AN: Sorry for the long update, I've been sick and kind of busy. I'll try to do it faster the next time.
I'm not really happy with this chapter, in my mind it was so much better but here it is. As always I'm sorry for any kind of mistake...remember that my first language is Spanish and I learned English all by myself so there are probably like 20 million mistakes in each chapter.
Chapter 9: Expect the Unexpected
Aria, Hanna and Emily sat on Aria's bed looking impatient, worried and a little freak out. They watched Spencer walk from one side of the room to the other for 15 minutes, not understanding why she was acting like that, so out of control. Emily did understand, unlike Aria and Hanna who only knew the last part of the story, she knew everything and knew how messed up things were for her best friend.
"Spencer!" Aria yelled from her spot but the tall brunette kept walking and walking, not even turning her head to look at her tiny friend.
Hanna, who was more impulsive and impatient than the other two girls, got up and grabbed Spencer by the shoulders shaking her a little, now, what Hanna really wanted to do was slap her but that would have been a bit extreme and dramatic. "Spencer! You are getting on my nerves!" The blonde yelled. "Just go the bathroom and pee on that damn stick you holding. It's not that hard; I've done it a thousand times, just do it!" Hanna commanded finally stopping to shake Spencer.
"Don't yell at me." Spencer whined, getting a glare from her blonde friend and no apology. "Okay, I'll do it." Spencer breathed and got inside the bathroom locking her door.
"Really Hanna? Did you have to be so mean?" Emily scolded Hanna quietly so Spencer couldn't hear her.
"What?" The pretty blonde shouted and Aria and Emily shushed her. Hanna rolled her eyes and spoke lower this time, "I think Spencer is overreacting, it wouldn't be that bad if she was pregnant."
The previous night, after Spencer told Emily everything that had happened with Toby and how her feelings were as messier as her own life, she admitted to be worried about something else, something that would complicate her life even more than it already was. "I think I'm pregnant." The brunette had told her tanned friend and just the thought of it terrified her because she had no idea if it was Wren's or Toby's. Just in time to hear Spencer's last statement, Aria and Hanna got in screaming of excitement at the news. The two girls were so clueless.
"I don't get it either." Aria added, "I know that having a kid is not in her plans right now and it's very unexpected but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I mean, in one more week she'll be out of college, money is not a problem for her and she is going to marry Wren soon, who by the way, is dying to have a baby with Spencer since they started dating."
"Have you ever consider that maybe things are more complicated that than Aria?" said Emily, her tone was a more aggressive than she intent to.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Aria asked confused.
"All I'm saying is that sometimes things are not the way they look like." Emily double looked at the bathroom's door just to make sure Spencer wasn't getting out soon and catch them talking about her. "Spencer's life must seem perfect but it doesn't mean it is. Maybe she has more problems than we know."
Aria and Hanna gave Emily a suspicious look. "You know something we don't! Spill it out, Fields" Hanna demanded.
"I don…"
"I can't do this." Spencer interrupted the girls talk storming out of the bathroom in such a dramatic fashion that not even Hanna could have pulled it off. "Hanna take the test for me, you owe me one, I took the SAT for you."
The blue-eyed girl walked to Spencer and wrapped her arms around her. "As much as I would love to help you out I can't. This is something only you can do." Her voice softened a little, "I know you are scared and you are probably thinking about all the ways having a baby is going to change your life but it's going to be a good change and the sooner you take the test the sooner you can't stop freaking out."
"You have nothing to be scared of, Spence." Aria smiled from her spot in the bed. Emily only gave Spencer a sympathetic look.
She didn't know why but Hanna's words gave her the strength and courage she needed. What Hanna had said was the very far from reality, it was in fact the opposite, having a baby would complicate her life more. She was already worrying about telling Wren and Toby and all the heartbreak it was going to cause, especially for Wren but knowing that her friends would be there no matter what for her made it all better. She felt brave enough to take the pregnancy test now and so she did.
The three-minute wait for the result seemed like a three century wait for Spencer, she was nervous, anxious and more than anything, she was scared. She was already thinking about the possibilities and she was having a hard picturing herself with a baby. Would she be a good mother? Would she make the same mistakes her own parents made with her? Those questions along with million others crossed her mind as she waited and she couldn't help to think that she was already failing at parenting. "Not knowing who the father is? Classy Spencer, very Classy."
"This is going to help you relax a little." Aria smiled, giving Spencer a cup of a strange Indian tea. Spencer mumbled a thank you and took a sip of the hot liquid that tasted better than she expected.
"Has it been three minutes yet?" A very impatient Spencer asked, she hated waiting and hated more not knowing, and this was one of those situations she hated.
"It's only been 30 seconds, Spencer." Emily sighted. "Maybe we should start talking about something, you know so you won't into insanity." The shy girl suggested and Spencer only nodded.
"So, how did take the SAT for Hanna?" Aria asked immediately, not having anything better to ask. "I thought that was impossible."
"There are ways." Hanna declared uncomfortable. She clearly didn't want to get into that subject. For years everyone had been proud of her for getting an almost perfect score and now she felt embarrassed and dumb. "Can we not talk about it?"
"If Blondie doesn't want to talk about it neither do I." The long-haired brunette said. "It's something I'm not proud of."
"I was curious." Aria sighted playing with her black hair.
"I have one question. How did you make Spencer to take it for you?" Emily directed her question to Hanna, being more intrigued by that than how Spencer managed to pretend to be Hanna Marin. "Did you bribe her something?"
Hanna and Spencer exchanged complicity glances; well Spencer was more like begging with her eyes to her friend to keep the mouth shut but the pretty blonde seemed not to catch Spencer's pleading and spoke anyways. "The original plan for Spencer to help me study, so I went to her house as usual and you would think I found her with her head buried in her books as expected, but instead I found her naked in the kitchen with a very naked Wren." Spencer's face was fully red by now and anyone could tell Hanna was going to get murdered in her sleep. Emily and Aria were on the floor laughing at the embarrassing story. "That was a very traumatic experience for me." Hanna continued. "That was before Caleb and you know innocent I was before I met him, so finding my best friend giving Wren a bl-…"
"HANNA! That's enough!" Spencer screamed not letting the blonde continue with the humiliating story. Hanna gave her an apologetic look and the other two girls stopped laughing when Spencer shot them with the emblematic Hastings' death glare. "Has it been three minutes already?"
Emily nodded as she tried to catch her breath again. "Do you want me to check it for you?"
Spencer shook her head and walked to the bathroom. "I need to do this on my own." She assured with a confident tone in her raspy voice. Once inside she took the stick in her hands and smiled at the sight of a pink plus sing.
It wasn't the result she was hoping for and smiling wasn't a reaction she was expecting to have but she was happy, excited even. She was going to be a mom, a little person was growing inside of her, a person she was sure was going to love forever and with no condition. The girl with mocha eyes placed her hand in her stomach still smiling at the thought of the new life she was carrying, her baby, that little piece of her. But seconds later reality hit her again, that baby wasn't just a little piece of her, she hadn't create it on her own and that's when the fear of not knowing invade her body again.
"Spence?" Emily's sweet voice called from behind. Spencer turned around with the test still in her hand letting Emily see the pink plus sing. Emily opened her mouth to say something, but Spencer looked at her smiling, genuinely smiling for the first time in days, still the look in her eyes was deep in sadness and scare. It was like her eyes and smile were giving Emily opposite messages and Emily figured it all would cause of her friend's mixed emotions.
The two dark-haired girls came out of the bathroom to find Hanna and Aria anxiously waiting, there was some sort of spark in their eyes.
"So?" Hanna asked impatient opening her big blue eyes so much that it looked like they would pop out of her face any minute.
"I'm pregnant." Spencer whispered letting tears escape her brown eyes but the involuntary smile that had been formed in her face when she read the result moments earlier was still present. She had so many mixed feelings about this.
Both girls hugged Spencer simultaneously and expressing how happy they were for her friend. Emily on the other hand, did nothing. She just stood by the door frame watching her friends, she was the only one who knew how serious the situation was and as happy as Spencer looked she could still see the fear hidden in the depth of her mocha eyes.
"I'm so so so happy for you, Spence" Aria squealed. "Oh My God!" She continued even more excited than she was before. "Wren is going to be so happy, you have no idea how many times he have told Jason he desperately wants to have kids."
Aria's statement broke Spencer's heart and without knowing she was breaking down again. Spencer always knew Wren wanted to have a big family but he never really talked about it, maybe because he didn't want to pressure Spencer considering how young she was and now that was experiencing the joy of becoming a mother in such unexpected way he probably wouldn't be the one sharing the happiness and the joy this baby would bring. Just knowing how much he wanted it was enough to break her.
Emily was quick in embracing her crying friend, murmuring things like "it's going to be okay" and "I'm going to be here for you no matter what." Those things seemed to be comforting Spencer but enough to make her stop crying completely.
"What's going on here?" Hanna asked noticing that there was something bothering Spencer and that obviously Emily only knew.
"Whatever it is you can tell us, Spence. We are here for you." Aria added.
The crying girl glanced at Emily, who nodded and held her hand as a way to show her support. Spencer felt so lucky to have friends like Emily, Aria and Hanna in her life. She took a deep breath to regain composure and be able to speak. "There might be a chance that the baby is not Wren's."
The blonde and the tiny brunette looked at each other in show. Have they heard right? "WHAT?" the two of them shouted in unison.
Spencer didn't say a word and Emily squeezed her hand a little.
"Are you having an affair?" Hanna's voice was demanding. "What is wrong with you?"
"Hanna!" Emily yelled.
"I'm not having an affair, girls." Spencer breathed "It was one time when Wren was in London." She added as if that would make things sound better.
"So you just had a one night stand with a random dude?" Aria was quick to judge but her intentions weren't bad, she was just trying to make sense of what was happening.
"No!" Spencer suddenly felt cheap, but she knew she was in no position to feel offended her friends were right to assume the worst. It's like they would guess right away that is was Toby. "It was Toby."
"OH. MY. GOD!" Both, Hanna and Aria squealed. There was more excitement in their voices than when Spencer said she was pregnant. "This is so great!" Hanna clapped.
"What?" Spencer frowned. "That wasn't the reaction I was expecting."
Aria rolled her eyes as if Spencer wasn't catching the obvious. "Look, we love Wren and all but you and Toby, that's like huge. We always thought something was going to happen between you two because he had been in love with you since forever."
"So…everyone knew he is love with me except from me?" Spencer said glancing to each of her three best friends. "Great!" she said sarcastically.
"He told me after we broke up years ago but I didn't know they knew." Emily, who had been quiet for a while spoke up.
"Yeah…he hasn't told us anything but it was kind of obvious." Hanna said in a "duh" tone as if Toby loving Spencer was something the entire universe should know.
"Obvious how?" Spencer asked grabbing a cookie from the plate Aria brought from the kitchen earlier with the Indian tea. She was feeling so confused, how come everyone had notice that her best friend, the person she was supposed to know more anyone else, was in love with her. Everyone knew except from her, she had to hear it from him to finally realize it. How could she have been so blind?
"The way he looks at you like you are his everything and how he always put you first, even he is dating someone you are like his big priority." Aria began as she drank her own Indian tea.
"And remember when we blinded Jenna?" Hanna said quietly, still ashamed for what had happened that night, "Jenna is his family but he was willing to take the blame just so you wouldn't get in trouble."
"He wanted to help all of us." Spencer clarified but not even she believed the words that came out of her mouth. Toby was trying to help her, even she hadn't let him take the fault and the girls got in serious trouble.
"Spencer." Aria rolled her eyes, taking off the chips of her cookie because she was one of those weird people who didn't like chocolate. "We all know that if you weren't involved he wouldn't have offered to help."
"And let's not forget he had a tattoo with you initial on his chest, on top of his heart. That's like the biggest declaration of love that ever exists." Hanna grinned.
"Actually, the tattoo was my idea and I have the same one but with Toby's initial." Spencer said shyly. She wasn't sure why she bought it up but the words just escaped her mouth giving her three friends another reason to squeal like babies, but after a few seconds the three of them were giving her questioning looks. Spencer only rolled her eyes and smirked standing up and pulling her sweats a little down to show them the permanent drawing.
"This is so romantic!" Hanna exclaimed.
"It's not!" Spencer responded a bit frustrated. "I'm pregnant and I don't know if the father is my fiancé, who I'm not sure if I want to marry anymore; or my best friend, who I know I have some feelings for but I don't which feelings are those." She breathed heavily. "It is hard enough to try to figure how I feel for both them and worrying about not hurting the two most important men in my life but now…" She teared up a little and wiped her tears away with her finger. "How I'm going to do this? What if tell them everything and they both hate me? What if my baby grows up without a father because of me? I don't think I'd be able to forgive myself for that."
She let out a sob that contained so many emotions and the three girls instantly embraced her. "That's not going to happen, Spence. We are going to be here for you always, ok? Even if Toby and Wren disappear, which by the way, I highly doubt it's going to happen." Emily tried to comfort Spencer.
"And maybe Spence, you are freaking out about nothing?" Aria suggested. "You said you have only slept with Toby once, right?" Spencer nodded. "You remember when it was?"
"About five weeks ago." Spencer answered wiping her tears away one more time. "The night before Wren came back."
"How about you go to the doctor's first and you get to know how far along you are?" Aria advised. "You have to know for sure if Toby being the father of your baby is a possibility before you start making decisions Spence. "
"I guess that's the smartest thing to do." Spencer sighted, she felt lucky once again to have the girls as her friends. What would be of her without those girls?
"I have a question." Hanna said to Spencer. "If you could choose one, Wren or Toby, to be the father of your kid who would it be?"
AN: I hate to be predictable but I had to do it. I know it was kind of risky to make Spencer pregnant and I'm a little scared that I'm going to lose some readers, specially because a few people asked for this not happen but I've planned this since the beginning and I promise that I have everything planned...I know what I'm doing!
That being said...who wants to play another game?
It's easy, you only have to guess which character is making an appearance in the next chapter...a clue? This character haven't been mentioned in this story before but it's one of my favorite on the show. :)
If you are the first one to guess a character would be named after you!
So send your reviews with your guesses and tell me what you thought of this chapter.
Love you!
A.
