Continuing from last chapter

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"I can't tell him that!" Nicole told Clay, they still were in the bedroom, panicking at the situation.

"He deserves the truth!" Clay replied. As Nicole shut the door.

"Yes but not the whole truth! Not right now at least!" Nicole said, Teagan started crying again. Nicole adjusted herself to breast feed.

"So when does he deserve the whole truth? Tomorrow when we're thousands of miles away fighting for the next 3 months? What are you gonna call him or something? When!?" He was getting uptight.

"Clay! Right now I'm gonna say she wasn't up for talking, it is not our place to say she was with someone else, she will tell him when, and if she needs to!" Nicole explained firing back.

"How's that fair!?" He questioned.

"They broke up! They aren't on a break, this is not a Ross and Rachel situation! This is a Monica and Richard situation!" Nicole told him.

"What the hell are to talking about?" Clay was confused.

"Friends, the show? Monica and Richard broke up. Ross and Rachel took a break and he slept with someone else?" Nicole said. Clay shook his head and left the room. Nicole covered herself and followed.

"She answer?" Sonny asked.

"Uh yeah but she wasn't wanting to talk..." Nicole said and sat down to continue nursing the baby. Clay got another beer out of the fridge and was irritated, you could tell.

"Damn. Well maybe I'll go try and talk to her at her place." Sonny said and got up. Clay exchanged looks with Nicole who made an eye to go with it.

"Yeah...that's probably a good idea." Clay told him and let him out.

"I can't believe you think this is a good idea! He's gonna go over there and walk in on it!" Clay said pacing.

"Clay that's not our fault! That's how he'll find out then! He doesn't know I could hear them! The truth will come out!" Nicole said getting irritated and red in the face like she does when she's really mad.

"We should've just told him...either way he would've went over there so it's whatever." Clay said and sat down on the couch, done with the conversation, drinking his beer. Nicole got up upset and left for the nursery with Teagan.

Clay stared into space and thought about everything they had just exchanged in the conversation. He gave it a minute and then got up and walked to the nursery. Nicole was crying in the rocking chair while she nursed.

"Nicole...baby I'm sorry." Clay sighed and said. He knelt down beside the chair and waited for her response. She just wiped away her the tears running down her cheeks but they kept coming.

"Hey..." Clay placed his hand on her thigh and looked at her. His heart was breaking that he had made her this upset.

"You think I'm happy about all this? Megan's my best friend. And Sonny needs her in his life probably even more then she needs him. I know that! But it's not our place to choose sides! So just let them figure it out themselves!" She blew up, Teagan had stopped eating and started crying. Nicole got up and laid the baby down in her crib, Clay was a little blindsided by her explosiveness and she left the room.

Teagan was screaming, Clay scooped her up and tried to burp her while bouncing up and down.

"Shhhh..." he told her softly, and calmly.

"I know baby girl...it's okay, mommy's just upset with daddy. Probably shouldn't have argued with her, she's got enough to worry about." Clay quietly told his daughter, thinking about the fact he was leaving for deployment tomorrow. She stopped crying, hearing the calmness of his voice and then letting out a burp.

He took her out and put her on the playmat on the living room floor. Nicole was unloading the rest of the groceries. Clay went to help her.

"I don't need help." She said.

"Okay. Then talk to me. What can I say right now to make you not pissed off at me?" He asked and she looked at him.

"How bout- I'm sorry, your right, it's not our place to try and fix, I'll play it out and be there for Sonny when he needs it-" Nicole suggested.

"Okay. Your right, I'm sorry, I know it's not my place and I will be there for Sonny when he needs me to be. Right now I'll just wait it out." Clay said wanting to fix this.

"Thank you." Nicole said and continued doing what she was doing.

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The next day.

Nicole and Teagan were saying goodbye to Clay in the parking lot before he left for deployment. Megan wasn't here with Sonny.

"Alright baby girl...don't grow up too fast...! As for you...don't worry about me, just take care of yourself and this little one okay?" Clay said holding back tears. Nicole was already crying, he pulled her in for a long hug, followed by a passionate kiss goodbye.

When Nicole got Teagan back in the car and herself. She texted Megan and asked if she wanted to come over and talk about things. She replied right away with a "yes please."

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When Megan showed up at the door she was already crying. Nicole told her to sit down and handed her a box of tissues while she had Teagan asleep in the swing.

"So I don't know what Sonny told you but this is what happened. I went to plug my phone in to charge and his was there, so I unplugged it and there was a text from some girl named Kelsey that said "hey, wanna talk about it?" So I opened the text message and there was a couple back and fourth, she sent him a half naked selfie, wanting to hook up and all that. He just said "thanks but no thanks." But turns out she showed up at his door like an hour later! Meanwhile, I went over at midnight to spend the night with him and he never mentioned it!" Megan explained with no tears now, she was angry.

"What the hell...how'd she get his address and number?" Nicole asked.

"I guess he's been with her before. Like years ago...he said he ran into her while he was getting beer one Friday night and it was just small talk...couple days later this happened." Megan said.

"Geez. What a damn mess. I'm sorry Meg...but I gotta ask...what were you doing when I called you last night...?" Nicole questioned unsure and she even felt a little awkward. They talk about their sex lives with each-other but this wasn't Sonny and Megan's sex life now, it was someone new...someone she didn't think she knew...

"I was so mad, I wanted to get him back...so I...I called up...Trace." Megan admitted shyly and embarrassed.

"You had sex with Trace!?" Nicole was shocked. Megan hung her head, held her hand over her face and got upset with herself. Nicole decided to tone it back and realized she wasn't dealing with it well.

"Megan what's going on?" She asked sincerely.

"I don't know, I'm just emotional with everything going on I guess and I am handling it all wrong. I mean I still am worried about Sonny over there, the new school year coming up, and I'm trying to help you as much as I can with Teagan!" She confessed.

"Don't worry about me!" Nicole told her.

"Ha...ugh I know but I do. Sorry, I always get like this around my period." Megan laughed and said.

"And when's that?" Nicole questioned with a laugh hoping the sooner the better.

"Like this week sometime I think." Megan said and pulled out her phone to see.

"Well good." Nicole said.

"Oh shit..." she froze and looked up at Nicole.

"What...!?" Nicole asked and looked at Megan's app she tilted toward her.

"Oh my god! Are you pregnant!?" Nicole asked in shock staring at the apps title that said "your 12 days late on your next period." Megan was scared and her face turned pale with uncertainty.

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Oh. My. God. Is Megan pregnant!? If she is...who's is it!? This might feel like the longest deployment yet for these girls.