Ruthie POV

"Hello, "I said once again softly into the phone as I laid my head back against the pillows and teddy bears.

"Hey, is this Ruthie?"

My heart dropped as I knew the familiar voice on the other side of the phone that I haven't talked to in a very long time.

"Yes, this is her." I didn't know what I was feeling because honestly I was having mixed emotions. I was excited, nervous, angry, and sad, it was like an emotional rollercoaster.

"Do you know who this is?" Martin said. I could smell his scent that I missed so much. I missed him and not in a way of wanting to be with him but I missed our friendship; we use to play fight all the time, stay up on the weekend till dawn the next day, I could tell him anything and he would do the same, I missed him so much.

"Yes, I know who this is silly," I let out a little chuckle.

"I'm surprised you're not mad that I'm just now calling you." I can see the smile that I knew for sure was across his face.

"Martin, I know a lot has happened in the past but I'm over that."

"Great...because I was wondering if I could come see you."

"Martin, you know I moved to San Francisco?"

"Yeah, I've been out here with my varsity baseball team that I coach, they have a tournament in four days. I was wondering if I could come over or we can go out today for a little bit? You know catch up."

"It's my anniversary today, T-bone and I suppose to be going somewhere but he's...never mind"

"Oh ... yeah him...T-bone. How's that going? OH and happy anniversary."

"It's alright but I'll call you tomorrow and maybe we can set something up."

We talked for a little longer and then hung up. When we got off the phone three hours later it was eight o'clock and T-bone still haven't called or anything. It was our anniversary for crying out loud.

T-bone POV

"I missed my period T-bone so today I finally decided to take two test and they both were positive."

That was the last sentence that was spoken two hours ago and it kept playing in my head over and over again. I couldn't believe it, I wasn't ready to be a father and on top of that I had a girlfriend, it was my anniversary, it was just so much going through my head.

"T-bone is we finally going to talk about it? You haven't said anything in hours." Alyssa asked as she interrupted my thoughts.

"I just ...it's a lot …" I said grabbing my things before running out of the door. I got into the car and started it.

When I arrived home it was almost midnight and I knew Ruthie would be pissed. On top of that I was sloppy drunk; I don't even know how I made it home safely.

As I walked in the front door I knocked over a plant completely shattering it and making a lot of noise; coming in quiet was a complete bust.

"T-bone, what the hell?!" Ruthie yelled coming from the room "Where have you been? Are you drunk? On our anniversary?"

So many questions at one time all I could do is sit on the couch hoping she would disappear and leave me alone.

She gave me the most evil look I've never seen in all my years of knowing her and went back in the room before slamming the door. That's when everything hit me; I was having a baby by another woman who I was in love with also, I was going to hurt Ruthie in a way she's already been hurt, I just didn't know what to do.

I got up a little while later, went in the kitchen and poured me a glass of water.

Before going into the bedroom, I knocked over a book off the bookshelf. I was getting really frustrated so I picked up the book and an envelope fell out of it. I looked inside of the envelope and it was a letter from the school medical center addressed to Ruthie. Her results came back and it was 99 percent sure she was pregnant.