Olivia *4/11 ch. 14: Hope for a Better Future, is up*
MissBubbles:
[Chapter Five]
It’s been two weeks since we saw Lindsae die, and honestly, I can’t imagine that happening to Olivia.. It’d be horrible to watch something like that again, even more so with it being my own sister. I curl up at the thought.
After school, I play the piano. I’m playing the song “Hello” by Evanescence, and suddenly, I feel sick. I rush to the bathroom, and barely make it.
I think I was throwing up for an hour. It was horrible. When I come out my mom is in the kitchen, and I go in and sit at the breakfast bar. “Mom, I don’t feel well.” I say, clutching at my stomach.
“Well, you have to stay home when we go to the hospital. We can’t risk Olivia getting sick. Why don’t you ask Collin if he wants to hang out here with you?” My mom suggests.
“Okay.. sure.” I say, and call him.
“Hey Collin.”
“Hey baby. “ He says, I can almost hear his smile.
“My mom says I can’t go to see Olivia, so I was wondering if you wanted to come over later…”
“Why can’t you go see her?”
“I’ve been throwing up. Mom thinks I have the flu, but I feel fine now. Olivia’s immune system is down, you know, so they don’t want to risk anything..”
“Are you okay?”
“I told you, I feel fine now.”
“Call me as soon as they leave, and I’ll come over there.” He sounded worried.
After they left, I waited for Collin outside. When he got there he gave me a big hug.
We went inside, in my room. He kept looking really worried.
“Collin… is something wrong?”
“Is something wrong with you?” He asked.
“No, why?”
“Are you pregnant?”
“No, I mean, Maybe….”
“What do you mean maybe?”
“I haven’t taken a test or anything, If that’s what you mean.”
“Are you late?”
I was, but only by three days. That’d happened before, so I wasn’t too worried.
“Yes.” I finally answered, after thinking my answer through.
“Will you PROMISE me that you’ll take a test tomorrow if your period doesn’t come?”
“I promise.” I said, as he took me in his arms for a hug.
The next day at school was horrible. I barely made it the entire day without throwing up. I wanted to curl up in bed.
Even Jenna, a not-so-bright girl noticed.
“Hailey, are you okay?” She said during free period, we were sitting in the library.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” I said, grinning at her.
“Okay…” she said, standing up as the bell rings. “Can I call you after school?”
“Um, no. Collin is coming over.”
“Oh. You guys are still together?”
“Yup.” I smiled. “Six, almost seven months together.”
“Wow.”
We departed, I went on to Biology and she went to Algebra.
After school, I decided I’d walk home, so I could go to the convenience store and get a test like I promised Collin I’d do.
There wasn’t much selection in the store, so I just grabbed one. I also grabbed some dye stripper, to get rid of the pink.
The lady at checkout looked at me with a pitiful look. Like the ones puppies give you at the shelter. That look.
When I got home, I discarded my backpack in my room and went to the bathroom with the test.
The wait was only five minutes, but it felt like an hour.
The word “Pregnant” was on the screen, staring up at me like a slap in the face.
[Chapter Six]
Later, I heard the doorbell ring. It was Collin.
“So..?” He said, looking at me carefully.
“You’re gonna be a daddy…” I said, smiling fakely.
His jaw locked tight, he held me closer. “We’ll get through this Hailey, I promise. I’ll help. I can get a job, so you don’t have to.. Maybe, maybe we could get an apartment. Yeah. Or..” He looked worried.
“You’d stay?” I looked at him, a little shocked.
“Hailey, if I wasn’t gonna stay with you and the baby, I’d have left when I assumed.” He smiled at me, kissing my cheek softly. I curled up close to him, my silent sobs wracking my body.
Later, I stripped most of the pink dye out of my hair, some stubborn little streaks decided to stay. I decided to go back to my more natural hair, going back to blonde and not straightening it.
When Collin saw me with my curly hair, he was shocked. “I never knew you had curly hair.” He looked a little bewildered. It was cute though.
About a week later, after my parents got home, they were sitting on the couch, and Peter was playing Xbox, when Collin and I came downstairs, and asked to talk to them alone.
“Peter, go play upstairs.” She said, he paused his game and went upstairs.
“Hailey..? What is it? Are you sick?” My dad asked, worried.
“I’m.. I- Um…. I’m… Pregnant.”
“You’re pregnant?” My mother spat at me. My father shot a murderous glare at Collin. “This is just like you, Hailey. You couldn’t stand Olivia getting all the attention, so you went out and got pregnant. You can’t have a BABY at fourteen!”
“Hailey is having a baby?!” Peter darted down the stairs, grinning hugely. “I won’t be the baby anymore!”
“Peter, were you listening to our conversation?”
“Yes ma’am.” He hung his head.
“Go to your room before I sell the Xbox on eBay.” He darted back up faster than he had come down.
“Hailey, you can’t have a baby at FOURTEEN.” My mother continued, upset.
“Mom, I’m fifteen, remember? You guys forgot my birthday.”
“Oh.. You’re right, you are fifteen.. But you still should not be having a baby at fifteen. You’re just a baby yourself…” a tear escaped, rolling down her cheek. “Hailey, I’m sorry I forgot your birthday..”
“Collin, May I have a word with you outside?” My dad snapped, glaring at him.
“Yes sir.” He said, following my dad out onto the front porch.
“I guess I’ll call my OB/GYN, try to get you in. I’ll get you some prenatal vitamins at the store tomorrow, you’ll need to take those.. And you’ll need to get a job if you’re planning on keeping this baby. Are you?”
I hadn’t thought about doing anything else other than keeping the baby.
“I- I guess..” I began, slowly. “Could I clean out the spare room and fix it up for a nursery? Collin would help..”
“I had kind of forgotten about that… You know, we had planned on having another baby after Peter, hence the spare room, but we had a miscarriage about three years ago, and we just gave up.”
“I didn’t know that…” I said, feeling a little sad.
“It was very early on, we decided not to get your hopes up by telling you so soon.” She hugged me, and then jokingly said “Now I have an excuse to have early grey hair, I can say I’m going to be a grandma.” She laughed, and I giggled a little.
“You know, Hailey, I do like your hair better blonde. I think the little pink left looks cute, too. You should embrace it, because grey hair comes early for us girls. Look at my mom. She’s not that old, and she’s already fully grey.” She laughed, stroking my hair.
“Thanks. Collin was shocked that it was so curly naturally.”
“Well, I guess he just doesn’t know about our curly, blonde hair, since only Olivia shows it in its full nature.” She laughed, then looked sad. Olivia had lost all her hair already, from brushing it too often. It fell out faster that way. She was wearing knit caps to keep her head warm.
Collin and my dad came in, and my dad came and sat down next to my mom, and Collin came to say goodnight, hugging me lightly. “Goodnight Hailey. Goodnight Mr. and Mrs. Fellows.” He said, nodding his head over to my parents, and then leaving out the front door.
“Hailey… Why would you sleep with him?” My dad asked, a little mad tone in his voice.
“James, I don’t..” My mom began, but my dad cut her off.
“Rachel, Hailey needs to stand up for what she has done. Hailey, answer me.” My dad shot at me.
“James. Hailey is tired, she needs her sleep. We can talk about it another time.” My mom pulled his arm towards their room.
“Fine.” He said, getting up and heading to bed grumpily.
“Goodnight Hailey.” My mom said, heading to her room.
About two weeks later, I went to my first OBGYN appointment. It was awkward at the beginning, but got better.
The doctor gave me an ultrasound to see how the baby was doing and check the size, and she told me I was about nine weeks. The baby looked like a tadpole. She gave me a picture of my baby, I put it in my backpack, I’d show Collin later.
After my appointment, I walked to the beach and mom went on home. I stared out at the waves, thinking about my future.
I looked at two little girls, building a sandcastle.
Olivia would be building a sandcastle right now if she was here with me. If she wasn’t sick.
She’d be running in and out of the waves, playing, having fun. Getting a tan, her blonde hair getting a little lighter. She’d smile, and yank my arm and say “Hailey, come play with me!” and I’d be able to, without a worry. We’d smile and laugh and build sandcastles and have fun.
Instead, she’s dying in the hospital.
Tubes stuck all around her. Her hair is all gone. Instead, I’m pregnant.
Little do I know how much worse things will get.
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Thank you for the comment, Zorom. :D
-Bubbles
MissBubbles:
[[ Alright, now it's all catched up. I don't know when I'll get Chapter Nine out, I'm not done with the writing. ]]
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[Chapter Seven]
Late one night, a nurse had found Olivia unconscious and covered in blood, they kept her in the ICU for a few days after that.
When she started feeling better two weeks later, the doctors would allow her to go outside, with someone with her.
We sat in the little garden together, and that’s when I broke my news.
“Olivia..”
“Yes?” she said, wheeling back over to me.
“I’m pregnant.”
“Really? That’s crazy…” she said, looking down at her sock-covered feet. “Is Collin the dad?”
“Yeah..” I said, relieved that she didn’t take it badly.
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Three weeks later, when Olivia is back in the pediatric oncolody unit, she’s sitting and talking with a boy. He has a black bandana with gold stars on it, and they’re laughing together. The sound of Olivia’s laughter is uplifting to my soul.
“Tyler, do it again!” She said, laughing at his card tricks.
“Okay, just one more time, Liv. I’m getting tired.” Tyler said, doing his trick and making Olivia’s blue eyes widen with excitement.
“Hi Olivia.” I said, stepping closer. She wheels over and hugs me, patting my belly softly.
“Hi baby!” she laughs. I haven’t started actually showing yet, but when you press on my stomach you can feel a little bump there. Collin goes even nuttier over it. He swears the baby is a girl. It’s adorable.
“How are you feeling, Olivia?” I ask her, patting her head.
“Sore. I feel like a donkey kicked me in the ribs.” She said, getting out of her wheelchair and getting in bed. “How are you feeling?”
“I’m fine. Besides, everyone is more worried about you.”
“People should be worried about you, too. You’re having my niece.”
“Ugh. You’re set on the ‘it’s a girl’ scheme like Collin?”
“Of course it’s a girl. She’ll be beautiful like her Auntie.” She grinned big.
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We started clearing out the spare room to turn it into a nursery, and what a mess that was. Collin found my dad’s old high school year book, we laughed at how silly my dad’s hair had been back then.
My dad said ‘it was in style, it was groovy.’ And we laughed. Very hard.
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About a month later, they told us that Olivia can come home and just come in for her chemo, that made us all so happy, and right before Christmas, too.
We got the tree up, we made lots of food to get ready for both my family and Collins’.
My bump was definitely noticeable now, Collin loved playing with it. Rubbing it lovingly.
I was 18 weeks along now, and we’re finding out the baby’s gender two days before Christmas, and revealing it to everyone as a sort of ‘present’.
We watched movies and played games and had fun, trying to be as normal as possible.
We ate more organic and healthier things for Olivia, but it wasn’t like that was a bad thing. Peter was starting to chunk up from all the junk food he ate.
[Chapter Eight]
It’s December 23rd, and Collin and I are sitting in the waiting room at my OBGYN, there’s a few people there, but not many.
My OBGYN calls us back and I sit down on the bed.
“Hello Hailey. How are you feeling today?” She asks, starting the machine up.
“I feel fine.” I say, smiling at her. She puts the cold gel on my belly.
“I don’t think I’ve met you, what your name?” She asks Collin.
“Oh, I’m Collin. The baby’s dad.” He says, smiling and grabbing my hand.
“The baby looks healthy, everything looks fine. Would you like to know the sex?”
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Afterwards, we went to a little restaurant and talked about baby names, laughing and talking. I don’t think I had laughed that hard in months.
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When I got home, I put the picture we got of the baby on my wall.
It looked good there. I gave a copy to Collin, and he framed it for his mom.
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On Christmas, I help Olivia downstairs, and I’m quite sure that there’s almost three times as many presents as there was last year.
I smell mom making pancakes, so after I get Olivia settled in her wheelchair I take her into the kitchen.
“Wow Mom!” she says, sniffing the air. I help her over to the breakfast bar, where there’s a platter of cupcakes for later. “Mom, can I have a cupcake?” Olivia asks, her blue eyes pleading.
“Oh, Liv, I don’t know.. You’re on a special diet, I don’t know if you should…” she says, thinking it over a little bit. “Alright, JUST one.” Olivia dives into it, getting pink frosting on her nose.
“Smells good.” I say, grabbing a plate of pancakes.
Dad mopes in, refusing a plate and going into the living room to watch the tele. I go join him, he grumbles and heads back to his room.
I wondered if he’d ever start not hating me again. I hoped at least after the baby was born.
Later we open presents, and a fairly good amount are for Olivia and the baby. Mostly yellow things for the baby, and lots of “I love grandma” bibs, onesies, and what not. Olivia got so many dolls and books I don’t think she knows what to do with them all. My parents only gave me a few things, one of them was a camera.
“To take pictures of the baby when it’s born.” My mom said, smiling at me when I opened it. The other things were money and a promise to help me re-decorate my room.
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When our grandparents and Collin and his family come over, the living room is packed, and the tree has been overfilled with presents again.
Collin’s brothers, Markus and Raphael, are a lot older than him. Raphael is in med school, and Markus is in pre-law.
Collin sure has a lot to live up to, and he’s only sixteen.
When our families are all together in the living room, Collin and I make our announcement.
“Well, two days ago we found out the gender of our baby, and we decided to keep it a secret until our families could be all together.” I said, beaming. Olivia looked like she was going to pee herself out of anticipation.
“It’s a boy.” I said, smiling hugely.
There was lots of ‘congratulations’ said, lots of hugs received, and then presents were opened. Again, most of the presents were for Olivia and the baby.
Later, my grandparents were staying the night, and I went downstairs, my Grandma Marie was in the living room, looking at a picture album.
I sat down next to her, looking at the pictures. Pictures of my dad and Becca as kids, baby pictures of them, and one that surprises me.
A picture of Becca, when she was pregnant. She looked about sixteen or seventeen. It was shocking, Becca didn’t have any kids.
“Her baby was born too early, and didn’t make it.” My grandma said, touching the picture.
“You were very little then, I don’t think you’d remember. You and your parents came when she went into labor, and you kept asking why you couldn’t see the baby. You just didn’t seem to get that the baby died. Becca hasn’t been the same since, unfortunately. She got very jealous when she found out Rachel was pregnant with Olivia, she had been trying with Eric. You remember Eric, right? They were only married about five years, they got divorced when Olivia was one.”
I had forgotten about Becca’s ex-husband, nobody talked about him. Olivia wouldn’t remember, she was very little.
My grandma and I looked at pictures and talked the rest of the night.
The next morning, mom made omlettes for everybody, and when the boys and Olivia were in the living room, mom, grandma, and I sat and talked.
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There are extra pictures on Theraven's site, where I originally posted the story, if anybody wants to see them. [and the original comments]
moonlightdragon.freeforums.org [Check out her downloads, I got a -lot- of the medical equipment I use in my story there. And she makes adorable infant outfits. ]
- Bubbles
Aquarius:
Wow. Her pregnancy was a nice plot twist :P It was definitely the last thing their family needed
MissBubbles:
My stories are just like that. Sad and dramatic. XD
MissBubbles:
UPDATE:
I am officially done with Chapter Nine's writing, I just need to get cracking on the pictures. [Luckily, I got the grocery store set and the road set done already, I just gotta finish the pizza place. I like having all the sets done before I take all the pictures.]
And here's a little mini chapter that happened from boredom, doesn't have a number, isn't really a chapter, isn't that important to the story, I just thought I'd include it.
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One day, when it was really snowy, Collin, Peter, Olivia, and my dad went outside to build snowmen.
My mom totally flipped when she saw Olivia outside.
I mean, it’s a little worrisome because Olivia could get sicker than she already is, but the way my mom overreacted was uncalled for.
Olivia pouted and mom escorted her inside, I made her hot chocolate.
[Sorry for the lack of pictures of Hailey, Collin, and Peter. They were elsewhere. *cough* ]
-Bubbles
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