Author's Note: Hey everyone! Thanks for all your kind reviews! And I will try to make the chapters longer...Sorry about all the short chapters so far, I think you will find this one is longer then the other ones have been. Remember to R&R!!!

On a side note, I just wanted to say that I do not believe in abortion. I think that even when a baby is a few weeks old while it is still inside of its mother is still a living, breathing, human being. I don't want to impress my views on anyone else, this is just my view. And I won't have Rory have an abortion because of said beliefs. Thans for your time! And I hope I haven't offended anyone...

Sincerely,

Macyn Blue

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Chapter Four

Alone?

Jess sat in the chair at the table in his small apartment. Head in hands, processing the information Rory had given him.

She had broken up with him…because she was pregnant with another guy's baby… What was he supposed to think? All he wanted to do at that moment was cry…but his pride wouldn't allow that.

There had to be away to get her back. Maybe she wasn't in love with the guy? Perhaps the guy didn't want anything to do with her, or the baby… Like his father had felt about Jess and Liz… Could he really walk away like that knowing that the woman he cared about most would be raising a kid on her own?

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Rory had collapsed on the couch in the common room soon shortly after she had arrived at her dorm. The pillow she clutched to her face had absorbed a majority of her crystal tears before becoming soggy, and smelling faintly of salt.

Rory continued to cry; she knew Finn would want nothing to do with the child, and she knew Jess would certainly have no part in dealing with this mistake, which another man had made.

She was truly, and utterly alone.

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Finn sat still absorbing the information from before. He was only 22 for God's sake! He couldn't have a kid now! He was a drunkard, a bastard if anything. He had slept with God knows how many women, and he didn't want to grow up and become his father but he knew that was likely what he would become.

That was his fate. Graduate Yale, take over the business, become married to a trophy wife all the while sleeping with the nanny on the side, and have children whom would grow into resentful adolescents who would likely end up just like him…

He didn't want that, and he didn't want Rory to be the wife whom he would grow tired of and end up cheating on. He couldn't do that to her, she was too good for that. And he didn't want his child or children to hate him like he hated his own father.

It was better to cut his losses while he could… Wasn't it?

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Rory felt that she had drained her body of what probably was the 90 percent of water she was made up of. Or whatever percent water she was supposed to be, in the tears that had spilled from her eyes just seconds ago.

What were her options? Get an abortion? Adoption? Or keep the kid…? What did her mother do? Her mother could have done the first two options, but she had kept Rory, and if she had had an abortion, Rory would have never had the chance to have the life she had had. Shouldn't she allow her daughter, or son the same courtesy? To have a full and abundant life? To feel love, heartache, achievement of goals? Didn't everyone deserve that opportunity?

As she thought about the living being inside her, she felt in her heart that she couldn't live knowing she had allowed her child to be killed, or be raised by another family. Rory wanted to raise her baby, be a mother like her mother had been. Their best friend in the world.

And that was what she would do. Even if she was a single parent, if her mother could handle it at 16, Rory could certainly do the same at 21.