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"Are you sure you made the right decision about this? Maybe you should have met somewhere more private? And have you slept anything tonight Ken? Are you alright?"

It was the day after I had arrived at Faith's. During talking to Dr. Tricia on the phone…

"I just thought it would be the best if we did it soon. Before I'd have the time to change my mind about it. And meet Dr. Tricia and her brother and his partner here. At the freaking mall at a freaking café. Just a place that didn't mean much. For a first meeting. And then if they're alright and we'll meet again we can meet on the dumping ground or at theirs or wherever. God, where are they? They were supposed to meet us here at one weren't they?"

"They were."

"It's one fifteen." I showed her my phone screen with the clock. I leaned back into my chair. "I'm not even sure if I'm freaking out or too nervous to feel anything at all. I put the fork I was holding down on the table and rubbed my hands together. What if they don't show up?"

Before she said anything Faith reached out her hand and took mine. I tried to smile at her but ended up no more than a halfhearted grimace while I looked around once again. Then flinched and dropped Faith's hand while I felt my heart starting to beat nervously worse than ever.

"Here they come."

I didn't recognize the two men coming with Dr. Tricia, but one of them must be her brother, Matthew. One of the men was large and when Dr. Tricia pointed at me he looked at me with a big smile as he came closer. The other guy was smaller and skinnier with loads of dark, curly hair and he only seemed nervous.

Now, where was that Ashley- woman?

"Oh." Just as the three were in hearing range I figured what was up. "Gays" I felt my cheeks burning read when I realized what I had said. "Guys. Guys… I meant guys."

"Well." The larger man replied. "Gays was correct too. I'm Matthew and this is my husband Ashley. I'm sorry. Maybe we should have told you about it. I know some people don't like I mean. Same-sex marriages. Do you? Because of course, you'll always be the boss."

"No of course not." I said once I could find the right words. "I mean I don't mind it. Not at all. Love is love and that matters more to me than if the person that… well. You know. Gets a child… my child is a man or a woman. And my name is Kenny so I guess this whole thing with, you're a girl but I thought you were a boy- well, I get it loads."

"Tell me about it." Ashley still seemed way more nervous than his husband or sister in law. But I noticed him smiling when his husband interrupted me. "Ashley… Again and again and again. May we sit down?" I nodded, suddenly couldn't get a single word out of my thick throat. "Thank you."

"I guess I'll go order something for us." Dr. Tricia looked around. "And you two already have something. And I know you two well enough to figure and yeah…" She walked away, I stared down on my salad and Fanta. I didn't really feel like eating now. And none of us seemed to feel like talking or actually saying anything at all.

"I just have to say it Kenny." When Dr. Tricia came back and handed some coffee cups out to the herself and hers she sat down on the opposite side of the table from me. "It really was never my intention to… use you to get a kid that my brother could adopt. I didn't even think of it until I saw you that day. And I can't thank you enough for still wanting to meet us here today."

I breathed in, ready to say something. Whatever. But I just couldn't find any words and nodded back at Dr. Tricia while thoughts were spinning in my mind. Too fast for me to catch a single one of them and there were no words nowhere.

"Of course. In all of this." Matthew seemed to be the most of the talker in this group. And I hid a relieved breath when he started talking and I didn't have to. "You're the boss is in everything. If you want to gi… if you feel like we are the right adoptive parents of your baby then we'll be over the moon with joy. But if you don't and never want to see any of us ever again then that is the way it's going to be. And none of us will question it."

"Never want to see you again? Well, hopefully we can do without that kind of drama. I get that. Well. Where do I start? My name is Kenny. Actually Kennedy. Kennedy LaRusso. I'm originally from a town called Oaklee a few hours away from here. I'm five months pregnant. The dad's name is Jason. And he's just some guy I thought I was in love with. But totally realized I wasn't when I fell in love for real. He's not in the picture."

"We've all been there. Done that." Matthew smiled at me, as to make me feel better about anything. "Not the whole pregnancy part of course. But fallen in love for the first time and then the guy turns out to be nothing like one thought he was. Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt. I'm just so nervous about everything. Jason you say?" I nodded. "Well. Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt… again. Just. You can tell us anything you want about this. Or yourself, or anything you want really. Wait, maybe you'd started doing that already. When I interrupted."

"Matthew."

It was Dr. Tricia who interrupted her brother. Ashley still hadn't said a word since we got here.

"I'm sorry." Matthew hung his head in shame like a little child. "I always do that. Especially when I get nervous. What else can you tell us Kenny? You don't have to feel pressured into saying or doing anything but… Yeah, see. I'm doing it again."

"That you are little brother." Dr. Tricia rolled her eyes. "Now, Kenny. I know something that we did figure on your last visit at mine. Would you like to tell these that or do you want to wait until you know them better?"

"What?" Matthew was right back on talking mode. "What did you find out?"

For a moment I only looked from Dr. Tricia, to Matthew, to Ashley and back again. Thoughts were spinning in my head and a part of me wanted to break down crying while another part wanted to run away while a third part wanted to be alone and a fourth to go back in time and prevent this from ever happening.

And then as usual, that fourth feeling made me feel bad.

"Actually I think." I said and stood up to leave. Seeming more in a rush I realized than what I had actually planned to. "I think I'd like to go home and just think to myself for a moment. But thank you guys for meeting me and… us here today. I… I just need to do some thinking. You know, this isn't the sort of decision one makes over the dinner table if you get what I mean."

"It was nice meeting you Kenny." Matthew got onto his feet too, while the others seemed as confused as I felt. "And certainly, we do get it. Would you like our phone numbers or a ride home or something."

"No thank you. Faith is driving me. Aren't you Faith?" Faith nodded and got up onto her feet next to me. "And I've got Dr. Tricia's number. That works."

"Please Kenny. Only Tricia when we're not at the hospital."

"Okay then." I looked around and tried to find a reason to leave. "Faith. You're done now. Come on." I grabbed her by the arm, and a bit too fast hurried out of the mall.

"Is everything alright Ken?" Faith asked me when we were on our way over the parking lot towards her car. "What did you think?"They seem like nice people don't they? Don't they? Kenny? Are you alright? Kenny?"

"Uh-huh." I forced myself back to reality. "And yes, I'm very aware that we all sat there for like five minutes and I didn't touch the salad you paid for. I'm sorry for that but… I'm fine. I just need to do some thinking. I'd take the bus but…" I spotted a gang of girls about my age right by who were all staring on me. "…When people see a pregnant teenager they just stare and… I suppose you can imagine that makes one quite uncomfortable."

"I can imagine."

Faith glared back at the group of girls who had been staring at me. While I only stared down into the ground as if it was the most interesting thing I had ever seen. And while I couldn't think of anything I would like to say now we got into the car and Faith drove me straight to the dumping ground.

"I'll let you know how it goes." I told Faith before I stepped out of the car and walked inside. "I need to talk to Mike first. See you later. Thanks for the help."

"Kenny." I turned when Faith reached out for my attention. "It's going to be okay."

I just smiled slightly back at her and then stepped out of the car and up the driveway. And I couldn't decide whether I actually wanted to talk to Mike or if I felt I had to or I was just one of those people who wanted attention.

Well. If I wanted attention I was sure getting quite enough of it by now.

"Are you finished then?" I went into the office to talk to Mike, no matter what he would have to know what I had spent my day with. "That went fast."

I leaned against his desk and tried to act casually. As if there was nothing bothering me and nothing I could tell him that would mean anything at all.

"We and some hired guys were up all night and finished. I also got a new care worker while you were away. Maybe you remember one. I talked about him while I talked to myself. He used to work here before and his name is… Kenny? Are you alright?"

Kenny? Are you alright?

It hit me it was the second time I had been asked that since I and Faith left the café. And the same worried tone since before struck me like lightning. Damn it, sometimes I just hated all of this.

Why would I have to worry everybody so much? Why would everybody have to care for me so much and then be so worried when I didn't or couldn't act normally? Why couldn't I always act normally?

"Mike." I suddenly realized I hadn't told Mike about what I was doing today. "You know that when I was at Dr. Tricia's she told me that her brother and his partner wanted to adopt a baby and all of that?" Mike nodded slightly. "Well. I decided to call her up and then went to meet her and her brother and his… well. Turns out his "Partner" Ashley. Is a husband named Ashley. And…. I met them and…" I sunk back towards the couch and swallowed the lump in my throat. Well tried. "Well… They seem like nice people. And I…" Two big tears rolled down my cheeks. I annoyingly wiped them away with the back of my hand. Mike sat down next to me and laid his arm around my shoulders. "God these stupid hormones."

I was pretty sure these tears weren't just hormones though. Maybe they never were nowadays.

"Ken." Mike said calmly, keeping his arm around my shoulders. "Stupid hormones or not. You are about to make one of the hardest choices a human being can ever make. And I wish I could make it for you to make it easier but no. You need to make it and do what you feel is right. And I know that you feel like you're all alone in the whole wide world. But whatever happens, I hope you know that I, and Trenton, and Johnny, and Faith and all of your other friends here, including your mum. We will all be there behind you, supporting you no matter what."

And why did Mike have to be the kindest and most caring person ever? I leaned forward and buried my face in my hands. And that before I just broke down for what felt the millionth time during the past five months.

"I don't know why I'm just breaking down like this." I said in a shaky voice when I could stop crying. "Those guys, that couple. They actually did seem alright. One interrupted everything I said and just talked and talked and talked. And the other one didn't say a word. Yet, still I didn't really get the chance to know them at all… And I" I took a pause to think carefully about what I was saying "think I'd like to meet them again."

Dr. Tricia is portrayed by Jaimie Alexander, her brother Matthew is portrayed by Max Adler and Ashley by Sam Stockman. I haven't made any polyvore edits for Matt and Ashley earlier because I didn't want to spoil the storyline about them being two guys. I'll make them soon.

Now you have seen the couple that might be the adoptive parents of little Elijah. But Kenny was so nervous she was barely there for like five minutes. One of them talks a lot and the other one hasn't said a single word yet. But they seem like nice people. Yet this isn't an easy decision for Kenny to make.

Random fact

I've actually planned the part with Matthew and Ashley being two guys instead of a man and a woman for a long while. And yes, Ashley was named after I had figured that. I hoped nobody would notice but then GleeJunkie007 wrote her guess in her review. That maybe it was two guys. And I was like "Shush. You're not supposed to know that yet"

And just to say it, I love the name Ashley as a guy's name. (It's actually unisex but more common as a girl's name)