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At Stanford:

Maddie: "Kate, you have to come with me to a party, is going to be fun"

K: "¿a party? you don't have to tell me twice, but I do have a test Monday morning, maybe I shouldn't go"

M: "Please Kate, you can study all weekend, let's have fun tonight, ¿pretty please?"

K: "If I fail the test I'll blame you, and if my parents find it out they are going to kill me, both are lawyers, I supposed to be the best"

M: "And you are, but you're not a nerd, we have fun very often, what is the difference today"

K: "I don't know, maybe I just not in the mood, I just broke up with Rogan a month ago"

M: "Yeah, and you didn't care until now, ¿why?"

K: "I saw him today, he already has another girlfriend and he went to Las Vegas with her instead of me"

M: "Oh, I get it, we can go to Las Vegas, don't worry, and it will be so much better because we can find some hot guys there, but tonight you're coming with me to the party, it is important to me Kate"

K: "Important? We party all the time, it is not like it is going to change anybody's life, especially not mine"

M: "But I don't want to go alone, and the guy I like is going to be there, ¿please?"

K: "O.K. Let's go, just because you seem desperate, but I'm not going to stay long I need to be up early tomorrow"

M: "Thank you, you won't regret it, you'll see"

K: "I already do, but don't ever say I'm not a good friend"

M: "oh, no, you're the best friend ever, the party is at the bar of one of the best hotels in the city, there is going to be VIP so we have to look great"

K: "Maddie you didn't tell me it was that kind of party, I wanted something fun, not a protocol one"

M: "You didn't ask, but now you can't change your mind, let's see your dresses and I'll choose one for you"

At the party Maddie is talking to the guy she likes and Kate is alone sitting at the bar so she is drinking vodka and reading a book. Kate has her hair combed in half tail, she is wearing a red tight-fitting dress.

Rick is sitting at a table with some people when somebody gets close to him and says "Hi, you're so hot, I know you're a bestseller author"

R: "No, I just wrote one, it could be one hit thing"

"Oh, I doubt it, I'm not really into reading, but I do have some friends on the mean and some people have told me how great you are so don't be modest"

R: "I'm not, but I have to be realistic, just in case, you're beautiful"

"Thanks, I know, and I'm kind of famous too; o.k. not really but I'm going to be very soon"

R: "Now I'm impress, maybe I should invite you to…"

And then he looks to the bar and his life changes, there is something in the woman sitting there that he can't ignore so he changes his mind.

"So, what were you saying?"

R: "Sorry, I can't, I forgot something and I have to talk with… I, I have to do something right now, what is your name?"

"Oh, I'm Meredith, what a shame we could do great things tonight, are you sure about it because I don't give second chances?"

R: "I am, it would have been great but I really have to go, it was nice to meet you Meredith"

M: "likewise, but you are not how I thought you will be when my friend talked me about you, she told me you will be here and that we would be great for each other, I think you know her, her name is Martha Rogers"

R: "Oh, yeah, ooh, then she talked me about you too Meredith, but I really can't, I'm really sorry for wasting your time, excuse me"

M: "Bye"

And Rick goes to her, he can't let her go, not without talking to her, he wants her name, and her story, she looks like a very interesting person, one who could inspire him to write not one but many stories, he has never had a muse, but seems like he just found his.

R: "Hey"

K: "Hey"

R: "Can I make you company"

K: "oh, ¿why not?"

R: "Can I ask what are you reading?"

K: "It is a book from Patterson, his last one actually, it is pretty good"

R: "Oh so you like the genre"

K: "I love it, ¿do you?"

R: "I love it too; you have no idea how much. ¿Can I invite you a drink?"

K: "I already have one, but you can buy me the next one"

R: "Oh, all drinks you want, I'm celebrating something tonight, but my friends there are kind of boring, I needed a break from them and you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen"

K: "You must tell that to all women"

R: "No, just you"

K: "Oh ¿are you charming prince, now?"

R: "No, just a guy who just fall in love with your beautiful eyes, your smile, your voice, all you"

K: "ha, ha, ha, ¿after 5 seconds? right, I'm not going to buy that one but you're a charming boy"

R: "I'm a charming man, I'm Rick"

K: "Kate" She smiles at him while she plays with her hair. Rick can't stop staring at her, there is something very strong he is feeling for her. He has never felt like this before tonight.

And they keep talking, drinking and laughing for hours until they end up in Rick's room, the next morning Kate wakes up in his arms, she kisses him at the mouth, he answers the kiss but asks her to go back sleep, and he falls sleep again so she dresses and goes.

When Rick wakes up, he looks for her, and after he dresses he tries to find out her full name and he hopes she is staying in the hotel too, but he doesn't have success, this was the best night of his life and he wants more, he wants Kate.

Kate sleeps in her dorm the rest of the morning, and at afternoon she has a hangover so she feels bad to study, that night she can't sleep because she can't stop thinking about Rick, the way this man loved her was something she had never felt before, his passion, his body, he was so perfect, maybe it was a mistake let him there without a number, a last name, anything. Maybe she can look for him after her test, but now she has to study, but she can't stop remembering what happened last night. It was a perfect one, after all Maddie was right she had a lot of fun at the party, and even more after it was over.

Sunday, she can study a little bit, and she passes the test, the problem comes a moth later when she feels nauseas for very first time in her life, she was having breakfast and suddenly she felt very sick without a reason, that same day she realized she has a delay so she is freaking out, she hopes it is a fake alarm, she must be nervous because all the stress she has been through, just to be sure she goes to the drugstore and she buys some pregnancy tests; she is scared ¿What it is going to happened if she is pregnant? But she have had other boyfriends before, of course it was the first time she didn't use protection, she should, but both were so in loved that when they realized neither of them had any condoms, they didn't care, they didn't want to stop, they didn't want to wait to buy some, she was taking the pill but after she broke up with Rogan she forgot to take it a couple times, but she wasn't supposed to have sex anyway, so missing the pill just a couple times wasn't important ¿right? And she was very busy studying for her test, she was disappointed of love because her ex, she didn't expect to meet somebody like Richard that night, she didn't expect to have sex without protection. She regretted that for a second, but she did take the pill that day, so it supposed to work, ¿right? She cries to Maddie, but she says there is not point of crying for something that it isn't sure yet, maybe she is sick but it doesn't mean she has to be pregnant, after some hours, she finally does the tests, more than one, just in case; and each one it is positive, she is crying more now at her bed. Maddie tries to comfort her but it was pointless, Kate is in shock right now.

Kate doesn't know how is going to tell her Mom what she did, when she had like 13 years old they had the sex talk and she promised to be responsible, ¿why the first time, the only time she didn't use protection had to be the one where she got pregnant? if Richard were here right now she would have killed him, ¿what they did that? ¿Why this had to happen to her? ¿Why?

Johana Beckett is at her office she just received a letter from jail, she is wearing a white skirt and white blouse, her hair is loose. She is about to open it when the telephone rings

K: "Mom, I'm so sorry, I did something really stupid"

J: "Kate, what happened, you are scaring me ¿why are you crying sweetie?"

K: "I can't tell you by phone, but I really need to talk to you, could you come to see me, please?"

J: "At your school? Oh, honey, must be something really bad I'm on my way, don't go out, I'll be there in a couple hours, just try to relax O.K. whatever this is we will find a solution, you'll see"

K: "Thanks Mom"

Then Johana puts the letter in her purse, she could read it in the train, right now she is very worried for her daughter, Kate always was so great but when she became a teenager she changed a lot, she became so revel which is normal at that age, but Johana is worried that Kate may have done something that could ruin her future, Kate is very smart and has the world to her feet. She just hopes this isn't something bad.

Before board the train Johana feels her mouth so dry than she decides to buy a soda, she sits at the train station when she remembers the letter is waiting for her at her purse. Maybe that letter can help her to think in something else, maybe this letter could distract her a little bit right now, so she takes out the letter but she is so nervous that her hands are shaking so she pours the soda on the letter, and she thinks – oh, God I hope it has not been ruined, maybe I should wait until it dries- so she takes the letter back to her purse.

At the train, there is a woman who has a little girl and is crying so much, at the next stop Johana has to get off the train but she takes out a tissue from her purse and she gives it to the woman who looks desperate

W: "Thanks so much, my little girl can't stop crying she must be sick, we're going to the doctor"

J: "No problem, everything will be O.K, you have a beautiful little girl"

W: "Thanks she has two years old and usually doesn't cry that much"

J: "If she feels bad she has the right to cry, don't worry for the noise; if people can't understand a baby crying is their problem not yours"

W: "Thanks, you're right"

J: "what's her name?"

W: "Kate"

J: "I have a daughter with the same name, I'm going to see her right now, but mine is at university, I'm a little worried for her too"

W: "Oh, don't worry you'll see both of our daughters will be fine"

J: "Thank you so much, I have to go now, it was a pleasure"

W: "Yeah, it was a pleasure to me too, Good-bye"

J: "Good-bye"

The woman sees a letter lying in the floor, so she lifts the letter up and she yells to Johana "Wait, you dropped something"

To be continued…

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