Not As Planned

Ryan has one hand in my hair and the other around my waist as we stumble up his patio stairs. Our lips are furiously finding spots on each other's lips, cheeks and necks and we only pause to breathe when Ryan fishes his house key out of his pocket. As soon as he pushes the door open, I jump into his arms and we start making out all over again. I've been waiting for almost a month to get Ryan back under the sheets and I am not waiting any longer.

He holds me tightly against him as we move toward the staircase and I rub my hand against the wall looking for the light switch. Suddenly a light turns on at the top of the stairs and someone clears their throat loudly.

I pull my lips off Ryan's and we both snap our heads to the top of the stairs where Margot stands, smirking with her hands on her tiny waist.

"Didn't mean to interrupt. I thought y'all were Austin."

I tuck my wild blonde hair behind my ears as I catch my breath and look back up at her.

"Sorry to disappoint you."

She gives us a slight frown and turns to go back toward Austin's room. Something stops her and she looks back at me with a small smile.

"Oh, tell Annabeth congratulations for me." She turns back around but I call out to her, so she spins to face me again.

"Wait, why?"

"On the baby. I'm sure the Blackwoods are so excited. I mean, I'm sure they were worried for Gus for a second there, but he ended up finding a nice girl after all!"

She smiles at me again and I don't match her enthusiasm. I glare at Ryan as I snap, "I thought y'all said you were going to keep that quiet?"

Ryan shrugs, looking as confused as I am and Margot cuts in.

"Oh, I found the test on the counter. I thought it was yours, but Austin clarified."

I look back to Ryan and slap my hands against my legs as I ask, "You left it on the counter?"

"To be fair, it is our house and Annabeth left it sitting to be found in the trash. And I thought it was yours, so pardon me if I wasn't thinking about where I left the test as my mind was on overload about who the test belonged to," Ryan says sternly. I exhale loudly and look back up at Margot.

"No one knows about the test, well other than Ryan, Austin, myself and now you. So, it would be great if you kept the news to yourself."

She scrunches her face as she says, "Oh, well, Molly knows too. She was here earlier when I saw the test in the kitchen."

I snap my head back in frustration. All of Hollis is going to know Annabeth is pregnant before she does. I look back up to Margot and ask, "Can you tell her not to tell anyone?"

Before she can answer, my phone rings. I am about to throw it out the window so the endless phone calls can finally stop. I feel like I've been on the phone all day. I pull it from my purse and see that it's Gus. I give a worried look to Ryan before I answer it.

"Hey Gus!"

"Uh hey, there Sawyer," he responds flatly and I immediately know something is off. He never simply calls me Sawyer.

"Are you okay Gus?" I ask and it's quiet on the phone for a long uncomfortable moment. I bite my lip as I turn away from Ryan and slowly step into the living room. Finally, he says, "You talk to Annabeth today?"

My stomach flips and I suddenly feel hot all over. I swallow hard before I reply, "Afraid not. I haven't heard from her since last night. Why?"

He's quiet for a second again before he says, "I've been trying to get a hold of her all evening. I'm worried."

I exhale loudly and wonder if Annabeth even knows anything. She had no clue she was pregnant last night so why would she suddenly know today?

"No, I haven't seen or heard from her since she left Austin's last night. Do you want me to call her parents?" I ask and he immediately says, "No, no that's alright. Maybe I'll just drive on over there later." He's quiet again and I feel Ryan come up behind me. He puts his arms around me and I lean the back of my head against his chest.

"I'll let you know if I hear from her Gus, and let me know when you talk to her," I say softly. I'm worried Molly let it slip to who knows who and it somehow got around quickly to Gus. Hollis is not known for keeping secrets.

"Will do. Have a good night," he says before clicking off and now I am really worried. Gus isn't himself right now at all. I turn around to face Ryan and say, "Gus can't get a hold of A.B. I'm gonna try calling her real quick."

Ryan nods and I quickly dial Annabeth's number. She answers on the second ring.

"Hey Sawyer, I've been waiting to call you all day! Have you talked to Austin?" She says cheerily and I now know she has no idea. I quickly change the conversation.

"Gus was just looking for you. He tried calling me to see where you were."

"Oh, I literally just got off work. They make us turn our phones off when we are in the courtrooms. I was about to call him back when I saw you were calling."

My stomach squeezes again and she quickly goes back to Austin.

"So, did we scare him? Did our prank work?"

I glance to Ryan, who is now sprawled out on his couch and he sees that I am panicking. What do I tell her? Do I let her find out on her own? Will she be mad if I knew and didn't tell her?

She interrupts my thoughts when she says, "Sawyer? You there? Did I lose ya?"

I shake my head.

"No, I'm here, yeah the prank definitely worked but uh...we ended up giving Ryan a heart attack. Not Austin."

She giggles.

"Oh man, was Ryan mad at us?"

I let out an awkward laugh before I reply, "Uh, no he wasn't mad. Just...a bit freaked out when Austin said he found a positive pregnancy test in his bathroom."

"Why would Aust- wait..." she suddenly goes quiet and it feels like all the air around me has been sucked out of the room. I stay frozen staring at my brown cowboy boots until she asks, "Did you just say a positive test?"

"Uh yeah, Austin thought I had taken the test. He showed it to Ryan and they thought I was pregnant."

"They both saw the positive test?" She asks slowly and I am afraid she might throw up while driving. Maybe she's pulled off the road as she digests what I am telling her.

"Yeah, um...you might want to go take another test. And call Gus?" I suggest with a wince.

"Oh no. Oh God. What the- Oh my god. Gus can't know until I take another test," she rapidly says and I decide to stay mum on that. "This can't be happening; I haven't even missed my period yet. Maybe it's a false positive because I didn't take the test or the directions seriously. I just kind of, peed all over it and stuck the cap on," she says quickly and I nod along to her rambling.

"Yeah, maybe the test is wrong. Take another test," I tell her and she's quiet again. I bite my lip as she processes everything in silence and then she asks, "Are you busy? Will you come to the drugstore with me? Or hell, where am I even going to take the test? It's not like I can just take it at home with my parents down the hall from me. And if I am pregnant, I don't want to find out in a Piggly Wiggly bathro-"

I cut her off.

"Go get a test and come to Ryan's house. They already know and at least you'll have some privacy." I catch Ryan's eye and we both know our evening is not about to go as planned. I shrug my shoulders but I know he knows how important Annabeth is to me.

"Okay, I'll be there in like, fifteen minutes," she says before hanging up. I toss my phone onto their coffee table and look back to Ryan who is still lounging across his couch. His hands are tucked behind his head and he's never looked so inviting.

As I stride over to him, I say, "We have fifteen minutes before Annabeth gets here. We can suck it up and have a quickie or we're going to have to wait another day before we can have a long, ravishing night to ourselves?"

He frowns and reaches out to grab my hand.

"Your head is going to be all over the place. Let's just postpone our third date reward until tomorrow night." He pulls me into him and I sigh into his chest. I nuzzle against his soft t-shirt as I reply, "Alright. But I swear, as soon as you get home from work tomorrow, we are turning our phones off and locking ourselves in your room for the rest of the evening."

He slides his fingers through my hair as he says, "Nothing sounds better darlin'."