At 5.30AM Abby woke up to her alarm. She counted herself lucky that her phone battery had not died overnight since charging it had pretty much been the last thing on her mind after the events and emotional roller coaster of the previous day. It felt weird waking up in David's apartment.

"Hey" she looked at David shyly.

"Hey" he answered.

She scampered to turn off the beeping phone and suddenly felt very self-conscious moving around their old apartment naked. Her hair had dried overnight and was a tangled mess so she pulled up her dress from the day before and went in the bathroom to try to untangle it at least a little bit before heading home to change. After a few minutes David appeared at the door of the bathroom. She smiled at his reflection in the mirror.

"So what happened last night Abby… can never happen again"

Abby stopped brushing her hair for a moment. She didn't understand him at all anymore. He had been asking her to leave all night yesterday, but once the walls had come down, his need for her and her need for him had been very obvious to them both. She still felt sore to prove it.

"Are you saying that you don't have feelings for me any more?" She looked at David in the eye, and he avoided her gaze.

"I don't want to be with you Abby" he said sadly, again avoiding her gaze.

"So last night, what we did… it means nothing to you?" the tears were threatening to spill again.

"Abby, what was between us is over"

"David. Something is wrong. I can see that something is wrong and I know that you have feelings for me. Please won't you just tell me what is wrong?" she was pleading him and his heart was breaking. He wanted nothing more than to ask her to stay forever. But she was his weakness. She was going to be his downfall if he let her. Cyrus and his buddies would forever have a puppet in him if she stayed in his life. He needed to distance himself from Abby. He needed to get Cyrus to think that he had no more feelings for Abby, so that she could be safe. He loved her too much to place her in danger by being with her.

"I don't know you at all any more David." The tears were falling freely now. He wanted to take her into his arms, but instead he turned away and forced himself to look at anything else than Abby.

"I don't want you to come here again Abby" he said. "Can you please give your key back, or I will have the locks changed today?"

David's last comment was like a punch to the stomach for her. She had come here out of concern for him last night. She could see that there was something that he was hiding. A dreadful secret. Yet he wouldn't budge and let her in.

"If that's what you want David, then…" she was unable to stop sobbing as she removed the apartment key from her key ring. She let it fall onto his nightstand from her hand, and with that she left without looking at him again.

For the next three months Abby made a conscious effort to avoid places and meetings in which she knew David would be present. David must have been doing the same thing, since their paths rarely seemed to cross nowadays. When they did see each other, they did not acknowledge each other unless they had to, and Abby felt sick to her stomach every time. More than once she ended up crying in the ladies room. David started dating a pretty White House secretary. Abby could not stand the girl, who seemed like a real airhead, but David kept sending her flowers and notes and the girl was clearly falling for him. Abby had difficulties holding her food down every time she saw flowers on the girl's desk.

One morning when Abby was pulling on an old dress that she had not worn for a long time, she noticed that it had gotten a bit tight. Thinking it must have shrunk at the cleaners she discarded of it and put on another dress. A week later she noticed that a pair of pants had gotten tighter as well when she put them on. Realization hit her like a sledgehammer in the head. She had not been feeling well for the past months and now her clothes were getting tight. She couldn't even remember when she had last had her period, but she had always been a bit irregular and she'd been so busy that she hadn't given it a second thought. She sat down and cried for a good 30min before walking to the corner shop where she bought a pregnancy test, although she already knew what the result was. She was pregnant with David's baby.