My broody boy

23. The end of us

"It's ok..." she patted her friend's knee as they sat. "Things are going to be fine, I swear."

"He's mad...' she mumbled, staring hard at a crack in the tile. It was a little weird a doctor's office would have a crack, it should be perfect. As a doctor's office you want your patience to be relaxed, cracked tiles and uneven blinds didn't make her feel relaxed. Hell if they didn't take care of their offices, how is she supposed to assume they would take care of her? "He looked mad, didn't you think?" she turned her head to her friend.

"I wouldn't say...mad," she spoke slowly; truly thinking mad wasn't the right word. Shocked maybe...unexpected definitely, but not mad.

"He is mad..." she looked down, fiddling with her fingers. "Ethan is so mad..." she let out a hurt laugh. "God did you see his face? He is so disappointed."

"No..." she shook her head. "No, Ethan isn't mad...he just...he's Ethan," she reminded.

"I can't have a baby," she shook her head quickly. "And he doesn't want a baby."

"He loves you..." she squeezed her hand.

"But doesn't mean he wants a baby with me," she repeated. "He is mad...he is mad and what...what if he breaks up with me?" her voice cracked and her heart raced. "I don't want him to leave me."

"He won't," she engulfed her friend into a hug as she started to cry. "He won't leave you...I promise," she soothed her friend's hair. "You won't do this alone, I'm here for you...always," she promised kissing the top of her friend's head. "Always here."

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Shuffling his feet down the hall he watched as the boy before him stared hard at the wall before him, his hands resting over his mouth as his legs bounced, his nervous habit, and the look of fear all over his face. He didn't know where they stood, he didn't know if they were ever going to be ok again but he did know, without a doubt his friend's life was about to completely change.

"Here..." he offered the Styrofoam cup to him as the boy stretched back and looked at it. "It's just coffee," he reasoned, waving it around. His friend, used loosely, slowly taking it from him. The silence falling over them as they sat. "Where's your head at man?" the blonde slid down beside him, scratching his sore jaw.

"I don't know," he admitted, not knowing at all where his head was at.

"Is there...anything I can do?"

"Honestly?" he looked at his friend, so many things racing through his head. "This..." he waved his hand between them. "Is probably not the best time for bro time."

"Ethan..."

"Sophie is pregnant Jaxon," he stated, saying it out loud making it all feel so much more real. "And things are...are really screwed up. But that doesn't change anything."

"Ethan, man come on..."

"No," he shook his head, rising up. "You lied to me, you snuck around with my sister behind my back and...and what, to get back at me?"

"No!" Jaxon groaned, once again. "I didn't use her, I love her!" he repeated. "I didn't want it to happen, but she just...she is perfect and I... I couldn't...I couldn't help it," he frowned, shaking his head at the whole situation.

"You couldn't help it," Ethan let out a dry laugh. "She's my little sister Jaxon, and you will stay away from her."

"You can't make me stay away from her Ethan..." Jaxon stood matching his friend's stance. "She is my girlfriend, and she is a big girl, and doesn't need big brother's opinion."