The golden sun arose at plastic beach as the morning birds began to sing in their maddening tone. As usual, Russel was the first to awake from his dream filled slumber, and then he abruptly went up to the kitchen to begin making breakfast for him and the rest of the band. Then right on schedule Noodle was soon to follow, then 2D, then sometime within the next day or so Murdoc eventually made it upstairs. Russel was used to the routine by now and quite enjoyed the time that he had to himself without any noisy distractions from the rest of the band. But this morning was quite different. Instead of Noodle coming up alone, this time she joyfully dragged 2D and Murdoc along behind her.

"Hello Russel!" Noodle gleefully shouted as she forced the two exhausted men to sit down at the table. Russel turned away from the pancakes that he was skillfully cooking, "Hey Noodle girl," He said with a half awake tone then turned his attention to Murdoc and 2D, " What are you two doing awake so early?" Murdoc lifted his head to speak, but Noodle quickly shoved it back down onto the table, " Well," Noodle began with a vivid smile, "We were all just out so late last night and I felt like we didn't get to spend any time together, so I wanted to have a nice breakfast together, for once." She herself sat down at her spot at the table and waited for Russel to be done cooking their meal.

Murdoc raised his head off the wooden table once again, "Yeah but Noodle," He objected, "Did we really have to have this so early? I mean it is eleven in the morning! Couldn't we just have a dinner together or perhaps dessert?" Noodle stopped setting the table for a brief moment in order to answer Murdoc, "Well Murdoc, I wanted to have breakfast! If I had wanted to have dinner then I wouldn't have woken you up, "She said with a uncompromising tone, " I think if you and 2D can be out late with two hookers then you can be up early for Russel and I!" Noodle slammed her tiny fist down onto the table then began setting the table from where she left off. "Besides," She lowered her tone, " Russel cooked this great meal, and we need to eat it now!" She gave one last glare to the ungrateful bass player then went to help Russel carry in plates of sizzling pancakes, bacon, and eggs.

2D raised his head for the first time since he sat down at the table and forced out a feeble smile, "Looks great Russ." Noodle thanked him with a smile although she knew that he would rather be in bed as well. The band enjoyed a meal together, but it wasn't the meal that Noodle had wanted. She remembered when she first arrived at Kong in the Fed-Ex how different things were. They used to have nice meals together all the time. Then as their lives went on, Murdoc and 2D became more distant, and stopped coming to the meals. As soon as she knew it, most of the meals consisted of several verbal arguments, or complete silence. Which is what happened in this case. Russel could sense Noodle's tension and tried to start a conversation, " So the show last night," He acknowledged, "It went pretty good. Don't you think?" There was a moment of silence before Murdoc shoved a piece of pancake into his mouth then preceded to answer the question, "Uhuh yeah, it went great." He took his glass of orange juice into his hand and swiftly poured it down his throat.

Noodle was getting aggravated at the bands discourtesy. All she wanted was to have a normal meal together, "Why isn't anybody talking?" Noodle whined as she dropped her fork and let it collide with the glass plate, " It's not like we don't have anything to talk about! Talk about anything," She offered, "Your day, your dreams, life, music, anything!" A soft ring of a cell phone that was playing melodic tune interrupted noodle. 2D gradually reached into his back pocket to pick up his phone, "Sorry Noodle I have to take this." He stated as he stood up and walked away from the table. Murdoc rolled his eyes, "Oh so he gets to leave!" He complained as the singer walked out of sight. Noodle sighed then turned her attention back to her food.

"Hello?" 2D answered his phone as he walked down to stairs to his bedroom. "Hi 2D?" A woman on the other line answered back, "It's Haley." 2D opened up his bedroom door then let himself flop onto his soft bed, "Oh hi Haley, did you get home okay? I'm sorry I had to leave you so early." Haley sighed on the other line, "It's fine. Lindsey was able to drive back to the apartment so it is ok. Thanks for leaving your number though because I called to tell you something." 2D pulled himself up to a sitting position and let the bottoms of his feet rest on the floor, "Okay, um what is it Haley?" Haley let out another sigh, "Well I would actually like to tell you in person, and so if you have time today can you please come by? It won't take that long." 2D pulled up his calendar from his bed side table to make sure he didn't have any unknown obligations, "Yeah Haley, I can come by in about a half an hour, is that fine?" Haley abruptly answered, "Yeah that's fine. I live in apartment building C, about three stories up in room 302. See you then." 2D heard a soft click of her hanging up the phone.

2D set his calendar back onto the table then pulled on his black shoes. He knew that if he was going to leave he better do it before Noodle notices or, by the way she was talking this morning, she would have something to say about it. So he checked to make sure that no one else was in the car park then he opened up the door to the jet, climbed in, and pulled out of plastic beach. It wasn't to long before the plane landed, and he pulled out of the airport in a classy, black BMW. The car had excellent GPS, so 2D was able to plug in Haley's address and he was led directly to it. He pulled around the corner at noticed a tall set of black apartments that seemed to scrape at the sky. "This must be it," He told to himself and pulled into the nearest parking spot.

Once he found apartment building C he ascended the stairs and started to climb three stories up. "301, 303," 2D faced the opposite direction to where the even numbers should be, "Oh 302." He said proudly of himself as he brought his boney hand up to knock on the wooden door. There wasn't a moment's pause until the door opened and a breathless Haley answered, "Oh hey 2D, you're here early. Come in." She parted the door for 2D and led him into a warm, cozy living room. 2D noticed that they weren't alone. Through the archway of the kitchen he could see Lindsey sitting at the kitchen table enjoying a juicy apple with peanut butter. 2D walked over to one of the crème colored love seats and sat down, " Your apartment looks nice Haley." He said with a slight smile as he watched her take a seat on the couch across from him. "Thanks," Haley smiled, "When Lindsey and I first moved in here this place wasn't as nice. You know, cracked wallpaper, stained carpet, and broken kitchen cabinets. But we saved our money and put it together so we could remodel."

"Hey Haley who's here?" Lindsey, since she had been oblivious that someone was over, asked. Haley turned around on the couch and yelled back at her, "It's 2D, Lindsey, he came over so we could talk about things." Lindsey, who got the vivid hint, disappeared once again into the kitchen. Haley sighed and turned back to 2D, "Okay so the real reason I asked for you to come here was not so I could talk about my apartment. Believe me, this is something that you will probably not want to hear, but I know I have to tell you." Haley fixed her eyes on 2D and watched as he swiftly switched positions so he was completely facing her. "Okay," 2D said with a sudden concerned look about his face, "What is it?" Haley sighed and pressed her back once again close to the couch, "2D," She started while salty tears were welling up in her eyes, "I'm pregnant." There was a moment's silence. "You've got to be kidding me!" 2D stated, "But you said nothing would happen!" Haley let her tears slip past her eyes, "I'm sorry. I should have known better, but I guess I didn't."

2D slammed his fists down onto the couch, "I guess you didn't is right, Haley! You didn't think," He added, " Haley I can't be with you. I can't have this ruining my life. Are you keeping it?" Haley threw up her hands in question, "Keeping what?" 2D grew red in the face, "The baby! Are you keeping it?" Haley rolled her eyes, "Well yeah I want to!" 2D got up off the couch and rolled his eyes, "Fine keep it, but I am going to have nothing to do with this." Haley stood up as well and followed 2D to the door, "But you are the father, YOU got me pregnant!" 2D grabbed his coat off the hook and opened back up the front door, "I don't care." He slammed the door then raced down the three flights of stairs down to the rental car, and headed back to the airport to get to plastic beach.

"Do you have a 4?" Murdoc said behind his playing cards. "No man, go fish." Russel said as Murdoc reached back down into the pile of cards, and drew out two more. "Damn not what I needed!" The bassist claimed. "Okay Muds," Russel added, " Do you have a eight?" Murdoc brought up his hand of cards and searched through them, "Nope I don't, go fish." Russel reached down to pull out two cards when he heard to door violently slam. "Fuck." 2D grunted as he walked into the kitchen and pulled out a glass for water. "Hey 'D what's that matter?" Murdoc asked as he got up himself to get another beer. In the meantime Russel reached over to get Murdoc's cards, "Murdoc," He yelled, "You DID have an eight, a four, and the six that I asked for!" Murdoc turned from the sink back to Russel, "Oh yeah sorry about that Russ." Russel scoffed and began putting away their playing cards.

Murdoc sighed then laughed at Russel's stricken face, "Okay so really, 2D, what is going on?" 2D turned around to face Murdoc as well, "Well," He started, "Haley is pregnant, and she expects me to be supportive and happy." Russel slammed the cards back onto the table and made them scatter all over again, "Woah, what! You got her pregnant! You are responsible you know." Murdoc shook his head; "I'm going to have to agree with Russel on this one, 2D, you did get her pregnant." 2D finished drinking down the icy water then slammed his glass, nearly breaking it, on the counter, "She is the one who wanted this, to have sex! Not me, I was drunk." Russel's face grew a shade of magenta and he pushed 2D up against the counter, "Drunk or not 2D, you got her pregnant! You need to fix this. Is she even keeping the baby?" 2D nodded, "Yeah she wants to, so I'm having no part in this what so ever." Russel, whom was now even redder, brought his hand up to the singer and pointed it at his chest, "YOU had sex with her, YOU got her pregnant, and YOU have a responsibility now. 2D, you need to go take care of this."

2D rolled his eyes and freed himself from Russel's tight grip, "Watch me." 2D responded violently then stormed down to his room and began collecting all that mattered to him; clothes, keyboard, toiletries, phone charger, and his camera. Then he walked back upstairs and proceeded to head outside where the Jet was still waiting. Soon after he got outside Noodle came running after him, hearing all the yelling, with tears in her eyes, "Where are you going 2D? 2D!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, but every time 2D just continued to abruptly push her away, "I'm leaving Noodle, okay?" 2D turned back to look at plastic beach one last time, then climbed into the Jet letting it carry him far away.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ERIKA NOTE: Okay so here is the second chapter! Things are starting to heat up! Thanks for reading and please review! I want to know what you think! I will try to get out chapters as soon as I can, but with finals coming up it might be a little slower. Thanks you once again and please review!