First this story is dedicated to my dearest friend Christlove88 who inspired this idea(because I get the randomest of ideas) and helped me with it. I know nothing of R5 and had only seen Ross on Austin and Ally but Christlove88 is a fan and through talking with her the idea was born, this could never have happened without her. She gave me all the info I needed for Riker or R5 because I knew nothing.
Legal: I own nothing but the idea
Lots of important things to know before reading so read all of them!
*Adam did not die and was never in a car crash he and Becky broke up during the summer after a fight
*Clare did get back together with Eli and had cancer over the summer
*Drew and Bianca broke up and he dated Zoe
*Drew and Zoe broke up but she was never raped and therefor Luke is not in jail
*Clare and Eli broke up and he did cheat on her
*Clare and Drew did have sex
*After winter break while Clare wasn't speaking to Drew he began spending time with Becky and they began dating
*Adam felt betrayed by Drew and Becky's relationship and after a fight with them both he moved into Jake's old room in Clare's house
*Magic bands are a new form of room key at Disneyworld FYI
*Some people might be a little ooc
*All the stuff in italics is Clare's flashback
Ch.1 Now That I Found Us
(CLARE)
"Why are you looking at a website about pregnancy?" Drew questions coming into the student council office. I look at the clock on my laptop, I've been doing this for over an hour, I didn't realize how much time had passed. I came to school early so I could research because I couldn't do this from home, no one else knew and my mom would flip. "You're not in parenting class," Drew comments leaning on the table to look at the bulletin board.
"I'm looking at sights on pregnancy because I'm pregnant," I inform Drew. I've been holding this secret for two days people will find out at some point.
Drew slips, no longer leaning on the table he falls to the floor, "You're what?"
"Pregnant, I'm pregnant as in with child, got a bun in the oven, knocked up, in the family w…"
"Yeah I got it," Drew cutes me off.
I close my laptop and walk out to the hallway.
Drew and I were barely speaking before this. After his apology we came to a tenuous friendship but we still avoided each other and could hardly stand to be in the same room. We got through student council mainly because other people were around, the same with class. When he and Becky started spending a lot of time together we pretty much stopped speaking again, it's not that I wasn't over Drew because I was, now although I still carried some of the pain from his heartbreak. However after what Becky and Adam shared I didn't think Drew should be getting so close to Becky or that they should be spending so much time together especially when it so obviously bothered Adam. I wasn't as angry as Adam was though, he felt very betrayed by two people very close to him, and he had every right to feel betrayed he had been. He had a huge fight with Drew, then another with Becky and then one with both of them. He slept here that night and moved in the next day. He took over Jake's old room, my mom was okay with it and Audra and Omar understood. Besides it's not like he was dropping out of school to get a job and moving into a loft. He officially moved in last week and Drew and Becky became official on Friday night, a fact I found out Saturday morning when I returned from my interview at Columbia.
I had spent a great night with Eli and was beginning to think that we could make it work if we were in the same city. I admit it did hurt a little to see Drew with Becky but I was more worried about Adam. And then I got the call that I was pregnant! I'd hit my head in New York which had sent me to the emergency room, they took a blood test as a matter of procedure and that's how I found out I'm pregnant. I just about had a heart attack right there on the sidewalk.
"Wait," Drew calls following me out to the hallway and grabbing my arm, "shouldn't we talk about this? I mean figure out what we're going to do, talk about our options?"
"Relax Drew you're not the dad," I respond. I try to walk away but he keeps ahold of my arm gripping tightly.
"What do you mean I'm not the dad?"
"Exactly what part of that wasn't clear? You aren't the dad Drew so it's not your problem you're off the hook," I reply.
"How can I not be the dad?"
"Well I had sex with another guy over winter break and it's his. Can I have my arm back now?" I request.
Drew looks at me, his eyebrows are pinched together and he looks like he doesn't believe me. He's also still holding onto my arm but Dallas comes around the corner and cocks an eyebrow at us.
"What's going on?" Dallas asks.
"Nothing," Drew answers letting go of my arm and I walk down the hall to my locker.
"You left early this morning," Adam comments, he's standing at his locker and getting out his books.
"Yeah I couldn't sleep," I respond which is true I really couldn't sleep I'm just not saying why.
"You could've woken me up," Adam says.
"It's okay I wanted time to think, time alone," I say opening my locker.
"About Eli?"
"No," I shake my head.
"About my backstabbing brother and my treacherous ex-girlfriend?"
"No just thinking," I respond getting out my book for my homeroom class.
"You know I'm here when you're ready to talk," Adam tells me.
"I know," I smile and kiss his cheek.
We sit under the steps and hang out until the bell but we're both reluctant to go to class, Adam has class with Becky this period and I have class with Drew. He'll have Jenna as a buffer but I'll only have Dallas and Luke.
"I'll see you in chemistry," I wave to Adam and walk to my technological design in the 21st century class.
Drew and Dallas are already at their desks and they look at me, actually Drew is looking at me with an expression I can't place and Dallas is looking between us confused. At least Drew didn't tell him anything yet but people will find out soon, I wish I knew what I was going to do, about the baby not people finding out. I turn away and spend the rest of class doing everything I can to ignore them. I dart out of class as soon as the bell rings and walk to chemistry; I'm the first one here and sit at my desk. Adam and Jenna come in a minute later, then Alli and Connor enter. This is pretty much how the day goes; Adam and I eat lunch in the caf with Jenna and Connor. After lunch I have a spare and so does Drew but I manage to avoid him by going to the library. I have studies in literature with Adam last period and he walks me to the student council office.
"I'll do homework in the other room, don't be afraid to leave early nothing in the bylaws says you and Drew have to be at student council," Adam says walking into the back room to do his homework.
I smile at him and sit at the conference table, Alli and Jenna are the next ones in, followed by Connor and then Drew and Dallas. Drew and I sit at opposite ends of the table and he calls the meeting to order. He also keeps looking at me and is spacing out for a good portion of the meeting. He ends the meeting early and people begin gathering their things, Jenna and Connor leave first and Adam comes into the room helping me get my stuff.
"I don't believe you," Drew says and we all look at him.
"You can believe anything you want but it's not you," I tell him grabbing my backpack and trying to walk to the door but Drew is in our way.
"How can it not be me?" He questions and everyone is looking at us confused.
"I had sex with someone else Drew, after I had sex with you and over winter break. I'm pregnant with his baby not yours," I inform him and feel the tension in the room go up as everyone finds out that I'm pregnant.
"Then who is the dad?" Drew questions and I can't tell if his tone is angry or jealous, maybe a little of both.
"It's none of your business, let's go home Adam," I insist grabbing my best friend's hand and walking out with him.
We get out to the truck that Jake left with me and I drive us home in silence. We're on our own for dinner tonight since Mom and Glen always have dinner with friends on Mondays. I turn on the oven to heat the casserole Mom left and sit at the table to start on my homework.
"I'm not telling you who the dad is," I say to Adam when he sits at the table.
"I didn't ask," he responds.
"Good because I'm not telling you who it is, it's not your brother and it's not Eli and that's all I'm going to say," I comment.
"I didn't ask Clare and I won't but you do deserve to be with someone good. Have you at least told the dad?" Adam inquires.
"I don't even know if I'm keeping the baby Adam, I'm only 18 and I want to go to Columbia next year."
"He deserves to know he's going to be a dad even if you don't keep it, what if he and his family want to take the baby? I know you won't abort but he does need to know. You know I'll support you and be here for you no matter what you decide but you should have his support too," Adam advises.
"I'll call him now; can you put the casserole in the oven when it beeps?"
"Yeah," he nods and I go upstairs taking my phone.
Sitting on my bed I scroll through the contacts on my phone and find his number, he doesn't answer so I leave a message. I hang up and worry what his reaction will be. Lying back on my bed I think about the first time we met.
"You sure you won't join us tonight Clare?" Dad asks.
I was spending Christmas with him, my stepmom and her thirteen year old stepdaughter at Disneyworld. They'd gotten us a suite at the Contemporary and Dad thought a place like Disneyworld would make my first time meeting my stepmom and stepsister easier. I suppose it did but I was miserable that first day because the night before Drew had crushed my heart. Only three hours after Drew told me he wasn't going to be a rebound and left me without talking to me. After breaking up with Eli and telling Eli that Drew was everything to me Drew suddenly decides he's a hookup and a rebound and just leaves me. So instead of coming to Disneyworld with hopes of a new love I was coming with a broken heart.
I went on the rides and tried to smile but all I could think about was Drew breaking my heart. The way he had done it had me questioning if I'd done the right thing with Eli. So after dinner I told my dad I was tired and wanted to lay down in the room, they were going to Disney Quest but I just didn't feel up to it.
"Yeah it's been a long few days I just need to lie down for a while," I tell Dad.
He nods and leaves the room; I wait a few minutes and then grab the ice bucket. I want to take a long bubble bath in the Jacuzzi tub, or just watch movies in the room and eat a lot of chocolate. Either way I need ice to have lots of cold of water and that means heading to the ice machine. I grab my key and leave the room walking to the ice machine, I get a few yards down the hall when I see a guy in a cowboy hat and I burst into tears. I know entirely pathetic but I can't help it the cowboy hat makes me think of Drew.
"Are you okay?" Another guy asks with a sweet voice and I nod but I'm still thinking of Drew and start crying harder. "You shouldn't be crying in the hall, why don't you come sit in my room," he says in a kind way and helps me to stand.
If I were thinking clearly I probably wouldn't go with some guy I don't know into his hotel room. But I'm not thinking clearly I'm just sobbing hysterically. We go in and he directs me to the bed, I sit down and continue to sob, he sits at the end of the bed. I hear him pick up a guitar and begin strumming it. He's not really playing a song but the melody is soothing and I stop crying to look at the kind stranger. I wipe my tears and the guy smiles at me; he has a charming smile, a sweet cherub face and captivating brown eyes.
"I'm Riker and I hate to see beautiful girls crying with such heartbreak," he says and I smile.
"Hard not to when your heart is broken, I'm Clare and thanks for getting me out of the hallway," I tell him.
"Sorry you have a broken heart, you want to talk about it?" He asks with that kind smile and if I wasn't feeling my heartbreak so much I think I'd melt for him.
"Not really," I reply sniffling in some more tears.
"Then why I don't I sing to you," he offers and I give him a small smile.
He sings me Misery by The Beatles which is appropriate, he sings two other songs after that, songs I've never heard but I've stopped crying when he's done. In fact I'm not much thinking of Drew anymore either.
"You're a very good singer and good on the guitar too. My friend Adam played bass in a band last year," I compliment.
"Really I sing and play bass in a band with two of my brothers and my sister and one of our best friends," he tells me and I smile picturing him having a Partridge Family type garage band. "So are you ready to talk yet? I'm a very good listener, I have four younger siblings I have to be," he says and I laugh a little.
I suppose I should talk to someone and Riker is very sweet so I start talking, beginning with my crumbling relationship with Eli last semester. Which of course requires some background on me and Eli and then I have to give some background on Drew and I since I'll be getting to Drew in a moment, of course there is a lot less background on Drew on and I. Riker listens intently while I talk, setting down the guitar and moving so that he now sits next to me on the bed. He never interrupts just lets me pour my heart out. When I reach the conclusion of Drew breaking my heart after I slept with him I start crying again and Riker puts his arm around me.
This was the moment when my life would change forever, whether overcome by emotion or feeling a little daring, or just going on impulse maybe, I kiss him. Not just a soft, grateful peck on the cheek but a deep and passionate desiring kiss on the lips. He's not even shocked, not that I could tell anyway, in fact he kisses me back and his lips part. When his tongue slides over my bottom lip I open my mouth and his tongue caresses mine, soft and tender sending jolts of electricity and wanting all through my body. Riker cups my face and brushes his fingers into my short hair. I lie down and we continue kissing, I unbutton his shirt and well we just never stopped, we made love on his bed and it was so passionate and fevered and tender I never wanted it to stop. We didn't even rush to dress afterward, he holds me in his arms and I lie on his chest.
"So where do you live?" He inquires and I giggle.
"Toronto and you?"
"Los Angeles," he says.
"So I guess we couldn't date," I remark in a rather disappointed tone.
"What makes you say that?" He inquires.
"Eli lives in New York and we couldn't do long distance, you live in L.A. that's even farther. You did help to mend my broken heart though, I'm not even thinking of what's his name," I reply getting up to get dressed again.
"I travel a lot I could come to Toronto or you could meet me somewhere, just think about it, I really like you Clare, I feel something between us. Don't doubt we can make this work just because we don't live close," he says almost pleadingly.
"I really like you too, and despite what just happened I don't just have sex with guys on a whim but I felt something with us. I just don't see how it can work when you're so far away," I reply finding my clothing around the room.
"I've never done anything like that either but I felt what you did. Just think about it please," he implores picking up his guitar, while still naked, and begins singing again in a slow sweet tempo. "You knock me off of my feet, can hardly breathe when you're around me I feel the heat. You steam up the mirrors and make me shift gears sometimes I can't think all that clear. I'm losing sleep, I'm counting sheep like one two three let's go. You hypnotize me you mesmerize me, way-o way-o, way over my head and I don't know what to do 'cause I can't get enough of you. See girl you're like an equation and I'm not good at math you're very confusing, my hearts in a trap. I don't see your signs or see through the lines, and I just can't understand your mind."
He sings while I dress and I smile and bite my lip, I have to admit being wooed by song is very flattering.
"That's a cute song," I smile.
"Thanks I wrote it with my brother Rocky, it's called "Can't Get Enough of You" we wrote it a few years ago but it seemed appropriate for the moment," he tells me and I bite my lip and blush.
"Riker and Rocky, your parents like R names," I comment looking for my room key.
"You have no idea, my other brothers are Ross & Ryland and my sister is Rydel," he says and I giggle at all the R names. I find my magic band and putting it on my wrist and Riker sets down the guitar getting off the bed. "Think about us please, we're leaving Christmas Eve but we'll be here tomorrow night. Here, take mine so you ca get back in my room, any time you wish, I'll get another one. Please think about us I promise you we can make it work," Riker pleads handing me his magic band and giving me an incredibly rapturously euphoric and passionate kiss.
We exchange numbers and I leave the room with a smile on my face and my heart fluttering. I make it back to my room before my father, stepmother Elaine and stepsister Caroline; I hide the room key Riker gave me and take a shower so I don't smell like sex when my family gets back. Best of all I don't think about Drew once. Dad says I seem in a better mood when they get back and I say I am. I spend the whole night dreaming of Riker and the whole next morning thinking about him. I also spend the whole morning smiling and feeling like I'm walking on air. At least until we go to the Magic Kingdom for lunch and Caroline lets out an ear piercing scream!
"EEEEEEEEEEE Mom R5 is here and giving a concert tonight! We have to go please please please please please please please!" She squeals running over to a poster and I stop breathing.
Riker is on the poster! When he said he was in a band I thought he meant something like Whisper Hug not an actual band band! Not that I listen to pop music so even had he told me he was in R5 I wouldn't know what that was. The boy I slept with last night, the boy I am very much considering giving my heart to is in a band, a famous one it appears and my stepsister seems to be a fan.
"I don't know Caroline, it's a free concert and we couldn't even get tickets to their show last year. We'd have to start camping out right now and give up the rest of the day," Elaine tells her daughter.
"I don't care; I'll hang out and save our spot. Please please please please please please I have to see Ross he is so hot! I really want to see this concert I'll do anything," Caroline begs again.
"Well I suppose we could take turns camping out and going on rides, if it's alright with you Clare?" Dad suggests.
"Huh? Oh uh yeah fine," I mumble. I'm still dealing with the shock that the boy I had sex with last night and felt that connection with is famous. Apparently it does pay to pay attention to pop culture.
Caroline and her mom find spots while Dad and I go on Pirates of the Caribbean, then Caroline and I go on Haunted Mansion and I take the opportunity to ask her about R5. I find out that she is obsessed with Ross, he's the second youngest of the siblings and stars on a Disney Channel television show called Austin and Ally but as I've never watched Disney Channel I have no idea what that is. Among all the Ross facts I do find out that Riker is 23! He's not only famous he's 5 years older than me, this will never work.
We are near the front for the concert that night, my stepsister is screaming her head off and my heart is pounding. As soon as I see Riker though my stomach fills with butterflies and I bite my lip. He sees me too, smiling and giving me a wink. A bunch of girls around me scream, probably thinking he's winking at them but I know it was for me. I smile, feel my cheeks blush and my stomach do flip flops, my skin tingles as the sense memory of his arms around me comes back. Ross is in the center and starts singing, all the girls in the audience begin screaming but it's not a song I've ever heard. After a couple of fast songs they switch to a ballad, which I discern to be called "Wanna Be Your Everything" by all the girls screaming that out when the music starts. Riker walks at the edge of the stage, touching girls hands, and then he kisses a girl's hand.I feel a pang of jealousy, it's stupid and petty I realize but we shared something special last night and now he's flirting with every girl in the audience. I start to doubt everything about last night and then they start singing "Can't Get Enough of You" the song Riker sang part of to me last night as I was getting dressed. They're singing it at a faster tempo than Riker sang last night but it's the same song.
I can't take anymore, I need to get out of here and be alone and I need to think. I tell my dad it's too loud and I'm going to explore on my own and I'll see them in the morning. He didn't give me a curfew on this trip but I did just turn eighteen a few days ago. I go back to the hotel and to Riker's room so I can talk to him as soon as he's back, I spend the next three hours pacing his room and restlessly watching TV. I even see an episode of Austin and Ally, it's cute has a couple catchy songs, the characters are a little goofy but it's a Disney show for young teens.
I finally hear the door open while I'm sitting on Riker's bed practicing what I'm going to say to him for the hundredth time. I get off the bed and Riker sees me, he smiles and sets his stuff down.
"You came," he smiles walking toward me but I step away.
"Only to tell you that this won't work," I reply setting his magic band on the nightstand.
"If you're worried about long distance I already told you that I'd ma…"
"Long distance is a part of it but not all of it. Riker you're 23, and you're in a band, I mean a real world famous band that tours and has fans, my stepsister among them, not a garage band like I thought when you told me. I had my doubts before just with long distance but I saw you on stage tonight. You guys are good, really good and you deserve your fame but you were also flirting with every girl in the audience and I don't want to compete with that. I don't want to be worried that you're bringing some other groupie back to your room."
"Clare I wouldn't, I never have before and I wouldn't ever," he asserts.
"I can't trust that, I don't even know you and you brought me into your room last night without knowing who I was. We had sex without even knowing each other how can I trust that you won't do it again as you're touring the world? I thought I was starting to know you last night but I don't know anything about you."
"I saw you crying in the hall I didn't bring you in with the intention of making love to you it just happened. I don't regret it because it was amazing and I would never just bring a groupie or a fan into my room for anything. I love our fans, we wouldn't be where we are now without our fans but I don't want to be with them I want you Clare," Riker entreats with pleading eyes.
"I wish we could and if you were just a boy then maybe but you're not just a boy, you're not even a boy you're 23 and I only turned 18 a few days ago. You live in L.A. and I live in Toronto, you're in a world famous band that tours and I'm trying to get through my senior year of high school. When would we ever see each other? Get to know each other? How can I compete with your fans? When would you have time for me? I'm sorry Riker, I really like you and I wish that it could work but I don't see how," I contend in a firm voice. Then I quickly leave the room, because the whole time we were talking all I wanted to do was jump in his arms and kiss him.
I go back to my family's suite and slip into my room without waking Caroline who is sleeping on the living room on the pull out. I cry myself to sleep, three heartbreaks in three days has to be some sort of record. I try to hide my misery for the rest of the trip and I succeed fairly well. Riker calls a bunch of times but I ignore them and delete every voicemail he leaves without listening to it. I do my best to put him out of my mind but I just can't and I come home even more miserable than when I left.
It's been a month now, exactly a month since we made love and a month of me trying not to think about him. When I went to New York this past weekend, for my Columbia interview, I got caught in the storm and hit my head, resulting in my night with Eli it was the first time Riker had even gone to the back of my mind. I came home fairly happy, waiting to start a new chapter of my life and then found out I was pregnant and I just knew Riker was the father. There was a very slim chance it was Drew but the timing was off and anyway Drew and I had used protection, condoms with spermicide so it was unlikely. Riker and I hadn't used anything and the timing was perfect, I know because after finding out I went back and counted my cycle. And I just knew it was Riker's, I can't explain how I just knew. So know I'm carrying the child of a pop star and he has no idea, I just hope he doesn't freak too much when he calls me back. Or worse that the paparazzi find out, I don't want to become famous by association because I'm pregnant with Riker Lynch's love child. As my mind runs away with nightmarish scenarios of the press finding out there's a knock on my door and I jump. Adam opens it slowly and peaks in, stepping in when he sees I'm not on the phone.
"He didn't pick up so I left a message. He may not want to speak to me we didn't really part on the best of terms," I tell Adam.
"Well dinners almost done and you should eat, bring your phone in case he calls," Adam tells me.
"And if he doesn't?"
"Then he's not good enough to be with you but you'll always have me," Adam says.
I giggle and kiss his cheek, we go downstairs to eat, I love Adam but I do hope Riker calls because this changes everything.
(RIKER)
"Great show the audience was really pumped tonight," Rocky says as we pile into the van after the concert.
"I love New York," smiles my sister Rydel as she flattens her pink tutu, "there is such a different energy here."
I nod in agreement as I grab my phone from my bag, I intend to send a tweet out thanking everyone that came to the concert but I see that I have missed call. A missed call and a voicemail from Clare! We spent one night together but what a night it was. There was just this spark I felt from the moment her eyes looked into mine, crystal blue clear eyes that you could dive into and get lost in. We made love and talked, I sang to her and I felt my heart becoming hers. And then she got scared, not of our connection but of my lifestyle, the fact that I was famous, in a band and toured, we would be long distance and I'm five years older than her. After she left that night I called her a bunch of times, left a bunch of pleading voicemails but I never heard from her again. Try as I might I couldn't stop thinking about her, she never left my thoughts and all I've wanted for the last month was to hear her voice again and now she's called me.
"Riker you okay?" Ratliff questions and my siblings look at me.
"Clare called," I reply slowly.
"Clare as in the mystery Disneyworld girl that got away?" Ross speaks up and I nod.
"Yeah, she left a voicemail maybe she changed her mind," I comment wanting to listen to the voicemail now but decide I'd better wait for the privacy of my hotel room.
"I really hope so all we've heard for a month is Clare this and Clare that, honestly I thought I might go crazy," Rocky teases and I grimace at him.
When we're back at the hotel I run up to my room, throwing the door open as I dial into my voicemail.
"Hey ummm it's me, Clare…from Disneyworld," she says slowly in a nervous voice like I would forget who she was. "Listen I know we haven't talked since I ran out but I really need you to call me back."
As soon as I hear that it's the end of the voicemail I hang up and find her number to call her. It rings three times and I think she's going to ignore my call again but she does pick up.
"Hi I'm glad you called, I haven't stopped thinking about you. I know you're worried but I promise y…"
"Riker," she interrupts me and the tone in her voice has me worried. It's not angry, or sad; it's worried, a little scared and even a little hopeful. "I called because I'm pregnant and it's yours," she informs me and I feel my stomach disappear as my heart starts racing. I'm so stunned that I can't even speak; the ability to form words has gone from me. "I'm not expecting anything from you, you don't have to be involved at all and I'm not even sure that I'm keeping the baby. In fact with college next year and everything I'm pretty sure I'm not but I don't believe in abortion so I'll probably give it up for adoption, I just thought you should know since it is yours," Clare tells me.
"Are you sure it's mine?" I ask slowly and then feel really bad that those are the first words out of my mouth.
"There's a very slim chance that Drew's the father but it's highly unlikely. Drew and I used protection and you and I didn't, the timing with us fits and I just know. There are tests they can do though," she replies and her voice shakes with emotion. "As I said I don't expect anything from you, I just thought you should know," she says and hangs up before I even have the chance to react.
I sink down on the bed holding my phone in my hands, I'm churning with emotions but I can't pick a single one of them out. I'm just in shock, total shock and I can't think at all. I don't know how long I sit there staring at my phone but I don't stop until I hear someone knocking on the door.
"Riker," Ross calls through the door and I get up to let my brother in. "Did she dump you again?" Ross asks upon seeing my face.
"Not exactly," I reply as I close the door behind him.
"It's been over an hour they sent me to check on you, we thought you might be talking about your blossoming love but you look like you just got some bad news," Ross comments as he sits on my bed.
"I wouldn't call it bad exactly just shocking, she called to tell me she's pregnant. I'm going to be a dad Ross," I enlighten my brother and his mouth drops open.
"You had sex with this girl? You only just met her and you had sex?! Unprotected sex at that, what were you thinking?!" Ross reprimands me.
"I wasn't thinking I was going with what I felt, what she felt. I wanted her, she wanted me it just happened, we were going completely on instinct and it was incredible. I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything in the world. When the moment is that intense and that hot you don't think you just act."
"Okay I guess I understand, so what are you going to do?" Ross questions.
"I have no idea, I haven't even been able to think, she just told me and hung up," I reply and try calling Clare back but she doesn't answer, actually I think her phone is off. "She turned her phone off; maybe the first thing I said after she told me shouldn't have been asking if I was the dad. I need to talk to her; I have to see her I have to go to Toronto."
"Riker you don't even know this girl are you sure about this?" Ross questions with a voice that clearly says he thinks I'm nuts for this.
"I do know her, I know she's eighteen, I know she goes to DeGrassi where she's a senior and I know I want to be with her. She's the one that didn't think it would work, she's the one that was afraid but I haven't been able to stop thinking about her. I know that I need to see her and we need to talk about this, she's carrying my child and I need to go to Toronto and see her," I affirm as I start packing my bag.
"Okay but we have another concert tomorrow night and you have to tell Mom and Dad why you need to go to Toronto," Ross points out.
"Right, are they still up?"
"I think so, you want me to come?" Ross offers.
"No I better do this on my own but I'm not going to tell them Clare's pregnant just yet, not until after I talk to her," I respond.
"Yeah good plan, good luck with Mom and Dad," Ross says leaving the room with me.
I spend an hour telling my parents that I need to fly to Toronto first thing in the morning to see Clare and talk to her. They finally give in and Dad finds me a flight, then I have to convince them that since it's a private flight I don't need a handler or bodyguard. They do hire a driver though who will pick me up and take me around and my return flight is at six giving me barely enough time to meet everyone else at the concert tomorrow night. I don't know where Clare lives so I'll have to go to her school, get her to come out to me without attracting too much attention and hope that she talks to me. Yeah that should be easy.
Update Thursday February 5th starting in Clare's pov the net day probably.