"Have you taken a test?" Trini asked as she watched Kimberly pace back and forth on her front porch. An emphatic shaking of her head gave Trini the response to her question. "Don't you think that might be a good idea?"

"I mean... it is but..." Kim paused as she stopped her pace and faced her friend. "I... guess I am just kind of scared."

"Understandable," Trini said as she took Kim by the hand and led her over to the swing on her porch. She sat her down and followed suit. "You should probably get one though you know... to be sure."

"I know..." Kim agreed placing one of her hands in the other and staring at them intently.

"Is it..." Trini hesitated and Kim turned to her. "I don't know how to ask this, but is it a bad thing, I mean you and Jason..."

"No... no..." Kim cut her off. "If I am, it is not a bad thing at least not because of Jason."

"Okay," Trini offered her a smile.

"Just wow... we are still so young you know?" Kim asked rhetorically as she began to swing them both slowly with her legs.

"Yeah... that's true," Trini agreed, trying to put herself in Kim's place and realizing how scared she would be as well.

"We have college coming up and it would just... wow," Kim raised her eyebrows and sighed.

"I mean you don't even know if you are or not," Trini placed a hand over hers. "I mean if you guys are safe then..."

"Always," Kim assured her. She rested her back against the swing and focused her eyes down on her stomach.

"For what it is worth," Trini said. "If you are... I know you and Jason would be okay, I have no worries about that, you could get through anything."

Kim smiled.

"I know... I'm not sad... just a little scared," Kim replied turning her eyes up to her.

"You want me to go with you to the store to get a test?" Trini asked. Kim nodded and the two girls got up together and made their way off the porch.

(****)

Jason looked at the selection in front of him. He moved his eyes down the line of boxes trying to find his preference. He was reaching up to grab a box when he saw out the corner of his eye someone entering the same aisle he was in. He lowered his hand and stuck both into his pockets, trying to be as casual as possible as he turned to make eye contact with the people who had joined him in the aisle.

He was not prepared to meet the eyes of his girlfriend and best friend together and his eyes widened momentarily out of confusion before he moved away from the area he was in to meet them in the middle of the aisle.

"Hey," Jason greeted both of them with a smile. "Whatcha guys out doing?"

"Oh we were just out for a drive and I remembered I needed to get a couple of things," Trini responded when she saw Kim was still to shook to speak.

"Oh," Jason nodded, glancing at Kim.

"Yeah..." Kim agreed once she found her voice. "What... what about you?"

"Me?" Jason moved a hand up to run it through his hair. "I was just looking for some stuff."

Kim saw the look in his eyes and realized his vagueness was because of Trini and she shook her head.

"Well..." Kim glanced back and forth from Trini to Jason. "We should get your stuff."

"Okay," Trini agreed.

"Yeah... and I'll catch you at home later," Jason said before leaning down to give Kim a quick kiss. She smiled at him and nodded. He then walked past them and out of the aisle. Kim watched him go before turning to Trini with wide eyes.

"Oh my gosh," Kim let out a small laugh. "That was unexpected."

"Yeah," Trini agreed. She glanced down the aisle and back at Kim. "Also... I'm not dumb, I know what he was here for."

"Oh... well... I told you we were always safe," Kim said with a small shrug. Trini laughed before the two made their way down the aisle.

(****)

Jason raised his head from the book he was reading when the front door to the apartment pushed open. He smiled when Kimberly stuck her head in first before making her way all the way in with a bag in her hand.

"Hey," Jason greeted her.

"Hey," She replied before walking over to the nearby kitchen counter and placing her bag and purse on it. She kicked off her shoes and then turned to face Jason.

"Everything okay?" Jason asked, taking note of her tense posture and the look on her face. She reached over and picked up the paper bag and made her way over to sit on the couch next to him. She sat down with one leg folded underneath her. She placed the bag on the coffee table in front of her and then placed both her hands down on her thighs and took a deep breath.

"Well..." Kim turned to face him as he straightened his posture to match hers.

"Hey..." Jason said as he moved a hand over to place it on hers. "What's up?"

"Trini and I were not at the store to pick up anything for her," Kim confessed. She studied Jason for a response but his expression didn't change.

"Okay?" Jason nodded for her to continued.

"We were there to get something for me," Kim said before reaching over and grabbing the bag, and pulling it to her. Jason's eyes briefly moved down to the bag but then back up at her face.

Kim turned to him briefly to see a soft look in his eyes, which comforted her momentarily before she fidgeted with the bag and reached inside. She slowly pulled out the box withing that contained the pregnancy test. She made sure Jason could clearly see it and waited a few seconds before turning back to him for his reaction.

Jason's eyes settled on the box and then moved back to Kim when she turned her head to look at him.

"Have you taken it?" Jason asked.

"Not yet," Kim answered.

"Okay," Jason collected his thoughts. After a moment a big smile came over his face and Kim furrowed her brow at him.

"What is that?" Kim asked, finding herself smiling slightly as she spoke.

"I mean," Jason's eyes lit up a little as he spoke. "You are saying there is a chance that you are pregnant... that I am going to be a dad?"

"I mean... yeah I am really late and..." Kim paused. "You aren't freaked out?"

"No," Jason shook his head. "I mean, it is a lot to take in but at the end of the day, all I care about is how much I love you and the thought that we might have a child... wow."

Jason was practically beaming now. Kimberly wasn't sure how she expected him to react to the possibility of her pregnancy but seeing how happy it was making him was making a lot of her worries vanish. She found herself smiling as he pulled her over into his lap and into a hug.

"Listen, I know that it would change everything," Jason said. "But we will figure it all out and everything will work out."

"We are just so young and have our lives ahead of us, and I guess I was kind of caught up in all of that," Kim said as she moved to lock eyes with him.

"That's true, but I promise that I will do everything I can to make sure everything will work out okay," Jason said with a smile. Kim felt his words and she smiled too.

"I should probably make sure..." Kim gestured over to the box lying on the couch cushion next to them. Jason nodded as she got up from his lap and retrieved the box.

(****)

Jason felt like he had been sitting on the couch staring at the bathroom door for what seemed like hours. He glanced up at the clock over the television set and then scooted himself even closer to the edge of the cushion, nearly to the point of falling off. He steadied himself just as he heard the doorknob turn.

Jason stood straight up as Kimberly made her way from the bathroom. In her hand was a little stick that looked like a thermometer. Not being overly familiar with them, Jason assumed this was the test. He studied her expression to see if he could read her before to see if she already knew. He couldn't.

"So?" Jason asked, his voice a little dry. He cleared his throat. Kim made her way around the coffee table and held the device up to him. He looked at it but couldn't tell what he meant so he pleaded with his eyes for a response from her.

"It's negative," Kim said as she studied him for a response.

"Oh... okay... I couldn't tell," Jason replied. There was a moment of silence. "So..."

"Are you disappointed?" Kimberly asked. He thought a moment.

"I mean... I was pretty happy but..." Jason moved to put his arms around her. She rested her head on his chest. "How in the world can I be disappointed with anything when I get to do this?"

A tear fell from Kim's eye and left a wet spot against Jason's shirt. It wasn't a sad tear. She never felt more comforted or in love than in this moment in his arms. She was going to be happy either way she knew that as long as she had him. She closed her eyes as she felt his lips press against the top of her head.

"I love you," He whispered.

"I love you too," She replied with a smile.