Lydia flipped through the three month old News Week as she waited in the student's health clinic. She couldn't even remember the last time she'd gone to the doctor and she just felt irritated that she promised Meghan that she would.

The doctor had her do a few tests just to make sure she didn't have something more serious and now she was just waiting for the results. She put down the magazine when the doctor walked back in, his head bent down looking at her file.

"Congratulations." He said before looking up and pushing his glasses farther up the bridge of his nose.

"About what? I don't have a virus?"

"No, Miss Deetz you're with child." He said. It took a few moments before she fully comprehended what he was telling her.

"I'm pregnant? No, that can't be possible." Her mind was racing.

"Well I suspect that you're not a virgin are you Miss Deetz?"

"Obviously." She said now offended and scared.

"Well sometime around the beginning of October did you have unprotected sex?" Lydia never even considered using something with Beetlejuice.

"Well then I can assure you that it is definitely possible Miss Deetz." He drawled out.

"I need to go." She surged up feeling sick. She'd been pregnant for almost two months and didn't know it? She felt horrible that she hadn't been sleeping and eating right and now she knew that it wasn't just her that it was happening to.

The full force of it didn't hit her until she came back into her dorm room and Meghan asked how the doctors visit went. Now what? How was she going to tell everyone? Meghan would understand, but her parents? They would demand to know who the father was and how was she going to tell Beetlejuice? He didn't even believe she loved him and now she was carrying their child. She felt miserable and very alone.

"Lydia you need to tell me what the doctor said right now?" Meghan said worried out of her mind.

"I'm pregnant." She whispered so low that Meghan had to bend over to hear her.

"No, seriously? Wow," She was floored. "Wow, Lyds this is really heavy."

"I know Meg, I don't know what I am going to do." Lydia put her head in her hands.

"Well do you want to keep it?" Meghan asked cautiously. Lydia slowly lifted her head out of her hands and looked at her. She hadn't considered that. Abortion? Even thinking about it sounded disgusting and vile.

"Of course I am going to keep him or her." She said narrowing her eyes.

"All right, sorry I asked. I was just curious. I know a lot of girls who have had an 'accident' sort to speak and have done it."

"Well I'm not one of them. Look, I'm going to out for a walk. I need to figure out what I'm going to do." When Meghan only nodded Lydia walked out of the room pulling on her gloves and scarf.

Lydia knew what would happen with her parents. They would cry and scream, ask her how this happened and then her father would continue to avoid her and Delia would give her that condescending look of hers. What worried her more than anything was how she was going to tell Beetlejuice. She felt the ruby around her neck, she never took it off. She knew that she would have to tell him, there wouldn't be any real way of avoiding it. Finals would be over soon and her parents expected her as soon as they were over. She unconsciously touched her stomach through her coat and smiled. She was growing a child in her and despite everything that felt pretty good.

"Well I guess this is it." Meghan said the next week when they were packing up to leave. Lydia finished zipping up her suitcase and sat on the bare bed.

"Yeah what a semester huh?" Lydia said giving a half of a smile. Her roommate smiled at her and bent down to give her a hug.

"Living with you was definitely an adventure and I'm glad that we were roommates."

"I am too. You're a good friend Meg." Lydia said giving her a hug back. "If I don't come back to school, for whatever reason, I'll keep in touch"

"You'd better." Meghan squeezed her one last time and waved before she walked out the door. Lydia sighed and looked around the room. It looked like a regular dorm room. Who would have thought that so much had happened in an average room? She wouldn't miss this room, but she would miss Meghan. She got up from the bed and turned off the lights before shutting the door to go home.