Kim

"Mummy! Mummy where are you mummy?" A little girl smiled. She had blonde hair and was running ahead of me. "Mummy? Where are you?"

She was getting scared now, almost close to tears.

"Hi sweetie, are you okay?" I asked.

She turned round; she had the biggest smile. She looked like a mini version of me blue eyes and all. "Mummy!"

She took my hand "Over here mummy look what I found!"

She pulled me over to the bushes "You're being too slow!" She pointed to the bush "look pretty butterflies mummy"

"They're lovely" I said.

Suddenly she pushed me away. "You took daddy away. You keep him away why mummy? Why?"

I was lost for words. "Daddy was a bad man and he hurt me I wasn't going to let him hurt you the same way he hurt me"

Jack

A baby was crying. I went over to its cot and picked it up. It was a baby girl with a little tuff of hair. Kim's baby. But where was Kim? I shouted out for Kim but she didn't reply. Meanwhile the baby was screaming and screaming and I didn't know what to do! She was only little. I didn't know if I was holding her right. I didn't know what was wrong. I needed help.

My eyes opened wide. At least I hadn't jumped since Kim was sleeping right next to me and I would have given her a fright.

There was a faint knock at the door and it opened just a crack. Kim stirred in my arms for just a moment but then drifted back off.

"Jack?" Nate whispered "two boys are here erm….Milton and Jerry they say that they know you from the dojo"

I nodded "They are fine but tell them to be quiet Kim is not sleeping well"

Kim made me promise that when she does get released from hospital she will never have to go back to the house again. I promised that I would do anything in my power to stop that from happening. After I promised that Kim agreed to settle down and close her eyes for the first time since getting her test results.

The door opened wider and there were my two best friends, that I was beginning to think had given up on me and Kim. I hadn't seen them since the second day we were in here.

"How is she doing?" Milton whispered.

I looked down at Kim who was luckily still sleeping in my arms. "It's hard to tell she's barely spoken to me. She's terrified that a photographer or a journalist will come her e looking for their story like what happened yesterday. But I think it's her test results that are making it a lot harder for her"

Milton picked up the clipboard pinned to the end of Kim's bed and scanned it. "Jack she is…pregnant"

I nodded. "And the tough thing is that I don't have a clue about what to say or do to make it easier"

Jerry put his hand on my shoulder "be there for her dude pregnancy is hard trust me I have five brothers and two sisters! My mum was a nutcase with the triplets"

My eyes widened "Jerry do me a favour do not mention that to Kim okay? There's no reason to freak her out more alright? And I don't want to see her murder you either"

He nodded looking nervous, almost sick, as if he was remembering all of the things that Kim had threatened in the past if he annoyed her such as pulling out his hair telling the cheerleading squad some gossip about in and so on.

"All we can do is to be here for her" Milton said.

I nodded; the last couple of days had been difficult. Kim has barely spoken about it at all. It was like she believed that the more she talks about it the more the baby will exist. But deep down I know (I hope) that Kim will keep the baby; I don't think she would ever want to give it up or have an abortion.

Kim stirred in my arms and suddenly sat up, stretching out her arms coming so close to my face that I thought she would have poked my eye if I didn't wrap my hand around hers and kissed it.

"Hey beautiful" I said, playing with her hair.

She blinked a couple of times and rubbed her eyes. "Oh hey guys"

I kissed the top of her head "How did you sleep?"

She smiled "I had a really nice dream there was a little girl she looked like me she called out to me, calling me mummy"

"That's nice honey"

Milton and Jerry made retching sounds.

I turned at glared at them "Anyway why are you here now? We've not seen you for a few days"

They glanced at each other.

"we're sorry we've not been round but this place has been swamped by the press and the police we weren't able to get in until we ran into Sam at the reception, the press conference is this afternoon she's setting up right now" Milton said.

Kim sighed and brought her legs up to her knees. "This is my entire fault sorry; if mum had never have left me with him he wouldn't have hurt me"

I shook my head and lifted Kim's chin gently. "You are not to blame; no-one is to blame apart from him and don't start thinking otherwise."

"Jack I don't want the baby" Kim said, tears streaming down her face "this baby is going to hate me"

I grabbed her hands and held them tight "listen to me Kim this baby isn't going to hate you. He or she is going to love you just as much as I do or even more"

I just hoped that the press conference would do more good than harm for Kim's sake, especially because we have so much more to think about now.