Chapter Forty Two
My revelation seemed to sober up my friends pretty quickly. As soon as the words left my mouth, I instantly regretted them, but I felt relief. I was also glad that we were in the garden and my admission wasn’t heard by the entire senior class...
‘I-I didn’t know’. Chelsea seemed just as shocked and horrified as everyone. ‘I didn’t mean anything by what I said, just-’
‘Oh shut up Chelsea!’. Thomas scolded her. ‘You were being a judgemental bitch!’.
‘Hey, Back off!’. Sally came to her girlfriend's defence, although he had a point. A separate disagreement kicked off between the three of them, until Raven told them to shut up. I just looked at her, disgusted. SHE
Chapter Forty ThreeTime passed and I didn’t realize until then how much I had missed them. I wouldn’t even say I knew them that well, but I did, genuinely miss them. It was a little awkward though, me and Toby weren't really talking so the guys tried their best to include me in their conversations.It was getting late, at this point, I wouldn’t even get 5 hours of sleep in by the time I got home, washed, into bed and then having to get up again when my alarm went off.I checked my phone, Not wanting to say anything to Toby. I had crashed his night, I wasn’t going to ruin it by ending it early because I wanted to go home.‘Are you ready to go?’ Toby leaned over and asked quietly. I just smiled at him.
Chapter Forty Four** A Few Weeks Later **As predicted, I hadn’t seen Toby outside of school still. I had seen the guys though. We met up for a coffee and lunch, minus Toby of course and it was nice having a catch up with them, but they had gone home now.I knew he was still trying to be respectful and give me the ‘’space’’ I had asked for, but... I didn’t want space anymore. I just wanted him.I made sure I was at every lesson he taught, on time for every homeroom. Make sure to pay attention and do well. Literally, anything I could think of to get his attention. I guess I can’t really hold anything against him. There is only so much attention he can give me at work, but... He hadn’t even at
Chapter Forty FiveBy the time I got home, I had a bunch of messages from my friends, asking if I was ok and why I hadn’t come back to class. I had a message from Raven too, asking If I wanted to join everyone for dinner tonight, ‘’Her treat’’. I just replied with a simple ‘’no thanks’’ and turned my phone off again.If I didn’t, they would just keep texting.Walking into the house, it was empty. Mum and dad were still at work. I just went into the kitchen and grabbed a can of Coca Cola from the fridge before heading up to my room. I dumped my bag on the floor and slammed the door shut with my foot as I walked through.I took my shoes off and got on my bed, laying down and closed my eyes.
Chapter Forty SixThe week seemed to fly by within a blink of an eye. I hadn’t seen Toby outside of school, however, we had been texting pretty regularly, even a few times within school hours, but it never really went further than that. There was a little flirting but really, it was almost like I was getting to know him again, falling for him again, and honestly... I wanted him back, but he hadn’t really said anything to the contrary and while there was a little bit of flirting… he would promptly change the subject.…but it was clear there was still a deep connection there.My parents were going to invite Toby themselves, but I told them I’d do it. In all fairness, I had no idea why they were even having a BBQ. They hated them, the food took forever to cook, the weather no
Chapter Forty SevenThe day of the BBQ came and as expected, I was far from excited… or happy about it. I couldn’t exactly miss it. It was at my house and my parents would kill me if I bailed. I had told my parents I was fine with the fact they wanted Toby here so… I couldn’t exactly change my mind now, could I?I had decided to temporarily blocked Toby’s number after the very awkward and embarrassing incident. I didn’t really have anything to say to him and I didn’t want to hear anything he had to say to me… Not right now at least.Just when everything was starting to get better, it went to shit again. Even though he’s dead. Jason is still ruining my life. All this is his fault. My fears, my need for therapy, my PTSD... My trou
Chapter Forty EightWhen i went down, I said my hello’s and gave my hugs to the guys and then grabbed a can of Pepsi and went to sit down by the pool. The weather was actually surprisingly nice and warm, so I took my shoes off and sat with my feet in the water. If the weather stays nice, I’d go for a swim later on this evening, when everyone has left.No one came over and bugged me, they just left me alone, which I was really glad about. I didn’t want to be rude and ignorant, but I also didn’t want to fake being happy when I clearly wasn’t.I stayed where I was until dad announced the food wouldn't be too long. I reluctantly decided to go and join everyone and wouldn’t you know it, conveniently, the only free seat available was the one right next to Toby. Sitting
Chapter Forty NineThe night continued and eventually, at about 10 o'clock, my parents went inside to settle down and get ready for bed, but me and the guys stayed outside. My parents said they could stay over, I mean, we had enough room for them all. As soon as my parents were gone though, I instantly felt a bit more comfortable. Sure, I had nothing against my parents being around, it was just better when they weren’t. I had a beer... And then two, and soon enough, I started feeling a bit more whimsical.As the night got later though, We headed inside the house so we didn’t disturb any of the neighbours. I closed the lounge doors so that we also wouldn’t disturb my parents, although they were both such deep sleepers that I doubted that would have been a problem.Ryder suggested o
Chapter Fifty** A few days later **I was looking at myself in the mirror, trying to convince myself that I looked good. I was wearing a black strapless dress, a grey cardigan and some Wedge-heeled shoes. I was getting ready for my date with Toby but I was so nervous. I don’t know why, I mean, this wasn’t our first date or anything but it was the first date we had had in a very long time.My parents knew we were going out together tonight, of course. It made things slightly easier, not having to lie. It wasn’t like I flaunted it, especially not in front of dad, but mum had asked me pretty much every day leading up to now what I was planning on wearing tonight.I ha
THIS IS JUST EXTRA INFORMATION. PLEASE DON’T READ IF YOU THINK IT'S A CHAPTER! So, there you go, the story is over. I’ll be honest after Toby left, I had no idea where the story was going, throwing in the pregnancy was a spur of the moment choice I made very late at night when I was trying to figure out How I wanted this story to end.I had a massive amount of people complaining that one of my other books was ‘’unfinished’’ because it was left on a cliffhanger, much like this story has been. There will be a sequel, but please know it won’t be out for a while. I have a few other books I need to work on first. I need to write the third book in the Outlaw Series as well as TRY and figure out if I have enough ideas for a third book in t
Chapter Seventy Three -- Final ChapterNaturally, the first thing I did when I arrived in town was to try and call Toby, but it went straight to answer phone. I texted him a few times and gave him a chance to respond while I went and checked into the hotel I had booked for me and Axl. I figured it was probably best so that if Toby needed time to process everything, then we wouldn’t be crowding him. It was only booked for afew days, but I could always extend our stay if I needed to.…but hours had passed and he hadn’t even viewed the messages.What was going on? Was he just not interested in hearing from me anymore? Maybe his choice to not contact me wasn’t for time and space... Was it simply because he didn’t want to?
Note: Due to the negitive reviews after this chapter, I feel I need to make one thing clear, this book ends on an unexplained cliffhanger, meaning while the ending might seem "out of character" for Toby, remember that! It IS out of character for him, so thus, there must be a reason for what happens. Bare thst in mind please before leaving damaging reviews and remember there will be a sequel to clear all that up. I thought it would be obvious, but apparently not.. Enjoy! :) Chapter Seventy Three -- Final Chapter Naturally, the first thing I did when I arrived in town was to try and call Toby, but it went straight to answer phone. I texted him a few times and gave him a chance to respond while I went and checked into the hotel I had booked for me and Axl. I figured it was probably best so that if Toby needed time to process everything, then we wouldn’t be crowding him. It was only booked for afew days, but I could always extend our stay if I needed to. …but hours had passed and he had
Chapter Seventy OneThe day finally came. I had been planning it with my mum for the past few weeks. The flight was in a few hours, the hotel was booked, everything was sorted. She did try and convince me to leave Axl behind and just go alone, but as much as I know she was trying to make it easier for me, I couldn’t leave him behind, even for afew days.She and dad were driving us to the airport. I panicked a little bit when I realized that we were flying and the baby didn't have a passport, but that was sorted out, no problem, and now, we were both ready to go on our adventure and find Toby.It shouldn’t be that hard. I’d just call him and we could figure it out from there. I was saying basically in the same place me and my parents stayed before, so I knew my
Chapter Seventy** A few days later **I was finally home from the hospital and as I thought, things were different. Dad doted on Axl, and he had been a lot nicer to me too. It was nice for things not to be like they were. I was really worried things would never get back to normal and now, well, they were even better than normal even was!While I was in the hospital, recovering a little, mum and dad put the cot together in my room for me. I had left it till the last minute to do it myself, but in all fairness, he was a few weeks early. Even with him coming earlier than expected, I had sat down and discussed with my parents that I was going to still wait till after Graduation to leave town.They knew of my plans from the day Toby left, when
Chapter Sixty NineDad got me to the hospital in record time and mum was already there waiting for us. She worked close by, but even so, that was pretty impressive. They took me into an examination room to check me over and apparently, I was already pretty far along with the labour. I was 7 cm dilated, which meant it was nearly time.I wasn’t sure if I was even ready for this.Mum was going to be there with me in the delivery room, Dad was going to wait outside. I don’t think he was ready for this either. As they wheeled me past time, heading up to the delivery suite, I could tell by the look on his face, this was a changing point.Things were going to get better after this. I just knew it.
Chapter Sixty Eight*** A Few More Months Later **Graduation was fast approaching, it's all you could hear about in school, but luckily I wasn’t there much of the week anymore. My due date was moved up to before graduation now and being so heavily pregnant, I wasn’t really required to attend, as long as I collected school work to complete at home, but I rarely did that anyway.If people weren’t talking about me already, they surely were now, and I couldn’t give a fuck. Apart from the obvious things, I was pretty happy with my life, for the most part, and while people were picking what colleges they were going to and what they planned to do after High School, I knew what I was going to do… I was going to be a mother.
Chapter Sixty SevenWalking into the house, I called out to see if mum and dad were home yet. Mum called back that she was in the kitchen, and I headed over. I asked where dad was and she said he was still at work. Good, it meant I could share the good news with her.‘I thought you were staying at the other house tonight?’ I smiled and put the shopping bag down on the side.‘I am, but I forgot to pack some clothes that actually fit’. She chuckled. ‘I have something to show you!’. I told her, unable to hide my excitement. She stopped what she was doing and turned to look at me, waiting. I opened the bag and pulled out the little blue sailing boat onesie and she gasped, covering her mouth.
Chapter Sixty SixThe day dragged on and on and even when school was over, it still didn’t end. The phone call from the doctors was to remind me of an appointment I had, that admittedly, I had forgotten about, and then I still needed to go home and get clothes too.The Business just never seems to end these days. There's always an appointment or a job or something that needs doing. I was just trying to get through and make it till graduation. If I wasn’t allowed to drop out and the school was clearly not going to kick me out, I had to graduate… and then I could leave. I could go and find Toby……I wasn’t stupid, I know there is a good chance he was not going to be waiting for me. By the time I’m actually able to go, We would have been apart for a very long time