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Fourteen.14.

" You have to sit and calm your nerves down at least with a glass of wine," I said to a weary Krystal who had been jigging around the room for about 10 minutes now.

She had rushed down to my place, like a lion pursuing its prey. She looks wounded and battered for something.

"Krystal you have to calm down," I said for the umpteenth time that afternoon.

"See Courtney you don't understand." She yelled.

"Yes of course I don't," I yelled back.

"How do you expect me to understand when you've said nothing since you got here?" I said in a calm tone.

She sat down looking disheveled.

"Krystal you have to stop thinking, you are carrying a child and it's not advisable to stress your health," I warned.

"Courtney, I know. I know all that but what has been happening lately, is enough to stress me. Enough to drain me." She said wearily and fearfully.

"What has been happening? Aside from the pregnancy with Lucas and your mom's persistence in the marriage between you