A/N- Hey guys, I'm sorry that it's been a while, I've been sooooo busy you have no idea. This chapter will hopefully be a good one and I can't wait to read your reviews!!!

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Martin looked at the door that had just shut and swore.
"What's wrong?" Ruthie asked him and he shook his head.

"Why is it so hard to get answers?" He responded. "How can you be so close to finding out the truth and then the answer runs away?"

"It doesn't matter, we're in this together, right? No matter what the news is?" Martin nodded.

"I've never been more sure. I'm in love with you, Ruthie Camden." There was another knock on the door and the doctor walked back in, an apologetic look on her face.

"I'm sorry guys, there was a little situation but now I'm ready. Ruthie, am I right in saying you were on birth control and recently came off?" The doctor was looking at Ruthie, paying totally no attention to Martin.

"Yeah, I was. But it was because my period was very irregular and I got really bad cramps. When those problems went away, I gradually got off of it and I haven't had a problem since until now.

"When did you get off the pill?"

"About two months ago." The doctor nodded as she wrote some notes down on her notepad.

"How many times have you ever had sex and how many men have you been with?"
"This is all confidential right? My parents won't ever know I was here for this appointment?" Ruthie asked her and when the doctor had nodded back, began speaking again. "I've had sex once, with one guy."

"When?"

"Two or three months ago." The doctor nodded.

"Take another pregnancy test in two months, but I'm pretty sure that your late period has something to do with you coming off the pill." Ruthie smiled at the woman and then jumped off the table.

"Come on, Martin. Let's go." Martin stood up and followed Ruthie out the door and into his car where he hugged her.

"You did great in there." He whispered into her hair.

"I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't been there with me. I was so scared." Ruthie looked at him, complete honesty in her eyes as well as love. "If something else had happened, something worse than me just being irregular, than I don't know how I would have coped.

"Well we don't have to worry about that just yet, do we?" Martin flashed his handsome smile.

"Where are we going now? The appointment actually didn't take as long as I thought it would."

"That is for you to decide." Martin told her and she thought for a moment.
"Let's back to my house and watch a movie." Ruthie shrugged. He nodded and drove back towards the Camden's house.

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Annie's P.O.V.

How could she have such irresponsible children? Mary, Simon, and Ruthie were all turning out the complete opposite as they had been raised. First, Mary with all the vandalism and then everything that had happened with Carlos, and then Simon with all his premarital sex and his engagement to that woman Rose which thankfully hadn't happened although he had gotten Sandy pregnant. Ruthie had most likely gotten pregnant with Martin's baby and that was why they were thinking about getting married. It most likely wasn't even that she even loved him at all although she was accepting her responsibilities.

"Eric!" She shouted up the stairs to the bedroom that they shared and he came running down the stairs.
"What is it, Annie?" He asked her when was there.
"I think I've figured out why Ruthie and Martin are thinking about getting married." Annie told him breathlessy. "I think that Ruthie and Martin slipped and slept together and she's pregnant. They're just getting married to keep it hidden." Eric stood motionlessly as he took in what his wife had just said to him and shook his head.

"Annie, no. They can't be pregnant." He murmured back.

"And why not, and don't give me the whole 'she's so innocent and mature' thing, Eric because we both know she's flirty."

"Because the doctor's office just called and she went in today to get a pregnancy test."
"Oh," Annie's face opened up with shock. "But you do know what that means though, right? It means that she and Martin had sex."
"She's not pregnant!" Eric tried to smile and Annie threw the dish drying towel at him.

"It's not funny!" She said loudly to him. "First Simon and now Ruthie, what's going to happen to Sam and David? Why can't our kids wait until marriage?" Eric leaned on the counter top.

"It's not our kids. It's the people who their dating."
"But Martin's a good kid."

"Yeah, that doesn't mean that he doesn't have urges." He answered coldy. Annie nodded and dried another dish off and put it on the rack.

"What are we going to tell Ruthie when they get home?"

"Nothing. The doctor's office said that they promised Ruthie it would be confidential so we have to honor it." Annie nodded and gave him a hug, her head on his chest.

"I don't know how long I'll be able to lie to my Ruthie though." He tightened the hug.

"I know, I don't either."

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Martin and Ruthie's P.O.V.

Ruthie looked out the window of Martin's 1983 Chevy Camaro, trying to ignore the empty hole in the pit of her stomach. She didn't know what exactly what was wrong, but she had a basic idea.

"Martin, what would have happened today if we had found out I was pregnant?" She asked him for what seemed like the millionth time. Martin grinned and reached over to wrap his arm around her shoulder.

"We've already talked about getting married. I don't care if we've only been going out for a short time, it's seems like I've know you my whole life and I want to be with you for the rest of it. Raise a family, grow up, laugh, cry together. I want to grow old together and be able to look back together and be proud of who we are and what we've become. I've never felt this way about anyone else." He answered, taking his eyes off the road every few minutes to look at her. Ruthie felt her insides twist a little more.

"I know this might sound weird to you but I kind of wished I was pregnant." She finally said when they were around the corner from their house. The car slowed down as Martin turned to look at her and Ruthie began to feel a little warm in the face.

"What?" He asked her calmly and Ruthie reluctantly opened her mouth a gain.

"Spending a few days thinking I was pregnant is bound to put some thoughts in your head." Ruthie instead of looking at him was looking out the window. "It would have been exciting, but even I know I'm too young. Just pretend I hadn't said anything." She spoke quickly and Martin remained silent, thinking about what he was going to say.

"Ruthie, I know what you mean. It would have been exciting but, we should wait a little while until we even think about that." Martin now looked outside the window as well, feeling the way he had a few months earlier when he and Ruthie had had a talk about love and why she wouldn't go out with him. He took a breath and ignored what she said. It didn't matter to him, it would all happen someday.