Ice cream or I SCREAM?;; Cammie

[bethany]

Outfit

Though it wasn't particularly cold outsid, Bethany was still on the cold side. But why she went to Cold Stone while she was cold? That's just one of the many confusing things about this girl.

Her blonde locks were only slightly curled; due to ignorance, and her green eyes seemed slightly sad. She walked in and took a seat in a table near the back, to avoid having to talk to anyone else in the parlor.

Her fingers strummed lightly on the surface of the table, but her mind was elsewhere....as was something very dear to her. On thois thought Bethany shook her head, removing the scarf from her neck as she did.

She wanted badly to tell someone what had happened to her, but she wasn't sure who to tell.....she didn't want this news flyign all over the school withing the week.

A sigh escaped her lips as she looked about, now pondering what type of icecream she'd get. Probably what she always got; cake battter ice cream with Twix mixed in, in a waffle cone.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie strolled into Cold Stone. She was just wandering around when she had a craving and asked for the closest place that served ice cream.

As she bounced into the place, she saw a familiar looking blonde head. It was Bethany from the other day and she was sitting in one of the booths, back facing Cammie. Cammie scanned Cold Stone, it was a bit on the empty side, not such customers were here yet and she liked it, it was very quiet and relaxing. Cammie smiled as she went up behind her and gave a little "Boo." she smiled, "Care to share the booth with me?"

Cammie's Outfit

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[bethany]

Bethany had been lost in thought when the door opened, and only was brought back when she heard Cammie's voice. "Oh, hey." She said in a soft tone with a smile. Behtnay enjoyed Cammie's companionship; she was easy to talk to and not rude.

"I'd love to share the booth, it's better then being lost in thought." She said with a smile, brushing some loose hair form her face. "I'm going to get some ice cream, are you?" She asked as she tilted ehr head to the side, her brow lightly raised.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie smiled, "I'm an ice cream junkiie. What flavor are you getting?" she asked as she waved a waiter over to them.

The waiter came over, looking as cute as can be and Cammie couldn't resist the urge to wink and smile at him. "Can I have a large bowl of Superman ice cream?" she asked. Superman were one of her favourite flavors, it tasted so sweet and it was like eating a rainbow; there were reds, yellows, oranges, blues... Cammie tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear as she waited.

[bethany]

Bethany laughed. "Cake battter ice cream with some Twix mixed, in a waffle cone." She replied with a smile to the waiter. She only vaguely knew him, but she also knew that he was a new worker there so he didn't know her usual.

She looked to Cammie and smiled once the waiter left. "So, what brings you into town today?" She asked with an interested expression. She herself had coem to town that day so she wouldn't be left to ponder about all the thigns that had happened to her; she hated doing that.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie smiled as Bethany gave the waiter her order, it sounded yummy. "Well, I was exploring and got a craving for ice cream."

Then Cammie remembered Bethany's expression earlier when she came in, and she lowered her voice a little, "If you don't mind me asking..." Cammie started, "I know we don't know each other that well and I don't want to intrude...but," Cammie gave her a sad smile, "is something bothering you? I mean, you always look kind of down. Pretty, but down."

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[bethany]

Bethany nodded. "Yeah, cold stone the best place for ice cream around here." She said as she twirled some hair around her finger, resisting the urge to strum her fingers on the table.

Bethany listened as Cammie spoke, and her expression saddened as she looked down. "It's alright, I'd rather have a stranger asking then someone who knows me completely." She said, then added her reason. "They'd get mad at me for not telling them." A sigh slid out her lips as she looked up to Cammi. "I'm just hurting inside, it's not soemthing that I'll get over easliy, or quickly."

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie nodded, trying to grasp everything. Then the waiter came with their ice cream, she thanked him and turned back to Bethany."Hurting inside?" Cammie asked, "Anything I can help you with?"

"I think I kind of understand," she said, "Some people except us to get over things that seem minor to them or they except us to be perfect." Before, when she broke up with her ex-boyfriend, she was hurting inside a lot, it felt like she gave away her heart and everyone excepted her to just get over him.

[bethany]

Bethany took her ice cream and nodded her thanks as she looked at the creamy goodness, now not feeling very hungry. "Well what I need right now is someone who'll listen, I don't mine if you decide to judge me from what I tell you; just please don't tell anyone else."

Bethany was speaking in a soft tone, her eyes down cast, but her posture almost perfect. After attending a few years of etiquette classes it was hard to not sit straight up. "I'll tell you Cammie, but you have to swear you'll never tell anyone else without my permission."

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie looked at Bethany, she looked so sad. "I'll listen and won't judge you. And I promise to take the secret to the grave." she gave Bethany a small smile, trying to lighten the mood a little. She didn't want Bethany to feel pressured.

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[bethany]

Bethany felt lightly relieved that Cammie wouldn't tell anyone, but that still didn't make what she was about to say any easier. She ran a hand through her hair lightly as she gently bit her bottom lip.

"Well, everyone thinks I left because I was upset about my boyfriend cheating on me with my twin sister; which I totally was. But that's not the only reason I had for leaving." She said as she let one of her hands wrap lightly around her torso, feeling a little comfort as she spoke.

"Other then that I had to leave before people found out what was really wrong with me," She paused, unsure if she should continue; but she did. "I was pregnant." She breathed out; her voice barely above a whisper and her eyes down cast.

[Cammie Skye``]

Jenni let out a small gasp, and then mouthed the word Pregnant?, just in case there were people who would overhear her. "How...?" she asked, unsure of how she should feel."Did you keep it?"
Jenni kept her voice down to match Bethany's volume, she didn't want anyone to listen in. Jenni had so many more questions but decided to let Bethany answer her first two first instead of bombarding her with questions.

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[bethany]

Bethany bit her lip as she nodded. "Yeah, 'pregnant.'" She replied in a low tone as she glanced about. She fiddled with her fingers around her icecream cone, not fure how exactly to explain.

"Well......" She took a breath before she spoke. "I went to a party with- emr, a guy friend. My current boyfriend at the time didn't feel like coming, and he didn't want me to go; but I went anyway. It was just like every other party I'd gone to; drinking, dancing, fooling around. I had a few drinks too many drinks, and got a little 'friendly' with the guy I was with. One thing led to another and when I woke up the next morning I was looking at that friend. I had to go because I didn't know how to tell my curent boyfriend that I'd cheated on him, and when he cheated on me that was the perfect oppotunity." She said as she heaved a sigh. "By the time I left I was already two months pregnant. I did keep the baby, a beautiful girl. But I put her with a good family, I'm not able to take care of a child, and the guy probably wouldn't be too happy to know about her....I didn't tell anyone."

Bethany felt so much better now that someone else knew, but she was afraid that somehow this would make it into Gossip Girl's next blog. No way that would happen though unless Cammie told, and Bethany felt as though she could trus her. "I stayed goen the extra month to work off the weight I'd gained, I'm actually thiner then I was before I was pregnant." This was something she was proud of, beign able to be smaller then before she was preganant.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie put down her spoonful of icecream, "You didn't...tell the father?" she asked softy, "Don't you think he has the right to know if he has a child?"

Cammie was shocked at Bethany's story, she sat silently for a moment, processing the information, "I think you were very brave to go through all that by yourself," she gave Bethany a smile, "I could've never done something like that." then Cammie's smile brighten, "Do you have a picture of her? She must be a very pretty baby."

As Cammie spoke to Bethany, an idea bubbled in her mind, "Why don't you bring her closer to home? Like have someone in the city watch your baby so you can be closer and visit whenever." she asked. Cammie had always loved little kids and she was about to offer her step mom's service's for Bethany and tell people that she was a cousin or something so Bethany can see her whenever she wanted during the school year but she kept her mouth shut. She wasn't going to say anything until Allie agreed and if Bethany was okay with the idea, except that her and Bethany had just met and she wasn't sure if Bethany would be okay with it.

[bethany]

Bethany bit her bottom lip. "It's probably better that he doesn't know. It would just make everything harder for not only me, but him too. And I think I've already made his life hard enough." She said as she looked at her icecream.

A smile hinted on her face as she nodded; removing her wallet from her pocket and opening it, taking out a picture of the baby girl. "That's Sidalee Ann." She said as she handed oevr a picture of a tiny two week old baby with lots of dark hair. "As you can see, sshe dind't tak eafter me when it came to her hair." She said, now smiling.

Her smile faded as she shook her head. "I love her, but seeing ehr would just make it that much harder. She's with a good family; some relatives of a close friend." She said as she lookeda t her icecream, bow bot hungry at all for the cold sweet.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie smiled as she saw the picture of the baby girl, "
I think she has your eyes." she said as she handed the picture back to Bethany, holding it's sides. Cammie hated getting finger print smudges on her pictures so she rarely touched the picture's face.

She took another spoonful of ice cream and saw that Bethany had stopped eating hers, "I find that eating ice cream helps get rid of pain." she smiled as she pointed her spoon towards Bethany's ice cream, indicating that she should eat more. "I'm sure Little Annie would want you to eat ice cream." she joked, trying to get Bethany to smile.

Then she took out her own wallet and handed over a picture to Bethany, "Wanna see a picture of my little brother? He's like a son to me." she smiled, she had helped her step mother raise the kid since he was born so sometimes, she felt like his second mother. Especially when he came crying to her over a cut or something cute like that. He had her step mother's eyes but her dad's hair so he was a little blonde with piercing green eyes.

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[bethany]

Bethany took the picture back with a smile. "Thanks." She said as she slid it gently back into her wallet then tucked away the wallet. She raised a brow, then gave a half hearted smile as she took a bit of her ice cream. "Probably." She said with a smile.

"Aw, he's adorable! My step mom has a little girl, she's two years old and looks just like her mother." She stated with a shake of her head. She enjoyed helping take care of Melody, but the little girl was very spoiled and didn't like Bethany because she wouldn't always give ehr what she wanted.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie smiled and nodded, "Well, if there's anything, anything at all that you need help in, or if you just want to talk, don't hesitate to call." Cammie slid her business card across the table to Bethany with a smile.
Cammie looked at her ice cream then waved the waiter over, "Can I have a cookie?" then she turned to Bethany, "Want one?" she loved eating cookies. One of Cammie's favourite flavors were Cookies n Cream.

aiieee, writer's block. sorry.

[bethany]

Bethany smiled as she ate her icecream. "Alright, thanks Cammie." She said as she took the card. She glanced at the waiter, then at her ice cream; she shook her head. "Nah, I'll finish this and then I'll have to go to the pond and jog around it a billion times." She said with a laugh as she took another bite of her ice cream.

Blech, sorry it's so short.

[Cammie Skye``]

Cammie nodded then looked at her watch. "I guess I should get going too. I have a gig in less than an hour." she waved the waiter over, took her cookie and handed him $25 to cover them both, "Keep the change and can I get a few more cookies to go?"

Cammie was always hungry whenever she was working and she was craving cookies so she might as well get a few more and share with the people there. Probably only 3 of them will accept while the rest of them complained about it's calories. Cammie made a mental eye roll, she hated it when they criticize her eating habits, her body naturally burned the calories off quicker than them and she loved to eat; Cammie didn't see anything wrong with that.

As the waiter walked back with a bag of cookies, Cammie stood up and gave Bethany a hug, "Sorry, gotta run! Call anytime." she said. The business card she had handed to Bethany had her email address, phone number, address and the works, so Bethany could contact her whenever she wanted. As Cammie went towards the door, she saw her driver outside looking bored and she gave Bethany a finally wave before exiting.

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