"your flight has been shifted to Sunday." my mom called to tell me on Friday evening.
"No problem." I replied as I was zipping the bag full of my clothes and other necessary items I planned on taking along with me to Paris.
"So, you're no longer going tomorrow?" Joe asked me when I plopped down on the couch hesiade her as I opened the bag of Skittles.
"That is exactly why I just told you now." I replied her even though my mouth was full of Skittles.
She shrugged, "I am just trying to confirm."
I rolled my eyes and then picked up my phone from the couch, beside me when I heard a ding. It was a message but from an unknown number.
"Hi." The text read.
I tried racking my brain trying to remember if I gave anyone my phone number, but no, no one came to my mind.
"Hi." I replied back. "Who is this please?" I added the please in order not to seem rude.
It took about two minutes before I heard the ding again, "Jake."
Immediately I read the text I turned to Joe with an angry look, "you gave Jake my number?"
"He wanted to cut my head off if I didn't give it to him!" She exclaimed. "And I need my precious beautiful head." She shrugged as she put more chips into her mouth.
"You could have asked me first!"
"There was no time to do that!"
The next thing, I heard about three dings.
"Look, Maria, there is something you need to know."
"About the other night."
"I did not use a condom and I'm wondering if you were on your pills."
"What?!" I exclaimed my eyes wide as I read the texts he sent to me. This motherfucker! Who doesn't use a condom when sleeping with a stranger! This is all his fault!
"What's wrong?" Joe asked me as she collected the phone from my hand and read the same texts.
"Damn." She frowned, "but I thought you always use your pills?" She asked me as she handed me back the phone.
"I stopped using them about two months ago!"
"That's bad."
"Do you think he is suspecting I'm pregnant?" I asked Joe as I dropped the phone on the couch.
"I don't know. Probably?" She shrugged. "And aren't you meant to start going for your anti- nantal programs?"
"I will, once I come back from Paris."
"Same hospital?"
"Yes." I answered and then dipped the Skittle inside my chocolate flavoured ice cream.
"Isn't that gross?" Joe's face morphed into disgust as she watched me eat my snacks- if you can still call it that.
"Nope." I dipped another one into the ice cream before throwing it into my mouth. "You should try it."
"No, I'm good." She shook her hand and continued eating her chips.
"Whatever."
"Do you want to come to the movies, with myself and Philip?"
"Yourself and Philip?"
"Yh."
"Are we talking about another Philpi or the same philip, your boss?"
She rolled her eyes at me and then, "yes, my boss."
"The one you dated and you're both still fucking?"
"Yes," she dragged the yes, making it song like yessssss, "that one."
"Wow."
"He asked me out on a movie night." She shrugged, "no big deal." I can tell it is a very big deal for her because she really loved Philip and she never told me why she broke up with him anyway. The way Philip still looks at her and the way she looks at him when they think no one is noticing still confirms they still both love each other. But they are too egotistical to admit it to themselves.
"So, it is a date?" I grinned at her, knowing that is going to irritate her.
"No, it's not a date." She frowned.
"It looks like it to me." I shrugged closing the argument.
"So, are you coming or not?" She asked me as she stood up from the couch and moved into the kitchen, probably to pour herslef a cup of apple juice, or the whole thing.
I thought about it for a while, "is Jake going to be there?" I asked. Well, I have to be careful I an definitely not ready to see him. Especially after what he just told me. Who doesn't use a condom when sleeping with a drunk lady?!
"I don't know," I looked back at her, "I don't think so." She shrugged. "Philip said he's out on a business trip, so he should be out by tomorrow." She came back with a cup of apple juice and a cup of orange juice.
"Thank you." I grinned as I collected the cup from her. "Then if that is what is going to happen, yes I'll come."
"You don't mind being the third wheel?"
"It is not exactly a third wheel, since both of you refused to gett back together." I shrugged taking a sip of my juice.
"Right." She replied chewing her chips loudly.
"Can you stop that?"
"Stop what?"
"The way you're chewing your chips."
"How am I chewing them?" She gave me a confused look.
"Loudly." I answered plainly.
"This is how I have been eating them for the past one hour!"
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
She rolled her eyes, "please don't distract me from this movie."
"Whatever."
"Aren't we meant to be in need by now?" I groaned as I checked the time. Fourty five minutes past two.
"We? You are the Pregnant one between both of us. So you should be in bed."
"You're the dumb one between both of us, so you should be in bed." I spat back at her.
"Yh, whatever."
"I hate this girl." I groaned when I saw the main character in the movie we were watching burst into tears.
"Who?" Joe asked as she made herself comfortable on the couch by placing her own legs over my thighs.
"Elena, obviously."
"Why would you hate Elena?!" She's a fan of the character, I do not know why.
"I prefer Katherine to be honest."
"Katherine is a bitch. Plus, they are the same character."
"But different personalities." I replied putting a slice of chicken pizza into my mouth, my favourite. Joe had the good idea of ordering the pizza around midnight, though she ordered the cheese pizza for herself. She claims we both have been eating chicken pizza since the beginning of this year and doesn't want to start pooing chicken.
Who says that type of stuff??
"Elena is a cry baby but Katherine is a bad bitch."
"But still, I prefer Elena."
"You always make the worst choices." I chuckled.
"Says the bestfriend who got knocked up." She laughed making me hit her thighs and throwing them off mine.
"I'm kidding, I'm kidding." She said as she was laughing while I was stuffing my face with pizza. "We are in this together babe." She pulled me into a bone crushing hug.
"Can't.breathe." I struggled to say and then she finally released me.
"You know I love you bish." She pulled both of my cheeks grinning.
"I love you too." I replied grinning back.
"You should go to sleep. I will clean up."
"I can help?" I offered.
"Nah, it is fine. It will help.me take my mind off stuffs." She always cleans whenever something is bothering here. She can re clean the whole house like twice. It happened when herslef and Philip broke up.
"Okay, goodnight."
"Night." I stood up from the couch and then made my way up to my room.
"Wake the fuck up sleepy head!" I hit Joe's pillow on her head. I have been tryingbto wake her up for the past fifteen minutes, because Philip has been ringing her phone since all this while and all she keeps saying is, "five more minutes." With her face buried inside her other pillow.
"Come on." I groaned as I sat down on her bed and rested my head on her back. I give up.
"Okay, okay, I'm up." She raised her head from her pillow as she used her hands to clear her eyes.
"Finally." I stood up from the bed and placed the pillow back to where I picked it up from.
"I still need more sleep."
I frowned, "do not even think about it. Philip has been ringing your phone."
"Thanks. I will call him back." She replied as she sat up in her bed, picking the phone from the bed side table.
"And please have your bath, so we won't be late." I reminded her.
"Will do."
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"Do you think I should wear this dress?" Joe asked me as she stared at her reflection in the long lengthed mirror in her room. "I seriously do not know why you are bothering yourself." I looked back at her, "you said it is not a date, so why are you so affected with how you look?" She rolled her eyes at me before replying, "I have to look good for myself because-" "Or, you have to look good for Philp." I pointed out as I added the last final touch to my perfectly painted narils. "Philip?" She asked putting off the yellow strapless sundress. "Yes, Philip. But that looks good on you. You just have to wear a jean jacket on it and look for pretty sandals to go with it." "Are you sure?" She asked frowning. "Yes." She shook her head, "I do not trust your fashion sense. Let me try out some other clothes." We both laughed. She is actually right, she's the one with the better fashion sense. "Ouch." I st
The flight took about seven hours and fifteen minutes. I spent my time on the flight writing my book, listening to music, watching movies and eating. At least that did not go to waste. In no time I was out of the air plane and making my way towards the arrival entrance of the air port. I tried looking for my mom but could not find her, she told me she was the one going to be picking me up. "Hey mom." I answered the phone when I heard it ring from my back pocket. "I am so sorry baby, I would not be able to make it. Your older cousin, Alexander is going to come pick you up okay?" "Okay." I nodded alongside Eve if I know she couldn't see me. "He is already on his way. Just ten more minutes." "No problem." I responded as I she hung up the call. I sighed as I picked up my bag and then looked for somewhere comfortable to sit. I texted
Jake and I were about seven minutes late to dinner and by the time we got home, almost the whole family was seated on the table talking about whatever knows what, well apart from Alexander and his wife. I am sure you can already tell, my mom told the whole family that Jake is my "boyfriend" can she not just keep something a secret!Jake got comfortable around my family quickly and no one seemed to notice the absence of chemistry or whatever it is called, between both of us. Jake sat beside aunt Pauline while I took my seat beside him.Mom already prepared one of her sweet delicacies. She always preferred to be alone in the kitchen whenever she wants to prepare a meal that is why no one ever helps her in the kitchen. I guess I took my baking skills from her though."Why don't we say a prayer?" My dad suggested and we all murmured in agreement as we joined out hands together."Gabriella?""Father, we bless you for giving us our
I am going to fucking kill Joe! She told him?! She promised not to! She is so dead by the time I see her. I turned around to face Jake only to see a friend marring his face. "You knew all this while that you were pregnant and didn't think I should know about it?" I could definitely hear the anger in his voice."Look, it's not my fault you didn't use a condom when we did whatever happened!" I crossed my arms around my chest."Because you told me not to!" He moved closer to me, he looked angry though.I did?"I was obviously drunk why would you listen to me! I stopped using my pills about a month or two months ago!""How did you expect me to know that?"I sighed as I rolled my eyes, "okay, you know I'm carrying your child what do you want to do now? I can take care of my child myself.""Firstly," he raised up a finger, "our child. That's our child." He pointed between us. "And secondly, move in with me.""
"You know my mom almost ate my head-" I paused mid sentence when I saw it was not Alex at the door.You have got to be kidding me! What is he doing here?!"What are you doing here?!" I whisper yelled at him as I moved outside and then closed the door."Joe gave me your Parent's address and since I came here to see one of my friends I decided to come here."Joe! Again?! I do not want to get mad at her, maybe she has a reasonable reason why she did this.I crossed my arms around my chest and then glared at him, "you expect me to believe what you just said?!"He shrugged and then placed his hands in his pocket."Can you please stop following me around! Just because I am carrying your child doesn't mean you can be everywhere I am!" At this point I was still whisper yelling."I think it does." He said in a plain voice."Maria!" I heard my mom's voice call from inside and I know any minute from now she'
Immediately Grace said her water just broke every single one of us, panic gripped us, not the smartest thing to do, I agree. But we could not help it. Alex immediately carried his wife in bridal style with all of us following him towards the car. I opened the house door for him so he would be able to go out and then also opened the door to the back seat for him. He placed Grace and then pecked her forehead, "you got this. I am here." He whispered and then she nodded her head."Someone needs to follow you." I said before he entered his car."Mom, come on." He said as he nodded his head towards him mom. Immediately she entered into the car Alex zoomed off. His mom sat at the back seat, probably to help Grace through the pain she was feeling.My mom told my grandparents to stay in the house, to save themselves from stress. My mom followed Aunt Elizabeth and my dad, Gabriella took another car with her twin brother while myself and Jake took his own car.
"They are so cute." I cooed as I played with their cheeks lightly. The babies were placed in their courts. My mom and dad already left to freshen up while Gabriella, Gabriel, Jake my grandparents and I were left in the room with Grace and Alexander."Have you guys decided on a name?" My grandmother asked as she took a seat beside the large window slowly crocheting her new sweater or beanie.Alexander looked at me and then, "we were thinking if Maria would so us the honour of naming one of the boys?" He gave me a questioning look, grinning.I gasped, "really?" I asked. My eyes were already watering."Yeah." He nodded himself and I looked over at Grace who was grinning also, her hands intertwined with Alexander's own.I inhaled and then exhaled loudly and then looked over at Jake who had a serious expression on. "Michael." I said."That is a very nice name." Grace looked up at Alexander."I love
"where are we going?" I asked Jake as he entered the car while I fastened my seatbelt."What do you want to eat?" He asked me as he started the car and then glanced at me waiting for my answer."I do not know." I shrugged. "Burger?" It came out more of a question.He chuckled and then, "burger it is."After a moment of comfortable silence with the radio playing in the background, "should you not be at work?" I asked and he glanced at me.I did not want him to take my tone as a rude one so I explained further, "you know, helping with my family and stuffs. You should have left your work behind." I paused. "What if your boss tells you to leave?" I asked."My boss?" He smirked."Yes, your boss." I replied pointedly."I am the boss of myself." He replied. When he noticed I was silent for a while he glanced at me with amusement playing in his eyes and a small smile on his lips, "you thought I