Something's Gotta Give ღ Haylex

the kids aren't alright

I pulled Alex off to the side after breakfast the next morning. I leaned against the wall, and sighed. All I could think about was the pregnancy test sitting in it's hiding spot. I played with my fingers, and stared at the floor.

"I-um... Your mom had mentioned kids and-" I started, but Alex sighed.

"Oh, don't listen to her," he groaned. "I told her not to scare you off by talking about that stuff-"

"No, Alex- I just. It got me thinking. What if we did get to the point where we wanted to start a family? Like, am I able to..." I stopped and looked down at myself. I had my hands on my stomach, and I couldn't stop thinking about the pregnancy test back in the bedroom.

"I don't know," he said after a pause. I should have told him that his mom thought I was pregnant. I just didn't want to worry him if I wasn't actually pregnant.

Peter brought us into the bedroom and started digging through the closet. I didn't know what he was looking for, but it made me very nervous. He moved a box, and the pregnancy test box fell onto the floor. Everyone looked, and I felt everything shatter.

"Is that-" Alex started. Peter picked up the box, and looked around.

"It's unopened," he said. He threw it on the bed, and went back to looking around. I looked at Alex, and he was looking at the box on the bed. Peter finally found the box he was looking for, and put it on the bed too.

"Dad, is that mom's box?" Alex asked. Peter looked at the box, and shook his head. Alex looked over at me, and he could see the guilt all over my face. "It's yours?"

"Uh, I'll give you guys a minute," Peter said. He left the room and shut the door behind him. I sighed and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Your mom bought it for me. She thinks I might be pregnant but-"

"No, no, no. Why didn't you tell me this?"

"Because I haven't taken the test yet, Alex."

"Why not?"

"I just don't think I'm pregnant," I said. Alex took the box, and opened it up. He took one of the tests out, and handed it to me.

"Go take the test, please," Alex begged. I sighed, and looked at the stick in my hand. I got up, and went across the hall to the bathroom. I took a deep breath as I sat down.

I took the test, and then waited for it to display the result. I bit my lip, and stared at the small screen. I could hear my heart beating in the tiny room. I closed my eyes and took another deep breath. I couldn't believe I was in this situation.

"Alex!" I yelled as I ran across the hall, stick in hand. I stood in front of him, and glanced at his dad. He was putting it all together.

"What is it? What does it say?" Alex asked anxiously. I flipped it around so he could see. "That means you're not pregnant, right?"

I nodded, and he pulled me into a hug. I was about to leave to throw the stick away, when Mr. Gaskarth said he could tell us why.

Alex's grandparents had left journals of everything they learned about the sempiternal. There was the stuff about having sex, and your partner becoming the same as you, and loads of other stuff. We were searching through it all to find stuff on kids.

In the afternoon, Alex's parents left to go look for furniture. They thought Alex and I would be moving in, so they wanted to get some more stuff for the bedroom. I really didn't care what it looked like 'cause I knew we weren't staying that long.

Alex, Ally, and I were all sitting around the TV. We were looking through the journals again. We still hadn't found anything on pregnancy.

"Maybe they didn't write anything down," I said. I was at the end of another journal. It was specifically by their grandma, but it didn't have anything.

"Oh, no. They wrote everything. There has to be another box somewhere," Alex said. He stood up, and went to look again.

"So, are you pregnant like my mom thought?" Ally asked. I took the last journal out of the box, and shook my head.

"No, and I was kind of hoping to find some answers in these journals," I replied. I opened it up, and skimmed through the first page. "Wait, this one mentions Alex."

Ally scooted closer, and read over my shoulder.

They're after the baby. They have been ever since they found out Isobel was pregnant. We've moved them all around, but now that he's been born, they want to stay put. There's no way he will ever escape them. They'll be hunting him 'til he's dead. Poor kid. I only hope that I'm alive long enough to help him out.

I closed the journal, and threw it on the floor. I started breathing heavy as my mind raced through the words. "What does that mean?" Ally asked. I shook my head.

"I have no idea."

I got up to go find Alex when my head started hurting. I sat back down to try to steady myself. The pain got stronger, and there was a small buzzing.

"Do you hear that?" I asked Ally. She moved her hands to her head. She was in pain too. "Alex!" I yelled. I tried to stand and walk, but I fell to my knees. It only got worse from there.

Ally screamed as the pain became too much. There was blood coming from her nose, and I realized what was happening. It was the radio frequency that had killed Alex before. I screamed, and pressed my hands harder against my head.

I saw Alex come running in. He had these big, bulky headphones over his ears. I saw him coming towards me, but then I blacked out.