Hey everyone, here's part 3, thanksfor all your reviews, im glad you like it so far.
'I can't believe it' Rachel said lifting her head from her hands 'Your 14 years old, 6 months ago you where still watching cartoons and had cuddly toys all around your room'
'I'm sorry' Emma said between sobs.
'Sorry, you're sorry…that makes everything okay does it?' Rachel yelled
'I don't know what else to say' Emma whispered
'What have we done that was so bad you'd want to hurt us like this?' Rachel asked tears rolling down her cheeks
Emma was silent before whispering 'Nothing'
Rachel looked at her daughter and she felt disgusted, her daughter had become involved in drugs and sex, she felt like she had failed as a mother
'Just go to your room' Rachel said finally 'I don't want to see your face'
Emma walked off and shut her bedroom door quietly. She lay on her bed and cried into her pillow. She felt so alone and no amount of drugs would make it better.
About an hour later, Ross and Chandler came into the apartment. Rachel was asleep on the couch. Ross looked at her tear stained cheeks, he'd been up all night searching for Emma with Chandler, for all he knew his daughter was dead.
'Hey man, you want me to go?' Chandler whispered
'If you want to, I don't mind you staying' Ross replied
'Well I better get back, Mon and the twins have been on their own all night' Chandler said patting Ross on the back 'If you need me'
'Yeah' Ross said as Chandler left the apartment
Rachel woke up suddenly with the sound of their voices
'Ross?' Rachel looked up
'I'm here, I couldn't find Emma though' Ross said his voice breaking
'She's here, in her bedroom' Rachel said quietly
'She is? I'm going to speak to her' Ross said getting angry.
'I've spoken too her Ross' Rachel said trying not to think of the conversation
'What did she say about it all?'
Rachel explained the conversation to Ross, deliberately leaving out the part about the boy. She told him how Emma had said it made her fit in. Ross started crying, Rachel was shocked, she'd hardly ever seen him cry, maybe once or twice but not like this.
'What about the guy she was with?' Ross finally said 'The one chandler saw her with?'
'Well…er… she said that they are dating' Rachel said
'DATING AT HER AGE!' Ross yelled
'Ross, calm down please' Rachel said putting her arms around him
'But she's my little girl' Ross said quietly
'I know…' Rachel knew Ross should know about Emma being with this boy last night, but she couldn't do that to him. She knew it would kill him.
'We've got to sort this out, she can't go on like this' Ross said to Rachel after a short silence
'But what are we going to do? We can't stop her going to school, and she'll just sneak out if we tell her she's grounded' Rachel said sitting back down onto the couch
'Well… maybe we should move' Ross said, he didn't want to. He loved this apartment and all the memories it had. He could still see Mon and Chan's old apartment from his window but if this was what it took to sort his daughter out he'd give it up.
'You mean, away from the city?' Rachel asked
'Yeah'
'I love it here Ross and were close to work and friends' Rachel sighed
'Yeah, I know I love it too, but if we keep living here, I can't see a future for Emma' Ross said as he felt his stomach sink. He looked at Rachel and saw she felt the same.
'We could maybe move closer to Monica and Chandler' Ross said trying to put an upside to this situation.
'Yeah, I guess' Rachel said trying to smile, but ending up crying more
'Come on sweetie, I know its not what we really want, but for Emma's sake' Ross hugged his wife.
'I know' Rachel kissed him and they hugged some more.
'Who's going to tell her?' Ross asked
'We'll both do it' Rachel said
A short while later, Emma came out of her room quietly. She headed towards the kitchen.
'Emma' Ross called her over
Emma walked over to were Ross and Rachel were
'Your father and I have talked about the situation, and have decided that the only way for us to get past all of this, is to move' Rachel said looking her daughter in the eye
'But Mom, I'll change and you won't have to move' Emma said trying to convince her mom
'Emma, you've lied to us to many times, and you don't deserve another chance' Ross told his daughter
'But…'
'No buts, were moving away from the city' Ross continued 'We're moving in with Monica and Chandler for a while before we find a house'
'That's in the suburbs though' Emma objected 'That's too far to get to school'
'You'll be moving schools, going to Erica and Jacks' Rachel told Emma's face which had sunk
'I'm sorry Emma but this is the only way' Rachel said.
Three weeks laterEmma looked out of her window; she couldn't see the bustling New York Street anymore, just big houses and greenery. She hated life in the suburbs. She missed her friends, and Corey, although she still had mixed feelings about that night. She shuddered thinking of it. But worst of all was her new school. She was in uniform and everyone was slightly snobbish. Emma gave a sigh of relief it was Saturday.
'Emma, breakfasts ready' Monica shouted from downstairs.
'Ok' Emma called back, as she went downstairs the smell made her feel sick. She carried on towards the kitchen but soon had to retreat to the bathroom as her stomach turned.
Emma sat on the bathroom floor, this was the second morning she had been sick.
'Em, you okay?' It was Chandler.
Emma opened the door; she looked at him and muttered 'fine' she still hadn't forgiven him properly for telling her Mom and Dad.
Chandler looked at his niece, as she walked past him, she was scrawny and looked ill. She'd been sick a lot lately, he put it down to her having drug withdrawal symptoms.
Emma went into the kitchen still feeling sick.
'I'm not very hungry' she told Monica before walking out of the room and going back upstairs
'Emma wait…' Monica called after her, but she'd gone
'Do you know what's up with her?' Monica asked her husband as he entered the room. Monica hardly knew anything about the situation. She knew Emma had done some drugs, but not to the extent that she actually had.
'Stomach bug, I think' Chandler shrugged as he sat down at the table
'Ross and Rachel have gone house hunting' Monica said as she sat down to eat with Chandler
'Okay, so are we looking after Emma all day?' Chandler asked flicking through the morning paper
'It looks that way, although I promised Jack we'd go to his Swimming Gala this afternoon' Monica remembered
'We could take her with us' Chandler suggested
'She's better off here, Erica's staying home anyway' Monica told him
'Yeah okay'
Meanwhile in Emma's room, she was sitting there thinking. She had noticed she'd been sick a lot lately and had a terrible feeling in her stomach. She was trying to work out when she'd last had her period. It was over 6 weeks ago, she was late. She tried to push the prospect of pregnancy to the back of her mind, but it kept coming back. She knew she hadn't used protection but didn't think she'd get pregnant. She thought about getting a pregnancy test, but she wasn't allowed out the house. Just then there was a knock at the door
'Hiya, its me' Erica said popping her head round the door
'Oh hey' Emma smiled dryly
'Mom, Dad and Jack are going to this Gala later, so do you want to go shopping?' Erica asked beaming. Emma never really understood why her cousin was so cheery.
She was just about to say no, when she realised that she could get the test, she didn't want to do it but to put her mind at rest she knew she had too.
'Okay, that'll be great' Emma's smile was so false, but Erica didn't seem to notice
'Great' and with that Erica left the room.
Emma rushed upstairs with her bag. She went into the bathroom and locked the door. She pulled out the test out of the box. Her stomach felt sick. She read the instructions. Once she had followed them she put the test to one side. All sorts of things went through her mind. It was the longest minute of her life. She looked at her watch, 60 seconds and past. She picked it up and looked at it.
Her stomach turned, there they were clear as day two blue lines.
