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ANDY:

My mind totally went numb.... Austin didn't plan for this... any time sooner!

His face suddenly got blurred as my eyes started to fill with tears. I felt a slight flipping nudge in my stomach, making my heart ache.

I was pregnant with Austin's baby and he doesn't wanna be a Daddy...

I bit my lip to stop the tears to flow but they leaked...

Why isn't Austin reacting? What am I gonna do???

AUSTIN:

She said she was....

Did she really.... is she really!?

I'm gonna be a daddy!

She said she's pregnant!

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I'm. Going. To. Be. A. DAD!

Wait! This isn't supposed to happen right now... right? I mean... she's just so young! What is she? Sixteen about to be Seventeen? That's not so old to have a baby!

Shit!

It's too risky... This could hurt her!

Or maybe it couldn't? Maybe it's gonna be just fine... we're gonna be one small happy family...

My breath was caught somewhere in between. I couldn't move, blink or breathe. Just stared in her beautiful light brown eyes...

She was lying still under me, staring back with tears in her eyes.

Tears!? She's crying!

She's getting my silence all wrong!

Say something you idiot! Uh, I think I just lost my voice...

What is wrong with you Austin! Man up and speak!

I'm gonna be a daddy... it was all I could think!

Her breathing got shallow as she tried to fight back the tears. I have to say something. I have to tell her how happy I am that I'm just freaking out weirdly. I have to make her feel how amazing I felt and I wanted to kiss away her tears. But it was like I was cemented in my place.

I was still in shock! Anything but this was least expected but now that I know that its gonna be this way I realized it wasn't anything that I never wanted... of course I was gonna marry her and have kids with her so why not now!

I let out a breath filled with her name. "Andy..." I expected a smile but instead she closed her eyes making a thick stream of tears flow out dripping in her hair. I meant to say something more but I just couldn't let it out. It was like a strong emotional feeling was blocking my mind to signal my vocal to speak. So I leaned my face to hers, slowly brushing my lips to her soft warm lips.

I expected her to react immediately like she did just minutes before she broke the news to me, but she didn't move. I slowly brought my hand to her stomach; trying to feel anything but it was just flat and felt the same instead that it had an incredible creation in it. My baby... our baby.

I again tried to make her react to my kiss but she sobbed against my lips. I pulled back, looking at her face. Maybe I was hurting her. I got off her quickly sitting up. She had her eyes still closed. Was she in pain? Did I do something?

I expected her to be as happy as I was just minus the shock that I'd been in but that was just for a few minutes! So happy that she and I'd jump up and down, kissing again and again but...

Maybe I was expecting too much from her...

Expect? Who the hell are you to expect anything from her? Something inside me shouted so loudly I clutched my fist. You're not the one to expect... she should be the one. And all she expected was a quick happy reaction!

Like my breath was caught as I realized that I'd been just a little late to show my emotion and she thought I wasn't happy with it!

Shit! What a dick am I?!

I opened my eyes and found her sitting up, putting back her shirt. "Andy I'm-"

"Can we please go home?" she said in a low blubbering voice without looking at me. She got off the bed, walking out of the room.

Great Austin! You just ruined probably the most amazing night of her life!

I got up too, putting on my shirt and shoes, I went out of the room looking for Andy but she wasn't inside. I turned off the lights and walked out.

She was leaning against the car. Her face was hiding behind her hair but I could see the tears that were sparkling in the full moon light. She quickly hopped in as I unlocked the car. I gulped in the lump in my throat and got in.

I looked over her for a minute long before taking off, wanting her to look at me and get back to spend the time we were meant to but she was just staring straight at the windscreen blankly.

I started the car and drove out, feeling a complete jerk to be that way when she told me she was pregnant. I was supposed to be so happy that I'd have tears in my eyes and told her what an amazing life it would be to have her and the baby...

I was! It was all this way, my feeling for her and... but just in a silent mode.

The silence was awful and it was killing me so I looked over at her after every minute but she sat still like a motionless statue, only that it sniffed a little after every minute or two making me realize that she was still crying.

All my damn fault!

As I parked the car in the drive way she stormed out, running in.

"Andy! Wait!" I shouted after her but she didn't stop so I ran after her. She has to understand I wasn't unhappy but was shocked!

Just as I got inside I found her blubbering something against Paul's chest as he hugged her. "Don't cry princess..." he stroked her hair and pulled her back, wiping her tears. "Tell me what happened? You're freakin' me out!" he sounded worried and...

Wait!

Does he know? He couldn't know it! I thought I was angry but I wasn't. Andy's sobs were heart throbbing.

"What the heck did you do to her?!" Paul shouted at me, shooting an angry look. Andy broke away from his arms and ran up.

PAUL:

I walked out of the living room to get another soda and some popcorn for myself when all of a sudden someone banged into me. Damn! Who the hell is running inside the house?!

I gripped the stair railing avoid falling, looking at the person in such a hurry.

"Princess?" Andy stood there in front of me, her hair stick to her wet face. My eyes got huge as I realized she was crying. "What hap-"

She threw herself to me, burying her face in my chest. I curled my arms around her as she started to sob.

"'E isn't 'appy, doesn't wan' it..." she was mumbling something that I could only understand half. Or just nothing at all.

Did Austin do anything? Did he hurt her? Did she tell him?? Damn! What the hell is going on?

"Don't cry princess..." I stroked her hair, backing away to look at her. She choked and sniffed. Her wet face and teary eyes were so hard to look at. Her sobs were heartbreaking! "Tell me what happened? You're freakin' me out!"

I could see Austin standing behind her. His face was colorless and eyes confused. What the hell had happened between them!?

"What the heck did you do to her?" just as I shouted at Austin, Andy pulled herself away from me and ran up. I and Austin just stood there for a minute staring in a thin air, until he stepped to follow Andy but I blocked his way hammering my hand on his chest.

His face suddenly changed from dumbstruck to harsh. He just stared at me with a pair of fire filled eyes. His look kinda scared me but it wasn't what was bothering me. The thought of him hurting princess was even more blood boiling and I swear I'd kill him if he did anything to her especially at the time when she needs him the most.

"What did you do Austin?" I said through my teeth, controlling myself from breaking his face. "Why was she crying? Did you hurt her?"

"Do you know it?" he fired at me. His breathing got a little

"Know what?"

"Did. You. Know. It? Did she tell you?" he said gritting his teeth.

"What the hell are you talkin' about!?" I knew what he was talking about but I lied. It was the only good thing to do. "Know what!?" I shouted back.

"That she's pregnant!" he shouted too.

"Why would- wait what? She's.... Uh... damn!" I acted to be shocked and I know I was over acting but it was worth it. "Why did you thought she'd tell me this?!"

"'Cause you both are so freakin' close!"

"That doesn't mean I'd know everything!" I felt a laugh rumbling in me but I controlled it. Damn he's a mess! "I'm surprised you didn't guess I'd knocked her up..." I chuckled at my joke.

"Did you?" he narrowed his eyes.

"Damn it man!" I shot him a disgusting look although I know how I secretly like Andy and wished I could have her on my own but this was off the hook! "And here I thought you've grown a brain in your empty head!" I shook my head. "You're so messed up that you've got Andy rolled up in your mess and it's hurting her!"

"You're no one to talk about me and Andy!"

"Spare me Austin! I'm just telling you that you can't go around hurting her ev-"

I was cut short by a harsh push by Austin and before I knew it he was on me, grabbing me by my shirt. "What the heck is you're issue man!? Don't you get this through you're thick head?" he shouted at my face. "I Didn't Hurt Her!"

"Then why the hell was she crying!" I shouted back, staring in his eyes. Never for a second we can stand each other because Austin just goes around doing something that has to ruin everything and just now my fist was itching so bad to be landed on his face.

"Boys!" I heard our mom grasp in shock. Austin let me go and we stood up straight. "What on earth do you think you were doing!?" her eyes were huge staring at us. Dad shot us a hard look.

Great! Just the perfect thing to be caught at!

"Do you want to explain yourselves?" Dad cleared his throat.

"I don't have to! Ask him!" Austin's face was still red with anger.

"Me? You're ass was on me! Not mine!" I glared at him.

"Enough you both! Did I raise you two to this day to see you fight!?"

"Would've been better if you'd killed him!" Austin spat again.

"Why me, huh? You should be dead 'cause you're a screwed asshole messing people's life!"

"Paul! Mind you're language!" Dad for the first time spoke and just to shut me up! Urgh! He hates me so damn much!

"Don't bother about my words dad! Care about you're only living son!" I shouted and turned around and started ascending the stairs. I could feel dad's eye on me, boiling my blood.

I was shivering with anger. Why the hell does he do that? Why does he even bother to care what and how I speak?! If he hates me so much why doesn't he just shoot me?!

Being dead would be better than living like this!

I controlled my anger when I reached Andy's room. It wasn't about me being hated or not. It was about Andy crying because Austin had done something when she told him she was pregnant with his baby.

I knocked and entered her room. She popped her head over looking at me. I felt a relief wash through me to see that she wasn't crying anymore but the marks of dried tears were still on her cheeks.

"So you're not crying..." I said stupidly. I don't know why but I was feeling funny right now.

Austin wasn't so messed up as I was after all. I was the one hated by dad and brother. I was the one being dumped by a pregnant girlfriend and I was the one falling for an engaged girl, now pregnant with my brother's baby! Wow! And here I was standing staring in her eyes trying to figure out why the hell she was crying when I totally know that it's my brother's fault and has nothing to do with me since it's their life!

"Are you gonna just stand there and expect me to answer the stupidest question that you've ever asked when it's so clear that I'm not crying anymore!" she just said it in one breath, folding her arms around.

"What are you so pissed at?"

"Nothing!"

"C'mon princess... can I please know what happened?" I slipped my hands in the pocket.

"It's nothing Pup... you know I just become emotionally whelmed these days a lot..."

"Well if it helps... Austin doesn't know that I knew you were... you know... before him so-"

"Hold up!" she raised her hand. "You lost me at the point where Austin didn't knew-" she stopped abruptly and then she realized what I was talking about, her mouth formed an O. "Oh... you know what, it doesn't even matter anymore..." she turned around and walked in the closet.

"Why doesn't it matter?"

She walked out to the bed with a few clothes in her hand and dumped them in an open bag sitting on her bed and again walked in the closet.

"What are you doing princess?!"

"Will you please stop calling her that? It feels like I've landed in a fairytale!" Austin walked in the room.

AUSTIN:

We all stared behind Paul, watching him running up the stairs. What the hell is he pissed at when it's all his fault we fight over and over again!

"Austin, what ever it is that's between you both, I want it end right now. There will be no more of this in my house. You understand?" Dad spoke in his same irritatingly calm way.

"This wasn't even a glimpse of what exactly is happening dad!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why do you only care about me dad? Why can't you stand Paul? Why can't you see that you're behavior to him is the reason behind him being like this!" I didn't know where it was coming from but what ever I was saying was true. The only reason Paul was back, interfering in my life was because dad made it happen.

"He was always a troubled child and you know that too Austin."

"No he wasn't! You made him like this! If there's anyone messed up here, that's me! Paul's right. I'm a fuckin' asshole messing people's life!"

"That's it Austin! You didn't do any such thing-"

"I messed up Paul's life by telling You where he was! And you took care of the rest making me feel guilty of ruining my brother's life!" Dad's eyes went huge when I shouted the reality at his face.

I felt my face turning red with anger so I found it better to leave. I hurried up to Andy's room.

"What are you doing princess?!" I heard Paul saying.

When will he stop calling her a princess!! Makes me feel that it's not me and Andy... its Andy and Paul!

"Will you please stop calling her that? It feels like I've landed in a fairytale!" I walked in the room and saw Andy stepping out of the closet, her arms loaded with clothes. "What are you doing Andy?"

She ignored me and started putting things in a bag.

"What's going on!?"

"She's leaving." Paul whispered in a shock.

"Leaving? But where?"

"I don't know."

"Dude! I'm not even asking you. You can leave now. It's not you're matter." I told Paul.

"Austin! She freakin' leaving and you're saying it's not my problem!?"

"It's not! I can handle this."

He shot me one last look and stormed out banging the door behind. I just kept looking at Andy. I don't know what happened to her. She wasn't even looking at me.

"Andy, I don't understand what's going on... why won't you listen to me?"

"Austin please, I want to be alone..." her voice was shaky like she'd cry any moment. She looked in my eyes. Her nose was red and cheeks were marked with dried tears. I could see the storm ready to flood out.

I closed in, staring in her eyes. "I love you and the baby we're gonna have..." I whispered.

She closed her eyes, tiredly dropping herself on the floor. I lowered myself, putting my hands on her shoulder. Her face was down but I could see the tears rolling down.

"I know I should have said this earlier but... it's never too late..."

"But you were just a little too late..."

"That's the reason you were leaving?"

She sniffed.

"But you can't leave me! This is you're home and I'm here!" I said out loudly, pulling her to me. "You'll never leave me! You understand that?"

"Why didn't you said anything before?" her voice was broken.

I pulled back, pulling up her chin. "Can't I have a happiness and shock heart attack knowing I'm gonna be a dad? It isn't something I'm use to of..."

She choked out a chuckle and smiled when I wiped her tears. "I'm such an idiot!"

"An idiot for making my life even better..." I leaned in, brushing lips on her cold cheek which quickly turned hot from her blush. I smiled reaching for her lips.

ONE MONTH LATER:

ANDY:

I was sitting alone in my room, reading Sherlock Holmes for the second time since the morning. I was the most bored person on the planet right now! Not only bored but angry too.

Today was my birthday and nobody - not even my BFF wished me! Austin wasn't home since the morning. God knows where he was doing what. He didn't even bother to call me!! Worst of all... Paul didn't even show himself all day! I don't know what was going on! I was pissed at every one!

I just read the last page of the book dreading why Sherlock Holmes does always solves every mystery... Always! I threw the book on the bed, sighing in frustration. Suddenly Paul stormed in.

"Uh can I steal you for a minute??" he panted hard like he'd been running.

"So you remember me?" I crocked up my eyebrow.

"Huh?"

"If it'll kill my boredom before it kills me then sure!"

"Good!" he grinned, grabbing my wrist and started walking fast. He dragged me all the way down and out to the drive way.

"Hold up Paul! What's such a rush!?"

"Wear this..." he handed out a blindfold.

"Why?!"

He didn't answer but turned me around, putting the blindfold and helped me in the car. he just ordered me not to take off the blindfold what ever happens and then didn't said a word the whole way even when I asked like a thousand questions. A few minutes later he parked the car and helped me out, walking in some store. I couldn't figure where exactly we were but I could make out that it was a clothing store.

After a few mumbling talks between Paul and unknown people, he helped me ascend upper floor. Suddenly he let me go and ordered. "Do it."

Do what!? Before I could even ask I felt a few hands undoing my dress. "What the-" someone pulled off my shirt.

"Paul! What the hell are you doing!?!" I shouted trying to stop them from doing the insane things to me but no one stopped. "Paul! Stop them!"

"Relax cupcake. He's long gone..." a lady told me. "Now if you'd just stand straight we can fit you in..."

"Fit me in what!?"

A couple of hands lifted me up for a minute until something got slipped under my legs.

"Put me down this instant!" I shouted.

"Down and done!" the lady said again and I was put down. "Now breath in... hold your stomach in." she told me, struggling in to pull up the zip.

"I can't hold it in! I'm pregnant! Didn't your boss tell you that?" I referred to Paul here. My face turned red, not blushing red but angry red. I was just two months for chocolate's sake and my stomach was still flat! No body could tell I was...

"I'm the boss... and it's done..." she finally pulled up the zip. "Now ladies, bring out some matching accessories and shoes and something for the pretty little face." She ordered her assistants and spins me around to face her.

"If you had to dress me you would've just asked!" what do they think I can dress myself? "Are there any guys in here?"

She grasped in total shock at my question. "What do you think I am?!"

I pulled up the blindfold and saw the cutest guy-faced-girls-voice gay designer narrowing his eyes on me. Oops... he wasn't a she after all.

I blushed badly. He was really cute! "Sorry I thought-"