I woke up to the smell of something that smelled amazing. Actually, it would have smelled better if I wasn't about to puke but nonetheless it was good. I rolled over to see an empty bed. Please be in the kitchen making me food, please be in the kitchen making food...

I made my way to the kitchen (after throwing up and brushing my teeth) in hope of obtaining as much of this delicious smelling food. As I passed the spare room, I saw Mel wasn't in there. She probably went home...

As I walked to the kitchen I was disappointed, but only slightly. Instead of Dan being a gentleman, it was his sister Meg. But there was bacon, eggs and toast so everything was okay.

"Morning Meg, is there enough food there to feed a very hungry brother's girlfriend and your niece or nephew?"

"Hm... I guess it depends. I want to talk to you about something."

From the living room I heard Dan interject, "Meg. Don't do this."

"No, I deserve the right to express my opinion. And I am damn-well going to express it." She turned her gaze to look at me. "Neither of you are ready for this. Mum and Dad agree with me as well. I honestly think that if you're stupid enough that you got knocked up in the first-" I couldn't listen any more.

"For the love of God! I get it that I am pregnant and I haven't yet graduated high school. I get it that I'm young. I get it that most of the time, these relationships don't always work out. I get that a child is a lot of responsibility. I understand but stop assuming what I can and can't do! I am having this baby regardless of what you think Me! I am already having this baby without my parents, and if I needed to I would do this without Dan!" My eyes welled up as I made eye contact with him "But I hope I never have to."

He crossed the room and wrapped his arms around me just as I let the tears roll down my cheeks.

"Abbey... Abbey look at me." He lifted up my chin and I immediately got lost in his eyes. "You're not going to need to do this without me. I love you, I've loved you for a long time now. I'm not leaving you, not now – not ever." Meg had left the room at some point but I didn't care, we needed to talk about this.

"Dan, you know that you can't guarantee that we are going to stay together. You can't say that you know for sure that nothing is going to happen."

"I know I can't. I never said that I could, I just said that you wouldn't have to do this without me. No matter what happens, if we break up, if we stay together, I'm not leaving our baby."

"Okay... I've been wanting to know; you still want to keep the baby don't you? And don't say you do because of what I think." His expression hardened, he removed his arms from around my waist and his eyes had a dangerous spark in them.

"Abbey, have you even been listening to me? I've told you over and over again, I'm here! I want to do this! It isn't just hard for you okay? Everyone is practically waiting for me to leave you and this situation, they think that I can't support you and that I'll just leave. They think that I can't support you or this baby and to be perfectly honest, I probably can't. But I am going to bust my ass trying. What else do you actually want from me? What do I have to do to prove it to you that I'm not going anywhere?"

"I don't know Dan! I'm sorry. No one else seems to think that we can do this. I am just paranoid that you don't want to do this." His face relaxed and he looked at the floor.

"Don't you go and think that for a second Abbey. You're my little whale." I couldn't help but laugh at that. I leaned into his chest and wrapped my arms around him.

"Dan, what if something happens to the baby?"

"Abbey, you need to stop worrying. My little whale worries too much."

I looked at him sternly, "Call me a whale one more time I swear."

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm not going to talk to you." I took a step away, folded my arms and stuck my nose in the air.

"That's very mature Abbey – Melody? What are you doing here?" I turned around and saw Melody standing in the doorway looking vacant. I immediately knew where she had been.

"Melody, please don't tell me you went to Riley's house. Please tell me that you didn't see him." Her face said it all, she couldn't look me directly in the eyes. To say that this was bad was an understatement. "Why would you do that to yourself? What about us trashing his car? What about all the important getting-over-Riley stuff? What happened to him being a complete jerk?"

"Abbey, calm down. Give her a second, let her breathe. Melody, what happened?"

"He wants me back. He wants to get back together."