I hate u, I love u – Gnash and Olivia O'Brien

Ana's POV-

My back presses against the door as I pull it closed, needing to calm my ragged breathing and libido I take a few moments to pull myself together before I go and help Gail.

"Kate, please. I'm so sorry. Please let me in." She says, her forehead resting on the door. I wander up the hall towards her knowing that she is probably going to need my help, I know what Gail did was wrong, but I also know she didn't do it on purpose. "Please." She practically whimpers, it's only as I get up close that I see the tears swimming in her eyes.

I don't think I just act and pull her into my arms knowing that she needs my comfort as much as Kate will. It's only after I've been holding her for a few moments that I realize that there's no trace of fear, no lingering anxiety all I feel is warmth and affection, it strikes me and not for the first time just how far I've come in the last month.

"It's Ana, can you open the door I think we all need to talk." I say gently knocking on the door.

"I… I…" Kate sobs opening the door and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"I'm so sorry." Gail flings herself into Kate's arms and they cling to each other both sobbing now.

"It's not you, I'm mad at." Kate says before her eyes flicker around the hallway settling on Elliot's door her whole body locks up. Gail pulls back feeling the tension now thrumming through Kate, she looks around, finally realizing the reason for her clamming up she pushes Kate back into the room. I follow closing the door behind me as they both climb on the bed leaving just enough room for me to find on the other side.

"Please don't cry, he's not worth it." Gail says running a hand down Kate's face as she sniffles into the pillow.

"I'm such a fucking idiot." Kate grits out flipping onto her back pulling at her hair.

"There's more to the story than it being the one-off fuck Gail caught isn't there?"

"So much more. Ugh." Kate groans.

"What happened Kate? You said it was just one night." Gail says propping herself up on her elbow looking down at where she lies between the two of us.

"It was at first, that's what we agreed. The night you caught him sneaking out wasn't even the first time-"

"The first time? It's happened more than once?" Gail says interrupting Kate.

"Virtually every week for the last six months." Gail pulls in a breath but doesn't say anything. "The first time it happened I think both of us were too drunk to ever really understand what was happening, hell I only remember fifty percent of the night. I'm not even sure I realized it was Elliot at first when I woke up the next morning he was gone and when I saw him, he didn't even blink it was like nothing happened. I sort of thought I dreamt the whole thing. But then a couple of weeks later I picked up this guy, but when we were halfway into the cab when Elliot pulled him out and told me if I was going home with anyone it was going to be him. At first, I thought it was just because we live together but when he kissed me, I realized that it wasn't a dream, he was jealous, but again the next morning he was gone, and it was like nothing ever happened all over again." A bitter laugh falls from her lips as she shakes her head dismissively.

"Oh, Kate." Gail says squeezing Kate's hand.

"Don't it's my own fault." She takes a deep breath before continuing. "I figured he either didn't want everyone to know or didn't want to acknowledge he was jealous. So, I went along with it, I figured it was just sex what did it matter, but then the next week when we went out, I was dancing with a guy and I could feel his eyes on me. I went to the bathroom to get away, I just couldn't dance with that guy when it was his eyes on me that was turning me on it just felt wrong. He cornered me in the bathroom, and we fucked, I actually fucked him in a club bathroom, that should have been the moment I ran. The next night the same thing happened, so the week after I did it on purpose to see what his reaction would be, I tried so hard not to give in, when he wanted me to go home with him but he's just got this magnetism and it's like all my brain cells fly out of the window. So, I continued to do it, tempting him, because the sex was… addicting. And like every good junkie I kept feeding my habit even though I knew it was never going to end well and I'd never be able to get enough no matter how many times I told myself it was the last time. He stopped taking other girls' home after the third time and I stopped trying to pretend to go after other men, we just silently agreed to fuck each other, somehow it went from every weekend to a couple times a week."

"A couple times a week how the hell didn't I notice it, hell how didn't Jason?" Gail asks.

"He never spends the night, spent the night, I guess, he'd always sneak out after you went to bed and let's be honest if anyone caught him, he could say he was going to the basement to do laundry or something. It's his house as well."

"Why didn't you just tell me?"

"I didn't want to admit it, that I was pretty much his dirty little secret, I think he made it pretty clear to it meant nothing to him. Fuck I knew I was falling for him and I still kept doing it, I knew I was going to get my heart broken but it's like crack you know how much it's going to hurt to give it up but you don't want to give up the high. It's not even the sex, it's the moments after where we're just we talk about the most random shit, it was so comforting. He stays until I'm asleep most of the time then he slips out, or he'll sneak out when I get ready for bed or something. Fuck. Told you I was an idiot."

"You're not an idiot, you're naïve maybe, honestly I just think you're in love. Makes you do stupid things." Gail says.

"Yeah with someone who's never going to love me. Let's be real though who is going to want me, long term? I'm loud and obnoxious, I have the mouth of a sailor, I've got no filter I don't exactly scream marriage material. Who would want to bring me home to meet their parents?"

"I would, I did. My parents love you."

"They tolerate me." Kate laughs.

"Maybe so but I love you, and you can meet 'Mone any time you want, he and Ray are the closest thing I have to family." I offer.

"You two are the best." Kate laughs. "Thank you, now what do you say to an evening dip in the pool before dinner?" She says changing the subject, Gail and I exchange a knowing look but let it slide because she's clearly had enough for now. Though something tells me that there's more to the story.

"Yeah, still can't believe this is going to be your first time in the pool." Gail says to me.

"Oh right. Your swimming costumes." Kate jumps up from the bed and grabs her suitcase tossing it on the bed only just missing Gail's feet. She shows me all the options and I opt for the navy blue one because it covers the most skin, therefore if Christian's shirt rides up, I'll still be somewhat covered. Taking the costumes, I head down the hall to my room for the week, even though I'm going to be sharing with Christian, I still want my own space to get ready and no have to worry about him seeing my scars before I'm ready.

I knock on his door to get his shirt for the pool, before going into my room to change, when I enter the room, I find my suitcases already on the bed and Ben's bed already on the floor. It takes me all of five minutes to get ready, the shirt falls to my mid-thigh where no doubt on Christian it would just about reach his hips, I spin a few times checking my reflection in the mirror making sure no scars are visible. Pulling my hair into a bun, not wanting it to get wet, a knock at the door interrupts me.

"Come in." I offer not bothering to check who it is, that in itself is a huge accomplishment.

"Fuck you look good in my shirt." Christian says leaning against the door frame, as his eyes study my body, there's a part of me that wants to cower away from his stare but the lust visible in his eyes keeps my hands at my side instead of covering myself. Coming up behind me he wraps his arms around my waist pulling me to him, his half-erect dick pressing into my ass through the thin fabric of the shirt. I stuck in a breath as my heart begins to race, I swallow my mouth suddenly feeling dry, Christian chuckles before pressing a kiss into my exposed neck. "Let go down to the pool before I pin you to that bed and kiss the shit out of you."

"You wouldn't?"

"I would so move." He says his voice somehow even deeper than normal as he guides me out of the door and into the hall where Ben is patiently waiting. He loops his arm around my shoulders as he guides me down the stairs through the kitchen out to the back patio.

"Holy fuck." I gasp as the pool comes into view; it has to be bigger than most Olympic pools, but it built to look like some sort of rock pool. One end is taken up with what I assume to be a hot tub with a rocky canopy overtop, Elliot and Taylor are already in the pool playing water polo well attempting to anyway. The wind is throwing their ball off course so they both keep missing. Gail is laying on a sunbed reading on her kindle, I'm about to ask where Kate is when she emerges from the kitchen no evidence of her earlier tears.

"Whoa, what's with the one-piece Kavanagh you're strictly a bikini girl?" Elliot asks seemingly unaware of how much their earlier conversation affected her.

"Things change, Elliot." She says despite the words there is no trace of irritation in her tone just disinterest, Elliot gives her a once over before throwing the ball back to Taylor. Kate walks over to the sun lounger next to Gail and lays down, I follow as Christian jumps into the pool splashing us all as joins the game.

Us girls just lay there talking about anything and everything as we watch the guys play, Ben lays at my feet soaking up the sun. The beachball gets caught by a gust of wind and blows out of the pool toward the fence, Ben chases after it before any of us can stop him, he manages to retrieve the ball before it can blow away but, in the process, manages to burst the ball with his teeth.

"Sorry, I'll buy you a new one." I offer.

"No need, we have plenty just need to remember not to use one when Ben is around or risk losing it." Elliot says jumping out of the pool and walking towards the pool house because a house this size needs another smaller house just to store all of the pool stuff obviously.

"Look what I found." Elliot says coming out with a new beachball under his arm and a tube in the other. "Tennis balls. Ana can he play fetch?"

"Yeah, of course, he's just liked any other dog when it comes to playing." Elliot pulls a tennis ball out of the tube and calls to Ben before launching the ball across the garden and he takes off running.

"You do realize he no isn't going to leave you alone all night, right?" I chuckle knowing that once Ben realizes you'll play with him he fails to understand that not everyone can or wants to play constantly.

"Ahh, it'll be fine plus there's enough of us that if my arm gets tired, someone else can take over." Everyone responds by telling him he's on his own. "Wankers the lot of you." He says as Ben comes backdropping the ball back at his feet.

I lie back against the lounger soaking up what I can of the sun with Christian's shirt on, watching the few clouds as the move across the sky and the birds as they fly about trying to find their home for the night before the sunsets. The guys exit the pool and stand before us, all in their low-slung swimming trunks, their perfectly sculpted abs and chest on display. While Taylor has the most muscular body, probably from all his military training, Christian and even Elliot's bodies are still something any man would be proud, we're all so caught up staring at them it takes us a moment to realize that they aren't just out of the pool to dry off. I focus on Christian as he stalks towards me, it takes everything I have to keep my gaze fixed on his face and not his body like he's a piece of meat though judging by the smirk on his face I don't think he minds one bit.

Before I realize what's happening Christian has his arm under my knees and arms, picking up from the sun lounger faster and more gracefully than I would have expected given how low they are to the ground. At first, I'm perplexed as to why but when he starts walking back towards the pool, I try to squirm my way out of his grasp and get away.

"Christian, please don't." I scream but there's no real fear in my voice, I've been watching him swim in the pool and I know that if anything were to go wrong, he would be there in a heartbeat to rescues me.

"You said you wanted to learn how to swim, the first step is getting in the water. I'm just helping with that." He says so nonchalantly that I almost think he's being serious but when the sides of his mouth kick up, I know he's joking.

"I don't think it's supposed to be-" I get cut off as he jumps into the pool with me still in his arms. When my feet touch the bottom of the pool, I'm fully submerged in the water, my heart starts to sputter but before I have the chance to freak out, he's pushed us from the bottom and my head is once again above the water.

"Sorry, what were you saying?" He smirks releasing my legs to run a hand through his damp hair putting back into place.

"You dick." I say splashing him trying to push away but the second I do I realize I'm out of my depth, but I don't get the opportunity to slip under the water as he pulls me back to him. His thigh pushes between mine supporting me, so I don't have to worry about trying to float or stay above the water he's doing all the work for me.

"Sorry forgot you're a shorty." He pushes off the floor to move us closer to the shallow end, I assume to make it possible for me to stand up, but it ends up just pressing his thigh tighter up into the apex of my thighs. I gasp as the sensation as Christian backs me up into the pool wall, as soon as my back is against it, he mouths presses down on mine his hands pressing into my back pushing me against his chest.

Bring a hand up I gently force it into his har, his erection is pressed firmly against my belly but not in a way that makes me feel like he wants me to do something about it. It's more like he just wants to be close to me, my nipples tighten against the swimsuit and there's a wetness between my thighs that feels like more than just the water. I'm seconds away from humping his leg when a voice interrupts us and we both pull apart with our breathing coming hard and fast.

"Get a room you two." Elliot shouts. "On second thought I wouldn't mind a show." He laughs as Kate pushes him under the water. Embarrassment floods me as I press my face into Christian's shoulder, but alongside it there's this light-hearted happiness filling my chest, like I've finally found my place.

"Fuck off." Christian growls before pulling me back into a decidedly less passionate kiss that lights me on fire just the same.

A splash across the pool pulls my attention I look up to find some kind of floatie now in the water, Kate carefully lowers herself into it. Elliot being Elliot goes starts towards her, Kate doesn't even open her eyes, I go to call out and warn her knowing that whatever he's planning is likely going to end with Kate back in the pool instead of floating on the surface.

"You even think about tipping me off this Grey, I will stick my fist up your ass and with no fucking lube." Kate grits still not opening her eyes.

"Fuck." He dramatically sighs slipping under the water.

Christian spins us around and sits down on a seat on the wall of the pool pulling me into his lap, instead of getting me to try and swim or play we just watch the others goof around. Even Kate joins in playing water polo with them from her floatie, while Christian and I just bob around in the shallow end. As I watch Kate, I can't help but feel something's off with her, it seems like more than just what happened earlier with Elliot, I want to go to her to ask what's wrong, but I don't dare while we're surrounded by everyone, namely Elliot. So, I make a mental note to ask her later when everyone is just relaxing and is settled in for the evening.

All freshly showered we sit around the table on the patio, we decided on a barbeque, figuring it's too nice to spend the night inside. I think everyone else would have been happy showering later in the evening but I didn't want to sit around in the soaking wet top, knowing I couldn't take it off around everyone else, I figured if I was already going upstairs to change I might as well just shower and they all just followed suit. The barbeque has just gotten going when Elliot walks out carrying a tray of marinated steaks, Taylor and Christian follow him carrying our drinks. Taylor with four beers in hand, Christian with a beer in one hand and what I assume is lemonade in the other, my suspicions are confirmed when he hands it to me and I take a sip. Taylor hands out the beers to the rest of the group, Kate take a sip before freezing a horrified look across her features, she puts the bottle down before darting off to the kitchen.

I look around to see if anyone else has noticed, I lock eyes with Gail, and she gives me a knowing look and mouths 'later'. Kate comes back out a second later with a glass of water in hand she sits back down next to me.

"Are you okay?" I whisper.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She says holding up the glass like it magically explains what just happened.

"Alright, I know how everyone else likes their steaks what about you Ana?" Elliot asks from where the stakes are now sizzling on the barbeque, alongside the tinfoil wrapped potato and veggies that Gail made despite Elliot's protests that steak by itself could be a whole meal.

"Well done, please." Elliot gives me a look of outrage. "Sorry I don't like my meat still alive." I laugh.

"You hear that bro? Ana likes dead meat, so she won't be after yours." Elliot snickers turning back to the barbeque.

"Fuck off you dickhead." Christian says sipping his beer and winks at me, I feel my cheeks heat.

"Actually, I'll have mine well done." Kate says.

"What? Since when don't you like your's medium-rare?" Elliot asks spinning around so fast he has to steady himself on the wall.

"I feel like doing something different, sue me. Plus, it's not like you've got to do much more of anything, you're already cooking Ana's to well done." Kate shrugs, looking unfazed but I can see the slight tension for where I'm sitting, though no one else seems to see anything wrong.

Clearing the table, I pick up Kate's beer bottle expecting it to be empty seeing as she's been sipping at it all throughout dinner, but it almost slips through my fingers given that it's still full. I don't say anything just discreetly tip it down the sink, before placing it in the recycling with the rest of the bottles, we work as a team getting the table emptied and everything into the dishwasher in under five minutes. Once everything is done, everyone else heads back outside with a fresh round of drinks, I grab Kate by the elbow and pull her into a room just off the kitchen which turns out to be a study.

"I'm going to ask this once more and if you say you're fine I'll let it go but I really wish you'd tell me the truth." I say and Kate nods, so I continue. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fi-" Is all Kate get out before the door opens and in walks Gail.

"No, you're not. What the hell is going on? And don't bullshit with me a UTI. Again." Gail bites out.

"It is."

"It isn't. Sure, a UTI explains the alcohol, but it doesn't explain the steak or the swimming costume." Gail says and I look at her confused as to what is going on. "She wasn't drinking at the club either, her excuse was that she had a UTI and couldn't drink on her antibiotics, but they wouldn't restrict what food you can eat." She clarifies.

"Kate just tell us what's going on?" I implore Kate trying to tell her without words that we are both here for her no matter what.

"I… I…." Kate stammers.

"Fucking hell. Kate, you aren't, are you?" Gail says her hands pulling at her hair all the sympathy fills her eyes as she stares at Kate.

"I don't know." Kate says as tears fill her eyes; I want to pull her into a hug, but something tells me that right now she wouldn't appreciate it.

"Will someone please explain what is going on?" I ask.

"She's pregnant or at least she thinks she is." Oh, Kate.

"It's Elliot's isn't it?" I ask pretty sure I already know the answer.

"Yeah, I haven't slept with anyone but him since we started." She sniffles, and I finally give in and hug her, she sinks into the hold.

"No more waiting you need to know for sure. Let's go and get a test right now." Gail says joining our hug.

Instead of telling the guys the real reason for our late-night trip, we take off under the guise of ice cream, I take everyone's orders and we head off. Gail drives my car, with Kate and I in the back, I hold Kate's hand the whole way to the convenience store, as she shakes beside me. She always seems the picture of confidence but right now she is anything but, I guess it's one thing to know you might be pregnant it's another to know for sure if you are or aren't. Pulling up outside the small store, her hand tightens in mine, I look over to find her white as a ghost.

"You know no matter what, Ana and I will be here don't you?" Gail says from the front as she turns off the engine and turns to face us.

"I know, it's just… I dunno what if someone recognizes me and then word gets back to my parents or something?" Kate says chewing on her lips so hard I'm genuinely worried she may draw blood.

"Why don't I go in and buy it?" I offer. "No one here knows me, and no one is going to think twice about some random girl on holiday buying a pregnancy test, I'm sure it happens quite a bit around here."

"You can even wait in the car?" Gail says.

"No, no. I'll come in I can't make you do it alone, I know you don't like talking to strangers."

"I'll be fine."

"No, I'm coming with you." She unbuckles her seatbelt and climbs out the side of the car, Gail and I both follow.

Gail takes Kate's hand as I walk into the store, the store clerk can't be much older than us, he barely looks up when we walk in to engrossed in whatever is going on, on his phone. Knowing the test won't be at the front of the store, I walk towards the back where the medical stuff usually is. Although I've never shopped for a pregnancy test before, I find them without too much fuss. Looking at them, I find way too many options for a store this size, like seriously how many brands do you need? Surely, they all do the same thing, right? Deciding that the one that says 'pregnant' and 'not pregnant' is probably best, there will be no trying to figure out if there is a second line or not, I walk up to the store clerk and put the package on the counter.

"Just this?" He asks, the judgment evident in his voice even without the harsh stare he's giving me. For once, I find that I don't care what someone else is thinking, maybe it's because the test isn't actually for me but somehow it feels like more, like for a change that nagging voice inside my head just isn't there.

"Yeah, that'll be all." He scans it and I pay via contactless, given that I didn't bring my card out. I go to reply as Gail cuts me off.

"No actually, do you have a bathroom?"

"Yeah but it's employees only." He says looking almost offended we'd ask. I go to tell him it's okay but to look on Kate's face tells me she doesn't want to do this at home. Racking my brain for a solution, my phone vibrates in my hand, ignoring the text, I pull off the phone case and pull out my emergency stash.

"This enough to make you overlook that?" I ask offering him a hundred-dollar bill.

"Uh yeah." He says grabbing a key from the hook behind him without looking up once for the Franklin.

We all walk around the bathroom on the other side of the store, I hand the test to Kate.

"You alright?" I ask even though I know she isn't, not really.

"I've been better, but you're right," she points to Gail, "I need to know."

"Want me to read the instructions?" I ask unlocking the door.

"Nah, I'm sure I can figure it out, I'm mean how hard is it to pee on a stick?" She says stepping into the bathroom and locking the door behind her.

Gail and I wait outside for what seems like forever, before the toilet flushes, the tap runs, and Kate opens the door. We both step inside, the test rests on the rim of the sink upside down.

"I set a timer." Kate says showing us her phone, only two minutes left.

We wait in awkward silence, the three of us holding hands in the tiny bathroom, that smells strangely of burritos. We're so tense that the time startles us when it goes off, Kate looks like she might throw up and Gail isn't much better, so I break away and reach for the test. Flipping it over in my hands I look at them both, they both nod, I look down reading the results.

"Just tell me." Kate says from where her head is now buried is Gail's hair.

"It's positive."

"Oh, fuck. I think I'm going to be sick." Kate spins around holding her head above the toilet bowl.

"Just breathe, it's going to be okay." Gail says bending down to rub Kate's back and hold her hair back. Kate sits back on her heels, her arms wrapped around her belly almost protectively.

"How can you know that?" Kate says tears now freely flowing down her face.

"Because no matter what you aren't going to be alone, no matter your decision I'll be here. I promise you."

"Me too." I say seconding Gail.

"I mean it, you want to have an abortion, I'll drive the car and hold your hand, you wanna keep it, I'll be there if you want to keep it or give it up, I'll be there for you."

"We both will." I say crouching down on the sticky floor to hold Kate's other hand.

"You guys." Kate whispers as she begins to sob, Gail and I pull her into a hug and just hold her as she cries it out. We just sit there holding her as best we can despite the less than ideal angle, after a while her sobs quiet. "I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."

"I think that's to be expected, this wasn't something you were planning, so it's quite a shock and I think despite the fact you've probably known deep down inside for a week or two. It's a very different thing to know for sure, it makes it all real, that would be overwhelming enough without the added hormones." I say offering what I hope is a sympathetic smile.

"I guess, you're right." Kate says wiping at her face with her sleeves. "It's just that I'm happy in a weird way and somehow that feels wrong like I willed this to happen or something." She looks at the floor like she's ashamed.

"That's not true, and you know it. Look why don't you take the night to think things through." Gail offers.

"No, as soon as I walk through the door, Elliot is going to know something's wrong. I mean just look at me." She waves her hands at her puffy eyes and face. "I have to tell him; he has a right to know."

"I know he does but I don't think anyone would fault you for needing the night to process things for yourself." I offer.

"We can run interference. Hell, all I'd need to do is accidentally flash Elliot and we'd be golden." Gail chuckles.

"Oh god." Kate says burying her face in her hands as she laughs. "Don't remind me. I think I need to tell him then maybe we can be there for each other. And before you say it yes, I know this isn't going to magically fix things, I just... I miss my friend and right now I need him more than ever."

"I know you do. And as big of an idiot as he is, he knows there's a time and a place for it. He may not be happy for it but I'm willing to bet that he'll be there for you no matter what." Gail offer.

"Here's hoping." Kate says sucking in a deep breath, before pulling free of our hold and standing. "Let's go. Time to face the music." I stand and grab the test and the packet off the side, along with the bathroom key. Gail and Kate wander out as I return the key to the store clerk.

"Here." I say chucking the key at the clerk, not bothering with pleasantries, but I smile at the older lady buying a few items. She looks down at the box in my hand and Kate as she walks out the door.

"You girls take care." She offers a sympathetic smile before fixing her glare on the store clerk which makes me smile.

None of us say anything on the drive back, the only noise in the car is the radio but it's basically just background noise. It's only once we pull up outside of the house that I realize that we forgot to bring back ice-cream but I guess it was never really important, I know the guys will probably be disappointed but something tells me they'll get over it when they figure it all out.

"You ready?" Gail asks.

"No, but I don't want to wait anymore." She pushes her hair back behind her ears, smoothing it down as she goes. "How bad do I look?" Gail and I lock eyes for a moment before I answer.

"Not too bad." I say although it's a partial truth, it's better than telling her that she still has tear marks and puffy eyes. Honestly, she doesn't look bad it's just obvious that she's just been crying.

"Alright, let's do this." Kate says, standing up so she can climb out of the car, I follow after Gail when she pushes the front seat down for me.

We walk inside hand in hand, following the sound of the guys' voices, from where they are in the back living-room, playing some game on the Xbox. They are all so engrossed in the game that they barely seem to register our presence, but the second we walk into the room, Taylor turns around. I guess those military skills actually come in handy.

"Hey, where's the ice-cream?" He asks checking our hands.

"What happened?" Elliot asks, at first, I think he's asking about the ice-cream but the way his gaze is fixated on Kate's I know it's about the tears. He doesn't falter for a second as the jumps around the couch and strides up to us pulling Kate into his arms, it happens to fast I don't think she gets a chance to react, her hands leave ours and wrap around his waist. It takes a few seconds, but she must realize what's going on because she pulls back, but Elliot doesn't give her a chance to get very far as his fingers trace her cheeks. "Who did this?" He asks before catching himself and dropping his hands to his side and taking a step back.

Kate whips around to look at me and Gail, we both nod, which must give her the encouragement she needs because she faces him again.

"You." She says on a deep breath, Elliot's face falls and he takes a step back. "Us I mean. I'm… pregnant."

"You… you're… what?" He stammers as Christian and Taylor gasp but otherwise stay quiet.

"I'm pregnant."

"It's mine?" She nods in response. "You're having my baby."

"Yes." She says barely above a whisper.

The rest of us stay silent as they stare at each other, neither blinking nor breathing. I don't know what I expected Elliot's reaction to be but it sure as hell wasn't him pulling Kate into his arms and kissing her. I look around at the others and if their reactions are anything to go by neither did, they.

"You're having my baby." He breathes pulling back, he puts some distance between them and runs his hand over her lower belly, almost reverently. "Come on, let's go talk." He says taking her by the hand through to the kitchen.

Taylor and Christian do the same, dragging both Gail and I off to our respective bedrooms.

"Did I hear that right?" Christian asks once we're inside.

"Yeah, you're going to be an uncle."

Please excuse any errors it's almost 4 am here but seeing as I missed my upload last week, I didn't want to make you guys wait any longer. I hope you enjoyed the longer chapter; I think this is this story's longest so far.

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