Penelope sits at the coffee table, waiting for Natalie and Vanessa. She strums her fingers against the table and sighing. She looks at her watch; she’s been waiting for ten minutes for these girls. Her head falls back and she rolls her eyes. It’s her own fault, she knows how her sister and best friend are. They are never on time. On top of that, she hasn’t been feeling very good; thinking that she is coming down with some kinda bug. She gets up, texting them to tell them to forget it. But she is stopped by someone calling her name.

“Pen?” She looks up, expecting to be the people she was waiting for.

She blinks a couple times to check if who she is seeing is really who it is. “Sam?”

“I didn’t know you’d be here. It’s far from your place.”

“I was meeting someone.”

“How are you?” Sam asks.

Penelope doesn’t know how to respond to him. She isn’t completely over him. I mean how could she be? It’s been month and a half since they broke up and they were dating for almost two years. She doesn’t think she’d ever really get over him. She saw a future with him and he broke it off.

“Okay. Hanging in there.” Her knees feel weak, like she's about to drop any minute now. “H-how are you?”

“I’d be lying if I told you I was doing fine.” Her heart starts to quicken and she can feel the swell in her throat.

“Sam. Don’t-“

“Penelope, hey!” Her eyes widen when she hears someone else call her name. She looks to her right and her fears are confirmed when Harry is standing next to her. She gives him a polite smile. Harry looks at Sam and smirks. “Hey, man, I’m Harry.” He sticks his hand out to Sam but Sam doesn’t take it, he just looks at his hand then back at Penelope.

“You know, I’m just gonna go. See you later.” Sam begins to walk out the coffee shop.

Penelope sighs and looks at Harry. “Sorry.” She squeezes his hand then follows Sam outside. “Sam wait, it’s not what you think.”

“I thought you said you’d never go back to him but I guess I was wrong.”

“I wasn’t going back to him. I didn’t know he’d be here.”

“So this is the first time you’d seen him since you guys broke up?”

“I mean no. We ran to each other like three weeks ago…” Sam scoffs and starts to walk off again. “You broke up with me and I missed you like crazy and he was just there! I swear I didn’t know he’d be here.” Penelope pulls Sam back. “I’m sorry.” Tears begin to pool in her eyes. They hear the door open and Harry comes out. Penelope looks back at Harry.

She knows it’s not his fault. He doesn’t know who Sam is. But Sam knows everything about Harry. When Penelope and Sam met two years ago, Penelope was still head over heels for Harry; and they'd been broken up for about a year. It took a while for Penelope to get over Harry. She loved him, he was her first love. When Penelope and Sam first had sex, she had slipped out Harry’s name. She didn’t mean for it to come out, obviously, but it did. Sam knew, even when she reassured him she wasn’t, she was not fully completely over Harry. And deep down inside, he knew she’d never be.

Penelope starts to feel light headed and her vision starts to blur. She tries to reach out for Sam but ultimately fails and just falls to the floor, passing out on the sidewalk. She can faintly hear Sam and Harry call out her name then everything fades out. The next thing she knows, she is waking up in the hospital. She opens her eyes but the lights hurt her head. She groans and squints her eyes.

“Oh my god, Penny.” Natalie runs over to her and hugs her. “Are you okay?”

“What happened?”

“You just passed out on the sidewalk. Harry drove you to the hospital.” Natalie moves the hair that has fallen on Penelope’s eyes. “How are you feeling?”

“Okay I guess.” Penelope sits up and frowns. “Where’s Sam?”

“Sam?”

“He was there with me. We were talking then… well I don’t really remember.”

“Sam wasn’t here when I got here. It was just Harry.” Penelope slumps back against the bed.

“I saw him at the coffee shop and Harry just so happened to be there.” She sighs shakily. “I need to find Sam. To tell him it’s not what it thinks with Harry and I.” Natalie strokes her hair.

The doctor comes in and smiles. “Hello Penelope. I’m glad to see you’ve woken up.” He closes the door and stand in front of the bed. “Had quite a fall.”

“What happened? Do you know what caused for me to faint?”

“Well we can take some blood and urine tests and then tell you why.” Penelope nods.

Penelope takes the tests and waits in the room when they are being prepared. Harry walks into the room and smiles. “Hey. How are doing?”

“I’m doing okay.” He nods and stands on the side of her. “I am really sorry about earlier. I didn’t know what was going to happen or that either of you would be there.”

“No no it’s okay. I didn’t expect to see you there either. I’m just glad you’re okay.”

“Thanks.”

“Can I ask you who was that back at the coffee shop? And why he was snappy with me?”

“He’s my boyfriend, well ex-boyfriend. We broke up about a month and half ago. And he was snappy with you because he knows about you… about us and he was alway kinda jealous of what we had. But that was a long time ago.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. You didn’t know.” Penelope looks up at him and smiles, placing her hand on his arm.

The doctor comes back and smiles at her again. “Well the fainting and the sickness solved. You’re pregnant.”

Penelope starts laugh but Harry doesn’t, his eyes widening at the realization. “No that’s not possible.”

“False negatives are common but false positives…”

“But I haven’t had sex since…” The realization hits her and she gasps looking up at Harry. “Oh my god.”

“I’ll leave you to it.” The doctor says. Penelope feels like fainting, again. Harry leans against the wall behind him, feeling like he’s gonna faint too.

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