"I found the pregnancy test Lydia!"
Jamie's words stopped the couple dead in their tracks. The words echoed over and over again in Logan's mind. Lydia was pregnant. Lydia was pregnant and she hadn't told him. Lydia, the girl he loved, was pregnant. And it wasn't his.
He lifted his head to look at her. Her face was full of hurt and anger but she wasn't looking back at him. She was looking straight at Jamie. You'd think that after that revelation Logan might, just might, come first in her list of priorities. Did she not think that he needed an explanation, that he deserved one? He had so many questions. When was she going to tell him? Was she ever? When did she find out? Was it Davis' or was there someone else? A thousand more questions raced around his head and he began to felt more and more betrayed.
Was she going to keep it?
Lydia was oblivious to the hurt and anger raging inside of Logan and turned and stormed angrily towards her brother.
"You what, Jamie?" Her words were laced with anger and fury.
"I found the pregnancy test! You're pregnant Lydia and you need to deal with it!"
"You're out of line Jamie," her blatant fury gave way to an even more deadly form and her voice quietened radically.
"I'm out of line? I'm trying to help you here! You need to deal with this, you can't just keep ignoring it and pretending that it's not happening!" he lowered his voice before continuing,
"Trust me, I'll help you get through this. I can even go with you if you want…"
His suggestion was dramatically cut off at the end by a new wave of anger from Lydia, who was now screaming at the top of her lungs,
"Go with ME? To the clinic you mean? Because if I were pregnant THAT would be the only option?"
"Lydia come on, try to be reasonable, you're 17, you can't have a baby now…" Jamie tried to inject what he felt was some logic in to the situation.
"You do realise if someone had told Mum and Dad that when they were in high school you wouldn't be here right now," Lydia spat the words at her brother and turned around to find Logan so they could leave. She scanned the area but could see no trace of him.
"Logan! Logan?", she cried out futilely, "he's left! Thanks Jamie!" With that Lydia start to run after him but not before Jamie threw one last insult,
"What does it matter anyway? I mean do you even know who the father is?"
The evening at Brooke's had been great. Every time he was there he felt better. Ever since he and Peyton had split he'd felt broken and he knew Sawyer had too. He thought moving back to Tree Hill would make him whole again but he still felt like he was drifting. Apart from when he was with Brooke, she grounded him.
When he got home that night he was feeling more positive about Sawyer, maybe she was finally feeling grounded again too.
"Sawyer, I'm home. Are you in?" he called out as he walked in. Usually he'd never bothered, she was never home before the early hours of the morning but now he really wasn't sure what to expect.
"Yeah Dad, I'm just on the phone! I'll be out in a minute!"
Sawyer was lying on her bed, with her phone pressed against her ear and tears running down her cheek. On hearing the front door open and her dad's greeting she quickly swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat and tried to sound normal. Although maybe normal wasn't the right word considering her recent behaviour? She knew she was starting to freak him out but she had no idea what she was going to do… The phone call was a last-ditch attempt to try and get some advice…
"Ok he's back I have to go soon, he can't hear this…" Sawyer was now practically whispering down the phone. She wiped the tears from her eyes and sat up straight to try and gather herself.
"Wait no…look you need to…" The voice down the phone tried to protest but Sawyer interrupted sharply,
"Look it's fine, I can deal with it ok? I'll talk to you later... You can tell my mum I said hi I guess." Sawyer's last words with full of hurt and bitterness and she quickly hung up.
"I can do this." With her own words she propelled herself to stand up and head out to see her dad. She had to act normal for now. She'd figure the rest out later.