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"Ok, then. JoJo, Ned really wasn't your father. Your real father's name is Kevin Barker."

"W-what? You're kidding me, right?", JoJo said in disbelief. Everyone, but Sally, had their mouth open in disbelief. She shook her head to say no.

"How did this happen?", Valerie muttered to no one in particular.

"Well, Ned and I never went out. We were just best friends. In high school, I was going out with Kevin Barker."

xX-Flashback-Xx

A sixteen year old Sally was sitting on a park bench, reading a book. She placed the book next to her, so she could put her hair up. Just then a sixteen year old boy came up behind her and covered her eyes with his hand. She took his hands away and looked behind her. The boy had black shaggy hair and hazel colored eyes. He wore a green shirt and a black hoodie with blue jeans.

"Hey, beautiful.", he said as he plopped down next to her.

"Hey Kevin", she greeted. He put his arm around her shoulder and looked toward to the left to see a sixteen year old Ned, just with black hair, running toward them.

"Hey took you long enough."

"Hey, that race wasn't fair. I was caught at a stoplight.", Ned said.

"You could have ran across the street. Simple."

"Yeah, and get squished on the pavements."

"Hey if you die, can I have your stuff?"

"Depends. First come, first serve."

"Everywho for themselves!", Sally laughed, followed by her two of her best friends.

xX-Flashback ends-Xx

"We were really good friends. Ned and Kevin were as close as brothers, no one could ever understand how they could be enemies.", Sally continued. "Everything was perfect, but we just had to fuck it up. Pardon my language. We were so damn stupid."

xX-Flashback-Xx

Sally sat her couch in the living room waiting for Kevin to arrive. Life was good, really good. Tonight was Prom and also a night for celebrating. Kevin was accepted into the collage of his dreams at Whereville. Ned was also accepted into Who U, where he always wanted to go. And for Sally, she had the best boyfriend, she could ever had. After a few minutes, a knock was heard at the door. Sally got up and went to it. She saw Kevin, leaning on the door frame, Ned and May, a close friend of theirs, standing behind him. Ned and Kevin wore almost the same exact suit just different color ties. May wore a purple knee-length dress with her brown hair in a bun.

"Hey, guys. Let me just tell my parents, I'm leaving.", Sally told her three friends.

"Mom! Dad! I'm going now!", she called out.

"Wait! Lets take some pictures first.", her dad said as he ran to the entrance hall. Sally let out a groan, she doesn't really like pictures. After what seem like a hundred pictures later, the four friends started to leave. They piled into the limo, thanks to Ned's parents, and headed to prom. When they arrived they were victims of more flashing from cameras as they walked into the fancy hotel.

"Hey, babe, I'll be right back. I got go do something.", Kevin said after an hour had past since they arrived.

"Oh, ok.", Sally said as he got up from the table and headed for the lobby. Ten minutes after he left a slow song start to play, it also happen to be her favorite song. Couples started to flood the dance floor, while singles watched them. Just then someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around to see.

"Oh, hey Ned. What's up?", Sally asked. Ned stood behind her, looking nervous and gripping his black tie.

"Umm, well I was wonder do you wa-", he started but then sighed. "Do you know were Kevin is."

Sally shrugged and said, "I don't know. He said he had something to do."

"Oh. I was just wondering doyouwanttodance?", he said in one breath.

"What?"

"He's asking if you want to dance.", May said as she was attempting to make a pyramid with forks, "Go on. I know you want to."

"Well you know, it is one of your favorite songs and I don't really want you to sit this one out. That is unless you want to, which is per-", he was cut off when Sally stood up and put her hand up. She then took his arm and walked over to the dance floor. Ned, hesitantly, put his hands on her waist as she put her arms around his neck. They swayed to the beat of the music as they stared at each other's eyes. A shade of pink creped on Ned's cheeks, this caused Sally to blush a deeper shade of pink. Once the song ended, they headed back to the table to see Kevin talking to May.

"Hey guys.", Ned greeted them as they sat down with them. Sally sat next to Kevin, who was emitting a strong smell that she couldn't put her finger on.

"There you guys are.", Kevin said, "Here, I got you a drink, Sal." He pushed a cup to her direction. She picked it up and took a sip. It tasted funny to her; it had the flavor of fruit punch mixed with some unknown taste. They sat talking and drinking for thirty minutes until Sally started to feel dizzy.

"Sally, you ok? You don't look so good.", Kevin said, sounding concern.

"My head is hurting a little bit.", she said.

"Here, come on. I rented a room; you can rest there for awhile, if you want."

"You rented a room?"

"Yeah, just in case we wanted to be alone. Come on." He stood up and held his hand out. She took it and started to walk to the exit, when Kevin turned back to the table. "Don't wait up.", he told Ned and May. Then they disappeared to the lobby.

xX-Flashback ends-Xx

"What happened?", Zeke asked. He had joined JoJo and Tabby on the floor when he was tired of standing up.

"Lets just say I did things I'm not so proud of that night.", Sally answered, still looking at the floor, "A month past and something was off."

xX-Flashback-Xx

Sally was pacing back and forth in her bedroom as May was sitting down on her bed. She watched as her friend was practically freaking out in front of her.

"You know pacing like that, won't make time go faster. You pacing is going to make you feel time is going slower.", she finally spoke up, "Once you hear the timer go off, you will find out the truth."

"I guess you're right.", Sally said she sat down next to her friend.

"So what are going to do if, you know?"

"I don't really know, but I refuse to get an abortion or give it up for adoption. I want the baby to know his or her parents."

"You put a lot thought into this, huh?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Ever since I woke up and saw him lying down next to me, I keep thinking what I would do in a situation like this."

RIIING!

"The moment of truth."

"Wish me luck." Sally walked back to her bathroom and came back with the test in her hand. Her face looked worried and her eyes were wide.

"So your eggo is preggo, I take it.", May said. Sally slowly nodded her head and threw the test away in the trash. She tore out pieces of paper out of her notebook and threw it on top of it, so no one will see it.

"The pink plus sign is so freakin' unholy." She then dug her head in her pillow as she let out a muffled scream. May rubbed her back to calm her down, which seem to help a little bit.

Ding! Dong!

The two girls looked towards the bedroom door.

"Oh God. Its him.", Sally whispered.

"Are you going to tell him now?" She nodded and headed for the door with May on her trail. "You want me to stay or I could sneak out the window."

"No. Stay, please." She nodded and went to the living room to give them some privacy. Once she got to the door, she opened it and saw Kevin, with his hands in his pockets.

"Hey baby.", he said as he kissed his forehead. She moved to the side to let him through and he walked in.

"I-I need to tell you something.", she said barely over a whisper.

"Sure what is it? I'm all ears." His eyes began to show worry, expecting to hear the worst.

"Kevin, I took a test."

"Oh. How'd you do?" A smile of relief formed on his face, seeing it was probably something little.

"I guess I failed, depending how you look at it."

"What do you mean?"

"It was a pregnancy test and I came up positive." Kevin's mouth hung open in disbelief.

"Y-you sure? You could be late."

"Its been four days, Kev. I even still have the test, I just took it a few minutes ago. You're going to be a father."

"No I'm not."

"W-what do you mean? Yes you are."

"No! Come with me, we're getting you an appointment!" He grabbed her arm and tried to drag her to the door, but she tried to fight it.

"For what?!"

"For an abortion!" Her eyes grew big and she pulled her arm away.

"No! I'm against abortion, you know that!"

"You know how lives are ruined when a teenager gets pregnant! We are practically throwing our life away for this baby!"

"I don't care! I want to keep it!" Kevin lifted his hand up as if to strike her, she closed her eyes and braced for the impact. After a few intense seconds she heard the door slam, she opened her eyes and saw that her so-called 'perfect' boyfriend was no where to be seen and that she was alone. She fell on her knees and started to cry when May came out. She ran to her side and dropped to her knees and hugged her friend.

"Its going to be ok.", she reassured her.

"I hope so.", Sally said through her tears.

xX-Flashback ends-Xx

"Holy shit.", Valerie whispered.

"After that he kept coming back and begging me to go and abort the pregnancy. And every time he ordered me to, I just told him no. Then a month later, he became perfectly fine with it and he told me he was going to take care of the baby. I was relieved that he changed his mind, or so I thought."

xX-Flashback-Xx

Sally and Kevin was sitting on a park bench, hanging out.

"I'm really glad you changed your mind.", Sally said, "You're going to be a great father."

"Thanks. Here I'll go and get us something to eat over there." He pointed over to the convience store just a block down the street, "Anything special you want?"

"Not really, just nothing healthy."

"You sure? You know?" He then pointed to her stomach, a little comfortable talking about it.

"It should be fine."

Five minutes later, Kevin walked back with two cokes and two small bags of chips.

"Here ya go, cutie." He tossed her a bag and handed the bottle.

"I don't know about this. The last time you gave me a drink, I ended like this." She then pointed to her stomach which showed a little bulge.

"Don't worry, I didn't do anything to it this time."

"Well, ok then. I trust you." She opened the bottle with caution, hearing the soda fizz in the bottle, and hesitantly took a sip. Nothing tasted weird about it like last time, so she chugged down more, not realizing how thirsty she was. A minute after she finished the drink, Sally's eyesight started to blur. She saw a creepy smile form on Kevin's face before she blacked out.

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Sally's eyes slowly fluttered open as she tried to figure out her surroundings. She was lying down a somewhat hard bed and in a hospital gown. She saw two men, one young-looking and a middle-age man in a doctor's coat, in front of the bed. She soon realized that they were yelling at each other about something. The room was dimly lit and her eyesight was still a little blurry, so she couldn't really see the face. The voices, now that was a different story. She knew for sure one of the voices belong to Kevin and he sounded pissed off, very pissed off.

"Damn it! You told me just to make an appointment and bring her here! What's the problem, why can't you get on with it already?!"

"Yes I did tell you that, but it doesn't feel right that you brought her unconscious. Now I refuse to do anything without her permission." The younger-looking of the two, who Sally believed was Kevin, grabbed the doctor by the neck and slammed him against the wall.

"Listen hear you piece of shit, do the abortion and I promise you won't get hurt. Don't do it and let's just say, you will regret it."

Abortion? Abortion! Damn how could I be so stupid? He did it again!, she thought to herself.

The doctor gulped down hard and stammered, "Y-yes sir. Right away."

"What the hell is going on?!", Sally yelled, which spooked both of them. Kevin quickly dropped him and tried to look innocent.

"Hey there, Sleeping Beauty. Glad you woke up. I brought you to the hos-"

"Shut up!", Sally yelled, which spooked her more than anyone else, "I'm sick of your lies!" She quickly got up off the bed and inched her way to the door. "I know exactly what you are planning to do! Just stay away from me and the baby!! I hate you!" She then bolted out of the room and of the office, not daring to look back. She had no idea where she would go, but she never slowed down since she had no idea if he was following or not and she didn't want to take a chance. It was as if her legs had a mind of their own as her surroundings became familiar. She knew she wasn't heading home since it was the other direction, so she knew she was heading towards a friend's house. Who's house? She had no clue at this point. She just had to put as much distance between herself and that psycho who used to be her boyfriend. She soon found herself in front of a red and white house. Sally knew exactly whose house she was in front of, just how she was going to explain this to Ned, she also had no clue. She absentmindly knocked on the red door that was soon answered by her friend. She couldn't bring herself to look at him for some reason.

"Oh, hey Sally!", Ned greeted her cheerfully, "Kevin with you or something?" His smile soon faded to a frown when he notice a few tears going down her cheeks. "Are you ok? What's wrong?" Still no answer and he was starting to get worried. "You want to come in and talk about it?" He moved a little bit to give her way. She slowly came in and followed him to the big living room. He started to notice what she was wearing. To his surprise, she was wearing a blue hospital gown.

"Umm, Sal, do you mind me asking, umm, why are you wearing....?" He gestured his hand so she could tell he was talking about her clothes.

"Ned, I'm pregnant with Kevin's baby.", she blurted out. Ned opened his mouth in disbelief and his heart started to sink. Even though she was his best friend's girlfriend, he couldn't help having a huge crush on her. He knew it was against some made up rules, but he couldn't help but fall for her glistening eyes and her winning smile.

"S-since when?", he finally asked once he found his voice again.

"I think for a month or two, maybe.", she answered, very unsure, "But he doesn't want the baby." She started to shake and wrapped her arms around her womb as if to protect it from someone. "He begged me to get an abortion, but I didn't want one. I want to keep it. I don't care if I'm throwing my life away for him or her. I really don't care."

Ned opened his mouth to say something but Sally beat him to it, "Wait there's more. Today I think he drugged my soda and brought me to an abortion clinic. Lucky I woke up before they did anything. Ned, I need you to help me, please. I don't think he'll stop until this baby is gone." A few tears came out before a lot tears streamed out.

"S-sure." He wrapped his arms around her into a hug as he tried to comfort her. "Who knows about the baby already?"

"May, Kevin, my sisters, and now you.", she finally said after she calmed down a little bit.

"What about your parents? They need to know soon, 'spescially with Kevin the way he is now."

"I guess I'll tell them tonight."

"We can do it together. I'll try my best to get a restraining order for you and the baby. That should scare him away. I promise to always protect you and make sure you are safe. I'll even help you raise the baby. I'll treat him or her like my own.", he promised as he held her in a hug while rocking her back and forth.

"Thank you, Ned. I believe you.", Sally said as she gave him a quick peck on the lips before she broke out in sobs again in his arms, leaving Ned blushing like crazy.

xX-Flashback ends-Xx

"How'd your parents take the big shocker?", Tabby asked.

"They were shock, then mad, but in the end they were ok with it and respected our decision.", Sally said, "A lot of people respected your uncle after that for helping me. Kevin was no where to be found anywhere in Whoville, so many thought he probably fled. A couple of months later, the baby was born. That was you JoJo." She looked straight at her son who wore the same blank, unemotional face the time she told him the story. "A lot of Whos thought it was Ned's baby, not Kevin's. 'Specially since me and him were getting pretty close. A month after you were born, we got married so you could have a normal life as much as possible. He also stayed true to his promise and treated you like his own son. Everything was perfect again for once. That is until one night. It was a few months after you were born."

xX-Flashback-Xx

Sally held small baby JoJo in her arms, trying to get him to sleep. She hummed him a small melody to get him to calm down. It was nearing midnight and he had woken up. They had to admit, the little baby had strong lungs which made up for his small stature. He was born pre-mature and the doctors didn't think he would survive, but he proved them wrong. Sally moved in with Ned shortly after the wedding on her choice. He soon got an apartment for now until they want to get a bigger house.

Soon she notices his breathing became even and saw JoJo's eyes closed. She gently laid him into his crib and silently left the room. On her way back to her bedroom, she heard a small crash coming from the living room.

"Ned? Is that you?", she called out. No answer. Her heart thumped against her chest as she ran to the bedroom. She walked in and saw Ned sleeping soundly on the bed. She ran up to him and started to shake him.

"Ned! Wake up!", she whispered. He slowly opened his eyes and saw her face was frantic.

"What is it?", he asked, clearly getting worried, as he sat up.

"I think someone is in the living room."

"I'll go and check it out." He quickly got off the bed with Sally on his trail. "Sally go stay with JoJo."

"No, I'm not leaving you."

"I don't want you to get hurt."

"Don't worry, I won't. Lets face it, you're stuck with me." He gave up, knowing its impossible to win an argument against Sally when she makes up her mind. They quietly entered the small living room to see if anyone was in there. They saw nothing out of the ordinary and turned around back to their bedroom.

"Hey, there Sally. Remember me?" Sally stood there still with fear. She knows that voice from anywhere, Kevin.

"Oh no.", she whispered under her breath. A figure step forward into the moonlight that came from outside. Ned stepped in front of her, not wanting him near her again.

"Looks like you do remember me. How you been?", Kevin asked as he stepped closer. The two stepped back, trying to keep the same distance between them.

"Get the hell out of this house.", Ned said.

"Awe, come on Neddy. Don't be like this; I just want to see MY son. Now we can do this easy way or hard way. Take your pick." He didn't move, still trying to act like a wall between Kevin and Sally.

"So I guess it's the hard way." Kevin lunged forward and tackled Ned to the floor. Sally moved out of the way and watched in horror. She then saw something glistening in his back pocket. She realized what he was planning to do tonight once she figured out it was a pocket knife. He was going to kill her and JoJo, probably Ned too. Sally looked around the room frantically looking for something to knock him out with. Her eyes soon fell on a blue vase in the corner of the room. She ran towards it and grabbed it. She looked towards the two and found Ned, probably unconscious, on the floor and Kevin walking towards her. He reached into his back pocket, but before he could even touch the pocket knife Sally smashed the vase on his head which caused him to pass out. She stared at the unconscious body before she let out a sigh of relief. She ran over to Ned and tried to shake him awake.

"Ned! Wake up, please! Whatever you do don't go into the light!", she yelled. His eyes slowly opened and let out a painful groan.

"Call the police.", he said as the past events came back into his head. She nodded and ran to the kitchen, where the home phone was. She dialed 911 and heard two rings before someone picked out.

"911, what is your emergency?"

"My ex-boyfriend tried to attack us. He's unconscious now, but I think he was planning to kill us tonight. Please send help, I don't know when he's going to wake up."

"Who's 'we', ma'am."

"Um, my husband, who is starting to regain consciousness, me, and my baby son who is upstairs sleeping."

"When did this happen?"

"Just a few minutes ago!", she said, getting a little frustrated its taking to long, "Now please send help, he had a knife. I have no idea what else his armed with."

"Ok, we have tracked your phone call and help is on the way."

"Thank you." Sally hung up the phone and ran to JoJo's room, where she found him crying. She picked him up and started to bounce him up and down. She walked back to the living room, to find Ned sitting up on the floor. She walked over to him and checked his head for anything. He had a bruise forming near his left eyes and his head bleeding a little.

"Oh God, Ned are you ok?"

"Yeah, why?" He smiled as he touched his head. His finger felt a warm liquid near his forehead and drew it back to see what it is. It was bloody. Usually this would make him faint, but he toughen up since his son was looking at him. He casually wiped the blood away and tried to stand up, but quickly sat back down. "Where is he?", he asked.

"Over there he's knocked out. The police should be here soon."

Ding! Dong!

"Or now." Sally got up off the floor and headed to the door, which revealed two police officers.

"Evening, ma'am. So where is he?"

"Over there." Sally pointed to behind the couch as the men walked over to said direction. Outside she notice, one ambulance and a small crowd gathered around to see what was going on. After someone checked over Ned, who was hurt the most, and Kevin, the police handcuffed him and started to take him away.

"Wait."

Kevin and the policemen looked towards Sally.

"Before you take him away, can I ask him a question?", she asked. The police nodded a yes.

"Why? Why are you doing this? Why do you want to get rid of your own son?"

"I was taught to take care of my mistakes. I'm following that saying by doing what I believe is right. That little baby of yours is going to die, where ever he is, I will find him." JoJo was in Ned's protective arms, sucking on his thumb and completely oblivious to what is happening.

"And Ned, learn to watch your back and sleep with your eyes open 'cause you're also on my list. You are going to pay for taking away my girl." That's when the police yanked him away and pulled him towards the door.

xX-Flashback ends-Xx

"That's the last time I ever saw that bastard and I never thought I would ever see him again. He saw you as a mistake, JoJo, but no matter what I and your father will never see you the way Kevin saw you. Everyone sees you as a blessing, and I totally agree.", Sally said as she finished the story, "A few months after that, they moved him from the prison to the local insane asylum due to very bad homicidal thoughts. We even heard when he tried to escape, he attack prison mates and guards. We were relieved to know they moved him, since they said the asylum was impossible to escape. And yet he did it."

"Bloody hell.", Tabby muttered under her breath, "Haven't the police tried looking for him?"

"I think so, but they been searching since a week and a half ago. He is very good at hiding."

"Why didn't you guys ever tell me this?", JoJo asked, hinted anger in his voice, "I believe before this, I had a right to know."

"We didn't want you to worry. Everyone thought we would never see him again. We wanted you to have as much as a normal life as possible."

"I guess it's too late for that."

"What are we going to do?", Valerie asked.

"JoJo could flee Whoville.", Zeke suggested.

"No, Kevin will just find him.", Sally said as she stood up and walked to the window, "Its not safe here. No where on the speck is safe for him."

"So we need JoJo to flee the speck?", Tabby asked spectically, "How in the world are we going to do that?" Everyone pondered the thought for awhile until JoJo and Sally face lit up. Once they saw each other's faces they knew they had the same idea.

"Dr. Larue.", they said at the same time.

"Dr. Lawho?", Valerie asked. Sally and her son headed for the door with the three teens on the tail.

"Wait. We're going out?", Zeke asked.

"Not with JoJo out in the open. 'Specially with Kevin out there.", Tabby said. They pondered for a while, trying to think of a way to hide him without making it look obvious. Soon a big grin formed on the two teenage girls' faces as they looked at each other.

"We have an idea.", they said in unison. JoJo gulped down hard, not really liking the creepy grins on his cousins' face.

"Lets get to work.", Valerie said as she walked closer the black and gray Who.

A/N: I have read my character's mind and Valerie's idea is twisted but funny. I'll decide if I should go with that or not. It will depend on my mood when I write the next chapter. Well, I hope this was good. Oh, I want to apologize if Sally is out of character. I'll improve on that. Until next time! Read and Reviews!