A/N: I don't own anything except any made up people that I put into it.

Chapter 2

Alex's POV

I just wanted to curl and hide from this, but Holly was taking matters into her own hands. She had me in and out of the store with the white-stick-of-doom in a matter of minutes. I was more concerned about the snotty ass cashier that had served us.

"That fucking woman in there, did you see the look on her wrinkled face?" I fumed, walking a fair few paces ahead of my unimpregnated friend.

"Yeah stupid old lady." Holly commented.

"Has me down as some big slut just of what I was buying. She doesn't know shit about this!" I exclaimed clamping a hand to my belly defensively.

"Alex, where are you gonna go to do this thing?" Holly interjected, bursting my bubble.

"Uh, to... ah. Right." I was stumped.

"There's no way we can go back to yours." Holly commented, reading my mind almost.

"Ummm..." I looked around me as if some place I'd never noticed before would magically appear, like that pub in Harry Potter. Not that I read that kinda stuff.

"There's nowhere. I live too far of a way just to pee on a stick." Holly decided for the both of us, putting a stop to that suggestion before I even had the chance to make it.

"Well there's public restrooms right over there." I said pointing in the direction of the skank toilets across the street.

Holly followed my pointed finger with a look of horror, disgust and disbelief on her face. "Public washrooms? Alex, that's gross."

"Not as gross as the fetus shaped mess that I'll be cleaning up if Chad catches me at home with the test." I commented dryly. The bad thing was it was sad but true.

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"So that was the longest three minutes of your whole life, no? Seemingly never-ending, am I right?"

"Gee Holly! Thanks for the support, friend!" It fluttered across my mind as to how she knew, but I wasn't interested enough in what other people were doing at the minute. Selfish or not, this moment was all about me and my shit. If this stick from hell tells me I am preggo, I am well and truly up the creek without a paddle.

"Sorry, but... it's true." I wasn't too keen on this new bluntly honest side of Holly.

"It might not even be positive, right?" I reasoned.

"Sure..." Holly agreed smiling skeptically.

"I'm probably just overreacting here, right I mean, it's not like-"

The wailing fanfare of the timer we'd partnered with the test interrupted my nervous rambling.

"Well, this is the moment of truth." Holly said as she leapt off the couch. She looked down at me with a look that was a mixture of pity, prejudgment and disgust. She tugged the material of my thin black hoodie around my shoulder in a feeble effort to get me off the couch and up to go check out my fate. I didn't budge and when it became clear to her that I wasn't gonna get up, no matter how many ways she tried to force me out of my seat.

"Fine!" She proclaimed in defeat! "I'm gonna look for you."

She flounced over to the end table and retrieved the stick, looking unfeasibly proud of herself for some reason.

I spun around in my seat, folded my arms across the back of the couch and rested my chin on them miserably. I looked up at her as she held my test in her hands. Her face was monotonous and expressionless so there was no way for me to even guess what was going on from her (slap-worthy) face. "Share the good news then." I muttered dryly. As she took a deep breath to speak and opened her mouth, I hid my face in the fabric of my hoodie. Jay's scent had rubbed off on it, and a deep inhale took me back to the night I am sure I got into this mess in the first place. Yeah, who am I kidding? There's no way this things gonna be negative.

Jessie's POV

I tell you, man, it's so fucking boring when there's just three of us. Honestly, who'd have thought we couldn't actually keep ourselves entertained without everyone here. That just goes to show how boring we all truly are. Jay drove us here. The car ride over was dead. Jay had music on, and the windows down for us all to have a smoke, but honestly it was a little cold.

I noticed everyone giving each other sly little glances that said 'who's gonna start the conversation first?'. I'm sure if Alex was here, we'd all be fighting for her attention by trying to get the loudest, crudest, bluest joke in before the other guy could.

"Hey guys Brian is having another party at his place this Friday." Jay spoke before really thinking about what he was saying.

An instant flashback came flooding in. Those few words took me all the way back to when Alex and I were dating and it all came to light what we'd been doing to each other; cheating, lying and deceiving. That started all of our problems. Or bought them to each others attention rather. I do sometimes wonder if Cole never blabbed to Alex, we would still be together? Yeah, it was glaringly obvious that Jay had a thing for Lex when I was with her, but did Alex have a thing back for him? I wonder also if I never went to my parents house if we would still be together. All these what if's and maybe's are starting to drive me crazy.

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