AN: There's some big news coming in this chapter. I just wanted to give you all a warning before you started reading. This chapter also takes place a month after the last one.
Andy stared at her computer in shock. Mark had just sent her an e-mail letting her know that he would be in town that weekend. He said that they had things to discuss. She had something she needed to tell him too. Like that she had applied for early admissions into Harvard. Granted it was still too early but she wasn't expecting to get in. She wouldn't even find out if she got in until that summer. They hadn't kept in touch like they should have. When they talked lately they felt more like friends than boyfriend and girlfriend. Usually that would have sent off some kind of alarm for Andy. But she'd had her mind on other things lately.
She wished that she could talk to Jack about what was going. But things were finally starting to look up for him and Ethan. He had brought him to dinner the other night. Their dad hadn't been receptive at first, but now he had come to grips that his son wasn't like most guys. And he had come to love him even more. She would just have to deal with this on her own.
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Andy wasn't the only one of the friends that was having boyfriend troubles. Jen was at a loss as to what she should do about Henry. Things had gotten worse over the past few weeks. With Prom fast approaching she had made the decision that she didn't want to go. Not if Henry didn't change his attitude. They could always go next year. She hadn't talked to him about it yet, but she knew it would turn into a blown up argument where he would twist her words around. He had gotten better at that recently.
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Joey and Pacey sat waiting in the examining waiting for the doctor to come back in. He had left the room without saying much other than he wanted to check on something. That made Joey worry that something was wrong with the baby. The doctor came back in holding up a picture. He explained that he had needed to magnify the pictures that had been taken earlier because he saw something that he hadn't noticed before. He pointed at something before starting to speak.
"What does that look like to you Miss Potter?" He asked still pointing to something in the picture.
Joey squinted trying to figure out what it was. Then she realized what she was looking at.
"It's a third hand." She said putting a hand over her mouth.
"What?" Pacey asked walking around the table to look at the picture.
"She's right Mr. Witter. It's a third hand. You're having more than one baby."
"Oh God." Joey said with a groan.
"How come we've never seen it before?"
"Sometimes the other baby hides behind the first one. That's what this one has been doing. They finally decided to make their presence known."
"Oh God." Joey said again as she clenched her eyes shut.
Pacey looked down at her giving her a worried look. This hadn't been what they had been expecting but he had hoped that she would react better than she was. What had happened to the girl that he had fallen in love with? The girl that was ready for anything? Oh yeah, he had gotten her pregnant at seventeen. She'd done some growing up and now she was paying for it.
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Andy stood at the front window watching for Mark's car to pull up in the driveway. She wanted to get what she had to say out of the way hoping that what he had to say wasn't that bad. But news was never good when the person traveled across two states just to tell someone something. She heard his car before she saw it. It rounded the corner and pulled to a stop out front as she opened the front door. She walked down the stairs to meet him with a smile. When he didn't return the smile she knew something was wrong.
Mark stared down at his feet with his hands stuffed in his pockets. His stance alone let Andy know something was wrong. She laughed shyly before letting him follow her into the house. He put a hand on her shoulder just as she was about to walk up the stairs to her room. She turned to face him giving him a pleading look.
"Maybe we should talk in the living room." He said just above a whisper.
Andy nodded before following him into the room and sitting next to him on the couch. He rested his hands on his knees before letting out a deep sigh.
"I don't know how to say so I'm just going to come and say it. We should break up."
"What?" Andy asked sounding shocked.
"This isn't working. We never see each other. When we talk on the phone we talk like we're just friends. Tell me I'm not the only one who's noticed these things."
"No, I've noticed them too. I thought it was because we were getting closer." Andy said fighting the urge to cry.
"I should go. I want to be on the road before it gets dark. I've got a long drive ahead of me."
"But you just got here." Andy said pleading with him.
"I've said what I needed to say. If I stay I'll only end changing my mind. I can't do that."
"Okay." Andy said nodding her head.
Mark put a hand on her arm giving it a squeeze before letting himself out. Andy sat where she was in a state of shock until Jack got home. He sat in front of her with his hands on hers. He gave her a worried look before calling out her name. She looked down at him with tears in her eyes.
"Andy what's
wrong?"
"Mark broke up with me." She said finally
letting the tears flow.
Jack stood only to sit down next to her on the couch. He pulled her to him letting her cry into his chest. He rubbed her back as she let out body shaking sobs. It was times like this when he was glad that he had moved back home. He would have to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't go off the deep end again.
AN2: I want to thank PaceyW'sgirl for giving me the idea of making Joey have twins. I hope you guys like it too. Let me know what you think.