When Fallon found out she was pregnant, she picked up the phone millions of times to tell Lucas, but she would chicken out and hang up. With no other opinions she finally called Audrey.

“Hey sissy,” Audrey said in her happy-go-lucky tone, but Fallon was far from happy.

More like devastated.

Fallon sat in her bathroom with 19 boxes of pregnancy tests around her, all of them saying the same thing — that she was pregnant. What was she gonna do? How was she gonna make it? It was her senior year, how was she supposed to raise a baby and go to college with no help from no one? Her dad would flip, oh God, Lucas was gonna flip.

“Audrey,” Fallon tried to say without crying but a sob tore through her and she started crying so hard.

“Fallon, what’s wrong?”

“I’m pregnant.”

Nothing was said for what seemed like hours when the statement left Fallon’s lips as she sobbed into the phone. She prayed no one heard her, especially her new roommate.

“Pregnant?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh God.”

“My thoughts exactly,” Fallon agreed as she started to gather all the sticks that confirmed her pregnancy.

“What are you going to do?”

“I don’t know, but I can’t stay here.”

“I know that, but dad is gonna freak, like seriously flip the f**k out,” Audrey said, and Fallon realized she had started crying.

“Oh Audrey don’t cry, I didn’t call to upset you.”

“I know that, I’m scared for you.”

“Me too,” Fallon said as she started crying again. They sat on the phone crying as they both racked their brains, trying to figure out what to do. Finally, Audrey came up with something.

“Clean out your bank account, take it all.”

“Audrey, that’s over 10 THOUSAND dollars! Where am I supposed to put that kind of cash?”

“In your suitcase. After you do that, call mom and dad. Tell them. They are gonna freak and demand you come home.”

“I know but why am I cleaning out my bank account?” Fallon asked confused.

“Because you and I both know that dad is gonna cut you off, and you’re gonna need that money to survive on.”

Oh yeah, Fallon thought. Thank God Audrey thought of that because if she hadn’t, Fallon would have been screwed.

“You need to apply Vanderbilt, like today. Make sure you get in before you call dad.”

“Audrey, I can’t go to school and raise a baby!” Fallon said in distress. She was already freaking out about having to come back home a failure, and now Audrey wanted her to go back to school too?

“You have to Fallon, or he will disown you, or worse. Please, just believe me. I’ll help you,” Audrey pleaded. Fallon sat for a moment, tears gushing down her cheeks as she tried to figure out how she could have let this happen.

How was she going to ask her sister to help her raise her baby? Audrey needed to have a life too. This was her and Lucas’ problem, there was no reason to bring Audrey into it. She needed Lucas’ help, but how was she gonna tell him?

“Whose baby is it?” Audrey asked.

“You don’t know him,” Fallon answered.

“Okay, have you told him?”

“No, we aren’t together.”

“Why?” Audrey asked.

“Cause he’s a cheating bastard.”

“Okay then, are you going to tell him?”

Fallon sat for a moment. Was she gonna tell Lucas? She couldn’t even look him in the eyes, never less talk to him. How was she gonna tell him they were having a baby?

She wasn’t.

“No, I’m not.”

Fallon didn’t even realize she had started crying until tears fell on Aiden’s head. He looked up and made a face just as Audrey said, “Why are you crying?”

“I’m not, something got in my eye,” Fallon said playing it off as she wiped her eyes. “Now come on Aiden, let’s get to bed.”

“Alright mommy,” Aiden said as he skipped up the stairs, giving Audrey a kiss before heading into the house. Fallon grabbed her things and started up the stairs but was stopped by Audrey when she grabbed her free hand.

“You sure you’re okay?”

“I’m fine,” Fallon said again as she put on a fake smile for her sister and started back into the house.

Fallon laid her things on her brown suede couch and headed up the stairs to Aiden’s room. With every step she took, a picture of Audrey, Aiden and Fallon smiled back at her. She had made sure to take a picture with Audrey when she was nine months pregnant, the three of them when Aiden was born, and then of the three of them ever since, for the last six years.

It had always been just her and Audrey with Aiden against the world. She couldn’t thank her sister enough for the sacrifices she made for them, and Fallon could honestly say she couldn’t have done it without Audrey. When everything happened, and Fallon made the call home to tell her parents about the little baby that was growing in her belly, her father, William, freaked. He told her to get an abortion and of course, Fallon said no. He then threatened to take everything, but Fallon had already taken all the money so she was good.

After packing up everything in California and getting on a long plane ride home, Fallon came home to the apartment Audrey had already gotten for them. Fallon started at Vanderbilt and it was actually easier than she thought it was gonna be, but that was all thanks to Audrey. She did everything to make sure Fallon was taken care of. Sometimes Fallon wondered which one of them was the oldest, because Audrey sure did act like she was. Not so much anymore, but back then she was running things while Fallon was a basket case. Not only was she pregnant but she was also trying to mend a broken heart.