Paul Lahote's entire life shifts at the sight at Valentina Thurston. Her warmth and kindness effectively forces him to reconsider his bad boy persona he'd put on for so long. Though, she does have her own small, ever-growing, obstacles to overcome...
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During her lunch period, Valentina sat with Bella again, whispering about the former's pregnancy. "So when did you find out?" The senior asked.
"Uh, like, a month ago. I started throwing up alot, losing a ton of weight, y'know, the likes. My mom took me to the doctor and bam! I'm a teen mom," Valentina spoke quietly, reaching into her bag of chips.
"What about the dad?" Bella saw she struck a sore subject and attempted to backpedal, "Nevermind, I didn't ask, sorry."
"It's fine Bells," Valentina assured, using Jacob's nickname for the pale girl, "I broke up with him. He said it was him or the baby and I said 'Bye'." The girls laughed out just as the bell rang.
As they were gathering their things for their fifth period, Bella turned towards her new friend, "Are you coming to Jake's tonight?" Valentina smiled and nodded. "Cool," Bella responded with an awkward thumbs up and they went their separate ways.
"That is so not fair!" Valentina yelled to Jacob, who only laughed. The green-eyed girl continued, "That's literally like asking if you wanna smoke crack or go for a jog!" Bella laughed wholeheartedly, the game of 'Would You Rather' going smoothly.
"Okay, okay, I have one," Bella stifled her laughter, "Would you rather have a horse watch your dog or have a horse in a hospital?"
Valentina threw her hands in the air exasperatedly, "I hate this stupid game!" Her friends laughed at her, Jacob pausing his work on the motorcycles to meet the new girl.
"So what brings you to Forks?" Jacob looked at Valentina. "I mean, it's not like there's a whole lot of jobs or even things to do."
With his question, Bella looked uneasily at the other brunette. Jacob looked between the two girls, knowing that the reason had to be gossip worthy.
"You don't have to tell me," Jacob stated, "I get it, personal business and all." He bumped Valentina on the arm with a smile on his face.
"I'll tell you later," the green eyed teen teased, "maybe."
"Hey, uh, it's me. It's Valentina. Your sister." Valentina and Bella both cringed at her words. "I, um, I really need to, uh, talk to you." Bella encouraged her to continue. "It's, like, super important so please call me back," Valentina hung up the phone and fell backwards onto her bed.
"Well," Bella started, taking a seat next to the pregnant teen, "it could've been worse."
"Really?"
"No, that was pretty bad," both girls laughed at this, despite the eternal internal misery Valentina seemed to be going through. Bella looked through Valentina's history book as she asked, "So who's your doctor? Is it Dr. Mason? Her mom actually delivered me," seeing the look on the other teen's face, Bella started again, "Sorry that was really weird, I shouldn't have said that."
