So Chapter 2 begins… Welcome back.

I threw a lot of information at you in Chapter 1. I apologize if it was a lot to take in.

It would seem in my haste to get started I forgot to formally introduce myself.

I will be your narrator for the extent of this story and I must explain a few things about myself before we continue.

First and foremost, I no longer have an identity, for I am no longer alive.

I can make no contact with the characters in this story, yet I still walk among them.

I cannot explain to you why I am still stuck on earth. Perhaps there is no heaven, or this is my version of hell. I do not know.

But I prefer to think of myself as a guardian angel of sorts.

It makes the long nights easier…

That's enough about me though. We'll be seeing each other again soon. I'll try my best to keep my comments to myself during the story.

Back to the drama.

Maya sat alone in that bathroom stall for a long time. She was frozen; she couldn't move, she couldn't breathe, and her heart was pounding.

How could she have let this happen? Her life was over. How was she going to tell her parents? And what about school?

How was she going to tell Katie?

Hey sis, surprise! I'm pregnant with your ex's baby.

The next realization hit her then and it hit her hard.

Oh God, this was Drew Torres's baby…

Her stomach flipped at the thought, pushing her already uneasy stomach to its limit. She fell to her knees and retched over the toilet.

When she was finished, she was finally able to get up and leave the stall.

She went to the sink and splashed her face with cold water, trying to decide what to do next.

She wrapped the positive test in a paper towel and shoved it in her bag.

Then with a sigh she decided she had to leave.

She was careful to avoid seeing herself in the mirror on her way out.

Outside of the store, she pulled out her phone.

Her mind was going in 10 different directions. She needed help, and there was only one person she could think of going to; her sister.

Katie was away at a soccer camp again this summer and would be headed straight for Stanford in the fall.

She really wanted to tell her, but there was no guarantee that she wouldn't rat her out to their mom and dad right away.

Maya was not ready for them to know yet.

Her stomach felt sick again, but she swallowed the bile.

She had never felt so thoroughly alone.

My heart ached for the poor girl. I watched her as she stood alone on the sidewalk, holding back tears.

I wished I could say something to her, do something to make the pain go away. But all I could do was watch in silence.

I willed her to call her sister, I knew Katie would be a comfort to her. But I could understand her hesitation.

Finally, she put the phone to her ear.

One ring, two, three.

"Hey! Long time no talk, little sis!" Her sister greeted.

"Hey Katie…" Maya replied quietly. She began walking, even though she wasn't sure of her destination.

"What's wrong?" Katie asked.

Maya paused and bit her lip.

"Maya?" Katie asked again, the concern building in her voice.

"Katie, I have to tell you something… But I don't want you to freak out okay?" Maya said.

"Okay, now you're scaring me. Just tell me!"

"Not until you promise you won't freak out."

She heard Katie sigh. "Okay I promise. Now what's going on?"

Maya took a deep breath. She hadn't noticed, but her fingers were shaking.

"I might be sorta, kinda, a little bit pregnant…" Maya admitted quickly. She then closed her eyes and clenched her teeth waiting for the backlash.

Katie was silent.

"Katie?" Maya asked after a few moments.

"Please tell me this is a joke…" Katie said.

"Why would I joke about something like this?" Maya exclaimed.

"I don't know Maya, why would you let yourself get pregnant at fifteen?!" Katie shot back.

"Please Katie, save the lecture. I'm sure I'll be getting plenty of them soon. I just found out and I don't know what to do. I just need help." Maya felt the tears burning in her eyes.

"Okay, okay…"

Maya could picture exactly what Katie was doing. She had one hand on her head and her eyes closed.

"Who's the father?" Katie asked.

Maya froze. She couldn't tell Katie the truth, not yet. "I… I don't want to tell anyone yet. Not until I tell him."

"Well Maya, you should probably get a move on with that. That would be the first thing I did. It takes two to make a baby, and he should have to support you through this. You have options you need to talk through with him." She explained.

Maya nodded, she knew Katie was right, but she barely knew Drew. It would be a very awkward situation.

"And what if he doesn't want to stick around?" Maya asked.

"Then I'll drive back to Toronto and kick his ass. But honestly you can't be sure until you let him know. You'll need someone to watch out for you there. And he has a right to know. That kid is a piece of him."

Maya sighed. "Do I have to tell him right now?"

"Not necessarily, but this will probably hit him almost as hard as it hit you. So soon."

"Katie… I'm scared." Maya admitted.

"I know. But you'll be okay. Remember you have your options, and I'll support you in whatever you choose."

"Thank you Katie." Maya whispered, the tears escaping her eyes. "One more thing though?"
"Yeah?"
"Please don't tell anyone about this. I'm going to tell Mom and Dad soon okay? I just want to do it on my own terms."

"Okay Maya. Just be careful and do what's right for you." Katie said.

"Okay…"

"And call me if you need anything."

"I will." Maya answered.

"I love you baby sis."

"I love you too."

After a pause, Maya hung up.

A few minutes later, she made up her mind.

She started walking, this time with a destination.

The summer was going by quick for Drew Torres.

I had been watching him since the night of that faithful party with mild curiosity.

He had gotten back together with Becky Baker, graduated from Degrassi, and was voted prom king in that time.

But after all the excitement of the spring came a lonely summer.

All of his friends, it would seem, were moving on.

Dallas went home a while back, Clare was leaving for Columbia in a week, and Becky would be off to university in August.

Drew; however, was going nowhere.

His plan was to stay in Toronto and go to college there.

Despite a successful senior year, his GPA was low and colleges didn't smile fondly upon dropouts, no matter what the reason.

Needless to say not many schools accepted him…

So the end of summer wasn't something he liked to think about.

One late July afternoon he was watching TV down in his basement when there was a knock on the door upstairs.

A few minutes later his mom called down to him from the top of the steps.

"Drew, there's someone at the door for you."

Drew sighed and got up. Who could it be? Becky was supposed to be spending the whole day with her family, and any of his friends would've just come to the sliding glass door of the basement.

When he got upstairs, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Matlin?" he asked.

It was indeed the blonde sister of Katie Matlin, the one he had spent the night with a few months ago. She was standing in the foyer with Audra Torres.

She didn't look very good. Her face was really pale and she seemed shaky.

Drew tried to ignore the nervous feeling in his stomach.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her.

She cleared her throat and eyed Audra nervously. "I umm… I have a summer assignment about student body elections. And I thought since you were student body president last year at Degrassi maybe I could interview you?"

"Uh… yeah sure I guess." Drew said, though a bit apprehensive. "Mom, we'll be downstairs."

Audra nodded. "Just be finished before dinner." She said before walking away.

Drew led the blonde down the stairs and plopped back down on the couch.

"So, what do you wanna know…?" Drew asked.

The girl looked down. "Do you know my first name?" She asked quietly.

Drew looked up at her. "That's not a question about elections…"

"Do you know my first name?" she asked again.

"No, okay I don't. What's your point?" He was getting irritated now

Leave it to the Matlins to cause a scene… He thought.

"It's Maya." She told him.

"Okay, great. Is that what you came here to tell me?" he asked.

She shook her head. "Do you… do you remember that party at the end of the year? The one where I ended up staying the night here."

Drew's stomach dropped. "I don't remember much of it. I blacked out halfway through…"

"So… so you don't know whether or not you used protection?" she mumbled.

That's what made him jump up. "Please don't tell me what I think you're trying to tell me." He begged her.

She dug around in her bag for a minute and then pulled a white stick and showed it to him.

"It's positive." She whispered.

"No." Drew said. "It must be wrong. I mean there are such things as false positives right?"

"It's not wrong… But I can take another one if you want"

Drew raked his fingers through his hair. "Oh my God…" He paced for a few moments. "And you're sure it's mine?"

"Pretty sure yeah, seeing as you're the only guy I've ever been with." Maya snapped.

"Oh my God…" Drew said again. "Okay, it's okay. Everything is going to be okay." He said more to himself than to Maya. "So are you uhh… are you going to keep it?"
Maya shrugged. "I…I don't know. I haven't really thought about it yet."

Drew nodded. "Here sit down."

They both sat down on the couch; scooting as far away as they could from each other.

It was almost comical.

"So… how old are you exactly?" he asked her.

"I'll be sixteen in December." She admitted.

Here's that guilt I was telling you about in Chapter 1. It filled Drew's chest like cement.

"Sixteen…" he mumbled, shaking his head. "Well… what're we going to do?"
"Well, I don't think I want an abortion. So that rules one out." Maya said quietly.

Drew nodded and it was silent for a long time.

"But look, you don't have to do anything if you don't want to." she said. "I mean we barely even know each other and you dated my sister and I'm kind of really terrified of what might happen if she finds out you're the father and we were both really drunk when it happened..." she sighed. " What I'm trying to say is, I'll be fine on my own, really. I just thought you should know what was going on I guess."

"So you're letting me off the hook?" he asked. He was too shocked to argue with her.

"Yeah, I guess. If I decide to keep it, you can send me money every once and a while or something." She told him.

A Fact about Maya Matlin:

She had no idea how hard it was to be a single mother

All she knew was right now she wanted to get away from this horribly awkward situation and the Drew Torres that came with it.

Drew opened his mouth to ask her another question but at the same time his phone rang.

It was Becky.

Drew looked from the phone to Maya and then back again.

"I'll let myself out." Maya said quickly. She grabbed her bag and rushed up the stairs before Drew could stop her.

Then with a sigh Drew answered the phone.

He listened to Becky talk for a good hour, but he wasn't hearing a word she said.

All he could think about was the fact that there was a girl out there carrying his kid.

His baby.

And from the looks of it that girl didn't want him to have anything to do with any of it.

No, to be honest he didn't want to have a kid, but he didn't want to be a failure either.

With a heavy sigh he sat down on the couch with his head in his hands.

It was times like these that he desperately wished he still had Adam to talk to.