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Dreading this moment for hours upon hours.

I. Yale Meguin.

Am pregnant.

Again.

I. Yale Meguin.

Don't know who the father of my child is.

Again.

I. Yale Meguin.

Need to vomit.

Vinnie: Holy shit...
Yale: Holy shit...
Vinnie: Charlie's gonna be... wait what do you think he's gonna say?
Yale: I'm not sure I want him to know Vin
Vinnie: What are you talking about? You need to tell him.
Yale: It may not be his..
Vinnie: God fucking dammit that blonde frat boy.
Yale: God what am I gonna do?
Vinnie: Whatever you think is right but if you don't mind me saying, I don't think you can take care of 2 kids right now...
Yale: What do you mean?
Vinnie: Maybe you should...
Yale: Should what?
Vinnie: Maybe you should get an abortion.

I mean Vinnie wasn't wrong. I couldn't take care of 2 kids right now and maybe abortion was the smart decision to make.

Vinnie: What did Sienna say?
Yale: Don't know. I haven't told her.
Vinnie: For real?
Yale: I barely see her anymore. She's always so busy.
Vinnie: Okay well I gotta go to work. You good?
Yale: Yeah Im good.
Vinnie: I'll go grocery shopping when I get off.
Yale: Okay
Vinnie: And yale...
Yale: What's up?
Vinnie: Your lease is almost up, you may want to think about my offer.
Yale: Yeah sure.
Vinnie: Promise you'll think about it.
Yale: YES VINCENT go to work!
Vinnie: Okay bye.

After hearing the door close after Vinnie, I sunk to the ground horrified with the decision I would soon have to make.

I reached over to grab my phone questioning calling Charlie but I couldn't do it... so I dialed Sienna's number instead.

She sounded startled when she answered.

Sienna: Ummm hey Yale!
Yale: Hey Sea. Can I talk to you about something? I really miss you and I feel like I never see you anymore. So maybe you could like coke over, we could have a girls night. Goonies and Spray cheese just like we used to?

I waited for a few seconds in silence hoping to hear a yes...

Sienna: What? I- I mean... I can't... stuff- I have stuff to do..
Yale: Oh okay. What kind of stuff? Anything I can help with?
Sienna: No not really. Yale I gotta go.
Yale: Um okay! I mis-

She hung the phone up before I could get the words "miss" and "you" out.

Whatever this "thing" is, I hope it's very important.
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Sienna's POV

Charlie: Who was that?
Sienna: Yale.
Charlie: oh
Sienna: What's up with you two?
Charlie: I don't want to talk about it. Is Ben almost here?
Sienna: Andrew.
Charlie: That's Ben.
Diane: Okay well you need to call him Andrew until we find away to get him back home.
Jefferey: Charles we don't want to scare him away.

I heard bells jingle as i turned facing the door watching Rue and Be- Andrew enter the small cafe off campus.

Andrew: Who are these people?

Charlie's mother's cheeks tuned bright red. I could tell she was trying to hold back tears after seeing her son for the first time in almost 2 years.

She leaped up and attempted to grab him.

Diane: Benjamin!
Andrew: I don't know who you are...
Diane: I-
Jeffery: Diane. Please.
Rue: Andy how about you sit.
Andrew: Rue, I-
Rue: Please.

Andrew aggressively pulled a chair from underneath the table and sat down.

Andrew: 5 minutes. go.

Charlie's dad pulled out 2 large books.

Jeffery: Hi Andrew. I'm Jeffery Gillespie. This is Diane and Charlie.
Andrew: 4.

He opened the books revealing family photos from birthdays and holidays.

Jeffery: Over a year ago, our son, Benjamin Gillespie went on a trip with his friend and never came back. This is Ben.

He pointed to a photo of him from his graduation.

Andrew: That- he- um.. he looks like me.
Jefferey: Yes.
Andrew: But he's not.
Charlie: What the hell are you talking about? That's you. Look at the tattoo Andrew!
Andrew: I got this tattoo last month.
Charlie: No you didn't.
Andrew: My name is Andrew Miranda. I was born in Jordan. I have 2 sisters and my parents Jed and Angelina adopted me when I was 6.
Charlie: Your name is Ben Gillespie. You were born in America. You have a brother, a sister and another half sister.
Andrew: Is this some kind of joke?
Diane: Andrew. Could we maybe speak to your parents?
Andrew: No you're crazy and your 5 minutes are up. I hope you find this Ben guy but I'm telling you, I'm not him. Rue, I'll be in the car.

Andrew got up and walked away leading to Charlie slamming his hands on the table causing everyone to look our way.

Charlie: Your favorite food is garlic bread. You hate spicy foods. You have incredible hearing since your eyesight is terrible. When you're really upset, your eye twitches and you tell people you shave your face because you like it but it's actually because you think facial hair makes you look homeless. You have a bald spot on the back of your head from that time in 7th grade you let Ellie give you a perm. You think diet soda tastes better than regular and your idea of the worst sound in the world is the sound of somebody scraping their fork on a plate.

Andrew turned around and faced Charlie.

Andrew: How do you know that? About my eyesight and... the bald spot...
Charlie: Because you're my brother and my best friend. I know you better than anyone. Please just talk to me. I haven't seen you in almost 2 years and I really need you around. Please.

Charlie was choking back tears.
I don't think I've ever seen him cry like this.

Andrew walked forward and pulled him into a hug.

Andrew: Tell me more.

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