Here it is, chapter 7, a million apologies for how long this has taken but I have just been through the craziest few months of my life, but I am now back and writing more than ever.

If you like this story/ chapter please R&R! Constructive criticism is most welcome

Much thanks K G-P xx

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Babies by Tony Head

A baby in a restaurant
So tiny her head fit into her father's hand
And as he looked into her eyes she smiled
Not bothered by the loudness of the live rock n' roll band
And as I watched them both I longed to cradle you in my arms again
All I could really think of was
That I longed to hold my babies
A little later that same night
A child of eight or nine entered the dining room
She had the pale, poetic grace [of the age
She was so tired she could hardly keep her eyes from closing
And as I watched her older sister lay her down between two chairs to
Sleep
All that I was thinking was
That I wanted to hold my babies
Looking at photographs
Watching you grow before my eyes
Remembering the moments the instant
Before the camera saw them
And as I smile at all the times we shared, I'm reminded of all the in between
Christ, how I miss you, both then and now, my babies
I longed to hold you in my arms, to know you're by my side
To feel your little hands in mine, to look into trusting eyes
I longed to be your Daddy, felt guilty for not being there for you
Oh, how I miss you, my babies

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Bridget Squeezed her mom one last time and went upstairs after Kerry.

Cate was absolutely dumbstruck. Her little care-bear, pregnant at sixteen. Kerry had always seemed to grown up, smart, mature, she hated to think it but she'd always assumed that if one of her girls got pregnant at a young age it would've been Bridget.

As she sat, staring at this impossible child in a grainy picture, she thought of Paul. What would he say to this? This would probably have been his worst nightmare. He'd always been so protective of the girls, would Kerry have even dared to do what she did if he'd been around. Was she herself to blame?

Cate had to force herself to remember that Kerry was her own person, she couldn't be rained in and that in truth that's something she admired in her baby girl. And now her baby girl was gonna have a baby girl of her own.

She thought of Bridget and Kyle's Home-Ec project where they had to look after a sack of flour as if it were a real baby. She remembered how Bridget had joked that no one would want her if she was walking around with is 'sack of flour'. So many things were gonna change for Kerry now, in fact nothing would be the same.

This Bruno guy had better be there for her…..hold on, Kerry hasn't seen Bruno in months…….Who was the father!! Had Kerry turned into the town bike?!!If it wasn't Bruno then that left……….Kyle?………Ky..le………..KYLE!! The realisation hit Cate hard. They'd been dating since a few weeks after Kerry came back from Europe. Kerry had been going to more parties with Kyle, often coming back after Bridget and looking rather the worse for wear. Was it then that she'd snuck over to Kyle's, had sex with him and come home once she'd had enough?

She continued to stare at the sonogram. Hundreds of thoughts, dozens of emotions running through her. It was then that Rory came down the stairs and walked over to his mom on the couch. He looked over at the picture and broke the silence that seemed to have lasted for hours.

'Cool picture. Who is it? Me, Bridget or Kerry?' asked Rory as he reached for the remote.

'none of the above I'm afraid'

'who is it then?' Rory pushed, Cate did not reply. 'Mom, are you, I mean you can't be, are you?' he asked with a quizzical look on his face.

'No Rory I'm not pregnant' said Cate softly

'Then who's the kid in the picture' said Rory, not quite understanding his mother's reluctance to be the one that told him Kerry was having a baby.

'You sure you wanna know?' she asked him

'well yeah that's why I asked like twenty million times' he retorted in a sarcastic manner.

'It's Kerry's, that Rory, is your future neice'

'Kerry's pregnant' said Rory, half shocked, half disgusted at the thought that Kerry was apparently gettin' some.

'Yeah, crazy huh, I've been sat here trying to think this all through. I honestly do not know what we're gonna do' she said in a tired tone.

'Who's the father' asked Rory, anger starting to show on his young face

just then the doorbell rang, Rory got up to answer it, he saw Kyle through the peephole and opened the door.

'I have my suspicions' said Cate, looking directly at Kyle, Rory saw this accusation and turned his head rapidly between Kyle and his mom, reaching the same conclusion she had, and then turned and smashed his fist as hard as he could into Kyle's face, knocking him to the ground.

Stunned, Kyle put his hand to his lip and yelled at Rory, 'What the hell was that for!"

Rory screamed back at him, 'that's for what you've done to my sister!'

'What! What did I do to Kerry!'

Rory was about to explain to the apparently oblivious Kyle when Cate stepped in and stoped Rory from blabbing.

'You'll find out soon enough Kyle, I'm sure of it. You'd better go upstairs and see Kerry'

With this a rather angry and confused looking Kyle went upstairs and knocked on the girls' bedroom door.

A tearful, 'come in' sounded from inside the room and Kyle nervously walked in to see Kerry sitting on her bed hugging a large pillow, Bridget sitting on the edge of her own bed facing Kerry.

Bridget got up from her bed and headed for the door, Kyle turned to look at her, 'i'll leave you two to it' she said as she left the room to check on her mom.

'Hi' said Kyle as he walked over to the bed and gave Kerry a quick kiss on the cheek before sitting down next to her and wiping his bleeding lip again.

'Oh my god! Kyle what happened!' said Kerry as she saw his lip and leaned over to take a look.

'Rory happened' said Kyle, wincing just a little as Kerry moved her fingers around the cut. 'He seemed really mad about something, said I'd done something to you. You are okay right?'

Kerry gave him a little smile and said 'Yes Kyle I'm okay, in fact I'm a little too okay'

'What? I don't understand' said kyle, his typically gormless look on his face.

'Kyle, I don't want you to get mad okay, I couldn't have told you earlier 'cos I only found out for sure today'

'Okay'

Kerry took a deep breath

'Kyle I'm pregnant'

'You're………..'

'Yeah………….'

'Wow'

'Yeah'…

'When……….uh I mean……..uh…….when is it due'

'I don't know yet'

'Oh'

Kyle just sat there in silence for a while before leaning back against the wall.

'I'll have to get a better job now, buy a crib and clothes and stuff. You wanna go to the mall?'

'What?' said Kerry, more than a little thrown by this. Of all the things she had expected Kyle to say this wasn't anywhere even close. 'Why the mall?' she continued, tucking some stray hair behind her ear.

'Well there's this new movie out that I wanted to see, I figured we could make a date of it. And I really have to go to the bookstore. I know I took that health class last year but I really wasn't paying attention and if you're having my baby then I wanna know exactly what's going on.'

Kerry was really proud of her man, 'Right, that's actually a really smart idea Kyle'

'Well I have my moments.'

Kerry smiled and for the first time that day started to relax.

'I love you' said Kerry, relieved at how well he'd taken this life-altering news.

'I love you too'.