A/N: Hope you like this chapter!

Alice sat down at the bar in the kitchen. She picked distractedly at a pile of pancakes with a fork.

"What's wrong Alice?" Ivan asked as he sat down next to her.

"Al called me yesterday. He said he won't tell anyone about you if I won't tell anyone about his girlfriend. She's actually not his girlfriend. He was cheating on Ashley. Just like I cheated on Heracles." Alice wiped a single tear from her cheek. Ivan put an arm around her.

"It's not your fault. You didn't know you were cheating on him."

"Thanks."

"I'm so sorry Alice. I didn't want this to happen." He kissed her on the forehead. "I'm so, so sorry." She leaned into his chest.

"You smell, like vodka and sunflowers, and minty tobacco." She breathed in deeply and whispered into his chest, "I love you."

"What was that Alice?" Ivan asked in confusion. Alice shifted uncomfortably, and then murmured a little louder.

"I love you." Ivan heard her this time. He kissed her on the forehead again.

"I don't know how I feel about you." He stood up, averting his eyes from her and grabbed his coat and his keys. "I'm going to work. I'll be home late." He left without another word and Alice just sat on her stool, staring at the door.

"Well kiddo, it's just you and me today." Alice was talking to her stomach.

"Thirteen weeks. You're getting pretty big. You know I can't wear elastic waistbands and baggy shirts forever. Let's go shopping." Alice left her pancakes and went to get her purse and one of Ivan's credit cards.

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"Hey Lovi, can you meet me at the mall by that new cupcake place? I need new clothes, and I've got a craving for cupcakes."

"Sure Alice. Are you driving?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Oh my gosh! Hang up! I don't want you to kill yourself in a wreck! Bye!" Lovi hung up quickly and Alice tossed her purple blackberry into her purse.

"She's just worried cause I'm pregnant. I can't wait to meet you kiddo." She was talking to her stomach again. Alice pulled into the parking lot in the pregnancy section and got out of her black Lotus.

"Ma'am you can't park there." A worker from one of the stores had been walking by.

"Yes I can." Alice walked purposefully towards the mall, ignoring the look that the middle-aged man was giving her. Idiot. Just cause I'm seventeen doesn't mean I can't be pregnant.

She walked through the automatic doors into the warm wall, decorated for Valentine 's Day. That's about a week from today. Should I go to the school dance?

"Alice!" Alice turned around and hugged Lovi.

"Hey Lovi. Wanna get some cupcakes?" Her best friend nodded and took her hand as they walked into the little café together.

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"Seven hundred dollars! Don't you think that's a little much Alice?" Lovi exclaimed as they totalled their receipts for the day.

"Na, it's fine. Now we need to get stuff for the baby. We'll need a crib, changing table, clothes, oh, can we stop by Barnes & Noble real quick?" Alice asked as they loaded the last of her bags into the trunk. Lovi nodded and they headed back into the mall.

"Won't you get all the baby stuff at the shower?"

"Why would I have a baby shower? I'm seventeen, and I hate to say it out loud, but I'm carrying the bastard child of the meanest guy in school. No one would come, and it just seems stupid, this isn't something to celebrate." Alice walked into the book store and inhaled the smell of coffee and newly printed books. She walked purposefully over to the baby books, arguing with Lovi the whole way.

"I don't get why you wouldn't have a shower? It would be fun!"

"I don't want to talk about it Lovi."

"Oh come on! We can have it at my place, no one would even know about Ivan! Come on Alice! Lighten up!"

Alice turned around quickly and stared into Lovi's brown eyes.

"I can't lighten up. In like six months, I will have a baby to take care of. A baby Lovi. I don't know if I can come back to school in the fall. I don't even know if we're giving it up for adoption yet!" Alice pulled several pregnancy books off of the shelf and stalked towards the cash register, picking up a random crime novel as she walked. After paying, Alice walked angrily out to her car and threw the bag in the trunk. She opened the driver's door and got into her car.

"Alice! Come on! You're being unreasonable!"

"Goodbye Lovi." Alice reached up and pulled her door down on her best friend and started up her car. As she pulled out of the parking lot, she had to swerve to avoid hitting a black Ducati. Figures. It's Ivan. She rolled down her window and slowed down, sticking her tongue out at the motorcycle's rider.

"Alice! Hold on!" Ivan swung his motorcycle around and followed her out of the parking lot. He followed her back to his house and waited for her to get out of the car. Ivan parked his motorcycle next to her car and knocked on the driver's window.

"Alice, open up. What's wrong?"

Alice reluctantly rolled the window down.

"What do you want?"

"Get out of the car and we'll talk."

"I'm not getting out of the car until you talk."

"Fine. What's wrong?"

Alice looked up at Ivan with her vivid green eyes.

"Lovi wants to throw me a baby shower."

"That sounds fun."

"Ivan, stop acting like an idiot. I know you think it's a bad idea." She turned her back on him and pulled her knees to her chest, resting in the comfortable seat of her Lotus.

"Get out of the car. I'll carry your bags in."

"I'm not ready to be a mother. And everyone's going to know. I don't look thirteen weeks, I look like twenty weeks. Why?"

"Maybe we should get you an ultrasound soon, sixteen weeks. Okay?"

"Why?"

"I think you might be having twins." Ivan leaned back from the car as Alice attempted to slap him.

"Shut up. I'm not having twins, we're having twins idiot. They're half yours dumbass." Alice opened the door forcefully and just managed to miss Ivan. She grabbed her purse and stalked inside, slamming the door on Ivan's face.