CHAPTER 15

Jam Pony

"When you gave me your blood, after White had shot me…well it was a temporary cure." Max waited for a response, which never came. So she continued, "Logan and I ended up spending the night together…and a couple of days later, I found out that…I'm pregnant." Max whispered.

"You are, that's great…I mean if that's what you want." Alec smiled. Max stood there in complete surprise at Alec's reaction and couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You're not mad…upset…disappointed?"

"No, why? Should I be?"

"Well no, I'm just surprised I guess. I thouht you would be surprised or upset just like Zach was."

"Zach!"

"Yeah. He's back…Didn't I tell you?"

"No, what's he doing here now?"

"He came back for me…" Max looked into Alec's eyes, relizing that she was talking to Alec about this. Knowing how he felt about Zach. She looked down and continued, "I feel a little funny about talking to you about this…he said he loves me."

"What? Where is he?"

"At the hospital, he was shot. Alec, what are you going to do?"

"I may go and see him then, talk to him about it. Thanks for telling me about this Max. I'm glad you trust me."

"Please just don't tell anyone else yet, I still have to go to the doctor and make sure everything is alright."

"Ok."

"Thanks Alec." Max smiled.

Max and O.C's apartment

"How did it go with Alec?"

"Fine actually…he said it was great, if that's what I really wanted." Max started cutting up some carrots for dinner that they were making.

"What! Our Alec said this?"

"Yeah. I couldn't believe it either."

"I never thought I'd live to see the day." O.C laughed as she threw the meat in the oven. This was going to be there last dinner together as roommates. Logan had called Max that night after work and asked her if tomorrow was alright. Max had said yes and was getting her stuff together.

Logan's apartment Next morning

"Is that all your stuff?" Logan asked, grinning from ear to ear and his face beaming.

"Yeah." Max said smiling back.

"Great!" Logan practically ran out to the living to grab the last box. O.C walked in, very sullum, "So that's it huh?"

"Yeah." Max answered turning around to face her.

"I'm happy for you. I know that you've wanted something like this to happen for a long time now." O.C nervously smiled. Max's eyes filled up and she threw her arms around O.C, enbracing each other for the longest time.

Max lay awake for most of the night. She hadn't been feeling that well since she had gone to bed, she wasn't sure if it was morning sickness or the dinner, but either way, she wasn't happy about it.

Having finally fallen asleep 2 hours before out of sheer tiredness, she woke up again, feeling stabbing pains in her abdomin she curled up in the fetal position, crying in pain.

Hospital

Alec followed the nurse into the room were Zach was staying. The nurse shook Zach awake and announced that Alec was here to see him.

"Alec? What are you doing here so late?" It was 4am when he leaned over to look at the clock beside him.

"Max told me that you were here. I had no idea you were even back in town."

"Yeah." Zach sat up a little and continued after having a drink of water, "I came back to see Max, and I kind of ended up being shot in the process." Laughing awkwardly, he then coughed.

"What happened?" Alec maintained a serious face.

Zach frowned, "Well I uh…all I remember really was that White was there." Zach turned away, avoiding Alec's eye contact.

"White? How did he know that you were back?" Alec wide-eyed.

"I uh…well I don't really think he knew that it was me…I had a hood on." Taking another drink of water, still avoiding his eye contact.