This chapter is long overdue and I am so sorry about that. Things have been hectic. However, I am ill so I decided to use this day off school to add another chapter. Please don't hate me!

Oh and I don't own HMV obviously

"P-pregnant?" I stared at my older sister. How could she be pregnant? She's only eighteen! Way too young to have a baby. "How?"

Rowan threw me a dirty look. "You know the facts of life, Ally!"

That almost made me laugh. "No, I know that! I meant… didn't you use anything?" Call me selfish (your selfish, Ally Love!) but I started thinking about my situation with Billy, there was NO WAY I was going any further with him now.

"Of course!" She blinked her big brown eyes at me, insulted. Then she hesitated. "I think."

I groaned, thank goodness I wasn't thirteen again, the thought of Rowan and Alfie… y'know, would've been unbearable. "Was it the first time?"

"Ally." Rowan said as if I was very stupid. "I am eighteen. I have been with my boyfriend since I was fifteen."

I guess that's a no then…

"W-what are you going to do?" I asked

Tears filled Rowan's eyes. "I don't knooooow." She sobbed. "I mean… I'm going to University next year and his at Uni right now! We can't handle this!"

Rowan and Alfie took turns in going to visit each other, every weekend so it wasn't a surprise that they had… y'know.

"Well… have you told him?"

"No. I've only told you and Von." She explained, her cheeks were stained with tears. I remembered the phone call from before and guessed it was Von. "I-I really don't know what to do Ally. I can't handle a BABY but I CAN'T get an abortion. I can't!"

"Tell Grandma." I suggested.

Rowan looked at me as if I was crazy. "GRANDMA? Are you nuts? She'll kill me!" She squeaked.

"Yeah but she'll know what to do." I pointed out.

Rowan shook her head. "Not telling Grandma." She whispered firmly.

"Linn?"

Rowan rolled her eyes, I clearly wasn't helping. "Alfie's best friend? She'd kill me for touching her best friend and then kill him for touching her little sister. No way."

"Mum?"

Rowan opened and closed her mouth and looked thoughtful, we both knew that Mum would know what to do. "I-I guess…" She took a deep breath, dried her eyes and looked at me. "She's going to murder me."

"Yeah…" I agreed. "But she'll help you." I pointed out.

Ro took a deep breath. "Okay, I'll do it tonight. Man, I feel like you've bullied me into this."

What she said made me think of Tor and Ivy. I replayed the conversation to her and she stared at me thoughtfully. "So somehow, Freddie and this girl Georgina… maybe their bulling them?"

Rowan nodded in agreement. "Sounds like it. Become 007 and spy on him a little."

Usually I disapproved on eavesdropping (Uh… kind of) but I had to get to the bottom of this. I slunk away from Ro and crept downstairs, Tor was on the phone again, talking in hushed voices.

"This Saturday?" Tor sounded frightened. "I-I don't know Freddie… What time? Um, midday would be good for me… outside HMV? S-sure…" Tor sighed, said goodbye and hung up. He put the phone on the hook and closed his eyes.

I stomped on the stairs that I was standing on so it sounded like I was coming down the stairs. "Hey Tor. What's up?"

"Nothing!" He growled and stormed past me.

I called after him but he didn't hear me. I thought about it, Saturday. Midday. HMV. I was going to be there.

That night, I was coming out of the kitchen with a drink when I saw Rowan standing in the living room door, she didn't see me.

"Mum, dad… there's something I need to tell you."

She walked in and shut the door.

Saturday

"How could you be so stupid, Rowan?" Grandma was sighing as she poured a drink for Ivy. "The babies aunt will only be six years younger than Ivy! When the baby is ten, Ivy will only be sixteen! That's terrible!"

"Actually, by the time the baby will be born, Ivy would be seven so when the baby is ten, Ivy would be seventeen." Rowan murmured, causing Grandma to shoot her a dirty look.

"How can you ruin your life?" Grandma snapped. "You can't go to University with a baby!"

"Actually I can…" Rowan pointed out. "If I go to the local one, the baby can stay home whilst I go out and study."

"And who would look after it, may I ask?"

"Mum?" Rowan shrugged. "I'd look after it all the time except for when I was learning! And I wouldn't be at lessons all day! Just a few hours a day or I'd get a sitter!"

Grandma raised an eyebrow. "Rowan! That'll never work."

"Leave it, mum." Mum walked in and gently kissed Ro's head. "She'll sort it somehow. I have faith in her." Mum and dad had been surprisingly okay but Rowan's news and were supporting her the whole way.

Linn had come down last night, Friday night, so they were going to tell her today and Alfie was coming down later that night so Rowan was going to tell him then. She was scared, I could tell.

At eleven, there was a knock at the door. I gasped in surprise at the two people standing in front of me. They were both dressed in combat styled clothes and Billy had speared black lines on his cheeks and was wearing an army-styled baseball hat.

"Let's go." I smirked at Kyra and Billy. We were walking to HMV – I knew which one Tor was talking about. I had called them and asked them to help me, they had agreed.

We arrived at HMV at about eleven thirty and spread out, we must've looked very suspicious. I watched the entrance, a ginger-ish boy stood out front with three other boys, two boys were blonde and one had black hair, they looked dodgy. A second later, Tor appeared. "Suspect has arrived." I whispered to Kyra, she nodded and dashed over to Billy to tell him. Billy picked up some games and pretended to be interested whilst Kyra went over to the CD's and searched through them.

The boys seemed to be having an argument, Tor kept shaking his head, one of the blonde ones – Maxie, I think – was obviously the leader. He kept nodded in a really obnoxious way and pushed Tor into the direction of the shop. The other blonde one – Jake – was smirking and kept saying something which looked like he was mocking Tor. The dark-haired one – Sean presumably – looked bored and his eyes kept straying although he occasionally chuckled at something someone said, Freddie was the only one who looked uncomfortable.

"GO!" I heard the word's out of Maxie's mouth as well as I read them.

I swallowed, rubbing my forehead. Tor took a deep breath and walked into the shop, I ducked my head and went on the isle behind him but a distance away. I saw Kyra eye him and then pointed two fingers at her eyes and then two at mine, and then she pointed to Tor.

I understood what it meant; we had gone through codes on our walk up. I gave her the thumbs up and she stood on the aisle in front but like me, a little distance away. I spotted Billy and silently tapped my wrist together. Billy went on the aisle vertical to the one Tor was in.

Thankfully, Tor hadn't noticed. He was staring hard at a game, some racing one I think. He stared at it for a long time and then took a deep breath. He gently produced a small pin and pretended to be searching through the DVDS, he then so quickly and calmly ripped off the plastic thing that surrounds it, I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been watching.

Then, as quick as blinking, he stuck the DVD in his coat. My mouth dropped open, he then went over to the counter and my heart started to relax but then he picked up a pack of Animal Cards (bless him), bought that and then left.

Without paying for the DVD.

I couldn't believe what I had just seen. My little brother was a thief; this reminded me of the time that Ro had been bullied. This was different. He had been forced into doing it, it was obvious.

My little brother was a thief.

What next?

There you are!

Enjoy!