At Sunrise

Chapter 21: Contraception is a thing

My eyes.

I can't seem to keep them open. I feel my head begin to swoop and sit straight up and attempt to pay attention. And repeat.

"Ah, Ms. Santiago thank you for volunteering to answer number forty-three on the board!"

My eyes dart to Mr. Williams and the impossibly long calculus problem that awaits me.

I stand up and make my way over to the board and try to write neat and straight. They might mock the answer but they can't mock my writing. Last thing I need to hear after "It's wrong," is "Ew why does she write like that?"

I am not in the mood today.

I was up until 3am working on party favors and centerpieces for the wedding tomorrow.

Caroline is completely stressing out. Apparently the cake designer thought she wanted an ivory white cake instead of a pearl white cake and to make matters worse he called her crazy for even noticing the difference.

Which only fueled her anger. So now the price for the cake has been majorly reduced and their boss said they would be working on another cake all night if they had too.

I finally reach the board and I look at the problem carefully and realize it's actually not too complicated. Right now we are just reviewing the basics since it's the beginning of the year.

I'm about to finish my answer when the intercom of the classroom comes on.

"Mr. Williams?"

"Yes."

"Do you have Olivia Santiago in class?"

Mr. Williams looks at me in suspicion as he answers, "Uh yes?"

"Can you send her to the main office to pick up an item, her husband is waiting."

Against my will intake a giant gasp and begin choking on air.

"Husband?" Mr.Williams just looks at me looking amused as he shrugs his shoulders. He extends his arm towards the door, "You are free to leave.... Mrs. Santiago."

I turn towards my classmates who are all looking at me eirther confused or impressed. I have no idea why, they act as if they've never seen an unmarried young woman referred to as married.

As I am packing up my things I leave my phone out of the bag to get to the bottom of this but I already have a good guess of who it might be.

With a certain Miley Cyrus tune stuck in my head I begin singing through the halls. Everyone is in class right now I might as well have a High School Musical moment.

I walk through the halls, I havent been in for a long time. Look to my right and I see the Main office sign. This is all so crazy. Everybody thinks I'm married. My tummy is hurting and I'm feeling pretty hungry too much pressure and I'm nervous.

I end my quiet singing and open up the office doors to find my so called husband.

With food.

I drop my bag on the chair nearby and run over to Vinny and instead of hugging him I grab the bag and coffee from his open arms. He just scoffs and waits for me to open the bag.

I inspect the bag and the items inside with a smile. It's an ice coffee with a morning melt panini from Wendy's.

I put a hand on his shoulder to give him a kiss on the cheek, "Aww Vinny this is so sweet. What are you doing up, I thought you were off today?"

Vinny works as a part time photographer so it usually doesn't keep him busy but it pays well.

"Yeah well my dad needed me to check out the wedding Venue so I can get the best angles at the wedding tomorrow."