Over the next week Joey, Rebecca and Lauren had been spending time as a family and were acting like one. Rebecca spent the night at Tanya's house a lot and Joey and Lauren would spend time together when she did. Today Rebecca was staying at Tanya's while Lauren went shopping and cleaned the flat, Joey was going to see his mum. Lauren just came home from dropping Rebecca off at Tanya's and was greeted by Joey when she walked in.

"I want to stay here with you."

"Joey, you have to go see your mum. She misses you."

"I know, and I miss her too."

"So go see her, when you come back dinner will be ready and the house will be clean."

"I should really help you with that, I don't want you to think that you have to do that by yourself."

"I want to, now go see your mother." Lauren laughed

"Okay, fine I'll go."

"Joey, if you want to tell her about Rebecca, you can."

"No I want to wait, I mean I want Rebecca to know first and I want you both to be there when we tell her."

"We'll tell them both soon."

"I know, don't worry about it right now, Lauren. I love you."

"I love you too."

"I'll be back in a couple hours."

"Okay."

Joey walked out the door and Lauren started to clean, she picked up any rubbish and gathered the washin'. After two hours she had finished the washin', mopped the kitchen and livingroom, cleaned up her and Joey's bedroom, and took out the rubbish. She went to get a shower before going shopping, after she got out she put on a white dress with a leather jacket and left to go to the shop. Lauren went around the shop and bought all the food they would need for a couple weeks. She went to the till and paid for everything, then she went to the pharmacy just outside Walford. She was walking around the pharmacy to get some medicine because she had been feeling a little nauseous lately. Lauren walked around searching for it when she saw pregnancy tests, she thought for a minute until something clicked in her mind.

"I'm late."

Lauren grabbed a pregnancy test pack that contained two tests, she paid and went home. After putting all the food away she went into the bathroom with the tests in hand. She was waiting for the first tests results and a million thoughts were going through her mind.

"What if I am pregnant? I want another baby, especially with Joey, but right now? If I was pregnant that would be a good thing. Rebecca would have a brother or sister and Joey would be happy. How would I even tell him? Okay, okay calm down Lauren. You might not even be pregnant, you're getting ahead of yourself. Just wait for the results, one more minute."

Lauren looked at the test.

Positive.

"Positive? I need to try the other one, there are false positives all the time."

She tried the second one.

Negative.

"It's negative. I should've bought more tests. The only way to confirm it is by going to a doctor, I can't tell Joey unless I'm sure. I have to make an appointment."

Lauren hid the tests in the bin and looked up the number to the doctor that had helped her when she was 18 and pregnant. The receptionist answered the phone.

"Hi, I would like to make an appointment with Dr. Sara Young."

"Okay, Dr. Young is not in today but she does have an open appoinment tomorrow at 11 am. Would you like me to schedule that for you?"

"Yes, that time will be fine."

"What's your name?"

"Lauren Branning."

"Okay, Ms Branning. She'll be expecting you at 11."

"I'll be there, thank you very much."

"We'll see you tomorrow then Ms Branning. Goodbye."

"Bye."

Lauren picked Rebecca up and walked back home, she couldn't keep her mind off of her appointment tomorrow. When they got home Rebecca went to play with her new dolls in her room and Lauren went to make dinner, Joey got home right before dinner was ready.

"Hey, Babe. Dinner smells good."

"I'm making chicken parmesan."

"Well, I can't wait. Where's Rebecca?"

"She's in her room."

"Are you okay Lauren?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Tomorrow I have a checkup at the doctors at 11 can you watch Rebecca while I go?"

"Yeah, are you feeling okay?"

"I'm feeling a bit sick, but I'll be okay. Don't worry, let's eat. Can you go tell Rebecca that dinner is ready?"

Joey was still concerned but dropped it. "I'll be right back."

Joey went to Rebecca's room and brought her to the table, Lauren tried acting like her normal self during dinner and it convinced Rebecca, but not Joey. After dinner, Lauren cleaned up and was going to bed.

"Joey, I'm going to go to bed."

"This early?"

"Yes, I'm tired. I love you."

"Love you too. Night, Lauren."

"Night, Joey."

Lauren went to bed still thinking about her appoinment tomorrow and her possible pregnancy.