Family Troubles || Redlyn

Back to School

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This story takes place a month after Big Red and Ashlyn's first kiss. You can read it as if it is following my other fanfics, or without reading them.

Ashlyn's POV

Big Red and I have been dating about a month now. It felt like much longer, probably because we spent so much time with each other. Not to mention things moved surprisingly fast. I liked it, though, because it just felt right.

I was biking to school. It was the first day back after the winter break. I was listening to a podcast about astrology, and adjusted my earbuds. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted Ricky skateboarding to school. I waved to him, taking my hands off the bike, and taking my eyes off the sidewalk.

It's a good thing I asked Big Red to come with me today, and it's a good thing I was by his house as I fell off my bike. He caught me, and I looked up at him and grinned.

"Thanks. Good morning."

"Morning Ash." He helped me regain my balance. "How are you?"

"I'm good." I picked up my bike and started walking with it. Big Red followed. "How're you?"

"Also good." He smiled. We talked the whole way to school. He told me that his cousin was moving to Salt Lake City soon, moving in with his family. Nothing else we talked about was very noteworthy.

At lunch, all our friends sat together, though we were mostly all talking to our boyfriends or girlfriends, besides EJ, Kourtney, and Gina. And Big Red and I, of course. We're not official yet. I got a call, excused myself, and walked to the hallway.

"Mom?" I asked. "What?"

"I just wanted to tell you to come straight home today, your father and I have something to tell you." She told me, sparking some panic.

"Uh... is it, um, bad?"

"No."

"Then why not tell me now?"

"It'll take to long."

"Er, okay. I've gotta get back to lunch." I didn't want the conversation to get more awkward than I was already finding it to be. "Bye Mom." I hung up after she said her goodbye.

I walked back to the table and interlocked my fingers in Big Red's, stressing about what my mom said. I didn't really have the urge to eat right now. "Are you okay?" Big Red asked me.

"What?" I looked at him. "Oh, yeah, just a bit stressed about stuff."

"Wanna talk about it?" He asked me.

"No, I'll be fine soon, but thanks." It was such a sweet offer. Maybe it was just the way he said it, or maybe just the the fact no one else would offer. They'd just expect me to talk about it if I wanted to, or ignore it.

"Okay." He nodded.

After school, I went straight home, just as my mom told me to. I put my backpack down in my room, then went to the living room, where my parents were. I sat on a chair across from the two of them, who were on the couch. I started freaking out, they looked so serious.

"I guess we'll just say it, your mom is pregnant." My dad told me.

"Um... what?" I asked. It wasn't necessarily bad news, I was just shocked. It had been about 16 years since they'd had a kid. "Oh, uh, great." The story gets too blurry to recall now. We talked for awhile longer, before I went to my room to think.

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If you have read my other fanfics, this one will have more chapters and take longer (I wrote the other ones really quickly).