking him nearly 20 seconds to get it out.

"I've been doing a lot of thinking and I..." He trailed off again.

"I don't have a lot of time so you have to hurry—" I began to say before he interrupted me.

"I think we should keep the baby."

I felt like I just got hit with a ton of bricks when I heard him say that. This is what he wants. He wants me to go through with the pregnancy.

He wants me to have the baby.

"Really?" I asked him just to be sure.

"Look," He took a step towards me so he could fold my hands into his. "We've been through a lot this year. I love you. You know I love you. So much. I told you from the beginning that I would support you in whatever you decided. And if this baby is what's suppost to happen then I say we just go with it. I know this isn't something that we planned but I think we can do this. We can raise this baby and then once we've managed to get everything settled, then you can go back to doing what you've worked your whole life for because I would hate to see you give it all up. Just trust me. I'm gonna do everything I can for this to work. Believe me when I say that I'm just as scared as you are of talking to your parents tonight. And if things don't go over well with your parents then...then—we'll just find a place of our own. I know you're probably thinking that this whole situation is just a complete mess and it's tearing us apart...but we can get through this. I know we can"

He just poured out all of his thoughts on what he thinks we should do. It's like I just got caught in a trap and if I tell him no, he's gonna be so upset and then we're just gonna end doing what we have been for the last week.

Fighting.

I'm sick of fighting.

I can't do this anymore.

Seth thinks that we can actually do this. Raise a baby straight out of high school and just drop everything else.

Lord knows if i'll even want to be dancing years after "everything" starts to settle down. By then I'll be completely out of shape and I will have no chance of being as good as I am now. 14 years...14 years of hardwork gone.

Then what? What are we gonna do then.

NOTHING?

"That's what scares me." I wimpered.

"What?"

"I'm not so sure about this." I mumbled under my breath.

"So you don't wanna keep the baby?" He asked me.

"No Seth...I don't wanna have the baby—I don't wanna have a baby. Not at 18. Not when we're just about to get our lives started." I told him still not bothering to look him in the eye.

"Why?"

"Did you seriously just ask me why?" I said.

"Oh was that suppost to be a retorical question—"

"Not with that attitude." I snapped.

"So you want an abortion then?"

"I don't know Seth that's what I'm trying to get across. We can't do this—I mean I can't I have a baby." I started crying.

"Shhhhh, don't cry." He pulled me against his chest and held me.

"I'm sorry Seth. I can't. I can't do this." I shook my head and moved away from him.

"Do you want to get an abortion?,"

"I don't know Seth—"

"It's a simple yes or no answer!" He yelled.

"Calm down okay? I don't wanna do this right now." I tried to reason with him.

"You've been saying that all week. Make your up damn mind cause you're making this hard for me!" He said.

"Oh now this is all my fault? Me getting pregnant with YOUR KID is entirely my fault? Wow...your head must not be screwed on the right way if you have the guts to say that to my face." I began to cry even more.

"Alright that came out the wrong way—"

"Damn right it did!" I snarled.

"Babe I didn't mean it like that." His voice was soft.

"Oh yes you did."

"Ella please." He took a step towards me trying grab my hand.

"No don't fucking touch me!" I yelled.

"Just listen—"

"No you can just get out of here! I don't wanna hear it. Just go." I pushed him away from me.

He didn't say a word. He didn't even move.

"You...are a coward." I said before making my way back inside. That's when he got ahold of my hand.

"Let me go." I said in a low whisper.

"Seth let me go," I turned around so I could face him. "Please."

"I'm sorry. You know I didn't mean to say it like that. You know me. I just want what's best for us..." He murmured.

"So what's best for us is having a baby when we're 18? Is that what you really think is best for us? I just want to be sure I'm hearing you right. Cause I'm not going to let you make me do something that I really don't want to do." I said.

"Right now...there's just alot going on in my head and I don't really know." He muttered.

"Oh! So this whole time we've been on the same page and yet you've been trying to put all of the pressure on me trying to make a decision—"

"You know what? If you're up for it then go ahead. Get a god damn abortion for all I care!" This time he was the one who pushed me away and as always, he doesn't realize that I get beat up a lot easier than him and the other wolves.

Only this time instead a "somewhat gentle" push, it was a hard push that caused my knees to buckle after I hit the cement wall and fell down.

"Oh God!" Seth's expression changed completely after realizing what he had done. He was by my side in an instant trying to help me back on my feet.

"I'm okay! I'm okay!" I said denying his help as I got back up on my own.

"What the hell was I thinking?" He faced his back towards me and started pacing with his hands covering his face. After pacing several times he stopped to look over at me.

"Ella—"

"No." I said through my teeth.

"I'm sorry." He took another step towards me.

"No...I'm sorry. I'm sorry for ruining everything—y'know maybe you're right Seth, I should just get rid of it."

I really wanted those last words to sting. I left him standing outside all by himself.

I didn't want anyone to see me like this. What sucks is I don't have a car and if I had any chance of leaving I would have to walk.

I walked back inside as humanly possible and started shoving everything back into my duffle bag.

"Ella—"

"I don't wanna talk about it." I told Chloe.

"Slow down Elle, what just happened?" Belinda asked me.

"Seth is just..." I paused as more tears rolled down my cheeks.

Randy walked in. Perfect timing. He caught my and made his way over to me and my friends.

"I just don't wanna talk about it that's all." I continued to put my stuff away. Chloe and Belinda got up and left as Randy approached me.

"Hey," He put his hand on my shoulder.

"Do you want me to get you out of here?" He asked in a low whisper so only I could hear.

"Please?" I turned around and faced him.

"Come on, let's go." Randy held out his hands.

He helped me up and then we walked right out to his car around the corner.

"Pinewood lake?" He asked.

"Yea." I nodded.

It didn't take us long to get there. Nothing was said until we actually got outiside.

It's starting to get dark so we just sat on the back of his truck.

"You two got into another fight?" He asked me.

"It was horrible. We're suppost to tell my parents tonight...but I don't think that's gonna happen cause I don't wanna be around him right now. He can have a very short temper—I mean I understand that he's as much of a nervous wreck as I am but that doesn't mean—it doesn't mean he has to..." I trailed off.

"He hit you—"

"Oh no he pushed me—but don't worry about that. I don't wanna hear it. He's just scared." I mumbled.

"Scared of what?" Randy scrunched his eyebrows together.

"Being a father." I told him.

"Oh,"

"Yea...I'm scared shitless too. I'm the one actually has to do the hard work—I'm gonna have to carry it for nine months—well now it's six—there goes my body—oh then I'm the one who actually has to have the baby. And he says that this is all my fault?" I explained.

"So I guess this means you won't be dancing for a while?"

"Oh yea, I'm not gonna dance for a loooooong time. Unless Seth doesn't want me to keep the baby—"

"Technically it's not entirely his decision. It's all yours actually. You don't have to do this, you know that." He said.

"So first, he tells me that we should keep the baby because he thinks that we can actually do this, and so I tell him that I didn't wanna do this only because we have so much stuff ahead of us and our lives are just getting started. Then he started yelling and then I started yelling and cried some more. Then he told me to make up my damn mind because I was making this hard for him and pretty much said this is all my fault without actually saying it—and then this WHOLE TIME when I thought that he was so sure about what we should do about this baby, he wasn't. He tried putting all of the pressure on me hoping that I would make the decision for the both of us and so I got even more mad at him because he knows that I hate it when he tries to pull that crap and then he pushes me away and yells at me saying to go get a god damn abortion for all he cares."

I was letting out really loud sobs now.

"Shhhhh, just calm down. You're okay. I'm sure he didn't mean it. Both of you guys are just frustrated that's all." Randy pulled me towards him and let me cry into his chest.

"I hate this. I hate what this baby is doing to us. I keep thinking that he's gonna leave—"

"Ella stop! Don't put that in your head. It's just gonna make you even more upset once you start thinking about it. You're gonna be fine. Try and calm down before you start choking. Just close your eyes and take a few deep breaths...there you go...that's it. " He continued to hold me in his arms.

"Aren't you suppost to be at dance tonight? It's a 3 hour rehersal." I told him.

"What's the point of being there knowing that I won't actually be doing anything unless you're there. You are my partner plus I think Madame can last one night without her best dancers there. It's all good, besides my friend had a bad today...and I'm still trying to cheer her up," He smiled.

"It's working," I assured him.

"That's good."

Yea I know this may look right with me being out here alone with him, but he's just being a good friend.

We stayed out here for a few more hours before it started to get late. It's already midnight...so it's already late plus it's not safe to be out in these part of the woods at night.

We just started to make our way to La Push.

Right when we had got into the forrest parts, Randy slammed on the breaks in the middle of the narrow road and stopped.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

He got out of the car and started looking around.

"Something's following us?" He told me.

"Nothing is following us." I assured him.

"Are you sure? Cause I just saw this huge ass wolf running right behind us."

"It's late. You're probably just imagining things." I tried to convince him otherwise knowing that he wasn't the only one who saw it.

I saw it too...and I knew exactly who it was.

How dare Seth follow me. This just gives us yet another reason for us to fight.

"Randy, get back in the car. Don't worry about it. It's probably nothing." I tried to tell him again.

He got back in the car and waited for a second.

"You okay?" I asked him.

"Yea," He nodded. "I'm good." He assured me.

Just as he got the engine started again, from the corner of my eye a bright light started making it's way towards us from Randy's side of the car.

"OH MY GOD WATCH OUT!" I screamed.

He looked out the window and then right back at me...then we got hit.

It sent us off the road until we landed up sideways in the air and my side was touch ths ground while Randy dangled towards me still in his seatbelt. Shattered glass was everywhere...some of it even left little cuts all over my skin.

Blood was running down the side of Randy's head and it covered the front of his shirt. The smell of blood was beginning to make me feel nauscious and I was trying to keep my eyes open. My lower stomach area was starting to throb and I gasped in pain.

"You okay?" Randy asked me.

"What do you mean am I okay? You're more beat up than I am!" I panted.

"Don't worry, it's just my head...I think, but I can't really breathe," He paused to take a deep breath. He looked like he was having trouble breathing and he was beginning to have trouble keeping his eyes open.

I tried to move around hoping I could try and get out but it was no use.

"I'm stuck!" I told him.

"Ella you're bleeding!" I heard him shout.

That's when I started to realize my seat felt a little wet. I looked down to see that my pants were soaked completely.

"Oh no, no no no no no no this isn't suppost to happen—ow!" I screamed.

"What?"

"I think I'm losing t-t-the baby?" I was starting to panick even more. I feel like someone just hit me in the gut with a cement block. Suddenly I was beginning to zone out and I felt my eyes droop.

"No! Ella don't close your eyes!" Randy said.

"I don't wanna die!" I cried.

"Don't say that. You're not going to die," He took a deep breath. "Not tonight. We're not gonna die." He tried to assure me.

"You're starting to lose it too..." I told him.

He was breathing even harder now, trying to get some oxygen into his lungs.

"Just look at me, " He panted. "Don't close your eyes. Stay with me here!"

"I'm trying." I said faintly. I held my arm out and reached for his hand as he did the same reaching for mine.

We barely got ahold of each others finger tips. Randy's eyes were starting to roll into the back of his head.

"Ella..." That was the last thing I heard him say before he lost consiousness.

I ended up passing out shortly after he did. It felt as if my soul was lifting away from my body at the slowest pace possible. This was it...

A slow and painful death was the last thing I wanted to happen,

Now I have no choice.

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Much Love,

~Dazzler 916~