Emmett was waiting patiently in his driveway when Bay arrived. He opened the driver's side door and took her into his arms. He stepped back. "You smell like vomit. Did you get sick again?" Emmett asked. Bay nodded. "Right in front of Tank. So I had to tell him what was going on." Bay crossed her arms and hugged her elbows. "How did he take it? Was he made? Did he hurt you?" Emmett put his hand on Bay's shoulder, showing his concern for her. Bay shook her head. "No, it wasn't like that at all. He was…actually pretty understanding." Bay looked down to her feet. Tank's understanding of her situation had actually made Bay feel worse. Even after she had wronged him, he still cared for her. "Well…what did you tell him?" Emmett asked, seeming a little confused. "I just told him that…I thought I might be…" Bay suddenly found herself unable to say the word. "Pregnant?" Emmett signed slowly. Bay looked at him and nodded as a single tear rolled down her cheek.
Emmett sighed. "We need to go get a test. We need to know for sure." Bay agreed as she walked toward Emmett's bike as she usually would. Emmett put his arm out in front of her and shook his head. "I don't think the bike is a good idea right now if you are…you know. Pregnant. Let's take your car." Emmett signed, gesturing towards Bay's vehicle in the driveway. Bay was a bit taken back by this but reluctantly agreed. They drove to the nearest drugstore. Bay turned to Emmett. "I guess I'll go get it. Wait here." Emmett nodded. Bay walked into the drug store and looked around, unsure of what isle she needed to go down. She walked towards the feminine care isle.
Bay quickly grabbed the first test she saw and went for the register. She turned and walked straight into another woman in the isle. A box of tampons fell to the floor. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry." Bay exclaimed as she handed the box of tampons back to the woman. They made eye contact and Bay realized she was face to face with Melody Bledsoe. "Oh, hello Bay. How are you?" Melody asked with a smile. Bay froze, suddenly feeling the weight of the pregnancy test in her hand. "Uh…I'm great! Awesome. How are you?" Melody began to respond when she eyed the test in Bay's hand. "Bay…is everything okay? Is that for you?" Melody asked with a deeply concerned look on her face.
"No no no no! It's not for me; it's for…uh…Natalie! From school? Yeah she, uh, asked me to pick it up for her…she's really scared." Bay signed nervously, hoping Melody would buy her story. Melody tilted her head to the side and reluctantly accepted Bay's story. "Well…you tell Natalie that if she needs help, my office is always open. And I won't judge." Melody smiled softly and left with her box of tampons. Bay paid for her pregnancy test and ran back out to her car.
"Emmett, you won't believe what just happened." Bay said as she jumped into the driver's side of her car. "What?" Emmett signed. "Your mom was in there buying tampons. She saw me with the test." Bay signed frantically. Emmett's jaw dropped in disbelief. "Please tell me you had a story to tell her." Bay grimaced. "I…I told her I was buying the test for Natalie." Emmett placed a hand over his eyes. "Bay, Natalie is gay. My mom knows that. No way she believed that story." Bay dropped the test and laid her head against the steering wheel. Of all the friends Bay had, why had she chosen to say the test was for Natalie? Of course Melody knew her students very well, especially the deaf ones. "So your mom definitely knows the test was for me." Emmett nodded. "I'm going to say yes. But she doesn't know we slept together so we're not totally screwed yet." This did not make Bay feel any better. There was no telling who Melody might mention this to. Would she tell Regina?
Emmett gently touched Bay's shoulder, bringing her out of her thoughts. "We need to find out exactly what's going on. We may not even have anything to hide." Bay nodded. She knew that no one was home at her house at that moment. Her mom and dad were out at a senator's dinner, Daphne and Toby were at field hockey practice, and Regina and Angelo were working on K&D. With that in mind, Bay drove to her house. She pulled into the driveway and she and Emmett went inside. Bay took the test out of the box and eyed it wearily. Her whole life could change in the next ten minutes. Emmett saw the distraught look on Bay's face. "Hey. No matter what, it's going to be okay." He smiled. Bay wasn't so sure, but she smiled back anyways.
Bay took the test and sat it on the counter top. She sat down on the floor, her back against the sink, and waited. She was only sixteen years old. She hadn't yet graduated high school. She didn't have anything figured out. How was she going to take care of another human life? Bay let her head fall back and rest against the sink. She tried to picture herself as a mother, as an unwed teenage mother. Bay had never thought she'd be in this situation. She looked at her phone. It had been 10 minutes since she had taken the test. It should be ready. Bay took a slow, deep breath and stood up.
Just as she did, Emmett knocked on the bathroom door and came in. "Hey, everything okay?" He signed shakily. Bay blushed. "I haven't looked yet…I can't." She teared up again. Emmett walked towards the counter top where the test was laying. "I'll look." He signed, more shakily this time than the last. Bay was becoming light headed. She sat down on the closed toilet lid. Emmett slowly reached for the test and eyeballed it for what seemed like forever. Bay looked up to him. "Well?" She asked.
Emmett gulped and slowly sat the test down. Emmett looked at Bay, and then to her still quite flat abdomen. "What did it say?" Bay asked, more desperately this time. Emmett stepped forward slowly and placed his palm against Bay's stomach and looked into her sad brown eyes. "Emmett!" Bay screamed, tears now streaming down her face. She backed away from him. He fumbled before finally signing "Yes…yes. You're pregnant."