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Prologue

Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Little Liars, in anyway, only this story.

"Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain;

unless we resist it, then it becomes torment."

- the I Ching

This is the quote Spencer Hastings basically lived by.. That is until she give birth.

May, 10th 2010

"Is it really necessary to be studying right now, Spencer?" Emily asked her very pregnant, twenty year old roommate. "You could go into labor any day now, including today, plus you haven't went to school since before you found you were pregnant, which would be last May. What studying do even have to do?" Spencer had found out that she was pregnant last August, over her summer vacation, and decided to take her third year of university, at Upenn off (which would have started that September), so she could stay at her apartment for nine months, where no one could find out about her unplanned pregnancy-except for her friends, of course.

"Yes, it is necessary. I need to get a head start on my studying for September."

"Okay, whatever you say," Emily replied, not wanting to argue over it."So, are you going to name the baby or are you going to leave it to the adoptive parents to name it?" Emily asked, taking a seat across from Spencer at their dining table.

"I don't know yet, and it's parent, not parents. It's a single guy," Spencer explained. "So, are you going to leave me alone to study or are you going to leave it to me to force you to leave?" Spencer mocked Emily.

"Okay, okay. Sorry! I'll leave myself." Emily stood up and walked to her room.

"Good choice," Spencer yelled after her.

After twenty minutes of studying, Spencer decided to take a break and get something to eat.

"Emily, do you want share pizza with me?" Spencer yelled out to Emily.

"No, I'm not hungry."

"Emily!" Spencer yelled, after feeling a watery liquid run down her legs.

"I said no, I'm not hungry!" Emily yelled back to her.

"No, no. Emily, my water broke!"

"What! Oh my gosh, Spencer! We have to get to the hospital!" Emily panicked, running out of her bedroom and grabbing Spencer's hospital bag from Spencer's bedroom.

"No shit!"

"Sorry. I've never done this before. Come on, lets go," Emily grabbed Spencer's arm, pulling her out to her car.

"Easy, Emily! I'm about to go through 57 dels of pain, I don't need to go through the pain of loosing an arm too!"

"Okay. Sorry," Emily apologized, letting go of Spencer's arm.

"You say sorry a lot."

"Sorry," Emily replied, but smiled when she realized what she said.

When they finally reached the parking lot of their apartment building Emily asked, "Shouldn't you be in pain right now?"

"I will any min- AHHHH!" Spencer screamed in pain. "-ute now," She finished her sentence when the contraction went away.

They got into Emily's car and drove to the hospital. Once they were into Spencer's hospital room Emily called Hanna, Aria and Melissa- who had gotten close with Spencer because she was also pregnant during most of Spencer's pregnancy (she had given birth almost two months ago)- and told them that Spencer was at the hospital, about to go into labor. They all replied with "I will be there in ten minutes." And sure enough ten minutes later Hanna and Aria walked in together and not even two minutes later Melissa walked in with two months old Taylor.

"Are you sure you're giving the baby up for adoption, Spence? Our babies would be like best friends, they could grow up together, wouldn't that be cute?" Melissa had been practically on her knees begging for Spencer to keep the baby, every since she found out that Spencer was pregnant. After the fifth month Melissa was finally starting to realize that Spencer was putting the baby up for adoption and no one would convince her otherwise, but Melissa knew this was her last chance at trying.

"There is no way I'm keeping this baby. I still have two years of college yet and the father isn't even around. I can't raise a child like this."

"Okay, I get it," Melissa sighed.

The room was silence for almost three minutes, no one knowing what to say in this situation. The only reason the silence was broke after three minutes was because of Spencer screaming out in pain.

"It's okay," Aria soothed, holding Spencer's hand.

"No it's not. I should have just had an abortion. I've wasted nine months out of college, just to go through hours of pain, for nothing. How could I have been so stupid?" Spencer cursed herself.

"Don't talk like that Spencer."

"Sorry," Spencer apologized, after her contraction went away.

"Are you sure that you don't want to call your mom?" Emily asked. Spencer had planned on keeping the pregnancy from her parents. That was until they unexpectedly used their spare key, that Spencer forgot about to get into Spencer's apartment and find Spencer and her seven month pregnant belly sitting on her couch eating a tub of ice cream. Both her parents were furious at Spencer, but her mother eventually came around. Spencer still didn't want her to have anything to do with her pregnancy though.

"No, I'm sure."

"Well, I would love to be here when you give birth, but it's almost Taylor's bedtime, so I have to go home. I will visit you tomorrow though," Melissa said. She gave Spencer a hug before leaving.

"Well, the devil is finally gone," Hanna said, once Melissa was gone. Hanna still wasn't used to Melissa being nice, after her being so cruel to Spencer, back in their highschool years.

"She really is different now, Hanna. People grow up."

Once, a few hours of pain was up, Spencer was fully dilated, and ready to give birth, the nurse came in.

"Are you ready?" Spencer's nurse asked her.

"Yes," Spencer nodded frantically. All she wanted to do was get this done and over with, so she could go back to her normal life.

"Okay. You can have up to three people with you in the delivery room, while you are giving birth."

"Okay. Emily, Hanna, and Aria, you can all stay here if you like."

"Of course, were going to stay here," Aria said, Hanna and Emily both agreeing.

"Okay, you can start pushing now," The nurse announced, once all the doctors and nurses had everything prepared.

So, Spencer started pushing with everything she had. After forty-five minutes of agonizing torture, Spencer sighed in relief once she finally heard the crying of a baby.

"Just push a little more and the baby's out," the nurse informed her. Once the baby was out, the nurse cleaned it and announced that it was a boy- Spencer chose not to know, seems she wasn't even going to keep it, and luckily the guy her adoption adviser chose to adopt her baby didn't care the about the gender of the baby- and told her the time he was born which was 3:17AM, Tuesday, May, 11th, 2010 and his weight, which was eight pounds, four ounces.

"Would you like to hold him?" the nurse asked.

"No."

"Well, would you like to look at him at least?"

"No," Spencer replied, purely because she was afraid she would fall in-love with him and want to keep him, not because she was cold-hearted.

"Are you sure, Spence? He's cute," Hanna informed her.

"And that's coming from Hanna- the one who thinks kids are unsanitary creatures with cooties," Aria inputted, causing a couple people in the room to chuckle-even Spencer and a couple of nurses.

"I'm sure. I don't want to fall in-love with him and keep him from his adoptive father."

"About that, he should be here in a couple hours, you will probably be sleeping then, so do you want us to bring the baby out to him or do you want to be there?"

"No, that's fine. I might risk seeing the baby if I'm there," Spencer half-joked.

"Okay. Also, would you like to name the baby? The adoptive father said, he wouldn't mind if you did, actually he would prefer if you did.

"Okay. I want his name to be Greyson Sawyer, he can have his adoptive father's last name."

"Okay, cute name."

After all the paper's were signed and her friends had left, Spencer lid down in the hospital bed and finally fell asleep.

A/N: Sigh, so, this wasn't my original idea, but a couple days ago I was casually searching around fanfiction, when I came across a Ezria fanfic with almost the same plot, which was soooooo frustrating because I had everything planned out for that story, but I didn't want to be accused of stealing the story idea from them, so I had to come up with another story idea. I personally don't like this storyline as good but it is still decent.

**Also, I really don't know much about childbirth, only from what I have read and seen on TV, so I'm truly sorry, if some of what I said was false, or didn't make since, etc, just ignore it.

The next chapter which will be three years later, will be posted in a few days!

And if you found this boring, don't worry it gets more interesting, so don't give up here :)

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-Jil/ Dreamcatch3r