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Dahlia's POV

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"She's what?" Cadence whisper yelled.

"Yeah, don't tell anyone. I'm only telling you guys because you're my best friends." I mumbled before shoving some fruit into my mouth.

"And the baby is...Your gay brother's?" Caden questioned.

"Yep. That's what she said."

"Well, people say things all the time! That doesn't make it true!" Cadence hissed.

"It adds up," I shrugged. "She said she's three months pregnant. That means she got pregnant in November. She was throwing up during our trip to the cabin. We all thought it was because of the Japanese food, but apparently, she hadn't even had any. That's what Denny said that she said."

"Well, I don't give a rat's ass what Denver said she said, what she said to Denver and what Denver said to you is a lie!" Cadence growled.

"It adds up, Cadence." I shrugged once again.

"So what?! She could still be lying! She's smart enough to calculate the months and the times and shit so that she can come up with a convincing—"

"I know we don't like her, but come on. I seriously don't think she'd lie about this." I sighed. "It sucks, but it's happening."

"Real bummer." Hudson mumbled before getting quiet again.

Caden gulped down some of his soup before shaking his head. "I can't believe this, D. Denver's got his whole life ahead of him!"

Yeah, he does. He was planning to move out soon, go to college, start saving. All that shit. How's he gonna do that with a kid?

Boy, his therapist is gonna have a lot of work to do during their next session.

"He's strong, he'll get past this." I shrugged once again. I'm trying to be chill about this whole situation. I was freaking the fuck out last night when Denver told me—internally, of course—but now I'm just...I don't know.

I'm just gonna wait and see how this all plays out. I'm gonna be there for Denver no matter what, and I know Cora and dad will too whenever they find out. This will all be just fine.

I'm gonna be an aunt.

Oh, god I'm too young to be an aunt!

Okay, I'm calm. I'm calm, this is fine. Seriously, this is all fine.

"Oh, my arm hurts, I think I'm having a stroke," I whispered, rubbing my arm. "Ugh—Billie and I made up yesterday." I added weakly, trying to change the subject.

"You're too young to stroke—that's what she said!" Caden cackled loudly before clearing his throat. "That's really good! See, we told you it was only a matter of time before you two got back together!"

"We're not back together," I shook my head. "We just agreed to stop being jerks to each other and to get rid of the awkward ass tension between us."

"So...You two aren't...You're not girlfriends again?" Cadence sighed, slumping in her seat.

"No. She didn't mention it, I didn't mention it." I shrugged for the billionth time. I'm doing a lot of shrugging lately. Must come with the whole, 'I'm playing it cool and not going crazy over nothing' package.

"Okay, but was it, like, implied that you two are getting back together or something?" She questioned.

"Not at all."

"Well—" She coughed and spluttered over a few words before finally getting another sentence out. "Don't you wanna, you know, talk to her about that?"

"Not at all."

"Are you kidding me?" She shrieked. "It took you two assholes three months to get together the first time! Is it gonna take that long this time too?!"

"I just feel like if she'd wanted to get back together with me, she would've said it, and she's probably feeling the same way about me. I really like Billie, I love Billie, but I don't know if we should get back together right now. I mean, there's a lot going on and...And it feels weird to just get into such a big fight and then get right back together the first chance we get. I just feel like maybe we should chill for a while and let the universe decide for us—"

"Fuck the universe and fuck you too, bitch!" Cadence grumbled.

"Thanks."

"I guess I get where you're coming from, Dahlia. You've gotta ease yourself back into the relationship." Caden smiled, patting my shoulder in a supportive fashion. "It took Ross and Rachel ages to find their way back to each other!"

"Please don't compare us to them." I cringed. Ross was an ass and I don't wanna even think about which of us is Ross and which is Rachel.

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"When are you gonna tell them?" I asked quietly, glancing over at Cora and dad as they washed the dishes together.

"When I grow some balls." He mumbled before pushing past me and going into the living room. I sighed, following him quickly and standing in front of the TV before he could start flipping through the channels as he sat on the couch.

"You already have balls, that's why you're in this mess."

"Get out of the way, Sasquatch." He huffed, leaning over so he could see the TV. I moved over and blocked it again, and continued to do so every time he moved over to see it. "God, why are you such an annoying brat all the time?! I'm gonna tell them when I tell them! Get out of my business."

"I will not. I want to help you!" I growled.

"You wanted to help me come out too, and look what happened with that." He mumbled. I scoffed and decided to just head up to my room. I was halfway up the stairs before he spoke again. "Hey, I'm sorry, Dahlia. I didn't mean to snap at you. It's just...A lot to deal with and I want to deal with it on my own. I just need time to think and decide how I'm gonna handle it. That's all."

"Yeah." I mumbled before continuing to walk. I slammed my door closed after I was inside my room, and sighed as I looked around, trying to find Prince Styles.

I grinned as I noticed him in the corner playing with one of his toys.

I leaned over my bed and grabbed my phone, furrowing my brows as I noticed a lot of messages from the group chat for the first time in a while.

Bitch ass group chat:

Cadence: what are everybody's V-day plans?

Huddy: Not shittttt

Bea: ^^^ what he said.

Bilboa: ^ ditto.

I frowned at that. Fuck. If we were still together, I bet Billie and I would be doing something romantic as fuck.

I felt myself tearing up at that thought and quickly rolled my eyes at myself before blinking the tears away. This is stupid. I'm stupid. I'm being dramatic.

Kai: Same

Ken: Well, since Caden hasn't mentioned any fucking thing, same. :))))))))))

Caden: baby I told you we could go to a buffet

Ken: every time we have a date we go to the buffet. Every time we hang out we go to the buffet. Watching u eat is not romantic.

Caden: ummmmmmmmmmmmm

Caden: it is if there's candles on the table ?????

Cadence: yikes okay. I was thinking maybe we could all do something together? Group date typa shit since some of y'all are single?? We can all have fun together and shit.

Bilboa: where would we go?

Cadence: WELL

Cadence: SO GLAD U ASKED BILLIE BOB

Cadence: I was thinking we could make a big day out of it? Lots of fun activities and shit! I've been doing my research and I found some great shit that we can do. Since vday is Wednesday, maybe we can skip school or either celebrate it on Saturday?? Vday breakfast, a vday scavenger hunt, chocolate tasting, vday karaoke+game night, dancing, a drive-in movie, then we end the night in a 'night at the museum' type ordeal. Which is basically where we go to the museum. At night. What do y'all think

Huddy: that you're insane

Gigi: She is the insane, but she is pretty girl too 😀

Cadence: Thanks baby

Bea: so...We're gonna do all that in one day?

Cadence: yeah!! I know it seems like a lot, but a lot of this stuff is done in the same building. That big building about forty minutes away that used to be a mall before they tore it down? They're doing everything but the drive-in movie and the museum.

Kai: sounds fun as shit tbh. I'm down

Ken: well, I'm sure it'll be fun so I'm down too. And any excuse to get outta school is good

Caden: I thought we were gonna eattttt and then I thought...u know...I was gonna eat. Again. At home.

Ken: dude.

Caden: You. I meant

Caden: *NOBODY ELSE* i thought i was gonna eat u *READ THIS PLS*

Ken: DUDE

Bilboa: bro what the fuck

Bilboa: now why would u send that shit to the group chat

Bilboa: LMFAOOOOOOOO

Bilboa:

Cadence:

Ken:

Bea:

Huddy:

Gigi:

Caden: I TOLD YALL ASSES NOT TO READ IT

Ken: YEAH THAT WORKED.

Cadence: so...................who else wants to go

Bilboa: I'll go and Wednesday's good for me

Huddy: I'm in

Gigi: I go too!

Cora: I'm in

Bilboa: girl wtf??? Where'd u come from lmaooooooooo

Bilboa: get outta here this is grown folks shit

Cora: 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

Cora: y'all never took me out of the gc after the cabin trip. And I needed plans for me and Liza so here they are. We're in

Cadence: great. Dahlia?

D: blueface baby. Yeah aight.

Cadence: girl u rlly coulda just said yes or no.

D: but I didn't and I said what I said. I'm in.

D: Whores.

They continued to blow my damn phone up for a few hours as they talked about the plans, but I didn't say much of anything, just read everything in amusement. It sounds like this will be fun, but I also kinda don't wanna go. I just wanna lay around and be sad on Valentine's Day. I'm already gonna be sad just looking at Billie and thinking about what we could've been up to if we were still together.

The perfect Valentine's Day plans for me would've been staying home, lying around in my pajamas and eating buckets of ice cream. Guess that's not happening.

I wonder what I'll wear.

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A/N: bitch I had so much fun writing the group chat 💀💀💀