Diaspro woke up to a queasy feeling in her stomach. She quickly hopped out of bed and ran to her bathroom. She held her hair back as she threw up into the sink.

"Are you okay?" Diaspro's mother yelled through the door. She had been walking by when she had heard noises coming from her daughters bathroom. When Diaspro did not respond, she figured that she was too busy throwing up to respond so she quickly left to go get the doctor.

Diaspro then washed out the sink and sat down on the edge of her tub.

"What did I eat yesterday? Nothing out of the ordinary…" Diaspro said aloud as she tried to think of why she would so suddenly get sick. This was not like any flu kind of sick though, since she did not feel sick in any other way. The only other reason she thought would cause this kind of abrupt sickness was pregnancy.

"But I can't be pregnant…that just doesn't happen to royalty.." She said aloud.

The royal doctor then walked into her room with her mother and Diaspro left the bathroom to see them.

"Were you feeling sick last night?" The doctor asked.

"Not at all. And I feel fine now." Diaspro replied, scared of what she had just thought about. She thought " I can't be pregnant. I just can't" trying to reassure herself.

"I would like to do some tests on you just in case." The doctor said. "Could you leave us for a moment?" He directed at Diaspro's mother.

"Of course."

Diaspro sat down on her bed as the doctor opened up his briefcase.

"Now that your mother is gone, I want you to answer me truthfully." The doctor said sternly.

"Okay"

"The only other conclusion I can come to about this random sickness is the possibility of pregnancy. Is that possible?"

"Y..y…yes. I suppose so."

"You suppose so? It is a yes or no question princess. Have you had sex or not?"

"I have."

"When was your last period?"

"Maybe two months ago, three. I'm not sure. I haven't had it in a while. But it's always late and never comes at the same time every month! And I have skipped some before and not been pregnant!" Diaspro said desperately trying to deny what was most likely the truth.

"Well I will have you take this home pregnancy test to see if you are or not."

"Please do not tell my parents about this…I am begging you. If I am I want to be able to tell them."

"I must, since I am employed by them."

"Please! They cannot know yet! I could have you fired you know. Would you rather have that? If you tell them I could have it done!"

"Fine then, princess. I will leave you alone now. Take the test and let me know if it is positive or not, although I am sure it will turn out positive. We will discuss your options from there."

"Options? I have options?"

"Well by the looks of it you are only about two months along you can always get an abortion. Or you can carry it out to term and keep the baby or put it up for adoption." The doctor then walked out of the door.

Diaspro could not believe what was happening. Just yesterday she had found out that her fiancé was basically dating another girl and she still had yet to talk to him about the whole situation. Now she could be pregnant with his child? She did not want to marry him anymore because of how many lies he told her and the fact that he did not love her back.

"I really hope this turns out to be negative." She said as she put the stick on her bathroom counter after peeing on it.

Diaspro paced back and forth across her balcony, waiting for the five minutes to be up. She noticed a carriage pull up to the front of the castle and saw Sky and his parents step out of it.

"Just great, I don't need to deal with him now too." She said. She had been really hurt by the way he clearly showed affection for Bloom, especially since he was happy to have sex with her but date another girl behind her back.

Her alarm went off letting her know that five minutes had passed and she rushed into the bathroom. When she saw a plus sign on the window of the stick, she fell to the ground and began to cry. She could not believe that she was pregnant. Her life was slowly falling apart around her.

She was surely going to be disowned from her parents because of the scandal she was going to cause with this pregnancy. Once the press found out about it, she would be known as the sluttiest princess out there. She had never heard of another one getting pregnant before, ever, in her life.

Outside of the door Diaspro's mother started to knock. She hesitated at first since she had heard the sobs coming from the other side. She had figured that Diaspro was upset about the whole situation with Sky.

"Sky's family is here now to talk about what happened the other day. You need to come down for brunch."

"Yes Mother, can I have a moment?"

"Of course. I will wait here."

Diaspro washed off her face and put the stick into the garbage can wrapped up in paper towels. She knew that she could not hide all the red splotches on her face but she did not care anymore. She emerged from the bathroom and went to her mother.

"I am so sorry for what you are going through dear." Her mother said as she pulled Diaspro into her arms for a hug.

"Mom, before we go down…I have to t-t-tell you s-something."

"What is it darling?"

"I-I-I am…well… I'm p-p-pregnant."

"Excuse me? You are what?" Her mother said in surprise.

"I'm pregnant mom."

"But, How? You weren't supposed to do anything before you were married! Is that why Sky cheated on you then? How dare you ruin the marriage like this!"

"He has to be the father, I have not been with anyone else. And yes I know it was wrong and regret it now but I'm scared and don't know what to do. I can't trust Sky anymore and I don't know what will happen between us."

"Well we will have to deal with this later. Are we to tell him and his parents about this?"

"I-I don't know. What do you think?"

"I think that you should decide since you ultimately have the decision. In my opinion the less people know about it the better. If you are to still be married to him then they will have to know. But I don't see why we need to tell them right away."

"You aren't mad at me?" Diaspro said in disbelief. Her mother's tone was understanding and sympathetic, she had thought her mother would be livid with her.

"Well I am a bit disappointed. But I cannot reprimand you seeing as I would be a hypocrite. You see, when I was engaged to your father for a couple years, I wanted to still date so I would go behind my parents back and..well I am sure you can figure out that I had a couple boyfriends and did things with them."

"Did you get pregnant?"

"No, but I understand the pressure of feeling the need to find pleasure and being rebellious. I know it is wrong to arrange marriages, but you can't always control some things in life. I'm sorry I have had to put you through this. In a way, I feel responsible."

"Thank you." Diaspro and her mother then hugged again and her mother rubbed her head.

"There there, I know this is tough but we have to go and face Sky's family now. You think you can handle that?"

"I need to, I don't have a choice really." Diaspro said.

"Well I think that the marriage should continue." Sky's father said. He broke the awkward silence at the table.

"The press is full of the story already, about the Sky's mysterious red mistress." Diaspro's mother said. "It looks bad for Diaspro as well as the marriage."

"But it will make the marriage look stronger if they can work through this issue." Sky's father responded.

"I will not have my daughter embarrassed like this! She is humiliated! She spent most of this morning and last night crying in her room over him! All she has been is nice to him and how does he repay her? By cheating on her with some slut from earth, who had the audacity to attack Diaspro!" Diaspro's father said as he slammed his fist down on the table.

"She is part of the problem too! If she had not instigated this fight then the press would have never found out about this situation!" Sky's father said, his anger rising.

"It does not matter if the press know or not, the fact of the matter is the marriage is dishonest already. He should not have been leading on this earth girl." Diaspro's mother said.

"We still like the idea of the marriage since the bond between our nations would be crucial. Not to mention the embarrassment of having to call it all off too. It makes both of our nations rulers look weak." Sky's mother said.

"I will not allow it. Clearly the arrange marriage system will not work in unifying our nations since our children cannot be unified through it. We will have to choose another way." Diaspro's mother said. Diaspro appreciated how hard her parents were fighting for her to not be married to Sky.

Sky sat with his arms crossed and stared down at the table. Diaspro stared at him from across the table and admired at how handsome he was, but also could not bear to look at him for too long because of how hurt she felt. Both were silent during their parents discussion.

"How else could we make such a strong alliance though?" Sky's father asked.

"We can come up with some kind of treaty." Diaspro's father quickly responded.

"Well while we think of that why don't you two go to the other room to talk." Diaspro's mother suggested as she looked over at Sky and Diaspro.

"I agree." Sky's mother said.

"Well it is settle then that the marriage is off. We will have to notify all of the involved parties soon." Sky's father said.

The adults continued to talk as Diaspro and Sky walked into the parlor room. Both were silent for a while and did not look at each other. Diaspro contemplated whether or not she should tell Sky about the pregnancy. She still was not sure what she was going to do about it herself, so she did not know if it was best to tell him or not.

Finally, Sky spoke up. "I'm sorry Diaspro. I did not want you to find out like you did."

"Then how was I supposed to find out? Were you just going to keep her as your lover even while we were married?" Diaspro said in anger.

"No, I was going to talk to my parents about ending the arrangement soon. I did not want it to explode like this."

"Well it did. How could you! You just had sex with me two months ago before you left for school, yet you have been dating her for the whole year?" Diaspro said as tear started to come to her eyes.

"I-I-I guess I let my hormones get the best of me. I did not want to hurt you." Sky said. He sat down and put his head in his hands. Both were quiet again for sometime.

"Did you ever even love me Sky? Was last summer just a complete lie then? Did we ever connect like I thought we did? Were we actually making love or was that just lust?" Diaspro said through her tears.

"I'm not sure..I think I forced myself into thinking I loved you since I thought I was stuck in the marriage."

"I can't believe I gave myself up to you like that then..I really loved you! HOW COULD YOU! YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH THAT STUPID RED HAIRD SLUT! YOU TOLD ME SHE WAS NOTHING, NOTHING!"

Sky remained quiet as Diaspro started to calm down.

"This has been going on all year then hasn't it."

"Yes. We aren't even officially dating though, just flirting and talking."

"You might as well have cheated on me." Diaspro said. She then realized that she should not tell sky about the pregnancy since she was positive she was going to get an abortion, she did not want to have anything to remind her of him in her life.

"I'm so sorry Diaspro. I want you to know that I still care about you as a friend though. You were my first and I will never forget that. We had a great summer last year and part of our feelings might have been real, but my feelings for Bloom are very strong and I think I might love her. I don't want to give her up."

"Then go to your stupid earth girl then and leave me alone. I assure you your parents will not approve of her though, no matter what you or she does."

Sky walked over to Diaspro and pulled her into his arms. Despite how angry she was at him, she still liked the feeling of being against his chest and wished that she could stay there forever.

"Goodbye Diaspro. I'm sure I will see you around at royal events. I hope you can still consider me a friend."

"I do Sky, I really do. I just wish that you would love me instead of her." Diaspro said. She looked up into his blue eyes and then kissed him passionately. He kissed her back slightly but she noticed that it was not with the same passion he once had kissed her back with before.

"I can't help the way I feel." Sky responded as he pulled away from Diaspro's lips. He then kissed her forehead and let go of her. He walked over to the door and opened it.

"I can't help the way I feel either Sky. How can I make you stay with me?" Diaspro said.

"You can't. I love Bloom with all of my heart, and I am not going to give up on her. I need to make things right with her."

"Even if we had a child together?"

Sky turned around and looked at her with worry in his face.

"Do you mean to say…that….you are…pregnant?"

"Just answer the question Sky." Diaspro said, trying to test him.

"I don't think I could even then. Bloom is very special to me and I cannot live without her." Sky responded, relief showing in his face as he suspected that Diaspro was just testing him to see if he still loved her.

"Then there is nothing between us at all except friendship." Diaspro said, with disappointment in her voice.

"Goodbye Diaspro." Sky said as he walked out the door.

The door to the room shut and Diaspro flung herself on the couch. She did not know what she was going to do next. She was torn between keeping the baby or not as well as emotionally torn between hating Sky and loving him. She was so confused and hurt that all she could do was just cry into the pillows.