ok, heres the...thirteenth chapter! wow, thts crazy! and they havent even had the baby yet, lol! hope u like it!

Chapter 13

Slipping Up

"Mom had a miscarriage," Andy said, stunned.

"You had cancer," Josh said, even more stunned. It was the day after the ultrasound, both of them sitting in Josh's car during their lunch period at school.

"Yeah," Andy said, looking down and picking at a sequin on her skirt.

"Did you ever plan on telling me?" Josh asked her.

"I don't know," Andy admitted, "It didn't seem that important."

"What are you talking about?" Josh asked her incredulously.

Andy shrugged, "I don't know, it's just that it happened so long ago and I've been in remission since I was seven," she explained.

"Andy, you had cancer. Do you know that?" he asked.

"Oh, so that's why I lost all my hair and was puking all the time," Andy said sarcastically, "and there I was, thinking that I was just brushing too hard and eating too much Goldfish..."

"Andy," Josh said, realizing he was being made fun of.

Andy smiled sweetly at him, "Yes, Josh, I do know that I had cancer, I just didn't know that you'd want to know."

"Well I did," he said.

"Okay, well, now you do," she said, taking a bite of her pizza.

"I want to know everything about you, Andy," Josh said, looking at her as she tucked her hair behind her ear to keep it from sticking in the sauce.

"Everything, huh?" she asked, taking a sip of her lemonade.

"Yes," Josh said, plopping a Starburst into his mouth.

"Well," she said, "every morning I get out of bed and then go into the bathroom and take a shower," she started. Josh rolled his eyes and grinned at her, "And then, I go downstairs and eat breakfast..." she continued.

"Andy..." Josh said.

"Wait, scratch that, I get dressed then I go eat breakfast..."

"Wow, you're wonderfully sarcastic today," Josh said with a laugh.

"You cut me off before I got to the part where I brush my teeth," Andy said with a pout. Josh laughed and kissed her sweetly but firmly on the lips. Both of them were taken aback, not having kissed since the night of the party. Andy placed her hand on his chest and they both slowly pulled away, looking each other in the eyes.

"My real name's Andromeda," Andy blurted out, breaking the silence.

"Um..."

"Well, my full name's Andromeda Leigh, but, well everyone thinks my name is Andrea and I know Andromeda was once a weird T.V. show, but it's also a constellation and I think it's so cool," she rambled.

"That's...cool," Josh said, not sure what to say.

Andy dropped her hand from his chest, "I was almost named Juliana, though," she said at rapid speed.

"Uh..."

"But my aunt Julene had Juliana just eleven days before Mom had me, and Roo was kinda mad because she wanted the Jule, but what can you do?" she said with a nervous laugh at the end.

"What is a 'Jule'?" he asked.

"A what?" Andy asked, confused.

"A Jule," he said, "You said that Roo was sort of mad because she wanted to have the Jule," he explained.

"Oh," Andy said in realization, "Well, it all started with my great-great-grandmother, Jewel, on Roo's side. She had a daughter whom she named Julia, who went on to have a daughter whom she named Jules, my grandmother, who named her first daughter Julene," she said quickly.

"I'm sensing a pattern here," Josh said.

"Yeah," Andy said with a nod. "So, then, Julene is Roo's sister, and Julene was pregnant the same time Mom was pregnant, but Julene gave birth eleven days before Mom, so she had the first Jule of that generation and named her Juliana, who's my cousin, so now the first girl in each generation has a name beginning with 'Jule,' but you can only recycle the names if the name you want to use is no longer associated with a living Jule," Andy said all in one breath.

"That's pretty-"

"You kissed me," Andy stated bluntly.

"Uh..." Josh said, completely caught off guard.

"Why?"

"I-um," Josh tried to think of an explanation, but he didn't know why. Her pout was just so cute and her hair was falling in front of her face and he just really wanted to kiss her.

"I don't know," he said truthfully.

"We're not even officially dating. We were never dating, actually," Andy said.

"I know," he said.

They were silent for a bit until Josh spoke, "Should we be dating?" he asked.

"I don't know," Andy said, "I mean, we're pregnant, but that doesn't mean we have to be dating and we don't even know if we're keeping it or not," she said.

"I know," he said again feeling stupid. They were silent once more before Andy spoke again.

"Now what?" she asked.

Josh sighed and spoke, "Nothing," he said, "We do nothing. We go back to class and pretend that nothing has changed, tell no one and do nothing." Wordlessly, Andy opened the door and got out of the car, closing it behind her and walking towards the school with Josh trailing behind her. They didn't speak as they walked through the doors, pushing past people as he went with her to her classroom. She stopped in front of the doors and then spun around to face him.

"They're going to find out eventually," she said, referring to her classmates.

Josh sighed again, "I know," he said, "Just...not now. Not until we figure out what we're going to do." She smiled and nodded, knowing that his solution made the most sense, and spun around, disappearing into a sea of people, leaving Josh to stand alone.

She officially hated people. People just annoyed the heck out of her. Seriously, sometimes they can be so stupid that she can't even stand it. She hated those people who tried to be funny but no one ever laughs except when they're laughing at them. Like today in Lit. today. Keagan Johson tried to be funny every five seconds and all she could think about how happy it would make her if that bulletin board on the wall above him crashed down on him and crushed his stupid little head.

Not that she's that violent of a thinker everyday. Just sometimes. Like when she's secretly in a fight with Josh and he doesn't know it.

Like today.

It's been a week since the car incident, and she still was not over it. Josh kissed her. Sure, it wasn't a big deal at Preston's party when they smashed their faces together, but they were drunk. They were completely sober in that car. And he kissed her.

Not that it's so crazy, though. She kinda is carrying his baby. They can't say they're just friends. They're more than that, they're...to be parents.

Andy shuddered at that word. Parents. Ick. She didn't want to be one. Someday, sure, but now, with school and tests and Keagan Johson making her want to explode in a fit of rage everyday? No.

She was walking in the hallway thinking this when someone rudely ran into her.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I guess I just didn't see you there," said a falsely sorry girl's voice. Ella Taylor. Andy glared at her.

"Then maybe you should have your eyes checked," Andy spat back.

Ella and her friends laughed, "Wow, Andy, I'm surprised at you," she said. "You usually have fabulous comebacks for me. But then, of course, I have an even more fabulous one and you leave in a huff, making me always win."

Andy despised Ella.

"I'm sorry, but right now, "beating you" is the last thing I have to worry about right now," Andy said angrily, shifting her books to her other arm. Suddenly, an image of her shifting a screaming toddler to her other arm flashed in her head, making her twitch and drop her books.

Ella and her friends laughed as Andy cursed under her breath and bent down to pick up her books.

"My my, Andy J, clumsy today, aren't we?" Ella said with another laugh. "Then again, you've never been able to do anything right."

Andy fumed. She was done, she was sick of this. She abandoned her books and stood up, glaring at Ella, "I don't fucking need this right now, Ella! I'm fucking pregnant so just leave me the hell alone!" she said. More like yelled. Screamed. Bellowed. Talked in a pitch loud enough for everyone in the entire hallway to become dead silent and stare at her. Ella was having a great day.

Andy bolted. She didn't want to stick around for the aftermath of the bomb she had just dropped. Hot tears were beginning to burn in her eyes as she ran to the bathroom. Thankfully, it was empty, and she ran into a stall. She didn't even bother locking the door, and instead sat against the wall and slid down, closing her eyes and letting the warm tears slide down her cheeks.

Josh froze along with everyone else in the hallway. He could not even believe that those words had slipped form Andy's mouth. They had been trying so hard and been doing so good keeping it a secret. And she let it slip because of that bitch Ella Taylor. He was actually on his way to save her from Ella and was only a few feet behind her when she screamed at Ella. And then ran. And now, everyone turned their gaze to Josh. He saw Ella open her mouth to say something, but he was gone by then. He ran to the girls' bathroom where Andy had fled to, not even giving it a second thought when he barged in. He heard muffled sobs coming from one of the stalls and he slowly pushed the door open. There sat Andy, crumpled on the ground with her head in her knees: the exact position he found her in the bathroom after she had taken the home pregnancy test.

Hearing the door open, Andy lifted her tear stained face to look at him and spoke in a sad, blunt voice.

"I think they know."

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