Finding Out
The months passed and eventually a year. Mike and Piper had spent the whole time together, much to the dismay to Patrick. He didn't really like Mike that much after he had found out what Piper and him did. It had gotten him extremely angry once again. Piper was now 17 and Mike was 18. They were both juniors in high school. Prue had graduated last year and was 19 and Phoebe was 14 and in 8th grade. Mike and Piper had gotten even closer than they were last year. They had celebrated her 17th birthday together and with Piper's family, and had then spent her birthday together by themselves. They had done the same thing on his 18th birthday. Prue had gone to college and was with Andy, her very long-term boyfriend. Phoebe had started to hang out with the wrong crowd, until Patrick had heard the news. He had made her stop seeing those friends, mostly because she was scared of him and knew that she had to listen to him or else. Everyone's life had seemed to be perfect for now.
It had been just two months since Mike's 18th birthday and the last time they had done anything. Piper was sitting in her room, on her bed, with it in her hand. She was waiting for Mike to come over. She had called him 15 minutes ago and was now waiting for him. She knew that he wouldn't be late and that he would be here in the next 5 minutes. He only lived 20 minutes away and was never late. Even if there was traffic for any reason, he would still get here on time to be with her or just to see her. The next 5 minutes had passed quicker than she could imagine and he was now slowly walking into her room.
"Piper, what's wrong?" he asked, seeing her face.
"Um, I think you need to see this," she replied, handing it to him. He knew what it was but didn't want to believe it. She then handed him the box. He compared them.
"Oh, god," he said, falling onto her bed. He looked from it to her.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
"They don't lie. Not when you have taken 3 of them and they all come out the same," she said.
"Um, maybe just one more," he suggested. She just sighed, before getting up and grabbing another one. In a matter of minutes, his life seemed to change.
She walked back into her room, with the pregnancy stick in her hand and said, "I'm pregnant."
They slowly walked downstairs, hand in hand, hoping to get out of the house before anyone could see them. But, things didn't turn out that way.
"Piper, Mike, were are you two going?" she asked, behind them. They both stopped where they were and slowly turned around to face her.
"Piper, what's wrong?" she asked, seeing the tears in her eyes and the worry on his face.
"Um," Piper said.
"Well, come on. What's wrong? You know you two are going to have to tell someone and you know that Grandpa isn't going to let you out of the house if he sees you," she said to them. She looked up at Mike.
"Go wait in your car. I'll meet you out there," Piper said to him. He just looked at her.
"No," he started, "We're in this because of me too and I'm going to stay here until you're ready to go." She slightly smiled at this. In her sister's head, something seemed to click.
"Oh, my, god," she said to them, "Please tell me you're joking." Piper just stared at her.
"Please Phoebe don't tell anyone," Piper begged. She knew this would be hard for Phoebe, considering she could never keep a secret.
"Piper, are you kidding me? You know that everyone can tell whenever I'm trying to keep a secret. Plus, how are you two even going to do this. You're only 17 and he's only 18," Phoebe said. Once again, Piper and Mike just stared at her.
"I don't know," Piper replied.
"Well, you better figure it out. Piper, you're pregnant!" Phoebe practically yelled the last part. Just like last year, everyone else came running into the room.
"I heard you say that someone is pregnant," Prue said. She was visiting for today, along with Pat. They were both standing next to each other near their grandparents.
"What, who's pregnant?" Grams asked. Phoebe just looked at Piper, before mouthing 'I'm sorry.' She watched at Piper started to shake her head, begging Phoebe not to tell.
"Why don't you ask Piper?" Phoebe said, the anger still in her voice.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Patrick exclaimed. Piper and Mike stood there, silent. "Oh, what, now you don't have anything to say?" Pat asked. "You know what, get out of here," he added. He stood there, in front of his sister and her boyfriend, seething.
"You can't tell me what to do," Piper said. He could slowly see the anger coming into her red, puffy eyes. But, this time he was not going to back down. "What gives any of you the right to tell me what to do? You don't live here anymore so you really don't get a say in this," Piper said, her confidence rising as she spoke to both Patrick and Prue. "You're not my father, you can't tell me what to do," she said, knowing that that would strike a cord in him. "Get out of my face," Piper added as she looked back at Pat.
"I'm not going anywhere," he said back, as he slightly toward over her. This caused Mike to get involved. He let go of Piper's hand and pushed Pat away.
"She told you to get out of her face," he said to Pat, his fatherly instincts taking over already. Pat looked up at Mike from where he was on the ground, completely shocked by what just happened. Out of the whole almost 2 years that he had been dating Piper they had never laid a hand on each other and had acted that way toward each other. Pat got off the ground and walked away, but not before giving both Piper and Mike a disgusted look.
"Piper, are you really pregnant?" Grams asked. Piper just looked at her, already calm from what just happened.
"I don't know Grams, I think that I am. I took 4 pregnancy tests and they all came out positive. Mike and I were about to leave for the free clinic to see if I am. But then this happened," Piper replied, before feeling Mike grab her hand again. Her grandfather just stood there, speechless.
"Well," he started, "If you are, which I hope those tests were wrong, then I'm sure Mike will do the right thing." This caused Piper to look at him shocked.
"What?" she asked.
"You heard me," Allen replied. He was caught off guard with a hug from Piper. Even though he more than angry right now, he really didn't want to have the same thing happen to him that just happened to Patrick. He knew that Mike had played on the football team and really didn't want to get hurt by him.
"Thank you," Piper said. Allen just hugged her back. After they had broken the hug, Mike and Piper had left and that's when the arguing had started between everyone.
About an hour later, Piper and Mike walked back through the front door. How were they going to deal with this? What was he going to tell his family? What was she going to say? Even though her grandfather had said this, she knew that they all wanted it to be negative. What was going to happen at school? How were they going to deal with becoming parents? They had just now accepted the fact that Piper was indeed pregnant, how were they going to accept everything else to come?