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Calleigh and Eric were about to leave the hotel room to revisit her parents house, Eric was telling himself not to get angry with her dad, he knew she'd only let him come because he had promised not to do anything stupid, but every time he thought he was calm an image of the scars would flash across his mind and he would want to kill him all over again.

"Eric…" Calleigh started, "now do you understand why I wanted to take things slowly?"

"Of course," Eric didn't need to think about it, of course he understood, she'd been through hell, of course she didn't want to have sex with him, sex was only a way of being hurt in her head, he knew he wanted to show her it didn't have to be like that, he wanted to show her how much he loved her, but he also knew he was willing to wait as long as it took until she was ready.

"There's something you should know, when I got to Tulane, I…I…I found…I found….."

"Calleigh?"

"I found out I was pregnant," she finished.

"Oh my god. I had no idea, what happened?"

"I couldn't decide what to do, I had it in my head that having an abortion would make me as bad as him, but the thought of having a living reminder of what they'd done scared the life out of me."

"They?" Eric asked.

"What?"

"You said 'what they'd done' not 'what he'd done', who is they?"

"Um, no one, nothing I meant 'he'," Calleigh replied.

"What did you do about the baby?" Eric asked, thinking she must've had an abortion, she didn't have a baby now and it was definitely what he would have done.

"I had it, a little girl, she was the most beautiful baby in the world," she said as tears began streaming down her face, "I named her Emma, she was so pretty she had big blue eyes you could get lost in, I loved her so much."

Eric didn't know what to say, what happened to the baby? He didn't think Calleigh would've been able to put a baby up for adoption but she was only 18, just a kid really, she would've struggled. Calleigh seemed to be able to read his mind.

"She was born 7 weeks premature, she had to have machines to keep her alive," Calleigh was crying full flow now, Eric put his arms around her and sat her back down on the bed, "she hung on for 3 weeks, but eventually she gave up, but she was a fighter, they said she wouldn't last a day, but she was getting stronger, I thought she was going to make it but she didn't, they tried to see if she could breath on her own, but she couldn't, eventually they said they had to turn off the machines, she died in my arms."

"Calleigh, I'm so so sorry," Eric was in shock, how could he not have known this, as if she hadn't been through enough.

"It's ok Eric, it's not your fault, and besides it was a long time ago, I don't know, after telling you everything yesterday, I felt better knowing that somebody else knew, I thought maybe it'd be the same with this, I'm sorry."

"I'm glad you told me, so you've never told anybody this?"

"No, no one, at uni I think people may have guessed but I covered it up quite well, and as she was early I never actually got that big and I stayed at the hospital until she died. After she died I went back to college, threw myself back into my studies, didn't think about anything from my past, I tried to move on. I thought that if I slept with someone else I could forget about what they did, so I went to a bar and met this guy and went back to his place, I know you must think I'm a slut but I needed to forget, I thought after I'd be able to forget. It didn't work the entire time he was on top of me I was crying, I wanted him to stop but I'd led him on, I'd gone back to his place, I'd wanted to have sex with him."

"Calleigh…."

"I know it was stupid, but I needed to forget, when it didn't work I tried it with other guys until I just gave up trying and just went numb, I just thought you should know all of the facts before you get involved with me, you should know what I'm really like."

"Calleigh, that wasn't the real you, I know that, you'd just escaped from hell, it wasn't your fault." Eric was sure Calleigh was still keeping something from him, he noticed she'd said 'they' again and she still seemed secretive, but he didn't want to push her, she'd already let him in, told him secrets she'd kept her entire life, he knew it must've been hard for her to trust him, he figured she'd tell him when she was ready. He felt like he was getting to know the real Calleigh, the person behind the mask, not the Calleigh she pretended to be when at work, the one who had been used and abused her entire life and yet never let anyone see how much she was hurting.

"Thanks Eric, maybe we should go, if we get there too late, dad will already be half cut," she smiled before placing a light kiss on his lips then standing up.

"Yeah," Eric replied, also standing up. They both walked out of the door and out of the hotel and began walking towards Calleigh's parents' house hand in hand. They arrived 10 minutes later.

"Are you ready?" Calleigh asked him.

"Always," he replied squeezing her hand. Calleigh raised her hand and knocked on the door, preparing for another argument with her father, she was also worried about what Eric would do, she knew he'd said he wouldn't do anything but she knew better than most that when emotions ran high anything could happen.

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