Carla….

She was sat on the sofa with Michelle leaning against her silently asleep, both her and Steve were becoming increasingly worried about Michelle, Steve had mentioned how she was getting badly sick in the mornings and she herself was noticing the sudden trips to the loo she was needing to take and not only that, there was the fact that some mornings she was barely able to keep her eyes open and her mood swings were becoming a nightmare. She was suddenly bought from her thoughts and curiosity by the sudden shacking of Michelle.

"Hey love what's wrong" She asked noticing she was dripping in sweat as she suddenly woke up panicking.

"Chelle what's wrong love" She asked again getting slightly worried for her best friends welfare.

"Eh I need to go to the loo" She said standing up and basically running through to the bathroom.

Michelle….

She got into the bathroom and locked the door, what no one thankfully knew was that for the past 3 months she had been missing her period, she had checked online to see what else it could be but nothing came up which meant it could only be one thing. She raided through the bathroom cabinet until she found the rectangle box with the kit in she kept for emergencies, she tore into it and took out the little white plastic test before squatting over the toilet in the most uncomfortable position know to man.

"Chelle love you okay, you've been in there a while now"

"Yeah sorry got distracted I'll just be a moment" She called back removing the test from beneath her and shoved it into the pocket of the trackies bottoms she had changed into earlier before flushing the loo and unlocking the door to find Carla sat on the sofa reading one of the many magazines scattered round the coffee.

"Okay love" Carla asked her as she sat down on the soft white leather couch.

"Yea and sorry about earlier"

"Forger it I'm sure Robert can do that meeting in his own" Carla said wrapping her arms around Michelle which she happily accepted as she leaned back into her sister-in-law and her warmth surrounded her now stone cold body.

"If you say so"

"Yeah I do, now what you wanting to eat and I'll go get it, your cupboards are awfully empty".

"Come on car you really think I'm going to eat"

"Well that thought did cross my mind but thought I'd better ask"

"And I'm going to leave that decision with you so go busy yourself" She said sitting up to let Carla get up.

"Right won't be any longer than 10 minutes" Carla said grabbing her jacket and walking out so michelle was left on her own, She took the test from her pocket and tapped it about in between her fingers and thumb thinking what it would mean for her and Steve and whether she actually wanted another child in her life and how she was going to tell Steve if it did turn out positive, which then took her back to the conversations of last night and started to panic as she was adamant that Steve was not wanting another child and he was just fine the way they were, and then as if on call she heard the faint clicking of Carlas heels walking up the stairs, so quickly looked at the test and burst into tears seeing the two thick blue lines on the tiny screen and realising how much her life had just changed in those 20 seconds.

"Just forgot me purse stupid cow" Carla said walking over to the table as Michelle curled up and turned away trying to hide the fact the she was crying even though she knew Carla would be able to see right through her and then she remember earlier when Steve had got her to take paracetamol and the pill, the pill, it took her a while to process what that meant, the uterus inside forming into a child was going to be put at risk, she ran straight into the bathroom shoving two fingers down her throat to try and bring back up whatever pill had been put down her a few hours back.

"Chelle what are you doing" She heard Carla ask as she felt an arms tugging her hand out her throat.

"The pill can't have it" She said shoving her hand back down her throat and throwing up again, she hated doing this but knew it was the only hope of protecting the tiny human growing inside her, she repeated this action a couple of more times until she felt there was nothing else to bring back up and broke down into tears as she felt Carlas protective arms wrap around her.

"Hey come on love what's wrong" She heard those words echo around her head as she leant further into her best friend. She was once again getting really confused and tired and just wanted to snuggle up with Steve and sleep but like that was going to happen.

"Look how's about we go through to somewhere a bit comfier and you can tell me what's going on yeah" Carla said pulling her though to the living room.

"When's Steve back" She asked considering whether to mention the pregnancy or not

"A couple of hours yet, so plenty time to say what's wrong" She heard Carla saying but all she could focus on was the new weird sensation occurring in her stomach, she must have made it obvious as well because the next thing she new Carla was asking her what was wrong.

"I'm pregnant" She blurted out though never meant to.

"Well are you sure I mean that's one big thing to come out with"

"Yeah well unless tests lie"

"Oh babe why didn't you say anything"

"I just did it today but that's not it, Steve doesn't want kids" She felt herself welling up with tears as she looked up at Carla

Ryan….

He had spent a great night with Katy as they were now properly together, even though they had, had a lot to drink he was pretty sure he was over the worst of it so decided to head home, not that his mum and Steve would be able to moan at him too much I mean when had his mum stayed sober on new year's eve in fact he imagined they got up to stuff that he just doesn't want to think about.

"Alright" He said as he walked into the flat but much to his surprise it wasn't his mum with Steve it was his auntie Carla she was with and by no means did she look in a good state, her face was stained with the odd bit of eye makeup smudged down her face from crying and she was as white as a sheep.

"Hey mum what's up" He asked walking over to her, even though he was almost 22 he still cared for his mum millions and would do anything to protect her especially after the little dip in their relationship with him taking drugs.

"Me yea I'm fine babe, how was your night"

"Fine so yeah I'll leave you guys and go chill" He said walking away into his room and shutting the door.

Michelle….

As soon as Ryan was in his room she looked up to Carla who immediately embraced her in a hug, telling her over and over again everything would be okay as she continued to cry into her. She had no idea what to do whether to tell anyone else or keep it a secret but thinking about it only made her head hurt more so decided the best thing to do was just to fall asleep.