Too Young To Have A Baby, Kimbasue [good book club books txt] 📗

leave and not come back. I think that you should date him but not at this time.”
That made Tara feel at least a little better but not by much because they have gotten close. She did not let him kiss her or anything beyond friendship but that could change so fast, she should know. She vowed that she was going to be nicer to Doug; she was not going let him slip through her fingers. He is the best thing that has happened in her life, well her daughter is first but that is a given.
She heard her cell phone she looked down at her phone that was on the table. It was two text messages; okay she thought as she opened them, they were both from Doug. The first one read: I was thinking of you, hope you are feeling okay today and the second one was a picture of him with his shirt off with his tongue stuck out, and his eyes crossed. She started laughing until her stomach hurt.
Tara looked up to see a confused look on her mother’s face, she didn’t know if she could tell her what she was laughing at without going into another fit. “Mom Doug is too crazy; he checks in with me to make sure that I am doing okay or that I don’t need anything. Today he has done the same but this time he sent a silly picture with it. He is a great friend.”
Lana didn’t say anything she just leaned over kissed Tara’s cheek and left the living room. Tara watched as her mother left the room, she didn’t know why she just left like that but she knew sometimes that there is just nothing to say so you walk away. She took this time to text Doug back and asks him for something after all; she was getting fat enough she didn’t needed anything that would make her fatter.
The text read: “Would you please bring me some ice cream? I would like some cones, chocolate syrup, marshmallows that are in a jar, butterscotch, and cherries. Oh that sounds so good and I will share with you.” She said adding a smiley face. She sat her phone on the coffee table and stretched out on the couch.
She knew she was being lazy lately but she ran out of breath fast and she was awkwardly shaped being pregnant. Four more months and she would be a mother holding her new born baby, she was ready to give birth though she knew it was going to hurt; she was tired of being big and waddle all over the place.
She felt her eyes closing when she faintly heard her phone going off, she was reached for the phone so she could check to see whom it was texting her but she was already sleeping before she could snatch her phone from the table.
She felt something tickling her face which she thought was her hair but it wasn’t. When she opened her eyes she was staring into Doug’s face. She smiled and stretched; he showed her the ice cream and toppings and she jumped up from the couch grabbing the ice cream from him, and heading to the kitchen.
Tara walked into the kitchen with Doug hot on her heels; it was like he was lost when he was in her house; when he was in Jamie’s he would go all over alone. She thought he was going to ask her about the doctor’s appointment but he didn’t. she reached to get bowls when she felt Doug behind her and he grabbed the bowls before she could even stretch up; “I know that much about someone being pregnant, they are not supposed to stretch when they are trying to get things. “ he told her and smiled.
Tara was getting irritated but she bit her tongue, he was only trying to help so why should he get his head chewed off for that. She opened the jars of chocolate and butterscotch, twisted the plastic top from the plastic jar of marshmallows, when she turned to ask what else she could do he handed her a bowl of ice cream with the jar of chocolate in his hands.
“Are you ready? Hold your bowl and I will add the toppings just tell me when to stop.”
She loved having Doug around he was great to talk with and he would do anything for anyone, which was something that you didn’t find every day. She turned to walk away when he added all she wanted but he grabbed her arm as he leaned back against the counter with his legs crossed at the ankles he said, “So what happened at the doctors today? What did they say? I have been waiting for the news all day and you didn’t even tell me when you got home.” He pretended to be hurt.
Tara felt better that he asked. She wanted him to be interested in what was going on, not her just always telling him things that he doesn’t care about. Her heart felt more love for Doug after he asked. “I had the ultra sound today. I thought that it was going to take longer than it did but it was interesting to see the baby on a small computer monitor. They can tell what the sex of the baby will be, I am having a….” she didn’t finish that sentence because he was holding up his hand.
“Wait I don’t know if I want to know the sex of the baby. Maybe you could just know and I will find out when you have the baby.” Doug told her.
She was looking at him funny and she turned to walk out of the kitchen so that she could go back and curl up on the couch where she is more comfortable at when Doug stopped her again.
“Okay just tell me, I can’t take the suspense.”
Tara smiled big, “I am having a girl.”

Getting Close To The End

She could not believe it she was going to have her baby in a month. Being pregnant for nine months sucked, she was too big to move around with ease, she hated that she could not fit her clothes, and she wanted to wear her tennis shoes again. Her feet and hands have swelled up so much that she can’t wear shoes or rings.
She was sitting in her room waiting for Jamie and Doug to show up, she didn’t want to go out but they thought it was a good idea for Tara to go to Jamie’s for movie night. She wanted to have movie night here where she would be comfortable and she could go to sleep when she wanted to.
Doug came to the door and knocked, “Come in” Tara yelled from the middle of her bed. In walked Doug with a big smile as usual. He winked and said, “Are you ready to go? I came to get you alone so that Jamie could go pick up James.”
Tara shook her head and scooted off the bed, she hated not being able to move like she use to, “Figured she would have to go pick up her boyfriend.” She said.
Doug helped her down the stairs, she looked around the lower floor for her mom but she didn’t see her so she walked out the door and to Doug’s car. “I didn’t even know you owned your own car. You are usually with someone else or walking.”
She looked at his white Cadillac and smiled, “Fits you, though why did you get Cadillac?” Doug opened the car door for her and shut it.
When he climbed in he said, “I hope you have a good time even though I know you didn’t want to come out tonight.”
Tara rubbed his leg before he started the car; she pulled back, and folded her hands in her lap. She was nervous again being around him and she didn’t get it, she thought she was over the shyness with him. He has been around since she was two months pregnant so it’s been almost a year.
They were quite on the ride to Jamie’s house; she could have probably walked there if she wasn’t pregnant as close as they lived together. She smiled a little when they pulled in the drive way, she wanted to see Jamie so bad, it felt like too long since she hung out with her.
Doug helped her out of the car and held her hand up to the door as if they were a couple, any other time she thought he would have been her boyfriend. “I never knock, every since we were little girls we have been just walking into each other’s houses. Tara opened the door and walked in with Doug still holding her hand. She looked at him with her eyebrows arched and then looked down at their locked fingers.
“Sorry I didn’t think you would mind, I guess I wasn’t thinking. Are you mad?”
He asked her if she was mad a lot and it got annoying but she wasn’t going to be rude about it. “I’m not mad; we never held hands in public before.” She said looking at the floor.
“I would have held your hand in public if you had gone out with me. You never wanted to go anywhere so all I could do is see you at your house. You haven’t seen anything yet, wait until you have the baby and we can go out together.” He winked.
Tara turned her head because she heard Jamie laughing; she was coming closer to them. “What’s up Jamie? What are we watching tonight? Am I staying here tonight or are you taking me home later?”
“We are watching a few movies tonight, I would like you stay the night. You two sit in the living room and start watching whatever you want, I will be back with James in a few minutes. She walked out of the room leaving Tara and Doug to do as she said and go into the living room and pick something to watch.
“What is wrong with her?” Doug asked her when they were seated on the couch next to each other.
“You have to just know Jamie, she is a wild one but she doesn’t hurt anyone and she doesn’t ask anyone else to do it with her.”
She started looking at the TV as if they were not talking. “What do you mean? I think I am more lost now.”
“She gets high and of course she drinks more then she should.”
Doug shook his head and sat more in the corner of the couch so he could pull Tara closer to him. He smiled when she looked over at him but he still held his hand on her thigh. She didn’t care that he was doing this but with the look she just gave him made most boys pull back.
They decided to wait on Jamie to come back to start the movie so Doug was flipping through the channels, he made sure it