Yay for updating!

I am mucho sorry for not updating sooner, i've had the first page of this chapter written for a while, but just couldn't get it going. Also, there will probably only be two, maybe three, more chapters. And, I'll probably have a sequel in the works.

"Just come on, as soon as she's awake, I'm sure she'll explain everything to you,"

"Like why I haven't spoken to her in over a month?"

She nodded and pulled me into the elevator. We stood there, silently, I was too pissed off to talk with her, and I think she was too embarrassed that I knew she had been hiding something from me. Lucky for the two of us, the ride was only about 3 ½ seconds long.

When we got onto the second floor, I headed straight for her room. I didn't wait for Ruthie, who was yelling after me.

"Mom?" I said poking my head through the door.

"Savannah," she asked softly, "is that you?"

"Yeah, mom, it's me" I answered.

She looked so weak, so small. I didn't know what to say. I just stared. She didn't speak either. Just a few minutes after I walked in, she burst out into tears. Ruthie walked in right after she started crying. She looked as though she was going to cry too. And I would've cried too, but I didn't know what was going on. I stood there, between my mom and my aunt, two women hiding something from me, I didn't know if it was good or bad, even though Ruthie insisted that it wasn't anything bad, I couldn't believe her. If it wasn't bad, then why couldn't she tell me?

"Lucy, you need to tell her, she needs to know," Ruthie said softly

"I--" she started.

"It can't be that bad… If it was life threatening, someone would've told me…right…?" I asked.

"I'll make it through, Savannah…"

"You'll make it through what?"

"Savannah, a couple of months ago, right after you… left…"

"Left?! Are you kidding me! You kicked me out!"

"Savannah…" Ruthie said quietly.

"I'm sorry," I said shortly, "go on."

"I started getting sick in the morning, and I hadn't had my monthly visitor, so, naturally, I

assumed I was pregnant…"

"You're pregnant too?!" I said a little louder and more shocked than I meant to.

"No, I went to the doctor, and she told me I had ovarian cancer."

"You have cancer."

"No, she had it," Ruthie said, "They caught it extremely early, and well…"

"Well…?"

"I had a hysterectomy" she said, tears streaming down her face.

I couldn't believe it, she had a hysterectomy and no one bothered to tell me? Or even tell me that she had cancer. But one thing still puzzled me.

"If you had these life-alternating moments, why didn't you call me to tell me what's going on, I know you'd been talking to Ruthie about it, but you didn't considering just asking her to put me on the phone to say, 'Hi, Savannah, I know we're not really speaking right now, but I had a hysterectomy to get rid of cancer'?"

"Savannah, I understand you're upset right now, but I didn't want to put any more stress on you, than I already have caused."

"Wait, if it's all gone, then why are you still here when dad and Jenny went home?

Ruthie opened her mouth, but then, it was if she realized I was right. We really weren't told why she was still here. How can two people walk away virtually unharmed, but one wasn't?

"Well, when they brought us in, they realized that the cancer moved to my liver…"

"If it spread, can't you get that removed too?"

"Sav," Ruthie said softly, "it's not that simple. The liver is very important. They can't remove it, sometimes they can remove a portion of it, but this isn't the case."

"I'm a fighter, you know that honey, I'm not going to let this beat me, but I want you to know, whatever decision you make about the baby, I'll support you,"

"And dad?"

"Believe it or not, he's coming around. Jenny and Austin, we've explained--"

"I did that before I left," I interrupted, and was given a look of worry, "don't worry it was very… um… gentle."

Ruthie and I stood there, silently for a minute or two, me taking a seat next to the bed, until she spoke up.

"Why did Kevin sign himself and Jenny out? The nurse said it was against medical advice"

Mom was about to answer until someone else did it for her.

"I wanted Austin to know that we were all okay, considering," Dad said, appearing in the doorway.

"You could've let Jenny stay with Lucy though, so she wouldn't be lonely." She snapped.

"She's fine, I'm fine, we're all going to be fine," he said, then realized I was sitting down next to mom.

"What is she doing here?" he asked mom. Not looking at me.

Mom and Ruthie both opened their mouths to answer but I beat them to it.

"She was invited by her mother. She wanted to see her parents who she hasn't seen for months. She wanted both of her parents to know that in October they'll have a granddaughter, whether they like or not." I said then left the room.

"You know Kevin, you are really an ass," I heard Ruthie say as I left.

"What?!"

"Your daughter is fifteen, pregnant, and scared shitless, not to mention she just found out her mother has cancer, and you're not helping. I know you're mad at her, and she knows it too, but just stop. Right now, she needs her father supporting every decision she makes, even if they're not always the ones you want her to make. You know she is considering adoption in hopes that it'll make you forgive her?"

"She's considering adoption?" mom asked.

"Yeah, not because she wants to, or because she thinks it's the best thing to do, but to please you. But so help me god, I will not let her give up that little girl just so you will accept her. I won't have it."

Ruthie walked out of the room, and also straight into me.

"God! Sav, you scared me," she said.

"Thanks," I said.

"For what?"

"Sticking up for me. You're the only one who has this entire time."

We left the hallway, the argument mom and dad having getting and more and more faint until we couldn't hear them at all.

I didn't want to be the cause of my parent's marriage becoming worse and worse, but it was all I did.

When we got back home, I called Tim, and asked him if he wanted to know what the sex of the baby was. He, of course, said, okay, but he didn't care as long as it's healthy, when I told him it was a girl, he sounded happy. I knew what was going through his head, he wanted it to be a boy, like every guy.

And, we both decided—or really I decided, he agreed—that after the baby was born that we would do a paternity test. Just to confirm what we both were 95 sure about.

I asked him what he would do if the baby wasn't his, at first he said he didn't know, and then said, maybe we could try dating, and I agreed.

3 Weeks Later

Mom's cancer seemed to get worse, and kept spreading, no matter what the doctors did. Finally, they told her that she probably only had a couple of months to live. She then decided that she was going to bring peace to me and dad, and that's exactly how we both ended up at the hospital at the same time, and she explained her plan.

"If I only have a few months to live, I want you two to be able to be civil to each other."

"Lucy, this is ridiculous, you're going to be fine."

"Kevin, we don't know that, right now, the only chances of me living are through a bone marrow transplant, and most likely a liver transplant. So you two have to put all of this behind you. Kevin, our granddaughter will be here in 4 months, and you've got to come to terms with that. I know you don't want our first grandchild to be put up for adoption, being raised by strangers."

"No--I don't."

I couldn't believe that that just came out of his mouth. He just admitted to wanting me to keep the baby.

"Savannah, we will both support you, it's your decision, but we want you to keep her, we will help you raise her. Okay?"

"Okay."

After this, my parents wanted me to come home, but, I knew I couldn't, not yet. Dad still needed to come to terms and accept the fact that his fifteen year old daughter was pregnant.

1 month later

Kaelyn Grace. That will be her name. Tim and I picked it out together. I wanted "Kaelyn" and he wanted "Grace" after his grandmother. And in two months she'll be here. After she's born, I'm going to move back in with my parents, not that Ruthie and Peter haven't been great, but it'll be the right time, and they've promised to help me raise her.

Now, all we have to do is wait.