"Fuck." Natalie thought, peering at the white stick in her hand. Fuck and fuck. Pregnant? Natalie hadn't thought about being a Mom one day since she was a little girl, she had other things on her mind. But she especially had not planned on becoming a Mom at 22. "I get more and more like her everyday." She thought, throwing the positive pregnancy test violently into the trashcan. Natalie didn't really know how she felt about it, but one thing was for sure. "I can't get rid of it." She crossed her arms and pondered for a moment when the apartment doorknob turned and Henry walked in, back from his job as the assistant entertainment director of a club.

They lived in New York City now, Henry had gone to NYU, and Natalie had gone to Yale for 2 semeseters, but couldn't take being so far away from him so she transferred to Columbia. They had both graduated just a few months ago. Henry worked at the club, and had just finished a summer internship at Sh-K Boom Records, and Natalie had miraculously and surprisingly gotten a job playing the piano for Hair on Broadway. Natalie had no clue how things had ended up working out so well, but she had to admit that she was thankful they did. Either they visited for a weekend or Dan came down for the day about once a month, and Natalie talked on the phone with him regularly. Diana called about once a month, and was still living with her parents, but she was doing better. And when she told Natalie and Dan that, they actually believed her this time. Her and Dan saw each other on a regular basis and she would probably move back in in a few months, maybe things could finally be slightly normal. "Not with this baby." Natalie told herself.

"Hey." Henry said, slipping off his jacket and walking over to Natalie, who smiled at him. He kissed her cheek, "How was your day?" He asked. "Boring." She replied, she didn't have to go to the theater until 7:30 each night, and usually Henry was auditioning acts during the day so they got this few hour layover, and nights together. Henry laughed. "You?" She asked. "More heavy metal kids, but Gary hirded 'em anyway. " He replied, Gary was the director, and his boss. He plopping down on the couch, as she sat next to him. "Let me guess, his taste in music...." Nat began "What taste?!" Henry yelled, smiling. Natalie laughed and leaned on his shoulder. "You okay?" He asked. Natalie swallowed, and took a deep breath "Now or never." RING! They both turned towards the phone in the kitchen and Henry got up to go get it. "Hello? Hey Mr. Goodman, pretty good, how about you? Oh yeah? Yeah sure, she's right here..." Natalie got up and headed over. Henry laughed at something her Dad said and Natalie walked over quicker, he's probably telling some embarassing story. "Ha, ok I will thanks. You too Mr. G, here she is..." "Hey Dad." Natalie said.

Hey sweetie! How are you?

"Pretty good, how about you?"

EXCELLENT! I have some great news, but first tell me how's the show going?

"It's fine Dad, it's good, it's actually kind of fun, but what's the news?"

Your Mom's moving back in! I know you might not be as happy as me, with everything but...

"No no Dad. That's really great. I am happy, maybe she's finally better. She really seems like it on the phone, I mean I haven't seen her in like a year since Aunt Jackie's wedding, and she seemed okay. I think she's really better, I'm happy, I am."

Oh that's good Nat, I'm glad. I think she's better too, I've missed her so much.

"Me too." Natalie smiled sadly.

I was thinking, if you and Henry could find the time in like 3 weeks, maybe you guys could come up for the weekend. I think she'd really like that, she hasn't seen you two in forever and she keeps asking about you guys.

"Yeah, I think we can come."

Great Nat, thanks so much honey, for being so strong through all of this. It takes a really strong person to be able to forgive her after everything, I'm proud of you.

"Well you've forgiven her too, so you're pretty tough too."

Dan sighed.

Yeah, we both are, so is Henry, so is Mom. We're a pretty muscle-y bunch, eh?

Dan began cracking up at himself. "Dad, seriously stop."

Oh Nat, ok then I'll see you guys in a few weeks, take care of yourselves, give Henry my best.

"Okay, Love you Dad."

Love you too Natalie.

And they both hung up. "My Mom's coming back." Natalie said quietly, letting it sink in. "Wow." She added.

"Well that's good, right?" Henry said cautiously. "You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah it is good I guess, maybe this is finally over, you know? The battle, maybe she's finally won. Anyway, Dad wants a reunion, so he said if we can get off work in like 3 weeks..."

"Sure, we can head up there, it'll be good to see your Mom after all this time. She used to be really funny, you know even when she wasn't caught up in the heat of her meds, or uh.."

"Gabe." Natalie finished, feeling his hesitance towards saying it. "Yeah she was kind funny."

"She loves you."

"I know."

"I love you." Henry said , touching her cheek and kissing her.

"I love you too." Natalie whispered, leaning her head against his chest, and sniffing in his cologne. "Henry." She said in a more serious tone, leaning away, she had to tell him, it's now or never. He looked at her kindly, waiting for her to talk. "Um, what do you want for dinner?" She spat out quickly, invisibly smacking herslef on the forehead.

Uh, I dunno, whatever."

"Very articulate, are we?" She teased. He stuck his tongue out at her and wrapped her in a bear hug from behind, making her giggle as the evening continued on......

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