CHAPTER NINE (Wo! I made it this far!)

                        OF MY OPAL by Blondemomo

                                        "Twists and Fastballs"

A/N: This is teeth grinder and back cringer chapter. You might want to make sure that you are chewing on gum or something gummy so you don't bite your tongue.

Quote: "PEOPLE SUCK!" ~Me at a mean person, also my philosophy

Take a deep breath: HUH!

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Caroline slumped against her bathroom wall and moaned.

Positive.

The pregnancy test was positive.

She was pregnant.

Well, that explained the vomiting! She was usually she was bulimac anyway, but now she had an excuse to throw up!

But just the wrong excuse for her.

A baby.

Wo. A bay. That though left her bending over the toilet.

She had to tell James. He'd marry her and take care of her and her fetus. (a/n: fetus? Eww word…)

Then the thought stuck her; what if it's not James' kid? No! It had to be! She hadn't snuck out to be with him for at least 2 months, and she would have noticed her huge stomach and lack of other things too. It had to be James's kid. Right.

She called her best friend, Lolo, to see the nearest OB.

At the OB's she had thought of other ways…out. She could, but how far along was she? This is why she was here.

The OB got the results and told her that she was 10 weeks along.

"TEN WEEKS!!??" she had screamed. That was a really long time and her window of opportunity…out, was closing fast.

The OB told her congratulations and she screamed at the doctor, "NO! NOT GOOD! NO! TAKE IT AWAY! RIGHT NOW!"

The OB told Caroline that she didn't "take them away" at the office. She didn't do those operations, either.

Caroline apparated home and sat on her sofa. She would tell James, but again she had to make him believe it was his child. It could be the "other" guy's, but he would never help her like James would.

~James comes home~

"Uhh, James, darling, hello! Hi, how was your day?" Caroline began to shake as James entered their home.

"Hi, babe. Good. How was yours?" he asked nonchalantly.

"Um. Very, very…interesting. What do you say we go sit in the kitchen?" 

"Sure. Lemme' see," then thought a moment longer at what his situation was and why the kitchen seemed the target for Caroline. Maybe she was breaking up with him, he got a grip and then asked sternly, "Caroline. What's wrong?"

"Sit." She replied. She was ready to tell him. Here it goes…

Caroline and James sat opposite at the table and then she looked down and whispered something inaudible.

"What?" James asked. He hadn't heard what she said.

Caroline looked up with a tear-streaked face.

"I'm pregnant," she uttered.

James went numb. A baby. He could hardly take care of himself and Caroline. A baby? Something that could do absolutely nothing for itself. A BABY? Too much, too much! That would change his entire life, nothing would ever be the same.

James's eyes were still glazed over at the thought, but he pulled himself together, like a man, and asked her:

"What do you want to do? Do you want to get married? Elope?" James's memories glittered to Lily. No more thoughts of her anymore.

"Hold on. We don't have to." Caroline was thinking almost sensibly, incase the baby turned out to be a race that James wasn't and wasn't his kid. Then she'd be alone dealing with a divorce and a newborn. That would suck really badly.

Over the next few weeks James and Caroline began to cope with this. She could no longer model, unless it was for a maternity line, and James would have to keep working, even harder, in place of the other income.

Life was hard, but they could make it. They were going to be a team.

Sirius was over for dinner a few day later and Caroline and James told him the "news."

When Sirius heard it he was almost as numb as James was at first.

"I'm here buddy, I'm here for you," was all that Sirius could offer through his glazed eyes.

When James went to answer the door and was chatting for a while with a neighbor, Sirius grabbed Caroline and locked them into a closet.

"What are you DOING?" Caroline asked. She opened her mouth to scream for James, but Sirius put a hand over her mouth.

"Shh. Is it mine?" Sirius questioned his paternity.

"What?" Caroline asked.

"Is the baby mine?" Sirius re-asked terrified. 

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There. That's the fastball. Next chapter, you MIGHT get to see what is going on with Lily and Sven. Depends on the reviews. (I'm sorry. I suck. But, I'm pouring out the ideas into at least a chapter a day, so work with me, here, people!)

Thanks for the reviews:

~Ceso—yeah, I pump the chapters out as quick as I can so a few NAMELESS reviewers will get off my back! CoughSHADOWYcough

~Shadowy—you push me to get the chapters out on the weekends since I'm too busy during the week.

~Touchstone—I know, I want them together too, but not everything ends happy, does it? BWAH HA HA! It gets worse next chapter, so just you wait!

~Short-Blondie—I like Sven. NO SVEN WHACKING~!