Aaron and Elena?

Chapter twenty four

Diane stood at Elena's porch waiting for her to answer the door. She had literally begged Dario to allow her out of the house mainly the bed.... yes she slept in his room, in the same bed with him last night.

Dario didn't want her to leave the bed, he called Charlotte and ordered her to dress Ruby and Dennis for school even make their breakfast and told her if they ask of their mom, she should tell them their mom came down with a flu. That was not all, he also ordered  Daniel to take them to school and then called Elaine to cancel all appointments he had.

But his plans of spending the whole day with her was cut short when Elena called her and requested her presence.

It seemed selfish to her that Dario gave up everything he had to do today just to be with her but she couldn't. She apologised profusely but Dario waved it off and decided to go to the office.

And here she is, standing in front of Elena's porch waiting for her to answer the door.

" Come in" Elena pulled Diane in, hugged her and started rambling.

Diane stood transfixed at her friend's rambling.

"Ok" Diane cut her off with a wave of her hand when she couldn't take the rambling anymore. "What the hell?"

"Diane I did something bad" Elena said and collapsed on the sofa tying to control her panic attack.

Diane slowly said " I don't get you"

Elena didn't care to explain further, she just kept on rambling " I did it the first time I blamed it on Jason, I did it the second time I still blamed it on Jason and now the third.... I badly want to blame it on Jason but I can't...."

Diane cut her off "Wait, what are you talking about? Did you do something illegal"  Diane asked worried for her friend.

"Is it illegal?"

"For Christ sake Elena would you speak in English" Diane bellowed

"Ok" she breathed in and then out " I slept with Aaron three times" she said with a worried expression.

Nothing could contain the shock Diane felt. Aaron and Elena? No this can't be happening.

"Which Aaron are you talking about?" She asked just to be clear. There are a thousand Aarons in new York city so it can't be him.

"Which other Aaron do you think I'm talking about? Aaron Wellington, Dario's best friend"

"Whoa!" Diane exclaimed as she collapsed on same sofa as Elena. "This is big"

Then it clicked.

"You slept with him three times" it came out as an accusation.

"I didn't mean it...we didn't mean it. The first time, we met in a club where I wanted to get rid of Jason from my memory, I left immediately after"

Diane nodded her head for her to continue. "The second time same thing and the third, he called me over to talk about what happened and it just...." She buried her face in her palms

"Do you like Aaron?"

"I...I " she decided to think.

Does she?  Aaron's a nice guy, funny, smart, sophisticated, caring.l but did she like him was a heavy question to her. She is still in love with Jason even though he hurt her bad.

She found out whatever they had shared all this years was a lie, it was all just to get close to Diane. She knew, she had always known right after he gave her the papers to sign. She read his diary while she was looking for answers.

She was about to reply Diane when Diane's phone rang.

"Yeah, please who is this" Diane asked

" Its Catherine. Are you free? Let's meet up" Catherine spoke from the other end of the line all giddy.

"I'm at my friend's place right now...."

She cut in "Oh great, so great. She can come with you, I'm also coming with a friend....Ronnie forbade me from going out, I had to pull some strings bottom line is he allowed me to go only on one condition to take my friend with me." Catherine talked with stopping to take a breath.

Wow!

"Send me the address Catherine" 

"Okay, right now. Bye" and the line went dead.

Diane turned to Elena assessing her dressing, Elena was putting on a tartan bum short and a black singlet.

"Go and change we're going out"

It turns out that Catherine had selected a restaurant as their meeting point. A cozy family restaurant not that classy. She sighted Catherine and walked up to her, she noticed the black haired girl sitting next to Catherine conversing.

"Hi" she greeted when she reached the table.

"You're here" Catherine squealed and pulled her into a tight hug.

The dark haired girl, Hayden pealed Catherine away from Diane before she suffocates her with hug. "Please bear with her, she's not always like this"

She leaned closer to Diane and whispered " pregnancy hormones"

Diane nodded.

"This is my best friend, Elena" she introduced to Catherine " Elena, my sister in law, Catherine"

"Nice to meet " Elena replied.

"Silly me this is my best friend, Hayden" Catherine introduced

"Hi. Now we're done with all formalities..."

"Can we order I'm starved" Catherine cut in.

The ordered and chatted like long time friends. Sometimes breezing in and out of their spouse topic. Catherine did most of the talking then they moved to planning Ruby's birthday. They planned to make it an under water theme since Ruby's two favourite cartoons are Sponge Bob and little mermaid.

It was already time to pick the children from school so they decided to call it a day but not before fixing another girls time out.

"I'll pay for all our meals" Diane offered bringing out her credit card.

"Don't worry about it, I stole Ronnie's card" Catherine interjected grinning as she showed them the card. She wished she could see the look on his face as he receives the debit alert but then she knew it wouldn't even make a dent in his account.

She paid and as they were about to leave she felt something trickle down her leg. She gasped as she felt her abdomen clench.

"What is it?" Hayden asked as the trio watched her with worried expressions.

"My water just broke"