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This is another story that I had on my old account I have made a few changes and stuff like that. Enjoy!
I walked onto the plane traveling to California. I couldn't believe it had been more then four years since I had seen the Camdens. My daughter, Katie, was now three years old and living with her mother, Sandy. While Sandy and I stayed good friends they never got romantically involved after she had found out she was pregnant. After I had graduated from high school I had moved in with Sandy and our daughter until I had gotten into college then I moved on campus. Now I have graduated with a degree in law and was planning on going to law school. In college I had dated a few girls but I haven't been in a serious relationship with anyone after what happened with Sandy. Basically I have changed, I had gotten his life together. Soon enough the plane took off.I was excited to be seeing the family who was like my own after all these years. Through the flight I thought about what a big impact the Camden family had on me and how I wished I could have stayed in touch with them.
After about five hours the plane landed. I got off the plane and walked over to the luggage pick-up area and collected my suitcase. I then got in a cab that would drive me to Glenoak. It took me about an hour and a half to get to the Camden's so it was around eight o'clock when I arrived. Quickly I walked up the familiar sidewalk leading to the front porch. I knocked on the front door. Annie answered it with a huge smile on her face.
"Martin!" She hugged me "It's so good to see you again!" she said squeezing me tighter. I hugged her back.
"It's good to see you too!" I said
"Well come on in!" Annie said finely letting go and gesturing for him to come in. I was surprised to see that everyone was there, everyone but Ruthie that is.
"Where's Ruthie?" I asked once inside the house.
"Oh she's just upstairs lying down you know how it is" Annie answered walking towards the stair case.
"How what is?" I asked in a quiet and confused voice. But Annie didn't hear me.
"Ruthie! Vincent! come on down Martin's here!" Annie yelled up stairs.
"Vincent?" I asked confused of why Annie would ask Vincent to come downstairs. But when a pregnant Ruthie walked downstairs I figured out why.
"Oh my God!" Ruthie said walking up to me and hugging me. "It's been way to long!" I hugged Ruthie back still in shock that she was pregnant. When she pulled away I looked at her rather large stomach just to make sure what I saw was real. "You remember Vincent right?" Ruthie said looking at Vincent who was still standing on the staircase.
"Yeah" I said looking up at Vincent. Vincent walked down stairs and shook my hand.
"Good to see you again" Vincent said looking me in the eye.
"You too" I said back to Vincent. Stepping Back Vincent put his arm around Ruthie's waist.
"Ruthie and Vincent are engaged to be married in spring, after the baby is born" Annie interrupted. Right then and there I could have passed out. I let the word 'engaged' hang in my mind. Meaning that Ruthie wasn't married when she got pregnant. Ruthie had changed since I had last seen her. I couldn't understand why I was so mad that Ruthie was pregnant and engaged.
"Martin are you okay?" Ruthie said looking at my now slightly pale face.
"yeah... well...uh... congratulations!" I told Ruthie with a big fake grin on my face.
"thanks" Ruthie said back to me. Lucy was the next to hug me followed by the rest of the Camden family. But all I could think about was the now pregnant and engaged Ruthie and I couldn't understand why. Maybe I was acting like her older brother and was mad that she got pregnant. But could it be that I had feelings for her... no! no way! She was engaged and had been like a sister to me.
"So Martin how's Katie been?" Lucy asked snapping me out of my day dream. She was holding her and Kevin's second child, one-year-old Jacob.
"oh, she's doing great!" I said thinking about my daughter who I missed even though I hadn't been away from her for that long.
"That's great" Ruthie said looking at her stomach.
"Do you know if it's a girl or boy?" I asked trying to make small talk.
"It's a girl" Ruthie said putting her hand on her stomach.
"When are you do?" I asked
"two months" She said. I nodded, now out of the usual 'pregnancy questions' I guess you could call them.
After a while I had gone up to Sam and David's old room which had been turned into a guest bedroom. Ruthie and Vincent were living in the garage apartment together and Sam and David had the attic. I laid down on the bed a flipped on the TV. It was as if everything had changed, the house, the family, myself. After Katie came along I had to change. I had a purpose in life. But I think the person it had the most effect on was Sandy. She had stopped sleeping around so much and even got a good paying job. But then one day I will never forget is when Ruthie found out about Sandy. I had been trying to get it out of my head but I could remember it just like it was yesterday. She cam over to my house and knocked on my door. I opened it and saw that her eyes were red as if she had been crying. She looked mad, boy did she look mad. 'I think we need to talk' she told me. She walked in the house and she sat down on the couch. I sat across from her in the chair. I felt my heart racing knowing that she knew. 'why didn't you tell me?' she asked almost in tears. I looked at her and told her the story. I knew that she was mad I hadn't told her, and even more mad I went out with Meredith when I knew Sandy was pregnant with my child. Then she told me something that had changed the way I looked at the whole situation. She said that she wanted to hat me so bad for getting Sandy pregnant, but she couldn't just do that. Because your like a brother to me and I love you like a brother. If someone like Lucy had told me that I probably would have just forgotten about it. But the way Ruthie had said 'brother' it was as if she felt like she was lying and the feeling he got when she said he loved her was something he had never felt before. My day dreams were interrupted when someone knocked on my door.
"come in" I said flipping off the TV. To my surprise Ruthie walked in.
"Hi" she said closing the door behind her, quietly so she wouldn't wake anyone.
"hey" I said. "I thought you'd be asleep"
"yeah well, pregnancy comes with cravings" Ruthie said laughing. I laughed with her. "So I'm guessing by the look on your face you were more then a little surprised that I was pregnant"
"I wasn't mad or anything if that's what you thinking" I really hoped that she didn't think I was mad.
"I wasn't saying I thought you were mad, just surprised" she said smiling and sitting down at the foot of the bed.
"I guess I was a little surprised"
"because I wasn't married?" she was right but I didn't want to say yes. At least she was in a serious relationship when she got pregnant. when Sandy got pregnant I had known her for less then a day. I nodded hoping that maybe she wouldn't see.
"Well, it happened and now I happily engaged to the man I love and I'm pregnant with his baby" why was I feeling like I wanted to rip Vincent's head off right now? And why did I feel so sad when Ruthie said she loved him. I didn't know. For the next few hours we talked about everything, college, love, marriage, life. Around 3-am Ruthie went back to the garage apartment. I was sad to see her go. But even more sad knowing she was going back to Vincent, the only question was...why?
