Chapter V

(Amy POV)

"I'm pregnant" my sister said.

Everything came crashing back, all the things we had just talked about and seemed cool with reversed and I was angry again with Ricky and my sister. I didn't know what to say so I grabbed John from Ricky and began walking out, I heard my sister calling for me "Amy wait!"

She was getting dressed and Ricky seemed at a loss for what to do so I quickly got John in his car seat and left as fast as I could.

I got John strapped in his place in record time and hopped into the driver's seat, I caught sight of my sister in only an oversized t-shirt which I was sure was Ricky's. I ignored her shouts as I drove away not sparing a glance in my rearview mirror.

I don't know why I was ok with Ashley sleeping with Ricky a few minutes ago, but I was sure as hell not anymore. I mean technically there's nothing wrong with their relationship, besides John, Ricky has no ties with my family. We were never married or even boyfriend and girlfriend, I was just another one night stand of Ricky's.

But still… my own sister sleeping with the guy who got me pregnant! It just seemed wrong. Oh god she was pregnant too now, what the hell…

Our family is cursed with teenage pregnancy it seems.

I kept driving deciding to just try and think for a while.

What was I supposed to do? My kid would be related in more than one way to hers. This just complicated our lives so much more.

My phone began ringing insistently in my ear, I glanced at it seeing Ashley's name on the screen. Ignoring it I sighed, I can't talk to her now. I don't know if I can ever again… I mean we just talked about our sex lives with the same guy. I think I had only been ok doing it because I was in shock but now I couldn't even think of talking to her, hell we hardly talked anyway so not talking to her at all won't really affect my life.

Just… what was I supposed to do about John and Ricky? I can't avoid him when he comes to see his son, and the weird thing is I find myself not wanting to. But I'm angry at my sister… why? Ricky was there too it's not like Ashley seduced him.

Unless… she did…

Ugh! Stupid idea, why am I trying to make Ricky out to be the good guy when I tried so hard to make him into the bad guy when I was pregnant?

Dammit that word again, I seriously need to stop thinking about this.

Ricky's Apartment

Ashley sat on the couch next to Ricky not knowing what to do or feel "so…" Ricky said now fully dressed.

Ashley still only wore his shirt and a pair of panties, her legs curled under her "that could have gone better."

"I thought we were waiting" Ricky said touching her arm "you just told your family about us and Amy about being pregnant."

Ashley sighed "I don't know what came over me… I don't know why I did that…" she pulled herself to Ricky and hugged him "what are we going to do now? Amy won't take my calls, I don't know if she's going to tell my mom and dad."

Her head rested on his shoulder as she hugged him "I never do anything without thinking… why now?"

Ricky shrugged and Ashley tried to lighten her mood "maybe you're making me dumb."

Ricky scoffed playfully "you mean you weren't already?"

She hit him and pulled back brining her lips to his "behave."

Ashley's phone rang and she saw her house number, Ricky shook his head "your dad is going to kill me."

Ashley turned her phone off, and stood "can we just… go to bed? I don't want to think about this anymore today."

Next Day – Grant High School

Ben stood quietly next to Amy as he watched her silently fume at her locker, shoving her books in as hard as she could "uh… Amy?"

She turned her glare to him then softened her eyes "sorry um what did you need?"

"Are you ok?" he asked wary of her temper.

She shook her head "no, it's just… family problems…"

Ben thought for a second then huffed "Ricky?"

Amy sighed "no… I mean sort of… it's just all so complicated."

Ben clenched his fists "you and he… aren't uh…" he his sentence die off but Amy's face twisted into anger at his assumption.

"This has nothing to do with me and him it has to do with him and…"

"Ashley?" Ben said.

Amy noticed Ben looking behind her along with many people in the hallway; she turned and saw her younger sister walking through the door with her arm around Ricky's waist and his arm over her shoulder.

Ricky hid his nervousness especially since he hadn't talked to Adrian yet, he saw Amy glaring at them and Ben staring with his mouth open.

"I think this is about as smart as your decision to tell your parents about us was yesterday" he whispered to the young girl under his arm.

Ashley pinched his side and whispered back "it was gonna get out eventually."

Amy's death glare increased as she noticed Ashley wearing one of Ricky's shirts and her pants from yesterday, she could hear everyone already whispering about the pair. Madison and Lauren quickly moved over to Amy "what's going on?" Lauren asked.

Madison looked between Amy and the pair moving down the hallway "what's your sister doing with Ricky?"

Amy shut her locker "I don't know."

Ashley and Ricky heard the commotion and watched Amy walk away from her locker ignoring them, Ricky kept walking pulling Ashley with him towards her locker "this is going to suck."

Ashley just smiled "at least you don't have to talk to my dad after school today… I'm dreading that conversation."

Ricky leaned down to her ear and whispered "please, please just don't mention the pregnancy… I'll try to talk to Amy later… lets at least keep that to us for a while."

She nodded as they got to her locker Griffin already there looking between the two with a raised eyebrow "uh… something you wanna tell me?"

Ricky pulled his arm away "I gotta grab my stuff for class I'll talk to you later."

Ashley unlinked her arm but leaned up placing a quick kiss on Ricky's lips. A group of guys down the hall let out catcalls and a few other people gave them weird looks, but most people just glanced and went on with their lives.

Griffin coughed as Ricky began walking away "uh explanation?"

Ashley turned to her locker and began opening it "you can probably guess."

"But… but he's the father of your sister's baby" Griffin sputtered "I mean… why? How? When?"

She was gathering her books and sighed "it's not like he was married to my sister, it's not against the law for us to be together" she looked at him "and as to your question, why? Because I love him."

He leaned against the locker next to hers "this is just… a lot to take in…"

Ashley shrugged "just in case you were planning on telling my dad, he already knows."

Griffin blinked "and he's ok with it?"

She laughed and shook her head "no, I have to talk to him today… I spent last night at Ricky's."

Griffin pulled himself away from the locker "what the… are you uh… you know…" he motioned with his hands.

"Not a discussion for the school hallway" she said closing her locker "I'll talk to you later" she began walking away and Griffin sighed shaking his head.

Adrian walked into the school and headed towards her locker only to overhear a conversation "can you believe Ricky?"

Adrian stopped before turning the corner hearing the female voice and then another female voice and she recognized both "I know, first he gets Amy pregnant and now he's with Ashley, her sister of all people."

Adrian was confused for a second before she understood those words, stepping angrily around the corner she stopped in front of Madison and Lauren making the girls clam up "what did you say about Ricky and Ashley?"

"Uh nothing…" Madison said backing into the lockers.

Lauren just stayed quiet and Madison began sweating under Adrian's glare "uh well it's not like we know anything… I mean maybe they aren't together… they just came in together, uh I should stop talking…"

Adrian clenched her fists and stalked off searching for Ricky only to nearly bump into Ashley "you!" she said pointing at the younger girl, Adrian then noticed the t-shirt Ashley was wearing "is that Ricky's shirt?"

Ashley looked down at the shirt she was wearing "uh oh."

"Uh oh is right" she said "what are you doing wearing Ricky's shirt?"

"Adrian…" Ashley sighed "we didn't mean for you to find out like this, Ricky wanted to talk to you."

Adrian felt a lump form in her throat "who the hell do you think you are? What you slept with Ricky and now you think you're together with him? He's with me!"

Ashley ignored the people who stopped to watch the argument "mine and Ricky's sex life is none of your business."

"He had a kid with your sister!" Adrian stated "and he's still with me."

Ashley crossed her arms "so what, it's not like he was married to my sister, and he's not with you he just hasn't told you yet."

The first bell rang but the girls didn't stop staring each other down, finally Ashley smirked "sorry" she said without any sincerity.

Adrian was thinking of grabbing the younger girl's hair and scratching her eyes out but Ashley began walking away and quickly went into her classroom. Stomping away she swore to have a long talk with Ricky as soon as she found him, he cheated on her again after telling her he wasn't, and she had believed him.

Lunch

(Ricky POV)

I had managed to avoid Adrian since after first period when I saw her waiting at my locker, I know I should talk to her, I just didn't know how yet. I wanted to talk to Amy but she had been avoiding me too it seemed, looking out the door to wear everyone was eating outside I spotted Adrian sitting at a table looking around.

I also noticed Amy sitting with Madison and Lauren chatting idly, pulling out my phone I texted Amy and then looked to see if she got it. She picked up her phone and read my message but set her phone back down, sighing I texted again even adding 'please' a few times.

This time after reading it she stood and said goodbye to her friends before getting up and moving towards the doors, I was glad to see Adrian hadn't noticed since she was too busy looking for me.

Amy stepped inside noticing me standing near the door "what did you want to talk about that couldn't wait?" she asked me seemingly irritated.

I sighed "I kind of wanted to talk to you about… uh the whole situation."

"Whole situation?" she asked then I noticed she didn't seem annoyed at me.

Running my hand through my hair I motioned for her to walk with me "look about your sister and me…"

She walked next to me but didn't look at me "I don't want to know any more about that."

I grunted knowingly "well I just… don't want things to be awkward, uh between us."

She looked at me this time "it's kind of late for that isn't it?"

I stopped and looked into her eyes "I'm so confused about the whole thing."

Amy's eyes softened "then why did you sleep with her?"

Stopping near the stairwell I shrugged "I'm me… that's not right. Look she told me she loved me… and came on to me and of course I went along with it."

"So it was Ashley's fault" she said "god I should have known…"

"Well it's not entirely her fault" I tried but Amy seemed adamant to believe it was Ashley's fault which raised the question, why?

She tucked her hair behind her hair "I can't believe she took you from me…"

Amy's eyes got wide as did mine, she waved her hands in a placating gesture "that came out wrong!"

I shook my head and smirked "I don't know how else that would come out."

She blushed "I didn't mean it like that uh… I meant something different… I'm with Ben!"

I watched as she left after blurting that out. Things were already complicated but it seemed with Ashley being pregnant it was even now more so. I had asked Amy once not too long ago whether we had a chance at being a couple if Adrian and Ben weren't in the picture. Adrian was about to be out, but with Ashley moving in and her still with Ben I wasn't sure what was happening.

But she still seemed to want me.

And I knew this was going to be a problem, because it would already be hard to not cheat on Ashley especially since Adrian always seemed to pull me back. But if Amy offered, I wasn't sure if I would say no.