Planning a trip home

With the surprise visit from your sister, you decide you can't put of the trip back home any longer. Lauren helps you do some planning. Here obviouse insight on how to win over dad is most useful. You make plans with your sister to travel back together in a next week. You offer to let her stay in the study, but she decline. She's staying with a friend in town.

We invite her over for dinner the night before our flight back home and she asks if she can bring her friend over. My new found female instincts tells me there is something off about that, but I can't really say no without looking like a total bitch and I need her to be supportive of me when we come back home.

The night of the dinner she shows up with a guy, and my instincts were confirmed. "Hi, thanks for having us. This is John. My boyfriend". He is a well dressed man with a friendly smile. He does however look like he skips leg day. Totaly Laurens type. "Hi I'm Erin, and this is my boyfriend Paul." I say as I introduce myself.

Conversation flows easily enough and thankfully John was not as dense as his outward apperance make him out to be. I serve dinner while Paul pours wine. "Oh no thanks, I'm driving" I hear Lauren say. You what now? I know for a fact that Lauren doesn't drive. She wouldn't even know which way to turn the wheel. "Oh, you didn't tell me you got your license sis?" I say fixing here with eyes. She figits and try to look me in the eyes. "Yeah, I did that last month. I was gonna tell you, but I must have forgotten." She was clearly lying, but it seemd like I was the only one picking up on that.

Dinner went well and Paul and John seemd to get along reasonably well, despite their rather different intrests. "Im just gonna go freshen up a little" Lauren said. I pounced on the oppertunity. "Ill join you". And we both headed towards the bathroom.

As we got there she was clearly nervous. "Soooo, whats up?" I asked in an I-know-your-hiding-something kind of tone. She looked pale and before I knew it she was down on here knees retching into the toilet. I quickly put two and two togheter and said. "OH MY GOD! You pregnant aren't you!" She nodded. "With John?"

"Of course with John! What kind of a slut do you think I am?"

"Sorry I didn't mean it like that. It just.. does he know?"

"Yeah he knows. I only found out a few days ago. I had been feeling a little quezzy, but didn't think much of it. But then when you told me about your little scare, I did some quick math and found out I was late. Took a test the next day to confirm."

"Shit. How long?"

"Can't be more than 6 weeks."

She wiped her lips, and leaned back. I sat down next to her and she rested her head on my shoulder. Apperantly John was a friend with benefits up until a few days ago. When she told him he said he would marry her. "He's a little old school" she said. "So.. your gonna keep it?" I asked as kindly as I possibly could. "Yes, I don't think I could live with myself if I didn't" She started crying. I gently patted her head and wiped away the tears. "John is gonna come back with us tomorrow. He wants to be with me when I tell mom and dad."

"Well not to be insensitive but I hardly think your news will matter once I show up" we both luaghed a little. Paul knocked on the door. "Everything okay in there?"
"Yeah, fine honey just having a little girl talk."

"Can I say here tonight?" Lauren asked. "Of course you can."

I left the bathroom, and went back out to Paul. Quickly explained to him the situation, and then sent John home. "You just bring her bags when we meet at the airport tomorrow. She needs a little time with her big sister tonight. You understand right?" John nodded, "Tell her I love her, and Ill see her tomorrow." he said as I followed him out.