Chapter 2-

"Yes. I am Mrs. Camden. What is wrong with Ruthie? Is she okay?" Annie asked worriedly as she shook his hand.

"OK. Well Ruthie. She is doing ok right now. She is in stable condition. But I have some bad news."

"What?" Annie had a look of despair on her face.

"We lost the baby."

"The baby???" Matt and Mary stood in shock. Annie shot them a look that they knew was ill tell you later. Immediately they shut up.

"Yes the baby. The amount of medication that she took affected the baby and Ruthie also lost a lot of blood by cutting herself. I am very sorry Mrs. Camden but there was nothing we could do to save the baby."

Annie stood in disbelief. She didn't know what to do.

"Ruthie has asked to speak to her brother Simon first."

"Simon go back and see your sister." Annie said.

"Follow me sir." The doctor took Simon to Ruthie's room and let him in.

"Ruthie are you ok?"

"Yea Simon. I'm the best I have ever been. What do you think?"

"I'm sorry Ruthie."

"No Simon it aint your fault. I'm a murderer though. I killed my baby. I didn't mean to Simon. I didn't want to hurt the baby. If I had known that it would affect her I wouldn't of done it." Ruthie was now crying,

"It's ok Ruthie. It's ok." Simon didn't know what to say to her. He just hugged her. "It will all be ok. I'm just happy that you are ok."

"Thanks Simon. I'm guessing that mom will want to come in here and yell at me for doing this. Can you do me a favor and call Jason I want to talk to him today. tell him to come up here to the hospital."

"Sure thing Ruthie." Simon said. Simon left and a few minutes later Annie knocked on the door.

"Hi sweetie." She said opening the door.

"Hi mom. Please before you start yelling at me please please please just let me explain."

"Ruthie. It's ok. You don't have to explain. I shouldn't have yelled at you like I did. I just didn't know what to do. I'm just happy that you are ok." Annie said tears streaming down her face. She hugged Ruthie.

"Really mom?" Ruthie was surprised that she wasn't getting a lecture.

"Yea Ruthie I love you."

"I love you too." Ruthie hugged her mom.

"Well I am going to send someone else in now. Who do you want? Lucy, Kevin, Roxanne and Chandler, Mary, or Matt."

"Mary's here." Annie knodded. "Well I know Mary will be the hardest so I'll talk to her last. How about Roxanne and Chandler and Lucy and Kevin."

"OK. I will send them back."

"Thanks mom. And hey when Jason gets here will you send him back here. Please don't say anything to him. I want to tell him."

"OK sweetie." She said as she left. There was a knock on the door a few minutes later. Lucy, Kevin, Roxanne, and Chandler all walked in. She went through the same thing she did with Simon and Annie and they left. Matt came in next.

"Hey kiddo. How you doing?" Matt walked in.

"I'm ok. Been better. A lot better but right now I'm ok."

"That's good. Can you please tell me what happened. I mean I am just getting informed on all this stuff. You are or you were pregnant?"

"Well yeah. You werent here when a lot of this happened. But my boyfriend Jason. Well we were close and everything and I ended up having sex with him but then I had sex with his brother Marshall to but I don't know. And then I was late and everything and Cecilia took me to get a pregnancy test and we took it. Two times. And I was positive and I told mom. She yelled at me and I locked myself in the bathroom and tried to kill myself. There you go. That's the short version."

Matt was astounded. He didn't know what to say. His baby sister. Had tried to kill herself. Was pregnant. What happened to her? Ruthie's talk with Matt continued for a little until Ruthie knew that she couldn't avoid Mary any longer.

"Well I am going to go. I'm going to send Mary in if that's ok."

"Yep. I love you Matt."

"Love you too Ruthie." Matt left. Ruthie was nervous. What was Mary going to say to her. Outside her door, Mary held the doorknob and was about to turn it, but she paused to think. What was she going to say to Ruthie? She had no idea what was going on with her. Mary tried hard to hold back the tears she had. The tears for her little sister who wasn't so little anymore. She turned the knob.

"Hi Ruthie." She said.

"Hi Mary."

"How you doing?"

"Ok. You?"

"Ok. Shocked though. Can you tell me whats up?"

"Umm I can try."

"That would be nice." Ruthie explained everything to her sister Mary. At the end of the story Mary was in tears. She didn't know what to say. Ruthie and Mary talked for like an hour before there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Ruthie said. The door opened and Jason stood in the doorway. Marshall was with him.

"I will leave you alone so you can talk to them. But I'm only in the hall. Call me if you need me." Mary whispered into Ruthie's ear as she dried her tears and stood up. She walked out of the room and closed the door.