Katie crooked her eyebrow. "Caden?" she asked, as if she didn't understand. "You don't like it?" Summer asked, biting her bottom lip.

Katie let out a small laugh. "Well it doesn't really matter if I like it. I mean, you're the one calling him Caden for the rest of his life. And you got his name off some kid on the street running away from his mom. Like, what if that name is cursed or something?"

Summer gave Katie a confused look and rolled her eyes. "It's just the first name I've heard that I can really see myself calling him" Summer said pulling the door to Bloomingdales open.

"How do you spell that anyways?" Katie asked, pulling a shirt off the rack. Her eyes widened at the price and she quickly stuck it back.

"Ya know, I don't even know why I come in this place. It's not like I can fit in any of these clothes with my huge belly" Summer said, disregarding Katie's previous question.

"At least you can afford this stuff" Katie said, looking at price tags. "I mean seriously, $200 for a shirt? I get all my clothes at JC Penney, and the last shirt I got cost $30, and my dad almost had a heart attack"

Summer sighed. She wasn't used to having friends that weren't rolling in cash. Katie lived in a one story, 4 bedroom house. It was toward the outer skirts of the city, in a quiet subdivision. And she had a family. She had one younger brother and 2 younger sisters.

They had a fenced in back yard with a dog, and their front yard proved a woman with a passion for flowers lived in the house. They never ate take-out, and rarely went out to eat. Katie's mom stayed home, and she cooked all the time.

Summer loved going over to their house because it made her feel secure. She'd never experienced a family like that. A family that had drawings of scribbles hanging on the refrigerator, and pictures of the kids everywhere you looked.

Summer's thoughts went away when she saw Katie waving her hand in front of her face. "Hello, Summer? You haven't said a word in like 5 minutes. Are you ok?"

"Yeah it's just-" Summer began to say, but Katie's cell phone ring interrupted her.

"Sorry" she said, flipping her phone open.

"Hello? Hey mom" Katie said, dragging the last 2 words out.

Katie rolled her eyes, and Summer laughed.

"No, I'm shopping with Summer. Yeah…ok hold on"

Summer laughed when Katie handed Summer her cell phone. Every time Katie's mom called Katie, she'd always have to talk to Summer before the phone call ended. Actually, Summer thought of Katie's mom as her mom.

Katie's mom, Debby, even told Summer to call her 'mom'.

"Hey mom" Summer said, walking to another rack. Katie laughed. Ever since she and Summer had been friends she'd come over all the time. She practically lived at her house.

"Yes, of course I'll be over"

Summer glanced at Katie who was rolling her eyes and laughing, and Summer laughed to.

"love you to. Bye"

Summer hung up the phone and laughed.

"It's kind of sad when my mom talks to you more than me" Katie said, laughing.

Summer laughed. "She's cooking roast. She wants me to come over tonight so she can see the ultra-sound pictures" Summer said, pulling the door open and walking out, Katie following.

"Didn't she see them already?" Katie asked, thinking back.

Summer laughed. "Yeah, she did. She probably wants to make copies of them like she does with all the rest of them"

Katie laughed. "My moms crazy"

3 Months Later

Summer's cell phone buzzed loudly, and she weakly opened her eyes and looked at her alarm clock. She squinted at the bright red letters that read 2:45 a.m.

"Hello?" she asked groggily, laying her head back down on her pillow, closing her heavy eyelids.

"Hey Sum it's me" a breathless person said on the other line.

Summer's eyes flew open.

"Katie, are you ok?" she asked. Summer knew it was around Katie's due date.

Katie and Summer stayed on the phone long enough for Summer to know that Katie was in labor. She popped some flip flops on, grabbed a jacket, and flew out of her house.

Newport—Cohen Residence

Seth lay in his bed, running his fingers over the frame that held Summer's picture. It had been 5 months since he'd seen her last, and he'd invited her to Newport like 45 times. Every time was a different excuse though.

He didn't want to break up with her. He still loved her just as much as he did when she left; maybe more, if that was possible. But it wasn't working out. He and Anna had become closer, and she was here, in Newport.

He just didn't see how it was going to work with him and Summer anymore.

He set the picture back down on his night stand and looked at the numbers on his clock.

11:45

His eyes strayed to another picture on his stand of Summer sitting in his lap laughing.

He grabbed both pictures and turned them around. He had to end it.

New York—Hospital

Summer walked in the delivery room and walked to the bed in the center of the room where Katie was. Her face was red and sweaty.

"Hey" Summer said, pulling a chair up.

"So I'm guessing it's kind of painful?" Summer asked, weakly smiling.

Katie let out a quiet laugh. "You can't even imagine. I'm only 9 centimeters dilated to, which means I have just a little while to go" she complained.

Summer gave her a sympathetic look. "So Jakes not here?" she asked, referring to the father of Katie's baby.

Katie sighed. "No. He uh…he doesn't want anything to do with this baby. He said he wasn't going to ruin his future"

Summer looked down at her feet. If she were in that hospital bed right now, would Cohen be beside her, holding her hand? Or would he be like Jake, and be in bed while his child was being born?

She bit her lip. Katie had decided to drop out of school once Benjamin arrived. If she had told Cohen, would he have ruined his future and dropped out of school? Would he have left his family behind to come live in the hell hole they call New York? Would he ruin his life and sacrifice everything to be with her?

Knowing him, he would. She couldn't do that to him. She couldn't ruin his life like that. She'd never forgive herself.

Her thoughts were interrupted when Katie let out a shrill scream, and Katie grabbed Summer's hand, turning it white.

Katie's mom was on the other side of the bed, coaching her daughter.

Summer heard the nurse check Katie and announce that she was indeed 10 centimeters, and as soon as the doctor got there she could push.

Nurses rushed around, getting blankets ready, and calling and re-calling the doctor to locate him. Finally, he arrived; Katie breathed a sigh of relief.

The next 20 minutes seemed to go in slow motion. Katie didn't have any medications to numb the pain because she didn't believe in doing that, but Summer was sure she was regretting it by now.

Katie's face was sheet white, and squished together. Scream after painful yell came out of her mouth. And finally her body relaxed as the doctor announced that it was a boy.

A small cry entered the room, and the volume soon got louder. Baby Ben was covered in blood, which you would think would make Summer say "Eww"

But it didn't. She watched in amazement as the nurse handed a clean Ben over to Katie, and she watched tears stream down Katie's sweaty face.

Summer rubbed her 7 month pregnant belly. In 2 months she'd be in this very same hospital, having her very own baby.

The question was, did she want Cohen there?

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Sorry for not writing a chapter sooner. I know I promised one on Saturday, but it was a busy weekend. Not to mention I sort of had a writing block, and didn't know what I wanted to happen in this chapter.

More chapters coming soon. I'm going to warn you now, it's going to get kind of intense and dramatic, so get ready.