As we sat on the couch Miranda poured out her soul to us. She was obviously extremely upset and none of us knew how she truly felt, especially me of all people. I was supposed to be her best friend who could relate with anything that happened to her. But now in her moment of need all I could think about was what she was going to do with the baby.

"Mir, it'll be okay! I promise, but you do have to tell Lance. He needs to know," I said stroking her hair lightly.

"I know Lizzie, it's just I don't know what I'm going to do! I'm too young to have a baby and what about school? Oh my gosh! My parents! Fuck I am so incredibly dead when they find out!" she began to cry even harder now and just dug her head into my shoulder.

We just sat their until eventually Miranda fell asleep from crying so much. Corey carried her to her room and we tucked her into bed like she was a child again.

It's so ironic, tucking her in like she's a child when someday soon she'll do the same. Who would have thought that Miranda Sanchez would ever get pregnant? I know I didn't- we even had our own little plan back in high school. We would marry our high-school sweet hearts after college was finished and then get jobs in the same city and live next to each other. Our kids would grow up and fall in love with each other and the whole cycle would just continue. But now that is just so far from the truth!

I left Miranda's room and settled onto the couch with Corey beside me.

"Liz, everything will be okay! You're here for her and that's all she really needs. Someone to help her out along the way. She'll be okay!" Corey said soothingly and put his arm around my shoulder.

"I know, it's just I can't believe it. It never occurred to me that she could get pregnant, especially when it should have with all of the fooling around she does. I just should have tried to stop her!"

"She would have just pushed you away you know-and then she'd have almost no one to go to. You're one of the positives in her life right now, and you need to stay that way!"

"How is Lance going to take this?" I asked him His face turned to a state of confusion and he merely shrugged his shoulders and sat there in deep thought.

He finally broke the silence, "I think he'll either be really mad, upset or happy. He always told me he wanted to have kids one day. But maybe this is too soon for him. I really don't know how he'll react.

That night I stayed home to watch over Miranda. She had finally stayed calm and we had a really great talk that was long overdue.

"Lizzie, you were right, as usual, I really should have been more careful. Now look at me, I'm pregnant with someone I barely know. What am I going to do?"

"Listen Miranda, you are going to be fine. I'm going to be here for you the whole time, through morning sickness and contractions, even to tell your parents. I will always be here for you!"

"Why are you such a great friend? You always know what to say!" Miranda hugged me and we sat together in silence for a good hour just being in each other's company was enough.

"Miranda, when are you going to tell Lance?" I asked trying not to prod too much.

"Well, I guess now is as good a time as any. Coming?" she asked, her eyes looking desperate.

"Of course, I wouldn't let you do it alone!" I gave her a reassuring smile and we headed down to level 3 to break the news to Lance.

As we stood outside the door Miranda took a few deep breaths and knocked softly against the wooden door. She was cool, calm and collected, just like the Miranda I had always known. Lance answered the door and gave Miranda a huge grin but when she didn't return it his face faded to a frown.

"What's wrong Sanchez?" he asked with a great look of confusion.

"We need to talk Lance, and I think you need to sit down for this one!" Miranda looked deep in Lance's eyes and searched for the right words to tell him. I stood there holding her hand the entire time while Corey sat down beside Lance, preparing for the worst.

"Lance, remember how much ahem, 'fun' we've been having these past two weeks? Well, umm, I'm late." At this comment Lance turned his head in confusion. "as in, I'm pregnant, with your baby, I think."

"You...you...you. think? Whose else could it be? I don't understand. Pregnant? But we were so safe. Except for that one time at the drive in, but that was only like two days ago.. But-Oh my god, your fuckin' pregnant! Are you sure, have you been to a doctor?" he was completely frustrated and was now standing up waiting for an answer.

"No I haven't, I just took like 7 home pregnancy tests!" she yelled back.

"Okay, well first, you're going to a doctor to find out for sure! I don't need this- I'm too young, you're too young. We are both too young. This isn't happening. This is just surreal. You are so going to a doctor. Right now. I'm taking you, let's go!" he grabbed her hand and they headed out the door leaving Corey and I completely frustrated.

"Well, I guess that's settles that!" I said with a slight chuckle.

"Yeah, how weird did he take it or what?" Corey added with a slight look of confusion.

"Maybe we should go with them, I mean Miranda would want me with her for this- I think. Or maybe we should go tell Parker the story or" I began but Corey cut me off.

"Or maybe we could stay here and distract each other from this very awkward situation?" he asked coyly and shot me a sly grin.

"Well, my my Corey, what happened to your test?" I asked concerned.

"Well that isn't for another two hours, so don't worry your pretty blonde head about it!"

"Well, I am because I don't want you to fail- so you go get to studying you've done enough for me to do. And tonight, after your test, we can have some fun distraction time. For right now, I'm going to go talk to Parker!" I said turning to leave but Corey grabbed my arm, spinning me around. We faced each other and he kissed me tenderly.

"Just wanted to show you what you're going to be missing Liz," he said playfully.

"Well, that's a risk I'll have to take," I pulled away and left the apartment with Corey shaking his head and laughing to himself.

As I walked up the stairs I ran into Alice and her new boyfriend.

"Hey Alice, what's going on?" I asked politely and she looked like she didn't really want to stop and talk.

"Nothing Lizzie, we've just got to get inside before, umm, bye!" she answered back and kissed her new boyfriend with such passion they nearly fell over right there in the hall. They pushed into her apartment with their hands all over each other, their lips never separating. I sighed as I left them and headed into my own apartment to see Ethan and Parker snuggling on the couch again.

"Hey guys, what'd you do today?" I asked guessing they'd say another sex rampage but was surprised when they answered differently.

"Well, we went out for coffee, talked a lot and well... WE'RE ENGAGED!" Parker screamed excitedly with Ethan smiling broadly.

"Wow! That's so awesome. I'm so happy for you guys! That's incredible!" I didn't know what else to say because I was completely caught off guard.

Finally Parker shook me out of my daze, "So, how's Miranda, did she tell him?"

"Well yeah, it was strange how he took it. He just wanted to get her to a clinic as fast as possible to make sure it wasn't true. I think he has a lot of doubt. Besides, those pregnancy tests can be wrong. Hopefully Miranda is just freaking out for the wrong reasons. But you guys, that's awesome. Did you tell your folks yet?"

"Well, Ethan told his parents and they were happy. My parents respected my decision but weren't thrilled either." She said sadly.

"Well, don't worry about it. They'll come around. So are you guys going to wait awhile or are you getting married right away?" I asked with excitement.

"Um, well, my like dad said he would pay for it if we like waited until like next summer, you know like of sophomore year!" Ethan said happily.

"Yeah, I'm so excited, it's going to be an awesome engagement with my little Ethan bear," Parker squealed giving Ethan a peck on the cheek. They both sat happily on the couch watching T.V.

"Well, we should all go out to celebrate, but not tonight. We should find out about Miranda first. And then celebrate. What do you guys think?" I asked them looking to see their reactions.

"Well of course we wouldn't celebrate without Miranda. So tomorrow we'll go out after we hear what the doctor says." Parker replied.

We all decided to order pizza and wait for Miranda to come back in the door. About thirty minutes later there was a knock at the door and to my surprise I saw an extremely happy Miranda.

"Wow, you're looking pretty happy!" I noted to Miranda.

"You would be too if the doctor just told you my news!" she answered excitedly.

"well, what's the news?" Parker chimed in.

"Well, we don't know for sure because they had to do some tests, but the doctor said it could just be an imbalance of hormones, like the pregnancy hormone we all have, was just showing up. She says it's a big case these days and I shouldn't be too worried. I get my results tomorrow!"

"That's great news Miranda. Tomorrow after we find out for sure well celebrate, but first Parker and Ethan have something to tell you!" I added excitedly.

In unison Parker and Ethan shouted, "WE'RE ENGAGED!" and smiled broadly laughing together.

"Wow guys! I'm so happy for you!" Miranda smiled and we had a giant group hug. We finally broke away at the sound of another knock at the door.

I opened it to find the pizza guy there. I paid him his money and we all enjoyed the pizzas laughing together like old times in high school. We always use to hang together every Friday night and eat pizza, chat and watch movies. We really hadn't done it in a while, so it felt great.

After a few hours of our little 'family' fun I went over to Corey's to see if he was done with his test. As I knocked on the door a very excited Lance answered the door.

"Hey Lizzie, you obviously heard the news right?" he asked me with a broad grin across his face.

"Yeah, I'm happy that she may not be pregnant and I'm hoping for both of you guys that she isn't."

"Thanks Lizzie. So Corey's in his room. He just got back from his test and was pretty pleased with himself. You may just want to go award him for a job well done" Lance added playfully.

I walked into the apartment and knocked on Corey's door. He answered without his shirt on-he must have been exercising because I saw some weights on his bed.

"Hey Lizzie, so what do you want to do tonight?" He smiled and gave me a kiss on the neck.

"Hmm, how about we go out for a movie? There's some new comedies out that I've been dying to see!" I said with excitement.

"Okay McGuire, let's go then," he said walking out of his room shirtless.

"Aren't you going to be a bit cold like that?" I asked.

"Oh, right," he blushed and grabbed a shirt from his bed.

We walked out of his apartment and down the stairs back into the cool streets of California for a night of fun and enjoyment.