The Camden's had all been through so much the past years. With Eric's sudden death, and the loss of Lucy and Kevin's twins, none of them thought anything could get worse. After Ruthie's return from Scotland she and Peter got back together. It turned out that Aaron was Simons and not Martins, and the couple married soon after Sandy told Simon. Martin stayed a bachelor, and Matt and Sarah had two more children after their twins were born. Sam and David lived with Annie until they left for college.
Lucy and Kevin waited four years before having children after Lucy miscarried. They had a boy, Austin, and then another girl, Jenny, just weeks after Savannah's ninth birthday.
Savannah was for the most part, was a good kid. She made both her parents very happy. She was always babysitting her brother and sister, and her cousins. She was enjoying her life. They moved away from Glen Oak, and moved north towards Sandy and Simon.
When she was 15 everything that everyone thought about her couldn't be more wrong. Everyone thought her to be a good girl. She never did anything wrong, or so they thought. Her parents were oblivious to her actions, and only focused on Austin, 10, and Jenny, 6. Not even her cousins knew about her secret life, they were fooled by the face she put on, and she was surprised that only Aaron, was the only one who even had the slightest idea of what she did.
She partied. She partied a lot. She was a P-K and it was the only way she knew how to rebel against Lucy. Kevin and Lucy stilled believed that she was their innocent little girl, making straight 'A's and never skipping. The truth was, she was smarter than skipping school, and never did anything too crazy on school nights, knowing her parents would find out. She snuck out and she hooked up. She liked hooking up, and there were no strings attached, usually.
She knew the rules of hooking up at her own school. They were simple; if you don't use a condom, beware. You don't discuss hooking up with the people that you hook up with. You shouldn't hook up with people you know, unless you want to continue seeing them. And that's where she made her mistake. She hooked up with a long time friend. Unaware at the time it was him. She was too drunk. But it was the next morning when she realized it was.
Waking up next to him wasn't good. She had broken the rules, for her 'friends' and herself. She knew that none of her friends could no that it was him, unless he told them. She prayed that he didn't. It was against their rules. He didn't say anything, she didn't say anything. They pretended nothing happened between them, and that's how she liked it.
But it was different now. She waited in her own bathroom. She didn't know how long it had been. Had it been over two months? She sat on the toilet seat. Waiting. She looked down at her watch. 30 more seconds. She didn't tell her friends. She didn't even tell him.
"I'm just freaking out about nothing," she said to herself.
15 more seconds. She did the math in her head again. Trying to think if it would be him. Or maybe it would be the guy from the week before. She wasn't quite sure.
It's time.
She looked down. And every emotion that she had was compressed to fear. It couldn't be true. She was only 15. Things like this didn't happen to 15 year olds.
"Savannah! You here?" Lucy called from down stairs.
"Yeah, mom. I'm in the bathroom, I'll be right down." She opened the door a little. "Shit shit shit! What am I going to do?"
"Did you say something honey?" Lucy asked again.
"No mom, I'm coming," she said, throwing the test in the trash. "It's just a false positive," she said to herself.
Walking down the stairs, she tried to wipe all the look of guilt and fear off her face. She tried taking herself to her 'happy place.' She was doing everything she could to take her mind off of it.
"Yeah, mom?" she asked walking into the kitchen.
"Well, I was thinking that we could talk," Lucy said.
"Um, okay, about what?"
"Well, I was thinking, you're fifteen now. And I think it's time we talked about sex" Savannah jumped at the sentence.
"Okay…" she said as calmly as she could, "we can talk about that."
"Well, I just think that you need to wait. Like I did. I didn't wear white just because it was tradition. I want it to all be special for you,"
"But mom…" Savannah was not sure why she said it, maybe it was just to get her to stop.
"I know, you're fifteen, and things like sex are all around you. I know you haven't had a boyfriend since Jerry-what's-his-face. I just want you think before you do anything like that. Did I ever tell you about Mary's old boyfriend Wilson?"
"Um… the guy who had a baby when he was like, 16?"
"Yeah. I just want you to remember that there are consequences. He lost his wife during childbirth. And he raised that baby on his own until he was 25, and he finally settled down. Remember that babies come from sex…"
"You're tellin' me," she said softly.
"What?" Lucy asked.
"Nothing. Well, I've got loads of homework. I'm just going to go do that."
"Okay, well, dinner will be ready soon," Lucy said with a smile.
Savannah ran upstairs and into her room, where she cried into her pillow. How could she just lie to her mom like that? She didn't say a word. Maybe she would understand. She seemed understanding of that Wilson guy. He was my age. I'm only fifteen. I can't have a baby!
Kevin walked into his house to see Lucy cooking. He put down Jenny and kissed his wife hello.
"Did you talk to her?" he asked Lucy.
"Yes. And she seemed very interested. I told her sex was special and she should wait. I told her about Wilson, and hopefully that'll scare her until she's 20."
"She's smart, I don't think she's doing anything like that. She doesn't even have a boyfriend," Kevin said. "She's our perfect teenager, we should be grateful that she's as open as she is with us."
"I know. Savannah! Austin! Jenny! Dinner's ready!" she called to her children.
"I don't think the whole neighborhood heard you," Kevin said with a smile.
Austin and Jenny were down to the table just a moment after Lucy called them down.
"Where's Savannah?" Kevin asked the children.
They both shrugged and shook their heads.
"Savannah!" Kevin called.
Savannah wiped her face and walked out the door. She had only known for a day, and she already didn't know how she was going to tell her parents.
"Hey dad," she said, giving him a kiss.
"Were where you?" he asked.
"Oh, just doing my homework," she lied.
Dinner was painful. She sat there silently, listening to her parent's and siblings talk. She couldn't say anything. She knew if she opened her mouth that everything would come out. Everything. The fact that she had been hooking up for months, and now she might be pregnant. Even worse, she wasn't quite sure who the father was. She thought it was Tim, and prayed that it was. She didn't even know most of the other guys that she hooked up with. They might pass each other in the hallway and then they'd smile at each other, but nothing more than that at school.
"Savannah, you've been awfully quite, any thing on your mind?" Lucy asked.
"No, just lot's of homework. We've got this huge book report due tomorrow," she said, "I think I'm just going to go work on that. I'm not that hungry anyway…" she said, already having the homework done.
"Okay, well, just let me know if you get hungry," Lucy said as Savannah left.
Savannah quickly got on the Internet, searching for her friends, Tim, anyone that she could talk to. Tim needed to know. She heard her family continuing to converse, then going their own ways for the rest of the night. After an hour or so, she heard Kevin calling Lucy, he sounded excited. And the Savannah remembered that she left her pregnancy test in the bathroom trash.
"You're pregnant?" Kevin said with excitement.
"What…?" Lucy asked confusingly.
"I can't believe we're pregnant again!"
"Kevin, wait…" Lucy protested.
"We've got to call Mom and Ben, and everyone!"
"Kevin," she said, taking him by the hand, "I'm not pregnant. What makes you think I am?"
"I found your positive pregnancy test in the trash," he offered.
"That's not mine…" she said, realizing who the test belonged to.
"You don't think it's…?"
"Savannah!" Lucy screamed.
Savannah was jerked out of her daze when she heard Lucy. She knew what it meant. And she was afraid of what might happen. She decided that she would act like she didn't know what they were talking about. That would be the best thing to do.
"Coming," she said back, cleaning her face. She walked into her parent's room, where she saw Kevin holding the pregnancy test. "Did you need something?" she asked nonchalantly.
Kevin held out the test to her, expecting an answer. "Mom, you're pregnant! That's great!" she said, trying to play dumb.
"It's not your mother's Savannah," Kevin said, "that means it can only be one other person's."
"Savannah, do you need to tell us something that has to do with that?" Lucy asked her daughter.
"I'm pregnant," she said before running out of the room and into her own.