Alright, another Jimmy Neutron story. This one was a fun one to write, despite it being a bit more drama-filled than most of my stories

Disclaimer: By the way, I don't own Jimmy Neutron. You guys know that.

She was a wreck. Sitting here, at the clinic with her head buried in her hands in utter shame. On one side, her mother was glaring at her with such intensity it would make a convict wet his pants. On the other side, a woman she had come to see as a second mother, staring at her with nothing but sympathy in her eyes. And of course, sitting directly next to her was a person she'd come to really hate over the past few years, her ex-boyfriend. This was all his fault anyway, and now she has to pay the price because of something he did to her.

"Cindy," he called her name for what had to be the hundredth time. "Please talk to me." The way he pleaded to her it was hard not to give in, but she remained firm in her position and moved further away from him. "Cindy, I'm so-"

"Will you just give it a rest?!" Her mother finally decided to speak. "She obviously wants nothing to do with you right now!"

"Sasha-"

"I don't want to hear it Judith!" Sasha Vortex growled at the other woman. "Your son has really done it this time! After all he's done to my daughter since their childhood, I honestly thought it couldn't get any worse. Apparently I was wrong!"

"Sasha, please," Judy Neutron tried to reason with the angry woman. "I know how you're feeling right now, but being angry won't solve anything. If we're going to get through this, we all have to have a clear head." She turned to look at Cindy. "That goes for you too, Cindy. No matter how angry you are at Jimmy, this isn't entirely his fault."

"How dare you-"

"Mother," Cindy interrupted. "Just stop it, you're making a scene." Sasha looked around, snarling at all the eyes that were glued to the two quarreling families. The raging Vortex was about to start snapping at the meddlers, but before she could open her mouth the doors opened, revealing a man in a doctor's uniform, carrying a clipboard.

"Cynthia Vortex, correct?" he asked the blonde, receiving a slight nod. "Well, come on back and we'll get you set up." As she stood up to follow the doctor, she felt a strong hand grab her wrist and halting her.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Jimmy asked her. "You can still back out, if you want..."

Cindy glared at the pleading boy and ripped her wrist from his grasp angrily. "Of course I'm sure," she spat. "You think I want to actually have your child?"

"Cindy just hear me out," Jimmy pleaded. "I don't want to go through with this."

"Well, it's a good thing I don't actually need your consent huh?"

"But-"

"Leave it alone, Neutron, this is happening. Like it or not."

Jimmy's pleading gaze twisted into one of anger as he slumped his shoulders and hung his head. The blonde scoffed at him and turned on a heel to follow the doctor. She wasn't about to let him sway her better judgment, that's what got her into this mess in the first place. She should have never went to that party, she should have listened to her damn subconscious and stayed at home watching movies with her current boyfriend. But no, she just had to listen to her best friend talk about "old times" and basically guilt her into going.

Cindy suddenly stopped walking all the sudden. What the hell was she thinking? She hadn't seen him in over three years, when they had broken up for good, she hated him and he hated her. That's how it always had been, and that's probably how it always was gonna be. So why did she feel compelled to attend that stupid welcoming party?

It was four months ago when she heard he was coming back. She hadn't seen or heard about him in years, and frankly she was glad for that. She was happier than ever living in a town without him, no more arguing, no more competing, no more going on dangerous (and stupid) missions. She was perfectly fine living her normal life, which was why she busted out laughing in Libby's face when she asked her to attend Jimmy's welcome home party.

"You're joking right?" she laughed. "Like I would be caught dead within ten feet of him."

"It's not a joke," Libby told her. "Everyone's gonna be there. Me, Sheen, Carl, everyone we went to school with. What will it look like if you don't show up?"

"That I hate him," Cindy said. "People already know this. Remember how I said I never wanted to see his face again? I meant that."

"Cindy-"

"Besides, what's Jason gonna think?" the blonde interrupted. "I can't just tell him that I'm going to my ex-boyfriend's welcome home party, he'd be crushed."

"Jason doesn't even know about the history between you two," Libby reminded her. "You know, before Jimmy was your ex, he was your friend. Or did you forget that?"

"No, but I don't want to be his friend either. I'm not kidding Libby, I hate him," the way she said this sounded as if it were common sense. "Now if you don't mind, I'm late for my movie date with my current boyfriend." She made her way to the door, only to be stopped by Libby momentarily.

"I get it, okay?" Libby told her. "I truly understand why you hate him, you're my best friend and the last thing I want is to hurt you."

"Then stop trying to guilt me into going to that damn party," Cindy growled. "If you were really my best friend, you wouldn't even bring this up to me."

"I just want things to be like they were before," Libby groaned. "You, me, and the boys. We used to all be so close, I miss that."

"We're still close, just minus one." Cindy shrugged to which Libby scoffed at. "What?"

"Nothing," she was pouting now, and Cindy hated it when Libby pouted. "Will you at least think about it?"

Cindy was about to protest again, but she sighed in defeat and nodded. "Fine, I'll think about it. But I'm telling you, it's all for nothing. I'm ninety eight percent sure I'm not going. Can I go now?" The darkskinned teenager rolled her eyes and stepped aside, allowing her best friend to walk right out of the door.

As Cindy headed over to her boyfriend's place, she found herself seriously thinking about whether or not to attend the party. Part of her honestly, truly hated the boy, and didn't want to see him anymore for the rest of her life. But there was that small part of her that kinda wouldn't mind seeing him again and patch things up.

Cindy shook her head violently. "Patch things up? What the hell for?" fury began to cross her face. "What he did to me, to us,it was unforgivable." The mere memories of their last encounter infuriated her, and it hurt her. She was a proud woman, everyone knew that, but she could admit when she was hurt and what happened between her and Jimmy brought immense pain to her.

"I guess that's what happens after losing your first love," she mumbled to herself. And boy, did she love him. Not that naive 'oh you're so cute' love, what she felt for him was true, genuine love. He was everything to her, was being the relative term. "Maybe it wouldn't be so bad going to the party. Libby's right, he's a childhood friend...well former friend. I need to let go, and if I'm being honest with myself, I haven't completely let go yet."

"Let go of what?"

Cindy flinched in surprise at the voice in front of her. Somehow, during her thinking, she'd already arrived at her destination, and standing in front of her right now was her current boyfriend of two years.

Jason Fields, a current senior at their school, and very well known. Star quarterback of the football team, good in the classroom, and unanimously voted by all the girls as "the hottest thing to ever walk the halls". Cindy had gained many enemies going out with this Adonis before her, and it was totally worth it.

"Hey Jason," Cindy stood on her toes, planting a kiss on his cheek.

"Hello to yourself," he smirked. "So you were saying something about 'letting go'?"

"It's nothing to concern yourself with, sweetie," Cindy waved him off. "Did you pick the movie I asked?"

"Of course."

"And the snacks?"

"Yup."

"And I see you're dressed in exactly what I asked you to wear," she gave him a good look. "Yup. Perfect as always." She gave him a quick peck and headed into his house.

Indeed, Jason was without a doubt the perfect boyfriend for her. He was exactly what she'd always wanted, tall, handsome, successful, and he always did what she wanted, when she wanted it. He never questioned her, never argued with her demands, and always put her above anything else, even football.

Yes, he's absolutely, positively...boring. Cindy thought, before backtracking herself. Er, I mean perfect. That's what I meant to say, perfect. Because he's perfect...not boring. At all.

As usual, their evening went just like they always did, great and with little troubles at all. They watched the movie cuddled up on the couch while sharing the large bowl of popcorn. Jason would occasionally crack one of his corny jokes about the movie, to which Cindy would pretend to laugh at, because that's what good girlfriends do. Sometime near the end of the movie, Jason noticed that Cindy was hardly paying attention and deep in thought. When she let out a rather obvious sigh, he finally decided to see what was troubling her.

"Are you okay?" he asked gently, he didn't want to upset her. "You've had this look on your face for a while..."

"Eh?" Cindy snapped from her thoughts. "A look? What look?"

"Like something's wrong," the football star shrugged. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I'm just a little worried."

Cindy sighed once more and cuddled closer into his embrace. "Nothing's wrong," she told him. "I was just thinking...you know who Jimmy...er James Neutron is, right?"

"James Neutron?" Jason's eyes lit up. "You mean the James Neutron, the one who used to live here in Retroville? You know that I know who he is!"

Cindy groaned inwardly. She'd almost forgotten about her boyfriend's fascination with Jimmy. Some time after he had moved away, Retroville went through a few changes. It wasn't much of a small town as it used to be, the population grew, more buildings were built and eventually it became a full blown urban environment. As more people came to the city, Jimmy Neutron's popularity began grow. The people told stories of his adventures and how he had saved the town time after time again, and now it was to the point where he'd reach the status as some sort of super hero.

Jason had especially grown a real man crush on him, he talked and talked about how much he wanted to meet him and how great it would have been to actually "see him in action". For this particular reason, Cindy had purposefully decided to leave out the fact that her boyfriend's idol was her first love.

"Weren't you one of his best friends that he took on his adventures?" Jason asked.

Cindy gave a modest shrug. "Well, we kinda hung out every now and then, no big deal." she told him. "Anyway, the reason I brought it up is because of his welcome home party-"

"You were invited?!"

"Yeah, I guess," Cindy gave a confused look, she didn't know this was an exclusive party. Apparently that ego of his might have grown a lot, She thought. "But, I was wondering if it were okay if I went...you know, would you be mad or anything?"

"Mad? Why would I be mad?" Jason laughed. "Hell, I'm jealous!"

"Well..." Cindy tried to figure out a way to say this. "It's just, my ex-boyfriend is gonna be there."

Jason frowned immediately. "Oh, that guy," he spat. "The asshole, as you put it."

"Yeah, the asshole..." Had she really called him that? She tends to exaggerated when she's mad...then again Jimmy deserved it. "Anyway, he's gonna be there and I wanted to make sure you were okay with that." She suddenly started to ask herself, why does she even care? Whether he was okay with it or not, she was going to do what she wanted, it's not like what he said mattered, she's Cindy Vortex after all.

Maybe I just want him to talk me out of going, she thought to herself. Give me a good reason not to go, tell me you'd be jealous.

"You want me to go to protect you?" Jason asked. "If he starts messing with you again, I'll give him a good enough reason not to. I don't want him to ruin your reunion with Jimmy."

No! This isn't what she wanted to hear! She wanted him to say he'd be jealous, that he wouldn't feel comfortable thinking about her seeing an ex, not protect her. She doesn't need protection, she's got a black belt in karate.

"No, I'll be okay," Cindy sighed in resignation. "But thanks anyway, now let's finish the movie." Jason gave her one more concerned look, but complied with her and turned the movie back on while Cindy leaned back into his embrace.

I guess I'm going to that damn party, she thought bitterly.

Stupid Jason, this was his fault too! All he had to do was tell her not to go, she could have just spent her time with him instead of with...

Cindy bit her lip and looked back toward the waiting room. She could see Jimmy looking completely distraught, his hands were covering his face and he was shaking, like he was really angry or about to cry. His mother currently had her arm draped over him in a hug while her own mother rolled her eyes at the silly scene.

What the hell does he have to be so emotional about? She growled angrily. He's not the one that's suffering here, he got what he wanted.

"Ms. Vortex?" the doctor snapped her from her thinking. "Is something wrong?"

"N-No," Cindy shook her head. "I just...well..."

The doctor gave her a sympathetic look and placed a hand on her shoulder. "We don't have to start for another fifteen minutes," he told her. "Why don't you think about it some more? Make sure this is really want you want to do." He then looked over to where Jimmy was sitting. "Is he your boyfriend?"

"No, far from it," Cindy gaze darkened. "Ex-boyfriend..."

"Oh..." the doctor awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. "Then how-"

"It's all his fault!" Cindy suddenly yelled. "If he'd just stayed away, I wouldn't have..."

Cindy hated herself right now. She had just looked in the mirror for what had to be the fifth time in ten minutes. She had to make sure her hair, makeup, and clothing were all perfect. She didn't just want to be pretty, she wanted to turn heads, especially a certain big head she had in mind.

"I must be out of my mind," Cindy grumbled to herself, checking her appearance in the mirror once more. "Going to a party for a guy I hate and at the same time I'm getting pretty for him so he'll notice me. Sometimes I just don't know what goes through my head."

It's not like she wanted him drooling over her or begging for her back or anything, she wanted nothing to do with the boy anymore. All she wanted to do was make him actually see just what he threw away when he decided to humiliate her the way he did. She wanted him to beat himself up for throwing her away like some used up tissue paper. That's all.

"Hey, are you ready yet? At this rate we'll end up missing the whole damn party!" Libby hollered for her down the stairs.

"Hmph, that's an ideal situation," Cindy mumbled, finally tearing herself away from the mirror and hurrying down the steps to meet her best friend. "Let's just get this over with, I won't stay longer than a half hour."

"Yeah whatev...whoa," Libby stared at the girl before her. "Someone wanted to be noticed tonight."

"W-What? Is it too much?" Cindy turned back to the mirror. "Aw, I knew I should have just worn the pink top, this is way too much cleavage showing."

"Maybe so, but we've got no time to change your outfit," Libby grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her around. "Now come on, Sheen and Carl are already there so they're just waiting on us."

Cindy sighed and folded her arms while following her friend to her car. "Libby, be honest with me," she spoke. "Am I making the right decision? Should I really see him again?"

Libby looked at the blonde, giving her a serious look. "Cindy, you're my best friend, and I would never intentionally hurt you unless it was for your own good. This is one of those times. I know he hurt you and I understand why you hate him, remember I hated him for a while with you," she put the keys in the ignition and started the car. "But, I spoke with him and while I don't agree with what he did, I at least understand why he did what he did."

"Great, now my best friend is on his side."

"Girl you better check yourself, I'm not on his side," Libby snapped. "I said I understand why he did it, but it's still just a bullshit excuse. I just think you need to move on, and the first step to that is talking to him. Jimmy already knows that, that's why he specifically asked me to beg you to come here."

That new information caused Cindy to whip her head around in surprise. "Wait a minute, he's the one who asked you to guilt me into coming to his party?"

"Yeah," Libby nodded her head. "He misses you Cindy, he really does. And I can tell he's sorry for what he did-"

"He should be!" Cindy growled. "He humiliated me, Libs! He fed me those crappy lines that I just ate up like an imbecile, then he just threw me in the trash like flavorless chewed gum."

"And he's sorry for that," Libby told her, to which Cindy scoffed at. "Fine, don't believe me. He'll just tell you himself, because we're already here."

Cindy looked out the window at their destination, which just so happened to be at Jimmy's house, more specifically his lab. The blonde took in a deep breath as Libby parked right at the curb and stopped the car.

"Calm down, girl," Libby said. "This is Jimmy, there's nothing to be nervous about."

"I'm not nervous!" Cindy snapped. "I'm just thinking about what I'm going to say to him."

"Hello usually works," Libby joked getting out of the car. "Now come on, we're already late and Sheen's probably already piss drunk by now."

"There's alcohol here?"

"Duh, what's a good party without it?"

I knew this was a terrible idea, Cindy thought. She could hear the loud music from where she was standing, and she knew that this was nothing more than some stupid teenager party that she swore never to attend. She's got better things to do than to be surrounded by a bunch of drunk jocks and cheerleader sluts.

"Let's get this over with," she grumbled to herself walking up to the lab door. "I'll just say hi and I'm out of here. That should be more than enough to-"

"Cindy! You made it!" Cindy looked up to see a pudgy redhead with glasses standing in the doorway with a big smile on his face. "I thought you weren't gonna come."

"It took a while, but I convinced her," Libby explained, peering into the doorway. "So, Carl, where's Sheen?"

"I don't know," Carl shrugged. "I think he's with Nick, he keeps trying to get him to drink a whole lot."

Libby sighed and pushed past Carl to find her boyfriend, Cindy tried to follow, but Carl stepped in front of her and blocked her path. "What is it, Wheezer?"

"Um," Carl looked around a bit, bringing his voice down to a whisper. "Jimmy's down in the lower deck..." And with that, Carl quickly moved out of the way and back into the party.

"Great, even Wheezer is in on it," Cindy rubbed her forehead. "At this point, I guess I don't really have a choice but to go see him." Quickly, Cindy made her way past all the drunkards before finally finding the door she was looking for.

Only few people knew about the lower deck, and by few she meant only five people total, so it was safe to say that Jimmy must be hiding away from his admirers. Which was strange, seeing as his ego was so out of this world, the last thing Cindy ever thought he'd do was hide away from admirers. She made her way down the stairs, finding that the music from the party was getting fainter and fainter, until she was at the bottom.

"Geez, it's pitch black in here," Cindy groaned, feeling around for the light switch. "Neutron! Are you in here?" She eventually came across the switch and flipped it, lighting up the room brightly. When she could finally see, she saw that someone was slumped over in the chair. She hesitantly walked over to the person, and gently placed a hand on their shoulder. "Neutron?"

A loud screeching sound was heard, and suddenly Cindy was tackled onto the ground. The next thing she knows, she's being punched and kicked in the gut by something. She tried to fight back, but whatever it was, it had great reflexes and shoved away each of her attempts to hit it back.

"What in Einstein's name is going on down here?!" a new voice was heard in the room. "Hubert? What are you doing? Get off her!" Cindy felt the attacks begin to stop, but the screeching sound was still feeling the room along with the other voice hollering at it.

"Hey stop that!" the voice said. "Bad monkey! Ow, you bit me! That's it, back into the cage for you!" Cindy looked to see someone holding up what was indeed a monkey kicking and screeching, the person walked over to a large cage, opened it and tossed the monkey in.

"You'll stay there until you fix your attitude, understand?" The monkey did nothing but screech back at him. "Yeah, yeah." He then turned away from it and hurried over to where Cindy was still lying.

"Are you alright?" he asked sincerely. "I'm sorry about that, he usually doesn't act this way." As he spoke to her, Cindy took a good look at him. She recognized his brown hair, his voice, and those blue eyes that she once adored.

"Neutron?" she asked uncertainly.

"Why yes, I am Jimmy Neutron," he smiled at her. "This is my lab after all, only I have access." He then gave her a different look, one that she couldn't really recognize. "But then again, that's never really stopped you from getting in. Has it Cindy?"

The blonde was taken aback by his instant recognition of her. Sure she hadn't changed much over the years, and neither had he, but it didn't even take him a second to know who she was. Had he expected her to be here?

"Yeah well, you should really keep your animals in a cage," Cindy snapped at him. "I thought you were supposed to be down here in the lower deck?"

"I was," Jimmy told her. "But I slipped upstairs to get me a drink, I ended up getting swarmed up there for a while." He glared over at the monkey in the cage. "Sorry about Hubert, like I said, he usually isn't like this."

"Whatever," Cindy moved her bangs out of her eyes. "So why aren't you up there enjoying your party, Mr. Celebrity?"

"Eh, it got boring after a while for me," Jimmy shrugged. "I told Sheen not to throw a party in the first place, but you know how he is. I probably wouldn't have even attended at all, but then Libby told me you'd be here..." He then fell silent all the sudden.

"Well, I'm here," Cindy folded her arms over her chest. "Only because Libby practically forced me here."

"What, you didn't want to see me?"

Cindy shot the boy a dark, serious glare. "No," she spat. "Did you forget? I said I never wanted to see you again."

Jimmy's playful smirk twisted into a sad frown, as his eyes refused to look at hers directly. He rubbed the back of his neck, trying to alleviate the tension in the air with a light laugh. "No," he told her. "I didn't forget that, but that's why I wanted you here. To apologize..."

"A little late for that isn't it?"

"Wait, please," Jimmy held up his hands. "There's more to it than just that, I want to also explain myself to you."

"There isn't much to explain is there?" Cindy took a step forward. "You decided that I wasn't good enough for you, so you slept with some other chick."

"I didn't sleep with her!"

"Well you were about to!" Cindy raised her voice along with is. "If I hadn't walked in on you two-"

"Cindy, please!" Jimmy interrupted. "At least allow me to explain why it happened."

Cindy clenched her fist and took in a breath, trying to calm the rising anger within her. "What difference would it make?" she asked smoothly. "It doesn't matter how it happened, regardless of what you tell me, you still did what you did."

"It matters to me," he told her. "And it matters to you as well, I know you Cindy."

Cindy glared at him, clenching her fists once more. This wasn't good for her psyche, she'd been so calm and collected these past few years, but not five minutes with this guy and she's already about to blow her top.

"Fine," she said through clenched teeth. "You have three minutes, then I'm out of here."

Jimmy broke out into a bright smile, one that made Cindy's chest throb, and quickly took a seat on the couch, patting the side next to him. The blonde rolled her eyes and plopped down next to him, as far away as she could be, not breaking eye contact with him.

"First, I want to tell you how deeply sorry I am," Jimmy told her sincerely. "I understand what I did was wrong-"

"That's an understatement."

"Okay, it was horrible," Jimmy sighed. "And I felt horrible after. That look in your eyes, it made me feel like dirt. When you took off, I didn't even try to chase after you, to tell you I was sorry. I don't know why I didn't move, or make an excuse, maybe I knew you wouldn't listen to any of it."

"I wouldn't have," Cindy informed him. "I might have punched you in the face actually."

"Figures," Jimmy chuckled, before his face fell. "I'm so sorry Cindy, for being such a coward. For hurting you the way I did, you were the best thing that ever happened to me, I don't know if you felt the same but I can say with the utmost confidence that I love you."

Cindy once again felt her chest tighten, he didn't say that in the past tense. She needed to get control over her emotions quickly, she can't be falling for his crappy lines. She did that once already, when she fell in love with him all those years ago.

"Jimmy," she said, hiding the nervousness in her voice. "I did feel the same, when we were together. I was crazy about you, not a day went by that I didn't think about you. I even found myself thinking that I'd be Mrs. Neutron someday." Her glare then returned. "But then you did something I thought you'd never do, you betrayed me and humiliated me. At first, I thought it was something I did. But when I think back, I realize that I was good to you. I treated you as well as a girl could treat the one she loved. Sure we had our spats every now and then, that's our nature, but we always made up, very well I might add." She shut her eyes, blinking away the tears threatening to fall down her face. "Yeah, you're right, I do want to know why you did it."

Jimmy nodded his head. "As you know," he began. "We've known each other for more than ten years. We got really close at a young age, we started dating each other at a young age." He then looked down at his hands, that he brought together. "We also had our...first time at a young age."

"Yeah," Cindy nodded. "We where thirteen when we did it."

"And at the time, I thought it was right," Jimmy continued. "But, it turned out it wasn't. We weren't ready, I wasn't ready, to cross that line. I got scared."

"Well I was scared too," Cindy spoke. "You're right, we weren't ready, but it happened and we had to deal with it! That's still no excuse to go and find the next girl that will spread her legs for you!"

"I know," Jimmy put his hands in her face. "And I'm sorry, I don't know how many times I can say that over. I don't know what came over me, we were alone and she just...came on to me. I told her I was dating you, but she didn't care."

"And apparently, neither did you."

"It was a momentary lapse of judgment."

"It was you kissing another girl!" Cindy didn't care about keeping her anger in check at this point, she was going to let him have it like she should have three years ago. "You're just making some crappy excuse so I'll forgive you! You've always been this way Neutron, nothing's ever your fault is it?" Her bottom lip began to tremble, so she bit down on it as hard as she could, but that didn't stop the tears from falling down her face.

"I loved you," she sobbed. "If you thought we were moving too fast, if you needed your space I would have gave it to you. We could have taken a break, and picked back up when you were ready, I wouldn't have minded."

"Cindy..."

"No, I'm done," she stood up quickly. "It's over between us, forever. I hate you now, and I only came here for some closure, and I got what I needed. Goodbye Jimmy." She began to make her way toward the stairs.

"Is that all you came for? I doubt it."

Cindy stopped in her tracks. "What?"

"You didn't come here for closure," Jimmy told her. "I know you a lot better than that, and I know when you're telling me a lie." He turned to look at her, with a determined look on his face. "Libby told me how 'happy' you were with your doormat boyfriend."

"How dare you? Jason is ten times the man you ever could be."

"Is that so?" Jimmy crossed his arms. "Then why did you come here, instead of spending time with your boyfriend?"

"I already told you."

"You told me a lie."

"You big headed, smug, cheeky bastard," Cindy stomped her way toward him. "You don't have the right to talk to me that way."

"No? I thought I was the only one who could talk to you this way," Jimmy smirked. "All I want is for you to tell me the truth."

"The truth is, I'm over you and I have a boyfriend."

"And?"

"And I hate you and this is the last time we'll ever see each other." She turned to leave, but again was stopped by Jimmy, this time by him wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her close to him. Cindy instantly froze, but found herself relaxing into his hug, placing her hand on his. "Jimmy..."

"Please, don't let it end this way," Jimmy begged her, his face buried into her hair. "Don't let this end at all, I love you."

Again, Cindy's chest tightened as she felt her heart begin to race faster. This is what she feared might happen, this is why she didn't want to see him again. She was scared that she might actually fall in love with him again...or that she never truly stopped.

"You have to let me go," she spoke softly. "You can't do this to me...not now..."

"Don't say you don't still love me."

Cindy turned her head to face him, bringing her hand to his cheek. "I'll never say that," she turned her body to fully face his as he brought her closer. Slowly, he began to lean in close to her, and Cindy found herself unable to do anything other than reciprocate his actions. "Jimmy...we can't..." Her resolve was weak and halfhearted, and it conflicted with her actions.

Jimmy didn't say anything, he just cupped her face and brought her lips to his. The moment they touched, he felt a spark light inside of his stomach, something he hadn't felt in years. Cindy brought her arms around his neck, deepening their kiss. This wasn't supposed to happen, she was supposed to be over him, she had Jason now. But as their lips moved in sync, and their tongues clashed with one another, Cindy couldn't help but feel herself slip into what felt like an eternal bliss. She didn't care about anything; not her reputation, not Jason, not the skank that broke the two of them apart. All she cared about was kissing the man she could never truly stop loving.

"Cindy, I-"

"Shut up," the blonde ordered, almost angrily. "Don't say a word. Did you lock the door?"

"Yes."

"Good," she shoved him onto the couch and climbed on his lap. "I would hate to be interrupted right now."

As the two teens continued their kissing, Hubert the monkey found himself unable to look away from the humans. Once the kissing intensified, and clothes began to fall to the ground, the monkey realized that this wasn't really something he should be watching, so it brought his hands over his eyes.

Cindy shook her head at the memory from months ago. How could she have let it escalate to that point? He basically seduced her with that stupid charm of his, and she just went along with it like some horny school girl. And now, she was stuck in a situation she thought she'd never be in.

"And he has the audacity to actually be angry at me?" she grumbled. "He got what he wanted."

"Um, I don't mean to interrupt you, Ms. Vortex, but we're about ready now," the doctor said. "I'll ask you one more time, is this what you really want?"

"I..." Cindy tried to say 'yes', but it wouldn't come out. "I...well wouldn't you do this if you were in my situation?"

"Well, I'm neither a female nor a teenager, so I won't try to pretend as if I know what you're going through," the doctor said. "However, I will say that judging by your little rant on your ex, he hasn't gotten what he wanted."

"He's a sex addict, I gave that to him. Ergo, he got what he wanted."

"I don't think it was sex he was after," the doctor told her. "It's pretty obvious that he wants you, Ms. Vortex."

"That's a lie," Cindy grumbled. "He had me once, and he went to another girl."

"Well, you said yourself that he was confused and scared," the doctor looked back over to where Jimmy was sitting. "I've seen many teenage couples come through here, day after day, and I can tell you Ms. Vortex, I've never seen a guy this emotional before. He's truly hurt that you want to do this."

Cindy looked back to Jimmy, and started to shake her head slightly. "Why?"

"Because, he knows you," the doctor smiled. "And he knows that this isn't what you want, Ms. Vortex. He's hurting, because he knows that you're hurting."

The blonde nodded her head, looking at the doctor. She knew this was probably a mistake, and her judgment was being clouded by her confusing feelings for Jimmy, but this wasn't what she wanted to do. And she knew it was time for her to hold herself accountable for what had transpired. She made the choice to go see Jimmy, she made the choice to sleep with him, and now she was going to make the choice to take responsibility.

"Doctor," she spoke adamantly for the first time today. "I'm keeping my baby."

A/N: So yet another project, I'm honestly setting myself up for failure with another dang story. Anyway, I was thinking this could just be a stand-alone one-shot, but the possibilities of a multi-chapter story are pretty inciting. What do you guys think? One-shot or story? Let me know. Until next time.

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