Selena's POV

After my free period of passionate love-making with Demi it was lunch for the pupils and Demi but not me as I'd had my lunch an hour earlier. Demi stayed in my office during lunch but left at one forty five, halfway through lunch, when Shauna came into my office visibly shaking.

"Hey, hey, hey… Calm down, it'll be okay. They can't do anything whilst I'm here and we're going to try and make them understand. It'll be fine. Have you spoken to either of your parents since we last spoke?" I asked her as I looked at the clock on the wall, her parents should be here any minute.

Shauna didn't say anything, she just nodded and pulled her phone out of her pocket, showing me a text from 'mom'.

What the hell have you told them Shauna?

"Did you reply?" I asked her, to which she shook her head. I put my hand cautiously on her shoulder and rubbed her arm awkwardly. She stiffened up at my touch and then visibly relaxed when I let go. I knew there was something more to this girl. "I'll give your parents a call to make sure they're still coming in." I told her quietly, unsure of anything else to say. As if on cue the phone rang as my hand hovered over it.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Mrs Lovato, Mr and Mrs Derry are here to see you. If you could come to the office to meet them please." Said the elderly sounding secretary in a ridiculously heavy Birmingham accent, which I'd noticed a lot of the pupils had.

"Yeah, no problem I'll be right there." I told her before putting the phone down. "Come on, they're here. I promise you It'll be okay, nothing bad can happen whilst I'm here." I promised her as I opened the door. There were a few pupils stood outside my office in a group, it didn't seem like they were intending on coming in so I questioned them. "Did you girls want to see me?" I asked them with my eyebrows raised. They shook their heads and I looked down the corridor. "You know you're not allowed to hang around the corridors during lunch, come on girls don't make me be the bitch on my first day." I told them with a small smile. They mumbled amongst themselves and went the opposite way down the corridors to which we were going.

I saw a couple around the age of my own parents sitting on the seats down by the office. Shauna stopped dead in her tracks once she spotted them and grasped my sleeve tightly. I turned to look at her, she'd lost the very little colour she had to her face and was completely pale.

"I can't do this…" She whispered into my ear. I went to respond but she carried on. "I'm pregnant… I can't…" she trailed off with tears in her eyes. I was shocked to say the least but I just nodded. Standard procedure would be to inform her parents so since she'd told me that I couldn't let them leave today without telling them.

"Okay, we'll talk in a minute." I whispered back to her. She nodded and her parents noticed us. Her dad smirked and her mom looked down. I left Shauna standing around ten feet away and went over to her agitated parents.

"Hi, I'm Selena, we spoke on the phone. If you two could please come with us and I'll explain everything to you." I told them. They both nodded and I spoke to the lady in the office, who gave me the keys to the conference room.

Shauna sat next to me, her parents on the opposite side of the table. As her father went to sit down Shauna shook her head. I noticed a weird kind of eye contact between the two of them, like he was threatening her with his eyes.

"No… Just my mom… please." She practically begged. I looked up at her dad expectantly, her mom looked shocked and he just looked purely pissed off.

"Mr Derry, if you could just wait outside for a while please." I instructed him in a strict tone, hopefully telling him I wasn't in the mood to be messed with. He left with an angry grumble and slammed the door behind him. Shauna's mom looked at her angrily with her eyebrows raised.

"Mrs Derry, I need to speak with you about Shauna. She is really unhappy at the moment. She says that you and your husband haven't had the best reaction to her sexual orientation?" I told her questioningly. The woman nodded and shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't agree with it and whilst she's living under my roof she'll accept that I don't accept it." She said simply as if it was right.

"Okay, of course you're entitled to your opinions but why don't you just take a minute to listen to how it's making your daughter feel?" I asked. Mrs Derry nodded smugly, as if her opinion couldn't be changed. Shauna opened her mouth then closed it again a few times before she actually managed to speak. She basically just repeated more in-depth what she'd told me earlier. It took her around two minutes to explain and when she was done her mom had a tear rolling down her cheek.

She took a few moments but she finally spoke, "Shauna, I love you, I really do. You're my child, I just want to protect you. I don't want a lifestyle for you where you'll constantly be ridiculed, I don't agree with homosexuality. I know that you can't change it but you should try because all I want for you is the best and you can't have that if you like girls. My parents always told me it was wrong and I guess I'm just passing down their views. I've tried Shauna, I really have. I tried so hard at first to come to terms with what you'd told us but it didn't work. I'm still trying, I know it doesn't seem that way and the horrible things I say to you sometimes are never anything I mean, it's just so hard for me. You're my first born, my only girl." She told Shauna who started to tear up as well. Shauna looked down at her nails which she was picking on her lap.

"Mom, it's bad enough at school, I don't need it at home. I know what this lifestyle comes with and if I could change it I would, but mom I like girls and that's not something that you, me, dad, some church or anyone else can change." Shauna said bravely. I noticed that she seemed a lot more confident around her mom when her dad wasn't around.

"I know that, God I know, but I can't just accept it straight away. It's hard for me, like I said, all I want is to protect you." She said sadly. I picked a box of tissues up from behind me and passed them the Shauna then her mom so they could both wipe their eyes.

"Mom, please try to understand at least that this isn't something I need protecting from and even if it was you physically couldn't." Mrs Derry didn't respond, she just nodded her head and wiped her eyes again.

"Mrs Derry, if you're willing to try to come to terms with Shauna's sexuality then that is a big step in itself. You are not expected to accept it overnight, you're not supposed to just change your views and deal with this as one couple, you and your husband. There are support groups, there is one just a few miles from here in Birmingham I think, it's especially for parents, friends and family of homosexuals that are trying to accept their loved ones. If you are serious about trying to accept Shauna for who she is then I can help you with that and get you in touch with someone at the group. Is that perhaps something you'd be interested in?" I offered, my knowledge on it being quite high from researching it after my first meeting with Shauna when she mentioned how her parents felt.

"Yeah… Anything, I know I haven't been the best mother lately but it's been so hard for me. I'll do anything to accept this, really." She said with a smile directed at Shauna who smiled back then stood up. She walked over to her mom who stood up as well and hugged her tightly. Their hug was interrupted by the door swinging open loudly and Mr Derry standing there clearly pissed off.

"I swear to GOD Shauna…" He shouted but he was interrupted by Shauna screaming and dropping to the floor clutching her mother's leg.

"Don't let him touch me… Mom please get him out! Not again… I can't… Please… Mom not again, it hurts!" She practically shouted as she shook on the floor and dug her nails into her moms leg who had a look of sheer horror on her face.

That was all Shauna's dad needed to walk across the room and grab her arm, dragging her up and trying to pull her out of the room. Shauna screamed in desperation and heaved a little.

"No!" She kept repeating loudly as her dad tried to pull her away. I took all but three seconds to run to the next room and call for help, I didn't realise that the next room was the staff-room, I hadn't noticed on the way up.

"Please, somebody help, get security or the police or something!" I shouted. Five teachers, including Michael and Demi, got to their feet and followed me back to the room where Mr Derry had Shauna by the hair attempting to drag her away whilst her mother kicked at her husband to make him let go.

It didn't take long before two school security guards came and forced Mr Derry away, leaving Shauna shaking and sobbing, scrunched up on the floor.

"What on earths going on here, Selena?" Michael asked me as he looked between the fragile girl and her extremely concerned mother.

"I'm not sure yet but I've got a good idea. Can you please just leave me to handle this? If I need any help I'll come straight to you." I asked him hopefully. I think I know who the father of her baby is was all I could think the whole time.

"Okay, we'll keep Mr Derry on school-premises until you tell us what needs to happen. Please don't hesitate to ask for help, when I put you on this trial I was not expecting you to have to deal with something like this." Michael explained apologetically. I just nodded and went over to Shauna, putting my arm around her shoulder awkwardly. She didn't move it but she did flinch again when I touched her which caused her mother to look at me with a worried expression. I looked up and saw Demi standing by the door, watching me with sad eyes.

I mouthed 'I love you' to her and she mouthed it back before leaving and closing the door.

"Mrs Derry, I know you're probably very confused about what's going on right now but I need to speak to Shauna before I can be sure of anything. Please, if you'd like to go to the staff-room next door, my wife Demi will be happy to get you a drink or something. She's the one that literally just left." I explained, not caring that I'd told a homophobic woman that I had a wife, right now all that was important was Shauna. Mrs Derry said nothing, she just nodded and left, leaving me and Shauna, who was still crying quietly and shaking slightly, alone.

"Shauna sweetie, it's okay… it's all okay, it's going to be fine." I whispered to her as I sat on the floor next to her and wrapped my arms around her. I remembered back to when Harley had been kidnapped, how shaken up he was and all Shauna did was remind me of it. I couldn't even begin to imaging how her own mother felt.

It took twenty minutes or so but finally Shauna stopped crying and looked at me with black make-up stains down her cheeks. I smiled sympathetically at her and she smiled weakly at me.

"It's him, isn't it?" I asked, assuming she'd know what I was talking about. I think she did but she played oblivious so I looked down at her stomach, "The baby… is your father the father of your baby?" I asked her seriously. She took a few moments but eventually she nodded her head slowly, as if she was petrified of him walking in at any minute.

"I'm a failure. I… I… He… I feel sick." She said through chokes. I looked at her and she was still ridiculously pale. It took all but thirty seconds for her to jump up and run to the trash can on the other side of the room, hurling her guts up into it. She held her own hair back so I didn't have to do anything, I just stood there awkwardly whilst the broken pregnant teenager threw up.

"How long?" I whispered to her whilst we were both sitting back up at the table. She looked up from her hands, towards me then back down again.

"Since I told them I was gay… five months ago. He said he'd make me straight if it's the last thing he did." She mumbled sadly. I looked at her in disbelief, she was just a kid, how could anyone ever do that to their own child?

"How far… Do you know how far along you are in your pregnancy?" I asked her which caused her to shake her head. I smiled sadly and decided she couldn't be that far along considering she was still stick thin. "Does he hit you as well?" I asked her expectantly. She didn't answer, she went back to being shy again. "Shauna you can't keep this quiet anymore now that it's all out. There are going to be questions from the police which you're going to have to answer, your mom's going to want to speak to you about it all as well. You may as well start by telling me because I know from the few hours I've known you that you trust me a lot more than you'd trust some police officer." I told her sternly, I wasn't being harsh but there would be police officers wanting to speak to her before the day ended and she needed to realise how seriously all of this was. She looked up at me again and opened her mouth to speak but instead she stood up and lifted her shirt and blazer slightly to reveal a slightly faded bruise on her hip.

"Any more?" I asked her, she nodded again and manoeuvred her skirt and tights so that she'd pulled her tights down slightly and lifted her skirt so nothing was on show except from a part of her legs where she'd clearly been scratched hard by something sharp. I felt physically sick, the cuts stuck out like a sore thumb and were still bleeding slightly as if they'd been ripping open again every time she moved.

"He never made it obvious, he did it where it wouldn't show." She whispered as if she was ashamed. Now I know why she flinches every time someone touches her.

"Okay… right, well do you want to speak to your mom on your own?" I offered. Shauna considered my offer for a moment then nodded. "All right, I'll be back with her in a moment then I'll leave you two to talk." I told her getting up and leaving the room. Shauna's mom was in the staff room just staring into space, clearly deep in thought. I looked at my watch and saw that lunch ended half an hour ago and Demi was therefore halfway through teaching her last lesson of the day.

Half an hour later and Shauna's dad was being escorted from the school grounds to the police station in the back of a police car and Shauna and her mom were walking up the school driveway to their car with their arms wrapped around each other and Shauna's head resting on her mom's shoulder.

"You did really well baby." I heard Demi whisper in my ear, I hadn't heard her walk up behind me and wrap her arms around my waist. She kissed my neck really softly and watched out the window with me at Shauna and her mom.

"I'm so glad that I helped her. I know things will get better for her now and I feel so great knowing that I'm part of the reason." I said proudly as I leant into Demi's embrace. Day well spent.

"I have to go baby, I have a form group now. I'll meet you at the car in fifteen minutes?" Demi asked me as she gradually pulled away. I nodded and turned around in her loosened embrace.

"Yeah, I'll go and speak to Michael, let him know completely what's gone on today." I told her tiredly, today had really knocked everything out of me but I couldn't have been happier about the outcome.

Friday lunch time, Demi's POV

Selena and I were in my English room around five minutes before the girls' lunch was due to start. We'd ordered pizza and bought fizzy drinks from the store on the way to work and had sort of planned something to do during the first run of the GSA.

Shauna was the first to show up and after five minutes there were thirteen girls from various year-groups sitting in a circle, I think the youngest was in year eight which would have made her around twelve.

"Alright girls, I know that it probably took guts for you all to come here today but it's not to worry, since all of you except from Shauna are in the closet I don't think there's any worry that anyone will be outed so you can all relax on that one. I'm Mrs Lovato for those of you that don't know me. I think I know around five of you in here so shall we start with introductions?" Demi asked with a welcoming smile as she closed the classroom door. She sat in an empty seat in the circle of chairs in between me and Shauna.

"I'm Selena, I'm the school councillor for the week, so we're gonna go around the circle and you're all going to tell us your name, your year group and how you personally would identify your sexuality and relationship status." I said to the small group of girls who all mumbled a quiet yeah.

"I'm Melissa, I'm in year ten, I'm bisexual and I have a boyfriend at the moment." Said a short chubby blonde girl.

"I'm Jessie, I'm in year eight, I don't know what I am right now but I have really strong feelings for my best friend who's a girl. I'm single now and I like it." Said a girl with heavy eyeliner, black hair and other typical 'goth girl' things.

"I'm Dev and I'm gay, I'm in year eleven and I have a girlfriend but it's a secret." A red-headed girl mumbled nervously. The girl sitting next to her grinned proudly and it wasn't exactly difficult to work out that she was the girlfriend.

"I'm Becca and I'm a lesbian, I'm in year ten and Dev is my girlfriend." She said much more confidently than her girlfriend, finishing off her statement by kissing Dev on her cheek which caused them both to blush slightly.

We got around the whole group of girls, in the room there were two couples and two girls that were seeing each other. Shauna came more out of her shell, I hadn't spoken to her properly since our meeting on Monday so I planned to pull her up after the group meeting.

"Okay girls, that's great, so you can all help yourselves to pizza and drinks then we'll start on how you guys would like to see homophobia challenged in the school. I apologize now that this session is a little shitty but we just need to sort of get to know you all before we can really do anything decent." I told the girls who all got up to eat.

The meeting went well and at the end I pulled Shauna over with Demi who smiled sympathetically at her.

"How are you?" I asked her as I looked down at her stomach.

"I'm fine, my mom and I are getting along so much better and we're going to a PFLAG meeting tomorrow. My dad's been remanded in custody but there isn't enough evidence to prove that he actually…" She trailed off looking down hoping I'd catch her drift.

"What? How? You're pregnant with his child, how is that not evidence enough?" I asked her slightly pissed off.

"There's no proof that it's his until it's born and from the scan my mom took me for that won't be for another six months." She said quietly.

"And have you decided whether you're going to have the child?" I asked her calmly. Demi sat next to me quietly listening intently. Shauna nodded her head and put her hands on her flat stomach.

"I'm going to have it and I'm going to keep it. No one has to know who it's father is, my mom said she'll help me as much as she can and we're going to move away after I've finished my exams, fresh start, you know?" She asked me calmly. I nodded, totally understanding where she was coming from. "At the end of it all this baby is still my child so I'm going to treat it like a normal kid. We're moving to Blackpool in August, I've applied for a few colleges there and there's even a mother and baby one which I've applied to. It's for the best." She said sadly.

"Yeah, maybe it is. Anyway, you best go to your lesson, I just needed to make sure that you're okay." I told her with a smile. Shauna nodded and left, leaving Demi to call her final class in and me to go back to my office for the last hour.

And it was over pretty quickly