A Broken Life

Chapter 14

The next morning, an obnoxious shaking of my bed wakes me up. "Wakey wakey sleepy head." A sing song voice rings through my room.

"Nooooooooooooooooo." I groan, and roll over.

"Hey! Don't use that tone with me, I will carry you out of this bed and force you to come with me just like you are." I groan and glare at Tommie through my messy hair. I'm gonna kill him...

"I swear, you better have a good reason for waking me up so early..." I grit through my teeth, and Tommie frowns.

"Ok Iz, first off it's 2:45 PM; second, we are going to mourn the troubles of the poor puppy that got tripped on yesterday." He states firmly and I look at him confused. Then the memories of yesterday come back to me, the french fries, the fight with Jackson and me lying to Tommie.

"Right..." Then a sudden thought hits me. I blush in embarrassment as I realize the messy state I'm in right now. I shoot out of bed, and lock myself in the bathroom.

"Geez, somebody really had to pee..." I hear Tommie mumble from the other side of the door, and I just roll my eyes. I stare at my horrendous reflection in the mirror. My hair is crazy tangled, my makeup is smeared off, and my eyes are puffy from crying all night long. How could Tommie even look at me when I'm like this? The thought of anyone seeing me like this is mortifying.

I recover from my embarrassment and decide to take a shower and get ready for the day. About 45 minutes later, I exit the bathroom completely. "Geez! What took you so long?"

"Hey," I point at him, "Don't even. You woke me up, and you do not want my pregnant ass to beat you up." I glare at him and he just laughs.

"Iz you're short." I gape at him in surprise.

"Excuse me...?" Ok so maybe I'm not as tall as him, but I am definitely NOT short.

He just laughs and stands up. "You heard me, shorty." He smirks, and walks out of my room. I quickly follow him, and I suddenly realize how hard it is for me to catch up with him. Dang... I am short... Welp... that ruins my day.

I follow him to his red Jeep, and I don't even think about where we're going, I just buckle up and turn on the radio. About 20 minute later we make it to Wal-Mart and I automatically reach for Tommie's wallet.

He just looks at me in surprise and I just smile evilly at him.

About 30 minutes later Tommie  pushes our almost full cart of food, and follows me to the frozen breakfast isle.

I walk backwards as I talk to Tommie, "I really want Toaster Strudels. They are soooo good, but I ran out a couple of days ago, and Aunt Thea won't buy me more and-"

He cuts me off, "Iz, don't you think we have enough? I mean you're gonna run my wallet dry."

"Well you did wake me up this morning, sooooo karma." I giggle and turn to look for the box of sugary goodness.

I freeze in my tracks to see Jackson grabbing his own box of breakfast pastries. He turns and looks at me and just stares at me. I could almost see a hint of happiness. Then his eyes shift to Tommie, "Iz, why did you stop?" Tommie looks at me but then sees what I'm looking at and goes silent.

I turn to look at Tommie, my eyes becoming glossy. His eyes grow wide, as he watches me unconsciously touch my belly. He quickly ties 2 and 2 together and glares at Jackson.

I turn to look at Jackson to see him glaring at Tommie with an equal hatred.

"You... You're the asshole..." The two glare at each other as if they thought if they'd glare any harder the other might just drop dead. When Jackson doesn't simply die there and then, Tommie abandons our cart and marches toward Jackson.

I reach out to stop him, but Jackson meets him halfway.

I step behind Tommie and pull on his arm, but he only acknowledges me by taking one step back. He points at Jackson roughly, "You..."