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Will studied her sneakers nodded not looking at me.

"Oh my God Will! Did you tell him everything?" I said barely holding in a moan.

"Of course, I told him everything, we don't keep secrets from each other."

The other girls watched in silence as I slid down the wall and sat on the floor.

"Will! I don't believe you! This is my private life...my secrets! They not for you to share with Matt – he's your boyfriend! You only have the right to tell him your secrets. How could you do this to me?"

"Look Irma, don't over react," Will said struggling for control, "he knew something big was up. He would have known if I kept anything from him. But I told him mostly because of what everybody's been saying about you: How you 'stole' Cornelia's boyfriend and how you could be so lovey dovey in less than a week – rumors are flying that you're a boyfriend stealing slut."

I gasped and stared at her. I was missing what was going on around me because I was so love struck. "I didn't know, but I should have, huh?"

Will continued, "No one but us knows what really happened. I can't fight the tide, but I didn't want Matt to have the wrong idea."

I got up and hugged Will, "Thanks, I understand. Sorry for flipping out. Everything's changed so fast, I didn't think it would be hard on you guys too."

"Wow," intoned Cornelia, "how come I haven't heard the rumors?"

"I've heard some rumors,too. I think people may be too scared to say them around you Cornelia, you can be sort of volatile."" said Taranee with an apologetic shrug.

"What do we going to do about this?"

"I don't think we need to do anything. Everyone's probably really confused now that we're all friends again," said Hay Lin. "Just ignore the rumors, that's what my mom always tells me and it works. After a while they'll get bored trying to guess what's going on and move on to something more interesting."

"It's simplistic, but I think its a good plan," said Cornelia.

"As long as Irma's not pregnant" Taranee added, "that is."

"Ughh!" I groaned.

"Let's not get ahead of things. One problem at a time. We're Guardians, we can handle anything," said Will, ending the discussion.

We all chimed our agreement and left the bathroom returning to the guys at the table. Eric had come over and joined Caleb, Matt and Nigel. Caleb and Matt were talking, Eric was showing Nigel a guitar in a music magazine. When we sat down, Caleb kissed my forehead and asked, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, it is, it will be. Just plans for the next few days."

Eric pulled Hay Lin over to the side to talk, while the rest of us talked about the barbecue on Saturday. When Hay Lin came back, it was without her trademark smile as Eric muttered a good-bye.

"Hay Lin, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Eric...can't go...with me," she sputtered out as tears began to fall from her eyes.

I leaned over and put my arms around her as the other girls gathered close. We were all concerned because Hay Lin never cries, she can find the good side of any situation – nothing gets her down.

"Huh, he's not going to the dance with you?"

"Why?"

"What did he say?

"Oh no!"

The four of us pelted her with questions at once, but she was too upset to speak, so we just huddled around her offering comfort until lunch was over. I was so busy with Hay Lin, I didn't notice that Caleb had left. When we started to leave the cafeteria I looked for him and Matt told me he said he see me later.

I waited for Caleb after my next two classes but he didn't show up to walk me to class, so I walked to class alone – a small thing, but one that now felt so foreign and wrong...I missed Caleb.

After my last class, I headed to my locker there was Caleb, calmly leaned against the wall waiting for me. Because of my appointment, I quickly grabbed the books I needed and my jacket, then we headed out the door. On the way out, we passed Eric and Hay Lin talking quietly, I hoped with all my heart they would smooth out whatever happened.

My mom's car was the first thing I saw when we got outside. We waved and climbed in the back seat while Chris chattered happily about his day. As we pulled away from the school, my mom began, "We have enough time to drop Chris and Caleb at home and still get to your appointment. We can pi-"

"Actually Anna, I'd like to go with Irma," Caleb said stopping my mom mid sentence.

I turned in the seat to look at him and my mom looked at him in the rear view – we were both surprised.

"Do you really want to be there?" I asked. Caleb rubbed my hand and nodded yes.

Thinking for a second, I came up with a new plan and said, "Okay, mom you can just drop us at the doctor's office, I'm supposed to meet the girls at the mall later anyway."

"But, don't you want me there with you?," my mom said, her voice quivering as she continued, "What if...if you need me..."

"Mom...you've spent years going with me to the doctor, but I think it's time you stopped. I mean things have changed, Caleb will be there with me. Besides he's sort of 'vested' in what the doctor has to say."

"I know, but your still my baby," she whined.

Caleb looked at me and said, "Give me your phone."

I handed him my cell and he dialed quickly and waited for the other end to pickup.

"Hey Tom, Anna's a little upset over not going to Irma's appointment, can you talk to her?" he said into the receiver. After a second he handed it to my mom.

We climbed out of the car five minutes later, Chris was laughing at a corny joke he'd just told and my mom was still on the phone sniffling as she talked to my dad.

At the doctor's office we learned that less than forty-eight hours is too soon to get a reliable pregnancy test. We did get our blood tests done for the wedding – so something positive was accomplished.

When Caleb had seen how 'personal' this doctor's visit was going to be for me I swear he turned a shade of green to match his eye color. After the doctor left the room and I was re-dressing, Caleb sank into the chair and said, "I really didn't like the doctors on earth. I'm the only guy who should touch you that intimately."

Wiggling back into my jeans, I thought about it and replied, "You know, I could switch to a woman doctor – I think I would be more comfortable with a female too. This was my first time seeing a GYN, my mom just sent me to her doctor, but I think I want to find my own..."

But Caleb didn't hear me he was focusing on what was in his hand. He had several leaflets about birth control options and a little foil pack contained two pills. Those little blue pills were very special, morning after pills or emergency birth control. If I was pregnant – they would make sure I wasn't by the weekend. The doctor had given me the pills as a precaution, I was to take it one pill before going to bed the next two nights.

For the last twenty-four hours we had both been working under the assumption that I either was or wasn't pregnant. We were okay with either outcome. I don't think we ever thought we'd have a choice, short of abortion (which neither of us would want), about taking steps to end a pregnancy.

He looked up at me, his green eyes giving away his turmoil. Reading his face, I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "Caleb, we-"

"Babe," He cut me off, "it's okay. I understand." Then he mustered the beginnings of a smile and handed me the package and leaflets. "Come on, we have to meet the other Guardians at the mall."

We got to the mall just after five, things had gone pretty quickly at my appointment, but it sure had seemed to take forever. When we got to the food court, everyone was already there, and I mean everyone – Matt, Nigel and Eric were with the girls.

While we were still a ways off from where they'd pushed four tables together, I whispered to Caleb, "Wow, it looks like Eric and Hay Lin are going to the dance together after all. I guess he changed his mind about standing her up."

Caleb grabbed my hand and pulled me over to the Great Steak kiosk (he really has a thing for steak), and said, "He didn't stand her up, his mom and Cornelia's are in the same Pilates class. Cornelia's mom said some really bad stuff about us and his mom decided she didn't want him hanging around the wrong influence."

"The wrong influence!!" I said through clenched teeth. Suddenly the food court was besieged by soda machines that seemed to explode all at once for no reason at all, a slight lapse in my control of my powers.

I turned to walk to the table and give Eric a piece of my mind, but Caleb grabbed me by the arm, pulling me close and said, "Calm down, I handled it...it's cool now."

I turned slowly to look at him. "You handled it? How? When?" I asked.

"After lunch, we talked." Then he said nothing more, I stood there with my mouth open, astonished at how little that did to clear things up. A smirk grew on Caleb's face and he walked calmly up to the counter and ordered his food, then looked at me and asked, "Babe, what do you want?"

I'm slowly learning that men try to drive you crazy.

Okay, so now I know something big went down, but I know nothing about how it ended – not knowing is killing me!

As we took our food over to the table, we crossed paths with Peter Cook, Taranee's older brother, also carrying a tray, he gave me a quick "Hi" and a quick nodded greeting to Caleb. To my surprise he pulled up a chair and joined us – something he'd never done before. Peter is two years older than Taranee and in the three years I'd known her, he'd always been 'too mature' to hang with us.

Taranee spoke up quickly, "Hey Bro! Thanks for coming...I'm going to need a ride home."

As I sat down, I cast a pointed stare at Taranee and Cornelia. Cornelia gave a quick almost imperceivable shrug – she didn't know what was going on either. Taranee just ignored me like this was a normal everyday occurrence.

"No problem, I need a new shirt for the dance on Friday – can't go in old threads." Peter replied amiably as he dug into his Mega Meaty Burrito Supreme.

Hearing that he had simple reasons for being there removed all the tension from me and my fellow guardians. We all knew he had been fooling around with Cornelia while she was dating Caleb and were worried things could get ugly. I thought it was sweet that Peter was willing to be seen with us just came to make sure Taranee had a way home. We all ate and chatted then decided which stores to hit. We settled on a plan going in two groups, guys in one, girls in the other. There was just no store around with enough boyfriend chairs to handle all five boys at once – they never put more than three chairs in a store. The guys would go their own way and meet us in an hour at All About Style to see what we picked for the dance.

Before we parted, Caleb pulled me into an embrace and kissed me until I moaned and Will pulled on my arm, saying, "Do that on your own time, I need a new dress!"

Caleb's POV

Reluctantly I released Irma and watched her walk away with her friends, smiling as I watched the gentle swaying of her hips.

"Dude, you've got it bad," Matt said with amazement.

"I've been dating Taranee for more than a year and she's never kissed me like that!" added Nigel.

"And that's a good thing," Peter answered, "That's my baby sister you're talking about."

Nigel looked appropriately abashed, having forgotten that Peter was with them.

Having done a great impression of a protective big brother, Peter cracked a smile and punched Nigel in the arm and told him, "Don't sweat it dude, I'm just giving you a hard time."

Being guys, we really didn't know what to do once the girls left, only Matt was brave enough to admit though when he asked, "Okay what do we do for the next hour? I don't do shopping that's what my mother is for."

We all mumbled our agreement and wandered aimlessly around until we were in front of the arcade. Peter pitched a thumb in the direction of the door and without words we all agreed and headed in – each going our separate way once inside.

I headed for the safari simulator that used VR shooting. After about five minutes, Peter climbed into the simulator seat next to me and we played for another ten minutes without talking.

"How long did you know?" Peter asked as we waited for the game to restart.

"For about the last three and a half months. Why'd you do it?"

Peter shrugged his shoulders, having no good answer, then he asked me, "We cool?"

"Yeah, we're cool."

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