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After my final encounter with Bianca, life returned to normal. As normal as it ever was anyway. I was enjoying myself, living with Isabelle and her mother was working out fantastically. Nayelle and I were back to how we were before our encounter and Bianca hadn't dared come near me. She now sat with another, smaller group at the opposite end of the cafeteria. Jake, who was usually her biggest supporter had even taken my side, being with Mike had definitely broken his almost annoying bond with his sister.

It had been a couple weeks now, a couple weeks of absolutely no drama, no incidents, no accidents. Just a couple weeks of content. School was fast coming to an end however, and assignments had become a permanent fixture of my spare time.

This was another reason why living with Isabelle was working out great. She was well on her way to being the Dux of this year, acing all of her classes with almost straight A's. It wasn't that I was taking advantage of her, she was more than willing to help, thankfully, and as a result I'd gotten no less than a B+ since moving in with her.

But a part of me knew not to get too content. Ever since arriving in this town, something has been able to destroy any temporary piece of happiness, or stability. But I couldn't possibly imagine what. Nothing had happened recently, I wasn't involved with anyone. Everyones biggest problems right now was passing the next test.

It was a slow Tuesday morning and I was sitting in Geography waiting for the start of class. A tall, thin, middle aged man walked into the class.

"Good morning class, my name is Mr Derm, I'll be taking this class for the moment while Miss Perrini is away sick," he said, setting his equipment down on the teacher's desk and writing up the schedule for todays lesson.

"I wonder what's wrong with her," whispered Mike.

"No idea, I hope it's not too bad though," I replied under my breath.

The rest of the class went by quickly as we copied down page after page of notes and diagrams. The rest of the day passed in similar fashion, teachers why trying to jam as much as they could into our heads in preparation for our approaching exams.

So before long, I was walking home with Isabelle. As usual, she was stressing out over an upcoming exam that she'd get an A on anyway.

"I really need to study the sources more thoroughly," she was saying, I was only half paying attention. The other half of my brain was thinking of Nayelle. "There's just so little time! Why have I left everything so late? Maybe I should call in sick tomorrow, just so I can finish my biology essay?"

"Yeah.." was all I said, her momentary pauses was my queue to show some form of responsiveness.

"You're right, I think I will. Actually... it'd be better if I just went over there now and explained it to my boss, I'll see you at home Xen!"

"Ok sure Belle, see you then!" I smiled, she was funny when she worried like this.

I turned into our street, slowly walking home. Wondering what was in the fridge when I looked up and saw Nayelle sitting on my front steps. My heart accelerated just a little in excitement, but that quickly stopped when I saw the look on her face. She was hollow, she had heard my approaching footsteps and looked up. I could see straight through her dead, frozen eyes.

"Where's Isabelle?" she asked.

"She... er... had to go into her work for a bit to talk to her boss," I told her, "What's wrong?"

She ignored my question, "Oh, that's good, I need to talk to you."

"Um, ok sure, what about?" I was worrying now, I've never seen anyone look like this.

She swallowed, she seemed to be composing her thoughts. She must have been preparing for this, my heart was near stopping now. What was going on?

"I'm pregnant Xen... and it's yours..." she breathed, looking at the ground, not meeting my eyes.

"Oh."