• Chapter 1

    It was early Friday morning. I had just woken up from a long night’s rest. Noah was no where to be seen but I smelled eggs so I assumed he was cooking again. He had let me sleep in until 5:00am. We had discovered that we can make it to my parent’s house and drop off the car before 6:15am. I started thinking about how crazy yesterday was. My mom decided to throw me before prom party. We had prom tonight. The two days before was fine. We had no more experiences with John. He didn’t even go to school. I remembered Josh and Patrick trying to decide who was stronger yesterday. They had broken every stick that was in my back yard. Thin and thick. They broke it all. Me, Violet, Caroline, Kelly and Katherine were laughing. My parent’s were trying to stop them and Noah, Cody and James were taking bets. It was hilarious. The day before that I and Noah spent the day at my grandmother’s house. The other seniors had protested the fact that we still had to go to school even though we weren’t doing anything. So in turn the principal said, “Ok, if you students want to be stubborn don’t come to school at all until Thursday.”
    Everyone threw a party. But I and Noah just went to my grandmother’s so she could meet him. She didn’t know who he was. She couldn’t go to the wedding so she couldn’t meet him then but she had met him then. That was all that really happened the past two days. It went by so fast that I didn’t even realize that it happened. I finally sat up after thinking of all that and Noah walked in with a tray of food. He looked at me and said, “You don’t have to get up yet. Stay in bed and eat.”
    I looked at the tray and said, “That’s really nice, but I’m not really that hungry.”
    He looked at me and then at the tray and said, “What do you mean? You were complaining you were hungry in your sleep.”
    Oh great I talked in my sleep. What else did I say? I didn’t really care. I shrugged and said, “Well I’m not. So I guess I was lying. Or maybe I was hungry and I’m not now.”
    He sighed and then said, “Well then at least get up and get dressed.”
    I sighed and did what I was told. I didn’t want him to be mad at me though. I finished getting ready and then walked back into the bedroom. He wasn’t there. I went into the living room and he was sitting on the couch looking like he was bored as anything. I went and sat next to him and said, “It’s not my fault I’m not hungry. Blame them.”
    He looked at me confused and sighed. He knew that I was right about it and he didn’t want to be upset at them or me. He sighed again and said, “I’m not mad. And I’m not blaming either of you. It’s just I should have known not to listen to you talking in your sleep.”
    I sighed and said, “Its OK. Do we have to leave now?”
    He looked at his watch and said, “Yea…but we get to leave school early cause of prom tonight.”
    I nodded and went to get my bag and then I gasped. He came running to me and said, “What? What’s the matter?”
    I shook my head and said, “nothing it’s just I won’t fit in my dress!”
    He looked at me confused for a second and then said, “Oh crap! Your rite. You got to call your mom and tell her.”
    I nodded and dialed the phone. My mom answered and said, “What? What’s wrong?”
    I sighed and said, “Nothing mom it’s just my dress for tonight won’t fit because of them.”
    She sighed and said, “OK, don’t panic! I’ll call up carol and what time do you guys get home today?”
    “11:30am why?”
    She sighed again and said, “We can go to Carol’s and get you a new dress. Don’t worry about it. I’ll pay for it.”
    She hung up and I sighed and said, “I have to go shopping later and you’re coming with me.”
    He nodded and then we went and got in the car. Our stuff was in the car already and we made it to my mom’s house by 6:00am. We walked in and Carol was there. I looked at her confused and she said, “I wrote down how your dress looked in case we needed to redo it. So all I need to do is measure you and then I will be able to go make a new one for you. I’ll have it here for tonight don’t worry.”
    I nodded and she measured me and left. She went back to her store and then she apparently fixed it to what she needed it to be. Noah and I went to school. I was still wearing baggy clothing. We made it through the day with just going to class. I only had a period without him and then that was when it hit time to go home. We went home. My parents weren’t there but I knew my mom was going to be home by 12:30pm to help me start getting ready. We had to be at the school by 4:00pm for pictures and other stuff before it actually started. It was going to run until midnight and then you were responsible to go and do whatever you wanted after wards as long as it wasn’t on school property.
    So we walked into the house and then sat down on the couch just planning to watch a movie. We sat there for about a half hour and then he turned to me and said, “Lily, love, this is really quite boring. And I know we can’t do something else, but…never mind.”
    I looked at him confused and said, “What? What is it? You can tell me.”
    He shook his head. Whatever he wanted to do he thought I was just going to shoot it down. But the problem was I didn’t even know what he wanted to do. I thought that I would check his mind and see if that could help me. I looked read his mind. He was thinking about kissing me. And not just a quick kiss and that was it. He was thinking about making out kissing. I pulled my mind out of his and I said, “That’s what you want?”
    He nodded and said, “I know I know we can’t…we have to think of the babies I know I know, you don’t need to tell me.”
    I rolled my eyes and said, “You are so negative.”
    He looked at me confused and I said, “you think that I’m that mean? You think that I’m just going to say no because I don’t want you to do anything to the babies? You acting like you’re asking me to have sex with you and I’m saying no.”
    He rolled his eyes and said, “I don’t want to have sex with you. I just want to be able to kiss you like before they were there. I don’t like not being able kiss you and hold you like before. I don’t like the fact that one wrong move and they have the chance of being lost. I…”
    I put my hand over his mouth and said, “Don’t name all the problems with this whole thing just kiss me.”
    He looked at me confused and then said, “Are you sure?”
    I nodded and he crushed his lips to mine. He tried to force mine to move with his. I finally gave up and I wrapped my arms around his neck. He kept my lips moving with his and then I tried to push him away. He ignored me and then I took my arms away from his neck and tried to push him away again. He took his lips off of mine and then went to explore my neck. I said, “OK, Noah, honey, you need to stop. That was good, just stop. Please?”
    He took his lips off my neck and said, “OK, thank you for that. And I’m sorry that I didn’t listen right away, it just felt so good I didn’t want to stop…”
    I put my hand over his mouth again and he looked at me confused. I sighed and said, “Don’t talk about it. You’ll make me change my mind and we need to behave for now. When they are born, then we can go and do whatever, as long as they are not there.”
    He nodded and then took my hand off his mouth and put it in his and said, “I’m sorry and you promise? I can wait however long as long as you promise that to me.”
    I sighed and nodded. He smiled at me and gave me a quick kiss and said, “thank you.”
    I smiled and said, “your welcome, just behave.”
    He nodded and then said, “Didn’t we have to go to the doctor…”
    The doorbell rang. I was about to go get it but Noah said, “stay. I’ll get it.”
    I nodded and he went and got it. He said, “Hello, Dr. Hill, what gives us this pleasure?”
    She said “well since you guys missed your appointment yesterday, your mom called and asked if I would look at you at home today. So I said yes because I had no other appointments today.”
    He nodded and said, “OK, well she’s in here.”
    He brought her into the living room. She looked at me and said, “You are looking good today…are you ready for your prom?”
    I shrugged and said, “I don’t really know. I feel sort of odd with the fact that I’m this big this quick and it feels sort of weird having some restrictions on what I can do with my husband because of them.”
    She nodded and said, “Well as long as you two don’t start having sex while they are still in there you should be good.”
    She started to laugh and I just raised my eye brows. She cleared her throat and said, “I’m sorry it’s a little bit of humor. But it was serious. But let’s get this over with.”
    She came over to me and put her hand on my stomach and said, “Oh!”
    I looked at her confused and said, “What’s oh?”
    She nodded and said, “Um…well…how should I put this?”
    Noah looked at her and said, “Just tell her already.”
    She glared at him and then said, “Well…Lily, I need you to stay calm.”
    I raised my eye brows and looked at Noah. He shook his head and sat down next to me his arm around my neck.
    I looked at her and said, “People tell me to stay calm and half the time something bad is going on. What the hell is wrong with them?”
    She shook her head and said, “There is nothing wrong it’s just you know how I said it would be a 2 maybe 3 month pregnancy?”
    I nodded and said, “yea, so?”
    She sighed and said, “Well... they have the chance of being born end of next week.”
    I took a deep breath. Noah wrapped his arms tighter around me, probably to try to prevent me from passing out.
    She looked at me and said, “it’s not a bad thing, it’s just I don’t know if it will interfere with your graduation or not.”
    I put on hand on the couch and the other on Noah’s leg. He looked at me concerned but I wouldn’t look him in the eyes when I spoke I said, “so you mean it’s only going to be a week and….”
    I couldn’t finish my sentence, I was too shocked. I tried to take a deep breath but I felt the faint coming. I decided it was better to just let it happen. Noah heard what I was thinking and he looked at me, found my eyes and said, “Don’t you dare.”
    I bit my lip and tried to take another deep breath. His arms tightened and Dr. Hill said, “Is she OK? Does she need to lye down?”
    I heard Noah say, “I don’t think she has to but it might be a good idea.”
    He took his arms from around me and got up. He laid me down and looked at me. I looked at him in the eyes and said, “I’m fine, I swear.”
    He raised his eye brow and said, “no your not, you need to lie down for a few minutes. Take a deep breath. Calm down, we’ll make it through this.”
    He took my hand in his and said, “I promise.”
    I nodded and Dr. Hill looked at me and said, “OK, well, what time is your graduation?”
    I shrugged and then my mom walked in. She looked at me and then looked at Dr. Hill. She looked confused and sounding scared when she said, “What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me that way?”
    Dr. Hill got up and said, “Well…The twins will be born by the end of next week. I was wondering if you knew what time the graduation was?”
    My mom shook her head and said, “Um…I don’t but I can call the principal and ask if it is that important.”
    Dr. Hill nodded and said, “yes, it would be helpful, if I knew that I could tell if she would be able to graduate at actual graduation or not.”
    I sighed and said, “No, I don’t care, I’m going to graduation, I’m going to prom.”
    My mom looked at me and said, “Sweetie, nobody said you weren’t going to be going to prom.”
    She looked at Dr. Hill. She shook her head and said, “I didn’t think that.”
    I knew who thought it. I looked at him and said, “you are not going to control what I do, just because one little thing changes.”
    He nodded and my mom and Dr. Hill looked confused. I shrugged and he squeezed my hand. I looked him in the eyes and said, “Don’t look at me that way. You know that you were wrong to think that and you know how I feel about that and you of all people should know not to try to control my life. You are the one who is always saying, we’ll make it through this but yet you are trying to change stuff. No”
    He nodded and my mom said, “It’s starting a 6:00pm. It should be over by 9:00pm.”
    Dr. Hill nodded and put her hand on my stomach again. She looked at me and said, “I hope you weren’t planning on going to school on that day. They are planning on being born in the morning. You got lucky.”
    I raised my eye brows and said, “I got lucky? Being pregnant and being a mother of two of not being married 2 weeks and that’s lucky? Having mood swing like you can’t believe is lucky? Not getting to enjoy prom and possibly graduation is lucky? Are you kidding me? I don’t consider that lucky at all. So you know what I say now. Get out of my mother’s house. I will see you next week. Good day maim.”
    She looked at my mom and then at me and said, “OK, I will see you then. Good afternoon.”
    I took a deep breath and Noah’s hand tightened. I looked him in the eyes and said, “I’m sorry I had to. She was trying to say…”
    He put his hand over my mouth and said, “Don’t worry about it. You need to start getting ready.”
    I nodded and got up. I went to go get ready for what other girls would consider the best night of their lives, but that wasn’t what this was going to be.