"You can't seriously be marrying him, can you?" My mother asked incredulously.

I breathed out a sigh. "I can and I am."

She narrowed her hazel eyes at me, ones that were identical to my own.
"Have you forgotten what that boy has done?"

"He's a man now, not a boy. And he apologized for the accident," I turned to face her and looked her squarely in the eye, "He said he was sorry Mum, I've moved on. So should you."

"Sorry?" She echoed, "Sorry doesn't make the cut when you end someone's life."

I fumed, angry with her, "What do you want him to do Mum? Grovel at your feet for an eternity of waiting for your forgiveness? Either way, it's not going to bring Callumn back to us."

Mum huffed and swung her purse over her shoulder, "Yeah you know what? I'd love to see him grovel before me. But what I want most is for him to leave us the fuck alone!"

I almost gasped. Mum never swore. In my entire 26 years of living I had never heard my mother cuss someone out before. As a youngster she strongly advised us not to use foul language. She must've been really angry now to go back on her own words.

"He loves me and I love him. There's nothing you can say to me to get me to break it off with him, We've all gone through a lot together. Can't we all just move on?"

She took my hands in hers and looked at me with pleading eyes, "Kate, please don't do this to us. I can't lose you too."

"You're not going to lose me Mum. I'm getting married, not moving to Canada."

"What if he-what if he... takes you away from us?" She said, having trouble getting the words out.

"You mean kills me?" I laughed, "The only reason it happened the last time was because he was driving drunk. He's never done anything remotely as dangerous as that again. There's no way I could die Mum. And besides, I wouldn't let him drive drunk."

"How can you be so sure? He did it once, he could do it again!"

"He was drunk that night because he was upset about his sister, Liliane. She was in the hospital from a drug overdose."

Mum wrinkled her nose in disgust, "Drug overdose? God, that family breeds in making horrible decisions."

"Do you even realize how snotty you sound?" I snapped, "Derek was one of Callum's best friends. How do you think Callumn would feel of he heard you speaking of him so ily?"

"I would just go and ask him. Oh wait, I can't. Because he was killed by your fiancé!" She shot back and turned toward the door, "If you think for one second that I'm coming to the wedding and that I'll act as a cheery mother-in-law, you'd be out of your mind. Neither your father nor I support your decision so until you see sense you can cross off any family members on the guest list. We simply refuse to attend such a ridiculous event."

I bit back the wave of hurt that stroked my heart, "How can you do that? Don't you care about my happiness at all?"

Mum turned on her heel, "You didn't seem to care about mine when you decided to marry that bastard. I'm just returning the favour."

She walked out the door, not even bothering to shut it and kept going. Mum didn't even look back once.

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"Pregnant?" I gasped, "How do you know? Did you go to the doctor?"

Cass worried her pink bottom lip, "I was late so I took a test. The result was a pink line. It means I'm pregnant."

My eyes widened, "Does Callumn know?"

She slowly nodded, "He thinks I should keep it."

Omigod. My best friend was pregnant with my brother's baby. What the hell?

"Didn't you use a condom? Cass you know that sex without protection is super dangerous-"

"Of course we used one, I'm not stupid!" She snapped, glaring at me angrily, "But it must've broken or something. Neither of us noticed it at the time so we didn't know."

"What are you guys going to do?"

Cass frowned, "I don't know what I want. I really don't. Callumn wants this baby and he wants to marry me but I don't think we should do that now. Neither of us are done high school for God's sake! And what about university?" She raked her hands in her hair, "What am I going to do Kate?"
Tears streamed down her face once more, "I can't be pregnant. I just can't."

Instinctively, my arms wrapped around her and hugged her to my chest. Her quiet sniffles quickly turned into sobs. Thankfully, the TV was on pretty loud so no one could hear us.

"We only did it once," She whispered, barely audible.

"It's okay Cass. We'll figure this out together. Have you told your parents or mine yet?"

She shook her head that was still nuzzled against my chest, "I don't know if I can. Oh God, my parents would hate me!"

"They won't hate you," I replied quickly, "They might be slightly angry or they could be overjoyed to be having a grandbaby. You never know."

Cass pulled her head back to shoot me a look, "Overjoyed? More like disowning me."

I reached up to wipe away her tears that were slowly coming to a stop, "They wouldn't disown you, believe me."

She bit into her lip, "I think I just need more time to process this," She stared at me with her big doe eyes, "Promise me you won't tell anyone?"

"I promise," I said in a heartbeat.

"I'm serious Kate. Not even Derek. You have to promise me."

"Don't worry, I won't."