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Here's a Sandy/Kirsten story based on what Kirsten was trying to say during her conversation with Theresa in the season finale. She never admitted what actually happened, so here is her telling Sandy the truth. Read and Review. Enjoy.

It had been bothering Kirsten all summer. Ever since she accidentally slipped and let too much information out when Sandy asked her about her advice to Theresa, she felt guilty. Up until this point Kirsten never thought she would have to tell her husband about what she happened in the early days of their relationship during those few months they spent apart from each other.

But after talking to Theresa that day at the restaurant, she started thinking about everything she had kept hidden. Talking to Theresa was the closest she ever came to verbally speaking the truth and now she felt she had to come clean with her husband. She knew that he had to be suspecting something after seeing the look on his face when she accidentally told him too quickly that she understood Theresa's predicament. Thinking about telling Sandy made Kirsten extremely irritable and frustrated. She was afraid...afraid of even saying the truth...afraid of what his reaction would be...afraid of how this would affect their marriage and also Seth and Ryan. She feared things would never be the same.

She did what she had to do, she thought to herself, trying to rationalize the situation. She had to. How was she to know that Sandy would be the one she would marry? She had only known him for about 6 months and she knew from her past 2 year relationship with Jimmy that everything could change one day and someone might all of a sudden not love you like they did the day before. And besides, it's not like Sandy took the news well when she told him she thought she was pregnant.

That was 20 years ago though. Sandy and Kirsten had now been married for 18 years and experienced a lot of highs and lows during their marriage. She reminded herself of how deeply in love they were with each other and how together they got through tough situations and how together they shared beautiful things. Sandy always said that she could tell him anything and he promised it would be okay. She tried to convince herself that Sandy would keep his promise and understand this but deep down she knew that it would change everything.

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Finally she decided that today was the day she would tell Sandy. It seemed to be a good day to tell him. After all Seth and Ryan were out since it was a Friday night and the Cohens' had a party to attend tomorrow night, so even if telling Sandy didn't go too well tonight, at least with everyone going to a party tomorrow it might lighten the blow and get their minds off of everything for at least a few hours.

She heard his car pull into the driveway. She started to tremble, getting extremely nervous.

"Hi honey," he said happily, walking into the kitchen to greet her.

"Hi. How was your day?" she asked nonchalantly. She told herself to stop making small talk and get to it. She knew the longer she waited the harder it was going to get. She had to tell him today and it had to be now. Right now.

After Sandy finished talking about his day at the office, she seriously told him to sit down on one of the kitchen chairs. He followed her order, looking at her with concern in his eyes. He knew from her jittery-ness since he walked through the door that something was up.

"You okay?" he asked.

"I have to tell you something. Its...umm...a really big thing, so prepare yourself."

"Okay..." he said as he reached out for her hand, but she pulled away and put her hands on her head, looking down.

"Kirsten...are you okay? Are the kids okay? Did anything change from the way things were this morning?" he asked. He wasn't sure what to say. His wife was acting strange and he had no idea what was going on.

"I'm okay. The kids are okay. Everything is still the same as this morning...but I just have to tell you something. It's from a long time ago," she said, starting to cry. Darn she thought to herself. She didn't want to let her emotions get in the way before she told him.

"Kirsten..." he said compassionately, "let it out. I'm here. Let it out."

His wife continued to cry harder. She knew there was no turning back now. She had to tell him but she was starting to chicken out.

"Baby come on...tell me...what's on your mind?" he said while grabbing a napkin from the napkin holder and dabbing her eyes and cheeks.

"I can't. I can't Sandy," she said through tears.

"Why not?" he asked, suddenly getting nervous again.

"Because...you are going to hate me. Our relationship is perfect and I know that once I tell you...it's not going to be that way for a long time. I just don't want to ruin our relationship. I love you Sandy, I do. Please forgive me and know that I'm more sorry than words can ever express. Please, remember that when I tell you..."

"Go ahead," he said defiantly as thoughts raced through his mind. What did she have to tell him? He feared that she cheated on him. He couldn't think of anything that would make Kirsten this emotional and apologetic.

She took a deep breath, then began, "Do you remember early in our relationship when we started taking our relationship to the next level?" Long silence. After wiping her eyes, she continued, "And that one night I told you that I thought I was pregnant." She looked at him for confirmation.

"Go on," he said rather sharply.

"Well do you remember?"

She was studying in the living room when he came home that night. After greeting him and talking about how their days went, she decided to tell him.

"Sandy..." she said reaching out for his hands.

"Yeah?"

"Umm...how can I bring this up? Okay well I haven't gotten my period in a while."

Sandy laughed. It was a strange thing to bring up. "Okay...You haven't?"

"No. My periods are sometimes late, so it's probably nothing, but I was looking at the calendar...and...and if I go by the last time I got my period...there is a chance I might be pregnant." She knew better than that though. She didn't need a calendar. All it took was the few mornings each week that she felt sick to know that it wasn't a late period.

At first he asked as if he hadn't heard her correctly when she said it, "Pregnant?"

"Yeah. Maybe."

"Pregnant!" he said this time more loudly as if this couldn't be happening. He let go of her hands and started pacing around the room.

"I didn't say it was definite. I just said maybe. You don't have to get all bent out of whack about it."

"I don't? Do you realize how huge this is if you are pregnant? How could you be staying so calm right now?"

"I don't know. Maybe because I'm more mature than my boyfriend and am willing to take responsibilities for my actions. I'm going to Amy's apartment for the night. Bye."

"Kirsten wait! Are you going to take a test? You need to find out right away."

"I'll take one tomorrow," she said angrily, closing the door as she said it. To herself she thought, "I already took one."

"I do..."

"So when I told you that, you got really freaked out. I saw the usual confident Sandy turn into a panic-stricken Sandy who I'd never seen been this shocked, surprised, and upset."

"Kirsten I already know about all of this...where is this going?" he asked impatiently, his voice rising.

"Okay I know you do but I had to start somewhere. So I saw how freaked out you were about the whole thing. I was too, but I thought I would be relieved to finally get it out in the open and tell you that I thought I was pregnant but after I told you I wasn't relieved at all. While I knew it was huge news I thought you would have been more supportive and responsible. I mean it wasn't just me who got pregnant. I needed you for that part." She got ahead of herself and realized what she said.

"You said you thought you were pregnant? Are you now telling me that it wasn't a false positive?"

"Sandy I'm sorry. I knew I couldn't tell you the truth after seeing your reaction to my thinking I was pregnant."

"You don't know what my reaction would have been because you never told me. So what did you do after you lied to me about being pregnant?

TBC...

What do you think happened?