At twenty-eight weeks pregnant, Cami is more sleep deprived than she has ever been in her life. She takes a trip to the doctor at least once a week, studies often, and works part-time at Haylie’s Fashion Paradise (which is a clothing store coincidently owned by River’s cousin, Haylie Miller).
Cami hadn’t given birth to her baby yet, but she was excited nonetheless. The day she found out that she was having a girl was one of the happiest days of her life. River wasn’t the first person that she called but he didn’t waste any time joining Cami, Diane, and Kaci at the hospital.
Upon seeing Cami, he hugged her neck for what felt like an eternity, and she didn’t waste any time telling him that she had changed her mind about giving the baby up for adoption. Everyone in the room was thrilled. Cami was filled with emotions that she was not aware she had and began to laugh and cry all at once. River felt sorry for her so he told her he would buy her a cheeseburger, fries, and a strawberry milk shake after they left the hospital.
The two were not dating, but because of their unborn child, they found themselves spending more time together.
Kaci was not pleased that they were spending so much time together because River wasn’t her favorite person. However, she was spending more time with Skylar and he was not Cami’s favorite person either.
Since Cami had been absent from school for days at a time because of the pregnancy, she hadn’t seen much of Marissa. When she did see her, she greeted her with a hug, and then they happily made their way towards the library.
The new smell entered their nostrils as soon as they stepped foot inside. The library had been renovated over the past summer. It was much more immaculate and featured many new furniture pieces for students and faculty as well as new books to entice the minds of the young.
Both girls quietly made their way to the back and pulled out various textbooks to begin studying and catching up on assignments.
They had been in the library for about thirty minutes before Cami heard the door open and slam suddenly. Many students enter and leave on a daily basis during school hours so she didn’t bother to look up. Instead, she kept her eyes focused on her history definitions, but the clucking sound of heels on the wooden floor grew louder with each passing second. She knew then that whoever had entered the library was making their way toward Marissa and her.
It wasn’t long before she heard a familiar voice that she found quite irritating.
“Hello, Cami. Baby bump’s getting bigger,” Leena observed.
Cami’s eyes remained focused on her history definitions. “That’s what it’s supposed to do.”
Leena chuckled.
Cami sighed. “I don’t enjoy your company and you don’t enjoy mine. So what do you want?”
“Have you seen Kaci?” she asked.
The question definitely caught her off guard. Why would she want to know where Kaci is? She hates her. She looked up from her textbook. Now Leena had her attention. “Why?” Cami inquired.
“Because I need to talk to her,” Leena said in the nicest, fake tone Cami had ever heard.
She eyed Leena suspiciously.
“She doesn’t hang out with people like you.”
“And what kind of people is that, huh?”
Cami made a face at her. “You know exactly what I mean.”
“Listen to me...”
Cami stood up. “No, you listen!” A few students at a nearby table looked in their direction but didn’t say anything. Cami quickly noticed and lowered her tone, “I don’t want you anywhere near my sister.”
“You’re pregnant, so what could you possibly do to me?”
“Try me and see…Oh and by the way, you’re lucky I wasn’t Haylie or else you would’ve lost a lot more than a knee.” She observed Leena’s stilettos. She limped on that leg whenever she walked, and Cami knew that wearing the heels would only make it worse. She couldn’t understand why she would wear four inch heels with a banged up knee. Then again why Leena did many of the things that she did was a mystery to her.
Leena looked from Cami to Marissa and turned her nose up at them before making a hasty departure.
“I hope that fake nose of hers falls off,” Marissa said. Several students overheard and began to laugh, but Cami wasn’t laughing. She wanted to know why Leena wanted to know her sister’s whereabouts. This was something that would stay on her mind for the rest of the day.
Chapter 32
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