Carly is speechless. She cannot find the words to represent what she is feeling at this very moment. How could such a wonderful day end with such pain?
"I'll go get her. I'll be back in a little while." Jack says then he kisses Carly on the cheek.
Jack leaves to go find Sage and Carly sits down on Sage's bed and starts crying. Parker sits down beside of her.
"It's going to be okay mom. (Hugs Carly) I didn't mean for this to happen and I know Sage didn't mean for it to happen especially this early in our lives. Yes, this could have been prevented but it wasn't so now we have to pay the consequences." Parker says trying to comfort his mother.
"What I don't get is why you and Sage would go out and do something like this. Was it your dad's fault and mine? Did we do something wrong? Did we not educate you good enough on this topic?" Carly asks questioning herself and Jack's parenting.
"Mom, yall were the best parents me and Sage could ever ask for. I can't speak for Sage but
I know that if I didn't have parents like yall that I could of ended up like this along time ago. This is not your fault, it's mine and Sage's." Parker says reassuringly.
"But why did you have sex? You've always wanted to wait until you were married. What changed? What made you want to do this now?" Carly asked wiping her eyes.
"For me it was that the time felt right. Jennica and me love each other and we felt that it was time to take the next step in our relationship. I made sure I wasn't taking advantage of her and she agreed that she felt the same way. So we took that next step. We didn't take it because of what other people thought, we did it because we felt it was right." Parker says
"Okay, I understand your story now but why didn't you come talk to me and your father?" Carly asks
"I knew you had enough on your plate already with you back to work and dad working longer hours and all. I didn't want to add to that full plate. Trust me mom, never in a million years did I think this would happen." Parker says sadly
"It's okay, Park, but I want you to know that me and you father never have to full of a plate to help out with yours and Sage's problems." Carly says hugging Parker.
"Next time I have a problem at school or anywhere else, you'll be the first to know about it I promise." Parker says hugging his mother back.
Carly and Parker go downstairs to wait for Jack and Sage to come back home. Carly fixes them some bowls of ice cream and they're eating it when Jack and Sage arrive home.
"Oh…thank God you're alright. I was worried sick about you." Carly says pulling Sage into a hug.
"You mean you're not going to yell at me and tell me how stupid I am for getting myself into this mess? How I've screwed the rest of my life up and how I'm gonna have to pay the consequences and take responsibility for my mistakes?" Sage says kind of shocked.
"Well, you already know most of what we were going to say so why cover that all over again. Why don't you just come over here and sit down and talk to us about this whole thing in a calm rational way." Carly says in a calm tone. She has calmed down a lot since Sage left.