𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊 . . . 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝

𝟎𝟓. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞

05. it's time for the rest of my life

season three, episode two: if you're breathing, you're a liar

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"Nessa, open the door!" Zach yelled as he banged on his twin sister's bedroom door, the door beginning to rattle from how hard he was hitting it.

"Jesus, come in!" Nessa yelled finally, closing her Statistics textbook as she sat up in her bed. "What the hell is going on?"

"I may have done a really dumb thing." Zach admitted as he sat down on her bed, his cheeks flushed and his hair a mess.

'Well." Nessa began as she wrapped her arms around him. "You do a lot of dumb things, you're going to have to be more specific."

Zach grabbed the stuffed bear that Alex had gotten her at his birthday party a few months ago, hitting her with it playfully before setting it down in his lap.

"Chloe is pregnant, and it's Bryce's." Zach blurted, and Nessa's mouth dropped open. "She told me yesterday."

"What the fuck?" Nessa asked as she shot up from her bed, shutting her door and locking it for this intense of a conversation. "God, poor Chloe."

"I know." Zach said as Nessa shook her head, grabbing the stuffed bear out of Zach's lap for her own comfort. "I told her I'd help her raise it, you know, as ours."

It was Nessa's turn to hit Zach with the same stuffed bear. She would have to apologize to that poor stuffed animal later. "You did WHAT?!"

Zach just looked at his sister sheepishly as he shrugged. "You've done some real embarrassing and dumb shit, but this takes it, Zach. I mean seriously, what the fuck?"

"Okay, fucking chill." Zach snapped at her. "She didn't take me up on that offer."

"I wonder why." Nessa said bleakly, and Zach just rolled his eyes.

"She's getting an abortion." Zach said, and Nessa's face fell. She felt so awful for Chloe, even if she wasn't her favorite person. "I'm taking her tomorrow, and I may have offered your company and support. You know, women supporting women?"

Nessa thought for a moment. Chloe wasn't her favorite person, and for good reason. But, if she was in this situation, which she very well could have been, Chloe would probably do the same thing for her if given the opportunity. Nessa owed this to her, after being so cold to her for months.

"Okay." Nessa said. "I'll go."

Zach looked up at her, his brow furrowing. "Really? That was easy."

Nessa sighed. "As much as you'd like to think so, Zach, I'm not a complete cunt." Nessa told him annoyingly. "She would do it for me."

Zach smiled, nodding as he gave his sister a bear hug. "Thank you, Ness." he said into her hair before pulling away. Nessa just nodded, and began to mentally prepare herself for what was going to happen tomorrow.

Zach began walking out of her room, but Nessa stopped him. If he could talk to her about this, she had something she needed to get off of her chest too. Something that had been eating at her for a couple of weeks, and she needed Zach's somewhat level head.

"Hey, Zachy?" Nessa said, and Zach immediately sat back down. He knew that if she was calling him Zachy, it was serious.

"Yeah, Ness?" he asked, and Nessa looked up at him. Waterworks immediately flooded into her eyes.