It took about a day and a half for Teddy to arrive in Los Angeles. She had enough money to stay in a cheap motel for about a week so within that week she would have to find a job and a very cheap apartment.

Teddy checked herself into Jerry's motel. She went into her room and sighed when she sat down on the couch. She was scared and all alone and was regretting ever leaving her family. Maybe they wouldn't have been that upset with me, she thought. Or maybe they would be furious and kicked me out. Teddy took out the list of numbers she wrote down and decided to call her boyfriend, Spencer. Teddy used the hotel phone and dialed his number. She heard a faint hello on the other end.

"Spencer?"

"Teddy?" Spencer questioned. "Where the hell are you? Your parents are worried sick, I'm worried sick."

Teddy started to silently cry. "I'm so sorry."

"Teddy, Hun, please tell me what happened." Teddy didn't reply to her boyfriend's request. "Where are you?"

"A motel…"

"I meant, what state are you in or city or country. Where are you?"

"I can't tell you. You'll just tell my parents." Teddy cried. "They can't find out."

"They can't find out what?" Teddy didn't reply again. "Teddy, I need to see you. Can we webcam?"

"Yeah…" Teddy hung up and wiped her eyes with her hand as she turned on her laptop. She logged onto the motel's wifi and logged onto her Skype. She scrolled through her contacts and found her boyfriend's name and called him. Teddy started to cry again when she saw his face. She grabbed the pillow that was behind her and was hugging onto it, hiding her face into it so he wouldn't see her emotional state.

"There's my pretty girl or at least the top of her head." Spencer joked. "Baby, what's wrong?"

Baby, Baby, Baby kept going through Teddy's head. Teddy lifted her head up out of the pillow and saw her boyfriend's face which made her want to cry more. "I'm sorry, I can't do this. I love you so much, Spencer, don't ever forget that."

"Teddy, wa-." Spencer got cut off when Teddy slammed her laptop shut ending their call.

Teddy laid in her uncomfortable bed and continued to cry. She felt as if she was going to throw up, so she ran into the crappy bathroom and threw up in the toilet. How crappy the bathroom was just wanted her to throw up even more. But she held herself together and sat back down on her bed. She decided turn on the TV to get her mind off things.


"Are you sure she wasn't acting weird?" Amy asked. "Was she getting bullied?"

"Bullied? Mrs. Duncan, if someone was bullying my best friend, they would have to deal with me." Ivy said. "But there was this crazy rumor going around school, still is, about her."

"A rumor? What was it?" Amy asked.

Ivy started to laugh. "Something stupid. Some girls made up a rumor that Teddy is pregnant and there is a new one going around saying she went to get it "taken care of" or she went to one of those homes where they take teenage girls who end up pregnant." Ivy laughed again. "I find those rumors hilarious. I mean she's still a virgin like the rest of us beside Slutty Carlie and half the football team. We were actually just talking about it last Friday before school ended and we laughed about it."

Amy laughed. "Well my daughter is definitely not pregnant."

"No kidding, Mrs. Duncan, her boyfriend is in Boston. What did she do, go cheat on him?" Ivy laughed again. "Hey, I need to get back to doing my homework."

"Well thanks for your help." Amy said.

"No problem. I hope you hear from her and I'll let you know if I do."

"Thanks Ivy."

Amy sighed when she left the Wentz's. She cried when she got back into her car and sat in the driver's seat. All she wants is to know where her baby girl is and why she left. She doesn't care what she did, she just needs her daughter back home.


The next day, Teddy went to the mall to find some job openings at some clothing stores. She had filled out applications to ten stores and then went to an electronic store to get a new phone. She decided not to get a monthly plan but a cheap little prepaid phone. After she did that, she went to a grocery store and picked up a few items to bring back to the motel.

For the next couple of days, Teddy nonstop checked her email for a reply about a job opening. Over those days as she waited to hear back from the places she applied to, Teddy went apartment hunting. The majority of the apartments were way out of her price range. She then looked at a cheap studio apartment which was going for six-eighty a month. Teddy decided that would be the best she could do at the moment and signed a lease for one month.

The next day after signing it, Teddy was hired to work at a maternity store which she can get employee discount on items which was perfect for her since she is pregnant and can't afford anything. She would be starting immediately the following day.

That night, Teddy had bought a blow up mattress and a couple of pillows and blankets so she could sleep in her little studio apartment. Teddy blew the mattress up and made her bed as comfortable as possible. She sighed as she got in it.

"We're going to be just fine." She murmured rubbing her stomach.


Spencer sighed as he looked through photos of him and Teddy that were on his phone. Where is she, he thought. Why would she run away? Spencer was very confused why she would leave because she seemed very happy, that nothing was bothering her. Spencer quickly sat up into his bed

"I need to find her."