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When I called Erika at 12:30 in the morning I wasn't expecting her to sound even more depressed than what she was. I also wasn't expecting her to tell me she was pregnant. She had said she was fine a month ago. I don't know what happened. I had to run out while calling Ed telling him I had an emergency at home and had to go up. Which could've been a lie since he knew it was our two year anniversary. But he went with it. I texted Nash as I was in the car to the airport.
"Hey remember that time I comforted you when you found out you were becoming a dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you do that same thing for me?"
"HOLY SHIT ERIKA'S PREGNANT?!"
"You're not helping. Not one fucking bit."
"I'm sorry but wow."
"..."
"Oh how the tables have turned."
"HELP ME YOU IDIOT."
"Calm down."
"Check."
"Take responsibility for it because you didn't cover your shit."
"True. Yeah this is my fault isn't it?"
"You think you'd use protection after seeing me struggle."
"Yeah no."
"Ok. Well I guess you're going to be a dad. Yeah?"
"Yeah.."
"Congrats. I have to go get Zander before he drinks toilet water."
I sighed and looked down at my phone screen. It was of Erika at the Pittsburgh Zoo waving at the penguins. Even though she had her cannulas at the time I didn't care. It was still one of my favorite pictures of her. She looked gorgeous, and it was a summary of all she was. She was waving with her left hand so you could visibly see her promise ring. She was mine. And that gave me an idea.
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I went to the doctors, which confirmed the plastic cheapos. I really didn't know what to do. I knew this was going to be difficult. But why me? It's like everything that could ever go wrong went wrong. I had as much drama in my life as a fanfiction. What was I talking about I practically live in a fanfiction. I moved to Canada, met my neighbor who was a YouTuber/Viner/Celebrity already, who was some how the same age as me, and very attractive. I fell in love with him and went through all the drama of a typical story. I found out I had cancer after going to an awards show and meeting plenty of celebrities. I beat cancer and my boyfriend was opening for Ed Sheeran. This was insane enough, my best friend had twins from another Viner. Drama again. And now I'm pregnant. I never thought this would actually happen. I read them all the time about 5 Seconds of Summer, and I even wrote a few. But now? I'd met them and would at some point meet One Direction. I'd met and befriended Ed Sheeran, and met The Vamps and became friends with them too. Not to mention the MagCon fam. I had all the guys and Mahogany and even more YouTubers. My life was a fanfiction. And I was getting tired of it. I texted Shawn to see where he was with no reply. I heard the door ring and I got up and got it since it was just me and Destiny. She was taking a nap and my dad and Natalia went to Frankie's hockey game. I opened the door to see Shawn st- kneeling? "Marry me." "Shawn I'm not even eighteen yet." "I don't care. I want you to marry me." I looked at him smiling and shook my head. "No, Shawn." I spoke gently to see his face fall. "That isn't going to fix anything." I spoke my eyes watering. I heard Destiny's monitor detecting she was up and turned to go and get her. "Look Erika we can make this work. I know we can." "I know I can but I don't know if you can." He looked at me as I turned to look at him. "What the hell does that mean?" "You're on tour Shawn! If it weren't for the fact I was pregnant you wouldn't be up here. You barely reply to my texts anymore. It's only calls for you. You're busy and can't text but have enough time during breaks to talk. Because that's faster for you. I'm busy too. But I don't have endless time to sit and talk with you. I haven't even been able to properly tell you that I got into Penn State." I spoke looking up at him and then walking into Destiny's nursery. "Congrats on that. But are you saying you want to break up?" "No. I'm saying we're not ready for this." "Shit. Are you saying you want an abortion?!" "I thought it wasn't obvious enough." "Oh no that's not happenng. You're not getting rid of my child that easily." "Then what do you want me to do Shawn?! I can't go to college for a PhD with a baby! It doesn't happen! And I don't want Natalia to raise our kid, or someone who works for you! I'm not physically able to raise a kid. I'm seventeen! It's not going to happen!" Shawn's face was full of anger. "I fly up all the way here, freaking propose to you, and you're telling me you want to abort my child?!" "You do realize this is your fault right?! You have no right to put blame on me!" I set Destiny on the floor in her room with some toys and lead him out the room and to the kitchen. "I actually have all the right! Because you told me 'I'm fine. I'm not going to get pregnant.'" He mimcked me rolling his eyes as I started to yell. "You have no freaking right to ev-" I cut myself off and turned around to face the fireplace. "Get out." "What?" "I said get out! I'm not dealing with this. It's my body, and I'll do what I want." I didn't look at him as he huffed and stormed out the door. The house shook when he slammed the door. Destiny started to cry at the vibration and I went to get her. "You're okay. You're okay." I comforted her as I picked her up. I was trying to comfort her. But that seemed more directed towards me.
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I got on a plane back to where Ed was headed which was New Mexico. When I landed, Ed encouraged me to have a drink to celebrate two years, so I did. But I didn't stop at one. I don't even remember what I did after the first drink. All I knew was I woke up not in a hotel. But the dorm of what seemed to be an eighteen year old girl. Either I was still drunk, or dreaming. Because when I looked next to me, I didn't see the almost black hair I was expecting. I saw blonde.
[Okay so I know this isn't Silver Linings but I wanted to put this in here because you all started off by reading that one. Firstly, thank you for taking the time to actually read this series. You really don't know how much it means to me. Secondly, Silver Linings just hit 8,000 reads. Which is fucking amazing. You really don't know how happy that makes me. I thought I'd write out a thank you because this is the tenth chapter and we're almost done. I've got it all planned out yet and I have a surprise when this book is over. I know you're probably thinking, 'what now? how is she still writing?' but believe me. It's a great idea. Anyways. Thank you guys so much. There's eight chapters and an epilouge and I couldn't thank you guys enough for three books. THREE. So once again, thank you. I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing. Even though you were just reading and there most likely won't be another update until a couple days. I love you guys. -Ashley]
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Downpour - sequel to Dark Storms
FanfictionA downpour isn't just rain. It's having all your sadness, pain, and fears come down onto you at once.