Squad Goals Season 1- J•B

Episode 17

Two weeks later

"You love me right?" I ask Scooter as he bustles around his office, cellphone pressed to his ear and coffee mug halfway to his mouth. My question doesn't phase him and he nods his head and widens out his arms as if to say 'yes, I love you this much'. I give a nervous smile and shoot him a thumbs up before speaking up enough to talk over the loudmouths on his conference call.

"Love me enough to buy me about six pregnancy tests?" Scooter chokes on his coffee and it sprays across his desk.

"Sayonara" Scooter says hastily slamming the phone down before pointing an accusing finger at me. "I thought you two were using protection!" He yells in exasperation and my face heats up before I mumble a quick,

"not in the shower" which puts a mortified on Scoot's face. A knock sounds at his door and we both attempt to look cool and calm when he yells a brief,

"come in" and his assistant rolls in a cart of various seafoods.

"Your lunch Mr. Braun and Miss St. John" She says cheerily and I give her a nice smile as she exits. I look at the variation of dead fish and feel my stomach roll and bike start to rise in my throat. In seconds I'm leaning over the trash in his office and vomiting up what seems like everything I've eaten in the past month as Scooter holds my hair and rubs my back soothingly. Once I'm done I hug my knees to my chest and allow a few tears to trail down my cheeks.

"I'm scared Scoot" I admit and he gives me a small, sad smile. "I know kid," he says "I know."

One day later

"So Zebulon and baby Bieber will be like best friends" Gigi tells me as I stand rigid and peering at the six pregnancy tests that line my bathroom counter. Kylie huffs and snaps her fingers,

"try again Gigi. Zebulon is not welcome here" Gigi pouts and rubs her slowly growing belly.

"We don't even know if there's going to be a baby Bieber, right Phillip?" He barks as if to tell me that the only baby around here is him.

"I'm surprised you haven't had ten kids by now, you two are like bunnies" I hear Cara say from my bedroom and Kendall hums in agreement.

"Whatever the case I can't wait to meet Kylie or Kyle" Kylie says picking up one of the tests and waving it around as if that would make the results appear faster. I've got five minutes left and the shrill ring of my phone makes me jump and squeal in surprise.

"It's the baby daddy" Cara calls before I hear her answer the phone "a moment love, she's in the bathroom" Cara says and I sit in the covered toilet and out my head in my hands. Cara gives me the phone and I take it shakily and then she rounds up everyone and takes them out of my room and bathroom leaving me alone with six life changing sticks.

"Hey baby!" Justin says and I cringe at the word baby.

"Hi Jay" I say as normally as possible peeking at the sticks.

"Babe, so I saw one of those trash mags and Scooter was buying a shit ton of pregnancy tests. I think he and Yael are knocked up" he says excitedly and for an odd reason that calms my nerves.

"Those weren't for Yael Jay" I tell him quietly and he gasps on the line

"Scoot's cheating? That son of a-" I interrupt him before he can build up a hate case against Scooter.

"Will you FaceTime me?" I ask and he readily agrees, hanging up the phone call and dialing me with FaceTime.

"God I miss you," he says studying my face and from the looks of it he's working out alone in his hotel's gym. I smile and hope I don't look too terrified. I must because his brow crinkles in concern

"what's wrong Nonnie?" I flip the camera and pan over the six tests that have yet to give me an answer.

"They weren't for Yael?" I flip the camera again and shake my head.

"You think there's a baby in there?" He asks rubbing a towel over his face, I nod,

" I haven't been feeling good lately and like, I'm late so I figured that I should double check" Justin looks increasingly worried.

"What do you mean you've been sick? Sweetheart why didn't yo-" I think that my crying face is enough to stop his onslaught of questions because suddenly he's silent.

"Hey, It's going to be okay Rhiannon, if there's a baby then there's a baby and you've got me you know that right?" I nod and wipe away my tears.

"I know that. I know that I can depend on you Justin I'm just so nervous and scared" he gives me an encouraging grin and brings the phone closer to his face, focusing on his lips.

"Gimme a kiss" he says and I roll my eyes and shake my head but he's super persistent.

"Kiss me through the phone" he insists with puckered lips and with another eyeroll o kiss my screen.

"I wish I was with you babe," he tells me sadly and I nod and wipe my face a bit

"Me too"

"I wish I was there to hold your hand" He continues and I smile a little bit and take a long sniffle.The timer on my phone goes off and it scares the shit out of me.

" ok times up" I say with a breath and before I can flip the camera onto the tests Justin holds up a hand,

"Whatever happens know that I love you okay? And we're going to do whatever you want to do you got that?" I smile and then flip the camera so it focuses on size negative tests.

"Fuck" I let out in a large gust of breath nearly dropping my phone in the process. I flip the phone camera back onto my face and a series of emotions flash across Justin's face. Disappointment, confusion and then, finally, relief. A knock sounds at the door and Kylie walks in,

"Is there a Kylie or Kyle Bieber on the way?" She asks and Justin snorts from his end and I shake my head and point to all the negative sticks. She places her hand over her heart and sighs,

"Good. I'm way too young to be an auntie" Justin gives a bark of laughter and yells,

"You're already an aunt you idiot! Two of your sisters have kids and so do a ton of your other siblings!" Kylie takes my phone and sticks out her tongue,

"Brush that thing would ya?" He yells before I grab back the phone.

"I hate him, honestly I do" Kylie says loud enough for Justin to hear,

"Tell Kylie that I-" I interrupt their bantering with a sharp raise if my eyebrow and Justin gets the hint.

"I've got to get to dress rehearsals babe, I'll call you tomorrow alright?" I nod and blow him a kiss which he catches. Once the call is over Kylie does a little dance,

"Want to have a 'I'm not preggo party?" Gigi huffs from outside and I start dancing with Kylie

"Yes. I need booze. Right now."

Guess who Rhiannon meets in the next chapter ;) his title rhymes with DagBon Toy