"Sutton! Look! This is so precious!" Emma held up a tiny little multi-colored ruffled sundress. Sutton had gone afternoon shopping at Target with Emma. She spun around from the shopping cart and looked at the garment her sister was holding.

"It's adorable, but I won't know the gender until for another two hours." Sutton said putting down the Orange refresher beverage she'd gotten at Starbucks earlier that afternoon.

Emma hung the dress back on the rack and walked back to her sister, "Are you excited?" She asked putting her hand on her sisters budding stomach.

Sutton shrugged, "I don't know, really. It's still such a blur. Too much to handle." She said pushing the cart again down the aisle towards the shoe section.

"But have you even thought about what you want? A boy? A girl?" Emma asked. She picked up a tiny pair of hot pink sandals, "I hope it's a girl. How adorable would it be to dress her in cute clothes?"

Sutton looked at Emma, "They are cute, Emma. But I don't know. I guess a girl would be fun." She held the sandals and looked at them. It was still so hard for her to imagine her child wearing such a small pair of shoes. The thought of her child still freaked her out. She barely knew how to take care of herself. How was she supposed to take care of a child too?

The girls finished their shopping and headed towards Sutton's doctor's appointment. As she sat nervously bouncing a knee in the waiting room, Emma flipped through a parenting magazine, "Sutton Mercer?" A nurse said pushing open the waiting room door. Sutton looked up and stood at the sound of her name. Emma put the magazine down and followed her sister and the nurse back to the same examining room they had been in the last time she came with Thayer. Sutton took her usual seat on the bed. Instead of taking a seat across the room, Emma stood next to her sister. Sutton immediately reached for Emma's hand and gave it a squeeze.

When they were alone, Sutton drew in a breath, "I don't know if I'm ready for this."

Emma looked at her sister, "Sutton, you can do this. I know you can. You are going to make an amazing mom no matter what gender this baby is. You are going to be amazing."

Sutton looked at her sister who gave her a reassuring smile and pressed her hand to her stomach, though she was roughly four months along she was only just now beginning to show, "I just wish Thayer was here, ya know? To see his child. To know if he was having a son or a daughter. This sucks."

Emma looked down, "I know. It's not fair that he can do this to you and take off like it's nothing."

"I don't want to talk about it." Sutton said grabbing her phone from her purse, hoping just maybe Thayer had tried to get in contact with her. But who was she kidding? She hadn't heard from Thayer in two months. If he hadn't tried calling by now, he was never going to call her. She sighed when it showed no missed calls and put the phone back in her purse.

"I know. It just pisses me off that he gets that make that decision like he can just leave and you don't have that option. You don't get to walk away and forget about it-"

"EMMA! Please! Just stop! I don't wanna talk about it." Sutton snapped causing Emma to snap up and look at her. Sutton looked at her, "I'm sorry for snapping. I just don't want to talk about Thayer."

Emma looked at her confused, "You were the one who brought him up."

Sutton sighed, "I know. I just, he pisses me off too. I know it's not fair. But this is life." She looked down and back at Emma, "I'm sorry." Then she reached for her sister and wrapped her arms around her, "Thank you for being here. I don't think I could do this alone."

Emma smiled, "I don't want to be anywhere else." Then she pulled out of the hug, "Do you think dad's in Heaven like completely pissed at the situation right now?"

Sutton looked down, "Probably. If he was still alive, he'd have killed Thayer months ago." then she paused, "I can't believe he is never going to meet his grandchild."

Emma sighed knowing that she too would have a child that would grow up never knowing their grandfather, "Yeah." she said.

As a moment of awkward silence fell upon the girls, the door opened and Dr. Janowski walked in. As usual she asked Sutton about her symptoms and checked her vitals, "So today is a big day huh? Are you nervous?"

Sutton smiled, now laying back on the bench, "Yeah a little bit."

"Do you have a preference?" She asked prepping the ultrasound machine.

"A girl. But I just want it to be healthy." Sutton said. As Dr. Janowski wheeled her chair close to Sutton and poured the cold jelly on her stomach.

"I understand that." She said smiling. She pressed the tiny monitor to Sutton's stomach, immediately the babies heartbeat filled the air and Sutton smiled. Once again, she reached for Emma's hand, "Well let's see what we can find." Dr. Janowski said moving the monitor across Sutton's belly.

A few minutes passed. The twins passed glances and smiles and a few hand squeezes and finally Dr. Janowski spoke, "Ok well, it looks like you definitely are having a baby." Then she laughed, "I'm sorry that was mean. It looks like you got your wish, Sutton. I see no indication of boy parts. You are going to have a daughter."

Emma smiled and squeezed Sutton's hand, "Oh my god! That's amazing, Sutton! A daughter!"

Sutton nodded, shock. The realism that her baby was no longer an 'it' but in fact a baby girl. Maybe her dream was a foreshadow of the future. Would her daughter grow up to look like Hadley did in her dream? And what about that name? She wasn't too keen on it, yet something about it was so comforting. Like a dream world had already showed her her future.

The car ride home was a blur, Sutton sat in the passengers seat as Emma drove, "So what would you name her?" She asked still beaming over the news. Sutton shrugged, "What about Madison or Chloe or?"

"Hadley." Sutton said. Not even listening to her sister's suggestions.

"Hadley? Really? That sounds like a fish's name." Emma said making a face.

"I had a dream the other day that my daughter was swimming with me and in my dream her name was Hadley." Sutton said pulling a tube of MAC Creamsheen lipgloss from her Dolce and Gabana bag.

"So you're going to name your daughter Hadley cause of a dream?" Emma's disdain for the name was clear, but something about Hadley still felt right to Sutton. She popped her freshly glossed lips and pushed the visor back up.

"Don't hate my choice of names for my child, Emma." Sutton teased.

"I mean, if you like it, by all means name your child Hadley." she made a disgusted noise saying 'Hadley.' She pulled into the Mercer's driveway and killed the ignition.

Sutton looked at her sister, "Fine. I will think about it." She said, "But until then, don't be a hater." She said giving her sister a goofy smile, "thank you for coming with me. It makes me feel better I still have you. At least for the next few weeks." Sutton said opening her car door. Summer was coming to a quick end and she knew that she only had two weeks left with Emma before she left for college.

"You have me forever. I won't be that far away and I will come home as much as possible. Especially when my niece is born." She said as she opened the front door. The house was quiet, "Mom? Laurel?" She called out. No one answered but when the twins turned the corner to the kitchen they stopped dead in their tracks. Kristen sat at the table, two men in suits sat across from her, neither of them said a word to each other.