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Chapter 7 - Beth's POV

*About five weeks later*

It was Friday, about nine-thirty in the morning, and I was sitting in the living room watching a movie and eating a bit of popcorn. Then Maggie walked in. It was weird because Maggie always stayed in her room. She only came out for things like, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

"Hey Bethie." she said. She hasn't called me Bethie since mom died.

"Hey Maggie." I said with a small smile. She came and sat beside me on the couch.

"So what's been goin on?" she asked.

"Umm nothing." I told her.

"I mean with you and Scott?" she asked.

"Oooh. He's sweet." I said.

"Just sweet? Has he taken you out yet?" she asked. I smiled.

"Yea he's taken me to dinner twice." I told her.

"Good." she said.

"So what's up with you? You're... you're actually talking to me. I've missed you talking to me. Remember when we used to talk about everything?" I told her. She nodded. A tear threatened to fall from her eye.

"Yea. I've just... I know I shouldn't have but I've been thinking. I was being cold because of mama's death. I shouldn't have been but I was. I felt like I lost everything. But I was too blind to see that I hadn't. I lost mama but you and daddy did too. A special someone helped me to realize that. I should've been there for you and daddy. When you needed me the most. I wasn't. Now I'm gonna do my best to make up for it. And you're my little sister. I'm sure you need a girl to talk to sometimes because daddy won't always understand. Just know I'm here and that I'm sorry." she said now in tears.

"Oh Mags." I said and pulled her into my embrace. "It's okay. No need to apologize. We knew you needed a little more time than we did."

"It's no excuse though to act the way I did to you while you were trying your hardest to be nice to me." she said. I shook my head.

"Don't worry about it. That's dead and gone alright? It's over." I told her. She nodded and wiped her tears away.

"I just want you to know you can talk to me about whatever is on your mind too okay? Anything. No matter how bad it may seem." she said.

"Alright." I said pushing a piece of hair behind her ear. "So. Who's this special someone?"

"Oh a guy from church. We're kind of together. As of two days ago" she said smiling.

"Awww. When can we meet him?" I asked excitedly.

"Sunday." she said blushing. Man, I haven't seen a genuine smile on Maggie's face since the last Christmas we had with mama. I'm gonna love this. "Sooo. You sure you have nothing to talk about? You know I'm here for you?" I just looked at her weirdly.

"Umm yea?" I said. She sighed.

"Beth..." she said shaking her head and putting her hands together.

"What?" I asked her.

"I know about you and Rick." Maggie said then closing her eyes and taking a breath.

All of a sudden, it was like my heart stopped along with my breathing.

"What?" I managed to get out. "I- I don't. What are you talking about?"

"You're with Rick. Beth you don't have to hide it from me. I know." she said.

"H-h- um how d-do, umm how did you find out?" I said quietly, shaking.

"I see the way he looks at you. The way you look at him. Then I put two and two together. You know... He has a wife Beth." she said.

"Don't you think I know that?" I said a tad bit angrily. She threw her hands up.

"I just want to make sure you know what you're getting into, and not to mention daddy." she said quietly. "And what about Scott? He's so sweet and..."

"I know okay?!" I told her.

"Is he forcing you Beth?" she asked.

"No no no. I- I- I pursued him." I said shamefully.

"You sleeping with him?" she asked.

"Noooo. I'm still a virgin." I told her.

"Oh okay. Cause you know he could get arrested? You're not 18 yet." she said.

"I know I know I know. But you know. He cares about me." I said. She looked at me sympathetically. "And don't look at me like that."

"I just... I just don't want you to get hurt. Or in trouble. You continue this relationship with him and that'll be all I see. He's a pastor. He has a wife. You'll hurt Scott. Dad. Lori." she said.

"But Lori's cheating on him." I blurted out then covered my mouth.

"What?!" she asked.

"With Shane. Just... Forget I said anything okay." I begged.

"Okay. Just be careful Beth okay? I couldn't take it if anything bad happened to you." she said and hugged me.

"Thanks." I said. Then daddy walked in. He had went grocery shopping.

"What is this?" he asked looking amused.

"Sisters bonding." Maggie said with a smile.

"Wow... Never thought I'd see the day." he said.

"I just got a little insight, realized some things. I'm truly sorry for the way I've been acting all these years." Maggie said standing then walking up to hug daddy. "I love you."

"I love you too sweetheart." daddy said to her and smiled. "Oh Bethie, I saw Scott at the store. He said he's coming to pick you up so you two can go out to see a movie."

"Oh okay." I said with a smile.

"He should be here in ten minutes." he said smiling.

"Okay." I said. I didn't mind Scott taking me out randomly at times but I wish he'd come to me about it first.


*With Rick and Lori, No ones POV*

Rick and Lori sat on the couch together, as Bones was on the tv. Lori wasn't really watching. Her eyes were shut though she wasn't asleep. Rick's eyes on the other hand were locked tight on the screen.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom." Lori said. Rick nodded. Lori got up to go to the bathroom. Rick pulled out his phone.

From: Rick

To: Beth

Goodmorning beautiful!

From: Beth

To: Rick

Goodmorning!

From: Rick

To: Beth

How are you doing? I miss you.

From: Beth

To: Rick

I'm doing alright. I miss you too. When can I see you?

From: Rick

To: Beth

Want to do something right now?

From:Beth

To: Rick

Can't right now. Scott's picking me up for the movies.

From: Rick

To: Beth

Well... How about tomorrow? We can go for a drive. We can leave at noon. Go somewhere no one knows us. We can just be us.

From: Beth

To: Rick

That sounds good. I can't wait.

From: Rick

To: Beth

Me neither. Being with Lori is...

From: Beth

To: Rick

Miserable.

Then Lori came back from the bathroom and Rick casually put his phone in his back pocket.

"I have a conference tomorrow. It's a church thing. About two hours away." he lied to her.

"Okay." she said seemingly happy. "So um?"

"Yea?" he asked her. She put her fingers together.

"I'm late Rick." Lori said to him. His eyes widened.

"Really?" Rick said then his eyes went back to normal as he remembered she's been with Shane.

"Yea really!" she said smiling.

"Did you get a test?" he asked.

"Yea. I haven't taken it yet." she said.

"You should take it now." he said with a fake smile. She nodded and went to the bathroom again.

She came out about ten minutes later with a digital test.

"It's positive." she said with a big smile. This is the first genuine smile Lori had ever given him and the fact that the situation they were in may or may not have been caused by him, made him angry. That she was willing to lie to him forever about him being the father. But he was willing to go along longer if that meant him and Beth being together. Lori's sin would be worse that his. Right?

"That's awesome!" Rick said and embraced her.

"I'm gonna go set up an appointment." she said and went into our room. Rick sighed and put his head into his hands.

He hoped this baby wasn't his. Was that bad? It'd given him even more reason and it'd make it a whole lot easier to leave Lori.


*With Scott and Beth at the movie theater, Beth's POV*

"Baby, you gotta pick a movie. We can't stand here forever." Scott said to me.

"I just didn't realize there were so many movies. You pick!" I told him.

"If I pick, it may be something you don't like." he said.

"Try me." I said crossing my arms.

"Guardians of the Galaxy." Scott said. I gave a look of disgust. "See I told you!"

"I just don't see why you would want to watch that." I said with my head cocked sideways as I bit my bottom lip.

"You're so cute." he said just staring at me with a grin.

"I know. So do we have to watch that?" I asked. He took my hand.

"We don't have to. We can watch 22 Jump Street." he told me.

"I don't know... Channing Tatum is pretty hot though." I said with a grin.

"Really..." Scott said with a straight face.

"But you're hotter." I said leaning up to kiss him. He smiled and returned the kiss. I smiled back.

Everything was so easy with him. I hated that I had to lie to him though.

"We can watch The Fault In Our Stars." I said with a pout. He looked at me amused.

"The Fault in Our Stars? Babe..." he said.

"For me?" I said looking him in the eyes. He just continued to look at me with a straight face. I leaned up and gave him a peck on the lips. "Please?" He sighed.

"Darn. Okay fine." he said. He paid for our tickets and we went in hand in hand. "Do you want popcorn or anything?" He then placed a hand on my lower back.

"Umm. I'm not a big popcorn person. Can I just get like... something sweet?" I asked him.

"You can get whatever you want babe." he said caressing the small of my back. "There's sour patch, skittles, nerds, anything sweet pretty much."

"Okay. Uh, can you get me a sour patch?" I asked him.

"Anything for you beautiful." he said as we stepped up in the line.

"What can I get you two?" the girl asked.

"Scott you sure you want to pay for it? I mean those are really expensive for sour patch." I told him.

"Baby. Stop. Okay. I'm your boyfriend. I want to be able to get you whatever you want. Alright?" he said and kissed my cheek. I smiled genuinely for once. He was really so sweet I couldn't deny.

"Aw. You two are so cute." the girl said.

"Thanks." I told her.

"Wish my boyfriend was like that." she said chuckling. "But anyway. What can I get you guys?"

"One sour patch and a sprite." Scott said.

"$13.95." she said and Scott handed her a twenty.

"Alright 6.05 for your change." she said then handed us the sour patch and sprite.

"Thank you." Scott said.

"You guys enjoy your movie." she said winking but I'm pretty sure she was winking at Scott.

"We will." I said. I don't know why but that made me a tad bit upset. Who did she think she was winking at him? He's obviously with me.

Oh no... Why do I sound jealous? I don't like Scott. Not like... romantically. Right?

"Why did you sound mad when you responded to her?" Scott asked.

"She winked at you." I blurted out.

"You're jealous?" he asked with a grin.

"No." I said. "But she obviously saw that we were together. There was no need for her to wink at you."

"Babe... I didn't even see her wink. Wanna know why?" he asked.

"Why?" I said crossing my arms.

"I was too focused on you to be honest." he said to me.

"Really?" I asked him with a small smile.

"Really. There could be a million girls in the room. But all I see is you. Ever since I first laid eyes on you, it's been that way and it will never stop being that way." he said.

"Aw. That's really sweet." I said wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Only for you baby." he said and kissed my lips softly. "Alright. Let's go watch this movie." He took my hand and intertwined our fingers.

I couldn't be with Scott any longer. Not with him saying all these sweet sayings. Buying me stuff. Kissing me with such purpose. It just made me feel worse about everything. Made me feel worse about having two guys in my life. One was only supposed to be temporary but I found myself starting to develop a little bit of feelings for him as well. Hopefully, it wouldn't go much further than that.

*After the movie*

"That wasn't so bad now was it?" I asked him.

"I may have shed one tear." he said smiling. "I'm just glad I got to watch it with you."

"Me too." I said with a small smile. He kissed me tenderly.

"Beth I- Being with you, my days, they've been the best days of my life and I don't want to let go of that any time soon. We've been together for a month a two weeks. That's easily the longest time a girl has ever given me. Thank you for giving me a chance Beth. Every other girl, well kinda like you at first see me as annoying and lame and probably some other things. I just don't know how to be with girls because I was never given the time of day. I'm glad you gave me a chance because it gave you time to see who I am and it gave me a chance to see who you are. And I know it's only been a month and two weeks but... I've fallen in love with you Beth. And I don't ever want to lose you. And I can't see myself being with anyone other than you." Scott told me as nothing but tears flowed after he said he'd fallen in love with me.

What had I done?

"Beth, baby..." he said then pulled out a rectangle shaped box from his jacket pocket. He opened it and pulled a necklace from it. "I got this for you. It's got a locket. Inside it says I'll love you until my last breath. I have a matching ring and it's silver just like the necklace. Except the quote is on the inside of the ring. Do you like it?"

"It's.. It's beautiful. You didn't have to." I managed to say through tears. He was so sweet and I was the worst person in the world. I couldn't break up with him. But I knew the longer I was with him, the more hurt id cause him. I just couldn't bring myself to hurt him at this moment.

"I wanted to because I love you so much." he said kissing my cheek. "Here." He said lifting my hair, placing the necklace around my neck. Then he brought his hands back around and brought his thumbs up under my eyes, wiping my tears. He smiled at me once my eyes were clear. "I hope those are happy tears." I just nodded.

"I just don't deserve this." I said truthfully.

"Yes you do." he said obliviously. He kissed my lips softly as we were sitting outside the theater.

"Oh. And I love you too." another mistake made I realized after the words were out. Why why why am I so stupid?!

I put a fake smile on my face. He smiled and put an arm around my waist.

"Let's go." he said.

"Where?" I asked.

"My house. Mom and dad always love to see you." he said smiling.

"Okay." I said.

*At Scott's parents house*

"Beth! Can't believe he brought you! So good to see you sweetie." Mrs. Owens, Scott's mother said.

"Good to see you too." I said blushing.

"You look so beautiful. But you always do. Because Scott can never keep his eyes off of you." Mrs. Owens said as Scott turned red.

"Mom..." Scott said.

"Beth you should stay for lunch." Mr. Owens said with a warm smile.

"If you guys don't mind? Scott?" I asked.

"Seriously Beth. No I don't mind." Scott said with a smile.

"And I don't either." Mrs. Owens said.

"Okay then." I said with a shrug.


*The next day, Saturday*

Rick and I were sitting in the car. It was a two hour drive to some place unknown. It was silent. We were both obviously in our thoughts.

"So... How was yesterday with Scott?" he asked me. I shrugged.

"It was alright." I said. "He's really deep into this relationship though Rick. And I really hate to break his heart."

"So you care about him I see." he said.

"Of course I do Rick. It's the least I can do for him. It's easy for you to say that. You don't see him all the time. He's not in love with you!" I exclaimed. "His heart's gonna be broken."

"So what do you want me to do?!" he asked.

"Well if you figure things out with Lori sooner than later..." I told him.

"And what's that gonna do?" he asked.

"The longer I'm with Scott, the deeper the feelings, the deeper the hurt." I told him. "It's up to you, how much of a life do you want to ruin?"

"Jesus..." Rick said sighing.

"Yea call on him. Maybe he can guide us." I said rolling my eyes.

"I just realized how selfish I am." he said.

"Oh really. You're just now realizing that?" I asked.

"Don't rub it in my face. It wasn't intentional. I was just... thinking of how much I wanted to be with you and... I just didn't intend to hurt Scott. He seems like a nice guy. He doesn't deserve this." Rick said.

"He really doesn't Rick. And every day I want to tell him, but the way he looks at me... with so much adoration... I can't bring myself to do or say anything. And it's really bothering me Rick." I told him. He sighed.

We had finally arrived. It was a small town. We parked at a community center with a park and food stands and what not. We got out and started to walk.

"Beth... I'm so sorry. I just wasn't thinking before I went to telling you all this stuff. I promise, since I messed this up, I'll fix it. I don't want to screw up more than we need to. I'm just... I can't believe I was so selfish. I'm sorry." Rick told me.

"It's fine Rick. And we... we will fix it alright?" I told him. He nodded.

"So in this process of fixing... I have something to tell you." he said.

"What is it?" I asked him.

"Um... Lori's pregnant." he said.

"And it's Shane's." I said assuming.

"Um... I don't really know Beth." he said.

"What do you mean you don't really know?!" I exclaimed. "You slept with her?"

"Beth calm down." Rick said.

"Why should I? You're still in love with her!" I said. "And here you are just... You have no right to ask me about my relationship with Scott when you're still sleeping with... her."

"It was once! I'm not still sleeping with her. And I'm not still in love with her." he said with air quotes.

"Just stop." I said sitting on a bench. He came and sat on the bench but far away enough I couldn't hit him. I started to cry. "I can't believe you slept with her."

"Beth... I'm sorry. She's my wife. What else am I supposed to do when she wants sex?" he asked.

"Say you're too tired or somethin." I said sobbing.

"Beth..." he said scooting closer. He slowly placed a hand on my back and started caressing it. "I can't take back what I did but... If you just give me a chance, I promise to make it up to you."

"You want to make it up to me?" I asked rhetorically.

"Isn't that what I said?" he asked.

"Divorce her." I said looking directly at him.

"You know I can't until we find out who the actual father is." he said.

"Well that means you'll have to confront her about it. She not gonna come out and tell you about Shane." I told him.

"I'll do it when the time is right." he said.

"Yea and when's that?" I asked. "Rick... I feel like you think this is some game." I took his face in my hands and looked into his blue eyes. "It's either me or her, Rick. I'm serious. I'm going the mile for you. So I need you to do the same. Please. That's all I ask."

"Okay okay. I'm not gonna disappoint you." he said and kissed me on the lips gently. "Promise."


That it for Chapter Seven. I know it was terrible. A lot of probably unnecessary things in there with Beth and Scott but I just wanted to show how much he's invested in her. I will try to get to more Rick and Beth as soon as possible. I promise. They just have a couple of hurdles to get over.. But until next time. Love you guys! And please review for a faster update.