A/N: To those who reviewed from the last chapter thank you! I'm glad you were asking to see more, and well here is more! The next few chapters after this one should be up really soon, possibly tomorrow if I have time. I just got back from vacation and had a very long car ride to think of tons of ideas for this story! Please read, review and enjoy.

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It had been two months. Two months since Haylee started dating Alec and so far, so good. They went out, they hung out, they had fun together. As of right now Artie could handle it because it was very similar to the way things had been going before they made it official that they were dating. This didn't exactly make Artie happy, but he was content.

Haylee on the other hand was ecstatic. Since school had been let out and summer had started her and Alec got the chance to spend all the time they could together. She knew that she had in a way, loved him, for a while but being in a relationship with him changed things. She saw him in a different light. It was as if every great thing that he did, was instantly intensified and made even greater. She now noticed the way his eyes crinkled when he laughed, how soft his hands were when they were holding hers, and that he always got his voice down to a near whisper when he was talking about something he was passionate about. Also with all this new excitement however, came new thoughts. Thoughts of something that she always pictured herself, of not thinking for a while. Thoughts of sex.

Haylee was never a girl to be dumb. Also growing up with Quinn as her mom made her very educated on the subject. She had gotten pregnant in the beginning of her sophomore year, the exact place in school Haylee would be in a mere few months. Growing up, Quinn had always been honest with her. If anything it made Haylee respect her mom even more than she already would have and made it clear in her mind that getting pregnant in high school was not something she wanted for herself. She always thought that the way to do that would be simple. Just don't have sex in high school. Wait it out until college or maybe later. She thought that it was a mature decision and for a while she stood by it. Now she was realizing, that a decision like that, is much easier said than done. For one, she was a teenager. Guys may be the ones who are sex craved until no end, but it wasn't as girls didn't have any hormones or needs. When you're a teenager all of those hormones don't even know what to do with themselves, let alone when it is met with an equal amount of curiosity. Another factor that played into it was that she loved Alec, and he loved her. When you get into college everything could get so complicated, but as of right now, they have each other. They have each other for a while, and a part of Haylee's brain was telling her to take advantage of that. Maybe her plan could be, tweaked a little? Considering the circumstances, she didn't really see why not.

She sat on her bed late at night and just realized her new plan. In a way she was excited, in another way, she was terrified. She needed someone to talk to about this. She didn't want to tell her friends, they would be nothing but supportive but she felt like more needed to happen before she let them know; right now everything just felt too personal. Telling her dad was completely out. Completely. Haylee loved the relationship she had with her father. They were close and they had fun together, but he was protective. This was the last thing he would ever want to hear, not to mention the fact that it would just be awkward. Talking to her dad about sex, that was just weird and uncomfortable. She couldn't go to Emmy. Her and her little sister were pretty close, but Emmy was eleven. She was going into sixth grade, and although she knew about sex, as far as dating went, making out was about as scandalous as it got. She had a feeling in her gut like she should talk to her mom. She had always been really open to talking about anything, and really understanding. She had never been afraid to go to her about anything, but it suddenly felt different. She didn't want her mom to be disappointed in her and she didn't want her to feel like she failed as a parent because of this. Obviously she would talk to Alec, it involved him too, soon. She figured he'd be happy. Besides him, she didn't really have to tell anyone. It could just be a part of her life that she had that was between her and her boyfriend. Something about that made her feel extremely liberated.

She knew thought that there was another thing that had to be taken care of before anything could happen; birth control. Just because her plan changed, didn't mean that the horror stories of teen pregnancy that had been drilled in her head had gone away. Not in the slightest. Soon she had a plan.

The next day she woke up early, and walked down to a clinic that was in town. It wasn't far from her house and getting there was easy. An hour she walked out with what she needed, birth control pills.

When she got home she quickly retreated to her room and hid them in her sock drawer. That way no one would find them. Although the aching feeling of telling her mom at least still lingered in her gut.

That night at dinner she stayed quiet, she couldn't really think of normal conversation to say right now. She had always been so open with her family, and the whole secret keeping thing was eating at her.

Soon the sound of Emmy's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Can I get contacts?" the younger girl asked.

Like Haylee, Emmy was a good combination of both Quinn and Artie; but in completely different ways. Emmy had more of Artie's facial features, softer and a feminine looking version of course, but his features none the less. While Haylee had Artie's eyes and hair color, Emmy had Quinn's hazel eyes and blonde hair, but only a tad darker. Although while she had Quinn's eye coloring, she had gotten Artie's vision, or lack there of. She had glasses since she was six, when they realized that she could barely see three feet in front of her face. She had a cute, dark purple, rectangle lenses and up until now had not asked for contacts.

Quinn gave her youngest a smile, "I can call the eye doctor on Monday. I can see if I can set you up an appointment soon so we can talk about it."

"I don't know." Artie said hesitating. "Baby, do you think you're ready for contacts?"

"Dad, I'm going into middle school. I think I can handle sticking little circles in my eyes." she told him chuckling dryly and slightly rolling her eyes.

"Your glasses are so cute though." he let out a little saddened.

Emmy was gorgeous with or without glasses, but he knew that the contacts would help the whole 'I'm in middle school, I'm a teenager' syndrome go faster to her. He didn't know if he wanted that yet. He knew he couldn't prevent his girls from growing up, but if this one little thing could help him hang on to keeping her younger, he would go for it.

"They won't be gone forever, I'll still have them. Just the contacts more, c'mon please." She pleaded.

"Artie, it's just contact lenses. I think she's ready for them."

Artie sighed, "Okay, fine." he told her as Emmy smiled and let out a little excited squeal.

Watching the whole exchange made Haylee set on her decision to keep her birth control a secret. She knew that if she told her mom, eventually it would get back to her dad. Whether if Quinn meant to tell him anything or not, it would happen. Her dad couldn't find out. He had just freaked out slightly over Emmy getting contacts, contacts! She knew that by not telling anyone, with the exception of Alec was the right thing to do.

The next morning she kept that thought in her head as she got up and took her first pill.