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When Sam awoke she found that the bus was pulling into her destination. As she stood up, her arms aching from the way she had slept she grabbed the one bag that she had taken with her, the pillows provided by the bus when they had found out who she was. Yawning she headed behind the other passengers, most of them were taking their time which was irritating the ravened haired heiress.

"Could we not move a little faster with less talking?" she grumbled as the heavy set woman before her stopped talking to her companion to throw her a look. Sam glared right back, her body glowing faintly as she grew angrier. The woman's eyes grew huge and she turned away from the young woman and began to move practically shoving the other passengers in her haste to get away. "That's better," the Goth said as she smirked. That was strange though. She had felt a little stronger and yet, colder too. Shrugging she stepped forward making her way out into the cloudy skied area. Looking around she saw the limo she had ordered waiting for her. The driver stood next to it and rushed forward to grab her bag before ushering her toward the waiting black car. She yawned again as the bus passengers watched her leave in awe as the woman who had witnessed the weirdness began to tell the others what she had witnessed. The whispering started and as Sam drove off, her eyes sliding shut the small community began their grapevine of gossip.

Danny sat in his room, well, Sam's room, at her desk, because he needed to feel her around him as he read the book that would help him come to terms with her pregnancy. Funny thing about the book... It was about couples that had gotten pregnant unexpectedly and now found that the stress on their relationship began to grow making most of them leave each other. He glowered at the book as he read that most times becoming pregnant made the man just as emotional as the woman who actually was pregnant.

"What the fuck," he cursed as he turned the page. It seemed that in most cases the male wasn't ready for fatherhood and just left while in other cases the woman fared just as bad, but she couldn't abandon the baby by walking away and had to make a very difficult decision on whether to keep the baby or not. The book said that at this time it was most important that the parents make the choice for the baby and not for themselves. They could not let fear make them give up. They had to be strong. This was just too much for the young man as he shut the book, his head falling on her desk with a thump. This was going to be a long, well, however long she was going to be gone. He needed her here so he could help her. He glared at the black desktop as he thought about Sam having sex with some guy. That just made him want to punch something. He didn't know why he was so concerned with her having sex with another guy. She was just his friend after all. Maybe it was because the guy wasn't here to take care of her and the child. He needed to come forward and claim responsibility for what he had done, but even that thought didn't comfort him because somehow he didn't want someone to come forward because... Why? Why did he want her to be alone? These were questions that just seemed to follow him and came up at the worst times. Suddenly his phone began to ring.

To be kicked when you are down... He pulled out his phone at the familiar ring. Welcome to my life... How ironic that tune was right now. Sam had loved the song and had made it her theme one day after stealing his phone. That was a year ago when she had done that and now they were both probably thinking the same thing. Welcome to my life.

"Welcome to my life," he said as he answered the phone. The Goth frowned and then she realized he was talking about the ringtone she had chosen for when she called and a smile twitched on her lips.

"Not as bad as mine," she commented. "I just can't get a break before something kicks me back down, but that is okay because I will rise above it. If I couldn't then I wouldn't be who I am today." Danny smiled now as he waited for her to tell him what her plans were, but Sam said nothing, her breathing soft and yet he could hear the nervousness in her breathing.

"So, what are your plans for the future."

"I am keeping the baby of course," she stated. She knew he would have to be the one to bring up the subject because she was just too afraid to take that road yet. She wasn't even sure what she was going to do now that she was pregnant. She knew that she would have to tell the father and that was just one big step she wasn't ready for.

"Sam, I know you wouldn't give up your own flesh and blood. So, what about the father? Does he know he is about to be a father?"

"No, not really. I mean, I only did it with him once and we were both drunk..." she faded off as her cheeks grew warm.

"You slept with a guy because you were drunk? I can't believe that!" Sam held the phone away from her head with a glare. "Sam, he took advantage of you."

"No," she whispered. "I knew what was happening. I knew what we were doing, but... I don't think he did. I don't know who initiated it, maybe it was the both of us, but I do know what was happening. I wanted it that way." Silence greeted her. "Danny, I know that you don't think I would allow such a thing, but I really wanted him and he seemed to want me, but the thing is," she took a deep breath, "I don't think he remembers sleeping with me."

"What do you mean?" Danny inquired, confusion in his voice. "He has to remember that he slept with you. Someone doesn't just forget having sex with someone." Sam's eyes burned. Yeah, yeah they did. Sometimes that was just the way life worked out.

"Sorry to tell you Danny, but life isn't all sunshine and smiles. Things happen and they leave someone hurt. Unfortunately that would be me this time. I don't regret it. I will remember it for the rest of my life and nothing will ever compare to it, but I will have something of him with me forever." She touched her semi-flat stomach.

"What crossed your mind when you found out?" Did he really just ask that? She knew her friend was nice, but she never thought he would see her through this. Little did she know he had been reading that book and was trying to come to terms with her impending child.

"Well, after the first stick told me I was going to be having a baby... denial. I felt denial. Making lo- having intercourse for the first time and getting pregnant was a shocker and I just couldn't imagine that it could happen to me." It was a shocker to hear that she had lost her virginity to some guy that didn't remember doing it, not that he believed that. He thought the guy was lying. How could someone forget that?

"So, you took another test?" he asked instead.

"No, I took six more," she admitted.

"Six?! Seriously?"

"I didn't want to admit that I was having a baby," she stated. "My parents already were disappointed with my and my choices, but I could care less about that. I was worried about the father of the child. We had seen each other after the," she paused to think. "Intercourse and it was like everything was how it had been before. We were just as far apart and as close as we had been before. I just felt so relieved and at the same time I was sad. How could he do that? How could he just act like nothing had happened while I was stuck with a child? I felt bad, Danny. I felt horrible for thinking that way. He had never done me wrong, well, he had made me made with the way he was when he thought only of himself, but then I realized maybe it was okay. I would take care of my baby."

"Sam, you know I will be there for you," he whispered. Sam's eyes grew wide in shock. Her friend would take care of her and the child that he didn't even know the paternity of? Tears burst from her eyes as she hung up on him, her body shaking as she felt the urge to vomit again. Why did life do this to her? Why didn't it just end her misery and allow her one moment of happiness? Who was she kidding? Fate had given her more then she could have wished for and that was all she was allowed.