There Is Only Love

Chapter 24

TC's POV

It was finally around time to start packing up and head home. After everyone ate, we decided to start getting our things gathered. I walked into the tent that Bri and I had shared. I grabbed the blankets off of the mattress and rolled them up in my hands.

"Really babe?" Bridget said walking up to me and taking the blankets out of my hands. "Fold them, you lazy ass." She laughed.

"But you do a better job of folding them than I do." I laughed.

"Oh whatever." She laughed. "Now help me with this." She said as we began to fold up the blankets.

She bent down to pick up the mattress. I couldn't help but to look at her butt... I'm a guy, it's what we do. "Damn bae.." I said with a laugh.

"What the hell, Teec..." She grinned. Then she grabbed the side of the mattress with the hole. She unscrewed the cap and let out all the air. We took turns squeezing the air out of the mattress. When all the packing and loading up was done. We were left with a plain campsite with rocks and leaves.

"Well, that's everything." Ellie said wiping off sweat that wasn't there. "I'm pooped." She said as she sat down at the picnic table.

"Well, everything is done, are y'all ready to go?" I asked.

"Yep! I'm ready." Ellie said heading to Drew's car.

"I'm ready." Bri said heading to my car.

"Well, I guess we'll see you guys back at the house." I said to Jayk and Blake who took their own car.

I got in the car and turned on the ignition. "Ready?" I said.

"Babe, I've been ready." She laughed.

Ellie's POV

We had arrived at the house, and my heart began to race, the feeling of being back to reality began to sink in, and it felt like I was starting to sweat. I knew I had to make the appointment I set up for tomorrow, but I also didn't know how I would make it there without Drew questioning where I would be going. The negative thoughts began to roll back through my mind. "Babe, you good?" Drew asked as I reached for the door handle.

"Yea!" I tried to fake a smile. "I'm fine!"

He stared at me for a long while, "okay." He finally said. I could tell he didn't believe me, but I was thankful that he wasn't pushing me to tell him what was wrong. We walked inside and I went straight to the bedroom to unpack my things. As I was unpacking, I was interrupted by Drew. "Ellie, you need to tell me what the hell is going on with you." He said looking at me, waiting for an answer, but I just sat there looking at the clothes that I had pulled out of my bag. "So you're not even going to talk to me at all now?" He said as he sat down on our bed. "I feel like you've just been avoiding me this whole weekend..." He paused. But I still didn't want to say anything. I kept every thought inside my head to myself. I knew that if I said what I felt, the fact that I'm possibly pregnant would shoot out of my mouth. "You won't even carry a conversation with me, and now you're not even answering me." He paused again. Waiting for an answer that I knew he wasn't ready to hear. "Ell!! Say something!" He yelled.

I walked out of the room to try and avoid spilling what I had tried so hard to keep held in, and as I reached the door he grabbed my hand with a tight grip, and wouldn't release it. "Dammit Drew! Let me go!" I said with tears beginning to form in my eyes. I finally let go of his grip and ran into the bathroom. I shut the door and hit the wall as hard as I could. I wanted to cry, to hit something, to scream. But I knew I had to be a grown woman about this. If he wasn't ready to hear it, then I would know that he wasn't the one for me. But no matter how much that hurt me to think about, I knew I had to tell him sooner or later, and maybe this was the push I needed. I sat on the bathroom floor for about an hour, thinking of things to say to him. Good thing there was more than one bathroom in this house. I answered to no one... Not even Bridget. I finally got up and walked out of the bathroom. I expected Drew to be in the bedroom, but he wasn't.

"Ellie!! What's going on with you?!" Bridget yelled heading my way.

"Nothing, I'm fine now. I just needed a few minutes to myself." I sighed.

"A few minutes?!" She yelled. "You were in there for over an hour!!" She motioned to the bathroom.

"I'm fine Bri. I promise. I just need to see Drew." I said as I tried walking past her.

"Ellie..." Bridget said calmly trying to stop me.

"What?" I laughed. "Bri, I'm finally going to tell him." I looked at her, and my smile started to fade. "Bri... Why do you have that look on your face?"

"He found out Ellie." She said calmly.

"What?!!" I yelled. "How did he find out??" The minute she said that, my heart broke all over again. I knew he would be mad now that I wasn't the one who had told him.

"I don't know!" She said throwing her hands up in the air. "I didn't tell him I swear!!"

"Well what the fuck did he say?!" I asked.

She began to tell me the story as I imagined in my head of how it happened.

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Drew walked downstairs mad, "Drew you okay?" I laughed. Trying to lighten up the mood.

"Actually... No the fuck I'm not." He paused. "I fucking know that Ellie's pregnant, and none of you wanted to tell me, not even Ellie!" He paused,  "You know, the one I'm actually engaged to!! What the fuck is she planning on doing?" He waited for us to answer, but the tension was so thick, none of us wanted to. "She's gonna abort it isn't she?"

The moment those words came out of his mouth, I decided to stand up for Ellie. "Drew! Shut the fuck up!!!" I said as I felt everyone's eyes on me. "Do you hear yourself right now?! You're ridiculous to even place such a thought in your head!! That's bullshit and you know it!"

"Well why the fuck else wouldn't she tell me?" He asked throwing his hands up in the air.

"Maybe because she was afraid you'd do some crazy shit like this!! She doesn't even know for sure yet you asshole!! She was supposed to find out tomorrow and surprise you!" He didn't say anything. "Yea, but you fucking ruined it." He walked out of the door and slammed it behind him.

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I was speechless at what she had just told me, the fact that he actually thinks I would abort the baby if I was pregnant. I didn't want to say anything. So many emotions were going through my head, I didn't want to believe any of this. I had finally gotten up the courage to tell him, only to find out that he had already known. That killed me. "I'm going for a drive." I told her.

"Ell," she said trying to stop me, but she waited for a second. "Okay, go. But Ellie please be careful." She looked at me. "Please."

I was too hurt to say anything to her, so I didn't. I grabbed my purse and walked downstairs to the door, and to my car.