Chapter 13
Natalie
Devon acted almost exactly as I thought he would. He got really pale and squeezed my hands. "Hmm?"
"You heard me."
"Oh no."
"Yeah. But that's not why I'm back. I've been looking for you for three weeks, and somehow we couldn't cross paths."
"No, Natalie."
"I'm late." I blush.
"Late to what?"
I suddenly couldn't control myself. Only Devon would ask me that. I crushed my lips to his and it felt like our first kiss. I didn't realize just how much my lips had missed his.
"I love you, Dev."
"No, Really."
"Really?"
"Late to what?"
"Devon. I think I'm pregnant."
"Yeah- oh...."
"Yeah. I love you."
"Natalie. I don't even know what to say. I'm just so happy to see you."
"I'm so sorry to overwhelm you. I just, I saw you and I felt sick. But I love you. So I thought it was a sign." I started to cry harder, and I don't know why.
He raised his eyebrows nervously. "It's mine?"
"Of course it's yours. I've been trying to find you since the morning after. And I knew better than to get too drunk again. It's yours. If there is an it."
He roped his arms around my neck and kissed me again.
"Hey. We'll take a test. We'll hope it's negative."
I smiled as Devon said "we"
"Natalie, I can't raise a kid."
"Maybe you don't have to." I cringed. "We don't have to keep it."
I'd rather not have to resort to abortion, but I can't raise a baby! If we were stupid enough to get too drunk to remember getting pregnant, we can't keep it.
"We have to keep it. I've already ended one innocent life. I'm never ending another."
I relaxed. I didn't realize I was so tense.
"I love you, Dev. Do you know I don't think I've ever told you? Until I saw you."
"You don't have to tell me. I know. I love you more. We can get through this together. I know we can."
We walked out of javas together, finally reunited. Until I stopped dead in my tracks. The RPO's soloist, Katherine Grace Tanner, was holding hands with Cassie and walking down the street towards us. They were both in concert dress. They looked like they were going to the prom. Cassie looked pretty in pink and Katherine was in red. I was interrupting their conversation and becoming one of those stupid people that disrupt the flow of walker traffic, but I fell into her and started to cry again. Half years of joy and half fear. "I FOUND HIM OH MY GOD."
" Hi, cass!" Devon hugged cassie, too. "Long time no see! You look beautiful. Hey.. You're Katherine grace tanner, am I right?"
"Yeah." Katherine laughed. "You can call me Kate or Katie or whatever! Nice to meet you.."
"Devon macadams. This is my girlfriend, Natalie Leone. She goes to Eastman for cello."
He sounded so proud. I couldn't stop crying, but I turned to her and tried to hide it.
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RomansaI had wake her up, but I didn't want to, I knew she must have the hangover of the century, like I seemed to always have. But I can't leave her in my apartment. Can I? I have to go to work. If I call in, the other baristas will give me shit. I left...
