-Chapter 11-
-Three Months Later-

Three months had passed and it was in the beginning of December. Vanessa and Ashlee is staying in an apartment, five minutes from the beach. Ashlee is around twenty weeks pregnant and when she turned eighteen, she ascended. Luckily, she was alone when it happened. The lightening bolt struck her in the middle of her chest, suspending her fifteen feet in the air. Being as powerful as she is, she put a protective barrier around her stomach, so the baby wasn't harmed.

While Vanessa goes to school there in Hawaii, Ashlee stays at the apartment and does online classes, so she can keep up with getting credits to graduate. Every so often, she'd get calls, voicemails, or texts from everyone back home, but she never responds back to any of them.

Because of Pogue's big mouth, everyone knows that Ashlee is pregnant. She really didn't want anyone to know, but according to his voicemail he left her, he was drunk and he let it slip. Luckily that's all he said about it and not spill the beans telling everyone that he's the father.


It was a Thursday morning, Vanessa went to class, and Ashlee was in the exam room, waiting for the doctor to have an ultrasound. She was staring at a number on her phone, debating if she wanted to call it or not. As she was about to press the send button, there was a knock on her door. "Come in." she said, putting her phone away, and a woman doctor walked in. "Hello." Ashlee smiled.

"Hi, Ashlee... my name is Dr. Janie Sanders." she looked down at her clipboard. "This is your first pregnancy?"

"Yep."

"Okay, go ahead and lie back." Dr. Sanders dimmed the lights and turned on the ultrsound machine. "Let's see what you're having." Ashlee nodded and laid back on the table, while Dr. Sanders got the goo and the wand. "I'm going to put this jell on your stomach, so I can see what's in there."

"How does it look?"

"So far so good, I'll take some measurements, and print out some scans when I'm done." Dr. Sanders paused. "Everything looks good, except.."

"Except what?" Ashlee said, in a worried tone.

"I'm unable to tell the sex of the baby... this little one seems to be shy, but overall, he or she is healthy."

"Okay then."

A few minutes later, Dr. Sanders turned off the machine, cleaned up her stomach, then smiled at Ashlee. "Congratulations, Mommy."

"Thank you."

"Here's your ultrasound pictures... you take care of yourself and your baby."

"Okay, I will." Ashlee smiled, then as Dr. Sanders walked out of the room, Ashlee stood up and left the doctor's office and went back to the apartment. For an hour she was in the livingroom, still staring at that number on her phone. "Fuck it." she muttered and pressed the button, waiting for it to be picked up.

"Hello?"

"Uh... hey Pogue."

"Oh, my God, Jay?"

"Yeah, it's me."

"Where are you?"

"I can't tell you, but I'm doing fine."

"And the baby?" he paused. "Wait... you ascended."

"Yeah and the baby is fine. I protected it, when it happened, so it wasn't harmed."

"That's good."

Ashlee sighed. "Look, the reason I called you is because... I'm beginning to think that this baby is yours more and more, but then again, I don't remember sleeping with you, and what has me stumped, is the fact that the doctor couldn't tell what the baby was, during the ultrasound." she paused to take a deep breath. "I'm getting a DNA test done."

"Jay, the baby is mine... and we did sleep together."

"Well, I'm doing it anyway, I need to know regardless."

"Fine." Pogue sighed. "If that's what you want." there was a minute of akward silence, until Pogue spoke again. "Jay... I'm sorry about how I left things with you and I'm sure I'm the reason you took off."

"It wasn't just you, it was other things too... including Reid."

"Right, but I was the main reason." he paused an took another deep breath. "Look, I'm sorry, I realized that I need you back into my life."

"What about Kate?"

"A few days after you left, I told her what happened between me and you, she broke up with me. We're still friends, and now, she's dating Chase."

"Oh."

"Please, Jay... come back."

"I'll think about it." she paused. "I'll talk to you later, bye Pogue." before he could respond, she hung up her phone, and turned it off. A few minutes later, Ashlee scanned the ultrasound pictures onto her laptop and looked through the rest of her pictures of everyone.

Vanessa walked into the apartment, twenty minutes later. "What's up, Mama?" she sat down next to her. "What's wrong?"

"Look." Ashlee gave her the ultrasound picture.

"Aww... boy or girl?"

"Don't know." Ashlee shrugged. "The doctor couldn't tell."

"Maybe, you'll find out next time or when he or she pops out of your va-jay-jay."

Ashlee laughed. "Yeah, maybe."

"We should totally go shopping." Ashlee nodded and sighed. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"I... um, talked to Pogue."

"You did? How'd that go?"

"Better than I thought, he wants me to come back."

"Oh."

"No, I mean... he wants me, wants me."

"What about Kate?"

"I asked him the same question and he told me they broke up, but they're still friends, and she's dating Chase."

"Okay." Vanessa nodded. "So what are you gonna do?"

"I don't know."

"Well, whatever you decide... I'm behind you one hundred and ten percent."

"Thanks, Nessa."

"No problem." she stood up. "I'll start packing, because I know what you're gonna do and I know you wanna do the right thing."

Ashlee nodded. "Yeah, I guess."

"I'll be in my room." Vanessa smiled.


A/N: Thanks you guyses... for the input. I know where this is gonna go! Enjoy and as always R&R!