Chapter 5:Close Call
*^*One month past*^*
Julia had gotten to feel a little better lately about her pregnancy. It was her third month & things were a little less hectic, & a little bit better. Three days ago, she came out to her parents about her pregnancy & they ended up not being mad at her, but at Matt. Her father was even mad to the point Julia thought he would go into flames with Spontaneous Human Combustion. And by the look in her mother's eyes, she felt the same way as Julia did. After some coaxing, Martha Pearson conviced Jack Pearson to calm down & resist the urge to go upstairs & get his rifle to hunt Matt down & kill him like he had sworn he was going to do. Julia's brother, JJ, whose real name was Jack Junior, stalked up the stairs in a retreat to his workout room where the family was sure he had gone to beat the shit out of his punching bag like he did to keep from punching the walls whenever he got this mad. Now she was sitting in her room, writing in her poetry & song book, blocking out the world around her. Right as she was capping her pen, her soft feather pillow hit her in the head.
"Hey!" she cried out, turning to look for who threw it & where they were so she could hurt them.
"I'm sorry chica, I just couldn't resist," Ashley giggled from the doorway.
"Oh you will die," Julia giggled. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off trying to find Justin's CD even though it's not out yet?" she smiled, poking fun at Ashley's Justin obssession. As long as Julia could remember, Ashley had loved Justin & had also been obssessed with being the woman to make him a "proud papa" some day with as many babies as they could fit into one house hold. When it came down to the straight out fact, Ashley was a Justin teeny. Every concert Ashley was there, somewhere within the first few rows, hiding a pair of her scandalous panties that she could find in her drawers, stuffed down in her bra, spread out evenly so not to draw attention, then when the time was right, threw them onto the stage with a little note somehow attached. One time when she was working at a store, she printed out a long blank receipt, used the white paper to write a long letter to him, rolled it up like a scroll, used string to tie it to the inside & flung them on the stage. The panties landed at his feet.
"Well, I would be, but I had to come & see you right away."
"Why? What's going on?"
"Remember that mystery guy of Chissy's?"
"What abou thim?"
"I was driving home from the store & since there was a major traffic jam, I took the side road that goes by her house, but also takes me to mine & when I was driving by her house, I saw that there was a Jeep in her driveway behind her car."
"So? What's that got to do with her mystery guy?"
"I think it could be him!"
"So you think we should go check it out?"
"No Julia, I think we should egg the Jeep then run back here, YES I do think it's him!"
"Okay okay, we'll go check it out, just chill your butt down."
Ashley pulled Julia up & dragged her out of her room, not letting go of Julia's hand as she ran downstairs.
"Ashley, will you slow down?! I would like to live until I'm 18. Not die FROM A BROKEN NECK!"
"Oh blah blah blah!" Ashley said as she stopped at the door. "Yell goodbye."
"Bye mom! Bye dad! I'm going with Ashley to see Chrissy!"
"Okay!" her dad yelled back.
"Now, let's go," Ashley giggled.
*^*At Christina's House*^*
Christina & JC were cuddling in her bedroom when the doorbell rang. "Ugh. Stupid people..." Christina muttered under her breath as she started to get up from the bed.
"Forget them, stay here with me," JC pouted, pulling her back down to him, holding her closer.
Christina giggled. "But Jace, I have to chase whoever it is away or you know they won't go away with two cars outside in the driveway. I'm sure anyone in the world can figure out that means someone's gotta be here."
JC pouted. "Interruptions suck," he grumbled, letting go of her.
"Yes, they do," Christina said, running downstairs as the doorbell rang again. "Hold your horses tail, I'm comin!" When she got to the door, Christina opened it to see Ashley &Julia standing behind the door. "Chicas, what are you doing here?"
"We just came to see our best chica," Julia smiled.
"We also came to find out whose Jeep that is," Ashley chimed in with a wide smile on her face.
"It's no one's that I know."
"Chrissy..."
"What?"
"I, uh, we, know that you're lying to us, now tell us the truth."
"Look, somone broke down, they called their friend here to pick them up, &-"
"He's here, isn't he?" Ashley asked, cutting her off.
"Who?"
"Your mystery man."
"Ash, he is not here."
"Then you won't mind if we take a look around?"
"Ashley, if she says he's not here, then he's not here," Julia said, defending Christina.
Christina looked at Julia. "Thank you Jules. So, how's the pregnancy coming along?"
"Coming great. Month number 3..."
"Wow... You can't even tell yet," Christina giggled, trying to detour the conversation to save her hide.
"I'm hoping I'll be like mom & not show. She didn't even show with me, but god did she show with my brother."
"How could you know if you weren't around back then?" Ashley & Christina asked at the same time.
"Mom had photos from both pregnancies."
"Oh."
"Well Ashley, we better get going. Don't wanna miss the marathon."
"What marathon?" Christina asked.
"They're just showing a bunch of the old MMC reruns. This is I think the second time they've done a thing like this before."
"MMC N'Sync, or MMC no N'Sync?"
"MMC N'Sync."
"That would explain why you 2 would want to watch it."
"Yep. See you later chica," Ashley said.
"Okay, byes."
Christina watched as Ashley & Julia walked to Ashley's car & got in before she shut the door & ran back upstairs. That was too close of a call... Christina thought to herself.
*^*At Julia's House*^*
The girls walked back inside & ran upstairs to Julia's room, both girls flopping onto her bed. Julia grabbed her remote & used it to turn on the TV.
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