The silence was loud and lasted for several minutes than it need be, Ethan in shock and Emily equally in shock but tainted by uncertainty. A million thoughts ran through her hand, her hands were unsteady and the positive pregnant test staring at the both of them. She looked away from Ethan, she tried to act aloof even though her heart kept pounding loudly behind her chest.Who was the father? Was the question that kept repeating itself round her head and yet unable to come up with an answer. She washed her hands by the sink but not saying a word to Ethan because what exactly could she say? Her hands were shaky, no matter how much she tried to steady them.She was pregnant? How could she be pregnant? It was worse that she wasn’t sure who the father was.“Emily?” Ethan called again, this time making way for her to pass through out of the bathroom.“I’m not ready to talk about it yet?” she told him, collapsing herself unto the sofa, her head in her hand as the felt the pressure closing

“What the hell happened?!” Ethan stormed angrily into the emergency room of the hospital where Jackson was seated, waiting. He grabbed Jackson by the collar, pulling him up, his eyes dilated in anger.“Where’s Emily?!” he thundered again and Jackson pried himself away from his Ethan’s hold.“Relax damn, she’ll be fine” Jackson said, even though within him he knew he was worried but he didn’t have the strength to deal with Ethan’s tantrum, he was the dealing with the shock of it all.“What do you mean? She’s pregnant” Ethan said and Jackson froze.“What?” Jackson looked at Ethan now, his eyebrows raised and his heart rate suddenly picking up.“Emily’s pregnant?” he asked again and Ethan gave him a strange look“She didn’t tell you, I thought she was going to – ”“She didn’t have the chance to” Jackson said now, the realization suddenly dawning on him. That was why Emily wanted to see him, to tell him she was pregnant?This time, Ethan grabbed Jackson by the shoulder, his eyes conflicte

When Emily’s eyes fluttered open, she knew immediately that something was wrong. She could feel it, deep within her bones, the emptiness that encompassed her and radiated through her entire being.Her eyes didn’t suddenly flutter open, it was a slow game. A dull ache festering in her head and in her lower stomach as she tried to sit up but the room was dark and cold. The annoying beep of the monitor kept echoing back at her, the iv still stuck in her hand as she tried to focus an image but it was pitch dark.The panic set it, a cold sweat broke out on her forehead and she gripped the sheets tighter with her heart pounding fast.“Hello” she called out to the darkness but there was no response, only the silence echoes back at her.Suddenly she felt footsteps around her, approaching her slowly. The slow tang of their shoes that she couldn’t tell if it was a high-heeled slippers or a flat sole sneaker, suddenly she couldn’t move, she felt strapped in with icy cold hands gripping her arms

It had been two days and Jackson was still – in fact missing. A hushed tension hung in the air, shrouding everyone in a cloak of unease. The news had spread like wildfire, sending shockwaves through the media landscape. Headlines blazed across newspapers, their bold letters acting as a glaring reminder of the fraught reality. Everyone asked questions that there were no answers to, that there was no one to give those answers. Everyone waited amidst the investigations, waiting – waiting for a call at least.The whole family sat together in the Hatton family mansion, Ethan seated close to Emily who had just left the hospital but had been silent ever since, refusing to say a word. What exactly was she going to say? What words were enough to describe the fear that had seized her, held her captive and unwilling to let go. Different scenarios kept running through her head, was it Blair? Did she go through with her plans to actually kidnap Jackson? If so, why hadn’t they called yet? Why had n

“Oh my God!” Emily sprang up immediately a strange text hit her phone, and she stared at it with shaky hands, her rate instantly going up. It was a location pin from a strange number with a text attached to it‘Don’t tell Ethan’ it saidConfusion clouded her brain, she stared at it long enough waiting for her brain to click.Who could it be? And when it finally clicked like a lightbulb suddenly coming up and lightng up the grey areas in her brain. Could it be - it had to be, it was the only logical explanation.It was Jackson! She looked around her, she was still in the Hatton family house and this time Mr. and Mrs. Had retired sadly to the bedroom.Immediately she bolted for the door but just as she stepped outside she came in contact with Ethan and she stopped abruptly,“Where are you off to?” his eyes didn’t meet hers, and she didn’t want to look at him either not after the spectacle he had caused earlier.“Emily?” he called again when she didn’t respond “Where are you going, it’s