I swear, I WILL get round to making an MPreg story of someone different haha Maybe next time if I can come up with a plot for one of them...

Anyways, onwards with the story!

Chapter 10

Rydel had been sat in the room for about ten minutes with Ratliff on the bed, just holding him as he sobbed his hardest she'd ever seen. She'd be lying if she said she never had tears in her eyes and almost cried with him. Whilst he was sobbing into her arms, she'd called Ross to tell him to get down here as fast as he could and that was about five minutes ago, so she'd give it another five for him to actually get down here. She was going to wait until Ross got down here to tell him, but she decided to tell him over the phone as it would give him time to think and process it all through his mind. Even whilst she was holding Ratliff she still had to process it through her mind.

How did this even happen? How did he end up with some woman's baby letter? The only person who Rydel knows came to the hospital with a baby letter was Ella, and Rydel took that one. She was nosey or anything, she didn't look at it – she only took a very quick glance at Ratliff's, and she knew it didn't looked right. But she ignored it when she knew she hadn't and maybe then they wouldn't be here right now. If Ratliff wants to blame someone for this Rydel will be more than happy to take some of the blame, he can blame the rest on the doctor's or whoever got the letters mixed up in the first place.

But something else struck Rydel also. Why was Ella signing a letter for her to get a baby? Wasn't she still pregnant, regardless of how hard Ross hit her?

Wait a minute.

Rydel almost shouted out: "I fucking knew it!" but remembered what circumstances she was in at the moment and couldn't really say anything harsh without making him cry more, the most she could do was tell him "it's okay" and "it'll be fine" etc. or try to make him laugh. Even then he'd end up still crying or crying harder, and right now she didn't think it was possible. Though, she hadn't tried to make him laugh and cheer him up… maybe she could try now? She rubbed his back "Well, I always knew I was probably going to end up an Aunt before I was twenty-one, I just thought it'd be thanks to Rocky or Riker…" She said, which only made him let out another sob and cry into her more "I'm sorry! That was meant to be funny not horrible!" she said, raising her voice sounding desperate to let him know she was sorry.

Well dang, he truly was broken and sad.

She rested her chin on top of his head, sighing "Oh… Ratliff… I am so, so, sorry," she said, having her arms wrapped around him tightly with his head resting on her chest "I really don't know to say, I did try to attempt to make you laugh but… obviously it didn't work."

Ratliff shook his head. After a couple more seconds he pulled away from Rydel and wiped his eyes with the sleeves of his jacket "I'm sorry…" he said, turning away from her.

Rydel shook her head "No, don't be. You have a right to cry… I would."

"Yeah! But it's natural for you to cry over something like this! Not for a… boy."

Rydel nodded "I know, I know… I think the best thing to do right now is wait till Ross gets here and talk to him. See what he thinks. Then once you've both came to a conclusion… I'm afraid we're going to have to tell our families."

Ratliff groaned "But tell families means telling Rocky…" He said, which only made him want to cry more. He could literally hear Rocky's comments right now echoing through his brain.

Rydel sighed, nodding along "I'm afraid it does. And I'm also afraid to say you are going to have to live with him making comments."

"Oh no…"

"Look, how about I try and make you forget about this for now okay and worry about it later? Given that you have about…" Rydel tried to think for a moment, but obviously didn't know the answer to this question "Ratliff, I never thought I'd ever be asking you this question but um… how er… far long are you? What did the doctors say?" Rydel asked. Man, it did feel really weird asking him that… she thought it would have been the other way round.

Clearly not.

"Well considering me and Ella were at the hospital together a month ago… I'm gonna go and say a month."

Rydel nodded "Back to what I was talking about… you have about two or four months to decide what you're going to do, okay? After that, I'm afraid your time is up and you're stuck with that baby until it's born. Not trying to scare you or anything."

"Oh, yeah… I can tell." He said sarcastically. He sighed, looking up at the ceiling like he was looking for an answer. Even though he knew he wasn't going to get one from there. He was sat on the edge of the bed and turned round to face Rydel properly "you want to take my mind off this, huh?" he asked, Rydel nodded "Tell me about what happened with you and Laura like you were going to before the doctor called me to come with him and… this happened."

"Alright, okay. Get yourself comfortable because it's a long one—well not really. It's short, but still get yourself comfortable."

Laura crawled out of the tent she and Ross were previously sharing together, she shut the door of the tent and crept over to the one Riker and Ryland were sharing. She quietly unzipped the zip, seeing they were both sound asleep in their sleeping bags which meant she was going to have to switch with Rydel and Maia as she could have sworn she heard voices coming from their tent. She shut the tent and walked across over to Rydel and Maia's.

Rydel and Maia almost jumped out of their skin when they heard someone fidgeting with the zip of the tent. Almost sitting on one another's lap, they watched as the zip got opened all the way and Laura stepped into the tent and Rydel and Maia quickly jumped apart. Laura looked between them "Did you think it was something else?" Laura asked, looking at them as if they were complete pussies.

"Hey! They're lions, cheetah's, tiger's and allsorts around here… can you blame us?" Maia asked.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, beautiful story—anyway," she clapped her hands together "your wonderful boyfriend got annoyed with Ratliff so he ended up swapping with Ross and I don't feel comfortable sharing a tent with Rocky, so… want to swap?" she asked.

Maia sighed, getting up from her sleeping bag "Alright. I'll see you both in the morning." Maia jumped out of the tent and zipped it behind her as she exited, crossing over to the tent Rocky was now in.

Laura looked down in Rydel, flashing her a quick smile and jumping into the sleeping bag Maia was in. When she was laid down, she turned her head to find Rydel laying on her side and looking at Laura "What?"

Rydel looked at Laura suspiciously "Did Ross and Rocky really switch tents?" Rydel asked.

Laura nodded "Yeah," she said, also turning on her side to face Rydel "Ratliff was uncomfortable, Rocky got pissed, they called one another a pregnant hormonal bitch and ballah-bing-balla-boom, here we are now."

"Now if anything," Rydel said, interrupting the story "Rocky saw it coming first."

Ratliff let out a small laugh "Actually, I called him a pregnant hormonal bitch first. He just told me that the way I was acting, I may as well of been it… guess he was right."

Rydel nodded with a small sad smile. Ratliff shook his head, trying not to fall into that depression again "Anyway, continue." He said.

Rydel let out a small laugh. "How are things with you and Riker?" Rydel asked.

Laura shrugged "Fine I guess…" she said "He just seems a little bit on the protective side, any ideas why?"

Rydel shrugged "Beats me." She lied.

"Are you lying?"

"No."

"You looked to your left, you always look to your left when you lie Rydel and you just looked to your left."

Rydel sighed "I know," she admitted. Re-opening her eyes, Rydel shrugged "I'm afraid if I told you, I'd have to kill you," Rydel joked, which only made Laura throw her a glare. Rydel rolled her eyes "relax Laur. I won't really. I can tell you, I just don't want too… just, um… just for the sake of our friendship."

Laura let her eyes wander up and down Rydel before meeting her eyes again and looking at her with some sort of desperation in her eyes and on her face "C'mon, Rydel… please tell me." She said, sounding like she was almost begging. Rydel shook her head, which made Laura sigh in frustration "why not?"

"Because… it's better off that way. Trust me. I'll tell you and then you'll tell Riker – it's bad enough he already has some sort of idea, if he knew it was the truth… he won't exactly be happy."

"I won't tell Riker."

Rydel scoffed, lying on her back "Yeah, I've heard that one before. You told him I'm dating Ratliff, he told me before we all went to bed."

Laura propped herself up so she was resting on her arms next to Rydel so she could see her "I didn't mean too, it just sort of slipped out of my mouth," she said "it just came as a shock that your dating Ratliff, after all… you did say that you liked some guy called Lawrence. Or are you just using Ratliff to get Lawrence?" Laura asked, not realising the last part had come out of her mouth so harsh.

Rydel turned her head, sending Laura a glare "How fucking dare you, I'm not that fucking shallow Laura," Rydel spat at her "I'm not even dating Ratliff, Laura – he's just helping me with something. Might as well tell you that, seen as though we're telling the truth now."

Laura nodded "Fine, seen as though we're telling the truth now you can tell me why Riker's acting the way he is."

Rydel sighed, turning back on her side to face Laura "Because he knows somebody else likes you, that's why. He's scared, Laura, because he knows that person has some sort of power over him to make sure you break up with him," Rydel said, darkly "and he tried to scare that person out of liking you by threatening to kill them and even attempted it, but if I'm honest it didn't scare them at all. It only showed how much of an ass hole your boyfriend really is."

Laura furrowed her eye brows at Rydel and looked away from her for a short while, remembering how a couple of days ago they were all down by the river and the water was streaming down it really fast. They were warned not to go into the river or push anybody in it for a joke otherwise they'll be swept away and possibly die. As they were walking down it, Laura was stood behind Riker who was stood behind Rydel, she watched him look around a little and he pushed her into the river. She screamed because she thought and felt like she was about to drown and be swept away, but Ross and Rocky grabbed and pulled her out of it in time before she could – and Riker looked disappointed about it.

She turned her head and slowly looked at Rydel "I-is it you?" Laura asked. Rydel's eyes widened at how she got that almost straight away with only little thought about it. Laura sighed "It's you, I know it's you Rydel. I saw Riker trying to push you into the river a couple days ago, the one where the tour person told us to be careful and not to go in it or we'll be swept away and possibly die. Then he pushes you in about five minutes later? And to top it all off he hasn't exactly been the kindest person in the whole world to you has he?"

Rydel shook her head in disbelief "Damn it, Laura… your good." Rydel said, slightly impressed. Deciding to act that way rather than be a complete wuss about it and try to run away from it. Laura laughed slightly and Rydel just sighed "Well, there you go Laura. You got it. Now, let's go to sleep I have a feeling tomorrow's going to be another long day."

Rydel went to go turn over and go to sleep but Laura grabbed her gently by the arm and pulled her back to look at her, Rydel stared in confusion at her and went to go say something and never got the chance as she felt Laura's lips connect with her own. At first, Rydel was taken aback by this but soon melted into it as she felt her arm go round the back of Laura and pull her closely as Laura's hands found a place on Rydel's hips. After a couple of minutes, Rydel pulled away coming to realisation and what they were doing "L-Laura… no. We can't. As much as I'd love too, we really can't. You have a boyfriend. Who happens to be my brother, who threatened to kill me if this happened?"

Laura laughed, moving a strand of Rydel's blonde hair out of her face that was hanging over it as she was hovering over Rydel slightly "Who said Riker had to know?" Laura asked with a slight smile.

Rydel looked hesitant for a moment, but was no way complaining when she found herself pulling Laura back down so her lips were on her own.

Ratliff had to blink a couple of times to process that all through his mind. On one hand he was happy that Rydel was finally happy and with someone she loved and had real feelings for but on the other, he was shocked that Rydel would do that to Riker. Fair enough, he is an asshole who threatened her if she did this and obviously she's risking that and putting it to the test… he just didn't think that Laura would be the type of person to two time. "Does Laura still love Riker?" Ratliff asked.

"Obviously not," Rydel said, as she was now sitting on the edge of the bed next to Ratliff "she told me that herself the other day. She wants to break up with him but she's afraid of what he'll do to not only her but to me also as he'll just suspect I have something to do with it."

"But you do have something to do with it."

Rydel nodded "Exactly. So she's just going to make him break up with her."

"Yeah, but how?" Ratliff asked, shaking his head in confusion "no offence, Rydel… I think Riker knows that if he breaks up with Laura you're going to go after her, and he doesn't want that. He's been making that pretty clear. He even made it clear to me in Africa, he told me to break up with you because you're just using me."

"And does he know we're not really dating?"

"No. But he will soon. Cos trust me Rydel, once my Mom and your family find out about this little situation me and Ross have got ourselves into…" Ratliff paused "he's going to fit the pieces together. He's going to know me and you aren't really dating."

Rydel sighed, putting her hand to her forehead like she was an idiot "Damn it," Rydel said "god damn it this would of worked out perfectly if you hadn't of got yourself accidentally pregnant! I mean how stupid it that?!"

"Oh, yeah! Because I can magically swap the letters doctors keep safe around! I'd do that to myself on purpose wouldn't I?" Ratliff asked sarcastically. He then sighed "Don't blame me for this. It's your own fault, Rydel."

"Yeah, I know you're right sorry." She said, before giving him another comforting hug.

Just as they hugged, the door to the room opened up. They slowly pulled away from the hug and looked towards the door where Ross had just stepped into, he gave them both a small nervous smile not knowing what to say to them. Rydel looked at Ross and then at Ratliff, patting him on the knee "I'm going to go down to the cafeteria and get something to eat," she said standing up "you two can just come meet me down there when you're ready. Do you guys want anything whilst I'm down there?" she asked, both of them shook their heads "well then, suit yourselves. More for me." She said before exiting the room.

Ross let Rydel get past him, once she was out of the room he shut the door and turned round slowly and faced Ratliff as the tense atmosphere started to take over them. "So… um…" Ross stumbled for words as he walked slowly over to the bed. He let out a small laugh "C'mon… this has to be one of your and Rocky's jokes or something?" Ross asked, with small laughter.

Ratliff sighed, turning round off the bed and over to the desk where there was a piece of paper on it. Actually there was a photo. When the doctor told Ratliff for the first time, he never believed the doctor what so ever and asked him to prove it so he did by printing off a sonogram. Which was weird because never in his life did he think he would ever have to get one of those unless he got something stuck inside of him. He picked it up off the desk and stretched out his hand to give it to Ross. Ross looked confused as Ratliff handed him the bit of, what looked like, paper to him he took it from him and looked at it, "Oh no…"

"Congratulations, Ross. That is your baby. Growing… inside of me. Wow. Never thought I'd say that." Ratliff laughed.

"H-how? I don't understand…" Ross said, quickly sitting down on the edge of the bed next to Ratliff "how is it even possible? I mean, I know there has been about two pregnant men in the world like the one in the UK and the other one who had two but… I don't."

"Yeah, but Ross… that one from England had a sex change from a girl to a boy. She, or he, just didn't know she was pregnant until she, like I said before or he, was transformed into a full boy."

Ross nodded "Yeah, but what about the other one. He had no sex change. How the fuck did he pull that off?"

"He was injected with a certain hormone or something. I don't know, the doctor told me those two stories and all I got from that one was the hormone thing."

"Well, how did it happen to you? You weren't injected with a certain hormone."

"Oh, I think I was. He explained it to me of how it happened – and I don't know why the hell they did it for without double checking the letters. Like what the hell."

"Why? What did they do?" Ross asked, moving closer to him.

"I-I can't remember," he said, turning his head away and putting one hand on his forehead as he strained to remember what the doctor had told him "something about… abdominal wall… placenta. I don't know, I kind of blanked out half way through trying to process it all through my mind," he sighed, looking back up and slowly looking at Ross like he was trying to fight back tears "I don't even know how the hell we ended up in this situation."

Ross wrapped his arms around him and pulled him in close for a hug, rubbing his back gently "I know, same here. B-but… the good thing is, you don't have to go through with it, do you? You don't have to go through nine months of pain."

"It's your baby Ross, not mine."

"It's your body and your decision if you want to ruin your life."

Ratliff pulled away from the hug and looked at Ross for a moment "Okay, let's just assume for one moment… you're in my position. What would you do?"

Ross looked up at the ceiling and started to think out loud "Well, first I'd ask myself am I against or for abortion. My answer would be hell no, because I think it's just plain wrong," he started "after, I'd think about what my family and friends would think, then I would think about what it would do to R5 and what the record label would do. And then after I have that figured out… the next thing I'd worry about… the fans and everyone around the world finding out," Ross made eye contact with Ratliff again "now, let me ask you some questions… are you against or for abortion?"

"Against… I hate the thought that somebody would just kill a life that barely even lived just because they weren't ready for a baby or didn't want their life ruined. I mean, if they didn't want a baby they should of thought about having sex in the first place!"

"So, I take that as a yes for you keeping it."

Ratliff sighed again "I don't know, Ross… there is so many ways you could look at this. One way being that if I don't keep it and get rid of it, I'll have to live with the guilt knowing that I killed a baby and you knowing that as well… I'd be a hypocrite. Also known as the baby killer because he didn't want his life to be ruined."

"You won't be known as a baby killer if it's only us two, Rydel and Laura that know…"

"Yeah I—Wait…. Laura knows?"

Ross nodded "Yeah, why?"

"Oh my god," Ratliff said, standing up as he started to panic "dude! I pretended I was dating Rydel to Laura and she told Riker!" he snapped as he turned around "if she can't keep something as simple as that to herself then she's obviously not going to be able to keep this a secret is she?!"

Ross stood up, slowly walking over to Ratliff to try calm himself down "Whoa…" Ross said, grabbing hold of him by both the arms "calm down. She was just there when Rydel called me to come down. And I'm taking it by that response you are going to go through with it?"

"Ross… it's your baby. It'd be okay if it was mine and I didn't go through with it. But it's not. So I wouldn't just be killing any old baby, I'd be killing someone else's. I don't want to do that. I know for a fact deep down you don't want me to not go through with it either."

Ross nodded, agreeing with what he said "Yeah, I know totally agreeing one hundred percent with you there," he said "but… think about it for just one second. Think about what you're going to put yourself through here… you're not only going to be risking your own life, but you're going to be risking having a family and R5. You do realise by going through with this, we're playing a very dangerous game with not only ourselves but with other people."

Ratliff nodded "I know," he said "a-and… I'm sure we'll figure it out along the way because there will be obstacles in the way… but... Do you want to go through with it? Cause if not I won't."

"Ratliff, I should be asking if you want to go through with it not the other way round. But I guess so… yeah," he then let out a small laugh "it just means getting through Rocky's smart ass comments for the rest of our life's."

"Not gonna lie, I'm actually more afraid of telling Rocky than my own Mom." Ratliff laughed.

Ross shrugged "Well, you did say there would be obstacles in the way."

I've had this half written for about a week or something like that now... and I've only just found the inspiration to finish it off lel. Oh, and those stories about the pregnant men Ross & Ell were talking about in this chapter are actually true so... yeah. :D

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