Lost along the way

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Winter break has ended and school was now back in session at Degrassi. Emma and her father had just arrived to find Sean waiting by the front doors for her. She ran up and gave him a kiss.
"The first half of the year may have been a nightmare but with you back this second half will be great."
"You okay if I go get caught up with Jay and the group?"
"Yeah I'll see you later." They kissed as they started walking away. As Emma walked to her own locker she heard whispers most of which was directed at how much bigger she had gotten, she was only about 16 weeks, she couldn't gotten that much bigger in only 2 weeks right? She finally reached her locker.
"Emma!" she heard Manny holler. "How are my nibblings today?"
"Nibblings?"
"I researched it, it's the gender neutral term for nieces or nephews until we know the genders and I take this cool aunt thing very seriously. Yes I do!" The last part directed at Emma's belly.
"At the next appointment we should be able to tell the genders."
"And now that me and Craig are no more I got way more time for it." she said as she placed her hands on Emma's bump. "Yes that's right lot more time to spoil you two." She said in her baby talk voice to her bump.

Paige checked her make up in her locker mirror. Despite being so concerned about it she knew she potentially had a bigger problem to worry about, and even if not there was still that other problem she's been trying to avoid. She still had a week and half to go before she could take the test possible the longest the week and a half of her life.
"Hey Paige."
She was interrupted from her thoughts as she turned to see who was talking. She instantly forgot about her issues.
"Em hey." She could feel her face getting warmer, she was pretty sure she was blushing. "How the three of you been?"
"Pretty good, you okay? Didn't see much of you over the holiday."
"Yeah...Christmas Eve...me and Matt broke up."
"Oh, I'm sorry..."
"It's okay, just really couldn't handle being around couples for awhile but it's all good now."
"I'm sorry you went through that, but also relieved. I thought maybe I did something to upset you."
"...okay there was something else but there's to many people here we'll talk at lunch."
"Okay we'll see you then."
The warning bell rang and all the students ran off to first period. Paige sat through Mrs Kwan's lecture during English, she didn't take in anything she was saying. A few periods later the bell for lunch rang. Rather then meet Emma in the cafeteria she found her in the hall and took her right to the bathroom for privacy.
"Okay so what's going on,"
"Emma...what does it feel like to be pregnant?"
"It's really hard to describe, sometimes like rarely I feel really pretty like everyone is staring in awe...but most of the time I feel kinda sick. I feel tired and not just sleepy but like no energy exhaustion tired. I feel like everyone is staring at me and it makes me feel so gross. Then other times just full on scared and paranoid, rather it's about how I'm going to take care of them or how much of a life I'll still have afterwards." Paige could see opening up about it was upsetting her, and it wasn't helping her mental state either. "Why?"
"...there's a possibility I might be."
Emma didn't reply immediately. She was so surprised by this reveal. "What-when did this happen?"
"After the break up, I called Spinner over one night just to get my mind off things. At the moment part of me actually was hoping I would but after wards I felt horrible about the situation. I took a morning after pill but even then it's still like 90% effective. Emma I know it's silly to come crying to you about it but honestly...I'm scared." Emma could see tears forming in her friends eyes.
"Hey. She said walking up to her friend placing a hand in her shoulder. "It's like you told me, we're going to get through this...whatever it takes."
"After what happened with Dean I had these reoccurring dreams where I actually had a daughter, and in every dream she was always named Chloe."
"Maybe now you can have your own real Chloe."
"Just hope it goes better, most of the time the dream would turn into a nightmare and Dean should show up. Sometimes he'd beat me, sometimes force me to do things, and other times he'd do worse to me and her."
The two embraced each other. Emma tried to comfort her friend as she had done for her so much in the last few months.
"Whatever it takes right?"