Sadie waited patiently on Jude's bed, waiting for her to come out of the bathroom.
"Jude, you're gonna make yourself sick!" She called through the door. Jude walked in, looking at her sister.
For the past week that Tommy had been gone, Jude hadn't been fairing well. She hadn't been eating well and she had recently been feeling sick.
"Jude, you really need to eat." Jude hugged her stomach.
"I know I'm just not hungry lately. Besides, everything I eat comes right back up." Sadie rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, because your body is getting use to not eating." Jude looked away. "Jude, I do not think that Tommy is going to come back from New York with divorce papers. He loves you way too much." Jude sat down on the bed next to her sister.
"That's what I'm hoping for anyway. I should have told him about Speed sooner." Sadie sat up.
"You should have told all of us." Sadie wrapped an arm around her. "You know that I'm here for you." Jude nodded, sullenly. "And I'm sure Tommy is just more upset about the fact that you told Mason, but not him. He'll get over it."
"I hope so." Jude said letting out a breath. She stood up. "You want to go to that little Italian café down the street?" Jude asked. Sadie stood up as well.
"I thought that you didn't like Italian." Jude grinned.
"I never said I didn't."
The sisters sat inside the cute little café, sipping their drinks.
"I thought you said that you weren't hungry lately?" Jude shrugged.
"I guess I lied." Sadie set her coke down gingerly.
"Jude, when was the last time you got your period?" She asked tenderly. Jude looked up alarmed.
"I had it just…" Jude trailed off, thinking. "I'm just stressed." Jude said. Sadie nodded her head.
"Right, you haven't had your period and your throwing up. Jude I think that you might be pregnant." Jude set her glass of Sprite down. She looked away.
"This couldn't come at a more inconvenient time." Jude sighed, holding her head in her hand.
"We don't actually know. Come on." Sadie stood up, leaving enough money to cover the bill. Jude grabbed her coat and followed her.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"We are going to buy some home pregnancy tests." Jude let out a deep breath and followed her sister.
Back at Jude's house, Sadie, again, waited outside Jude's bathroom. Inside the bathroom, Jude anxiously waited for the results. Sadie had bought three different tests. Jude was waiting for all the results. A beep went off on her watch. Jude picked up all three tests and walked back into her bedroom.
"I can't look at them." Jude said. She handed them to Sadie. Sadie looked through them. She looked at Jude who was nervously waiting.
"I guess I'm gonna be an aunt again!" Jude stared at her.
"Are you serious?" Sadie nodded. Jude smiled bigger then she had in the last few weeks.
"I'm having a baby!" Jude hugged Sadie excitedly before running out of the room. She knocked on Noelle's door. She walked in. Noelle took off her headphones.
"I didn't realize you were back yet." Jude sat down at her desk chair.
"I have to tell you something." Noelle looked up alarmed.
"You and Dad aren't getting divorced, are you?" Jude stared at her, furiously shaking her head.
"No, nothing like that. I'm… well, you're going to have a baby brother or sister." Noelle dropped her ipod on her bed.
"For real?" She asked, excited. Jude nodded. Noelle crushed her mom in a hug. "Thank you so much!" Jude laughed and pulled back.
"For what?" Noelle widened her eyes. You could see the excitement dancing in her blue orbs.
"Mom, as much as I know that you love, and as much as I know Dad loves me, and as much as I love you guys both-"
"Just get on with it!" Jude cried, impatient. She had never been the most patient of people, and 17 years had not changed that. Noelle smiled.
"What I'm trying to say is, I'm glad you're getting to have the baby you always wanted with Tommy, I mean Dad, and… well… at least now all your attention will be focused on the baby and away from me." Jude shook her head, lightly shoving her daughter. She wrapped her arms around her.
"I just want you to know that this doesn't mean I love you any less, okay? Even though your biological father is a giant pain in the ass that screws everything, and I mean everything up, it doesn't change how I feel about you. With that said, if you want to get to know him, its fine by me." Noelle looked up at her mother.
"I actually did talk to him." Jude looked at her surprised. Noelle shrugged, pulling out of their embrace. "Yeah, he gave me a ride to school. We talked and I told him that even though he might be my father, Tommy is my Dad, and that I wanted to get to know him, but I'm not sure I want to have more than one Dad. Because I already have the world's greatest Dad." Jude smiled at Noelle, tears in her eyes.
"I only wish that Tommy was here to hear you." Jude said, the tears falling. Noelle handed her mom a tissue.
"Once you tell Dad, I'm sure he'll be on the first plan back from New York." Jude shook her head.
"I don't want to tell him over the phone. I want to tell him when he gets back." Noelle nodded, okay with her mom's decision. Jude stood up.
"I better get back to your Aunt Sadie before she starts snooping around my bedroom!" Jude gave one last smile to her daughter before exiting the room. She closed the door and took a deep breath, knowing that things really couldn't get any worse. She placed a hand on her stomach, smiling. She and Tommy were really having a baby!