“Bette if she comes to us we will listen but she is your daughter and we will make sure she comes to you. She is probably just scared, I remember not being able to talk to my parent through fear of their reaction enough times. You and Tina are great parents and I know she loves you but she feels alone at the minute. You have our word if she comes to us you will be the first to know.”

Bette smiled at us both.

“I am glad she has someone to talk too and I am glad that you two walked into our lives when you did, you have bought a new life to all of us and I hope in return you feel we have been able to help you. When she talks to you tell her we love her and will do no matter what, and that we will be waiting for her with our undivided attention.”

We all fell into an easy silence. Before long it was time for the kids to start bedding down so Andy and me with the help of Kit made sure they were all settled before returning to our friends.

————–Angie————

All the kids were in bed and I decided that now was the time to talk if not I was not sure I would ever have the guts to go through with it. I knew they would make me tell my mom’s but at least they would be there too and I knew they wouldn’t judge.

I stood at the kitchen window until I got Andy’s attention and waited as they made their excuses to come inside. No one seemed to notice as we settled at the counter on bar stools.

They were good they just waited for me to speak; all of a sudden I found the attention I had craved for this a little overwhelming but I was not one to go back once I had decided on a course of action, one of my Porter traits everyone always told me I had I suppose.

“I am on restriction because I was caught in the boy’s dorm room at the end of last semester. I know it sounds stupid but there is more. I had to see him; you see about a month before that I had spent the night with him. And that morning I had decided to find out and so I took a test and it told me I was pregnant which makes me ten weeks now give or take a few days.”

They didn’t scream or tut or shake their heads what they did was worse and it made me cry. They treated me like an adult asking me questions about the night in question and what I thought I wanted to do, and they told me they would be there when I told my parents. They also told me that I had to think fast as time was running out if termination was something I was considering. It was all to much and I felt very much the fifteen year old I was a Rachel put her arm around me and Andy held my hands as I sobbed until I felt the stress of keeping this all inside start to leave me.

——–Andy——–

It was a shock but I think Angie felt a lot better and we let her cry as we held on to her assuring her it would be fine. I knew that the reaction from Bette and Tina would not be so calm so that was our job I could not believe it when the door rang. Rachel went to answer it. The person she bought back into the kitchen with her was the last person I thought I would ever see, she was older and looked different but it was she.

“Hi Andy.”

“Jesus ***** Christ, Libby. What the ***** are you doing here and how in god’s name did you find me?”