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2 Days Later

Two days had passed since the paternity test was done, and Shannon was sitting anxiously at his desk at the tattoo shop. He was trying really hard to get some work done, but he kept glancing at the door, hoping he would see Tori come through it with the results. His focus then turned to the picture sitting on the desk. It was of him and Tori, taken the previous New Years Eve, and his hand was sitting comfortably on her belly. He smirked as he recalled the memories from that night. "Please, let that be my baby," he whispered as he heard a knock on the door. His smile turned to a frown when he watched the figure come into his office.

"Hi Shannon."

It was Crystal, Shannon's ex-wife. "What in the world are you doing here?"

Meanwhile, Tori was doing some laundry around her apartment, hoping the phone would ring any moment. As she stood up to head toward the bathroom to put away towels, the phone rang, making Tori jump.

"Hello?"

"Hi, is this Tori Jackson."

"Yes," she said anxiously.

"This is Amy from Dr. Hope's office, and we have your test results ready to be picked up at your convieniance."

"Thank you, I will be right there."

Tori hung up the phone, instantly grabbed her keys and ran out the door. She literally sped as she made her way to the doctor office. Once out of her car, she sped walk to the office door and told the receptionist who she was. The lady disappeared for a moment, and returned with a manila envelope. Once back inside the car, she opened the envelope and read what the paper said. Tears instantly started rolling down her cheeks and drove directly to Gas Chamber Ink.

Back at the tattoo shop, Shannon was still trying to figure out what Crystal was doing in his office.

"Crystal, I haven't talked to you in like several months. What do you want?"

"Well, Shan, I was kind of hoping we could try to work things out. I miss you baby," she said seductively, running her hand down the front of his shirt.

"Don't," he said pushing her hand away. "You know, if you would have come back like 3 years ago, when we got divorced, I might have said I missed you too...but now, I am happily involved with someone, and we are expecting a baby in June."

"That's nice," Crystal said genuinely. "I'm sorry, I don't even know I'm here. I guess deep down I do still miss you, but I'm not going to break up you and your girlfriend. Congratulations on your baby."

"Thank you," he said.

"Your welcome," Crystal said as she wrapped Shannon in a good bye hug. His back was to the door, and didn't see someone standing in the doorway, who left in tears.

A couple of hours later, Tori was still crying on the couch when Shannon came to her apartment during his break. He immediately noticed that she had been crying.

"Tori what's wrong? Did the test results come in?"

"Shannon, I think we need to see other people," Tori told him confidently.

"WHAT?!" Shannon was understandibly shocked. "I don't understand. Everything was going good with us."

"Yeah it was. Until I saw you with another girl today."

"Another girl? I was at the shop all day, how..." It finally dawned on him. She must have seen him with Crystal, and he didn't realize she was there. "Tori, the woman you saw me with was my ex-wife."

"Yeah right. People don't hug their ex-wives."

"Listen, she came to my office, trying to get back together. I told her no because I am happy in my relationship with you and that we are expecting a baby. She then told me she was sorry, realized she was making a fool of herself and then congratulated us, and gave me a hug before she left. I swear baby, that is all that happened."

"I wish I could believe that," Tori whispered. "Just please leave."

"Tori..."

Not saying anything, Tori walked back toward her bedroom. Knowing that she needed her space and time to cool off, Shannon went ahead and left. About another half hour later, Tori heard a pounding on her door, and was surprised to see Matt.

"Tori, can I come in?"

"Sure."

Once inside her apartment, Matt turned back to look at Tori. "Listen, Tor, I know what happened today between you and Shannon. Its probably not my business to try and fix things, but what he told you about Crystal today was real. He wasn't lying."

"How do you know that?"

"He drove straight to my house after he left here. When we got to talking, he was literally almost in tears. He knows that he should have tried to get her to leave from the start, and this is all one huge misunderstanding. He doesn't want to be with anyone else-he wants you."

Tori then sat down on the couch and sighed. "Matt, are you sure?"

"I'm not lying. He loves you Tori, and doesn't want anything to mess up what you guys have."

"So I basically broke up with him for nothing."

"Yeah, pretty much," he said with a smile. "But I know where he is and you could probably go fix that."

Soon, Matt and Tori both left the apartment, and Tori drove back to the tattoo shop. She knocked on the door, and smiled as Shannon said to come in.

"Hey Shan," she whispered.

"Hey," he said in a shocked tone. "What are you doing here?"

"Listen, I'm very sorry about earlier. I should have let you explain better. I think my pregnancy hormones got the best of me, and the thought of losing you drives me crazy."

"You aren't going to lose me," he said as he wrapped his arms around the two of them. "I know what you saw probably didn't look to good, but when I tell you that nothing happen, please believe me that it didn't. You are so important to me, and the only person I want to be with. I love you, Tori and only you."

"I love you too, Shannon," she replied smiling as they kissed. "By the way...I have something to tell you."