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Secrets Don't Make Friends

The Trouble and Clutter

Jack

I didn't get much sleep last night. After Alex drunk called me last night, I stayed up thinking. I told myself not to think too much into it since he was drunk but I couldn't help myself. Alex told me that he wanted us to get back together and he wanted to be here for the baby and me. I should have been happy, but instead I was just super confused. I told Alex that we could talk once he sobered up but I wasn't too sure if I wanted to do that anymore. Now I had a horrible head ache and I was restless which was going to make dinner with my family and Zack even more unbearable.

"Did you tell him dinner would be ready by four?" My grandma asked me.

"Yeah, he'll be here. I'm sure he's on his way now." I assured her.

"He still has ten minutes." My grandpa said, looking down at his watch.

I sat down on the couch, in the living room, and rubbed my temples. I wanted today to end quickly, but tomorrow I had to go to school so that wasn't much better. I'm sure Alex was going to try to talk to me then. I didn't know what to say to Alex, he was going to have to do all of the talking.

"Are you nervous?" My mom asked as she took a seat next to me.

"Kinda. I don't think dinner will be that bad anymore." Nothing could give me more anxiety than the thought of talking to Alex tomorrow.

"What changed your mind?" She chuckled.

"Um Zack is really respectful so I'm sure grandma and grandpa will like him." I said. I wasn't going to tell her the truth. She would only try and stop me from talking to Alex. Part of me was really looking forward to our talk.

The doorbell rang seconds later and grandma went to go open it. She pulled the door open and Zack was standing there with a bouquet of white tulips.

"Hi, you must be Zack!" Grandma greeted him.

"Yes! Hi, it's nice to meet you Mrs. Barakat." Zack said politely and handed her the flowers. My grandma stepped to the side to let him in and he smiled nervously at me.

"Hello, I'm Jack's grandpa." Grandpa went up to him and stuck out his hand. Zack grabbed his hand and shook it while saying hi.

"It's nice seeing you again, Zack." My mom told him.

"Nice to see you too." He responded. "Hi Jack."

"Hey." I said with a wave.

"Well dinner is ready so let's all go eat." My grandma said and we all walked to the kitchen.

"Sorry about this in advance." I whispered to Zack and he laughed.

"No, it's cool!"

I sat between Zack and my mom and my grandparents sat across from us. I didn't know what they were planning on asking Zack, but I hoped it wasn't embarrassing questions.

"So Zack, we wanted to have dinner with you to get to know you better. Seeing as you might be the father of our great-grandchild and all." Grandpa told him.

"Yes sir, I understand. I um should apologize for this whole situation." Zack said while playing with his fingers. I tried to fight the urge to roll my eyes. Why did he apologize? This dinner was already starting off awkward.

"Well Jack's a special boy so we can't necessarily blame you for not knowing." Grandma told him.

"Well had they waited until marriage we wouldn't be in the mess." Grandpa grumbled and I died a little inside. My mom quietly chuckled and Zack's cheeks turned red.

"Basil." My grandma said in a warning voice and grandpa lifted his hands in surrender.

"It's true, but I'll ease up a bit." Grandpa said. "So Zack, are you a church man?"

"Yes sir, I go almost every Sunday with my parents." Zack answered.

"Good! I already like you more than that other boy." Grandpa chuckled and Zack smiled. I stuck a piece of steak in my mouth and sighed as I chewed it. This was going to be a long dinner.

An hour and a half later, we were thankfully finished with dinner. My grandparents really just asked Zack questions to get to know him better and kind of scare him. They made sure he knew that if he were the father he would have to be involved with the child. Zack was already planning on doing that so he wasn't caught off guard.

"Thank you for dinner Mister and Misses Barakat. It was nice meeting you two." Zack told them.

"You're welcome. It was nice meeting you too. We'll see you later." Grandma told him.

"I'll walk you out." I said and Zack nodded. We went out the front door and to his car. Zack stopped once we made it to the driver side.

"That wasn't as nerve-wrecking as I thought it'd be." He joked.

"Yeah it could have been much worse." I lightly chuckled and placed my hand on my stomach. I was starting to get in the habit of doing that now. Zack looked down at me and smiled.

"Why are you looking at me like tha-" I was cut off by Zack placing his lips on mine. I stayed still, with my eyes open, waiting on him to pull away.

"I've been wanting to do that all night."

"Oh. . .um." I didn't know what to say to that. I didn't want to be rude and push him away, but I also didn't like Zack the way he liked me.

"I told my parents that you're pregnant." He continued talking.

"What'd they say?" I asked, still caught off guard.

"They weren't very happy at all, which was why I was happy to get out of the house. But they want to sit down and talk with you and your mom sometime soon."

"Okay. I'll I'm tell my mom about that. Just text me when we should come over." One dinner was awkward enough. I didn't want to do this whole thing over again.

"Yeah, I'll text you tonight." He told me.

"Okay, bye." I tried to walk away but Zack pulled me into a hug. I squeezed my eyes shut until he finally released me.

"Bye." He said and got in his truck.

I quickly walked back into my grandparents’ house and shut the door behind me. My mom and Grandma were walking away from the window where they were just watching Zack and me.

"He's definitely got it bad for you." My mom said, stating the obvious and I glared at her.

"Did you tell him you're not interested in him that way?" Grandma asked.

"No not really. I don't want to hurt his feelings." I whined.

"Jack, it's going to hurt him more the longer he likes you." She warned.

"I know I know. I'll try telling him soon."

"Tell me you're not still in love with that other boy." Grandpa said.

"Alex and I aren't together anymore, Grandpa." I reminded him.

"Yeah I know, but I said tell me you're not still in love with him." He repeated.

"I'm not." I answered quickly and he nodded. He really didn't like me dating Alex.

"Okay mom and dad we're going to go home. I need to mentally prepare myself for work tomorrow." My mom told them.

"Okay call me when you make it home." Grandma said and I nodded and told her I would. I stood up and went to hug her and my grandpa goodbye.

"Ugh I think I have heartburn." I said and gripped my chest. I don't think I've ever had heartburn before, but I knew that's what the pain had to be coming from.

"Hold on I'll go grab some Tums." Grandma told me. She went to the kitchen, grabbed two tablets, and brought them back to me.

"Thank you." I told her. I brought the two chalk-like tablets to my mouth and began to chew.

"You're welcome. When is your next prenatal appointment? And have you been taking the prenatal pills your doctor gave you?" She questioned.

"Yes grandma, and my next appointment is on Thursday. I don't wanna go though. The doctor is just going to tell me that I've gained more weight and show me more pictures of a pea sized baby." I complained.

"Oh hush, I'll see if I can get off and go with you again." She told me.

"Okay!" I like when my grandma went to the doctor with me. She usually asked all the important questions.

My mom and I told my grandparents bye again and went back home. I waited the rest of the day for Alex to call or text, but he never did. I didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.

*****

~The Next Day~

I was nervous to go to school today. I didn't know what to expect from Alex. He drunk called me and made me promise we can talk when he was sober then he doesn't call. Maybe it was a sign that we didn't need to talk. After all, I wasn't really sure if I wanted to forgive him or even get back together with him.

"Hey Jack." I heard Zack say. I stopped to let him catch up. He walked over and kissed me on the cheek.

"Um hi Zack." I said. I don't know why I couldn't bring myself to ask him not to do stuff like that.

"So my parents want you and your mom to come over Saturday night. Is that okay?" He asked.

"Oh y-yeah, that should be fine." I totally forgot to tell my mom about that. Hopefully she didn't have a date already.

"Okay cool! I'll walk you to class." He offered.

"I would, but I um have to... go talk to Cass." I said pointing over to where Cass was standing. "Yeah I need to talk to her about something." I lied.

"Alright, I'll see you at lunch." He said and walked to class.

I walked over to Cass while she was standing with a group of girls. She smiled when she saw me but her face fell when she saw how stressed I looked.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"There's just a lot going on right now. I feel like I can't catch a break." I told her.

"Wanna talk about it?" She asked and the bell rang signaling it was time to go to class.

"There isn't enough time." I said.

"We've got a few minutes until we're late. Give me the short version."

"Okay." We walked over to a bench and sat down. "Alex called me drunk Saturday night saying that he missed me and that now he wanted to be here for the baby and me. And I told him that we could talk once he sobered up but he hasn't made an effort to talk to me since then. And I'm kind of confused because I want to hate him, but hearing him say that he wants to be here to help made me want to fix things between us." I explained.

"Wait aren't you with Zack?" She asked.

"No. I just said all that stuff cause I knew Rian would go back and tell Alex and it would make him jealous." I chuckled.

"Then why did Zack kiss you on the cheek a few minutes ago??"

"Because he thinks we're together."

"Okay yeah this is too much. Let's start with Alex. Why don't you try to find and talk to him yourself?"

"Because I don't even know where we should start off." I said and the bell rang. "Damn it." I sighed. We were late for first period.

"Who do you have? I have Coach Katy so she won't care that I'm late." Cass told me.

"I have Ms. Wright." I groaned.

"Yeah you definitely have detention." She laughed.

"Ugh it's not funny." I said, kind of chuckling too. "I better go before she gives me two detentions."

"Okay, we'll finish talking at lunch." She said and I nodded.

I walked to my English class and sighed before opening the door. Of course everyone's eyes landed on me when I walked in. I fixed my sweatshirt just in case.

"Aw Mr. Barakat, it's so nice of you to finally join us in class. I hope whatever you were doing was worth it." Ms. Wright, annoyingly, said and sat a detention slip on my desk. I sunk into my seat as I stared down at the pink sheet. Great, now I was going to have to stay thirty minutes after school.

*****

"Well at least it's just thirty minutes and not an hour." Cass said trying to make me feel better about my detention. We were sitting at our own table in the cafeteria.

"I don't want to stay here any longer than I need to." I whined.

"Stop crying and finish telling me about Alex and Zack."

"I finished telling you about Alex. I said I'm not going to initiate the conversation between us. He's going to have to do it." I said.

"What if he's afraid? He probably thinks you're going to reject him."

"He'll never know if he doesn't try." I said. I didn't even know what I'd do if he tried to talk to me.
I looked over at the lunch table Alex was sitting at with his friends. He just happen to be looking at me too. He quickly looked away when our eyes met. Maybe Cass was right. Alex was probably afraid that I changed my mind about talking.

"Maybe I should say hi or something to let him know that I still want to talk?" I asked.

"Yeah, after school go to his car." She suggested.

"I have detention remember? He'll be gone when I get out of school."

"Oh yeah. Well just text him afterwards and see if he wants to meet up or something."

"Yeah I'll text him when I get home."

"How are you going to get home? Are you going to ask Zack to wait?"

"No I don't want to be a burden. I can just ask my mom to pick me up on her way home. I'll only have to wait an extra fifteen minutes." I said and she nodded.

"So why haven't you told Zack you two aren't together?" She asked looking in Zack's direction. He sat at a table with some other guys he knew, after I told him that I needed to catch up with Cass.

"I don't know. I don't want to break his heart again. The first time he went all crazy. Plus he's been helping me a lot and I don't want to be mean by telling him that I don't like him like he likes me."

"That's not being mean, that's being honest. And if he stops being nice to you because you tell him you don't like him then he's just as bad as Alex." She remarked.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I told my mom and grandma I'd tell him later but I was just saying that to get them to drop it. I guess I'll actually tell him." I said.

"Awesome! And then you and Alex can work through your problems and get back together and then we can all become close friends again that go on double dates." She said hopefully.

"That sounds great. I wish I could go back to before my life was this stressful."

"That would be perfect, but I kind of like the idea of you being pregnant. I love babies! I can't wait to yours is born so I can pinch his or her chubby cheeks. I bet the baby will have pretty brown eyes like you and Alex!" She exclaimed.

"Or green ones. . . Like Zack." I added, ruining the mood.

"I um forgot that was an option, but yeah that too." She mumbled. "Well what about the gender? What would you rather have, a girl or a boy?" She asked, trying to change the tone back to a happier one.

"I don't really mind either one. As long as he or she is healthy I'll be happy." I smiled and placed my hand on my stomach.

*****

School ended three minutes ago and I was just making it to my detention classroom. There were two other students in there and a teacher, I've never met, sitting at the front of the room.

"Come in, sit where ever you want, and keep yourself busy. I don't mind if you all talk, just keep it down so we don't disrupt any teachers that might still be here." He said. I walked in and handed him my detention slip then I went to sit at a desk in the middle of the room. I pulled out my book that I had to read for English and opened it. I began reading where I left off and then the classroom door opened again.

"Come in, sit where ever you want, and keep yourself busy." The teacher repeated the same thing to the person that just walked in.

I looked up and saw Alex going to hand in his detention slip. He turned around to find a seat and his eyes locked with mine.

Notes

Sorry about the cliffhanger! This chapter seems all over the place to me, but I hope you all enjoyed it lol

Title credit: Take Cover by ATL

Comments

@dirtylaundry
You’re welcome <3 and thank you so much for reading it!!

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/16/17

@T-what
I’m so happy you enjoyed it! And thanks again for reading it and all your feedback! I hate reading stories that take forever to update and that don’t finish too, that’s why I try to make stories that I can upload at least once a week lol but thanks again <3

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/16/17

I loved this story! Thank you for taking us on this lovely journey and for a wonderful ending!

dirtylaundry dirtylaundry
10/15/17

Awwww, no thank you, it was a lovely journey and I enjoyed this fic so much. Probs to you for never abandoning this and pulling through to the end. I hate reading stories that are put on hold randomly and never get finished.

T-what T-what
10/15/17

@Apathy4Sympathy
Lolol Alex has finally come to his senses. And a PTV and ATL hybrid would be weird in real life now that I think about it lol I don’t know what I’ll do without this fic either, Well I might become bored and write another one haha

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/11/17