Sky had kissed Junior goodbye, and she was currently headed to her first class of the day. Which happened to be the class they all took together. Sky was definitely in denial about her situation. She definitely didn't want to think about how there is a baby growing in her stomach. It doesn't even feel real to her yet, she just wants everything to stay the same. Sky was seated next to her sister, and they all were chatting around laughing about the joke Jazz played on Doug.
"All right, all you all laugh now, but you wouldn't be laughing if you got a picture like that with no context" Doug snaps at them, causing the group to erupt in laughter once again.
"Dude, just say it. She got you" Aaron chuckles, and Doug rolls his eyes
"I just know, that I have no idea what I would've done if it were real" Doug sighs, Sky and Jazz's smile fades as they remember that they did not tell the boys and Nomi, that the test was Sky's and is completely real.
"I mean, Jazz I love you, but I still have so much I want to do before I have kids" Doug states, and Aaron nods in agreement.
"Yeah! I feel like we all have so much, we want to accomplish before having babies" Aaron adds talking to the entire group "Like the obvious one, graduate and get our degree"
"Travel" Doug adds
"Be financially stable" Vivek adds
"Accomplish our goals" Aaron adds
"Find love" Nomi adds surprising everyone. "What? I know I come off as this playgirl, but I do want to settle down one day" She admits to everyone. Sky slowly distances herself from the conversation, because it was bumming her out. Obviously she knows she's going to miss out on many things, but Sky hasn't even really dealt with the full troubles and worries that come with being pregnant in college. She's currently in denial, and knows what she's accepts what is happening to her it will all feel real. Zoey noticing Sky's energy go down,
"But things don't always happen the way you plan them" Zoey pipes in. "With Doug being blindsided with a picture of a pregnancy test, is similar to the way life can blindside you"
"Yeah, although we may have a plan for our lives, there's always a chance of life getting in the way for that plan" Ana adds. They all nod in agreement.
Junior got home from Sky's place, and he walked into the house. He snuck up to his room, and quickly showered and got dressed for work. He quietly went down the stairs, and peeked to see if anyone was in the kitchen. Happily, no one was there so Junior begins to make some breakfast for himself. He cracks the egg on the frying pan, and seasons it while it was sizzling.
Grandpa Earl walks into in the kitchen, and Junior internally sighed and rolled his eyes. Earl took at seat at the countertop. There was an awkward silence, with the sizzling of the eggs as background noise.
Pops breaks the silence. "Grandson, I remember when I first found out Ruby was pregnant. "I thought damn, now I'm stuck with her" Junior cracks a smile and shakes his head.
"I know you scared, for what's to come but just know I ain't disappointed in ya. It's life" Pops shrugs and sips his bourbon.
"Thanks Pops, it's comforting to know, you have my back" Junior informs Pops, and Earl shrugs it off. "I honestly don't even know what to do now. I know I got 9 months before the baby gets here, but what do I do before then?" Junior asks
"The pregnancy ain't none of your business. All that matters is when the baby is out of your baby mama. It's easier this way" Earl advises, and Junior nods his head in understanding.
"Well, at least I know how to take care of a baby after it's born" Junior smirks referencing how well he took care of Devónte. Pops nods his head in agreement. "Grandpa I'm so relieved I can talk to you about this, because yesterday when Sky showed me that stick that told her she was pregnant, I didn't know what to do next, and I still don't" Junior sighs
"Wait, you mean to tell me, you let your girl tell you that you are going to be a father after only one test?" Earl questions, and Junior nods his.
Earl sighs "I blame your father for you lack of knowledge" He shakes his head "Boy, you've got to go to the doctor to confirm if she's pregnant. It's just basic facts" Junior perks up.
"You're right!" Junior picks up his phone, and texts Sky fast.
"I know I'm right, and those pregnant tests can be wrong sometimes. On top of that she could be trying to trap you, son!" Earl adds. Ruby walks into the kitchen and adds "Your grandfather, is right. These fast ass girl's, trying to trap men into relationships. I've seen all too many times" Ruby sighs
"She wouldn't do that, we were just friends" Junior tells his pops
"Which is why she would tell you she's pregnant. To change the status of y'all relationship" Ruby states, Junior shakes his head
Sky was done with classes for the day, and heads to Chic-fil-a for lunch, with her sister and Zoey. Sky orders her food, and sits in a booth with Zoey and Jazz. They all dig in, especially Sky. She had been craving their spicy chicken sandwich all day.
"So what's going on with you and Junior?" Jazz asks Sky bluntly, obviously still disturbed from this morning.
"We're friends" Sky responds not looking away from her sandwich.
"You sleep with all of your friends?" Zoey snaps back at Sky.
"Um, no. Just Junior. Guys we don't have a label, and neither of us want one. We like what we are doing currently, no need to complicate things with something as trivial as a label" Sky informs her girls
"Well, you do have a label now" Zoey says matter of a factly. Sky looks up confused " Baby mama, and Baby Daddy" Zoey smirks, and Sky frowns.
"I can't believe Zoey and I are going to be aunties" Jazz comments
"Yeah, now I have 2 new sisters. The fam is getting huge" Zoey chuckles. Sky looks down to check her phone, she had gotten a test message from Junior several hours ago. It was talking about going to the doctor to confirm, if she was pregnant. Sky herself was kind of relieved that there could be a possibility that she's not pregnant, but also going to doctor could make everything more real.
Sky starts crying. Which is 100% abnormal for her. Jazz and Zoey stop giggling and get serious.
"Oh my god, Sky, Jazz and I were only joking around" Zoey says trying to make Sky understand
"Yeah, we were trying to make light of a hard situation, that's all" Jazz adds, and Sky starts sobbing now. The people sitting in the tables and booth around them, turn over and look at them.
Sky continues to sob. Jazz scoots closer to Sky, and Zoey walks around the booth to sit next to Sky and embrace her.
"Sky why are you crying?" Jazz asks gently. Sky tries to calm down enough to answer her question.
"Junior asked me when we're going to the doctor to confirm" Sky sniffles. "Then it all hit me at once, that I'm potentially going to have a baby. Then earlier today was talking about having a kid getting the way of goals, and dreams. I definitely still want to accomplish, but now that's all in jeopardy. Another thing, I still have to tell dad, and I know he and the entire community are going to be so disappointed in me. Also, I don't know if I'll lose my athletic scholarship from this. On top of that I'm so emotional, from the stupid hormones that come with being pregnant" Sky sobs, now into Zoey's chest, from her embrace. Jazz rubs her back in circles, comforting her.
Sky sits up from Zoey's chest, and wipes her tears. She looks over to Zoey and then to Jazz, and she starts laughing. Zoey and Jazz nervously laugh with Sky at first, and then the full blown belly laugh.
"Damn, Sky you scared me. I ain't never seen you cry before" Zoey chuckles
"I know! I really scared myself, I need to get ahold of my emotions. Because crying in public, now that's embarrassing" Sky states
"It's definitely going to be a struggle, I remember when my mom was pregnant with Devante, she cried at everything. So get really for the next months filled with super high hormones" Zoey informs her.
"Great" Sky sighs
"I almost started crying with you. I haven't seen you cry like that, since ashy-backed Gerald cheated" Jazz says, Sky laughs
"Did you have to bring up ashy-backed Gerald" Sky sighed
"Remember when we tagged teamed on his ass after he broke your heart. One of our best moments" Jazz smiles and Zoey looked a little frightened. Sky laughs at that memory. Sky's phone buzzes from a text message. She picks it up and it was a message from Rodney.
You want to meet at Titanium's?
Sky's eyes widen. She completely forgot about this dude.
"Is it Junior again? What'd he say?" Jazz asks after seeing the look on Sky's face.
"It's not Junior, it's Rodney" Sky tells them while thinking about how to respond.
"Rodney? Who's that?" Jazz asks confused
"He's a guy, I meet at our party. He didn't pay the $20 cover charge, so he wanted to make it up to me by taking me on a date" Sky sighs
"And you said yes to that? How corny?" Jazz frowns
"Don't judge, I was a little drunk and it was cute in the moment" Sky defends
"So what are you going to do?" Zoey asks
"I'm going to go on the date, what do you mean?" Sky says
"Sky you're pregnant, don't you think he'd like to know that?" Zoey says
"It's not his business, and besides it's just one date. It's no big deal" Sky says, Jazz snatches Sky's phone and reads the text messages.
"This boy wants to take you out for drinks" Jazz points out
"Yeah, and..." Sky responds
"You're pregnant, you can not be drinking at all" Jazz says
"All my drinks can be virgin, no big deal" Sky sighs
"What about my brother?" Zoey asks
"Like I told you before, we're just FRIENDS" Sky states, frustrated
"Can we just leave?" Sky pleads to the girls, they nod in agreement, and take their food to-go.
Junior gets back from work, he walks into the kitchen to get a snack and Rainbow and Andre are in the kitchen talking. He tries to back up and get out of there, but they see him, and call him back into the kitchen.
"Junior, have a seat" Rainbow gestures to the chair by the countertop. Junior sits down
"Look I get that our reaction was not ideal" Bow starts off. "But you have to understand it, for what it was... a reaction. It's not how we actually feel" Bow says gently
"Speak for yourself. I'm very disappointed, I mean I'm glad you got yourself a girlfriend. But come on, I've always told you to wrap it up. To avoid mistakes like these! Come on, son!" Andre exclaims
"She's not my girlfriend, we're just friends" Junior says coolly. Bow gasps, Andre looks up, and tears well up in his eyes.
"Could it be true? My son having a baby mama, that is just his baby mama. No feelings attached? I've created a replica of my father. What have I done?"
"Dre. Relax. And Junior does she think y'all are just friends" Bow asks trying to make sure her son isn't a player
"Yes she does! No labels, just friends" Junior states
"Friends who get each other into situations, that they can't handle" Andre huffs
"I know! Grandpa said that we have to make sure that she actually is pregnant. Because those sticks are sometimes wrong" Junior tells his parents
"Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate. If she took one, and it said pregnant. She's pregnant. Period. Junior you should've been more careful" Bow informs him.
"Well we still need to go to the doctor" Junior says
"I'll set up an appointment for you guys, with my OB" Bow sighs, Junior smiles and kisses his mom on the cheek.
"Thanks mom" with that Junior goes up to his room.
"Bow you're enabling him" Andre exclaims
"Dre, that baby is going to be our grandchild. I'm not enabling I'm ensuring that the baby is okay" Bow says, Andre was about to respond when Ruby walks in
"What's all this y'all about grandchildren?" Ruby asks
"We were talk about OUR grandchild-" Bow emphasizes our, referring to herself and Andre.
"-and your GREAT- grandchild" Bow teases. Ruby glares at her
"So what are we going to do about this, Dre?" Ruby asks
"If this girl, is having Juniors baby. I mean there's not much we can do about that" Andre shrugs
"I meant about Rainbow" Ruby grumbles, Ana Bow sighs in annoyance.
Sky was in the living room, on texting Junior.
How do you set up a doctors appointment?
Ana runs into the living room, where Sky was. Sky looks up at her, from the couch. "What?" She asks confused as to why Ana rushed into the living room.
"I was on Twitter just now, and you are trending meme. Why were you crying?" Ana tells Sky, then shows Sky all of the hilarious tweets using a video of Sky balling her eyes out, with the chicken sandwich in her hand.
Chicken sandwich so good, brought a bitch to tears
When he picks up the phone, when he's alone😂
When you have one week to change your D to an A, but you've barely been to class all semester
Sky giggles at some of the tweets, but she is mostly horrified that someone recorded her and posted it.
"I blame myself" Sky sighs
"What even happened? Why were you crying?" Ana giggles
"Pregnancy hormones" Sky responds, and Ana understands. Jazz and Zoey come out of their room, and meet up with everyone in the living.
"Y'all seen these tweets" Jazz says shocked at what she's reading.
"Yo, Sky you are blowing up. These funny as so funny. Although it was so wrong for someone to record you, like they deadass should've minded their own business. But damn, Twitter is having a field day with this" Zoey says as she continues to scroll through tweets.
"I need a drink" Sky sighs as she heads to the kitchen. Zoey, Ana, and Jazz all gasp.
"You can't drink any alcohol" Ana pipes up.
"I know, I'm getting some juice. Although I wish I could have a glass of wine" Sky grumbles, Zoey follows her to the kitchen, and sits by the countertop.
"So what's re you going to do about your anxiety about going to the doctor?" Zoey follows up, Sky closes the fridge and turns toward Zoey.
"Well, Junior said Bow was going to set up the doctors appointment for us, but that also means she's coming with us. I don't think I want to meet your mother this way. But then again, I don't even have the guts to face my own father, let alone y'all parents" Sky pours her juice into her glass.
"Yeah, my mom can be a lot. And that's just putting it lightly, don't even get me started on my dad. He's a handful" Zoey informs Sky, definitely not easing her anxiety.
"But I'm sure they'll love you as soon as they meet you" Ana chimes in seeing how Zoey was not doing a good job at making Sky feel better.
"If you and Junior are just friends, who just 'hung out'-" Jazz puts air quotations around "hung out". "-over the summer, how come neither of you ever meet y'all's parents? Considering Junior still lives with his parents, and you stayed with our parents all summer" Jazz pipes in, while walking into the kitchen, secretly annoying Sky.
"We never ran into them, when we were hanging out. And I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want to have run into us, if we were ever 'hanging out' in the house." Sky puts air quotation marks on "hanging out" and smirks at her sister cringing, and Zoey fake throwing up.
"That is an image I do not want in my head, ever" Zoey heaves. Sky rolls her eyes at how they are being so dramatic, and puts the juice back in the fridge.
"Here's an idea. Why don't you take Junior with you when you tell your dad the news, that way it'll be easier for you. Then when you meet the Johnson's it won't be so bad, because you and Junior have already dealt with a situation like that before" Ana advises, Zoey nods her head agreeing with Ana's idea.
"What? No way, that's a terrible idea. Our father would eat Junior up, and then spit him back out" Jazz says
"Maybe, Daddy will appreciate him coming to him, man to man" Sky tries to support Ana's idea
"I don't know. Remember when Dad took down my Insta page just because he knew boys were stalking my page. I'm not sure how he'll react to the man who impregnated his daughter" Jazz states frankly, Sky sees her point
"Yeah, Jazz is right. I can't have Junior with me when I first tell my dad. I'll just have to do it on my own" Sky sighs
"You won't be alone, I'm going with you" Jazz reassures Sky, and walks around the countertop and embraces her