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“You knew?” her mother hissed tearfully in betrayal.
“I just found out like five minutes ago, mom…” Caspar blurted out, holding up both hands defensively.
“Where’s dad... whoa…” her brother finished weakly, noticing the pregnancy test sticking out of the wall – and staring at it in horror.
He turned to her slowly, like something out of a nightmare.
“Dad’s going to actually kill Luke,” Caspar said in growing horror and understanding.
“No, he’s not…” Nicolette sobbed. “Don’tsaythat. Where’s your car keys?”
“They were right there.”
“Where?”
“They are gone?!”
“Can you hot-wire a car?”
“No!Can you?” Caspar asked bluntly, looking surprised.
“Caneitherof you?” her mother questioned immediately, shocking them both.
“No,” they said in unison.
“I need to get to Luke…”
“You need to let your father cool down…”
“Mom…”
“Toby! Oh my gosh – where are you? Tell me you are with your dad right now…” her mother blurted out into the telephone desperately, looking up at Nicolette, who was still beside herself.
This is what an out-of-body experience feels like,she thought numbly and stared at her brother, still sobbing – yet not.
She felt like something had splintered apart within her, broken, as she listened to her mother unloading the last few minutes to her brother, Toby.
“I asked your father to help get the house ready for the graduation party and he found a pregnancy test in the trash. Next thing I know, he was in here, hugging me and celebrating… and I didn’t know why - until he showed me the test. Then he started screaming up at the ceiling for Nicolette to come down from her room – and he threw the pregnancy test at the wall… he’s absolutely furious…”
Her brother said something unintelligible – and she looked at Caspar to see him trying to pull the test out of the wall with avid curiosity at how it was imbedded so deeply.
Caspar looked at her, smirked that infamous Saxon smile, and arched an eyebrow pointed.
“Daddy-dearest doesn’t like secrets, Nicolette…”
“Then maybe you should go ahead and tell him who you were fooling around with in your bedroom,” she whispered angrily, almost hoping her mother heard her just to draw some of the attention from her own catastrophe…
Except her mother was too upset – but she had the satisfaction of seeing Caspar pale before getting angry.
“Toby – I’m going to need help to patch the wall. The pregnancy test is embedded in it,” his mother sobbed. “I’m going to be a grandmother and your father is going to kill Armadillo’s son…”
Her brother must have said something, because her mother started snapping angrily.
“You’ve never seen your father this angry – but I have!”
… And then held the phone away from her in disbelief.
“They hung up on me?” her mother whispered, looking at Caspar and Nicolette. “Samantha and Toby are together right now – and your brother hung up on me.”
