Young & Pregnant Chapter 1: 1: Food Cravings Weight Gain DENIAL, a young & hungry fanfic

Title: Young & Pregnant

Summary: Having a crush on your boss is always difficult...especially after you've already had sex with him. Now despite all her best efforts to move on, Gabi's life is turned upside down when she learns that she is carrying Josh's child.

Disclaimer/Note from the author: I kind of have a love-hate relationship with this show...let's just say that I am only watching it for Josh & Gabi at the moment. Anyways, the promo for this week's episode inspired me to write this fic. I really hope that Gabi is pregnant and its not just a false alarm.

Date Published: 14 July 2014

Chapter One: Food Cravings. Weight Gain. DENIAL.

It had all started about a week ago.

Elliot was the first one to say something to her, but being Elliot, Gabi had done her best to ignore him. He had been giving her a hard time ever since she had gotten the job working for Josh. She was pretty sure he still hated her. Despite being a forty-something year old man, he could be extremely immature whenever he wanted to be. Oh, who was she kidding? He was always immature and she hated that. His constant cattiness was something she was still trying to get used to. He was ten times bitchier than about every mean girl she had ever crossed paths with in high school.

Yolanda was the next to notice. Of course, she was a lot nicer about the situation than Elliot had been. Over the last two months of working for Josh, Gabi had really grown to love Yolanda as a somewhat mother figure. Apart from her best friend Sofia, Gabi really didn't have anyone else in San Francisco that looked out for her the same way Yolanda did.

"Leave the poor girl alone, Elliot." Yolanda had said last week, during one of her infamous fights with Elliot. "Shouldn't you be annoying Josh...or scoping out his new competition or doing I don't know... something more productive?"

"What? I'm just telling her that she has been eating like a pig all day. I have never seen someone stuff down so much food in such a short period of time." he had hit back, rolling his eyes quickly. "Seriously Gabi, you're eating again? This is what...your third lunch?"

"Hey, I'm hungry like all time." she had snapped defensively. "I can't help it. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Yeah, well if you keep eating at this rate, you are going to run out of food to cook. Maybe then Josh will finally fire you and I can get Chef Michael to work here instead."

"I am not going to run out of food to cook." she had said rolling her eyes quickly. "I can barely touch anything diary based, it makes me feel like I'm going to vomit. I've only really been craving meat..lots of red meat and well chicken...mmmm okay now I'm craving potatoes too...Oooh, I should make a chicken and gravy potato roast!"

"For Josh? Or for your next meal in thirty minutes?"

"Elliot!" Yolanda had snapped angrily. "What did I tell you? Leave the girl alone."

"What?" he had whined, in his usual childish annoying voice that he was notorious for. "Maybe if she stopped stuffing her face, I wouldn't have a reason to be teasing her."

"Maybe she's pregnant...have you thought of that?" Yolanda had snapped angrily.

"Yolanda, I'm not pregnant." she had said naively. "I haven't had sex in over two months. Not to mention that I barely have any time for a boyfriend."

Gabi sighed heavily. What if Yolanda was right? What if she was pregnant? The nauseating feeling she had become so familiar with of late started to creep over her body once again.

"So...what does it say?" Sofia called out from their living room impatiently. "Are you pregnant or not?"

"I don't know. I'm too scared to look."

"Gabi, you need to know this sort of thing. I mean, its better that you find out now before... I don't know you go into labour one day when you're just sitting on the toilet. I've heard stories about girls that didn't even know that they were pregnant until their baby just popped right out."

"Okay, not helping." she called out loudly from the bathroom. "You're starting to scare me."

"Come on, Gabz the timer rang like twenty minutes ago. Don't you just want to get it over and done with? Think of it like you are ripping off a band-aid."

"I can't. Whatever is on this stick is going to determine the rest of my life, Sofia. I can't be pregnant. I'm not ready for a child. I'm still a child myself!" she shrieked loudly, as she started to pace the small bathroom floor space quickly.

"You're making such a big deal out of this and you're probably not even pregnant. Can you please just check the damn thing and whatever it says...we will deal with it together."

"Fine, I'll check it. But you better be right about not being pregnant! I live week to week and can hardly afford food for us to eat...I can't be feeding no baby!"

"Just check the test already. I have to go to work."

"Can you come in here with me? I don't think I want to be alone for this." Gabi said opening the bathroom door so her friend could come inside.

"Give me the damn pee stick." Sofia said rolling her eyes. "Okay, so according to this thing...there's two lines..check the box. What does that mean? Two lines is good, right?"

"Okay, two lines means..." Gabi said examining the box more closely. "Oh shit."

-x-

"Gabi..can you hear me? Gabi?" Sofia asked slapping her on the face.

"Ouch, stop hitting me." she whined. "What happened? Why am I on the bathroom floor and why the hell is my head so sore?"

"You fainted...after you found out that you're pregnant." her friend said grimacing a little.

"No. No, I can't be pregnant. No." Gabi said trying to stand up quickly. "This has to be some kind of mistake. Did you check the box?"

"Gabi, slow down. You should take it easy today" Sofia said, helping her to feet. "I'm going to call Josh and tell him that you are not coming into work. You should really rest."

"No, don't do that. I'll be fine. Besides, I need some kind of distraction until I figure out what the hell I'm going to do about this whole baby thing."

"Are you sure? Because you just fainted and I don't want you to be distressing your baby."

"Ugh, 'your baby' don't say things like that. For all we know these things are mostly wrong, right? I thought you needed to go to the Doctor's to find out if you're pregnant. I mean, how accurate can these pee thing-ys be?"

"97 percent." Sofia said loudly.

"What?"

"They are 97 percent accurate. It says so on the box."

"Dear Lord, I am so screwed."

-x-

"Now it all makes sense." Gabi said when her friend handed her a warm cup of hot chocolate. "Elliot kept saying that I was eating like a pig and I just thought I was like really hungry. Even Yolanda thought I was pregnant last week and I just laughed at her."

"It's really not rocket science babe." Sofia said taking a spot next to her on the couch.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's just...I'm surprised you didn't figure this out earlier...what with all your food cravings...and the obvious weight gain."

"Clearly, I didn't think I would be pregnant. I haven't had sex since Josh and that was like over two months ago!"

"Yeah...and it usually takes nine months to make a baby, Gabi, keep up. So are you going to tell him?"

"Tell him what? That some stick thing-y says I'm carrying his child. No way. I'm going to see a Doctor first. Who knows...I could be one of the 3 percent exception."

"For your sake, I hope so."

-xx-