"Please don't hurt us, my girlfriend is pregnant. We just stopped because she needed to rest." Ethan said, looking at the old man.

The old man took his gun away and told the young man to let Clem go.

"Come here Clem." Hailey said, opening her arms.

Clem walked over and hugged her, she still was a kid sometimes.

"I'm Pete," the old man said, "This is Nick.

"I'm Hailey, this is Clementine and Ethan."

"Clementine? You mean like the-" Nick began.

"You say the fruit and I will kill you." Clem said.

Hailey laughed and remembered when Ethan asked the same thing. Clem had kicked him in the shin really hard.

"Come on we'll take you to our cabin." Pete said.

"Uncle Pete! We don't know if this is a scam."

"Really, you think the girl somehow eats so much that her stomach is that big." Pete replied, "If this was normal she would probably give you a black eye."

Nick's face was as red as it could be and Ethan glared at him. Nick was only 19 and he didn't want him to get any ideas. (I don't think that is how old Nick and Luke are, but you gotta deal with it!)


When they got to the cabin, there was a dude Nicks age there on the porch, he had brown hair, stubble and had a machete.

"Who are these guys?" Luke asked.

"Ethan, his pregnant girlfriend Hailey, and Clementine." Pete replied.

"You mean like the-"

"Say 'fruit' and she," Nick pointed to Clem, "will kill you."

"Ok. I'll go get Carlos."

"Carlos?" Hailey asked.

"He's a doctor." Pete answered.

"A doctor? Thank god." Ethan smiled.

Carlos came out with Luke. He wore a flannel shirt and looked like he was from Spain.

"Come inside and I'll look at you." He said to Hailey

"Thank you so much." Ethan looked at Hailey.


"Well it looks like the baby is healthy." Carlos said.

"Thank god. You didn't have to look at it, but you did. I can't thank you enough." Hailey replied.

"Your welcome. If you want you may stay along with your boyfriend and Clementine."

"Clementine is pretty much my daughter. I love her so much and I wold do anything to protect her. She's only been with me and Ethan for 2 years but it feels like eternity."

"I know how you feel. I have a daughter shes 13."

"Y'know this feels so normal, just talking like this. I wish none of this had happened, but at the same time, I'm glad it happened. If it hadn't I probably would've never met Clem." Hailey snapped out of it, "Thanks so much Carlos."

Carlos smiled and nodded.

As Hailey left the room she saw Clementine and Ethan talking to Luke at the table eating some type of oatmeal or porridge type thing. She smiled at this and looked down at her stomach, not as scared as before.

"So is the baby okay." Ethan looked at her.

"Its healthy and should be fine when it's born." Carlos said.

"Thank you so much doc." Ethan said.

"Your welcome. Now I must check on my daughter."

"That reminds me." Ethan said, "What will we name it?"

"If it's a girl, Isabella. But if it's a boy I'd want to name it Danny or Ashton." Hailey said, looking at her hat.

Isabella had been her youngest sister. Danny, her father and Ashton was her brother's name.

"I think those names are perfect." Ethan said, taking her hand.

Ethan had known her family, because they had been friends ever since they were small. Those names were fine with him. He thought it was sweet.

"Those names are awesome." Clem said, smiling.

Hailey was going to cry, and she couldn't stop it because of her hormones.

"Ssshh, it's okay." Ethan hugged her and patted her back.

"I miss them so much." Hailey said.

"So do I." Ethan replied, "Tomorrow Clem and I are going to the river again with Pete and Nick, we're going to check it out."

"Okay. I'm sorry, it's the hormones."

"I know."

Luckily Luke and Clementine had left. They didn't see Hailey break down, but Rebecca came in at the end of it.

"I hate Hormones, it makes everything so complicated." Rebecca said.

"I know." Hailey replied.

Ethan left the two to talk and went into his and Hailey's room.


Ethan and Clementine walked with Pete as he started talking about him taking Nick on his first hunting trip.

"So he lines up the shot just like I taught him, then he starts whining, 'Uncle Pete, I can't do it, Uncle Pete'"

Ethan laughs, "What a pussy."

"Seriously?" Clem asks.

Before Pete could say anything else, he was interrupted.

"Hey you didn't wait up?" Nick asked running to them.

"You think we're going to stand there as you piss on a tree?" Pete asked, "You know where the river is boy."

They start to walk again and Pete continued.

"so I go and try to take the gun from his hands before the buck runs away, but he fires it. He nearly gutshot me."

"What the fuck you telling them this for?"

"Well you nearly blew her head of yesterday, seems relevant." Pete replied.

"I said I was sorry, she accepted it."

"I did accept his apology."

Nick bumped into Pete as he went ahead.

"Where you going?" Pete asked.

"I know where the damn river is."

"So later that season I found that same buck and shot it right in the neck. I brought it up to my sister's figuring she'd want to freeze some of the meat. Nick didn't speak to me for two weeks. The thing is you have to do stuff even though the people you love will probably hate you for it."

"He doesn't hate you." Clem said.

"I've done that before, Hailey wouldn't speak to me for a month. The thing I did was, we went to a restaurant and this is before we were dating ok. The waiter said that we were cute together and I said 'No, no, no we're only friends' she left and avoided me as best as she could."

"Never do that to a woman, son." Pete replied laughing.