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Avril POV

I watched as Olivia's brown eyes that reminded me so much like a doe's widen in fear. This was so stupid! Just a few days ago the doctor said that if Olivia was under too much stress, she could lose the babies! I was trying not to fall apart myself, hyperventilating and I knew it. Our group was blinded by different flashing lights coming from all different directions, and no matter which way I turned, I couldn't see a thing.

"Avril!" I hear Stella exclaim loudly. I threw my hands out in front of me, trying to find someone, but I froze as a rough hand grabbed me. "Ms. White!" The man yelled in my face, and I screamed in fear. My…my father always told me not to scream, not to ever show fear. I pretty much failed that rule this time. I couldn't believe it, seeing as I could keep quite when Debby smacked me back and forth, but not when some random dude was trying to take a picture of me.

I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to block everything out, and go to my happy place. That was what the therapist always said I should do, that it would help. I thought real hard and opened my eyes, but I was still in the restaurant, a different person, a woman, in front of me. I shut my eyes again. Harder, Avril! I coached myself.

When I opened my eyes, I blinked once, just to make sure that it was working. A smiled grew across my face when I didn't go back to that restaurant. I was in my happy place. And here with me…

"Hi, Mom."

Charlie POV

Shit, not this again! I groaned to myself as the paparazzi crowded our table. Olivia was frozen in fear, and Wen looked freaking angry, like he was going to jump on one of these guys in a second. I squinted to try and see in the bright lights. I knew that Wen would probably have Olivia, and Stella could hold her own, but someone had to get Mo and Avril.

Avril, oh God. She was probably freaking out over this right now, having a panic attack or something. I jumped out of my thoughts when I felt someone tug the back of my shirt. "Get the hell away from me, you bastard!" I yelled, whirling around in my seat and whacking the hand away. "Excuse me?" Stella's voice hissed in a deadly tone. Oops.

"Uh, sorry, babe, you know that I didn't…" I could hear Stella scoff, and I knew that if I could see her she would be rolling her eyes. "Forget it, Delgado. Come on, Dante opened the backdoor for us. Grab Avril." She said in a hushed tone. I nodded quickly, wasting no time. "Wen and Olivia?" I asked, knowing that she already had it covered.

Stella scoffed. "Mommy and Lover Boy were the first ones out. They're gonna get the car and bring it out back." She explained quickly, before giving me a soft kiss atop my head, then whacking me. "Hurry up, Delgado. And don't think that you got away with calling me the b-word." I could hear the smile in her voice, though I knew that I was in for it later.

I whipped my head back and forth, looking for Avril's skinny little body. I didn't mean to call her a string bean half of the times that I did, but she was just so skinny and small. Mo said that it could make her upset because she isn't "developing" just as quickly as the other kids in her grade.

I just hope that doesn't mean what I think it means.

I heard a scream towards my left, and my head shot up. "Avril!" I shouted, pushing one of the guys in trench coats to the side.

"Mr. Delgado!"

"Charlie! How is your relationship with Ms. Yamada working out?"

I heard voices coming from all around, but the one that kind of freaked me out was Avril's, mumbling to herself…or someone. Was she having another panic attack? But she usually fainted after those, or started screaming, right? But she screamed before…but she would be frozen in fear, and breathing all heavy.

Avril had her eyes closed, and a small smile on her face, as if she were anywhere but here. Maybe she was sleepwalking…wait, what? Where did I come up with these dumb ideas? I shook my head and ignored my thoughts before grabbing Avril's arm and throwing her over the booth before I jumped after her.

The paparazzi froze, all of the cameras dying down, and everyone shutting up. It was silent for a moment, until they all started walking towards Avril and me, encasing us like…well, a case. That wasn't the best simile…or, what did Mo call them? Allergies? Something like that…

I tried to pick Avril back up, but she smacked my hands away, her eyes still shut. "No, no, get away from her, Dad! It's not her fault!" She screamed. My breathing hitched in my throat. What was I supposed to do when this happened? It was times like these when I really wished that I had gone to more of those therapy sessions.

"Avril, Avril, please, calm down, I'm not your dad, I'm Charlie, I swear! I'm not going to hurt you, I'm just trying to get you to the car, where Wen and Mo and Stella will be there, and your sister, Olivia, you remember her? She is pregnant, you know, with your little nieces or, or nephews, or, or both or something? I know you're scared of the cameras and all of the people, but you gotta come back to me, please!" I exclaimed, trying to gently pull Avery towards the door, where I saw Wen in the front seat of his car. Guess we were leaving mine and Stella's here. Not that I cared at this moment.

Avery blinked a few times before squinting at my face. "Charlie?" She whispered in a small voice. I smiled a little smile, but it scared me to see Avril like this. "Yeah, A, it's me. Come on, we gotta go, okay?" I whispered softly, before gathering Avril in my arms and practically jumping out the door before winking at Dante, who stood inside, trying to get rid of the paparazzi. He winked back at me. I always knew he was a cool guy, that Dante.

"Charlie, I, I wanna go." Avril sobbed into my chest. I knew something was seriously wrong then. Avril never cried, at least, since I had known her. "It's okay, A, Olivia is right over there in that car, okay? We're almost home." I said softly. She shook her head frantically as I started running towards the car. I saw a paparazzi walking towards me with a large camera, and I knew if there was one there would soon be many others. "No, I want my mom!" Avril wailed.

I sighed, not knowing what to do for her. Maybe Olivia or Mo could help, though I knew that they might not be able to. Those stupid idiots! Why'd they have to go mentioning the kid's mom in front of her like that? She was just a kid!

I finally reached the car, and Mo swung open the door, reaching for Avery and sliding her in. I jumped in after, and Stella slammed the door, just as some man banged up against the window. "What the heck is up with these people?" Wen asked no one in particular, looking around wildly while spinning the wheel and pulling out of the parking lot.

"They don't seem to realize that we are real people, and not just little pawns in magazines." Mo said quietly, staring at all of the people loading themselves into their cars after us. I looked up in the front seat, and Olivia's face was red and puffy, but I thought she would be okay. She didn't look that stressed out. From the look in her eyes, though, I could tell that she knew something had happened with Avril, though she didn't say anything about this.

"So, where are we gonna go?" Stella said quietly after a few minutes of silence. "It's not like we can go to any of our houses, because, you know, they'll follow us there." She informed us, even though we were all very much aware of this fact.

Wen sighed. "Well, I guess we are just going to go for a drive."

Olivia POV

Looking back at Avril, the way that her face was all puffy and her eyes were watering, I knew that something was going on, but I didn't say anything. I knew that she wouldn't want to talk about it right this minute, and if I pressed her for info, she would get upset. For goodness sakes, I was still kind of in shock.

Our mother was still alive?

Of course, I had mentioned this to Mo, Wen, and Stella while we were waiting in the car, and I was reminded that I couldn't believe most of the things that these creeps said, but still…

It was defiantly something to look into. The things that I would give to see my mother just one more time, to know what happened, any info at all would make me feel better. Gram did mention earlier that she had something to tell me, but I never got home fast enough…

Gram!

I whirled back so that I could see Mo and Stella, but I tried to make sure that my belly wasn't twisted in a weird way. I was officially five and half months pregnant, and thank God that I was through with morning sickness. It was either Sydney, or Gram or Wen or Avril, or even worse, Mr. Gifford, holding my hair back while I emptied my guts out into the toilet, or just in any random spot.

"Don't you guys think that we should call our parents? Or one parent? At least?" I stressed the last part, motioning to Mo's pocketbook. Stella groaned, but Mo nodded. "You're right, Olivia." She reached for her pocketbook, but Charlie stopped her before she could punch in anyone's number. "Let's just wait until we get a little farther away, first." He said softly, motioning to Avril, who seemed to be asleep.

"Right." Mo nodded, tucking her phone back away.

Right, so I haven't updated in FORVER…school has been seriously crazy, and I have to tell you that almost everyone that I know has a birthday in January, including me :)
(My birthday was on the fourth) and then I have two birthdays tomorrow…Wow. But I finally updated this! It was just that, you know, my laptop is STILL broken…I hope I still have all of my files.

But hey, how was your holiday? I got an iPhone, but my parents took it away like last week for some unknown reason. I'm not going to get into that, because I don't have the best relationship with them at all. But how was everyone else's holiday?

Did you guys like this chapter? Please review! And, I feel so weird asking this, but if you guys wanna leave any long reviews, I would totally love it and it would be like a late birthday present for me…lol.

OMG so I wrote thank yous out and it just deleted, so I am really tired right now and I have a math quiz tomorrow and I HAVE to sleep...I'll try and PM everyone but to the annoyomus readers I will try and edit this chapter tomorrow so that you can see them SO SORRY! But I think I should still but the chapter out...