Well helloooooooooooooooooooooooo folks, long time no see forreal. Wow, its been basically a year since I last updated and two since I started. Talk about slacking...Im sorry. Anyway, enjoy this and I'll see you at the bottom.

For the next few weeks Stacie went about her business as best she could trying to hold herself up even though inside she was crumbling. In a matter of a few months a friend had become someone that she thought she could spend the rest of her life with to someone that she couldn't even be in the same room with for more than five minutes. She couldn't look at Aubrey without getting emotional, she couldn't hear her voice without wanting to breakdown, it was all too much. Their breakup was unlike any other breakup and the fact that she had pregnancy hormones on top of that was all too much for her. Aubrey's words often haunted Stacie in her sleep, she couldn't come to terms with the fact that one minute Aubrey loved her as a significant other and then suddenly it turned to sisterly love. It didn't make sense to Stacie and it never would.

As Stacie sat at the coffee shop on her phone trying to distract herself from her own thoughts as usual she felt a presence standing across from her. When she looked up she saw James standing in front of her with flowers and a warm smile. "James…what are you doing here?" she questioned setting her phone down.

James handed the flowers over to her as he stood there timidly rocking back and forth on his heels. "These are for you, and well I came to see you. I figured if you weren't at your dorm, hopefully you'd be here."

"Thank you, this is sweet." Stacie responded as she took the flowers and set them aside for a second. "So you just came here to bring me flowers?"

James rubbed the back of his neck for a second as he slowly shook his head. "Not exactly, I came here to ask if you wanted to have dinner with me tonight?"

Stacie was quiet for a moment. While she appreciated the flowers and the invite she wasn't sure how up for she really was. However it would be good for her to get out and hopefully keep Aubrey off her mind for a night. "I…I'd like that. What time?"

"Great, I'll pick you up at seven. But for now, I gotta jet to class." He smiled and waved before leaving the shop.

Later that night at dinner

Stacie would have never imagined that she'd be out having a dinner date with a man that drugged her and also happened to be the father of her baby. The two had hung out before just the two of them but tonight's vibes were different. He was acting a little different towards her. Ever since the incident he had been trying to apologize and make up for it by doing things for her and it got to a point where she was over what he did and was ready to move on especially when the Aubrey thing had happened. Ever since her breakup with Aubrey he was there for her and he had been there for her since the beginning of the pregnancy to begin with. She knew that he was attracted to her or else he never would have tried to get with her at the party but now it seemed like he was making moves.

"So, how've you been feeling? Not too bad I hope." James asked.

Stacie shrugged her shoulders trying to think of a proper response. "I've been alright, nothing I can't handle. And you?"

"I've been good, no reason why I shouldn't be. I'm more concerned with you."

"You are? And why is that? I mean I know I'm pregnant with our child but I've never seen a man so 'concerned'. Then again I've never needed a man to be concerned like this."she thought out loud.

He placed his fork down for a moment as he looked Stacie in the eyes. "I just want to make sure you're ok. You've been through a lot. I want you to know that I'm here for you whether its baby related or not."

Stacie couldn't hide the smile that was creeping across her face, his words just happened to make her feel warm inside. "That's really sweet of you James, and I appreciate that a lot."

"Of course Stac. I know you just got out of a relationship but I do hope that maybe one day we could give us a try, you know? For the baby's sake. If it doesn't work, at least we can say we tried and just remain friends and co-parent."

"Oh.."Stacie dropped her head for a second as she looked down at her plate and then back up at him. "I..well, I can't give you a definite answer for that because I don't know when I'm going to be over Aubrey but I'll think about." She responded though the thought of being with him or anyone else hadn't crossed her mind and she wasn't sure when that would happen. As the rest of the date went on the idea stayed in Stacie's mind for some reason. She wanted this baby to have two parents, which it was going to but she wanted it to have two parents that were together whether that was James or whoever. Who was she not to at least give her baby the chance of that.

A couple weeks later

Stacie was laying on her bed as she waited for James to come by so they could go the doctors appointment as well as hangout afterwards. The best way she knew how to get over a breakup was to get under someone new however that couldn't happen for multiple reasons: one she was pregnant and didn't want to explain her baby bump to her temporary hook up and two the only person she wanted to be under was Aubrey despite the fact that she broke her heart. So she thought why not spend time with the father of her child in hopes of maybe building a relationship there. Normally she was excited to hangout with people because she hated being alone but today was different. She regretted asking James to hangout because now she wasn't feel the greatest. Her back had been aching more than normal and while she knew that would occur with the pregnancy she didn't think it would happen until her bump got bigger. On top of that she had a lot of abdominal pain and cramps. She was used to cramps but even when she had her period, it wasn't this bad. All she wanted to do now was lay around and eat but she had no food. Perhaps it was a good thing that James was coming, she only hoped he'd be willing to take care of her after the appointment. As she wallowed in her discomfort she heard the a knock on the door and slowly but surely got up and opened it to let James in. "Hey, thanks for coming."she smiled before turning away and placing one hand on her lower back as she walked to her bed and sat down.

"No problem,"he began but paused as he noticed her sudden care in her back. "Your back hurt? I can give you that massage if you want."he offered.

Stacie smiled at his offer. "Thanks but that's ok, I'm fine. Plus we need to get to that appointment."she said as she stood back up trying to put on a smile. "But afterwards, mister I expect it."

"You got it."He smiled back and then opened the door to leave.

At the Doctor's office (Stacie's Pov)

As I laid back in chair waiting patiently for the doctor to begin the exam, my heart felt as if it was beating a thousand beats per minute which probably wasn't good for me or the baby but I couldn't help it. Being at the doctor was already not my favorite place to be and coming for the baby didn't make me anymore fond of it. Nonetheless it was something I had to do. As I finally felt the cold gel touch my bare skin, shivers went down my spine, I thought that was the worst part by far. You would think they'd invest in some warm gel. At this point though, warm gel was the least of my worries, all I wanted to do was hear the heartbeat of my baby and then maybe mine would slow down a bit. These 21 weeks had flown by which was good and bad. I wasn't ready to blow up like a balloon quite yet but it still happened.

It was taking longer than normal for the doctor to get the heartbeat as I noticed her moving the probe around more frequently than before. I tried to tell myself not to worry and that everything was fine but when the doctor said that she wanted to do an ultrasound because she was having trouble and had an idea of what might be going on, I got worried. When it came time for the ultrasound all I could was sit there in silence and hope for the best. Talking wasn't an option because I was way too nervous to be understood and I had no idea what to say anyway.

Meanwhile at the Posen/Beale residence (back to normal)

"But that just doesn't make sense."Beca sighed shaking her head.

"I know Becs, I know. But its not your relationship so it doesn't need to make sense to you." Chloe said trying to make some sense of explanation to her girlfriend.

Beca scrunched her face and sighed again. "That won't stop me though. You can't just be a lesbian one day and then next say jk I'm straight the next. Or if you are going to do that then don't fuck with people's feelings."

"I know but there's no point in working yourself up over it. Aubrey is a hard person to understand. Its over though, there's nothing we can do about it, its been weeks." Chloe shrugged. "But let's not talk about this anymore, Aubrey will be home any minute and I don't want her to walk in on this."

"You're right but Stacie is a nice person, I don't think she deserved what happened."

While the two continued to talk the topic of Aubrey and Stacie's relationship died off but not before Aubrey had heard what both of them had to say. As she stood behind the wall in the next room, she contemplated. She contemplated her own thoughts, their thoughts and just her life in general. She couldn't lie, life without Stacie was different and she it wasn't a good different. She missed the other girls presence as friend especially and if she could get that back, then maybe she'd start to feel better. With that, she took out her phone and sent Stacie a text. She figured a call was too much and face to face would be hard to do considering the circumstances.

Back at the hospital (Stacie's pov)

I was now in the room by myself and had been there by myself for some time now. I couldn't get myself to move just yet and the doctor had assured me that I could stay there as long as I needed. How could I bring myself to move and go about my day knowing that my life was going to change yet again because I was no longer having a baby. Well, to be politically correct and according the doctor I would still have to have the baby but it was no longer alive. I had to pick a time to go through with the birth despite the fact that I wasn't getting a baby out of it. The doctor said that my body needed to go through the after birth recovery still and that was the only way to induce it. I wanted to cry, scream, cry some more, and a lot of other things but I couldn't because my I had done all that when I lost Aubrey. My emotions were still very raw and to have this news on top of it was all too much for me to handle so instead I just sat there staring at the ceiling. I did so until I heard my phone notification go off. I figured it was probably James asking if I was ready. Seeing as I needed to let him know that I was going to need more time, I picked up the phone and as I saw the name on the screen my heart almost stopped. It was a text from the one and only Aubrey Posen.

Soooooooooo, like I said above I'm dearly sorry for leaving you all hanging. I know that must have really sucked. I was going to just write an alternative ending so it'd be over in this chapter but I read the reviews you guys left and it motivated me to continue. You guys are really great, I love the feedback. I never expected for people to like it this much but I am happy that you guys do. Its been so long I don't know if people are even still around to read this but if you are, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look out for the next cause its about to get good!

sidenote: If at any point, there are triggering things for you please let me know and I'll try to find different things to use etc.