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Soon, Hannah had dressed herself up in her casual clothes and was now in the passenger seat of a car that Nick drove to a destination unknown.
"Where are we going?" She asked him.
He did not reply but then he took a familiar turn that let Hannah know all too well about their destination.
"You're taking us to the beach?" She asked him.
It made sense - the beach one of Nicks calming places. The sound of the sea brought tranquility to his life and he would always find himself being relaxed by the atmosphere. So to go there with an issue that required them to be relaxed in order for it to resolve made sense to Hannah.
They parked over front and Nick walked ahead of Hannah and soon they were in a place that was covered with rocks and sand.
Nick stopped and Hannah followed.
He pushed his hands in his pockets and now, for the first time since last night, looked over directly at her.
"What is it Nick?" she asked him.
"I think we should talk," he replied in a voice far smaller than what she was used to hearing from him. She nodded.
"Of course! That is all I want, too."
Another heavy silence fell upon them once again. They both had a lot they wanted to say to the other but somehow the words did not come out.
Finally, Nick spoke up. "I went to Samantha," he admitted quietly, "After we fought - I was mad at you and I wanted to get back at you. So I went over to Samantha," he said.
Hannah gulped harshly. Even though hearing it made her heart ache, she knew that of all people, she did not have a right to be upset about it.
"I understand," was all that she could manage to conjure up in response.
"Aren't you upset?" he asked her.
"I don't have the right to be upset about this Nick," she said with a sigh, "I regret what happened every day."
"Nothing happened between me and Samantha," Nick admitted, much to Hannah surprise.
"What do you mean?" she asked him incredulously.
"I couldn't do it," he said, his tone now laced with vulnerability, "I tried to - that is why I went there. I thought I would sleep with her in an effort to get back at you but it didn't work. I didn't want her."
Hannah gulped, trying to process this hefty lump of information, "Did she want you?" She knew she had no right to ask this considering how everything took place but she could not help herself.
Nick laughed a mirthless chuckle. “You have been always right about these things,” he said and Hannah knew she was not paranoid to think that Samantha wanted Nick.
"I see," she said, "but I do not care for that Nick. I would be a hypocrite if I hold something against you which I also did. I know you do not want to believe me but trust me when I say this - I did not want to do what I did."
"I know," was all that he said.
"I feel like I messed everything up, Nick," she found herself opening up, "What we had was so beautiful and it was more than I deserved I guess," she said with a sigh.
Nick was quiet the entire time. But then he finally spoke up again.
“What should we do?” he said simply.
Hannah looked back at him, “I want to make this work,” she started, “but I have arrived to a decision and you should know that before we make any sort of resolution.”
“Go on,” Nick told her.
“I have decided that I wanted to keep the baby,” she said finally and looked over hesitantly to gauge Nick’s reaction.
