the clicking of heels echoed through the halls of the high school. the sound was intimidating as you could almost feel the aggravation of the feet that filled them. the reason for the meeting was much less than surprising and had become more of a commonality at this point in the year. the school was about three weeks away from it’s winter break, but some people found that to be a reason to slack off. “you know, he gets this from you.” lacey replied as she met her curly-haired husband outside the door of their son’s history class. “me?” drew responded, crossing his arms defensively. “and why would you say that?” with a roll of her eyes and a small smirk upon her lips lacey opened the door. “because honey i never misbehave.”

  the husband and wife entered the classroom to see an older women sitting behind a cluttered desk, while their son sat patiently in his assigned classroom desk. “good afternoon cheryl.” lacey responded as her and drew sat next to their son in the classroom desks. “what’d he do this time?” drew remarked receiving a less than approving look from his wife. “mr. and mrs. anderson, so nice to see you again. surprised it’s not by better circumstances.” sarcasm oozed from the teacher’s voice. it was no wonder their son seemed to have such a bad attitude about this class in particular. “he hasn’t been doing his homework for the past couple of weeks, he comes in late and he is always acting up. i, quite frankly, am concerned it has to do with something other than school. which is why i brought you all in today. Carson, would you mind waiting outside?”

lacey listened intently as she awaited an answer to their problems. her and drew did everything to give their children a better life than they had been given, yet their son still acted up. the parents loved their son, but his behavior was becoming unacceptable in school. which made the situation even more difficult as lacey was a teacher at the school as well. “i believe his behavior might have something to do with something occurring at home.” the couple turned and faced each other, deciding who should be the first to correct the ignorance of the teacher sitting before them. “and what exactly does that mean?” drew replied sternly. “i mean, is everything going on well between you two? have them been an increase of arguments or..” as her voice drifted off you could feel the tension shared by the anderson’s. drew stood up from the desk. “are you f—” “are you kidding me?” lacey interrupted shooting out from the desk. “are you trying to insinuate that our parenting is the cause of this? because i assure you that that is an inaccurate assumption, as well being extremely inappropriate. especially from a colleague.” it was shown by the looks of drew’s expression that he had not expected his wife to have the sudden outburst. he took his hand into hers trying his best to come her down. “lace.” her finger shot up to signal that he needed to stop and that she was not finished. “my son’s behavior in your classroom has been unacceptable. that i understand, but what i will not tolerate is my family’s dynamic being put under a microscope because of it. maybe, my son wouldn’t be disruptive in your class if you did not feel the need to antagonize him and make him out to have some mischievous intention with everything he did. —i will be talking to him, because as a teacher i feel that he is not living up to his full potential and that is negatively impacting the class. We will not be having another meeting like this, because next time I will be speaking to the principle. Have a nice day.” her words were sharp and calculated. it was most likely the meanest lacey lewis, or anderson, had ever been. 

THE MOMENT HAD ARRIVED— lacey lewis was getting married. she had always pictured herself as a more traditional bride, but her wedding day seemed to be anything but traditional. “are you sure you can’t see it?” the girl whispered to her two bridesmaids who were making some final adjustments to her dress. “I promise if you hadn't told me I wouldn’t have even been able to tell.” josie said as she fanned out the bottom of the dress. cassie nodded her head as she stood behind lacey, putting the veil neatly into her hair. lacey placed her hands gently around the small bump carrying her first child. “I’m sorry, this is supposed to be the day a women is , and I just feel like a giant whale.” lacey’s lip began to quiver. she was going to look back at the pictures of her wedding day and see all the things had not gone according to her original plan. “and everyone is going to think I'm scandalous for being pregnant out of wedlock.” the tears kept coming as she thought about all the things that could go wrong. the flowers could be the wrong color, the cake could go to the wrong place, her dress could tear, drew could decide not to go through with the wedding. “oh my gosh, has anyone talked to drew? does he still want to get married? —he probably doesn’t want to, I am a mess.” the girls rushed around her, trying to calm her down. but the pregnancy hormones had taken over, and there was no way to stop them from taking over completely. “lacey please, your make-up is going to run. I promise everything is going to be fine. —girls! out!” lissa rushed the bridesmaids out of the room, shutting the double doors behind her without explaining what she was going to do.

lacey sat on the floor in the dressing room, tissues scatted around her like a field of mascara stained flowers. at this point in the day she was crying alone for no reason other than the fact she just needed to let it all out. the girls had left ( obviously because she was too much to handle ) and the wedding was going to start any minute ( that was, if drew was even going to through with marrying her ). the wedding was a disaster and the only thing she was going to remember was that— there was a knock on the door. “lace?” drew’s soothing voice came from the other side of the door. “drew?” she sniffled as she made her way to the door. “can I come in?” he asked, his curly hair peeking through the open crack. “NO, it’s bad luck to see the bride in her wedding dress!” she turned around and rushed away from the door. “lace, babe, you’re having my baby I don’t think we’re really sticking with tradition here.” “but that’s what I wanted drew! I wanted traditional. and now I'm fat and scandalous” drew stood in awe as his bride paced around the room holding her bump, even at her most chaotic lacey lewis was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. “you’re gorgeous lace.” she stopped, turning towards her fiancé. in that moment every one of the worries disappeared. “really?” he nodded his head. the tears started up again as she rushed into his arms and placed a kiss on his lips. “I love you so much, you know that?” he smiled, “I love you too. now I gotta go... can’t keep the hot future mrs. anderson waiting.” lacey nodded her head, giving him one more kiss before letting him slip out the door. 

many of you ( mainly amy & allie ) were convinced that if i had not played duncan & lacey the two would have ended up together ( supposedly ). so to please the masses i wrote up an au about lacey & duncan getting together, their life after the exchange, their children, etc.