19-Jenny's Got A Secret

Carmen looked nervous now. Her eyes were trying to shift to anything but her mother's, but she knew she was going to have to say something. The Princess had really thrown herself into the deep end, knowing she couldn't swim to save herself this time.

"It's not my business to say."

"Carmen, I won't be mad at you." Arianna was starting to worry that Carmen was lying to her, just pushing it aside so that she wasn't going to get into trouble. "Just tell me the truth."

Carmen hated the feeling that she wasn't being trusted, not even by her own mother. Of course she was telling the truth, she had no reason not to. The only reason why she couldn't say whose it was is because she had made a promise. Carmen never broke her promises, not to anyone.

"Why won't you believe me?" The blonde teenager asked.

"Because you and Drake aren't exactly quiet." Arianna regretted saying it out loud as soon as she had said it. It was too late to take it back, though she badly wanted to.

"MOM!" Carmen scolded, unable to believe that her own mother had just said that about her.

The air was cold. The air was still. The air was tense. Nothing more was said between the mother and daughter for what seemed like hours to both of them. Things were not getting easier for either of them. Carmen refused to say who the pregnancy test really belonged to and Arianna refused to give up until she knew the truth. They were at a stale mate.

"It's not mine..."

"Then who's is..." Arianna trailed off, the library door had opened up and Drake was now stood there.

"Sorry." He apologized. "I'm interrupting something, aren't I?" Both of the girl's dark eyes were on him now and he could sense that he had done a bad thing by entering that room at that point in the conversation.

"Yes!"

"No!" The girls said at the same time. They turned to face each other, eyes staring into each other's again.

"I'll just go the-"

"No." Arianna ordered. "You should stay and hear this."

Drake had no idea what to do. He was confused about the situation and scared that one of the two ladies was going to maim him if he made the wrong move.

"In fact, I was just leaving." Carmen quickly said, she started to make a break for the door, but Arianna grabbed her wrist and pulled her daughter to face her.

"I want the truth."

"Fine!" Carmen hissed. "I'm not pregnant, Jenifer is! She was so scared the other day that she came here to take the test and I forgot to get rid of it!"

Carmen regretted saying all of that, but she just had just wanted to hurry up and leave. Jenifer had trusted her with this secret, and now she had gone and blurted it out without meaning to. Carmen knew she was in trouble once her aunt Courtney found out about this. And now her mother knew, chances of Courtney finding out had just tripled.

"What?" Arianna's face was blank. She had really been expecting Carmen to admit to it now that Drake was there too. Kill two birds with one stone, if that made any sense.

"You heard me..." Carmen whispered. She stole her arm back from her mother and watched as the Queen sank down onto the chair herself.

Drake tried to quietly sneak form the room, but the floorboard creaked and Carmen turned angrily to face her fiancée. Her expression read 'not to be messed with'. Drake could tell that was not a good sign.

The Princess hurried herself towards the door, grabbing Drake's hand and slamming the door shut. The silent library was now echoing the sound off the hollow walls. Arianna just continued to sit and think.

Jenifer and Arianna weren't exactly close. When Jen had first been adopted, she had even been frightened of Arianna and her high position in Scarlatina. Of course, as she had grown up, she had gotten over that fear and learnt to love Arianna like she was truly family, like she had done with everyone else too.

Now, sitting in the empty library, Arianna couldn't believe what Carmen had just told her. Was Jenifer really that careless?

The Hudson household was full of life. The very important discussion, the one that had been playing on everyone's minds recently, had finally been brought back up for another family meeting.

"Okay, everyone tell me why they don't want to move so much." Duncan regretted saying that one as soon as everyone started talking at once. He swiftly brought his fingers to his mouth and whistled as loud as he possibly could. "One at a time."

"I just don't, dad." Jenifer whispered being the first to brave and speak up. "Please don't move us away!" Her voice was shaky yet desperate.

Duncan was about to question his daughter, but Thomas was fit to burst with his own reason.

"There is a very hot girl next door who wants me!"

"Really?" Marni questioned, turning to face her brother. Her red bangs were growing quite long, so she had to brush them form her face to even be able to see Thomas. "Because I heard that she wants to be 'Just friends'."

"Ouch." Belle commented. "You are never going to get out of the friend's zone, Tom...Maybe it is best if you move away. Alone, of course, because I want to STAY!"

Duncan rolled his eyes. Typical that his children would find anything to argue over, absolutely anything!

"Stop the arguing!" Courtney snapped softly. She herself was busy pondering over the idea of moving once again.

Ever since her two youngest had brought it up to her the other day, she had done some serious thinking on the subject. Still, none of it was making a lot of sense her mind.

"I want the REAL reason." Duncan's tone said it all. He was not impressed with all of the reason's everyone kept making up. It was as if they were all hiding something that they didn't want their parents to find out about. Truth was, most of them were.

"Just don't move us away..." Jenifer was on the verge of tears. She hated knowing that her parents wanted to just ship her off with the rest of her family to somewhere she had never been before.

"Jenny..." Duncan sighed. "What's wrong?"

In her lifetime, Jenifer had moved far too many times. Being in foster care meant that she had been bounced from family to family, form pillar to post all the time. She was so fed up of it. When she finally met the Hudson family, she was thrilled when they had asked if she wanted to apart of their family permanently. Jenifer had finally felt as if she was finally going to be settled.

"I-I..." All eyes were on her, the tears swelling up as she feared having to tell them the truth. Having to tell them the real reason. "Please don't move us away...I just really don't want to go..."

"Courtney!"

Arianna appeared in the doorway and Courtney's first reaction was, "WHAT?" Then she realized who it was disturbing the family meeting and her deep thoughts. "Oh...It's you...What do you want?"

"Can we talk?" Arianna was sounding desperate, her eyes wide and no one knew why.

"About the..." The brunette trailed off, both knowing what the conversation was going to be about. No one else in the room knew, confusing them all to a point where they were planning on eve's dropping on the conversation anyway.

"Sort of..." Arianna replied, and then she stopped.

She knew she shouldn't have been the one to tell Courtney the truth. Her eyes fixed on Jenifer, the caramel-blonde headed girl was looking right back. She had a bad feeling that she actually did know what their conversation was about. She had a bad feeling that their conversation was going to result in her crying her heart out at having to admit the truth.

"Actually...I shouldn't tell you..."

Courtney was confused, but she could see that Arianna's eyes hadn't moved from Jenifer in a while, so she only chanced it and followed the gaze. Jenifer's neon green eyes were fit to burst.

"It was a false alarm with who we thought it was..."

The brunette's eyes widened in shock as she realized what her cousin was getting at. Her insides were praying that it wasn't true and her outsides were pleading for her youngest daughter to tell her it wasn't true.

"Jenny...?" Courtney voice was quiet, worried. She was hoping it wasn't true.

Tears were falling, grazing the teen girls pink cheeks as she tried so very hard not to face anyone. The hard, cold truth of reality had finally hit. Before now, Jenifer had tried to pass it off as nothing, but now she had to face up to it being something.

Tiger knew. Tiger was the second person to find out about it. Jenifer was not going to hide it from him, he was partly the reason it was the way it was. Tiger wasn't thrilled to say the least, but he was supportive. Jen was thankful for at least that much.

"Oh my..." Courtney couldn't finish the sentence. Her hands flew to her mouth and the dry tears entered her eye lids.

The feeling was overwhelming for Courtney. She had never thought-not in a million years-that Jenifer would have been stupid enough to do something like this. Belle was the Drama Queen. Marni was street smart. Thomas was the idiotic boy. Jenifer was the smart one. The smart one. Why would she do something like this if her brain was as fully functioning as everyone thought it was?

"Mom..." Jenifer cried, but she couldn't think of anything to say that was going to make it seem alright.

"Someone want to tell me what's going on?" Duncan asked, but the only three who knew the truth weren't about to tell him anything.

A/N: =O! OH MY SCRALATINAN GODS!

Yeah...We ALL saw that one coming...I don't know how you all guessed it was Jen! Was it really that obvious? haha!

ANYWAY! This was a weird chapter to write...Don't know why...Maybe because I have been writing it since 1:36 Pm and it is now 8:40 PM...LONG TIME OF WRITING! I did have many breaks...LOL!

I haven't been having a good day...Let's just say that...

OKAY! Recently I have gotten into horoscopes, okay? I mean...SERIOUSLY! Now...Every single one that I have read so far has come true! I am not just saying that, I MEAN IT! It is freaking the shit out of me...SERIOUSLY!

OH! Also, I wrote a very long oneshot yesterday which was titled 'Things I'll Never Say'

Please go read and review it :D It is basically all of my unpublished work that I will never finish writing...I think it's a good way for you to see how far I have come since around August last year...Seriously...That was when some were written...LOL!

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