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Part 4

She gripped the test tightly, tears rolled down her face. What now? She was 14 and in enough trouble without this added on. Her dad didn't even know about Corey, well not about her sleeping with him at least. She looked down at her stomach, flat no signals that there was life growing inside her. In a few months she'd have a bump and she couldn't hide that. Suddenly there was a knock on the door,

'Emma?' It was her mom 'You okay honey?' Rachel tried to be happy and she was using all her strength to put the past behind her, but she struggled

'Yeah…er I'm fine, I'll be out in a minute' Emma said quickly wrapping the test in tissue. She was about to throw it in the trash but remembered the story of how Phoebe found her mom's test in the trash, she couldn't take that chance so she shoved it back in her bag and exited the bathroom.

'We were thinking of going out for dinner, with Aunt Monica and Uncle Chandler, will you be okay keeping an eye on the twins?' Rachel said searching through outfits in her wardrobe

'Yeah' Emma said quietly

'You sure your okay?' Rachel asked looking at her daughters pale face, and puffy eyes.

'Well… the thing is' Emma fought with herself over whether she should tell her mum

'Yes?' Rachel asked still trying to find an outfit

'I just feel a bit ill' Emma said sighing; she couldn't bring herself to do it.

'Oh well, you go have a lie down' Rachel gave her a peck on the cheek and Emma left the room.

So here she was, sitting in her room crying her eyes out. What was she going to do?

She could get rid of the baby, and no one would ever have to know but she knew deep down that she couldn't allow someone to destroy a life inside her. It was murder to her and nothing would change her mind. Then she thought about adoption, Jack and Erica were adopted and they seemed fine, but they didn't know they were adopted, Emma wondered if things would be different if they knew. She would hate it if she found of her mom and dad weren't her actual mom and dad. She didn't want to put her baby through that. So she knew the only thing to do would be to keep it. But how could she tell her mom and dad? She didn't know what to do.

And so for three months she said nothing, she carried on with life as normal, trying to hide the sickness, and the fact that her belly was growing. Every day she felt guilty for this secret she was hiding. She knew she couldn't hide it forever. In 6 months she was going to have a baby. Her 15th birthday passed, and when she saw how happy her mom and dad where on that day, it just made her feel worse about it all. She had started dressing in baggy tops, instead of the tight ones she was used to, she couldn't risk the possibility of someone noticing a bump even if she couldn't notice it really herself. Day after day she thought about telling them the truth, but every time she went to she chickened out and made up something on the spot. Until one day she decided she would tell them and she meant it this time. She got dressed and went downstairs. As she moved nearer the kitchen, she heard her mom and her aunt's voices (they still lived with Monica and Chandler after their offer on a house fell through).

'She's ruined her life really' Emma overheard Monica saying, her stomach turned as she waited to see who they were talking about

'I know, I mean at her age, pregnant?' Monica said and Emma felt sick to the stomach

'How's Karen dealing with this?' Rachel asked

'Karen?' Emma thought to herself 'Karen who?'

'She's stopped speaking to her, thinks she should have known better' Monica told Rachel

'Its not very fair on the baby though is it?' Rachel replied

Emma felt her eyes welling up and she ran back upstairs into her room, 'oh mom, if only you knew' she thought to herself. She knew she could never tell her mom now, she'd said that teenage pregnancies ruined your life, how would she react when she found out her own daughter was in that same boat. She went over too her wardrobe and pulled her school bag off the shelf, opening it up she shoved as many items of clothing as she could into it. Her eyes were streaming and she couldn't believe she was doing this. She looked at the picture of her on her 1st Birthday surrounded by people, her mom and dad looked so happy, then there was Chandler and Monica smiling and of course her aunt phoebe and uncle Joey. She picked up the photo and put it in the bag.

Grabbing a pen and paper off her desk, she scribbled a note to her parents:

Mom and Dad

I'm leaving home, because if I stay I will only disappoint you. I don't know where I am going, but I will find somewhere safe. I don't have long to write this letter so I will tell you why I have left, its only fair that you know, I'm pregnant, 3 months gone. I'm going to have the baby and raise it on my own. Remember I love you, and I wish I could stay but I just can't. I can't disgrace you anymore. I'm sorry. I'll miss you so much,

All my love Emma xxxxxx

Emma left the note on her desk and went downstairs. Her mom and Monica were still talking in the kitchen. How she wanted to give her mom one last hug. She went to the door and quietly opened it. As she stepped out the cool wind hit her in the face. Shutting the door behind her, Emma started running; she was in the middle of suburbia and had nowhere to go. She ran towards the city.


Half an hour later…

'I'm just going to get Emma up again' Rachel smiled putting her cup of coffee on the unit

'Okay, Ross and Chandler should be back soon' Monica said slipping a coaster under Rachel's cup.

'Great, then we can take Emma too see that house' Rachel grinned

'She'll love it' Monica smiled back

Rachel ran upstairs 'Emma, get up'

She went into Emma's room and saw the empty bed and the empty wardrobe, she was confused and then she saw the note on Emma's desk.

As she read it tears ran down her cheeks. Monica came upstairs too see what was taking them so long, she saw Rachel in tears

'Oh my god Rachel what's happened, where's Emma?' Monica said in a high-pitched panicky voice

'Emma's…she's…gone' Rachel said before breaking down and sobbing.

'She's gone?' Monica echoed in disbelief

Rachel handed her the note. Monica gasped as she read the letter

'She was pregnant?' was all Monica managed to whisper

Rachel nodded 'I didn't know, I'm her own mother and I didn't know' Rachel whispered

'Rach, how where you to know, nobody could tell' Monica hugged her

'She's gone, my pregnant daughter is out there alone somewhere' Rachel sobbed harder

'We'll find her, she can't have gone far'

'But, what if she's been kidnapped?' Rachel said with all sorts of things running through her mind

'She won't have, she'll just be lost around here somewhere' Monica said trying to make the situation better than it was. Just then a key turned in the lock, and for a moment Rachel thought it could be Emma

'Hey, we're back' It was Ross and Chandler

'Ross!' Rachel shouted as she ran downstairs followed by Monica

'What's wrong is everything okay?' Ross said urgently seeing Rachel and Monica's expressions

'It's Emma' Rachel said quietly

'What's wrong?' Ross demanded

'She's gone, run away' Rachel said before letting out a cry

Ross was speechless, the hall was silent, Chandler hugged Monica tightly as she was also crying now.

'Where could she have gone?' Ross finally said

'I don't know' Rachel said between her cries

'Why did she leave, I mean what did we do?' Ross asked tears forming in his eyes

'We didn't do anything' Rachel sobbed

'Then why did she go?' Ross said crying. He rubbed his eyes with his hands.

'Ross' Rachel said

'What?' He looked up from his hands

'She's pregnant'