What Could Have Been

Chapter 4

"So what are you going to do?" Hunter asks Stephanie referring to her pregnancy. Over the past week and a half they had become very close. Almost inseparable. And she had made him promise not to tell anybody that she was expecting. She also made her dad promise. And he did, reluctantly of course. She had just explained to him that she wanted to tell everyone on her own time. And after many hours of persuasion he finally agreed. So the only people that know are Hunter, her dad and herself. That was the way it was going to stay too, that is until she found out who the father was. Then she would have to tell him. He might want to know. If worse came to worse then she could just say that her due date was later than what the doctor had told her and tell Andrew that it was his. She didn't want to do that to him though. She cared to much about his feelings.

"Honestly? I'm really not sure. All I know is that I'm going to have this baby and raise it. I was the one who got myself in this mess and I'm going to handle it."

"Well that is very big of you."

"I know." She jokingly replies and walks off to another section of her house.

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"Jo, come on. Can we please just talk?" Andrew is standing outside of his ex flames house banging on the oak door. He had been pestering her all day long to talk and she was getting fed up with it. So she figured that if she just listened to him that he would go away.

"What do you freaking want?" she asks, standing in the doorway.

"To talk. That's all. Nothing more, I promise."

"Andrew, I can't do this. There is nothing between us anymore. Please just leave me alone. This is my one day off for a month. So just GO AWAY!" The next thing he knows is that the door is being slammed in his face and security guards are dragging him of the premises and back to his car. They tell him to leave or suffer the consequences. He knew that he could easily beat them to a bloody pulp but decided that this is what Joanie wanted and he wanted to make her happy. So he left.

Joanie sits back on her white leather couch next to X-Pac, the current man in her life. Or, some people might call him the man that she was cheating on her boyfriend with. The only reason that she needed him was that Andrew had really been bothering her lately and she needed somebody there for her. And seeing as Hunter was always gallivanting off with his friends (whom she had no clue who they were) she went to the next best thing in her life. And that thing was X-Pac. He always knew how to make her feel better. And that's what she needed right now, a real boyfriend that would tend to her, not some ' I'll-be-there-when-I-want-to-be-there' boyfriend, which is exactly what she had with Hunter. And that is NOT what she wanted.

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"Hey Steph..."

"Yeah?" Stephanie goes to sit next to Hunter on the couch.

"When are you going to make a doctors appointment?"

"Never, I hate doctors."

"Then what are you gonna do when it's time to give birth to the baby?"

"Pull it out." She replies with a laugh and gets off the couch to go to the kitchen. When ever Hunter was trying to be serious and she always made some sort of joke. He was getting tired of it. So he followed her. He was going to get a damn answer out of her no matter what.

"Ha Ha. Very funny. But really though, you should go to the doctors."

"I don't want to." She pouts.

"Why? And don't you dare give me that bullshit I don't like doctors excuse."

"You wanna know why? Then hears why. Andrew looks at my insurance and credit card bills and stuff so if he sees that I went to the doctors he'll get suspicious and wonder why the hell I went!"

"Then tell him that you're pregnant." "

NO! We've already discussed this Hunter. He'll know that he's not the father, we used protection you know!"

"Steph look..."

"No, stop it. Andrew's going to be home any minute." She says looking at the clock, "You better go. I'll call you later."

"Okay. But Steph please just make a doctors appointment. I'm worried about you."

"If I promise you that I will then will you leave me alone about telling Andrew?"

"Deal. Bye Bye" He kisses her cheek lightly and heads to his Hummer. As soon as he is gone and out of sight, Andrew's blue Blazer pulls in the driveway. He gets out and slams the door. Stephanie know that he is not going to be a fun person to be around.

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