Key Note: Alright readers this is the final chapter to this story, but I promise there will be a sequel =). Thanks so much for all of the reviews!

Epilogue

I started my junior year of high school almost two months later. I was very happy that I had a chance to get my life back to normal. My mother and I were ten times closer like I wanted, and she met a new guy, only this time she met him in person first. Anyways, I decided to lay off the dating scene for awhile. I had enough of men at the moment and wanted to focus on school. Soon, going to school and then to work, became my regular routine.

I thought that nothing could stop me from succeeding in my goals and dreams…until one day I realized that I hadn't had a period since before my encounters with Mark. I tried shaking it off until I began throwing up a lot at school. One day while I was in gym class, I felt really weak after playing dodge ball with my class. I went to lunch next and ended up throwing up. Meaghan and Lauren were extremely worried, urging me to go to the school nurse, but of course I'm hard headed.

During class, I had to present a project I did on rape and abuse since I was so familiar with the subject. In the middle of my speech I felt really dizzy and nauseous. I tried really hard to finish but then…I collapsed.

"Serena! Serena are you ok?" my teacher asked as she got up to check me. Everything looked so fuzzy…and seemed to be fading. "Serena dear can you hear me? Someone call an ambulance!"

Meaghan whipped out her cell phone to call the hospital while Lauren called my mom. Within seconds, the paramedics had come and picked me up. I was fading in and out of consciousness as they rushed me to the hospital. When I got there, the doctors ran a few test before sending me to my own room to rest. Since my mom was working there already, she came to my side.

"Hey honey, are you alright?" she asked.

I shrugged with a smile, "I don't know…I just collapsed."

She sighed and kissed my forehead, "Everything is going to be alright sweetie. Don't worry."

Just as she said that the doctor walked in with a machine that I recognized to be an Ultrasound machine.

"Ok Serena, I'm Dr. Marsh, we are going to take a look inside your uterus ok?"

I looked at my mom, "For what?"

"Well in one of your test, it showed that your blood was thinning a little bit and since you're not on birth control that could mean that there is something wrong in your uterus."

I sighed and watched as the docter lifted my hospital gown and put some jelly like stuff on my lower abdomen. She then placed a small device on it and moved it around until we saw something…

"Oh….wait a minute…this isn't something bad at all." The doctor said.

My mom looked closer, "Oh my God."

"What, what is it?" I asked, getting scared.

My mom looked down at me with a smile, "Sweetie…it looks like you're going to be a mother."

I gasped and looked at the screen again. It was true…the small flicker within the small bubble was nothing more than a heartbeat. I was pregnant…pregnant with Mark's child. Once the doctor left the room I started crying in my mom's chest.

"What am I going to do?"

She sighed, "What all mother's do…take care of the child. I'll help you out sweetie don't worry."

I nodded and dried my tears. Here I was thinking I had gotten rid of Mark once and for all…but there was still a piece of him growing inside of me.