Harry

When the bell rang I grabbed my books and walked out of the library bending down to tie my shoes. I heard the sound of an ambulance driving closer towards the school. The sound getting louder and louder, but I ignored it.

I walked towards my class when I saw down a hallway was a giant crowd of students in the main hall, the principal walking past me with two paramedics.

I didn't know why, but I had a feeling in my gut telling something was wrong with Alex. "Clear the hallway, go back to your classrooms immediately!" a teacher yelled over the megaphone. I began walking toward the crowd and began getting looks from people.

"Dude your girls hurt." a random guy said to me. I didn't even think about it as I suddenly sprinted past people and towards where the paramedic was leaning over Alex as she laid crying.

"How far along are you?" he asked her.

"She's thirty weeks exact." I leaned down next to her. "Alex, baby, are you alright?" she nodded quickly.

"Who are you?" the principal asked.

"The father of the baby, and her boyfriend. What happened?" they lifted her up onto a gurney and I followed as the teacher beside her told me what had happened.

"I just walked out here and she was on the floor, she just kept saying something was wrong with the baby. I think she's in shock." I nodded as we reached outside of the school and I watched them check her out and get ready to take her to the hospital. She was talking but seemed extremely disoriented.

"Did she slip?" Alex turned to me and shook her head.

"David pushed me," she responded. Immediately the principal looked furious. He had so many complaints about him and I was sure this was the worst thing he had done so far.

"He pushed you?" she nodded.

"He attacked me and shoved me into the closet." she began crying, anger building up in me. A nurse from the school showed up and told us that her parents were on the way to the hospital. I turned at the sound of someone's voice and noticed it was Mary calling for me. "Get her away from me, I don't want to see her," Alex told me sternly.

I was pretty confused, weren't they friends? What the hell happened in that closet?

Alex's fall had put the baby under some stress and she was told to be in bed rest for a few weeks. This wasn't good because school was important, and now she was feeling more stressed because she would have to miss prom and school for the last few weeks.

“Forget about the prom baby, I need you to tell the cops what David did to you.” she nodded as she laid on the hospital bed. Her belly was hooked up to machines and she was in a hospital gown. “I promise you will be alright okay?” she nodded.

A moment later the police officer came in with Alex's parents who were so angry and concerned. A tall scary man came in and as soon as he noticed how big Alex was, his face smoothed out and he smiled. “Alexandria, I'm officer Valencia. I'm here to ask you a few questions regarding what happened today.” she nodded holding my hand tighter.

As she began talking, she explained everything that had been going on with Mary and how David thought she would turn him in. She explained what had been going on and how he had been picking on her for so long. “He's troubled, but that's no excuse for him to attack me.” she laid her head on my chest while I held her close.

“I think that's enough, she's under a lot of stress,” I told the officer. He nodded writing some stuff down and looking at the baby and Alex's heart monitor.

He smiled and looked at us. “You know, my wife was pregnant a couple of years ago, gave birth to a boy. She was in and out of these hospitals all day long. You know what she would do to help with the stress?” we shook our heads. “She’d sing to the baby, now I can't sing, but I'm sure that baby would love a tune.” he stood up and walked out with a quick goodbye.

After a minute her parents went to get a coffee and we were left alone. She looked down at her belly and then at me. “Will you sing to her?”

“I'm not a great singer-” she burst out laughing and shaking her head.

“Harry please, you have the voice of an angel. Sing to our baby, she wants to hear from you.” I cleared my throat and sat on the chair near the bed, scooting closer to her. I couldn't think of a song to sing, so I thought for a while.

My love
There's only you in my life
The only thing that's right
My first love
You're every breath I take
You're every step I make
And I
I want to share
All my love with you
No one else will do
And your eyes
They tell me how much you care
Oh, yes
You'll always be
My endless love.

I looked up to Alex who looked down at me with a small smile in admiration, I could already see her heart rate relax along with the babies. “You know something, the moment I knew it was you that got hurt, I ran.”

“You hate physical activity-”

“I know angel, but you are my whole world and ugh I felt so sick when I saw you there on the ground.” I laid my head against the mattress. A soft kick against my hand from the baby made me smile slightly.

“I really wanted to stand before you got there.” she frowned. “It had to be the main hall where everyone could see me like this.” I knew her worry wasn't people knowing she was pregnant but people knowing how fragile she was. In a way, I understood because I didn't want her to be in that situation either.

"I'm just glad both of you are okay."

The night of prom Alex's feet were swollen and she was still in bed rest. The fall had caused a bruise on her side that made it hurt to walk, but at least the baby was still safe. Personally, I didn't want to go to prom, it felt like a huge waste of time and money. The day of the accident I was supposed to buy the tickets, but I ended up saving the two hundred dollars.

I still asked Alex if she wanted to go anyway but she was more content staying at home and working on her assignments so she wouldn't suddenly fall behind in school, considering she was doing so well. I still wanted to do something nice, so around the time for dinner, I walked into the bedroom where she sat doing work.

“There is no way in hell I'm not at least taking you out to eat.” she turned to me with a frown.

“I'm too tired to walk around, have you seen my feet?” I chuckled to myself because little did she know, I had already begun setting up the sitting room with blankets and pillows, along with a pizza. She had been craving cheesy bread so I was really doing this for her.

“Okay at least come eat a slice of pizza with me.” she agreed standing to her feet. I pressed a kiss on the top of her head and walked with her to the surprise. I had set up the laptop in front of us with Netflix on, a box of pizza, and a cherry coke for her. She gasped, covering her face with a small whimper. She turned to face me and bury her head in my chest, but I quickly tried to turn her.

“Harry!” she looked up and cried.

“Why are you crying beautiful? Hmm?” I wrapped my arms around her.

“Because you're literally perfect and you love me.” she pouted her lip, a cute thing when she wanted a kiss.

“I do love you a lot, come on let's eat.” she smiled big and followed me to sit down carefully on the floor. We are dinner and after about halfway through legally blonde she turned to me.

“Harry?” I looked at her. “Can you promise me something?”

“Of course.” she seemed to have been deep in thought, not laughing at any of the jokes in the movie like usual.

“No matter what, we will always keep trying. Like I know having a baby this young is going to be hard and we’ll have fights and struggle but just be there for me and I'll do the same.” she was so hopeful and I could feel my heart hurt at the thought of us ever fighting. I couldn't even think of her ever being in pain or us breaking apart. I would continue to be there for her through everything.

I had to.

Thank you for reading. Xx

-k