Author's Note: Hey! Enjoy the next chapter! I know I haven't posted for Ocean Eyes in a while, but I've had writer's block for that. It'll be the next story I upload ;) And I know the link didn't work for the diamond engagement ring, so I'll just tell you what it looked like and you can imagine the rest :) It was a huge, circular diamond sitting on top of a diamond encrusted ring. So…yea :)

Thoughts

Rikki's editor, Jasmine, walked into her office at noon in People magazine. "Rikki?" Jasmine asked as she walked in.

Rikki stopped what she was doing to look up at Jasmine and reply, "Yea?"

"This sentence didn't make much sense to me." She showed Rikki the sentence underlined in red.

"Oh, you're right. That does sound a bit weird. Thanks, Jasmine, I'll get right on it," Rikki agreed. Jasmine smiled and left. Rikki started organizing the papers on her desk to make room to fix the sentence underlined in red, when she noticed her engagement ring again. She smiled at it. She couldn't believe she was engaged…more than that, she couldn't believe she was engaged to Zane. It's like the world turned upside down, and nothing from senior year mattered. This made Rikki frown. There was still a part of her that resented Zane for everything he did. She wanted to reach down, grab it, and pull it out, but she couldn't, especially because he'd just asked to marry her. Somehow, the other part of happiness overlapped all the anger and frustration. In a way, she wished it didn't, because she'd given Zane what he wanted again. But in another way, she's glad she did, because she's given herself what she wanted. Love is too confusing, Rikki thought. She tried to get it out of her head and continue with her editing.

Cleo tried to focus on the new designs for Lila's (a client) wedding, but for what seemed like every minute she'd have to get up, run to the bathroom and puke. It was only a matter of time before Lewis would notice something was up, especially because she wasn't going to be able to hide the fact she was getting bigger for much longer. Cleo kept thinking about getting an abortion, but she couldn't. She couldn't stand the thought of killing another life. She'd be, technically speaking, murdering her own baby. After that thought, she decided against abortion, but now she had another question: who was she going to tell first, Lewis or Ryan?

She knew Lewis was the right choice to tell first, I mean, he was her fiancé, but she couldn't stop thinking that this is Ryan's baby, and the father should know first. And then again, she was with Lewis, so the whole thing was so confusing and stressful to her.

"Hello class, I'm your substitute today. My name is Ms. Hartley," Bella recited.

"Hi Ms. Hartley," the kids chorused. Bella was substituting for a kindergarten class today. She loved kids so much, and she couldn't wait until she was a full teacher.

"Today, Mrs. Myron told me that you were working on writing your alphabet." Mrs. Myron was the kids' teacher.

"Yes," they said.

"Good, because she left the best activity, and told me to hand it out. So here ya go." Bella handed out all the worksheets. "If you need any help, any at all, I'm here." She smiled and watched the kids practice their writing. They were all writing slow, to get it just right. This made Bella chuckle as she walked around the room to see how they were doing. "Good, good," she said as she walked around the room. She continued this until she got back up to the front of the room. "You guys are doing great!"

Soon later, Bella collected all of the kids' sheets. "Ok, now Mrs. Myron told me to give you creative time with your colored sticks." The kids cheered. There were six colored sticks each kid had in a bag, all different colors. The red colored stick represented drawing on mini white boards. The purple represented arts and crafts. The blue represented puzzle making. The orange represented the play kitchen. The yellow represented silent reading time. The brown represented building blocks time. The green represented toys time. Each kid got to hold up the stick of their choice, and be assigned to that activity. If a group was full, the child would have to pick their second favorite, then try for their favorite again the next day. Bella laughed at the kids' excitement, then continued, "Alright, everyone gather in a circle so I can assign you." The kids all gathered excitedly in a circle as a multiple of colors swung into the air. Bella assigned everyone, and all the kids went off to their stations.

Author's Note: I based the colored sticks off of what I did in Kindergarten, we did the same thing with the sticks. I remember LOVING it lol :)