A Certain Romance - Alex Turner

When the Sun Goes Down

"Honey, your baby is three weeks old!"
no.
Way.
I couldn't believe it. This was Alex's child.
I sat in shock for a minute, which was quite awkward for the nurse helping me out.
"Um.... Th-thanks.."
The nurse helped me wipe off the gel substance and I quickly rushed out of the room. Miles saw me and nervously made his way over to me, noticing the state I was in.
"So is everything ok? Jen?"
"It's.. Alex's baby. I don't even know.."
Miles suddenly looked extremely shocked. I was so scared because Alex obviously wanted nothing to do with me anymore.
"Jenna you need to tell Alex! Now!"
"No miles. He doesn't want Anything to do with me. I'll tell him when he gets his shit back together. Let's just go home right now."
Miles reluctantly drove me back home. The car ride was silent, except for miles asking me every five minutes if I wanted to go tell Alex instead.
I finally arrived home and gave Miles a quick goodbye.
"Sure you don't need anything?"
"Yes miles. I'm fine. I need some time alone ok? Love you."
"Bye love. Ring me if you need anything."
I threw myself on the couch and grabbed a giant tub of cookies and cream ice cream from my freezer. I guess the pregnancy cravings were already kicking in. Not even bothering to turn on the TV, I sat down on the couch and contemplated my life.
1)I could tell Alex about the baby, but I could risk the fact that he would get mad at me and go crazy again.
2) I could keep it a secret from him and raise the baby on my own. It would be quite hard though because my friends were close friends with him.
After an hour of thinking, I decided to fuck it and just not worry about it. I'll tell him when the time is right.
•••••••••• 2 weeks later •••••••••••
The last couple weeks had gone by quite lazily. Breana and Matt had found out about my baby, since Breana was acting as a major moral support for me. So far the only people that knew were Suki, Miles, Breana, and Matt . I made them swear not to tell alex because it is my job to tell him.
For the third time this week, I was slumped on the couch eating yet another tub of ice cream. I was contemplating whether I should call Alex another time. I had called him four times this week and every single call was either not answered or blocked. I had bombarded him with text messages, to which I got no reply to. I'm beginning to think its a bad idea to tell him. The only reason I kept calling him was because Miles and Breana were pushing me to. Although, the good thing is that my pregnancy was going quite smooth now. I was almost at 6 weeks, and I hadn't experienced any morning sickness. My thoughts once again went back to my relationship with Alex. I was trying hard to forget out terrible break up for the sake of the baby so we could possibly play "happy families" and raise the baby together.
~~~~~~~~ flashback ~~~~~~~~~
The cold breeze from the wind hit me and gave me a thrilling sensation. Alex had surprised me at home during his tour when he had time off and took me on a trip to the beach. Being Alex, he had borrowed his friend's Lincoln Continental convertible just for our quick trip. It made the whole getaway even more exciting, making me feel like we were in a 50's movie. The time era felt quite right, especially with Alex's 50's getup. During the long ride, Alex had turned up the Black Keys 'Magic Potion' album to give it a nice blues vibe. It was one of our favorite albums from them, we were both shouting the lyrics to the open space. Occasionally throughout the ride, I would catch Alex staring at me with a slight side smirk which made me blush and giggle. The look on his face was priceless. He looked quite nice that day, no gel in his hair and a plain T shirt and jeans, one hand on the steering wheel and the other behind my seat. I was wearing a flowy floral dress with my feet propped up on the dashboard. After an hour of driving, we finally arrived at the beach. He had thankfully chosen a quiet empty beach. I'm sure the both of us weren't in the mood to deal with screaming fans. Al parked the car right by a small cliff overlooking the whole sea and led me down the beach through a sandy path. We quickly tore off our clothes and were left in our bathing suits ready to face the water. I grabbed his hands and ran into the ocean giggling, with him trailing behind me laughing. The water was quite cold which made me shriek quite loud, only to make Al laugh even more. I decided to get some revenge, and splashed a ton of water in his face, which caused him to grab his hair and start screaming that it was 'messed up'.
We played another two hours in the water, with him occasionally hugging me from behind and placing small kisses around my neck. I always heard him muttering things like 'so beautiful' and 'just gorgeous', although I would never believe any of it. We noticed the sky getting darker, and turned around just in time to see a beautiful sunset engulf the sky. A warm feeling spread through me. Love. I realized I loved this man more than anything, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. Quickly, I grabbed his face and gave him a long hard kiss, as if it was our last one. The sky was a beautiful color, which made the kiss much more amazing.
~~~~~~present time~~~~~~
The thoughts of the good times we had gave me a lingering hope that everything would be ok, and we could love each other again. The beach flashback brought me to tears, and that was when it hit me. I NEEDED to tell Alex. Now. Quickly grabbing a coat and my keys, I ran into my car and started driving to his house.
Alex POV:
The last couple weeks had been hell, even more than they had been during the week of our break up. Everything I did or saw reminded me of Jenna. Even a simple cup of tea reminded me of her, how she would wait a couple minutes for it to cool down and add sugar to it. She made my life altogether more amazing, even the littlest things. Although she had been my shortest relationship, she had been my best. Our whole time being together was perfection, we never had any problems. Until of course, I decided to fuck it up. I'm such an awful person, she even forgave me and let me be her friend again and I fucked that up too. After she kicked me out, I foolishly called Arielle to get my mind off things. We basically just had sex, that's what she always wanted. Also the reason she's in my bed naked right now. I was drifting off to the thoughts of Jenna once again when I heard my doorbell ring. I was about to ignore it when it rang again. I quickly pulled on a pair of boxers and a shirt and ran downstairs. I opened the door to be greeted by Jenna. My head was going crazy. Did something bad happen? Did she want me back?
"Jenna what are you doing here?"
She looked uneasy and seemed nervous.
"Alex.. About the baby.. It's.. "
All of a sudden she stopped talking and her face became dissapointed. I turned around to see Arielle coming down the stairs in her lacy underwear with a sly look on her face. Fuck.
"Ooh Al who's this?"
I panicked, looking between Jenna and Arielle not knowing what to say.
Jenna spoke up, her voice quivering.
"I'm sorry.. For interrupting.. I'm gonna..go.."
I noticed small tears streaming down her face. I felt awful, she obviously had something important to say about the baby.
She ran to her car while I chased her down.
"Jenna! Come back! Please!"
She quickly looked at me with a dissappointed face and drove away. I needed to find her and see what was going on. I heard Arielle yelling my name but I ignored her. Thankfully my keys were in my car (I know, not a good idea) and I drove away as fast as possible towards her house.
Jenna POV:
I was so mad at myself. How could I think that he wanted to get me back? He's a famous rock star who can get any girl that he wants, why would he love such a simple girl like me? I guess I will have to raise the baby on my own.
I finally arrived home and threw myself on the couch pitying myself. The tears kept rolling down, I couldn't stop them. Then, I heard a knock. I dragged myself to the door and was surprised to see who it was.
"Jenna..."
"Alex I don't think you should be here."
"Jenna what did you need to say? About the baby?"
"It's nothing Alex. I was stupid to thing you'd care anyway. Please go."
He walked up to me and gave me a big hug. I seriously missed those.
He looked in my eyes with those big brown eyes I fell in love with.
"Jenna I'm so sorry. You need help and I'm here for you."
This was the right time to tell him. It's now or never.
"Alex. The baby is yours."
I nervously looked up at his face to see what little color was there became completely stale and frozen.
"Wha-aat? It's mine? I thought- it- it was Rob's.. Oh my god."
He was obviously shocked, I knew that he never really wanted children. Even though he was shocked, I was gonna make him feel bad for all the shit he told me.
"Yes it's yours."
"How long have you known?"
"I found out with Miles the day you stormed out of my house."
"oh my god Jenna.. You should've told me. I could've helped."
"Are you hearing yourself? You think you could've helped me? You told me that you would be there for me no matter what, but after things don't go your way you decide to call me a whore and get drunk for 3 weeks. I couldn't just tell you. I was worried you'd freak out or something.."
I looked up to Alex and saw his eyes red and puffy. He looked embarrassed and guilty. Good. Within seconds, his arms were wrapped around me and kissing me on the cheek. I heard him whisper into my ears, random happy things to try and make my happy.
"Jen, we're gonna have a baby."
He started crying and laughing at the same time, which caused me to start crying too.
"I know."
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