TWO HOURS EARLIER
"Jamie knows I'm pregnant?" Sawyer asked quietly down the phone, fearing Lydia's answer. Jamie couldn't know. She needed to be the one to tell people. If her Dad heard it from anyone else first…
"Well no, he thinks I'm pregnant and I didn't know what to do. He didn't give me a chance to say anything so I haven't denied it but I didn't mention you, it's just-" and the tears had begun again and Lydia's next words were hard to hear, "he- he said in front of Logan and now Logan thinks its me- and he wont answer my calls..." With that Lydia started to cry hysterically.
Sawyer felt awful. It was unfair of her to make Lydia suffer through this as well. Not that she'd intentionally involved her. She'd found out a couple of weeks back. The week before she noticed she was late but didn't think much of it until a week later she realised she was really late. They were in the middle of a family dinner at Nathan and Haley's house and she started to panic. After dinner she volunteered to get something they'd forgotten from the shops and she grabbed a test at the same time. She wanted to wait until she was home but she couldn't.
So when Lydia came looking for her to call her for dessert she found her crying hysterically on the bathroom floor. Lydia immediately ran over to her to see what was wrong. They'd always been close her and Lydia. Lydia was the only one who didn't treat her like a disappointment. And so Sawyer told her and now here they were…
"Lyd's you've got to tell Jamie that it wasn't yours ok?" There was a voice in her head telling her to be selfish and let Lydia take the fall for a bit to give her more time but she knew that was wrong. "Tell him that it could have been anyone's and then go find Logan and make him listen. You can tell him the truth." It really was time then. Sawyer was finally going to have deal with this problem upfront.
"What are you going to do S?" Lydia's voice sounded frightened. Honestly, she was frightened, she was scared about what people would say to Sawyer and Jamie's outburst had only solidified her fears.
"What I should have done when I found out."
Lydia held up the phone to her ear but was again disappointed when the call went to voicemail. This was her fifteenth time calling him but she wouldn't give up. Less than two hours ago they'd been sitting lovingly on the beach and now he wouldn't even pick up the phone.
She knew it was partly her fault. After Jamie's outburst she should have just explained everything straightaway. But it had shocked her so much and her first instinct was to try to protect Sawyer. And then Jamie had started hurling abuse at her, telling her she'd make a terrible mother and that she was a complete slut. She couldn't control herself then and she just wanted Jamie to hurt.
But now it was her that was hurting. And Logan. If he believed it and it seemed like he did, he must have been crushed. But how could he, surely he knew that even if she was she would have told him? But she wasn't, in fact, unless it was an immaculate conception she couldn't be. She never loved Davis and she never trusted him enough to go that far. She loved Logan and now he wouldn't talk to her. And she'd never told him that. Tears streamed down her face and she continued to drive through the rain searching for him.
It took her awhile but eventually she tracked him down. She didn't know why she hadn't checked here first. She'd been everywhere: the beach, the river court, their spot under the bridge. Then she realised where he'd go if he needed advice but didn't want to tell anyone.
She pulled up very slowly next to his car, careful not to make too much noise. She turned her engine off but left her headlights on. Even in the rain and the darkness she could faintly read 'Sara' out of her windscreen and could see him leaning against her gravestone with his head pressed against the rock. She got out of the car and pulled her hood up and walked silently towards him.
"In case you didn't realise, when a person doesn't answer the phone, it means they don't want to talk to you." He sounded harsh and distant. Her heart sank. "I don't see why you're suddenly so desperate to talk to me now anyway. You were more interested in hurling abuse at your brother earlier."
"I know, I'm so sorry Lo," the tears were still pouring unforgivingly down her cheeks, "I need you to listen to me now though, I'm not pregnant, I promise."
Logan felt a small surge of relief but that wasn't even the point. If Jamie found a test it meant that at some point she thought she might be. That thought made Logan feels sick in the pit of his stomach. He knew she'd had boyfriends before but he thought this was different. She'd made it seem like he would be her first.
"But you thought you might be, huh?"
Lydia shook her head violently as the rain continued to pound down. She knelt down beside him and tried to grab her face so that he'd look at her.
"No, no Logan it wasn't me. It's Sawyer. She's pregnant."
That Logan had not been expecting but as awful as that might be for Sawyer to deal with he suddenly felt a huge weight lifted.
"So you- you and Davis? You never-? Did you-?" Logan knew he was bordering on sounding pathetic right now but he didn't care. He needed to know.
"No Lo- I-" But Lydia's speech was stopped by Logan pressing his lips firmly against hers. They kissed passionately for a moment before Logan pulled away and took Lydia's face in her hands and looked lovingly in her eyes,
"You know, I was sitting here and it made me think about something my Dad always says. He says sometimes we waste our words and we waste our moments and we don't take the chance to say what's really in our hurts when we have the chance and I-"
"I love you Logan." Lydia knew she had cut him off but she couldn't hold it in anymore. She wanted him to know. He chuckled.
"You sort of stole my moment there pretty girl but I love you too."
