Oh my gosh! So sorry for the delay. Been busy with RL stuff, and I posted a one-shot that has now become a multi-chapter thing. Plus, my will to do anything productive ran away.:P This chapter finishes up the chapter "tests", and also "stores". At the end of "tests", all we had was Beck and Jade laying together in Beck's RV, Jade was crying, and, oh yeah, they just found out they were going to be parents. Fun stuff. Please enjoy! ;333

Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you're not alone
Cause I'm going to make this place your home

- home - Phillip Phillips -

Beck awoke to the sound of breaking glass, which he immediately recognized as Jade's phone. He was prepared to ignore it, but then it sounded again. And again. Half a dozen times? Rubbing his sleep-crusted eyes, he reached up above him to the little shelf that overhung his bed, and felt his way for Jade's phone. Normally he wouldn't touch Jade's phone for fear of death by scissors, or some other means, but he made an exception. It could be something important, but he didn't want to wake her without proof. Last night had been a little rough, and they hadn't even talked about it yet. Wincing at the bright light from Jade's phone in the semi-dark RV, Beck first noticed the time. It was only five in the morning. No wonder he was still tired. Clicking on Jade's myMessage app, he made the quick deduction that every single text was from Sinjin. Beck was slightly worried as he scrolled through the texts.

/hey

/it's me

/Sinjin

/you probably knew that

/so, what did your baby-test say?

/wait.

/was that inappropriate?

/Oh god, it was, wasn't it?

/my mom always tells me it's wrong to text someone before seven a.m.

/I can't believe i did that

/please don't hurt me

The last text came through as Beck was reading them. He contemplated answering Sinjin with some sort of trademarked Jade comeback, but before he could, the phone suddenly disappeared from his hand. It took his sleep muddled mind a few seconds to realize that Jade was awake, and had snatched it from him. With an angry passion, to say the least. She lay with her back to him, curled into a small ball, on the side of the bed facing the window. She always liked sleeping on the window-side. He could hear her furiously tapping away at her screen, and then the brightness in the RV vanished.

The pre-dawn light filtering through his curtains created a faint gray glow in the RV, peaceful to say the least. Beck's mind was anything but peaceful. He thought about that stereotypical moment in books when the character wakes up after a bad day, with birds chirping, and the sun shining down on them, and everything is perfect until they remember what happened the day before. Then the memories hit like a ton of bricks and it just makes everything instantly depressing. That's pretty much the opposite of what happened to Beck. Instead, in the few moments before he was really awake, he could already feel his stomach twisting into painful knots, his mind already worrying about what they were going to do, his thoughts on what they would tell their family, their friends, all before he even opened his eyes. The combination made him feel almost literally sick.

Without warning, Jade began climbing out of bed. Which meant she has to climb over Beck. He let out a strangled breath as one knee unmercifully dug itself into his stomach. No apology followed. Reaching out, he grabbed one of Jade's wrists and gave her a questioning look. She didn't see it, as she had her face purposefully turned away from him.

"Where are you rushing off to?" he asked, trying to sound caring and reasonable despite the fact that sleep had given his voice a slight gravel-y tone. He didn't want to pick a fight this early, especially if she just had to pee or something.

Jade looked as though she might try to make a run for it, but instead she just sighed and sat down beside him, face still turned slightly sideways. "I look like crap." she complained. Beck was confused. She shifted uncomfortably before adding, "I guess I sorta lost it last night, and-"

She broke off, and turned her head so that Beck could see the dark trails of eyeliner and mascara mixed with tears that had left trails down her pale cheeks. Beck couldn't suppress a smirk at her almost comical look, so she punched him on the arm. That only made him smirk harder, and Jade rolled her eyes before allowing him to pull her close beside him. Settling into her familiar place, her head resting against his shoulder, the humor slowly faded out of her eyes. Taking a long breath, Jade spoke first.

"So now what?"

Three words. That's it, just three measly words. Three word questions should be easy, but this had to be the hardest question ever. Beck bit his lip. Nothing he could say would fully answer that question. So Jade answered her own question with another one.

"Do you want this?"

She just had to be vague, didn't she? Beck's mind ran through all the possible things she could mean by that question, until it came to a grinding halt when the realization struck that she was asking about-

"Do you really want that?" he asked in a low voice.

"Want what, exactly?" She was going to make him say it, wasn't she?

"Well, an...abortion." He said it. Jade was silent, and Beck could almost picture her thoughts tumbling around in her mind. The quiet was getting awkward.

"It's not like we planned this" he offered.

"And it's not like we're ready for this." she said off-handedly.

"We're still in school-" he reasoned.

"We can't provide for us, let alone a baby." she added, interrupting his sentence.

"We'd probably be the most screwed up parents ever." he put in with a dry laugh.

"Absolutely the most screwed up." she confirmed.

"So...?"

"So...I guess we're gonna have to deal with a pretty screwed up kid."

Beck's brain took a few seconds to figure out what she meant. He thought they had been going in a completely different direction, but he couldn't say he was upset about the sudden change. Neither could he say was he ecstatic. Their quick conversation has gotten his mind working even harder, thinking about all aspects of what this really meant. Maybe it would be easier if-

"You forget how to talk?"

Ah, enter Jade's sarcasm. He could hear a faint trace of fear in her voice, and a desperate need for approval, however, so he didn't answer with a sarcastic come-back.

"Are you sure about this?" he asked earnestly.

"Are you?" she shot back easily.

Beck rolled onto his side, so that he was face to face with his girlfriend. He stared at her, at the streaks of black that had carved lines through her smooth skin, at the way her bottom lip stuck out ever so slightly, at the tangled locks of black and red hair, at her blue eyes. Eyes that drifted everywhere but towards his own. She was really worried about this, but she didn't want to come right out and say that she, Jade West, was scared. He wanted so badly to tell her that everything would work out, that they would have the perfect life, with a perfect child, and that there was nothing to worry about. But that was a lie, and he knew it. And he couldn't think of a single comforting thing he could say besides-

"I love you."

She blinked, then shrugged a shoulder.

"I guess that's good enough." she said dryly, but Beck could tell that the fear had left her tone.

"This isn't going to be easy." he said, voicing his thoughts.

"I think we established that."

"My parents will probably kill me."

"Your parents? Your parents will just lecture you for an hour and talk about feelings and chiz. Mine are the ones you should be worried about."

"Your mom is probably the nicest person on the entire planet. I really can't picture her getting mad."

"Not mad. Just, hysteric."

"Is that good or bad?"

"I'm not sure, that's why I'm worried."

"Jade-"

"Please not another "Stop being so hard on your mother" talk, okay?"

"That's not what I was going to say."

"Oh."

"I just- I mean, are we really thinking this through?"

Jade frowned at his question, but didn't reply. The RV was silent again, the only sound coming from the heater in the corner, which let out a soft hissing noise. Beck finally spoke again.

"Its like, this isn't just a decision, it's a, a baby." he stumbled over the word, as if realizing that for the first time. He ran a hand through his hair in a nervous gesture. "Maybe we should talk this over with our families and-".

"Why?" she snapped, too quickly. Oh man, now Jade was mad. Great. "Why should they have anything to do with this? This is our screw up, so we're going to handle it and there's -"

Now it was Beck's turn to interrupt. "Calm down, I was just saying that-"

Apparently today was "Don't let anyone finish a sentence" day.

"I get what you were saying, I just don't think its necessary to get them involved right away."

"What, you want to lie about it?" he asked incredulously.

"It's not lying if you don't say anything."

"Ever heard of a "lie of omission?"

"No."

Beck rolled his eyes at his girlfriend. She smirked. He raised an eyebrow. She looked away. They were lying close enough to each other that Beck could feel Jade's heart beating against his side, a fluttering, rapid beat. She was still worked up about this, and Beck didn't blame her one bit. A baby. A baby. Their baby. He wasn't supposed to be a father, at least not yet. He figured he'd want kids someday, but not now. With out a doubt, he wasn't ready. They weren't ready. They were just kids themselves. Okay, maybe not kids, but they definitely not parent-material. There was the practical side of it, the fact that they didn't have income, or a place to live that wasn't an RV, or the fact that Beck had never changed a diaper in his life. There was the emotional side of it as well, they had pretty crappy ways of handling their own relationship problems, what would happen when their kid needed to talk to them, or be disciplined, or loved on. She'd probably be emotionally scared for life. Or he, Beck amended. For the first, but not the last, time, he wondered whether he would have a son or a daughter. Now that was a question he hadn't planned on thinking about. Sighing, Beck gave in to Jade's idea.

"Alright, maybe we should keep this to ourselves, at least until -" Beck stopped when he realized that Jade wasn't listening to him. She appeared to be thinking hard about something. Frowning, she stared at him and said slowly,

"Before we get too caught up in this, maybe we should go get another test. You know, just in case."

"...or, maybe two?"

"Three."

"...I'll get the car keys."

Sorry for the laaaame ending, but once it got in my head, it wouldn't leave. Also, mini rant warning, I'm sick of all these "What are we going to do?" "Well, I'm not getting an abortion because abortion is murder and that's wrong and I don't want to give our baby away so that means we're keeping it." "Perfect, and if its a girl we can call her Ellivictoriana Rosabellana and if it's a boy we can call him James Beck ." "That's perfect1!1" KISS KISS SMOOCH. Blech. Not picking on anyone, but that type of thing annoys me, so I tried to write a different version. It's still not great, and its definitely ooc, but I hope it was enjoyable. Thanks for all your amazing reviews!

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Ellivictoriana Rosabellana. That may be the best baby name ever. Legit. New chapter will be out HOPEFULLY this week. I'm thinking of doing toddler Heidi with some cute family moments or something cheesey like that )

Goodnight y'all.