Seeds of Tomorrow

16

"You know, we have early release tomorrow,"
Evie told him after third period ended, "Maybe I can come over after school?"

Rocco had his arm around her shoulders, nodding to a group of guys he was friendly with as they passed. He grinned, licking his lips, "I'm sure we can work that out," he told her, trying to play it cool, "What did you have in mind?"

Evie bit her full bottom lip, smiling, "Well...my period is over."

Ah shit...they'd have the house to themselves for a few hours, aside from Gabriel who never left his room. Tomorrow would be the day.

He fought back an eager grin, "Let's make this happen."

As they approached the cafeteria, commotion rang out. People chattering about a girl fight as they scurried to get the best view. Rocco and Evie exchanged smirks, quickening their paces to get a glimpse of the drama. In the far corner near the salad bar Mark's current girlfriend, Brynleigh, and his ex-girlfriend, Olivia, were in an all-out hair-pulling, slap match. Rocco pulled out his phone text Mark what set it off, aside from his obvious cheating and playing both girls.

It took three faculty members to separate the two girls who were slight of build but scrappy nonetheless.

"Bitch you're lucky I'm pregnant, or I'd have beat your fucking ass!" Olivia shouted as she was drug by her elbows away.

"You ain't pregnant, you're just tryna trap him!" Brynleigh spat, "You're just jealous that he's with me!"

"Then why he keep coming back, hoe?"

Evie looked at Rocco with bewilderment, "Is she really pregnant?" She whispered.

Rocco looked at her with equal surprise, eyebrows raised, "Not that I'm aware of, if she is, he never said anything to me about it."

The rest of the school day was spent with other students asking Rocco, who was family to Mark about Olivia's pregnancy and all the hot tea on the triangle but Rocco was just as in the dark as everyone else was. The most recent thing he knew about was Olivia sending Mark a picture of herself topless and Brynleigh seeing it, Rocco wasn't going to tell anyone that.

In addition to the drama with Mark and the girls, Rocco couldn't help but feel nervous about the next day. He'd been waiting for that moment for..well...a few years and now that it was going to happen, he was scared. What if he sucked at it? What if he couldn't even perform? What if it hurt Evie? What if she got pregnant?

He'd done his best to educate himself and practice putting condoms on but what if it came off?

****

That afternoon, Mark woke up to over sixty texts and an insane number of message requests on Facebook. His first thought was that he'd either gotten some sort of virus or hacked...until he realized that over twenty of the texts were from Brynleigh.

He opened hers first, ranting about "how could you?" "You said you blocked her?" "I'm suspended for fighting bc she says you still mess with her" and "She said she's pregnant with YOUR baby." Mark's stomach completely dropped in his chest cavity. He wasn't even going to text her, that was a conversation that needed to be had over the phone or in person because he did not know what the fuck she was even talking about.

Olivia? Pregnant? Hell naw. Yeah, he busted up in her but she said she was on the pill. Mark didn't know what to make of that, did Olivia just make that shit up to cause problems between him and his girl or did he really knock her up. Bro, he wasn't even eighteen yet and had no job or even an ID card to get a job. He didn't want no fucking kids nor could he afford a fucking kid.