Chapter One

T-bone walked into Ruthie's room, where she was packing her bags for the RV road trip. He kissed her and was hurt when she pushed him away. Ruthie turned and gave him one of her oh so famous pouts!
"I just want to be alone!" she said and returned to packing and slamming stuff around,
throwing her suitcase on the ground she slammed it on T-bone's foot!
"Is it that time of the month again?" He asked grabbing his foot in pain and letting out a cruse.
"Nooooo! It's not!" Ruthie growled..."NOW, GET OUT!"
"You are jus so annoying sometimes, T-bone!" she said after a second, "Now please leave!"
"Ruthie, what the hell is going on? You have been a real witch ever since you told Martin to leave. If you wanted him so bad why did you pick me?" he said taking a seat on her bed and showing her he wasn't leaving.
"I'm a witch?!" she said and slapped him hard on the arm!

"I'll show you witch!" she continuing to hit him, "You're the idiot! You're the problem! It's all your fault!" she replied and then turned and left T-bone alone, running after her he grabbed her made her spin around.
"What did I do now?" Smacking his arm she got away and slammed into the bathroom locking the door behind her. She began to cry!
"Baby, can you please talk to me. I love you so much. Did I do something wrong? I want to fix this." He said knocking on the door.
"Go away you...you...life...Ruiner!" she screamed slamming the toothbrush glass holder at the door. It shattered into a million pieces just like her life she thought and began to sob again!
"You've ruined everything, T-bone!" she yelled through the door between sobs.
He put his hand over his heart. It was breaking with each word and every sob. The only girl he ever really loved was mad at him for no reason. He turned and walked away, and went to his room and slamming the door behind him. He sat down and began to look at all the pictures he had of her.

Ruthie could hear T-bone walking away as she placed her hand on her still flat stomach. What had she done? What was she going to do? Wiping away a tear she stood and unlocked the door and walked down the hall to T-bone's door and stopped. Placing her hand on the knob she slowly turned it and walked in to find T-bone sitting on his bed holding a photo of her.
"Hey," he said jumping up and wiping his eyes. He didn't want her to know that he had been crying.
"T-bone we need to talk." Ruthie said looking down at her feet, "I'm starving! Do you want to go to the Dairy Shack and get a burger?"
"Fine, but I need to know something first!" He said and bit his lower lip.
"What?" she asked looking up.
"Do you love me?" he asked not looking at her face
"T-bone we need to talk and..." Ruthie said stopping in mid-sentence she ran to the bathroom once again.
He ran after her and stood by the bathroom door. Savannah was watching them. She walked right into the bathroom and saw Ruthie throwing up.
"Daddy…Ruthie got owwie!" Savannah yelled out.

After wiping her face with a wet bath cloth, Ruthie turned to T-bone, "Come on I'm starving! Let's go!" Kevin walked up and picked up Savannah and eyed Ruthie and T-bone knowing something wasn't right but not saying anything, he turned and walked away, Savannah pointing and smiling at Ruthie as they walked away.
"Ouch cream daddy!" She said meaning ice cream. T-bone grabbed his keys and coat and left with Ruthie.
"I'll have a double cheeseburger, fries, a chocolate milkshake, ooh and a hot dog with chili!" Ruthie told the clerk.
"Ok let's talk!" Ruthie said taking a seat.
Kevin and Savannah also went out for ice cream. They were a few seats behind Ruthie and T-bone.
"What do you need to talk about" T-bone asked stealing her some of her fries.
"Well...um you see..." Ruthie began, "um T-bone...Do you remember that party? Well I kinda gave you...um...not a root beer...but ah...a…ah" Ruthie said unable to finish.
"We had a few sodas and we went upstairs to watch a movie but we ended up making out, which lead to us having sex. I thought we were going pretend it never happened." He said sinking into the booth. Why did she have to bring it up? He was ashamed he had sex before marriage.
"Well you see...um...I...kinda...kinda...am...just...kinda..."Ruthie Mumbled, "Well um you see...we can't!"
"Why not...we were safe and had a condom!" he said taking a sip of his root beer.
"Um...well...I...kinda...lied!" Ruthie said, "I gave us something other than soda...I just was so sick of being the preachers kid and well...the next day when you couldn't really remember...I kinda fudge the truth...a little!" Ruthie replied looking down.
"YOU WHAT!?" he yelled. Savannah started to cry. She didn't like yelling.
"I...is that Savannah?" Ruthie asked standing up.
"I got ouch cream!" Savannah said blowing the cover by running over to Ruthie.
"What the...KEVIN?!" Ruthie screamed, "You followed us!"
"Come on T-bone, let's go!" she said taking her hotdog she ran over to the car and got in T-bone behind her rolling his eyes.
He didn't drive; he just sat behind the wheel, "How could you do that. I trusted you and you spiked my soda."
"This isn't about that!" she said opening the car door and slamming it shut, she ran into the woman's bathroom and began to cry again. T-bone following her ended up smacked in the head by an old lady and back outside of the restrooms.
"Can you just tell me!" he said from the entrance to the restroom. He was growing impatient with her.
"You young man should be ashamed of yourself!" the old woman said hitting him hard with her purse again, "making that poor girl cry! Now Get!" turning to leave Ruthie alone he smacked into Kevin who was standing right behind him.
"Time out T-bone!" Savannah said giving him a stern look.

After crying until she could cry no more, Ruthie opened the door to find the old woman staring straight at her.
"I got rid of him, Deary" she said giddy like a school girl, "I hit him with my purse!" she smiled.
"Oh god!" Ruthie muttered as she ran out of the bathroom she bumped into T-bone, who bumped into Kevin causing them to land in a pile in front of Savannah.
"We all Fall down!" Savannah sang. After they all got up, Savannah wanted to play again so Kevin put her in the ball pit that they had just put in.
"What the hell is going on?" Kevin stared at them for what seemed like a year.
"Nothing!" they said at the same time.
"I don't think that is nothing!" Kevin eyed them.
"Were in a fight!" Ruthie said, "Can't u see that?!"
"Ruthie, I think I know what's going on!" he grinned feeling smart
"What do you think it is?" Ruthie asked him.
"You passed the finals and can finish early." He could be so stupid at times.
"Yep!" Ruthie replied and smiled, "Now can I talk to my boyfriend!"
"Sure!" Kevin said smiling like he was so so smart.
"Alone!" Ruthie said rolling her eyes.
"Kevin, you need to leave for real this time. Ruthie and I need to talk alone." He said and grabbed Ruthie's hand.

They went for a walk and kept passing little babies. Ruthie began to get tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong? You don't like babies?" he stopped walking and hugged her.
"No...that's not it!" she sobbed into his coat. "I'm...late...T-bone...I'm pregnant...I'm having a baby." Once the words were said T-bone let go of her and processed to pass out
T-bone came to when Ruthie kissed him.
"Are you sure...I mean we had a condom!"
"T-bone...We kind of...didn't..." she began, "I was a little drunk and so were...you!"
"Well, what are we going to do? I won't be able to live at your house anymore and Kevin or Martin will kick my ass…..and….." he rambled on.
"I don't know!" Ruthie said looking up into the starry night sky, "I don't know."
"We can't tell anyone at least not yet. I'll think of something. We better get home before Kevin rats us out." He said and put his arm around her as they walked towards the car.

The next day Ruthie awoke in T-bone's arms. They'd fallen asleep on her bed after talking late into the night. Annie and Eric stood their looking at them frowning.
"You ok Eric?" Annie asked looking at him.
"Yeah, but they won't be in about two seconds!" he yelled.
"Eric, this isn't what it looks like. Ruthie was helping me with some homework and we fall asleep." he crossed his fingers behind his back.
"No it is what it looks like." Ruthie replied. All eyes turned to look at her.
"We stayed up late talking!" Ruthie said, "I might be pregnant!"
"RUTHIE ANNE CAMDEN…" Eric yelled, "After, everything you learned from your Mom and me. You went and did something so stupid. I trusted you Ruthie. Ever since you got back you have been acting like a spoiled brat. Now, I don't even know my daughter anymore. You are not the girl I raised. I want my old Ruthie back, the one who was smart and caring. What did you do with her?" He sat down and put his hand over his wrist making sure his pulse was steady.
"I'm not sure..." Ruthie replied.
"Not sure." Annie said as she began to pace, "you had sex still!"
"I was drunk!" Ruthie replied.
"That's three strikes too many!" Eric said and left the room before he did something rash.
Annie started to cry. Her little girl who she used to be a baby herself was now having a baby of her own. She looked at Ruthie and then turned and walked out of the room. Annie dealt with a lot when it came to Ruthie. However, this was just too much. "I'm going out for the day."
Annie's crying set Ruthie off and she too began to cry. T-bone wrapped his arm around her. "Get off of me!" she said, "This how we got here in the first place."
"I need to...Oh god..." Ruthie said between tears, "I need to...take the test." Getting up Ruthie walked over to her purse and pulled out the brown paper bag containing the purchase they'd made last night, turning to T-bone she asked," You coming?"
With a sober face Ruthie headed into the bathroom, T-bone waited outside pacing back and forth. After a few minutes Ruthie opened the door, she had this look on her face a look he'd dreaded. "It's blue!"
"Isn't blue good" He asked grabbing the book that came with the test out of the trash. His life flashed before his eyes. He wasn't ready for this. He worked at a ticket booth. How could be a father?
"Well...I'm..." Ruthie began and then landed on the floor. He wrapped his arms around her. He held for a while before he spoke.

"Are you going to keep it?" he asked causing her to slap his arms away, she stood.

"Am I? I? Don't you mean we!" she yelled, "I guess I'm alone."
Running up the stairs she slammed the door and fell onto her bed. If she could only go back but she couldn't. Couldn't. Picking up the phone she dialed Martin's cell.

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