Vanessa's POV*

He looked like shit. His eyes had dark circles around them. He looked like he had lost some weight too. Even worse he smelt like someone had poured alcohol all over him. The smell made me want to puke all over again. I tried to just breathe through my mouth so I didn't have to smell it. I stood there and waited for Zack to respond.

"I needed to see you Nessa! I took a plane here as soon as I got your text. I just wanted to talk." he said really fast. I could tell he was nervous.

"Why Zack? Its too late..." I said, but a part of me knew I was lying.

"Nessa, please just let me speak?" he asked.

I opened the door gesturing for him to come in. I might as well get this conversation over with. He walked to the couch and sat down. I locked up the door and went to the kitchen to grab some water. I yelled for Zacky asking him if he wanted anything but he didn't reply. I walked out of the kitchen and found him asleep on my couch. So much for this talk. I shook my head and walked to the hallway closet. I pulled out a blanket and laid it on top of Zacky, then I headed up to my bedroom. I was mad. How can he come here this late and fall asleep? It was ridiculous. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep again.


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I woke up the next morning feeling a wave of morning sickness coming up. I went straight for the bathroom. After puking my brains out like every other morning, I walked downstairs to the kitchen and went to get some water to wash the horrible acid feeling in the back of my throat down. I heard Zacky starting to wake up as well so I went to go check on him.

"What the fuck?" He asked. "How did I get here?" he looked confused. Did he really not remember flying out here to see me?

"Zack you came here last night." I said.

"The only thing I remember is going to the bar and texting you." He replied.

I felt offended. He came because he was drunk? I should have known better.

"Zack you need to leave, okay?" I told him.

"But Nessa, I'm here.. Can we talk about it?" he pleaded with me.

"Zack, I was willing to talk about it last night. I was even going to just talk about it today but now... I have things to go do. And you, you need to leave." I demanded. He looked hurt by my words, but what did he expect. I can't keep letting him walk over me.

He went outside and paused. "Nessa, I don't know how I got here. But I don't see my car."
"Well I don't have time to take you home. So you're going to have to wait for Jimmy and Leanna to come get you." I said almost regretting saying it right after.

But he seemed oblivious to what I was saying so all he replied with was "Okay."

"I do have things to do though so I guess you can just stay here." I told him. "Make yourself feel at home."

Zacky's POV*

Nessa just left to go run some errands and I just wandered around her house. I can't believe I was able to pull off the whole "I don't remember crap." It bought me some extra time with Nessa. I turned on the T.V and was looking for something good to watch. Then Cassie called me.

"Zack, I'm coming so we can figure out how we're going to take care of the baby." She had said to me.

"Yeah, okay Cass just fly out here and we can figure it out." I said.

"Well, I'm kind of already here. I'm staying at a motel not too far from the Warner Bros studio." she shyly spoke.

"I'll be there later then. And we can talk about it." Then I hung up on her. She's the reminder of everything thats fucked up right now. I don't blame the baby, just my own stupidity.

A couple hours pass and Nessa comes back. She looked like she had been crying. She walked up to me and gave me a huge hug. I held her tightly. It threw me off a bit but I was happy to just have her in my arms again.

"Zack, theres something I need to tell you.." She began to say. Then my phone started ringing.

"Hold that thought one second Nessa... Hello?" I answered the phone.

"Is this Zachary Baker?" The voice on the other end asked.

"Yes, this is he." I replied with a tone of worry.

"I'm afraid theres been an accident. Your mother Maria has been in a car crash and she is here at the Huntington Beach Hospital."

"I'm on my way!" I hung up. "Nessa, can you please take me to the hospital? My mothers been in an accident!"

Nessa hurried and we both rushed to her car. I tried to clean myself up a bit. I didn't want my mom to see me like this if she was okay.

"I have some of your clothes in the back. I left them in here. Go ahead and change." Nessa explained to me.

I found one of my new Vengeance University shirts and a pair of jeans. I hurried to change cause Nessa was driving fast so we would be there in no time. And as soon as I finished putting my shoes back on we were already in the parking lot. She let me off at the front so I could go in to see my mother. I jumped out of the car almost falling over myself. I ran in through the doors and went straight to the front desk. There was a young blonde nurse working the desk.

"Hi I'm looking for Maria Baker... I'm her son." I spoke these words fast.

"Ahh, yes.. Your mother is in room 223.. Just take the elevator up 2 floors and go to the right." The nurse had said.

I waited for Nessa then I grabbed her hand and ran to the elevators. We did as the nurse had said and found my mothers room quite easy. I opened the door and went in.

"Oh Zachary!" she cried.

"Mom, you're okay!" I said feeling thankful to see her smiling as soon as I walked in.

"Awh baby its just some bumps and bruises.. I'll be fine. They brought me in here to make sure I don't have any head trauma. It's nice to see you and Vanessa!" She looked at Nessa with loving eyes.

"I'm glad to see that you're okay Maria. We rushed here as soon as we got the news." Nessa said giving my mom a hug.

"I'm going to go talk to the doctor. I'll be right back." I said then left the room.

Vanessa's POV*

Zack left to go speak with the doctor. So I sat there with his mom and waited for him to come back. I was this close to telling him about the baby but this is more important. As much as I know of Zack's rough exterior... His mom is always the weakest link for him. The doctor told me how healhy I was and tha the baby was beginning form and we could hear the baby's heart too. I got an ultrasound picture and everything. I really wished he was there for it. But right now.. again it isn't the right time to tell him.

"How far along are you?" Maria asked me breaking me of my thoughts.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I've had 3 children. I can tell when someone is pregnant. On top of that, you are glowing." She smiled at me.

"I'm 6 weeks in. I haven't told Zack yet though. Too much has been going on." I said. I wasn't going to tell his mom all the details of whats been going on. It would give her a heart attack.
"Congrats Vanessa! I always knew you and my Zachary would end up together someday. He deserves a good girl like you." She said and we both looked out the window to Zack. Zacky looked innocent too. Its almost hard to believe all of the things that have happened between us. We started off so well.

"I hope the guy I crashed into is okay." Maria said worried.

"I'm sure he's just as okay as you are Maria." I smiled and placed my hand on hers.

"His name was Jason Anthony or something. At least thats what I heard the doctors say.. So I'm guessing he's here too." She said with a line of worry on her forehead.

Jason is the one she crashed with? Its such a small world. I hope he's okay too though. "Hey Maria, I'm going to go see if the guy you hit is okay too. That way you don't worry. Just please don't tell Zacky about the pregnancy?" I asked her.

"Don't worry sweetie. It's not my place to say." She answered.

I went out of the room and passed by Zack acting as if I needed to answer a phonecall. I walked down the hall and found who I was looking for.

"Vanessa? Why are you here?" Jason asked weakly.

"Well the car you hit is Zack's mothers. And well he was at my house so yeah..." I trailed off.

"You guys worked things out?" He asked.

"No we haven't I'm just being a friend right now." I said.

"Vanessa there's something you should know... I should've told you this at the park." He began to say but was cut off by the doctor coming in. I slid out the back losing the chance to find out what it was.

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