Here's To Forever

Seven

James

To say I'm worried would be an understatement. It's been two days since Riley left and nobody has heard from her
I have no idea what I have done but I just want her safe

I don't care if you are mad at me, I don't care about what you think you've done to disappoint me but Riley what I do care about is you.. Please just let me know you are safe x

I sighed sending it, hoping for a response I'm pretty certain I'm not going to get
"Yo James!" Ben said coming into the room
"What's up?" I asked looking at him
"Where is Riley? I need to talk to her about the email she sent out this morning" He answered
"What email?" I asked
"Just about our contracts and timetable for the upcoming lessons" He replied, she may have run of but of course she keeps being a studio head. She wouldn't just drop all of that
"Alright, whats up with it? Riley isn't around at the moment" I asked
"I had asked for the 12th off for my daughters wedding and it seems I'm working a morning class?" He asked
"12th? got it, don't worry about the class I'll teach it" I replied making him smile
"Thanks Man" Ben replied
"Good luck at her wedding, I bet you'll be a reck" I laughed making him roll his eyes
"Just you wait till you have a little girl James, she'll break your heart too" He said making me smile
Having a daughter or a child in general would be amazing, can you imagine a mini James or a mini Riley running around the studio
How cool that would be 

The day continued and around 2pm I got a text from Pipes. One I was not expecting at all

Hey, Ri is here. Where are you at? x

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Riley

It's been 3 days since I left New York and I had to think long and hard about what i needed to do, who I should see. But my heart kept going back to James, I know he'll be blaming himself right now but I just need to figure this out
When finding out I was pregnant I couldn't help but think that everyone would hate me, after all everyone else waited until Marriage and here I am breaking that..
I had thought about going to my parents, but they would be the worst to go to, I couldn't even imagine seeing my dad's face. The disappointed look on his face would break my heart, I'm his baby girl and this would be the one thing that would make him see I wasn't that anymore

Here I stood of Deborah's doorstep
"Riley honey!" Deb said as she invited me in
"Hey Riley" Piper said hugging me, I happily hugged her back. I'm pretty sure this is the only place that will welcome me with open arms when the secret it out
"where is James?" Neil asked as he walked out of the kitchen, I looked at him and then to Deb as they then turned to look at each other
"Piper can you head out for a bit, we need to talk to Riley" Neil asked, Piper slowly nodded patting my back as she left
"Riley what is going on? Is James okay?" Deborah asked coming and sitting next to me
I nodded, James was okay
"Then what is wrong sweetheart" Neil asked
"Do you promise you won't hate me?" I asked and they looked at each other before looking at me
"We could never hate you Riley, what is going on" Neil asked sitting the other side of me
"I'm pregnant" I cried falling into Deborah's arms
"Why would that make us hate you Riley! That's amazing news! How did James take it" Deb said stroking my hair to calm me down
"I haven't told him" I whispered
"why not honey? He would love this" Neil asked
"I didn't want to disappoint him.. This isn't how it was meant to happen, we were meant to get married before this happened" I said now sitting back up
"Honey, it doesn't always work that way, James certainly didn't" Neil laughed
"We had all the precautions in place with that boy and he still showed up before I even asked Deb to marry me" Neil said continuing to laugh
"Really?" I asked and they both nodded
"Is this what has been up recently? James said he noticed that something was going on but he didn't want to pester too much" Deb asked and I nodded
"How far along are you?" Deb then asked and I shrugged
"I have an appointment next week back in New York" I replied
"Does James know where you are?" Neil asked and I shook my head
"I left New York 3 days ago and haven't spoken to anyone since. I just didn't want anyone to hate me" I whispered
"This is nothing for anyone to hate you for honey" Deb said stroking my back
"You can stay here as long as you want Riley, I'm going to call James and let him know you are okay though. He's probably worried sick" Neil said. This was it, my escape had ended

James

Pacing back and forth I waited for Pipes to reply but that wasn't getting anywhere, It had been an hour since she told me that Riley was there
Why was Riley there though
What is going on 
"Em I know where she is" I practically yelled down the phone
"Nice to speak to you too James, where is she?" She asked after her snarky comment
"She is at my parents" I replied
"What why?" She then asked and I shrugged
"I have no idea - hang on Emily, my dad is calling I'll call you back" I replied before accepting the call from my dad
"Dad please tell me she is okay" I begged with him having a light chuckle, this was not the time for that
"She is okay son" He replied
"What is she doing there? Did I do something? Please don't tell me I did something" I rambled
"I don't think it's my news to share, how soon could you get to Toronto son?" He asked. He would never usually ask that unless it was an emergency
"I can get the next flight out?" I offered and I could here him grumble 
"Alright, we'll see you soon but please James don't go over thinking this. The poor girl is scared enough as it is" He said before clearing the line

What on earth was Riley scared about? What has happened
I called Emily back and filled her in, it took her some convincing not to go over but she's agreed not to.
I don't know what I'm about to walk into but whatever it is Riley, we are going to get through it I promise 
Of course I wasn't going to leave the Studio unmanaged, I've got Hope opening and closing and Daniel popping in between his classes and to run A-Troupe for us while I figure this situation out

I'm on my way babe x
With that text sent I was one foot out the door, she is safe, she is safe, that is all I cared about. Now the rest could be anything and I wouldn't care..