In The End

21: What's the Verdict, Judge Judy?

   We reach the Phoenix, Arizona Show, and I smile, rubbing my stomach absently. It's sort of becoming a habit now that I'm three weeks pregnant. It's a scary thing, knowing that there is a life inside of you, that only you can keep it alive until it's old enough to grow on its own. I shake my head. I don't need to go into detail about this right now.
      Palaye's already played their set, and they're doing their meet and greet right now, so I'm just hanging out with the girls. Canon's been quiet ever since she snapped at me. Cybil's started to date Oliver, and I'm happy for her. She had an Andy, and now she has her Remington. This makes me silently laugh to myself. But, it's true: Oli treats her like she's his moon and sun.
Kaylee has still been acting strange. She won't tell me much, but CC's been moping around the bus lately too. There's something they're not telling me. I want to know what it is, and not just because I hate not being in the loop.
Juliet and Andy are still going strong, which I still feel bittersweet about. I guess there will always be a part of me that will always love him. The part that won't let go of the charm bracelet. The part that silently cries when they kiss. But they deserve each other. They deserve to be happy.
Not that I'm not happy. I have an amazing boyfriend, who happens to be the father of my unborn child. Remi and I are practically inseparable, and he hovers over me wherever I go. Most people would get annoyed, having their loved one get everything for them, lift everything for them, follow them everywhere just because they might fall on their face and kill the infant in their stomach (which, now that I think about it, it's probably good he's hovering. I'm kind of accident prone. Knocking on wood that I totally didn't jinx myself.) But I honestly don't mind it. I think it's cute that he's worried for the sake of his baby and I. Plus, I barely have to get up anymore. My dream has officially come true.
I snap out of it when I see Mount Lemmon, making me smile. The girls and I had decided to drive out into Tucson, which is where I spent a lot of time as a kid. My Mom and Dad are originally from here, and they moved to LA once my mother's parents shunned her. It's actually kind of weird, even though they want nothing to do with their daughter, they'd make us go all the way up here annually to see me ever since I'd turned three. What can I say? They adore me.
    Remington is going to meet us up here after the meet and greet. Him and I are going to go tell my grandparents the news. After that, we're going to the doctors to be properly told that I'm pregnant. Not that I even need to, I get sick every morning, I've lost weight, I'm never hungry, and I'm cramping hard core all the time, which according to Kristen--who I made promise not to tell Jada since I want him to find out in the check up today--is completely normal.
    Yeah, turns out everyone wants to know if there's a baby in my stomach, so all of Black Veil Brides, Palaye Royale, and the girls are coming. Oh and Elijah.
Right now we pull up to the mall, and I silently cheer to myself. The girls decided they want to go buy baby clothes, even though they don't know the sex yet, and won't know for roughly another two months. I decide I need new makeup and clothes, now that I have new bruises and I'm gonna get big.
   So, after they drag me into two baby stores, Juju, Kaylee, and Dakota go into another while Steph--who decided to come with--Canon, Cybil, and I head into clothing stores.
   Canon fan girls at the sight of Forever 21, and drags us in. We all grab some clothes, jewelry, shoes, and bags, and head to the dressing rooms.
I sit on the soft couch, waiting since they took all the rooms and I wanted to see their outfits. They all come out at the same time.
Steph has her beautiful long, brown, wavy locks up in a high ponytail today, a black ribbon keeping it together. She has on black double breasted high waisted shorts, along with a collared off white sleeveless shirt, that has a lace neck. She'd found nice simple black sandals that she's wearing, showing off her black nail polish. she takes a pair of tan tinted aviators, sliding them on and making duck lips at me, making me laugh. "Put that one in the yes pile," I tell her, and she walks back into the dressing room.
Cybil's wearing a grey sleeveless shirt, paired with a cute short black skirt. She found some black lace up platform heel-boots, and a cute black wool Panama hat, along with John Lennon style sunglasses. The black is the perfect contrast for her platinum blond hair, and her normals straight locks that she curled today gives the hat more volume. She takes off the glasses, revealing her sienna brown eyes.
"What's the verdict, Judge Judy?" She teased me, and I pretend to slam my gavel.
"I find this outfit guilty of looking to amazing on you. Proceed to the checkout with that outfit and any others I redeem worthy." She laughs at me and goes to change.
Canon has her midnight blue hair in a high half up half down, grunge style, and she has on grey romper, with pockets in unflattering placements on the center of her thighs. She makes an uncomfortable face. I give her a thumbs down and she lets out a sigh of relief, rushing to change.
They all go in and out, trying on outfits and me making the final call. In the end, Steph gets three outfits: