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When Marlena got home she ran upstairs and into the bathroom. She pulled out the pregnancy test of the brown paper bag and slowly opened it. She toke the test and had to wait 3 minutes before there would be results. She paced steadily across the bathroom, staring at her watch practically every two seconds. When three minutes passed Marlena toke in a deep breathe. She was about to see it when the doorbell rang.
�Shit.� Marlena blurted out surprising her self in her swearing.
She walked out of the bathroom and ran down the stairs.
�Hold on.� She yelled on her way down.
She opened the door to see John there with a rose in his palm.
�John.� Marlena said softly smiling.
�This is for you darling.� He said handing her the rose.
�Thank you,� Marlena said taking the rose and inhaling the scent of it. �So what are you doing here?�
�I just thought I�d stop by and surprise you.� John replied.
�Well, come in.� Marlena told him.
John shut the door behind him and they walked up the stairs into Marlena�s bedroom.
�So, are you feeling better?� John asked closing the bedroom door behind him.
�Yah, I�m fine now.� Marlena replied.
�That�s good, probably just a bug or something.� John said, walking over and sitting on Marlena�s bed.
�Yah, probably.� Marlena replied.
She then remember what she was doing before John came over; the pregnancy test was still lying in the bathroom.
�John, can you excuse me for a second.� Marlena said.
�Yah, of course.� He replied.
Marlena left and John walked around Marlena�s room, looking at the pictures of her former friends, ex-boyfriend, and family. He grabbed one of Marlena and Jacob which looked to be taken probably only a month or two before Marlena moved to Salem. Her hair was almost down to her waist then, and her blonde curly locks glistened in the summer sunlight. She looked so happy then, and now the only time John saw Marlena happy was out of school, when she was with him.
Marlena walked into the bathroom, locking the door behind her and picked up the pregnancy test.
�Oh my god, it�s negative.� Marlena said in a sigh of relief. �Oh thank you god, thank you!�
She rapped the stick in toilet paper and through it out. She put her hand over her stomach and smiled, her life wasn�t ruined but she still wanted to know why she was so sick then.
She walked back into her bedroom, her smiling glowing.
�Some one looks a little happy huh?� John asked walked over to Marlena.
�Yah, I just got some good news.� Marlena told him.
�Oh what�s that?� John asked.
�Oh nothing, so um what do you want to do.� Marlena asked him, there was no need to tell him about the pregnancy test since she�s not pregnant.
�You just want to hang out here?� John asked.
�Yah, I�ll order some pizza, I have some movies over there if you want to watch one of them or we can just watch something on TV.� Marlena replied. �So what do you want on it.�
�Well if its okay with you, just ask them to put everything on it.� John told her, his stomach growling.
He was starving, hadn�t eaten since breakfast.
�I�m hungry to, I�ll be right back.� Marlena told him, walking out of the bedroom and walking down to her kitchen to call the pizza place.
John walked over to Marlena�s collection of movies. A lot of vintage ones like Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, and movies along that line. He didn�t know what to choose: a romantic movie so he could in vision it was him and Marlena or a scary movie so he could hold her tight when she got scared.
�Pick something yet?� Marlena asked walking into the room.
�Well what are you in the mood for?� He asked her.
�Mmm, how about...� Marlena said moving her way to the stack movies.
She didn�t want John to think she was a hopeless romantic, who she was, she loved those cheesy classics, but she assumed John wouldn�t want to watch them with her.
�The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?� She asked him.
The original mind you, Marlena didn�t really own a lot of up to date movies. She didn�t want to watch it either, and the only reason she owned it was because her and her friends back in Colorado decided to scare the shit out each other one night and watch it at a sleep over.
�You sure you want to watch that?� John asked, he couldn�t believe Marlena would want to watch that, it was so gruesome. Of course he enjoyed it though; he always loved those kinds of movies, scary the shit out of himself made himself feel more like a man.
�Yah why not?� Marlena asked him. Why not? Um why would she, one time was enough, but what are you going to do.
�Okay, well let�s just wait for the pizza then and we can watch it.� John told her.
�Sounds good to me, I�ll go get some drinks from the basement, what do you like?� She told him.
�Do you have any beer?� John asked, Marlena, beer, now he felt awkward, he usually drank when he was hanging out with his friends but this was his girlfriend, would she think he was an alcoholic?
�Yah, I think we got some, I�ll be right back.� Marlena replied.
Phew, John thought to himself. Marlena used to have occasional beers too with her friends, just casually during sleep overs and hanging out, but never overboard.
She walked down the stairs to and down another flight till she was in the dark, muggy basement of the house. She walked over to the fridge and got out 2 ice cold bud lights. She walked upstairs when the doorbell rang. She put the cans on the kitchen table and opened the door, it was the pizza man.
�That will be 12.50� He said, man pizza was not cheap Marlena thought to herself. She pulled out the money from her pocket and gave it to the pizza guy.
She grabbed the beers between the fingers of her right hand and held the pizza box with her left hand. She brought it up to the room and layed it on the bed.
�Smells delicious.� John said, opening the box and taking the biggest slice out.
�Here�s your beer.� Marlena said handing it to him.
She walked over and put the movie in and sat back down on the bed. Next to John, who was stuffing his face with pizza, go figure, men are either hungry or horny. Marlena giggled at this.
�What so funny?� John asked, with a mouth full of food.
�Nothing.� She said taking a bite of her pizza that was overflowing with toppings.
John enjoyed the movie, Marlena not so much, but hey she got to snuggle with John during the scary parts which were pretty much the whole movie.
When the movie was over John got up and cleaned up the trash. Marlena shut off the movie and sat back down on the bed.
�Well, I guess I should be going, its getting late.� John told her, picking up his jacket.
�You know my aunt is away this weekend.� Marlena blurted out.
�Oh.� John said thinking that was kind of random.
�Well, that means that I have the house to myself, you know.� Marlena said, trying to edge John on to where she was getting at. She didn�t even know where she was edging at though.
�Marlena, do you want me to stay?� He asked her.
She just smiled back at him as he walked over to her and began to kiss her on the lips, their garlic-onion-sausage-peppers-pepperoni tasting breathe going into each other�s mouth but they didn�t even seem to care. John moved himself on top of Marlena as things began to intensify.
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