Making a Difference (sequel to PDA)

12B: Telling of the News

Albany was coming home from school from cheerleading practice and she dropped her backpack down and grabbed an apple from the fridge and she saw her parents at the table. It was quiet and Albany thought that was strange. "Papa and Dad what's going on" Albany asked her parents. "Albany please sit down" Zayn told his daughter and Albany sat down at the kitchen table. "What's going on" Albany asked her parents once more. Liam and Zayn looked each other and Liam just passed the pregnancy test forward to Albany and Albany's eyes went wide. "I'm pregnant. I'm three months pregnant" Liam told his daughter and Albany eyes went wide and a smile came on her face. "How come I didn't know this" Albany said while shaking her head. "Am I going to have a brother or a sister" Albany asked his parents. "We won't till next week but you know we want a son" Liam told Albany and Albany just smiled hugely. "Sweet, I can decorate the nursery" Albany was bouncing up and down with excitement. It was beyond adorable. Albany was in her room lying down on the bed getting changed out of her cheerleading outfit. Albany closed her bedroom door and she sighed. The smile was now gone and off her face and replaced with a frown. She wiped the makeup of her face and you could see the red hand mark. She grabbed her baby book and she smiled at the girl she used to be. Albany couldn't see what was going on in her head but she knew that she would never tell her parents what's going on because it would break their heart if they knew she was not the happy girl that she pretended to be. Albany felt like she was pretending to be someone and not herself. Ever since her and Lilith fall out, Albany lost herself.  If anybody looked close enough, they could see the bones in her body poking out but when Albany looked at herself in the mirror, that was enough for her to want to change. Who could blame Albany for feeling like this, it is high school. Albany faced the wall and let the tears stream down her face and she sighed. She whispered to her, "I wish I was ten again where everything was so much simpler"  I have no reason to be miserable that's what Albany said to herself and that day she fell asleep with a teddy bear that she had ever since she ten. Albany curled herself into a ball while she slept and Liam walked into the room and smiled at his daughter kissing her cheek and walked out of the room. Liam rubbed his stomach and smiled a little bit. He laid down in his bed with Zayn helping him into his bed. Zayn handed Liam some medicine. When Albany woke up, she started doing her homework on her laptop and her stomach growled but ignored it. She knew what she was doing was self-destructive. She picked up the scan of her little sibling. "no matter what little person, I am going to be the best sibling" She whispered to her little sibling and smiled. It was the first time in what felt like forever that she smiled for real. Albany felt bad about her and Lilith friendship being over but she wasn't going to dwell on it anymore. She was going to move on with her life with a smile on her face.