Jenna (IN EDITING)

Chapter Sixteen

"You look distracted, Jen, you okay?" Alex asked biting into his hamburger at lunch.

"Fine, just fine," I lied. I had so much on my mind, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. I knew the moment I stopped thinking about it, he would see right through me and I'd spill about Katrina's pregnancy. I didn't want to do that. I want to be a good friend but I can't do that to him. He's too sweet, and yet this was happening to him? It was unfair on so many levels.

"You sure?" He eyeballed me.

I leaned over the table and stole one of his fries since I ate my entire sandwich and his pudding already, I was stress eating. "When haven't I been sure?" I lied yet again. Don't spell Jenna, I thought, don't spill.

"If you say so," He backed off. "And hey, hands off the fries!" Alex smacked my hand away his deep fried, greasy, tasty fries.

"Please, I'm super hungry. So hungry you'd think I was pregnant!" I went all wide eyed. The "p" word. I said it, but at least I didn't mention Katrina's name.

"Let's hope you're not, you're not even seventeen yet! But you'll be seventeen on the second," Alex smiled.

"Oh, you remembered! Nana can hardly remember it, ever since my mom became pregnant in high school..." Keep it together Jenna, keep it together. "She can hardly remember names.."

"Your mom was a teen mom?" Alex asked.

"Mom was the peppy teenager and dad was the jock, classic tale of prom gone wrong," I chuckled. But it sadly was true...

"My parents waited until they finished university and got married before they had me and then another fifteen years later when they were 41, yeah they waited fifteen years, they had Mae. The surprise baby, I was planned," He grinned at the fact he was the planned one. Wow, that must be an amazing thing to be called. His parents wanted him! My daddy was the only one who wanted me.

"My mother wanted to abort me," I was yet again reminded of the conversation between Katrina and Kathleen in the washroom, about the fact it was a health risk to abort now. "Dad wouldn't let her, he said 'if you abort I'm taking the children and money and leaving you with nothing' and she didn't abort and voila you get me!"

"Wow, so I'm guessing that's one of the reasons you hate your mother?" Alex already knew the answer. He finally finished off his burger and hinted a smile at me.

"I really hate her!" I told him, again. "Tanya was a word I don't want to even say. I miss my daddy."

"Okay then," He crumbled the burger's wrapper into his hand.

"I want him back," I pouted. I really do. I wanted someone to play board games with me as I stayed awake during a thunderstorm.

Katrina approached us, I glared into her eyes and saw that she was near tears yet again. "I'm not feeling well, I'm going home. I love you baby," As if you cheating idiot. But Alex kissed her good bye and she walked on to continue her life of lies.

"You don't like her do you?" Alex asked once Katrina was out of hearing distance.

"Would you be mad if I said I didn't?" I replied in the form of yet another question.

"I wouldn't mind at all, my parents hate her guts!" Alex said this with a blank face but finally he burst and started to laugh his head off.

A book slammed right onto his tray, splashing milk onto his face. It was Kathleen who's face was pure red and swollen. I actually felt bad for her! The book was beaten, and even looked like a dog attacked it. I saw the name Katrina scribbled in one of the exercises inside. Kathleen destroyed Katrina's math book as revenge, that's all she could do? She could do much worse and she knew it.

"Katrina cheated on you, and slapped me. You have a horrible girlfriend. Wake up and grow some balls and date someone's who thing hasn't been used more than the Internet," And boom goes the dynamite.