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For each step Courtney took, she desperately wanted to take two steps back. Literally and figuratively.
Literally, she wanted to walk all the way back home.
Figuratively, she wanted to take back every single action she made since she signed up for that stupid, god awful, life ruining show. But that was a given. Or maybe not… Before she didn’t actually regret everything that she did. Maybe if given the chance she would do things a little differently. But she wouldn’t completely erase the past two years of her life. But that was before. Now? She would change some things. Some MAJOR things.
But no matter how hard she prayed or wished or hoped. Nothing was changing. So, she continued on the paved sidewalk through the suburbs to a particular house she used to frequent quite often. A house she once considered home. A home she thought she would never return to. A home that she was about to completely ruin.
How did this happen? You know how this happened! But how did she find out?
You see, it wasn’t unusual for Court not to get her period during filming. It was actually expected. The strain on her body and the stress she goes through usually halted mother nature until she got back to her normal life where she wasn’t doing life threatening challenges. But when filming stopped, and her period didn’t come… That was when Courtney started to worry.
But it was almost impossible! She jumped out of a plane… Several times! Raced across six out of the seven continents. She swam away from an exploding volcano for Christ sakes!
But her and Duncan did also have one last “hurrah‘’ before filming started…
So, impossible? Not quite… Highly unlikely? Yes! Still happened? Oh yeah…
Because not only did Courtney not have her period, she also started to get morning sickness. And then she was tired all the time. And then she would either have a weird aversion to food or she became a she-Owen. All of it added up was too sketchy. So unwillingly, she went to the doctors only to confirm her worst fear.
And now she would face her second worst fear. The father. He deserved to know, so there was no way in hell she wouldn’t tell him. And she also wasn’t going to go through the hardship alone. She had to throw away her childish wants to just actively avoid him in school. She had to start growing up if she was going to do what she was about to do.
She rang the doorbell. Fortunately, and unfortunately, his mother answered.
“Courtney? What brings you her, hun?” Jane always did have a soft spot for the C.I.T and was devastated whenever they broke up.
“Is Duncan here?” Courtney asked.
“Yeah! Go ahead and go on up to his room!” Jane opened the door for Court to come in. Court awkwardly smiled and headed upstairs.
Breath in. Breath out. You can do this, she told herself.
His door was a menacing sight. Like a worm hole into hell. Holding her breath, she knocked on the door before slamming it open without permission.
“What is i-? What the hell are you doing here?” Duncan asked completely caught off guard.
He didn’t change much in appearance. Courtney saw him around school, but she never kept her eyes on him long enough to really see him. He looked the same. Just looked a little more mature and more grown into his body.
“Can we talk?” she begged. He obviously couldn’t detect the urgency in her voice or he decided to ignore it.
“What do you want? Came to bitch at me in my own home?”
“Duncan, please…”
“I’m surprised you even managed to step foot in here again. Thought you would be too repulsed to even come within a 50 meter radius.”
“Duncan…” she was starting to get more upset, moments away from snapping.
“Can you not right now? It’s the weekend and I’m trying to relax. Maybe you can write me a strongly worded letter and I’ll get back to you never. But I promise to glance at it before I throw it in the trash.” He smiled mockingly at her. But he wasn’t finished. “But seriously, I’m not in the mood, I’m about to head out to see Gwen and-“
That finally did it.
“I’m pregnant and you’re the father. Congratulations, asshole!” she spewed at him before storming out of the house in tears, leaving him speechless.