"I honestly can't remember the last time I went to the movies Case", Cappie scoffs as we drive in his car, me in the passenger seat holding the new pictures of the sonogram that we got today.

"Well Cap that's probably because it's a popular date destination… and you don't date", I look over to him with a know it all smile, full well knowing I'm poking fun at him like me and him do.

"Oh c'mon", He rolls his eyes, looking over at me, his hands on the wheel. I stare at his long fingers for a moment, briefly thinking about how good they felt inside me that night. The thought makes my stomach do that flip flopping thing that it does when it comes to him.

I look at him with my eyebrows raised, hoping to god that he can't read my mind, that he can't tell what had just popped into my head.

"I date", Cappie gives me a serious look, speaking matter of fact as he shrugs slightly.

"No you don't!", I say as I start to giggle, sounding like a little kid as I do.

"I have on occasion", He refutes as he begins to laugh with me.

He turns onto the street that the movie theatre here in Cyprus is.

I give him a wide eyed look, saying with my eyes that I don't believe him.

"C'mon Cap, be real, how many girls have you dated after me?", I cross my arms.

What I wasn't saying was that I actually loved that he didn't date. I honestly don't know how I would react to seeing him seriously date someone. If I had to see him parading some other girl around campus, seeing him fall in love with someone else, well I'm pretty sure I'd lose it.

That's what made our breakup a lot easier… the fact that he didn't move on. The fact that I knew without question that I was still it for him, that he'd drop anything for me. And fine, that was probably selfish.

I had no problem really with him sleeping around like he did. I guess because I knew how he was and I knew that it wasn't serious, it was just him having fun. It wasn't like he wanted to… marry one of those girls. But if he actually got a girlfriend that would be different.

"I've dated lots of girls", He shrugs.

"Meeting a girl at a party, having sex with her and then never talking to her again doesn't count!", I put my finger up, laughing a bit still.

He looks over to me when we come up to an intersection, the light turning red as he slows the car down.

We share a look for a moment as I watch a smirk come over his face and then he rolls his eyes back in faux annoyance.

"Fine. Then I haven't dated anyone since you, you got me", He sighs jokingly.

"See, I knew I was right", I giggle again, my cheeks hot. "So since you haven't been accustomed to it lately, I'll give you the rundown Cap. Dinner and a movie is kind of a customary date option, one that most people choose to do".

I'm speaking matter of fact, joking with him as I try to annoy him, something that we liked doing with each other.

"Mmm interesting", He mulls this over as he turns into the parking lot for the movie theatre. "So you're saying that we're on a date then?"

"Well it's customarily a movie and dinner Cap", I give him a look with my eyes.

"Then we'll go for dinner after", He shrugs as he finds his way into a parking spot and then puts the car in park. "Will it be a date then?"

He looks at me mischievously.

"No, because… this is a different situation", I scoff. "We're… two people having a baby hanging out together because we're trying to be friends".

He thinks about this for a moment, nodding.

"So… between now and when you have the baby you wouldn't consider… an actual dinner and a movie date with me?", He raises his eyebrow up. "Because I know that I'm majorly out of practice when it comes to dating, as you've insinuated many times already…"

I giggle.

"But I'm pretty sure I could get the hang of it again", His blue eyes look my face over now, trying to decipher my feelings on this, him licking his lips.

"Well… I'm only 10 weeks", I shrug, holding up the sonogram photo strip. "So… who knows what'll happen between now and then".

I shrug, my face serious now, not bantering with him anymore just giving him the truth.

"Well that's not a no", He grins, nodding.

"It's a maybe", I refute, putting my finger up to him, letting him know that it was definitely still not a yes.

He nods, thinking this over, but he's smiling nonetheless. Because he was right. Any other time he's tried to get me back this past year it's always been a definite no.

"Well", Cappie laughs. "Doing things backwards could be our style Case… sleep together, get pregnant, live together, and then go on a date".

He gives me a smirking look.

"Well in case you forgot we did date… for a decent amount of time too. So it's a little different", I raise my eyebrow at him. "And the date thing is still just a maybe".

I give him a playful smirk as he thinks this over.

"Well I'm gonna turn that maybe into a yes Case", He looks right in my eyes when he says that, making me stop in my tracks, making my expression go blank at his boldness. "You'll see".

I can't help but sort of blush now, unable to look right at him or else I'll cave and smile.

I look up quickly to see him grinning before I watch his eyes set on the sonogram photos in my lap as he reaches out to look at them. I hand them over to him so he can get a proper look.

"So…", He looks the photos over, his eyes full of awe, just like they were earlier at the doctors. "This is him or her".

"Yep", I nod, still a little scared of all of this.

"I can't believe how fast it happened", He scoffs slightly, looking like he's in disbelief. "I feel like that night during rush wasn't even that long ago and now… now it has a head and legs and a heartbeat… and you can pretty clearly make out everything in the phots".

"I know right", I can't help but smile, kind of wanting to hide it because I wasn't sure if I wanted him to see how I felt about the baby.

"It's really cool", He smiles, looking up from the photos to meet my eyes. "The whole appointment I was in… shock I think".

"I know, it was scary", I laugh nervously. "The heartbeat thing was crazy… things are just happening really really fast".

"I know. But… don't worry, we still have time to decide what to do", He looks at me empathetically, I think reacting to how lost I look right now. I just had so much to overcome. I had to tell my parents, I had to figure out whether we were going to keep it, I had to look into adoption. It was just a lot. "Why don't we just have a good time today and… then maybe we can talk more about what to do over the week?"

"Yeah", I nod up and down. "Exactly. Plus, it's your birthday".

I give him a smile now.

"And I know it's no Gentleman's Choice", I gesture to the movie theatre doors a few metres away from where we are in Cappie's parked car. "But you're gonna have to try and have fun here too".

Cappie laughs at that, smirking at me. I knew his frequent hobby of visiting the only strip club here in town with the other KT guys.

"Yeah honestly... if this hadn't happened with you coming back into my life because of the baby...", He looks serious now as he speaks to me. "Well, I probably would be spending my birthday there".

"Really? The guys wouldn't throw you a party or something?", I question. "You guys never really seem to need an excuse to throw a rager".

"No, actually... the guys don't even know it's my birthday", He shrugs.

"Really? Why?", I ask.

"I don't know, I just don't make a big deal of it I guess", Cappie shrugs nonchalantly. "And if I did tell them they'd definitely forget Case, you know how they are".

Cappie's serious expression turns into a smirk now as he references the KT guys' sort of... low IQs.

I laugh and nod.

"Well you and me will celebrate it then", I smile.

"Sounds good to me", He nods, looking content right now.

"Also Cap, if you ever take my brother to Gentleman's Choice I'll literally kill you…", I point a finger at him menacingly. "He doesn't need to be exposed to that tawdry gross place".

I give him a grossed out disapproving look.

"Tawdry?", He questions with his usual smirk. "What, have you been watching Downton Abbey little lady?"

I give him a faux glare now, narrowing my eyes at him.

He called me that often; little lady.

"I'm just saying that it's not exactly an establishment I want my little brother to be at. He… he doesn't need to see that stuff! It's gross and seedy and honestly I wouldn't put it past you to buy him a lap dance Cap, I'm sure you've done it for lots of times for your other brothers and pledges", I roll my eyes.

"Well… I can't deny that. I definitely have generously shared the beauty of the lapdance with the brothers. Usually on their birthdays or if they just got rejected by a girl and are down about it", He gives me an awkward look.

Well, at least Cappie was honest. Evan certainly had no issues lying to me. But I knew Cap wouldn't.

"Okay well you can keep my little brother out of there! He's… he's just a kid Cap! There's no reason for him to be exposed to that kind of stuff", I give him an annoyed look.

"Exposed to the best buffet in town?", Cappie gives me a joking look, referring to Gentleman's Choice's mexican taco buffet. I just give him a glare and cross my arms across my chest. "Okay fine, don't worry, I won't take your little brother there".

He laughs, putting his hands up.

"Thank you", I nod.

I feel him look me over for a second, a thought clearly taking hold in his mind. Then I watch him smile. A genuine smile.

"What?", I bug him.

"Nothing, it's just… sometimes you're really mom-like Case", He laughs slightly. "I mean, you always have been, it's… it's something that I loved about you back when we dated. Most girls I've met don't have that quality. Actually… no girls I've ever met have it".

He smiles sincerely at me now, paying me a real compliment.

"I am not!", I laugh, refuting his claim. "I'm just… I'm just responsible Cap. Which still doesn't mean I'm ready to have a baby".

"Yeah I know", he nods, his expression more serious now. "I'm just… I don't know, I'm just telling you that I've always noticed it, I've always noticed how you take care of the people you love. And… at one point I was lucky enough to be apart of that list. And I definitely took that for granted".

He meets my eyes now as I feel a physical pang in my heart at him saying that.

"And even if you don't want to become a mom right now I know you're going to be an amazing one when you do decide to have kids", He nods.

I can't help but smile, feeling sheepish as I try not to let in how much that had hit me right in the heart, how much his words meant to me. It's touched me so much that I have to physically try to make sure I don't tear up in front of him. No one had ever said anything like that to me before… Evan had certainly never said anything of the sort.

It makes me realize that Cappie really did see me when we dated. And I suppose still sees me now, realizes my strengths and appreciates them.

"Thank you", I say sincerely, giving him a sheepish smile. "That's really nice of you to say Cappie… and hard to hear too because…"

I hold up the photos and then sigh.

"Because there's a part of me that would just like to forget about all of the obvious obstacles that would come with you and me keeping this baby right now Cappie", I say sadly. "Part of me just… just wants to let myself be happy about it, let myself just have a normal pregnancy where I can let myself feel close to the baby… and to you. I wish I could one hundred percent feel like it's mine. But there's just… there's still that voice in the back of my head that's telling me I can't because I have to be realistic about this. I have to be realistic that this isn't… this isn't an ideal situation to have a baby".

I sigh out deeply, feeling depressed about it.

"Yeah I know, trust me", Cappie gives me an understanding look, looking a little sad for me. He reaches out and puts a hand on my thigh comfortingly. "But if… if you do decide you want us to keep the baby then… then I think we should just try to be happy about it Case. Because it… it might not be the worst thing ever. I'm just saying I think that we could be happy, that's all".

He looks a little anxious now, a look I wasn't used to seeing on him since he was usually pretty confident and didn't act very serious about anything.

I pause for a moment, looking at him as I pick out what to say. His words were hard to hear because in a way… well in a way they were exactly what I wanted to hear from him. He certainly was saying all the right things. And it's one of the reasons this was so hard. Because this baby was with him.

Because…. sometimes it's hard to me to even look at him. Just because he was the only person I've ever loved. The person I loved so much that it hurt. The person that I could've seen myself marrying and having babies with. But of course, that was back when I was 18 years old and naive. But still, looking at him made me feel it like always, made me feel that thing for him that made me want to have this baby with him and let myself open up to him again.

"I know", I speak in a soft tone now. "I'm sure… I'm sure it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Because I know we'd love the baby, that we'd love him or her".

He nods, a hint of a smile coming over his entire face.

I laugh slightly now, a little awkwardly, wanting to change the tone of our conversation back to being playful and not so serious. Especially since I had said that we were going to take the day to just have fun together.

"Hopefully a her though", I give him a sheepish look and then giggle at his reaction. "I've wanted a daughter ever since I was a little kid. I had all these baby dolls and… I'd tell my mom I wanted my own baby girl".

I shake my head at my kid self, Cappie seeming completely amused by that story, giving me his usual smirk.

"Well…", Cappie shrugs, still smirking at me but I can still see a hint of seriousness in the way his eyes look me up and down. "I want you to have everything you've ever wanted so… I'm on board with that Case".

"Okay good", I giggle slightly. "Well Cap…"

I lower my eyes, looking at him playfully with a look that he knew all too well.

"Oh god, what are you gonna ask me to do now?", He rolls his eyes jokingly, laughing a bit.

"How do you know that I'm going to ask you for something?", I giggle.

"Just by the look on your face. I know your 'I want something face' Case", He uses air quotes, laughing. "You gave me that face a couple nights ago when you begged me to get you that chocolate frosty at midnight from Wendys. Hell, you gave me that face the night you got pregnant, multiple times".

A red blush comes over my entire face, I can literally feel it, feel my face getting hot at the mention of how I felt that night. I remember feeling so unlike myself, well unlike my past year self, the one who never strayed from spending all my time making sure everything was perfect and not relaxing.

But… when me and Cappie had had sex that first time it's like it's unlocked something in me that made me want more of it. It had made me want to keep losing control with him because I hadn't been able to do so in so long.

"Hey!", I refute, swatting his arm. "The frosty thing was one time!"

"It's fine, I'm not saying I minded", He laughs.

"And… the night I got pregnant I was ovulating okay?", I giggle. "I can't be held responsible for anything I do in those days!"

"Alright I'll let you plead mentally incapacitated by reason of by being really turned on", He jokes which is met with another bop on his arm by me which just evokes him more. He loved this. And… fine, lately I was finding that so did I.

"Fine, you are kind of right about the face thing, the face of me wanting something…", I can't help but laugh. "Because… the reason I wanted to come here was because I was going to ask if you'd see the Bring It On sequel with me?"

"Oh god", He groans, throwing his head back as he over-dramatically whines.

"Please!", I plead. "I know it's your birthday so technically you should be able to choose the movie but—"

"Yeah I'll see the movie Case, it's fine", He cuts me off, smiling at me as he looks sort of amused, I think having fun with our banter. Because if I was being real with myself, I know I was enjoying it. It was a dynamic I didn't have with anyone else and I had no idea how much I missed it from my life. How much I missed him from my life.

"Yay!", I clap my hands lightly, still giggling. "Thank you!"

I grin at him happily even though he can't see me, as he's busy taking his keys out and turning his car off.

I really did love that he could never seem to say no to me.

"Alright you ready to go?", he asks.

"Yep!", I nod, still on a high from our conversation.

For someone that I claimed I definitely didn't want to get back together with and didn't think I should be having a baby with I certainly felt something I hadn't felt in forever. When I was hanging around with him like this, when we're just doing basic things, or even just watching TV at the KT house or sitting silently while we both work on our laptops in his room, I couldn't help but feel it.

Something about our conversations just brought it out in me. I think because I didn't have this playful banter with anybody else. Not to mention… I didn't have the sexual tension I had with him with anyone else. It was something we didn't really talk about, but sometimes it came up, reminding me of that night and I found I liked thinking about it. Which probably wasn't good for two people who were trying to start up a friendship. Strictly friendship for the sake of the baby, that's what I'd told myself.

But… as much as Cappie couldn't say no to me I don't think he realized that I was having a hell of a time saying no to him too.

I trail behind Cappie as we walk up to the movie theatre. Because what he doesn't know is that I'm sending Rusty a text to ask him to get Cappie a birthday cake. Rusty didn't even know it was Cappie's birthday either.

Even if Cappie didn't care about his birthday much I wanted to at least get him a cake. Not to mention... cake sounded pretty good to me these days... like really good.

"You okay?", Cappie calls back to me as I recieve a text back from Rusty saying he's going to pick up a cake so we can surpise Cappie later.

"Yeah!", I nod. "Just... had to send a quick text".

I smile to myself as I run up to him while he waits for me.

Somehow me and Rusty had sort of become Cappie's family. That's certainly not how I thought this year was going to go. If you'd told me 3 months ago that I'd be spending my junior year with my little brother that I had previously deemed too nerdy to ever hangout with and my ex boyfriend that I swore was too childish and too unreliable to ever get back together with... well I'd tell you you were crazy. But if someone had told me I'd be pregnant right now I also would've dropped dead of shock.

But somehow that's how things have ended up. And the crazy thing was... I wasn't that mad about it.

"See that movie was not that bad!", I giggle as we walk out of the movie theatre, my slushie in hand, a blue raspberry one that when we got in the doors of the movie theatre I immediately had a craving for.

"Yeah sure I mean… if you like stupid storylines and a lot of weird cheer dancing stuff", Cappie says sarcastically as he throws our popcorn out.

We're walking through the movie theatre now as we come out of the movie I had of course made him see.

"Oh come on", I look at him with a roll of my eyes. "There were lots of hot girls in it, it's almost as good as going to Gentleman's Choice for your birthday!"

I scoff sarcastically.

"Eh, I didn't really notice", He shrugs.

"You don't have to do that", I groan, him looking over at me as we stop and stand here for a second.

"Do what?", He plays dumb.

"Pretend that… pretend that you don't find other girls attractive", I say. "I know guys do, I was reminded of that lots of times when dating Evan".

I scoff bitterly, probably looking upset about Evan. Not because I had any feelings at all for him, just because now that I had been out of a relationship with him for a month or so I realized how much I let slide when we were dating just because he was the Evan Chambers. Because I felt so lucky that he'd chosen me to date, felt lucky that other girls were jealous of our relationship and status within the greek system.

Partially I only had myself to blame for him cheating… deep down I knew he was capable of it, I had just ignored it.

"Yeah well… I'm not Evan, I'm me", He looks at me seriously.

We lock eyes, both our expressions serious. It's like there's this intensity between us right now, like there's an electric charge in the air as if it's just the two of us in here and we're not in a crowded movie theatre lobby.

"Well well, what do we have here…?", I hear a familiar voice, a voice that had honestly incited fear in me for as long as I can remember since coming to CRU. It was a shrill, almost witchlike voice.

Immediately it's like my fight or flight response kicks in.

Me and Cappie turn to see her standing there, Frannie.

And even worse, she's not alone. No, she's joined by my ex boyfriend. Speak of the devil.

"We were just leaving", Cappie says with an annoyed sigh, speaking up when I fail to, because I honestly felt like I couldn't even get a word out right now.

"Aw so soon?", Frannie grins evilly in that way she so often does. It's just that usually her wickedness wasn't aimed at me. I thought she liked me, or at least liked me while I was dating Evan and was under her thumb, being her little sister who was controlled by her.

"Yeah we just finished the movie we came to see so… see you guys later", I let out, my voice a little shakey.

I feel Cappie's hand land on the small of my back, guiding me down the hall to where the doors out to the parking lot are. To where we could escape whatever bad situation this was leading up to be.

Evan immediately steps in front of us, stopping of us from leaving, because, of course, he can't just let us leave without getting a dig in. Typical Evan.

"I sure hope you got it taken care of Casey", He looks at me even as I try to avoid eye contact. But I can see clearly how he's gesturing to my stomach. "I know you wouldn't want to breed with anyone who can't help up your status. I mean, that's what you did with me right?"

He sneers at me, looking just at bitter about me as I felt about him.

"Evan back off", Cappie steps in front of me, him and Evan only inches away from each other's faces now.

"A little birdy around the house told me you two are having the baby. Sorority girls don't keep secrets very well, unfortunately for you", Frannie pipes up, me, Evan and Cappie's eyes darting over to her. "I'm not surprised, I know you poodle, you're too 'goody goody' to get an abortion".

She says the words 'goody goody' with a laugh.

"So I guess you're gonna be a mommy now", She grins wickedly, clearly making fun of me. "How cute. A college drop out and a single mother".

"Look, I'm just minding my business okay? I haven't done anything to either one of you so can you just respect that I don't really want you within fifty feet of me?", I stand my ground, speaking strongly.

I look over to see that Cappie's staring at me in awe, a slight smile coming over his face, looking proud of me I think.

"You haven't done anything to either of of us?", Evan refutes, scoffing as he says the sentence sarcastically. "You fucked your ex boyfriend that you were into the entire time we were together and let him get you pregnant! But sure, you were just getting back at me, that's all it was".

He glares at me.

"You used it as an opportunity to screw the person that you really wanted to screw for the last year, I'm not stupid Casey!", He looks at me angrily.

"Evan…", I sigh and then roll my eyes. "There's kids here okay?! Stop!"

"Fine, whatever", He shakes his heads as he laughs to himself, clearly angry and vengeful about this.

But… even though I was upset with him and the way he'd treated me and the fact that I didn't think he was a good guy… he was sort of right. I couldn't fault him there.

The only thing I hadn't realized at all was the fact that all along Evan could tell how I was feeling the past year, could tell where my heart still was. I suppose I wasn't as good as an actress as I thought, especially when we were intimate together. And… I also suppose that's why we didn't sleep together much, why he'd gone elsewhere to look for sex.

It made sense but at the same time I wished he could just leave me alone now. I was already going through a tough time as it was.

"So what then, are you two together now? Gonna raise your baby out in the suburbs and live out the plot of a stupid 80s movie?", Frannie scoffs, looking at me like I'm pathetic. She was always able to that, always able to make girls feel less than with just a look.

"No okay!", I throw up my hands in annoyance. "You guys aren't our friends and you're not my family so it doesn't really concern you".

"Yeah well it sure looks like you're on a date", Evan glares at us.

"Well it's not exactly like you're here alone either are you Chambers?", Cappie says cooly, gesturing to Frannie beside him.

"Yep, moving on to bigger and better. This time I'm looking for someone with some class", Evan refutes bitingly.

"Do you really want to fucking get into this here Chambers? Because I'm up for it, I've been wanting to punch that smug smile off your face since you walked up to us", Cappie moves in front of me and I can tell how angry he is, how ready they are to fight each other. Because… of course I've witnessed it before.

Cappie and Evan are inches away from each other, Cappie standing just a bit taller than Evan as he stands over him, both trying to intimidate the other.

"Stop!", I let out.

This was supposed to be a nice day and it was until this.

And the last thing I needed was Cappie and Evan getting into a brawl in here, in a public place like this.

"This is ridiculous, none of this even matters okay! Let's just go Cappie, c'mon", I argue, pleading with them.

Then I grab onto Cap's arm, pulling him away from Evan.

Luckily Frannie and Evan don't stop us now, allowing me to feel sweet relief as I see a clear path to the doors out of here.

My arm is locked with Cappie's as I walk as fast as I can to get us out of here unscathed and out of the trouble I know that Cappie would so surely get into if I wasn't here today to stop him.

"Hey just so you know…. I wasn't involved in the whole 'slut' sign on your windshield thing", I hear Evan's voice speaking loudly as he laughs spryly. "But… if the shoe fits…"

Evan laughs again, loudly, bitterly, and evilly, him carefully ensuring that he's making fun of me and angering Cappie in the same breath.

Immediately Cappie turns around behind us and lunges towards Evan, suckerpunching him to the ground.

I gasp, putting my hand over my mouth, everything just happening so fast.

"Oh my god!", Frannie whines in a shrill voice and then looks to me.

I feel like I'm in a state of panic right now, just standing still, unmoving and not knowing what to do.

Cappie and Evan are currently wrestling on the ground and I can already see the damage that Cappie's done to Evan's face, blood dripping down from Evan's nose.

"Well do something Casey!", Frannie yells out at me, as if I'm the one doing something wrong here.

Of course everyone else looks alarmed too, people chattering and staring. Some people stop to stare, looking concerned, whereas some just try to get away from the scene Cappie and Evan are causing. I see some parents ushering their kids away, giving me a dirty look.

This completely takes me back to the all greek ball freshman year. It was the exact same situation.

"Guys stop!", I finally take action, yelling at the two of them.

But of course it doesn't do anything, Cappie just punches Evan again, having pinned him down, Evan looking weak and lifeless right now, like he's been beaten down.

Part of me secretly can't help but be a little happy at how Evan lays there looking half dead, him unable to fight back right now. I mean, he was the one who started this. Not to mention he had been treating me absolutely horribly.

But even still, this wasn't a situation I wanted to be apart of, not a situation I wanted Cap to be apart of. Especially when Cappie had been so good lately, he'd ignored that 'slut' note on my car like I'd begged him too, and he'd ignored Evan cheating on me and then calling me a slut for getting pregnant. So it really sucked that we had to run into Evan and Frannie here today.

"Oh my god! Someone help him!", Frannie lets out in hysterics as if her and Evan weren't the ones who cornered us and tried to start drama.

But still… I'm getting really worried at the way Evan's face looks completely bloodied now, at the way he's not fighting back.

"Cappie stop it!", I yell, more frustrated this time, speaking up with more strength. "Stop it, you're gonna kill him!"

I'm completely distressed now, just wanting out of this situation. Nothing I was saying was even registering to him, it was like he was in a world of his own right now, in a possessed rage.

"Cappie!", I call once more, going up behind him and trying to pull him off of Evan.

"Ow!", I let out as he ends up elbowing me in the side accidentally and I fall back onto the ground.

"Case oh my god…", He says, finally stopping from hitting Evan as he turns around to see what had happened.

I guess that was what it took, accidentally hurting me. That's what it took to bring him back to reality. Because me screaming at him to stop didn't even do the trick.

"Casey are you okay?", He looks worried, his hands shaking. "I'm so sorry".

I stare down at his knuckles, seeing them bloodied and red.

I don't even know what to say right now. I was of course mad at him, not for accidentally elbowing me, but for taking the bait with Evan and getting us in this position.

"Yeah I'm fine", I nod, getting up and dusting myself off.

I hear Evan coughing in the back, my focus going to him. Frannie's by his side on the ground, looking like a worried girlfriend, which I didn't even really know if she was. I also didn't care, but the sight of it just made me want to roll my eyes, her tending to him like this as if he didn't start this fight.

That wasn't to say I wasn't also pissed at Cappie too though, but Evan knew what he was doing by saying what he did.

Frannie looks at me like I'm a criminal.

"I'm sorry everyone!", Frannie looks around to the movie theatre goers. "Her boyfriend is nuts! He should be locked up!"

She looks like she's putting on a show, like an actress. She's even crying which makes me want to roll my eyes.

"Look what your boyfriend did!", Frannie screams at me, looking right at me. "This is why ZBZs don't associate with the Kappa Taus! They're all trash, trash just like you are now too Casey! You and your baby".

She gives me a glare but I just try to ignore her.

"Cap let's just go okay?", I say quietly, my voice still shakey as I put my hands on his shoulders and help him up.

He turns around, his blue eyes wide and looking like he's still running on adrenaline, like he's probably just realizing what the hell he's done right about now.

I can see Evan got him pretty good in the eye. But other than that he looked okay. Which wasn't exactly the same state Evan was in. Evan was still on the ground, propped up on his elbows, his face a bloody mess as Frannie cries and coddles him.

"Excuse me what the hell is going on here?", A man with an AMC theatres uniform comes over to us. "My name is Steve, I'm with the theatre here. We have a no violence tolerance policy here and we've just informed the police of this incident".

He looks at Cappie angrily and a little menacingly, which I'm not exactly sure is undeserved, given the circumstances. Even if this man didn't know how Evan provoked him.

"I'm sorry, he- he said something very rude about my girlfri—", Cappie stammers out and then stops in his tracks. "He said something very rude to my friend Casey here…."

He gestures to me.

"I just lost it but I'm really sorry to have done it here, in your establishment", Cappie's speaking completely seriously. "I- I never would've wanted to make anyone upset or put kids through this I just— I just lost it at him".

"Evan we want to help you okay? We'll take you somewhere and get you cleaned up but why don't we all just leave and deal with this ourselves, we don't need to involve the police", I intervene, looking to Evan and Frannie, trying to reason with them at this point.

But I knew who Evan was, I knew how vindictive he was. Hell, he'd gotten my little brother sent to jail for the night for just hitting him with a pledge paddle. My little brother who weighed like 120 pounds. And that was way different than this, Cappie had actually done some damage.

So me pleading with him to not involve the cops was probably futile, but still, he wasn't innocent in this. Me and Cappie weren't looking to start anything.

"No", Evan shakes his head and looks at the man from the movie theatre. "Sir I intend to press charges. This man attacked me unprovoked".

Cappie rolls his eyes back while I watch Steve nod.

"I'm going to have to ask you to stay here until the police arrives then", He looks at Cappie seriously.

"Thank god, maybe this will finally teach him a lesson", Frannie sighs out over-dramatically. "And will my boyfriend be receiving medical help?"

"He's fine, it's not like I broke his ribs or anything", Cappie says, looking annoyed at her putting on this showboaty worried girlfriend show.

"We can call an ambulance if you request one sir", Steve offers.

"No…", Evan shakes his head. "It's fine, I'll be okay".

I have to resist the insane urge to roll my eyes now, Evan's martyr act making me want to gauge my eyes out.

"Alright well if you all would follow me, I'd like to escort you to a room in the back away from the rest of our guests. The police will collect your statements there and try and resolve this matter", Steve tells us.

"Alright. Let's get you up. Can you walk?", Frannie asks Evan with a pout on her face.

"Yeah I should be fine", Evan sighs. "I'll push through, I definitely need to tell the police what happened".

"Okay come on baby", Frannie helps Evan up and then clings onto him, patting his back as if she's his mom.

"They'll interview me too right? Because I'm a witness", Frannie asks Steve and I have to keep from rolling my eyes again. "I saw the whole entire attack".

"Don't worry miss, I'm sure they'll interview all four of you and get to the bottom of this", Steve assures her.

Thank god. Not that I was thoroughly going to defend what Cappie did but I knew that Frannie was a master at manipulating anything and anyone. So me and Cappie had to tell our side of the story too.

Frannie makes sure to give me and Cappie a dirty look as she and Evan walk in front of us, Steve guiding the four of us away to a room now.

I look over to share a look with Cappie.

"I'm sorry", he mouths the words to me but I just nod and sigh. He truly does look regretful, regretful and empathetic to me. Even a little embarassed I think. Because I'm pretty sure the logic side of his brain has now turned back on and he was realizing that that fight had really gotten him nowhere. That he was even worse off now. But typically with guys, and with Cappie especially, that logic side went to the waywide when someone said that one specific thing they know will get them riled up.

And for Cappie I suppose Evan knows that specific thing is me.

I wish this wasn't what we had to deal with. I wish we could've just spent the rest of this day together without reminders of people back at school, without reminders of real life. Because this whole day had seemed like a nice little trip from reality for me. I'd been staying pretty delusional about things since the appointment, since I'd sort of left there on a high after hearing its heartbeat.

I just wanted to stay in that space, at least until I got home and had to figure out what to really do about things, about whether or not we could raise a baby. But being with Cappie today, seeing and hearing the baby with him, bantering in the car, spending his birthday with him... it felt like we were a real couple. It all seemed way too good to be true.

And, well, I guess it was.

Author's Note:

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Evan and Frannie won't be in this story much at all, especially Frannie. But I thought this would be a realistic thing that would happen in the show.

The end of this chapter is sort of a springboard for a lot of angst in next chapter. So stay tuned!