Prologue (Other chapters will be a lot longer)

"Hey Maya! Are you ready for school yet? You need to come eat breakfast." My mom called.

"Yeah mom! I'll be right down." I call back.

"Alright. Do you want Shawn to make you pancakes?"

"Yes please!"

My mom and Shawn finally got married last year. It was a small wedding with just our families and of course Riley's family. My mom seems to be a lot happier with him. She didn't take his last name either. She felt like that shouldn't be something she had to do. Today is Riley's and my first day of sophomore year of high school. It's a lot different than middle school was but we are starting to find ourselves just like we did then.

I brush my hair and then run down the stairs to eat breakfast. When I get down there, I give my mom a hug and a kiss and walk over to Shawn and give him a hug while he makes pancakes.

"Hey Maya. Are you excited for school?" Shawn asks.

"What do you think? I mean, I am excited to see my friends. This summer has been crazy with all of us working but I don't want to sit through these classes. They are so boring." I tell him as I take a stack of pancakes.

"Hey! Don't talk bad about Mr. Matthews class." He says fake angrily.

"I know, I know. You know you could have just married him instead of mom." I say with a smirk, which made my mom laugh.

"Ha ha, very funny. " Shawn responds.

"Oh I forgot to tell you. You have a GYN appointment today right after school. I wont be able to get out of work in time so you are going to have to take the subway. I have one an hour after you so you cant wait for me until I am done or take the subway back home again." My mom says.

"Ughh I hate these appointments. I don't know why I need them. I never even had sex yet." I complain.

"Because your period has not been regular for the past 3 years." She replies.

"Oh god! Please, no more of this conversation. I already know way more than I should." Shawn says as he cringes.

"Even after a whole year you still aren't used to it," I say while shaking my head and then continue to say, "Love you Shawn." And kiss his cheek. I then do the same to my mom and then say, "Okay well then I will see you guys tonight. I might go to Riley's to do homework though or you know just to hang out."

I walk to Riley's like I do every day during the school year to pick her up so we can walk to school together. When I get to her apartment, I don't even bother to knock. They are so much like my second family; I don't think they even expect me to go home sometimes.

"Hey Riles. Are you ready?" I ask.

"Totally. I can't wait to see everyone and learn new things. I would be more excited if it weren't for him." She says and gives her dad a look.

"Me? What did I do?" He asks offended.

"You keep following us." She whined.

"You guys are the ones who got me transferred to the high school." Cory says defensively.

"But you are the one that made us have to rely on you for life lessons. We can't survive with any other teacher." Riley continued.

"Well I am pretty good."

"Yes you are. Have a nice day at school girls." Topanga says.

"Thanks mom. See you guys later. Love you!" Riley yells as we walk out.

After we have been walking for a little while I ask Riley, "Hey Riles? Will you with me to my doctor's appointment after school?"

"Peaches, of course I will go. I would go anywhere with you." Riley says and puts her arm around my shoulder.

"Thanks."

~After School~

"Are you nervous for this appointment?" Riley asks me.

"How could you tell?" I ask nervously.

"Well for one thing, you are playing with your hands and you only do that when you have anxiety."

"I just have never been to this doctor before and I feel like I am going to be violated in there. I mean these doctors see everything." I say while I am still just staring blankly ahead.

"I will be right here for you. You will be fine. I know it." She says and gives me a hug.

"Ms. Hart." The nurse calls out, signaling it is time for me to go back.

I look at Riley and she says, "Go. You will be fine. I am right here and if they do anything bad, just scream at the top of your lungs and I will run back there and beat them down." She says completely joking. It makes me laugh but I know she would never do that. Me on the other hand, I wouldn't be afraid to fight someone if they were bothering Riley. Ughh. I really don't want to do this. I have to though, so I walk back with the nurse.

When we get to the room, she does all the typical stuff and then says, "The doctor will be right with you."

Right now I am in a very vulnerable position and I really hate it. The doctor comes in fairly quick and thank god it's a woman.

"Hart right?" the doctor asks.

"Yes." I respond quickly.

"Wow. You are really young."

"I know. My mom wanted me to do this younger than usual."

"You don't have to if you don't want to. You can go if this is what you really want and I can tell your mom that I feel like you are too young." She suggests and this makes me very confused. I know of other people my age who go to these doctors. So why is this doctor making such a big deal of this.

"Ehh. I'm here now. I may as well just do it." I tell her.

"Okay well if this is what you want. My name is Dr. Higgins and I will be your doctor throughout this process.

"Nice to meet you."

"Okay. So I am going to need you to slide down a little."

"Like this?"

"Perfect. So I am going to start now and you are going to feel a little bit of pressure." She says and then sticks something up there. The entire thing feels very weird and not what I was expecting at all.

"Okay, you are all done."

"That's it?" I ask. It literally lasted not even 30 seconds.

"Yes but I suggest you lay like this with your legs up for about 15 minutes. I will come back when your time is up." She says and then leaves.

Everything I researched online never said I would need to lie here afterwards. I am so confused.

After the 15 minutes are up, Dr. Higgins comes back in and tells me I can get dressed and that I am good to go and that she wants to see me back in a month. She said she wants to wait longer to see me but I feel like a month is really soon. How soon does she usually see her patients after their first appointment?

"Are you all good Peaches?" Riley asks when I go back out to the waiting room.

"I don't know." I respond. As we are leaving I could have swore that they said Katy Hart but I could have heard it wrong.

Check out my other story, Multiple Ways of Life: s/10083197/1/Multiple-ways-of-life