The Hook-up

Chapter 57

auren sat down at the table seeing Bruno take the last piece of pastry that she wanted from a table. When he sat down next to her she grabbed, it licked it and put it back on his plate without him even noticing. She wrapped herself in the sweater she was wearing watching him take the pastry trying not to laugh. "Oh God..." she said watching him bite into it.

"What?" he asked looking at Caitlin sitting next to her trying not to laugh either. "Did you want it...?" he paused looking at her trying not to laugh. "Because I really wanted it too.." he said pushing it in his mouth.

"Damnit." She sighed going back to her plate of pancakes.

"Sorry." He said with his mouth still full reaching over to take her hand lightly opening his mouth after he finished chewing. "Lauren...are you okay?"

"I'll tell you about it when we get home." She told him still holding on to his hand.

"Ohmygod. Stop being cute." They heard someone yell at them.

**

Later that evening Lauren held onto her bag and watched Bruno open the door to the house to let them in. He turned around to smile at her after he dropped their bags near the front door. "Laur...are you okay?"

"I'm just really tired. All the traveling I think has gotten to me. I just want to go to sleep." She told him throwing herself on the couch.

"I do too.." he said playfully laying on top of her.

"Oh..." he jumped up pulling her with him. "What are wrong this morning? You were so not with Caitlin because she was still hung over." He said making her laugh.

"You sound like your sisters when they gossip, Bru." She giggled.

"I so do not!" he said imitating one of his sisters. "But seriously..baby...are you okay?"

"I...." she looked off to the side trying to figure out how to say what she was about to say. "I forgot my pill when we went to Hawaii." She blurted out looking at his face go from confusion to shock.

"You what?" he questioned her looking a little angry.

"Is that why you asked me earlier? You're not pregnant are you? Lauren! What the fuck! You can't even get pregnant! Lauren! Shut up!" he yelled. "That's what you were doing! You were taking a pregnancy test!"

"It was negative." She yelled at him. "It was negative! I'm not pregnant! So shut the hell up! Don't get mad at me!"

He reached over taking her hand squeezing her arm tightly. "But you didn't tell me...there were way too many times...Laur...like almost every day." Shit. We stopped using condoms when she moved in. Shitshitshitshit. "And it was a month...Lauren what the fuck! Like you should of said something! A doctor or something..you could have gotten something...or we could have at least used something. What the hell were you thinking!"

She didn't move with him still holding onto her. "I took it right when we got back." I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe that this would happen. But I don't want to tell him that. He'd get even angrier. As she continued to think she saw his face and expression soften a little after her statement.

"So you're sure?" he asked her.

"The test said no." she told him still feeling a little weird thinking the test was wrong.

"Oh." He let go of her arm looking at the mark he left. "I'm sorry. Let me get you ice..." he ran into the kitchen grabbing an ice pack hearing her sit down, take off her shoes and lay on the couch. When he came back she had a blanket over her holding her arm with her eyes closed half awake. "Elle..." he moved arm placing the ice on it. "I'm sorry..." he sat down on the edge of the couch moving her hair out of her face watching her open her eyes.

"But what if the test is wrong?" she asked him again.