Spencer POV

No, no no no no this could not be happening. Toby is literally going to kill me. If I tell him he will leave me. I don't think I could handle that on top of everything else. -A, and school, college, my family, even through all the pain of this last year, I felt like I was in a calm before the storm. Guess the storm caught up to me. Cause now I only hear howling winds.

I called Emily this morning. I was bawling. I told her I needed to meet up at school. She came barging into the bathroom where I was collapsed against the back wall crying.

"Spence, what happened, are you ok?"

"I thought everything was working out well for me, other than the obvious. But, I guess this is the world's way of screwing up my life. Again."

"Spencer."

"Im late," I interrupted. Emily sighed, rested her head back against the wall, and looked up at the ceiling. I began sobbing quietly into my knees.

"How late."

"Two and a half weeks. I counted last night. I've been like this since."

"Have you taken a test?"

"I am. I wanted to tell you first, and have you here with me. I don't know why I haven't called the other girls, but I just need you right now."

"Of course." I opened my book bag and took out a bag from the drug store. I went into the bathroom stall while Emily made sure no one entered the bathroom. I finished the test and waited for the time to be up. I sat there for an extra minute after the time was up not knowing what to do.

"Do you want me to look?" Offered Emily with genuine concern for me in her eyes.

"No its ok. I have to look." I shook the stick a few more times, then looked.

Okay Spence, no matter what happens when the love of your life answers the door, and you tell him, you have to be strong. Oh who am I kidding, he's gonna leave me and my life will be a mess, and. Just then Toby opened the door to his apartment and smiled when he saw it was me.

"Hey, baby, come in and," he stops midway through the sentence. He knows. He knows something is wrong, he can see it in my face.

"What's wrong?" he asks. I stare at his shoes, hands dangling by my sides. Shivering from the cold, I refuse to meet his eyes. His beautiful blue eyes that make me melt. I know I have to say something.

"I…..I….uh...I…"

"Come in, tell me what is going on."

"I can't."

"Why not?" he is staring at me with concern and love. Oh, how am I gonna get over him.

"Because, when I tell you.. w-what I have to say. You may not want m-me in your home." I still refuse to meet his eyes. I start biting my lip, my nervous habit. He nods his head, shifts his weight and reaches out to lead me into the apartment.

"No matter what you tell me, doesn't give me the right to have you standing in the cold. Come in." I step in, he shuts the door then turns around to face me. I feel a sudden burst of confidence.

"I don't know how to say this, so I'm gonna come right out and say it. Knowing that, that you're probably gonna break up with me, cause I guess I screwed up, terribly," I say as the tears start falling.

"Toby, I, I'm pregnant," only now do I look up, Toby shifts his body and breathes out a breath he was holding. He draws me in for a hug. I sob a little harder as I realize that things just might be ok. Even for just a second.

Toby POV

When I answered that door and saw the look on her face I was concerned already. I thought the worst. What, someone died, -A did something, someone hurt her. I was thinking a mile a minute. And when she said I would break up with her after I heard, I thought she cheated on me, or something else, so when she said she was pregnant, I was relieved. I pulled her in for a hug and she started sobbing on my shoulder.

"Spence, what about that makes you think I would break up with you?" I ask as I keep her pulled in close to me tight.

"I have so much going on in my life right now, it's enough for me to worry about. I guess I just think it's my fault, I did something wrong, and screwed up this wonderful life you've started for yourself. Which is why I understand if you choose to not stay with me, and this, this child." She pulled away to look into my eyes. I stare down into hers. She is trembling with fright, and I love her. She thinks I'm gonna leave her to fend for herself, and our child. Oh Spencer.

"I love you. I'm not leaving you, and I'll be with you every step of the way. Okay?" I ask, trying to reassure her. She nods.

"Okay."

I drop Spencer off at her house and head for Emily's. The gravity of the situation begins to sink into me now. I got my girlfriend pregnant. I am the guy that hurt her, not someone else like I was worried about. I pull into Em's driveway and park my truck. I punch the steering wheel and start hyperventilating. I just sit there like that for another twenty minutes. Finally, I calm myself down and walk up to her house.

Emily POV

I open the door and see Toby standing there, looking somewhere in between pissed, and scared. I know why he's here.

"What's up?" I ask letting him in. We cross the house, head upstairs to my room and plop on the bed.

"Sorry if you're busy."

"It's fine Tobes," I say calmly. Then his eyes filled with tears. I never thought I'd see him let his emotion show like this.

"What did you want to talk about?"

"I ruined her life," he mumbles quietly and lets some tears fall. I move closer, trying to comfort him. "If she had never met me, I wouldn't have gotten her into this mess." I couldn't believe how ridiculous that sounds.

"No, Toby, you are the best thing to happen to her. And I mean that. Im not saying it to make you feel better. If you hadn't have come along and been her rock through all the -A drama, and the pressure from her parents, I don't know if she would even be breathing. You have helped her, you have helped her so much." He started crying and leant on me for support. "And she loves you, and you love her, and you guys have been through everything and still made it. Only true love makes it, Toby."

"I hate that I did this to her," he stuttered out, lifting his head and wiping his tears.

"You shouldn't hate this, Toby. Yes its going to be hard, but you are going to make it through this. Just like you have made it through everything else."

"Thanks, Em."