Ooh, it was so hard choosing a winner(s), what with Wyntirsno, julie12xbones1237, AND Kristina giving me ideas. I love them all, I'll try to fit them in, but I'll announce the winner at the end (that is, if I can find one I like). Oh, well, please review anyway, it would really help.

Chapter Ten: Cry With Me

Victoria's POV—Seventh period, Advanced Drama
One thing I have learned? School with Cody's old enemies just plain sucks.

The good thing about this class is that Lili, Cody, and our new friend Trevor are all in it.

Which is weird, considering I didn't know Cody even liked acting.

Obviously Lili's good at acting. She's been acting like she didn't like Trevor all day.

The worst part of this class? We have to sit on the floor, and in a few months, that will be easier said than done.

But whatever, I like this class already. I walked in the door and spotted Lili. The teacher's instructions were on the door, and they said: Find a group of four and sit down. You choose. You may talk quietly before class starts. Luckily, there are four of us, so we can easily be our group.

I sat down as Lili smiled at me. "Hey, Tori," she said.

"Hey, Lil. How has class been?"

"Okay. But trigonometry is so boring!"

"Yeah, I know." Lili had trigonometry sixth period, and I had it second. Second period, like most classes, was boring as well. I was sick of school, and I used to love it.

Suddenly, a young girl with a posse walked in.

"Who's that?" I asked in amazement.

She snapped her fingers. Immediately a girl ran over and sprayed perfume.

"Oh, that's Barbara Brownstein. She used to be a sweet girl but now she's a drama queen. That's her posse, Haley, Drew, and Bob, and they worship the ground she walks on. I'd watch out if I were you, she used to date Cody and is quite the jealous type."

I watched in amazement as Haley ran to dust the ground Barbara was about to sit on.

"She seems…interesting," I muttered as Cody and Trevor walked in, gossiping in a guyish form.

I didn't even know guys did that. What else is new.

"Hey, girls," Cody said, sitting down, reading the board. Suddenly, his eyes fell on Barbara. He stopped smiling. "Oh no."

"What?" I asked.

"Barbara is in this class."

"So…?"

"She's a total…" he looked around to make sure no one was listening, then stuttered, "brat now. You're going to want to stay away…"

"Why is everyone warning me?" I muttered, pulling a few loose pieces of paper from my binder that were shoved precariously in my locker.

"What are these?" Cody pulled them from my grasp and skimmed them. "Love letters?"

I yanked them back. "It's nothing."

"Who is it? I'm gonna kill them."

"Jealous much?"

"Well, they suck at poetry, I'll tell you that," Lili said, looking at an orange paper with a short poem scrawled across it. The first five lines were crossed out. They were trying to rhyme something with Victoria but didn't have much luck.

"What?" Lili said, studying a very unflattering note.

"Blackmail," I said. "There's fifteen of them, all of them are blackmail."

"And written by a girl," Trevor said. I had forgotten he was there, but he was examining the letters. The person used a pink pen and dotted their I's with hearts.

Lili gasped. "You have an admirer who's lesbian?"

We all shot her a dirty look in disgust. Of course. She is simple minded at times.

"Of course not," I told her. "Whoever wrote these was trying to blackmail me."

Cody crumpled up the one he was holding in disgust.

"Calm down," I told him. "It's not a big deal…"

"It is to me!"

Lili cut in. "Just because you're in love with her doesn't mean…"

At that point we noticed someone standing over us.

The "queen" of the school and her posse. She looked like a member of the mafia.

"Hello. Whatcha got there?"

"It's none of your business!" Lili snapped immediately.

"I see you got my letters," Barbara said, smiling.

"Y…your letters?" Cody managed to stutter.

"Scandalous, aren't they? Of course, I figured you'd find out it's me…"

At that point, I could tell that lunch hadn't agreed with me, and I was having morning sickness. And my heart had just broken. True, I was happy with Cody, but it would have been nice to know a guy who barely knew me that wrote those letters, not some egotistical girl seeking revenge before she even knew me. I clasped a hand over my mouth, hoping no one saw.

Too late. Lili was turning to me. "Are you alright…?"

Before she could finish, I had hopped up and ran down the hall. I could hear Barbara laughing the entire way. I immediately heard the door open again, but I didn't look back. I flung open the door to the girls' room.

I ran to the nearest open stall (they were all open, everyone else was in class), and vomited. After I was done, I remained on the floor, crying. There was no way I was surviving school on top of it all.

Lili's POV
As soon as Victoria left the classroom, Barbara started laughing.

"Guess she can't take criticism," she said, snickering.

I stood up, and so did Cody and Trevor. I ran out the door, but stayed close by, not sure what to do.

"Listen, Barbara," Cody hissed, grabbing the front of her shirt. "I really don't want to be seen fighting a girl. But you better lay off before I smack you silly. Have I made myself clear?"

"No," she hissed, smirking.

He shoved her down, running to the door. The teacher came and saw us starting to leave.

"Where are you going…?"

"Bathroom!" we yelled simultaneously.

"You need a hall pass!" he yelled, but we didn't slow. I did slow, however, outside the girls' room.

"She's in there," I guessed. Cody stood still.

I walked in and easily spotted her—her black Converse were on the floor under a stall. I flung it open—she had forgotten to lock it—and saw her sitting on the floor, crying. She didn't look up when I opened the door.

"Tori…?"

"It's just not fair," she said, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"What's not—?"

"Kids are picking on me because I'm different."

Suddenly I felt remorse. "Oh, don't tell me they know already…"

"No, but they know something's up." She wiped her eyes.

I pulled her into a tight hug. It was kind of awkward but she was my best friend. She haphazardly hugged me back.

"Are you going back to class?" I asked her.

"Ugh. As if I could."

I smile and laugh at her. "You're going to ditch on the first day?"

"Well…I'll get mean looks when I walk in, the teacher will probably get on me for leaving…"

"So what? You were being picked on!"

"And I vomited," she tells me.

"Nice, didn't need to know that…well, I'm going back to class. See you later?"

"Okay, sure."

I stepped out of the bathroom and saw Cody's eager eyes. "Well…?"

"She's fine. And ditching, by the way."

"She's ditching class?"

"Yeah? Are you going to ditch with her?"

"I don't know…it sounds so…dirty, ya know?"

"I can't say I do," I said, walking back. I couldn't help but notice he never came back in, and Tori didn't, either.

Victoria's POV—After School
Cody and I ditched drama. I can't believe we did that.

Ever since we found out I was pregnant, everything has been so…wrong. We've been stupid ever since that night, and…

Suddenly my phone is vibrating. I pull it out of my pocket. It's reminding me of something:

3:30—doctor

"Oh, my gosh!" I yelled.

Cody, Lili, and Trevor all turned to look at me.

"What?" Lili asks.

"I have an ultrasound to go to in thirty minutes!"

Trevor looked confused. "A what?"

That's when I realized we never told him.

Crap.

"I'll explain later," Cody said. "Do you need me to take you or something?"

"You don't have a license or a car!"

"So?"

"Can I come?" Lili asked. She seemed enthusiastic about the baby. That makes one of us.

"Okay," I tell her, forcing a smile. She squeals.

"Well, I better go. Work?" Cody offers. I wave as I walk to the bus stop.

"See ya!"

Lili was bouncing around as we stand by the bus stop. "What is she gonna tell you?" Lili asks. "Are you gonna be able to tell if it's a girl or boy? Are you going to know when you're due? Are you…"

"Lili," I said, laughing. "Calm down. It's not that big a deal."

"Of course it is! A girl needs to know these things."

"I think I'd need to know them more than you, Lil." I smiled. She seemed to calm down a bit since I told her to. "It's just going to be a check up. You know what that means, right?"

"Of course I do, I'm not four years old. Now, what do they do at a check up like this?"

I actually had no idea, so I just guessed.

"Well, they're going to tell me if I'm having one baby or more—hopefully one, I can't handle more than that yet—and if the baby's healthy. You know, like have only one head, and, uh, the usual…"

"Wouldn't it be cool if it had two heads though?!" Lili said excitedly. People turned to look. I felt embarrassed, but Lili didn't seem to notice it. "I mean, think about it, TWO HEADED BABY!"

"Lili!" I cried to get her to shut up. "Stop. You're just being ridiculous."

"But what if…"

"Two heads means two brains which means two babies which means twins, Lil."

"But it'll have two heads!"

I shook my head. "You don't get it, do you?"

"Well, I've never been pregnant before!" Lili argued. Apparently she didn't take to mind that I haven't either.

"And you think I have?"

"Well, I have no idea about you and Cody…"

"Lili!" I cried out in shock. "I'm not like that. This one time was a huge decision for the both of us. I mean, I'm not even fifteen, you think I like this?"

My mind fluttered back to that night. After we had done "the deed", Cody wrapped his arms protectively around me, and slowly removed his purity ring, putting into a dresser drawer. That was the most prominent memory I had of that night. I wasn't sure what he did with the ring after we both just left, but I'm surprised that for nearly a month Zack never noticed Cody was wearing it—or if he did, didn't ask why.

"Well…"

"There is no 'well'! Either yes or no!"

"Well…"

"I give up!" I said as a bus pulled to a stop in front of us. I jumped up into it as Lili nearly ran, still bursting with energy. "Lili, don't talk about it here," I said, referring to the high school kids seated on the bus. "I don't want them knowing."

"But they're going to find out in a few months."

"Lili! Shut. Up!"

We quickly found two seats near the back. No one was in earshot, so I whispered to Lili, "You can talk now."

"FINALLY!" she yelled. People turned to look at her. "A little loud?"

"Ya think?!"

She gasped. "What if it's twins?"

I laughed. "You're crazy."

"Well, think about it…you have a twin sister…you do remember Angelique, don't you?"

"No! Perish the thought!"

"And Cody has a twin. Like, Jack, or something?"

"It's Zack, yeah, they're twins, but it doesn't mean anything."

"Okay, if you say so…"

In fact, I was thinking the same thing. I was praying beyond belief. Cody and I are teenagers; taking care of twins would be too much. Cody's doing all he can, which is great, but still.

Two hours later, we were back at the Tipton, and Lili was talking away.

"How'd it go?" Cody asked.

Before I could answer, Lili immediately yelled, "We got there, and everyone was talking to us like we were adults! And then, the…"

"Okay, good to know…"

"You don't have to worry, twins skipped a generation," I said. He sighed out of relief.

"Thank God," he said. "I don't think I could have handled that…find out anything else?"

"I'm supposedly due on March twenty-sixth."

"Thank you!" he said. "If the date is right, I'll be sixteen by then. March eighth."

"Oh, yeah, you would be." I smiled. I was grateful. I really wanted Cody to be sixteen; everything would be much easier for us.

"Hey, speaking of birthdays, what do you want for yours?" Lili asked.

"Lil, that's four months away," I told her.

"So? I like to be prepared." She smiled. "So, what do you want?"

"Yeah, what do you want?" Cody asked.

"I want for everyone to stop freaking out," I said, flopping down on the couch, sighing. "I'm turning fifteen in December, big whoop. What's the big deal?"

"The big deal is you're turning fifteen in December!" Lili cried. She flopped down next to me. "Tori, you can't be saying you don't want anything for your birthday whatsoever."

"It's not that I don't want anything. I just want people to stop freaking out about things that are four and seven months away."

"Well, who wouldn't freak about the second one?" Cody asked. I punched him hard in the arm.

Okay, crappy ending, my bad, I just got so sick of this chapter. I have three ideas planned out for the next one but I need help choosing which one to use:

A) Have a flashback episode showing the history of Vody;

B) Skip ahead to the first school dance; or

C) Have the entire school find out about Victoria's secret

Personally I want to get one of the first two done first, but I will get all ideas out before the end of this story. Just tell me which!

Wyntirsno: I tried to keep the same essence of the story, but to do that, I had to make Cody meaner. Besides, I did it waaay more realistically… ;) Anyway, it was in the rewrites, Carey has no idea, she moved somewhere else getting a better paying job while still staying in Boston. I used your idea of Barbara ;)

Juliex1237bones12: Yeah. Thanks. That's all I got. :l

Kristina: When I saw 'trojen' I immediately thought to my rewrite of chapter one XD. I managed to fit your ideas in (some of them anyway) but not all of them. Because Zack is…can't say it without giving away the ending! GAH!

Anyway, the winner(s) are…Wyntirsno and Kristina!! Yay!! ;P Wyntirsno, I'll mail you the next chapter in PM, and Kristina, just send me an email so I can send the document to you (my email is on my page).

PLEASE REVIEW!! I beg of you.

--Maddie Marie