One Pink Line by Dina Silver

Author:Dina Silver
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance
ISBN: 9781463772536
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-10-20T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Sydney

I left Purdue for good with a packed car, and drove the two-hour drive to downtown Chicago. My plan was to stay with Kendra for two months (since my mom declined to offer me my old room), and then get my own place before I was scheduled to start my new job, at which point I would be a little over four months pregnant.

Kendra lived in a renovated building that was a converted chocolate factory, and I was thrilled to see that the lobby had bowls of complimentary candies at all times. I wiped the sweat off my brow, hit the number three button on the elevator, and she was there waiting for me.

“Hi, roomie!” she said, excitedly. “Let me help you with those.” Kendra grabbed one of the two oversized duffels I was dragging.

“Thanks, this one’s a beast,” I said and followed her down the hall to the apartment.

“I was thinking we could go for pizza tonight,” she suggested, and pulled my bag over by her balcony doors once we entered the apartment.

“Sounds great.” I threw myself down on her new, pullout futon, and landed with a thud. “This couch is terribly uncomfortable.”

“It’s cute though, right?”

“Yeah, it’s pretty cute,” I agreed, then yawned.

“If you don’t want pizza, we can go somewhere else, or I can order in if you’re too tired.” She was in full hostess mode, wanting me to meet her enthusiasm and rally for a girls’ dinner, but all I really wanted to do was find a way to get comfortable on her wooden couch.

“Pizza’s fine,” I said and rested my heels on her glass-top coffee table.

Kendra grabbed me a bottle of water from her fridge. “I have a blow-up mattress for you in the bedroom, but if you’d be more comfortable sleeping out here, and having some space to yourself, just let me know.”

“Thanks Kendra,” I smiled at her. I really did appreciate all she was doing, and I could tell she was overcompensating for my parents. lt’d been a couple weeks since I broke the news to them, and my father still refused to take my call. Kendra had threatened not to speak to either of them unless they gave me their support, but that hadn’t worked, and I begged her not to make them suffer even more for my mistakes. It killed me that I’d brought so much pain on my father. After everything he’d done for me. He was speechless where I was concerned, and I got it.

“Have you talked to Dad lately?” I asked.

“About you?” she asked with a reserved smile, cocking her head.

“Yes, about me?”

Kendra took a spot next to me and briefly looked down before answering. “We didn’t really talk about your situation. Just that you were going to be staying with me.” She patted my leg. “He did give me some extra money for us to go out to dinner and buy groceries.”

I smiled at the consolation prize. “I’ve shamed the family.”

She burst out laughing, bent her knees and put her feet up on the couch.

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