Chapter 35

I squinted my eyes as my phone laid on the table, vibrating. I sat up squishing Nick making him grunt. I rubbed my neck from the pain of the way we fell asleep.

"Hello?" I spoke in a barely understandable voice while Nick pushed my legs off of him and walked into the bathroom.

"Good morning Hun!" Allie was always so cheerful in the morning, I never understood how she could do it.

"Morning." I walked to the kitchen and chugged some of my soy milk and grabbed a box of cereal.

"So what we doing today?"

"Dunno." I poured a bowl of fruit loops. "I have to stop by the hospital today."

"Oh right."

"You should come." Nick came up behind me and gave me a kiss on the cheek and proceeded to take my bowl of cereal.

"Hey!" I grabbed it. "It's got soy milk in it you don't want that." He laughed and lazily walked over the the fridge. "Sorry Allie, but anyway you should come and see him."

"No, I don't think that's a good idea."

"Why not, you don't have to tell him anything." I sat in the dining room.

"Um hold on Kate let me call you back, I got to go real quick."

"Uh okay but.." Before I could finish she hung up the phone. "God she is acting weird."

"Shit!!" I turned my head quick and saw Nick shaking his hand.

"What did you do?" I smiled.

"I burnt my hand and my toaster strudel!"

"I will make you pancakes!" I walked over and pulled the instant pancake box out of the cabinet.

"Okay." He leaned in to kiss me but I pulled away. "Wow, grump."

"I haven't brushed my teeth, it's so gross!"

"Go brush your teeth then." He pushed me towards the bathroom and smacked my butt.

"You're a dick!" I stuck my tongue out as I closed the bathroom door.

"I thought I was cute and adorable!" He yelled.

"You are." I walked out of the bathroom with my toothbrush in my mouth. "And a dick." He walked over and started to tickle me.

"Stop Nick! I'm gonna choke!" He stopped and I wiped tooth paste on his face.

"Oh no you didn't." He wiped it off and looked at me, I swiped his hand away and put my leg up as he tried to go for me.

"Wait Nick, wait." I smiled. "Let me finish brushing my teeth and then you can do whatever you want." He looked at his watch.

"You got 2 minutes."

"Ahh!" I screamed and ran into the bathroom. I finished up and walked out, Nick was standing right outside the door waiting for me.

"Okay hold on." I laughed.

"Nope your time is up." He came towards me but I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him.

"Don't tickle me." I smiled.

"This is your one get out of jail free card." I walked in front of him to the kitchen as he grabbed my hips and slugged behind me. I quickly whipped up some pancakes for him and watched as he scarfed them down like he has not eaten in a week.

"Did you even taste them babe?"

"Yeah." He walked into the kitchen with a mouth full of pancakes and put his plate in the sink then kissed my cheek again. "They were good." He engulfed me into his arms and gave me a huge hug.

"Aw what was that for?"

"Just cause I love you, when do you have to leave?"

"I'm going to get changed then head over."

"Okay, tell him I said hey."

"I will." I walked into the bedroom and threw on a pair of jeans and Nick's abercrombie hoodie.

"Bye." I leaned in to kiss him.

"Bye, and you need to get your own clothes."

"Yours are so comfy though!"

"Fine, don't get it dirty."

"I won't, have fun at practice." I gave him another kiss.

"I will." He walked me to the door.

"Bye again." I smiled and hugged him.

"Bye, be safe."

I walked to Nick's car and jumped in. He had taught me how to drive stick but I was still a little bad at it. I got to the hospital only stalling once and walked up to the counter to get my visitor pass. I got to go right in to Riley's room since my family went back to Josh's to sleep.

"Hey kiddo." Riley smiled. He was sitting up in his bed watching TV and eating breakfast.

"Hey!" I gave him a hug. "How you feeling?"

"Pretty good, I didn't get much sleep but what do you expect, it's a hospital."

"Yeah that's true, you should have let me bring you breakfast, that looks like shit."

"Ah it's alright." He looked at his plate. "How did she look?"

"Who?" I sat down in the chair.

"Allie." I could tell by the look in his face that he has missed her.

"Good, I feel like I need to tell you something though." I knew that I shouldn't but Riley was my brother, He has always been there for me through thick and thin. He has always been honest with me and told me everything. All that was running through my mind was blood is thicker than water. He needed to know, he had a right to know.

"What?" He flipped through the channels.

"Well I haven't seen Allie since I moved out here, and well she looked very different."

"Yeah, how so?" He sat up a little more, getting very interested in the conversation.

"I don't know if I should tell you. It's probably not my place."

"I'm not going to force you, tell me what you want." Now I felt bad.

"She was pregnant." I looked down.

"Are you serious." He hung his head in his hands.

"Riley don't." I slid my chair over to him and rubbed his shoulder. "You're going to be a great dad."

"What?!" He picked his head up so quick.

"Well you have to know it's yours." I looked at him with a confused face.

"Kate, that's not possible. I have not seen her in over a year. After she dumped me she moved about 2 hours away and hasn't spoken to me."

"What?" I shook my head, my mouth wide open. "Why would she lie to me."

"I don't know, but to lie about something like that is a little fucked up, especially since you are my sister."

"Well wait a second Riley we don't know what happen we can't judge her. What if something bad happened and she was to embarrassed to tell me."

"I don't know, your phone is lighting up." He pointed to my pocket. I quickly opened it.

"Sorry bout that, I needed to talk to someone back home." She spoke with a soft voice. I walked out of the room.

"Allie why did you lie to me?"

"What are you talking about?"

"About Riley, I'm sorry but I had to tell him, he is my brother. Why did you lie?"

"You told him!" Her voice raised. "I can't talk about this!" She hung up the phone. I tried to call her back right away but she hit the ignore button. I felt terrible and just wanted to help her. Maybe she was going through something similar to what I went through and I just made it worse.

"That was a mistake." I sat back down in the chair.

"Something is going on with her, she needs some help." Riley leaned back on his bed.

"That's all I want to do, I want to help her. I'm a horrible person for doing that."

"No you aren't, just give her some time to blow off some steam and call her back."

"Good plan."

"Good, now want some eggs?" He smiled.

"No thank you." I smiled back.