It had been 2 days since word of Paige's pregnancy began spreading. JT spent them debating if he should talk to her or give her space, several times he wondered if he should text her or not. He had seen her a few times around school but each time she immediately took off in the opposite direction, she still looked hurt and betrayed.
As Jt sat there in his bedroom thinking about the situation and what to do, there was a knock at his bedroom door. Jt said come in, the door opened to reveal Liberty, she was wearing a cheerleading uniform.
"Just came from my tryout, what do you think?" She said excitedly.
"It looks great." He said trying to sound excited also but it was obvious he was upset.
"Still haven't heard from Paige?" Liberty asked, concerned about this.
"No, did you see her at your tryout?" He asked hopefully.
"No, it was actually Manny running it. Manny said Paige resigned for the moment."
Liberty stated. Jt looked down at his feet, that didn't help his guilt.
Liberty sat down next to him attempting to comfort him. "I know I was mad about this at first but honestly I'd be more upset if you weren't helping her. I really think it's great that you're stepping up and doing the right thing." Liberty said while rubbing his back.
"I just feel horrible getting her into this. You should've seen the look on her face." Jt said sadly. Liberty pulled him into a hug hopingu it'd lift his mood.
Paige sat on her bed attempting to do her homework, it was one of the few distractions she had at the moment from everything going on. She wasn't used to the solitude, normally she'd be without friends or on a date with Spinner or even at the very least on the phone talking about the latest going on at Degrassi with someone.
As Paige wrote, she suddenly felt sick to her stomach, Paige hurried to her bathroom. After cleaning herself up, Paige realized she had company in her room. Paige sighed at this unwelcome intrusion.
"You think you're ready to tell mom and dad?" Holly J asked.
"Yeah I'm sure they'll believe it was Heather and not me just being irresponsible." Paige said bitterly.
"I mean they have to, they knew about her longer than you did." She said as Paige gave her a glare. "Sorry...did you at least talk to JT yet? "
"No, after our last conversation I don't think he'd want to talk to me. Right now I'm pretty sure you're the only person I haven't managed to chase off." Paige said regretfully. She sighed at her behaviour.
"He can't stay that mad at you...given your situation." Holly J said, trying to be helpful.
"I don't know I was pretty hard on him about it...maybe I'm the problem, not Heather." Paige said, upset. Maybe it was best when she was Heather.
Holly J sat down next to her. "You're not a problem, between you and Heather you're my favorite big sister." Paige didn't know how to respond to that.
JT sat in his last class of the day. He had gone the whole day without seeing Paige. He knew she needed space after everything but he thought she would eventually talk to him, the way several of the guys at school congratulated him on his "conquest" wasn't helping. He had completely tuned out the teachers words as his mind wondered, his thoughts were interrupted when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He looked at it, wondering if it was more guy annoyances.
Paige: can we talk?
JT entered the Dot lookin around at the tables, finally seeing Paige at one of the further tables. He went over sitting down across from her. "Hey." Was all he managed.
"Hey." She said back. They sat together in the awkward silence before she finally spoke up.
"JT...I'm sorry for the other day in the hall." She said, she clearly sounded upset.
"I'm sorry this got out before you were ready." Jt said, remorsefully.
"It wasn't your fault, I knew that, I was just frustrated. Paige said before continuing. "JT, I spent the last 3 days researching this and everything to expect. I can't do this alone!" She said, her voice trembling.
Jt shifted his seat from across from her to next to her. Motioning Paige closer, she leaned her head against him. "We'll figure this out...somehow."
"So we're okay?" She asked as her voice still quivered.
"Yeah we're okay." Jt said.
After sometime she managed to compose herself. She lifted her head standing up. "Watch this." She said, the trembling in her voice having passed.
"Watch what?" Jt asked, confused.
"You said you wanted to be here for this." Paige said as she walked up to the counter where Spinner was working. JT couldn't hear what they were saying but as they talked, Spinners face went from the usual smile, to confused and finally to anger as he turned his head from her to look at him from the table.
JT realized what was going on, Jt did tell her he wanted to see Spinner's reaction. Paige said something to him causing him to turn his head so he was looking back to her before she turned and walked back to their table leaving dumbfounded.
"That what you were expecting?" She asked, having seemed to find her usual confidence.
"It was even better than what I was expecting." Jt says, grinning at seeing Spinners reaction. As she sat back down she noticed Jt had stopped smiling.
"What's wrong?" She asked, concerned.
Jt breathed deeply before speaking "Paige...this is a big deal...we're going to need help."
"What are you saying?" Paige asked, dreading the answer.
"Maybe I'm not the only one you should try and fix things with." She immediately knew what he was implying.
That night she sat in her room on the phone with Ashley, it was the first they had really talked since Paige had learned about her condition.
"Yeah...it's all true, it's JT's and it happened at your party." Paige sighed.
"I'm sorry, that must've been terrifying to go through." Ashley said sadly.
"It was...still is, but JT said I should at least try to make up with everyone I cut off." Paige said
"I know I was a horrible friend about the Heather thing but if there's anything I can do to help you now just ask." Ashley said. "Thanks, will do" Paige said. The two talked a bit more before Paige hung up.
As she hung up she called Hazel having a similar conversation with her. As the call ended she left her room heading over to Holly J's room. She knocked on the door, Holly J said enter, she was working on homework as she looked at Paige
"I think it's time." Paige said as Holly J looked over. Holly J nodded , got up and held Paige's hand as they walked to the living room where their parents sat.
"Mom...Dad...we need to talk..."
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