Monday Morning
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Phillipa laid on her couch in her quiet home, stroking her exposed stomach. Despite her current standing her stomach was still fairly hard. On a brighter note, the kids were at school, Lesley was upstairs detoxing, and Enzo, Mason, Lizzie, and Lin were at work. With the house clean and to herself, Pippa had no choice but to feel. Her body was cramping like no other, and while she wasn't bleeding yet, life was rough. Not to mention her friends were coming over so she could break the news.

"Knock knock!" Jazzy smiled, coming in through the garage door with Renée in tow. "We know you aren't feeling great, but..." Jasmine stopped, seeing Pippa cuddling a wine bottle at 8:30 AM. "What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to kill the baby?" Jasmine flipped as Renée took a seat on the sectional.

"Can't kill what's already dead," Pippa mumbled, ready to open the bottle. She had an appointment with Meredith to come over and confirm, but she was sure of it. "My water broke last night," she continued. The actresses looked to one another before coming back to their best friend. They could clearly see that the death of this baby was taking a toll on Phillipa, much more than the others.

"Oh Pip, you'll get through this," Renée mumbled, scooting under her friends legs and rubbing them.

"I didn't even want this kid. I should be happy. Why am I day drinking over a child I didn't—"

"Pippa! Stop!" Renée yelled. She was not about let her friend shame herself for a natural reaction to loss. "You losing a child is different from you willing getting rid of one. You're allowed to mourn." Phillipa looked to her friends for a moment. Their eyes were soft. Understanding. For a second she'd forgotten that she didn't have to be fake around them, or put up fronts. They were her sisters. There to drink with her and reminded her that she didn't have to carry the weight of her problems alone.

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"You really think this is a good idea?" Nova asked, sitting in a salon chair instead of her desk. Avery, Nova's best friend, gasped, turing her friend around in the chair with a huge smile.

"Nova! Are you kidding me? Look at yourself! Your hair! This was so worth skipping gym," Avery beamed. Nova glanced to her new hair cut with a small smile. While her aunts got to go shopping or get their nails done, Nova didn't get that luxury. Her Nona did her best to make Nova feel as special as the others. But with her mother so restrictive with the time that she got, before moving in, it was almost impossible. "Nova... damn, if I weren't straight and you weren't taken, I'd fuck you," Avery encouraged. With a slight eye roll, Nova paid the hairstylist and ran off towards the boardwalk with her bestie.

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At the local high school, Allie, Joi, Killy, and Marti sat at lunch, relaxing. The day was going by fine, until Allie caught a glimpse of someone out the corner of her eye. The seventeen year old gave her full attention to the spectacle to see Luna, her nemesis, standing by her boyfriend in a dead zone of the cafeteria. Ready to mind her business, Allie started to look away, when she saw it.

In a matter of moments, Luna was clutching her neck and abdomen, and Allie was sprinting towards the scene. While approaching, the jock skidded out of the cafeteria, making sure to keep his spot on the team secured. "Hey, are you okay?" Allie asked, going to help Luna up but receiving a flinch instead.

"Don't," she choked, stepping back into an empty table behind. "Just..." she trailed off. "Let it go," Luna mumbled, running out of the cafeteria. Allie prayed she wasn't going after the asshat who did that to her, but it was a strong possibility.

Back at her table, Joi, Killy and Marty gave their bestie a weird look. "What was that?" Martina asked, since her back was to the entire exchange. Allie shook her head and sat back in her seat, arms folded.

"Honestly, I don't know,"

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Annemarie walked into her Bio class, one of the only classes she had without her sisters or anyone she really knew and dropped into her desk. She got a bunch of stares, because for once she was in sweatpants and a t-shirt. A page out of Claudia's book. "Bro, she really tried to kill herself?" A guy in the middle of the class asked, a bit too loud. Annemarie's fingers gripped to the opposite elbows, trying to create a sense of safety in herself.

"Yeah, dude. She's the girl from the video," another guy replied. The Asian Latina, did her best to avoid eye contact, but she knew exactly what video they were referencing. Not her finest moment.

flashback

Annemarie and Jason Greene, a senior from a different school, sat in Jason's parents basement, drinking and talking. "You know," he started, moving her hair behind her ear, "I've never met a girl like you before," he sweet talked. Naively, Annemarie believed him and sat her drink down, scooting closer to him. There lips touched for a second, and before Annemarie knew it she was in his lap.

Not even a day later, Jason had ghosted her, and her naked body was all over Twitter, Instagram, and OnlyFans.com. After the incident, Annemarie never talked about it, and it soon blew over. But her reputation changed. That day she had to become the girl in the video, to even stand a chance at high school.

fin

Annemarie dropped her head onto her desk, as her leg shook. She used the coping mechanisms to slow her breathing. She tried to fall asleep, seeing as it was the only time she didn't feel, but her anxiety levels only rose.

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Two halls down, Claudia sat in her history class, looking over her notes, when her phone went off.

AM🥵: 🚨🚨🚨
Abuelita Claudia👵🏽: whats going on??👀👀
Nova Babe💋: AM are you okay??
Big Ale🦾: where are you??
AM🥵: I want to go home...
Abuelita Claudia👵🏽: Allie ask mom if you can bring AM home with you today
AM🥵: shes gonna say no.
Big Ale🦾: AM just come home w/ me anyways. Mom will be okay

Claudia awkwardly shifted in her seat before popping her hand up. "Can I go to the bathroom?" She asked, snatching the hall pass before getting an okay and running to her sisters class. On sight, Claudia quickly popped her head in the doorway, to see her sister teary eyed.

Abuelita Claudia 👵🏽: come out here.

Annemarie glanced to her phone, feeling the vibration than looked to the door to see her sister waving her on. She used the same bathroom excuse and sprinted out the class. As soon as the door shut, Annemarie rounded the corner into the open hallway and grasped her sister in a tight hug for dear life. "It's okay, Annie," Claudia mumbled, feeling her sisters tears soak her shoulder. "Just breathe. It's only thirty-five minutes," she reminded. Annemarie nodded and pulled back, leaning into the lockers behind her. Claudia got a good look at her sisters outfit to see if all of it came from her closet. "That's why I had to wear leggings today," Claudia realized, pointing to her black Nike leggings. Annemarie nodded.

"Yeah. I'm sorry. I was gonna take dads, but when I went into their bedroom mom was still asleep. I didn't want to wake her," she said. Claudia shrugged, and pulled her twins hand into her own.

"It's okay," she said before flipping her phone over in her hand. Annemarie got a good look at her sisters lockscreen, causing her her eyebrows to jump a bit.

"Is that..." Annemarie trailed off, sling her sister notifications up to see the picture.

(Ignore the date lol)
"I'm glad mom made us take this. She was right. I love it," Claudia slightly smiled. Annemarie puckered her lips and pecked her sister cheek.

"I love you, Abuelita," the older twin faux pouted, before peeling off and heading back in her class. Claudia made sure her sister was safe in her seat, before heading back to her own class.

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2 PM struck in the Miranda-Soo household, as Lesley rolled out of the bed for the first time. Her stomach was in knots and she was sweating bullets, but she needed to get up. She didn't want Nova to see her in that nature, and she needed to shower.

While waiting on the water to heat up in the bathroom between she and the twins room, Lesley stared at her body in the mirror. "Mommy is gonna do better. For you and Nova, as long as you make it through this, you'll see. I promise," Lesley mumbled. She wasn't showing just yet, but she was feeling a mixture of baby and detox through out the week.

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Downstairs, Pippa laid on the couch with Meredith by her side holding a fetal heart monitor while Jasmine and Renée sat on the loveseat. Anticipation welled in the women's hearts as Meredith spread a thin layer of petroleum jelly across Pippa's abdomen and places the probe. "It may take a minute, because the baby is small, but—"

Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.

"There it is," Meredith smiled. Pippa placed the unopened wine bottle on her coffee table as Meredith pushed the probe a bit farther in to get a stronger read.

"See," Renée smiled taking her best friends hand.

"I don't get it," Pippa stared. "Last night my water broke. Like, I felt it," she said. Meredith shrugged.

"Was it your water? Or did you pee? Or was it discharge? Because all of those are quite similar in pregnancy," Meredith asked. Pippa rolled her eyes and slapped her hand over forehead.

"Honestly, I don't even care. My baby is okay," she smiled as the garage door opened. Pippa immediately sat up, not caring that she was smearing the jelly all over her baggy black t-shirt.

"Mom, I know Annie, is supposed to be at school, but—" Allie stopped mid sentence, hooking her keys up, but seeing her family's doctor in her living room. "Mom, you okay?" Allie asked, moving to the couch. Annemarie came in not too far after Allie, with her hood up, and followed her sister also spotting Meredith.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Pippa replied, but before Meredith could hide the device Allie was staring at it over the back of the couch.

"Mom," Allie whispered. Annemarie finally reached her sister side  and gasped at the sight.

"Surprise," Pippa tried to play it off. Allie's eyebrows furrowed, but Annemarie placed her hand over her mouth.

"Does daddy know?" Annemarie asked, pulling her body almost fully over the couch. Allie glanced at her sister oddly.

"Forget dad! Does God know? Isn't your uterus on break or, like, retired at this point?" Allie asked, highly confused about the science behind that. Pippa playfully rolled her eyes, and dropped her back on the couch between Annemarie and Allie.

"Ha ha, very funny," Pippa muttered. "Don't you have homework or something?" She asked, directing her kids the kitchen table to get started. Meredith stifled her laugh as she started to pack up her equipment.

"Hey, I told him it was a bad idea," she giggled. Pippa looked at her weird, but decided that was a conversation for she and Lin. "Alright ladies. I have to head home to my family, before Amelia and Link try to get frisky while no ones there. Pippa, schedule an appointment with Arizona. She'll be excited to see you," Meredith said. The women waved the doctor off, before turning to each other.

"That was a close one," Jasmine said.

"Too close," Pippa replied. Renée, scooped up the wine bottle and headed to the kitchen on a mission. Hearing a draw open, Pippa looked back confused. "Née, what are you doing? You know where I keep the wine," she asked. Renée grabbed two glasses and headed back to the couch.

"Hey, just because you can't drink, doesn't mean we can't. It's celebratory," Renée said. Pippa scoffed. "Oh calm down it's not even the expensive stuff," she simplified, pouring she and Jasmine glasses. Pippa laid back on the couch, upset she couldn't join, but glad she couldn't join.

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