Apparently, you don't mind my time jump… That's great!
"Oh, that exam was hard!" Mac said when she walked in the cafeteria. I had finished mine since like one hour or something like that. "How was yours?"
"Oh you know, criminology and me, we have such a good connection…" That one was easy, not like yesterday's exam. "And I'm sure you'll have the best grades. And if you don't, you can still hack into the school system and change it…"
"Sure, and I'll change yours at the same time…"
"Excellent idea!" I joked along with her.
"So, what are your plans for today? Dick is having that party, wanna come?" Partying? Sure, everyone wants to see a whale on the dance floor.
"I don't think so. Besides, Logan and I are going baby shopping, as soon as finishes his exam."
"Ooooooh, aren't you having a baby shower first?" Yeah, normally it's your mom that organize it for you, and she's not even in my life anymore, and if it isn't you mom it could be your stepmom, she killed herself. And my best friend? Is a guy… I don't see him throwing me a baby shower.
"Haven't you got the memo? My mom wanted to throw one during her AA meeting, oh wait, that's true, you have to try to be sober to be there." Is the fact that I'm pregnant and that my mom isn't around disturbing me? Not at all…
"Want me to throw you one? I'm sure I could come up with something…" She offered. Mac is one of the sweetest and smartest person I know. And I'm really happy to be able to call her my friend. But she's as good at throwing party as she is with animals. She forgets to feed them and they end up dead, or that is what would happen if her parents didn't take care of them for her.
"Remember how much I admire all of your skills and that I love you… You such at party…" Not that I'm way better than her, my idea of a good party is one where nobody gets raped.
"Fine, but I want to buy you a gift…"
"I've been saving money for like months now, and I had some money on my bank account before that. I think I can buy everything I need…" Sure, now that Logan is paying for half of it. He wanted to pay for everything, but you know me. No way.
"Yeah, no. I'm going to buy something, even if you don't want it."
"Fine, what about a house? So I can put the baby in it…"
"Yeah, I think I'll miss one million or two…"
"Damned, I thought so." She continued.
"Isn't that the most beautiful of all!" Dick said when he entered the cafeteria.
"Talking about me?" I ask him as he kisses Mac.
"As much as I like the stomach and the swollen ankles, I more into geeks…"
"I'm the geek? That's what that surfer guy thinks of me?" They continued talking about each other, using only sweet lovely words, it's to be sick about… I thought I would have to leave, when a long blond haired girl, wearing a jean and shirt come near me. Maybe I should add that she had vomit on her shirt and was carrying a baby…
"Are you Veronique?" Veronique? Nope, that's not me.
"Is that a baby?!" Dick said, how smart mister obvious!
"If you mean Veronica, yes, if you really mean Veronique, no." I reply.
"Mars, that's not your baby right? I didn't know you were having twins…" Dick continued. Not a good thing, since the look on that girls face isn't really, well happy or sweet. She seems like if she would shoot someone just by looking at it.
"Veronica, that's it. I need your help." Sure, if it doesn't mean I'll have to run or stand for too long, and that there is always a toilet near me.
"That's my call! Bye guys!" I tell them. Hoping they would understand that they should leave!
"Bye Veronica!" Mac said, pushing Dick away. The baby carrying girl took the seat next to me.
"So, maybe you could start with your name?" I say since she doesn't seem comfortable.
"I didn't know you were pregnant." She says. That's her name?
"So I didn't know you were pregnant how can I help you?"
"Margaret. My name is Margaret, en this is Benji." Much better now that I know her names.
"Okay, well Margaret, how can I help you?"
"You're pregnant…" Thank you, I didn't notice…
"No way!? Really! How did that happen?!" I'm kind of getting bored of the whole you're pregnant thing. "Tell me your problem."
"I was living with Taylor in an apartment near the university. He's the father of Benji."So Benji has a father? Ooooh, he's not a miraculous baby…
"I guess it doesn't end well?" People don't come at me if the story ends well.
"Indeed, he left, with all our money and everything that was inside the apartment, including all of Benji's stuff." What!? Why would someone do that!
"He took everything? Like, everything? Bed, clothes, toys, TV?"
"Everything, expect two panties and diapers…" Jerk!
"and you want me to find him? To make him pay? Get everything back?" Personally, I would go for pay back.
"I want to have everything back, and find him. So I can make it legal that he can't ever get near his son again. As soon as you find him, I'll be able to pay you. I heard it was $400, or more? I don't remember it." I looked at her for a minute. She wasn't wearing any jewelry, her clothes didn't seemed to be expensive, her shoes either. By what I can see, she putts all of her money into her son.
"You know what? You'll only have to pay for what I have to buy. The rest is on me. You have other stuff on your mind right now."
"No way, I'll pay. I'm sure you need the money as much as I do." I would say yes, but no. I don't need the money. If I can't pay for all of the baby stuff, I have Logan that'd be more than happy to buy everything she needs.
"I don't want your money. I'll find that guy, not for you, but for Benji."
"I could pay you back by babysitting when you'll need it! I can, I can, do stuff for you! Anything!" She really wants to feel like she's paying for my services…
"Babysitting then. So tell me everything you know about Taylor. Family, former address, where you met him, what he likes to do, his classes, his friends, his car. Absolutely everything you can come up with."
Logan took his time to finish his exam. Good thing for me, I could do some research for Margaret. Taylor had a credit card, would make it a lot easier to find him. Now I just had to wait enough time for him to use it. But I'm not counting only on that. His parents and friends may know more. Logan arrived when I shut of my laptop.
"Hey Marsmallow." He said kissing me gently.
"How was your exam?" I ask him putting my laptop back in my bag.
"Oh, you know… I think I should have just enough to pass."
"You should have studied more…" I tell him. If he had been busy, playing video games with me.
"Yeah, books and I, we don't go well together…" It's funny, since I'm working in a library.
"Really? I haven't noticed…" Nope, not at all, especially since we make out a lot at the library, between books.
"Ready to go? We still have to choose paint, furniture, clothes, and everything else we could need." I feel like he has a better idea of what we need than I do.
"You drive!" I say taking me bag as Logan helps me to get up.
"What about that?" He asks me showing me a little pink body.
"You seem too really like pink…" since he keep on showing me pink stuff…
"It's a girl! What do you want? Let her wear blue?"
"You know there are more than only two colors on the rainbow?" It's not because we're having a girl that we only can choose for pink things. We can go for purple, blue, yellow, green, orange, and all of the other colors. The Mars' don't discriminate colors.
"Fine, what about this one?" He said. Better, it's a yellow one this time.
"That's a nice one. But you do know that she isn't going to be able to wear all of those clothes right!?" She'll grow, and only be able to wear half of what he took.
"Too much?"
"Just look at everything, we don't need all that." It's a baby, not a 12 feet high monster.
"Fine, take out what you don't like." He finally said. I took out some stuff we wouldn't need.
"That's better. So, we still need furniture, some toys maybe and we need to make the nursery, so paint." I numbered up.
"And some decorations…" That's one big difference between Logan and me. I lived my first years in a simple room, with a few toys. He lived in a palace with a pile of toys.
"Do we really need that?" I ask him. With all the clothes he chose, I already have enough savings…
"We don't need them, but it would be nice don't you think?" Yes… It would be nice. I said.
"We'll talk about it later, let's go choose a bed now… We wouldn't want her to sleep on the ground… On a pile of journals maybe?" I joke.
"That's an excellent idea, and we could put some food and water on the ground so we wouldn't be terrible parents…" He continued. I was looking at some planked, when a woman walked towards us.
"For when is the baby?" She asked us. Its funny how people always feels like talking to you when they see you're pregnant… I can't stand that, can't they just stay out of my life?!
"The baby what baby?" Logan said looking around. "Oh that baby, of course… Two months."
"Well, you make a wonderful couple… You are a couple, right?" NO, we are just inside of this shop, shopping for our baby, holding hands and kissing, without being a couple.
"Actually, we are married…" Logan continued, pinching my hand.
"But she isn't wearing a wedding ring…"
"You know how it is when you're pregnant, you fingers are so swollen up that you can't stand a ring…" I say playing the game.
"I'm so happy to hear you're not one of those couples that decide to have a baby outside marriage.. But aren't you a bit young for having a baby?" She continued. That woman probably has never heard of the term personal life or privacy.
"Young! How sweet! My husband finished law school two years ago and is now working for Mars and Taylor…" What Mars is a good name of a lawyer's office!
"Oooh, and what about you miss?" She continues.
"Me? Oh, you know. I'll be raising the twins and cheating on my husband at home. I think your brother is in town this week sweetie?" The look and that woman's face was worth my pay.
"Yeah, he is. Please, don't do it on our bed… My brother and I share everything…" Logan continued. She looked at us one last time and left, almost walking backwards. "Poor woman, I think she's scandalized."
"That's what you get when you're too curious. Now let's go get a bed for the twins."
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