"Hi, Steven." Alice said, her face red from crying. Mason seeing his aunt upset reached out to be held by her and Alice happily took him.
Rai walked over to her sister and hugged her, asking, "What's up?"
"Lars," Alice sighed, "being well Lars."
Rai kept an arm around Alice and guided her to the couch. "What happened?"
"Well his parents weren't home so I figured it'd be a good time to talk to him about something... serious." Alice took a deep breath. "I told him I thought I might be pregnant, and he freaked. To make a long story short, he basically told me if I was pregnant he wasn't gonna help with it. I mean it'd be his kid too."
"Do you know if you are pregnant?" Rai asked.
"Nope." Alice sighed bouncing Mason on her knee.
"No you don't know or no you're not pregnant?" Rai was trying to be supportive.
"No I don't know, but I'm late, I've been sick in the mornings, and I get queezy super easily." Alice responded.
"It could just be a mind over matter thing." Rai explained. "I learned about it in psychology, sometimes the mind can trick the body."
Pearl got quiet before sighing and saying, "That was different, Diego. Rose... Rose never had feelings for me the way I had feelings for her and it hurt me so much when she chose Greg over me. I'm glad she did because we got Steven out of it but it still hurt."