"Well mom its like this," She said pausing to think it through for a minute. She didn't want to tell her mom about her and Paul because it would get him into a lot of trouble, not to mention that he would be pissed at her.

"Like what?"

"Well I asked him to pretend to be my boyfriend because the guy I was seeing broke up with my and I didn't want to look stupid."

"Sweetie you could never look stupid, especially because we had invited this boy to dinner and then he proceeded to break up with you."

"Okay, sorry mom."

"Well I am just glad that you aren't seeing that boy because your father and I didn't like him too much. Not at all actually."

"Yeah it was a bad idea, I'll tell you the truth next time."

"That's all I ask honey."

With that her mom got up, kissed her head and left the room. She took a deep breath and let it out before picking up her phone and dialing Paul's number. She needed to talk to him and just hoped he would pick up this time.

When she got through dialing the number it rang three times before it went to his voicemail. She hung up and rolled her eyes before tossing her phone onto her bed and getting up and going over to her computer.

She got onto her profile and clicked onto the calendar program. She needed to start planning her birthday party, it was only three weeks away. She had been so busy with other things it hadn't crossed her mind.

She did a double take as she took in the dates she was looking for and her eyes widened. She was two weeks late, she quickly calculated in her mind the last time she had been visited by her monthly friend.

"Oh my god," She said out loud to herself, She shot out of her chair and ran back over to her phone, picking it up and dialing Paul's number again. She really needed to talk to him now.

"I don't think it would be a good idea." Paul said into his phone.

"Why not? I would love to see you again."

"Well Joanie I don't want to see you, I have moved on and you need to do the same thing."

"Paul.."

"Hold on I have another call."

He had noticed that Stephanie was calling him for the second time. He figured it had to be important if she was calling him over and over. She never did that, she'd call the one time and either leave a voicemail if he didn't answer or just hang up.

"Hey baby."

"I really need to see you, its important."

"What is it?"

"Its not a conversation I want to have over the phone."

"Are you breaking up with me?" He asked starting to get worried by the tone of her voice.

"No, but can I come over later?"

"Sure, come over whenever babe I am staying in tonight."

"Okay bye,"

"Bye," He said before switching back over to the other line. "Are you still here?"

"Yes, what took so long?" She asked the impatience evident in her voice.

"I told you that I had another call…"

"Your little girlfriend?"

"How did you know I have a girlfriend Joanie? Are you having me followed or something? I don't know how many times I have to tell you to move on because I don't want to be with you anymore."

"Slow down there tiger it was a guess, but maybe I should be having you followed."

"Get over yourself." He said plainly before hanging up.

Trish walked back into the living room with a cup of tea in her hand. "Sorry it took me so long to get here sweetie but I had already had plans."

"It's fine, it gave me that alone time I needed."

"So how are you doing?"

"Okay I guess, I just never knew he could be that big of a jerk about things."

"Well, some guys need to talk about other things besides the drama in their girl's friend's life you know?"

"I guess but he never said anything."

"He was trying to be nice obviously." Trish said starting to get slightly annoyed. Sometimes Candice could be so simple minded about things, which usually meant she only thought of her own thoughts and feelings.

"I guess, but anyway who were you meeting up with?"

Trish thought for a moment, she wasn't sure if she could take the risk of telling Candice the plan she and Chris had been planning. She had good ideas when it came to things like this, but she was a loyal friend and she figured she'd go run off and tell Stephanie. Maybe she could get her on her side and turn the girl against Stephanie in some way.

"Nobody important sweetie, this is about you right now."

Stephanie walked back into her room, she had just gotten back from the grocery store. She took the test out of her hand and stared at it, she didn't know if she wanted to take it now and tell Paul about it or take it at his house so he could hold her hand through all of this.

She decided to do it alone because she didn't know how he would feel about this whole thing. She walked into her bathroom and closed the door behind her, she then pulled the test out of the box and read the directions, though she pretty much knew how to go about it.

She finished taking the test and walked out of the bathroom leaving the test on the counter. She sat down on her bed staring at the clock, the test had said to wait ten minutes for results. She was so worried about this whole thing, either way her life was going to change forever.

On one hand she would just go through a pregnancy scare and realize that she should have been more insistent on protection, but on the other hand, which was considerably more life changing, she was going to be an eighteen year old mother. She was only seventeen and still in school…she didn't want to be known as that girl.

She just hoped she'd be able to handle the situation, whatever it was.

Paul sat starring at the clock on the wall wondering when Stephanie was going to be coming over. He had had to turn off his phone because Joanie kept trying to get a hold of him. He was also extremely worried about whatever it was that Steph needed to talk about. She had sounded so serious on the phone that it could be anything.

After a few more minutes he heard the doorbell. He got up from the couch and walked to the door. He opened it and saw Stephanie standing there staring at her feet. She didn't look up when he opened the door so he cleared his throat.

"Hey baby,"

"Hey," She said still not looking at him.

"Do you want to come in?"

"Oh, yeah of course." She walked in and he closed the door behind her.

He grabbed her hand and led her into the living room. They both sat down and he looked at her as she continued to stare down, this time at her hands.

"Is something wrong baby?"

"Well…" She said looking up but then closing her mouth.

"Come on, you can tell me what it is, you can tell me anything baby."

"Well…" She started again. She wasn't sure how she was going to tell him the news she had learned just earlier that day. She didn't want him to dump her or something because she loved him.

"Well what?"

"You have to promise me that you won't get mad?"

"I can't really promise that I won't get mad because I don't know what it is. But the way you are talking right now, I feel like this is going to be something bad."

"Paul…I'm pregnant."