A/N: THANKS FOR REVIEWING. ANYWAY, I THINK I'M GOING TO GIVE THIS A SAD ENDING BUT THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL LIKE I SAID BEFORE. I THINK THERE WILL BE ONE OR TWO MORE CHAPTERS TO WRITE AND THEN DONE, AT ELAST FOR NOW. MORE REVIEWS OKAY.

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Her hands clenched and unclenched around the soggy tissue as Mimi stared blankly at her mother; her eyes bloodshot from crying for almost an hour.

She blinked and hot tears rolled down her cheeks but she did nothing to wipe them away. She was lost in her world of grief and her parents. Everything seemed to be a blur as she numbly watched her mother sob hysterically and wail like a mad woman. Her father had said nothing as he hugged his wife and cried silent tears.

"I'm sorry." Mimi finally said after what seemed like an eternity. Her mother looked up at her and then returned to her panic-stricken sobbing.

Not knowing what to do, Mimi stood up, grabbed her coat and walked out to the back of the house. The cold stung her face and she winced, hugging herself tighter as she closed the door behind her. She took a deep breath as she sat on the swing by the porch. She tried not to think of what just happened inside, of what she had just told her parents.

Everything was ruined now, not that it wasn't in the first place. But now everything that she tried to hide for so long was out. Everyone knew, at least everyone that mattered. A sob escaped her throat and she started to shake. She looked down as she sniffled.

"Mimi?"

She looked up to see her father, looking torn and broken. "Dad, I'm so sorry." She whispered and her father sat down next to her and held her like he usually did when she was younger.

"It'd okay, honey. We'll get through this. I promise." He said and she started to cry harder.

"I didn't want to hurt any of you." She sobbed.

"You were the one who's hurt, honey. You don't have to worry about your mother and me. We'll help you through this." He whispered in her hair.

Mimi nodded as her sobs subsided. "I really am sorry, daddy." She said quietly. She didn't know what else to do but apologize. She wished that she could take it away, make her parents happy again but there was no turning back now. It was said and done and the nasty truth was out.

"It's not your fault. Now, come inside. You'll get sick. It's not good for you-and the baby." He said hesitantly as he stood up.

Mimi nodded. "Is mom okay?" She asked quietly as she followed her father inside. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand and sighed heavily.

"It's hard but she'll be fine. And you too." He said.

Mimi nodded. "I'm going to talk to her."

"Let her have some time alone, honey. I think your mother needs to understand this right now." He said and she nodded warily but obeyed him. "Go to bed. You need rest."

"Okay." She answered and then walked over to her room. She reached the top floor and then her room. She closed the door behind her and she sat on her bed and stared at her reflection in the mirror.

She broke into tears again as she thought of what would happen now. She was going to have a baby. It didn't matter whether it was a boy or girl. It was a baby, a little creature that would grow up, that she would have to feed, and bathe, and try to tolerate.

Mimi knew that she wouldn't be able to love it.

No. That would be too much to ask especially with what happened to her, with how the baby was conceived.

"I don't want to hate you." She whispered brokenly as she rested her hand on her stomach. "But I can't love you. I'm sorry." She sighed feeling somewhat stupid for talking to her stomach. It was the first time she acknowledged the baby since she told Jason and that was a week ago.

She hadn't spoken to him even at school.

"I wish he was your father." She whispered almost hopefully as if the thought would come true. "Then I could love you and then it wouldn't be so hard." The thought made her heart ache but she couldn't cry anymore. She had shed enough tears for a lifetime. She cried hard enough for herself, for her parents, the baby and even Jason.

It was over. Time to face the music, Mimi thought as she laid on the bed to get some sleep.

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"We have a month and a half left before graduation. Make it count, guys and girls." Mr. Woods said as he gave his usual speech to the class. The students began to murmur in excitement but Mimi didn't look up from her book to speak to anyone.

She could hear Belle talking excited to Chloe. There would be graduation and prom, and parties and trips to the beach. Their lives would go on again after they leave high school.

But Mimi knew better. Her life was already changed and it would go on but not like her friends'. While they run around in their bathing suits, she would be bloated, and throwing up while a baby grew inside her.

That's my life, she thought unhappily as she continued to scribble on her notebook.

"Meems?" Jason said. He was looking at her worriedly for two minutes now.

"Yeah, Jase?" She asked quietly as she looked up at him with saddened eyes.

He smiled at her softly. "Aren't you excited? School's almost over. We're finally free." He said.

I won't be free. Not with this baby, she wanted to say but instead she pasted a smile on her face and nodded. "Yeah." She said halfheartedly.

"Hey, you're my date for prom, right?" He said encouragingly and her smile faded.

I'll be fat then, she thought. "Jason, you should think of finding someone else." She said barely above a whisper but Chloe and Belle heard and were now looking at them.

Jason shook his head. "I'm taking you and don't argue." He said.

Once Mimi would have smiled at what he said but now she just nodded dejectedly, finding no energy to make him see her side. The morning sickness, back pain, and late nights and weird cravings were finally getting to her.

The bell rang and they all stood to leave.

"Mimi?" Belle said the minute they were alone with their friends.

"Not now, Belle." She said hastily as she ran to the bathroom before she could throw up her food. She kneeled in front of the toilet and retched while Belle and Chloe tried to find a way to help her.

"We're here, Meems." Belle said as she tried to help her friend up.

Mimi nodded as she let belle and Chloe guide her to the sink. "No one told me that morning sickness lasted all day and for more than a couple months." She groaned as she splashed cold water on her face.

She glanced up to find her friends not surprised at all. "We figured it out." Chloe whispered as she put an arm around Mimi who just sighed.

"I should have said something but it's not exactly something I'm proud of." Mimi declared as she dried her face.

"We understand." Belle said.

"I know but you're my friends and-" She trailed off and she sighed again. "I told my parents." Mimi finally blurted out.

"Oh, Meems." Belle whispered.

"My mom cried for the rest of the day and I thought that I was going to give her and my dad a heart attack." She continued. "My mom called Paris and she started yelling at Uncle James and Aunt Camilla. I think she would have killed them if she had the chance." She said unhappily. "I called them yesterday, telling them that mom didn't mean all the things she said. It wasn't their fault. She knew that but she was still angry that they kept it from her and dad. I finally ruined my family, didn't I?"

"Mimi, no. Your mom just wants someone to blame because she's so hurt, because she's hurt that you're hurt." Belle explained and Mimi smirked.

"You're turning into your mom, Belle. Thanks. I explained it to her that I made them promise not to say anything because I wasn't ready. I think she'll be okay."

"Good." Chloe said. "We'll be here for you, Meems. We're friends forever."

Belle nodded in agreement as she sniffled. "That's right. Okay, group hug before I start crying." She said and the three girls hugged each other tightly.

Mimi quickly wiped a tear away. "Damn hormones." She murmured as they all recomposed themselves.

Chloe chuckled. "Come on, let's go before the guys barge in here and demand what's going on." She said as she walked out and Mimi and Belle followed suit.

"Are you guys okay?" Philip asked worriedly as he watched the girls come out. Chloe just smiled and kissed him.

"Are you crying?" Shawn asked worriedly as he went to Belle.

"Girly moment." Mimi answered for all of them as she walked over to Jason who was just as confused as the rest of the guys.

"Girls are strange." Philip joked. "First they're crying and then laughing and then they get mad and we are always to blame."

"Shouldn't you have figured that out in kindergarten?" Shawn grinned and Belle elbowed him in the stomach. "But we love the girls, our girls, right guys?"

Belle smiled, slightly mollified.

"So what's going on with us?" Jason asked Mimi who just shrugged her shoulders.

"We're good for now." She answered quietly.

Jason watched her. "What do you mean for now?" He demanded.

Mimi smiled and then without hesitation, she kissed him right in front of everyone. She heard Belle make an *aww* and Chloe giggle. "Don't worry, Jase. You'll figure it out." She smiled knowing very well that their kisses were few and far between and she just wanted to have him while they still had time.

Jason grinned but the confusion in his eyes didn't leave. "Mimi?"

"Just let it go, okay." She said almost pleadingly and he did, for her. But it didn't mean that he liked the hint.

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*A week before graduation*

"Mimi?" A familiar voice called out and when Mimi spotted Caroline Masters, her heart stopped. She was in Salem place, looking for a present for her friends and she hoped that no one she knew would see her.

"Oh, no." She gasped.

Caroline walked over to Mimi, a smile of her face. "Mimi, I have seen you in so long. How are you-oh, my." She halted when she saw the much younger girl's swelling stomach.

Despite Mimi's best efforts to hide her pregnancy by wearing lose clothes, it was showing.

"Mrs. Masters, I can explain." She said worriedly.

"I think we should sit down." Caroline said as her eyes never left Mimi's belly. Mimi nodded and they found a bench by Salem Place. "Is this why Jason never brought you around the house?" She blurted out and Mimi looked hurt.

"I....Mrs.-" Mimi tried to find the words but she couldn't.

"Is it Jason's?" Caroline asked as she once again glanced at Mimi's stomach.

Mimi closed her eyes and shook her head. "No." She choked on her words.

She heard Caroline sigh with relief. "So you and Jason aren't together?" She asked, feeling confused.

Mimi shrugged her shoulders. "It's not like that." She tried to explain.

"Tell me how it is then because I don't understand. You're all that Jason talks about. For months, we heard about you, about how nice you were and how much we would like you but this.....this is something that I didn't expect." Caroline declared. "We should have been told."

"I'm sorry but my pregnancy is none of your business." Mimi said trying not to offend the other woman.

"Yes, it is young lady!" Caroline exclaimed and when people glanced at them curiously she cleared her throat and lowered her voice. "It is my business when my son is dating a pregnant girl. Now, I've known you since you were a child and I care about you but Mimi, you're pregnant and you just said that it's not Jason's. I don't understand why you're still together."

"Neither do I." Mimi confided as she looked Caroline in the eyes. "I don't understand why Jason is still with me but I care about him. I swear that I do."

"Just because you care about each other does not make this baby go away. It doesn't change anything, Mimi." Caroline said somewhat harshly.

"I know but he's one of the few good things in my life and I care about him."

Caroline took Mimi's hand and held it. "Then let him go, Mimi. Please. I don't know the whole story but I'm his mother and I want what's best for Jason. For both of you. You're going to have a baby and he has to go to an Ivy League school. He can't be stuck here, trying to raise a family that isn't his. Please, understand. He's barely eighteen. You're graduating in a week. I don't want him to change his plans and stay here. Don't do this to him. You care about him, I know because I see it. I'm begging you, from one mother to another, let him go so that he can have his future."

By then Caroline was in tears and so was Mimi.

"I want what you want for him. I want something better for him, something other than me." Mimi declared sadly as tears poured. "I love him, do you know that? I never told him but I do. If only things were different but they're not and you're right. This isn't for Jason. He deserves better."

Caroline nodded gratefully as she hugged Mimi tightly. "Thank you. Thank you so much." She said.

Mimi nodded. "Please don't tell Jason about what I said." She said when Caroline broke away from the embrace.

"It'll be our secret." Caroline said as she gracefully wiped her tears away. "I wish you good luck for you and your baby. You deserve a happy life Mimi but so does Jason. If you and my son are really meant to be then in the end you will be." She said hopefully.

Mimi nodded.

Caroline walked away feeling relieved as saddened that she managed to save her son's life but break a young girl's heart while at it.

Mimi watched Jason's mother as she walked off. She was right. Despite how angry and hurt she was, Caroline was right.

The baby would just get in the way. She would just get in the way and Jason would want to stay. He would feel obliged to stay because he wanted to save her from her unhappiness, from more pain.

And she couldn't allow that.

Her life was robbed from her and Jason's life didn't deserve to be ruined as well. He deserved better.

And that was how it was going to be.

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A/N: I DON'T KNOW WHAT JASON'S MOTHER'S NAME IS SO I JUST MADE IT UP. HOPEFULLY, NO ONE MINDS. WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO END SADLY. IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS, FEEL FREE TO LET ME KNOW.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.