Bradin was standing on the back porch, looking out at the water. He heard someone open the door and come outside, but he didn't look to see who it was.

"I guess we need to talk" Sara said as she came up beside him.

Bradin just took a deep breath.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he questioned.

"I don't know...I was scared" Sara replied.

Bradin finally turned to look at her.

"If this is going to work we have to be completely honest with each other and that includes things that happen in our past" Bradin said.

"I know nothing about your past" Sara replied "I have no clue who you were back in Kansas"

"You're right" Bradin sighed.

"I think it's time of us to get to know each other emotionally. I know you physically, but half the time I have no clue what's going on in this pretty head" Bradin said as he brushed a piece of hair out of her face.

"Okay" Sara agreed.

"You wanna sit?" Bradin suggested.

Sara nodded.

Bradin pulled one of the beach chairs to the edge of the deck and then sat down in it. He pulled Sara down into his lap.

He wrapped his arms around her and she snuggled her head into his neck.

"So where do we start?" Sara asked.

"At the very beginning" Bradin replied.

"Okay...um..." Sara mumbled.

"What was the most important thing to you growing up?" Bradin asked.

Sara smiled "My teddy bear" she replied.

"What was his name?" Bradin asked.

"Teddy" she replied.

"Original" he joked.

"I slept with him every single night" she said, "I can remember the first night I didn't have him. I cried myself to sleep"

"I had brought him with me to my best friends house to play and I forgot him there. My parents refused to go and pick him up. They could never understand why I was so attached to him," she said.

"How old were you then?" Bradin asked.

"That would have been grade 5, so...10" Sara replied.

"Did you have a teddy bear growing up?" she asked.

"No, but I did have a blanket" he replied.

"I think every kid has a comfort item" she decided.

"You wanna hear the biggest memory that I have of growing up?" Bradin asked.

"Yes" Sara replied.

"There was this girl that lived across the street and her name was Amie. One night when we were like eight it was time to go home and we decided that we were going to kiss" Bradin said.

"And did you?" Sara asked.

"Yea, we counted to three and kissed. At the time I felt like the luckiest guy in the world" Bradin replied.

"That's cute," she said.

"When was your first kiss?" he asked.

"Gosh I don't know" she replied.

"I guess it was probably when I was seven and Dylan Spinks and I were sitting under the play ground" she said.

"When was your first real kiss, like not just a little peck?" Bradin asked.

"Oh god, I know this one. I was in grade 6 and I had been going out with a guy named Burton. I remember he had this one pokey hair on his upper lip and it kept scratching me" Sara laughed "What about you?" she asked.

"Carly Haynes, grade 7" he replied.

"What was the happiest moment of your life?" Sara asked.

"When I had the basketball team in grade eight. It changed my life. Suddenly all the girls liked me and all the boys wanted to be my friend. It was crazy" Bradin replied.

"What about you?" he asked.

"This might sound weird, but I have to say that it's when I realized that you weren't going to leave me when I told you I was pregnant" she replied.

"What was the saddest moment of your life?" Bradin asked.

Sara paused for a long time.

"When the doctor put the vacuum into me and I realized that I was killing a life" Sara replied quietly.

"The abortion" he questioned.

"Yea" she replied, sadly.

"How old were you?" he asked.

"Fourteen" she replied.

"Who was the father?" he asked.

"Mathew Jones" she replied.

Sara had a noise that was somewhere between choking and laughing.

"What?" Bradin questioned.

"He was seventeen and I thought he loved me. It wasn't until a year later that I realized he was only with me because I was naive enough to have sex with him" she replied.

"Did you tell him you were pregnant?" he asked.

"Yea, he just got mad and said that if I told anyone he would just deny it was his" she replied.

"And you told your parents?" he questioned.

Sara nodded.

"At the time I thought they were doing what was best for me, but now I know that they were only scared that people would find out and I would be an embarrassment to them" she said.

"So you didn't even consider keeping the baby or putting it up for adoption?" he questioned.

"No, I was 14, terrified and I just did exactly what my parents told me to" she replied.

"I wish I could have there for you," he said.

"I wish you could have been too" she replied.

"I don't know what I would do without you and your aunt," she said.

"Well, you're never going to have to find out" he replied "We're always going to be here" he said.

"Thank-you" she replied.

"So they used a vacuum to take the baby out?" Bradin questioned.

Sara nodded and a tear rolled down her cheek.

"I'm sorry. We don't have to talk about this," he said.

"No, I want to. I've never talked about this we anyone and it feels good. Up until today my parents acted as though none of it ever happen" she replied.

"Okay" he said.

"When I went into the doctors office they said that it wouldn't hurt at all, that I would barely feel a thing" she said.

"But you did feel it?" he asked.

"Not physically no, but it felt like my heart was breaking" she replied.

Bradin was speechless he didn't know what to say that would make any of it easier.

Sara took his hand into hers and started playing with his fingers. There was a ring on one of his fingers and she twisted it around a few times before asking,

"Where's this from?"

"It was my dad's class ring that he gave to my mom" he replied.

He paused to think for a minute.

"I want you to wear it" he said finally as he took it off his finger and slid it onto Sara's.

"But it was your parents" she replied.

"It symbolized their love and now it symbolizes ours" he said.

"I love it," she said.

"Oh my gosh!" she exclaimed as she grabbed her stomach.

"What? Are you gonna have the baby?" Bradin cried.

Sara started laughing.

"No silly, the baby is kicking for the first time," she said.

"But it's nice to know how updated you are on your pregnancy facts. The baby won't be here for another 5 months at least," she added.

Bradin wasn't listening to her though; he was too busy staring at her stomach.

"Can I feel?" he asked.

"Sure" she replied as she took his hand and placed it on her stomach.

Bradin smiled when he felt the little flutter under his hand.

"It's amazing isn't it" Sara said.

"It is. I can't believe that you have a little person growing inside of you" Bradin replied.

"It definitely is a weird thought" Sara agreed.

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