A Miracle Unexpected

Chapter 17 - Chinese food

Elena's P.O.V.

I was sitting at the dining room table working on my assignments for school. As I flipped through the pages of my history textbook, I was able to think of a whole list of things I would rather be doing. Answering questions about the Declaration of Independence was not on the list. Eating Chinese food, however, was on the list. "Hey Jeremy!" I shouted out.

Moments later I heard his footsteps on the stairs and soon he was walking into the kitchen. "What's up?" he asked me.

"Aunt Jenna went out with Ric tonight so we need to take care of dinner," I said.

"I already ate."

"You did?" I frowned. "Well...that's alright. Do you have any money?" I crossed my fingers under the table silently hoping that he had money so I could order food for myself. When he shook his head and apologized before leaving the room, I let out a frustrated sigh and dropped my head to the table. "I just want Chinese food," I whined.

I pushed the chair out and walked over to the refrigerator. I opened it and saw nothing but leftovers that didn't appeal to me. There was nothing in the freezer but frozen vegetables and in the cabinets and pantry closet we had no snacks. We didn't even have Cheerios. I felt my stomach rumble and felt as if the baby was yelling at me to eat. I looked down at my stomach and said, "There is nothing good to eat. What am I supposed to do?" It rumbled again and I shook my head. "I don't know either, kid," I said.

I heard a knock on the door and went to answer it. I smiled when I saw Stefan and he smiled back.

"Hey," he said.

I moved to the side to let him in and kissed him quickly before closing the door behind him. I was about to ask him if he could get me Chinese food, the only thing that was appetizing to my body at the moment, but my mind went into another direction when I saw all the bags he was carrying. "What is all of this?"

He grinned and moved into the living room, putting the bags on the couch. He waved his hand at me, telling me to come over. I moved next to him and looked down at the bags. I was beyond curious.

"I went shopping this morning. I know that you've been telling me that there are other ways for me to be there for you during this whole thing and I realized that you were right," Stefan explained. "Go look in the bags."

I peeked into one bag and saw a pile of clothes. I pulled the articles of clothing out of the bag one by one. "Stefan these look to be a little too big for me," I said.

He chuckled a little and took the rest of the clothes out, placing them on the couch. "They're maternity clothes. You're growing and I figured you would need new things to wear."

As I looked down at the clothes, I thought of an appropriate way to react. Was I supposed to jump up and down, thanking him? If that was the case, I didn't feel like doing that. "Why am I not happy like I should be?" I thought to myself.

"I also picked up some books about pregnancy. You don't have to read them but if you ever got bored one day, you could pick one up and give it a look," he said. As he said this, he took out two handfulls of books.

I looked over at him, trying my best to smile. "Thank you, Stefan. That was...very nice of you," I thanked him.

Stefan smiled back at me and leant down to kiss me softly. I closed my eyes and kissed him back. His arms encircled my waist carefully and I wrapped my arms around his neck as the kiss continued. I felt Stefan's tongue prod my lips gently, almost begging for entrance, and that was when I pulled away. My stomach began to rumble as I did.

"Sounds like someone's hungry," Stefan chuckled.

"I'm starving," I whined. "Jenna is out and Jeremy already ate. There's also absolutely nothing to eat in this house."