The Next Step - Life's Challenges

Chapter 9: Meet Up

     I wake up to Eldon's sweet kisses. I had probably been sleeping too long. I pretend to still be asleep. I wait for the perfect moment to turn my head so that he kisses my lips, I timed it perfectly.

     "Hey!" Eldon exclaimed jokingly.

     "Morning handsome." I said. we both smiled and pecked on the lips again.

     "Good afternoon beautiful." He replied.

     "Afternoon?" I asked.

     "Ya, it's almost two p.m., I know you had a long day yesterday so I decided to just let you sleep in." He replied.

     "Eldon?" I whined.

     "Don't worry, Em and Hunter went to scout out the area and James and Riley went to pick up some snacks and stuff. it's gonna be like some kind of reunion or something I guess." He said.

     "Besides, they should all be back any min..." He was cut off by the sound of keys in the lock.

     "See" he said. I gave him a whatever face and greeted everyone as they walked through the door.

     "Oh! look who decided to wake up! Are you sure you didn't wanna sleep in any longer Michelle? I don't think you got enough sleep." James said sarcastically. We all laughed.

     I went upstairs to brush my teeth and take a quick shower, however five minutes turned into ten which turned into twenty. By the time I got out the shower it was three o'clock. I quickly wrapped my towel around my body and ran to Emily's room. I bolted into her room then I stopped dead in my tracks in shock... I had just walked in on Emily and Hunter kissing. I didn't know what to do so I covered my eyes with my hands. As soon as I lifted my arms my towel fell down.

     "Oh my God! I'm so sorry!" I said.

     "It's okay." Hunter said while smirking.

     "Hunter?! STOP STARING!!!" Emily yelled. Hunter quickly snapped out of his trance and covered his eyes, it was obvious that he was still peeking through the spaces in between his fingers. I quickly picked up my towel and dashed out of the room.

     As I was running I put my head down, I was so embarrassed. I kept running and before I knew it was on the ground, I had bumped into Eldon. I was stirring, I felt dizzy and my vision was blurry. Eldon lifted me off of the floor and carried me into the guest room, he gently layed me onto the bed and then I noticed that my towel had fallen off yet again. I just went along with it, he walk out of the room to get me a change of clothes. I poked my head out of the room to watch as Eldon grabbed my bag, I can hear Emily and Hunter in a heated dispute about him staring at my unclothed body. The walls were thin enough for me to listen in on their argument, their words were muffled behind the wall but I managed to make out what they were saying.

     "I can't believe you, you perv!" Emily yelled.

     "You're calling me perverted?! I've seen your internet history Em. It's all naked dudes!" Hunter yelled back.

     "Besides, your body is way better than Michelle's" Hunter continued in a calmer tone. "Well that hurt" I thought to myself. However, I didn't care for his opinion, Hunter has a big nose anyway. The room went silent, it was quite obvious that they had forgiven one and other and that their mouths were now occupied with something other than yelling. Emily started moaning softy and that is when I stopped listening.

     Eldon came back into the room with my bag, he dropped it beside the bed and closed the door, he also locked it. He quickly took off his shirt and jumped onto the bed, he pulled me onto the bed with him and we started kissing. It felt amazing, it started getting more and more passionate. About ten minutes into it I stopped him.

     "What's wrong?" Eldon asked with a confused expression on his face.

     "We can't do this again... I'm pregnant remember?" I replied.

     "Babe, This is normal. Many women continue to do this when they're pregnant, I read it online... And I want to remember it this time." Eldon said. To be honest I agree with him, I did want to experience it again and remember it.

     "Do we still need protection?" I asked

     "I dunno but I think we should use it anyway." He replied.

     "Okay well in that case get back here." I said while pulling him closer so that we could continue our passionate kiss...

     ...About and hour later we were finished, it was better than I ever imagined. It wasn't just sex, it was making love, it was passionate and intimate.

     We got up and took a shower together. I was more of a wet make out session than a shower but in the end we were still getting clean no matter how dirty we are. We got out of the shower about fifteen minutes later and got dressed. Everyone else was waiting for us. We piled into the cars, James drove with Riley in his car while Hunter drove the rental with Emily riding shotgun and Eldon and I in the back.

     We arrived about half and hour later and walked into the studio, it was huge. we walked past at least ten dance rooms before getting to the main dance room, which I guess is the new studio A. We walked into the room and everyone greeted us, it was nice to see all our friends again. We were all talking and catching up until Giselle changed the topic into something very hard to talk about.

     "Hey, when is Miss Kate getting here?" Giselle asked.

     "Ya." Everyone else chimed in. It was going to be very hard to explain this to everyone, Eldon had already stepped back and put his head down. I stepped forward and began my explanation.

     "Okay, well I better start from the begining, I'm pregnant." I started. Everyone gasped and just stared at me.

     "Eldon and I had to tell Miss Kate that we needed to take time off of dance because of the baby and with Nationals right around the corner, we needed to tell her as soon as possible." I continued. Everyone stayed silent. I paused for a moment to gather my thoughts, I took a deep breath and continued.

     "We drove to Miss Kate's house and confessed, she fainted after hearing what had happened. Eldon and I panicked, we put her in the back seat and drove to the hospital. Eldon wanted to get there as quick as we could but we crashed. Eldon pulled me out of the car but just as he was about to pull Miss Kate out... The car exploded. I was out for a few days in the hospital, when I woke up Eldon told me what had happened." I finished. After my explanation everything was different, the whole mood changed. After I told everyone that Emily and Hunter would be replacing Eldon and I as male and female soloists we cut the gathering short. We all formed into one big group hug and comforted one another. We all went our separate ways, a few people left crying.