Nightly Behaviors

Chapter 4

"I'm pregnant."

"Why are you telling me this?" His face eyebrows furrow and his eyes lift from the homework we were working on together at his kitchen table. I think he's known all along to be quite honest. He's been acting weird just a few weeks after I'd taken the test. Maybe one day he saw it or something. No thats impossible I made sure to dispose of it the right way, and hid it in my underwear drawler.

"What do you mean Aden? Because its yours."

"No its not, and you know it's not."

His words slice into me cutting deeper into the already deep wounds in my heart. Wounds that I hoped he could and would heal, he just made it twice as painful. My heart rate fastens my eyes swelled up with tears.

"How could you say that? You know I love you and only been with you..." I reach out to touch his hand but he snatched it away from my touch. I struggled to not break down, bringing my bottom lip between my teeth. "Talk to me Aden please."

He stayed silent.

"Who is this person your talking about? Believe what? Im so confused. Who do you think I'm with?"

"Cut the crap Crystal, its all over school. Everyone's saying they saw you and Corbin leaving the janitors closet together with him fixing his pants."

My memories shoot back to about a month ago when Corbin grabbed onto me and and pulled me into the janitors closet to have sex. He was stuck on the thought that I wanted him when in reality I didn't even know he felt any feeling towards me. Of course Aden being the observant boyfriend he was insisted I stayed away from him because "Im a guy too Crystal, and I can tell that he wants more than a friendship." But I dismissed his warning thinking it was just jealousy towards my new friend.

On top of that I didn't tell Aden about what happened in the closet because I knew if he found out he would literally kill Corbin and any fights or arrests on Aden's record would take away his football scholarship, something I wouldn't let happen.

"You were right about Corbin but you have to believe me when I say we didn't do anything. Aden I love you with all of my heart."

"Then why'd you keep it from me."

"I wanted to protect you. I knew you would want to kill him so--"

"Protect me? Sounds like you were trying to protect him." He huffs.

"What? No. Aden no. I didn't know how bad you would hurt him and if Corbin would've pressed charges you would've lost your scholarship. I swear thats the only reason I kept it from you."

He held his hand up wanting me to stop talking... so I do.

"You should've told me Crystal it would be easier to believe you, and it would hurt a lot less." He paused then looked at me. "You do know I'm suppose to do the protecting right? Me. Not you. You cant keep this kind of stuff from me."

I nod and let the tears fall. "Ok I wont I'm just.. Im sorry," I sniffle.

"Are you positive that there is no way that baby can be anyone's but my own?"

"What, Aden why--"

"Just answer Crystal.."

I just start sobbing struggling to get it out. "I.. I .. I promi-."

Aden pulls me to his lap and I pressed my face to his chest. "Im sorry for doubting you, forget I asked." After rocking me for a few moments he holds my face up by my chin and places his arms around my waist. "Tell me what happened, I want to know every last detail."

"Hungry?"

Chresanto's voice cuts into my flashback and I notice us pulling into McDonalds. "Uh yea sure."

We were on out way home from his place to drop me back off at the club.

I let him order me a plate of pancakes and a hash brown then start to eat as soon as its in front of me. "God you eat like you havent eaten in forever." He teases in a some what rude tone.

He's somewhat right I didn't eat at all yesterday.

"Cause I haven't." I comment with huff, I have to watch my figure.

When we pull up to the club I pack all the trash into the McDonalds bag at my feet and step out. "I'll be here tonight to pick you up around the same time." He calls out. I turn around and give him a thumbs up before pushing my way through the double doors. The club smells like cigarette smoke when I step In and there's broken glass everywhere.

What the hell happened in here?

I go straight to Steve's office only to find Jade perched up on his desk with him between her legs and pressing his lips to her neck. "Eh hem." Steve face lifts from Jades's skin while Addison shoots me a devious glare. I see now why he keeps her around.

"I came to get my money."

Steve kissed Jade one last time before opening up his drawler and handing me a stack of cash. Addison's gasps at the large amount and I smirk at her before leaving the room.

I run into Sheena on the way to the room and her eyes dart to the large sum of money in my hands. "It that from last night?"

"Yea."

"Thats insane." She muses.

I laugh and repeat my previously used phrase. "Yea."

"Hey I'm sorry about snapping on you yesterday I had an extremely long night,"

"Its okay, I came at your first."

Plus I could never really be mad at her, that was my girl. She's been here since literally the beginning, and is the closet if not only real friend I have.

"I hope Steve wasn't to hard on you, you know he doesn't like his most prized whore bruised." She laughs throwing her arm around me. I smile and fling my hand in a diva-ish way.

"Steve cant break me even if he tried."

She lets out another laugh and I look down at her and notice she's dressed nicely in a cute dark pink dress and black sandals. Sheena seemed way to sweet to be dragged into this kind of lifestyle and to this day I don't know how it came to be. I even see her having those blank stares like the one Chresanto had last night, every once in a while. Thinking.

"Oh," she notices. "Get dressed and come get breakfast withe me."

I nod and leans against one the wall behind her. "Give me like 15."

I quickly turn into to my room and viciously dig through my drawler and pull out a pair of shorts and a tank top. Not as cute as what Sheena has on but at the moment I don't really care. I hurriedly pull the hoodie up and off of my head getting a nice whiff of the cologne Chresanto wore. It smells a lot like his body wash that I ended up using this morning as well.

I pull up my shorts and take a quick glance in the mirror. My hair is frizzy and the bun its tied up in is a mess. I figure I have no time to fix the majority so I focus of the minorities and dab a bit of concealer under each of my eyes followed by a light line of liner and a few swipes of mascara.

Before I forgot I opened and dug to the bottom of my costume drawler exposing the stacks of money Id been saving since when I became a stripper. I took a twenties and put the new stack of money next to yesterday's old and pulled the assorted pieces of clothing, if they would count as clothing, over the rest making sure to cover any traces of the money.