And here is the long-awaited chapter:


Chapter 6

"Kaitlin? Oh my God, Kaitlin!" Kaitlin heard a voice coming from some direction, though she was so out of it, she had no clue what was going on.

What felt like months later, Kaitlin woke up in a small motel room. She opened her eyes, but her body refused to allow her to lift her head. "Oh, God. What happened? I feel so horrible," she complained. "Wait a second, where am I?" Her face was still tear-stained and her eyes stung with every blink.

Justin emerged from the bathroom. "Hey, your awake." He smiled, flashing his adorable dimples at Kaitlin.

"Why are you here?" The moments of her previous occurance with her mother flooded back into her head, filling it with clouds and haze. "You found me, didn't you?"

Justin nodded. "Yeah. God, was I so upset. I thought you were dying."

"Well, what'd you do when you found me? Did my mom know?" Kaitlin asked.

"Yeah, I picked you up and rang the doorbell. Your mom answered but she told me that you no longer live there...?"

"Oh, great. It wasn't a nightmare. Well, it was a nightmare, but not literally..."

"What are you talking about?" Justin questioned. He helped Kaitlin sit up a little and she clutched her stomach in pain.

"Oooohhh..." she moaned. "Ouch."

"What? What is it, what's wrong?" Justin began to panic. Kaitlin laid back again and the pain went away.

"Justin," she said. "Promise me you won't hate me when I tell you this."

Justin looked at her with kind eyes. "I could never hate you."

Kaitlin spilled the beans. "I'm pregnant."

Justin sat there in shock for a few moments. Kaitlin was just thankful that he didn't take it the way her mother had. "What? How? Well, I know how but...Oh my God."

"Yeah, well I think there's a bigger problem. My mom got really ticked when she found out and she got, like, all abusive. She slapped me across the face and I fell. But then when I wouldn't leave, she grabbed my wrist and practically threw me out. Then I was so out of it, I tripped and fell over the sidewalk, and that's when you found me, I guess. But I think," she paused as a few tears rolled down her cheeks as she remembered the night's events. "I think the baby's hurt. That's why I can't get up, my stomach kills."

"We've got to get you to the hospital." Justin said, attempting to help Kaitlin up.

"Justin, no. I can't tell anyone about this or the baby. Then my mom will really kill me, and I mean that literally."

"Kaitlin, you could get seriously hurt if you don't get help. Trust me, I care about you and you need to see a doctor. What about the baby. Think of the baby."

Kaitlin squeezed her eyes shut and imaged her down the road leaning over a crib, looking down at a tiny little infant. It had almost all of Johnny's features: chocolate brown eyes, his adorable nose, little brown blotches of hair that also resembled Johnny. A light sprinkling of freckles were spread across the child's nose. It was almost like a miniture Johnny laying there, looking at her.

Kaitlin finally opened her eyes again. "You're right. Let's go." Justin smiled. He helped Kaitlin get up, and they got in the car, headed for the hospital.


Once they got there, they went straight to the Emergency Room doors. The placed was completely empty, except for a little boy on crutches and his mother.

"Go sit down, I'll check you in," Justin commanded.

A few minutes later, a nurse came out with a wheelchair and came up to Kaitlin. Justin helped her in and they were lead into a small room with a hospital bed.

"Here we are, dear," the nurse said. "Relax and the doctor will be in shortly."

Justin helped Kaitlin into the bed, and sat down on the side of it, holding her hand. He looked deep into her eyes. "Tell me," he said, his tone serious. "Whose baby is it?"

Kaitlin suddenly felt nervous to tell him. She didn't want him to think lower of her just because she went and used a guy who was in love with her sister - even though she rejected him many times -, got him drunk, had sex with him, and then after all of that, he went and killed himself. That's not bad at all. Yeah right. She just couldn't bring herself to tell him. She didn't know why she had a problem with him feeling any different about her, but suddenly she was starting to feel different around him. Different in a good way.


Hehe; I'm evil. You're going to have to wait for the next chapter to see if everything is okay with the baby. Oh, and for those of you who aren't sure or don't really know, Justin is the guy who was still in love with Kaitlin and came to see her a couple of times when she was on Spring Break. He's also the guy that tookher back to the boarding school with him the night of Julie and Kirsten's party. Any other questions about anything, email or messege me.

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