It's Positive
"She flipped the test over and stared at the small circle. Plus. Positive. Pregnant. Sabrina Grimm is pregnant. The worst part, the father doesn't know and just so happens to be the bane of her existence."
Sabrina Grimm is heading back to Ferryport Landing for the summer, pregnant. No one knows, not her parents, siblings, not even the father and the boy who broke her heart. Now Sabrina is wondering if there is even a point to telling anyone, after all, what if it made it worse?
Sabrina isn't sure. All she knows is she can't do this alone, but what if she is?
Young and Pregnant
Sabrina Grimm took a deep breath and pressed the stick upside down on her hand. She was currently sitting on a filthy gas station bathroom. Not exactly the best place she had ever been, she thought, but as soon as she had bought it, she had wanted to know.
Though, she kind of already knew the answer.
Still, she had to be sure. After all, there was no point in crying wolf if it's a false alarm. Please let it be a false alarm.
But she was getting ahead of herself. After all, perhaps she's not pregnant. But only one way to find out. She flipped the test over and stared at the small circle.
Plus.
Positive.
Pregnant.
Sabrina Grimm is pregnant. The worst part, the father doesn't know and just so happens to be the bane of her existence.
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She sat there for what seemed like an eternity when a jingle of the doorknob and a loud knock came from the door. "Hey, anybody in there?" a voice screeched from behind. "I've been waiting for five freaking minutes. Gonna piss my pants here!"
Sabrina glared in annoyance at the door. Her entire life was falling apart and here was some asshole yelling at her. She supposed that's what you get at a gas station bathroom. Still, it would have been nice for a few minutes of peace and quiet. Doesn't she deserve at least that?
She stood up and chucked the test into the garbage. She had heard of people keeping them for nostalgia purposes, but she figured she'll never look back on this day, wishing she kept a stick with her pee on it.
Sabrina slung her bag over her shoulder and walked out the door. Naraly missing the old guy who pushed his was inside. "About time," he muttered, but she ignored him and crossed the length of the short store, reaching for the door.
"Hey!" the young women behind the counter called out to her, "how'd it go?" God, people are so noisy, she thought. She bought a pregnancy test from her and asked to use their bathroom, that didn't make them friends.
"Fine," she replied and walked outside before the women could ask more. She crossed to the car and opened the passenger door.
"Can we go now?" Mindy asked irritatingly. She was busy applying a layer of lip gloss from the tiny rear-view mirror. "I wanna reach Ferryport Landing by nightfall. Don't wanna be outside when it's dark. You never know who might jump you."
"Yeah, we can go," Sabrina replied and slid down in her seat. Mindy started her old car, the radio immediately blaring, and they started to drive.
Sabrina looked out the window and she wondered what she should do. Oh god, she realized, she would have to tell her parents. She didn't even try to imagine what it would be like telling the father. Although, her parents would kill her when she told them, so she probably didn't have to worry about that too much.
Sabrina had thought she had been free from him. After all, they lived in different cities. But one mistake, one stupid night when she hadn't been thinking and look at the consequences.
The boy had broken her heart and eventually she had enough. As soon as she was done high school, she packed her bags and moved to New York. She had gotten into New York University and had been attending there for the past two years.
Sabrina enjoyed it immensely. She had her little dorm room she shared with a roommate, who was there at the University more for boys than studying. Sabrina didn't mind, she was often not there anyway. Sure, it was lonely sometimes, but she had a few friends she hung out with and made the trip home whenever she could.
That's how she found Mindy. She was also from Ferryport Landing—the non-magical part—and had posted a sign saying she was willing to drive someone up if they split the cost of gas. Well, Sabrina was willing. Even if it meant she had to spend the hours listening to her god-awful music, hearing about the boy who cheated on her, and sitting in the car that always smelt like smoke.
She got to spend time with her family, whom Sabrina missed so very much. Sure, it was her choice to move, but that didn't mean she didn't hate it. It wasn't too bad. Sabrina always came back for the holidays and even some long weekends. Sometimes her parents even visited her, so really, university had been a good thing. In fact, it had been exactly what Sabrina had needed.
When she had left two years ago, she had promised herself it would be a new start. Swore to herself that she could be strong and do this. That she could move on from one part of her life to the next.
And yeah, perhaps it was also to forget the boy that broke her heart. She had learned from her mistakes with him, and made sure to never put herself as vulnerable as she had been. Because being vulnerable had led her to heartbreak beyond words.
It had taken her a while to put herself back together from that day and Sabrina swore that she would never go back down that path.
She placed a hand tenderly to her slim stomach. God, she still couldn't believe it. How had this even happened?
Her face warmed slightly. Obviously, she knew how it had happened. She just didn't understand how it had come to this. How she made a choice—a bad one—and it had led to a thing growing inside of her.
A baby, she corrected herself. It probably wasn't a good idea to be killing it a thing. Or 'it' for that matter.
Still, she found it weird to call it a baby. That would make her a mother. At 20.
Yeah, that is weird, she thought. But shouldn't she just deal with it? Get used to it? Because very soon that will be real.
Sabrina felt her heart pump faster as imagined getting bigger, of having to take care of another human being when she couldn't even take care of herself enough to not get pregnant.
Stop freaking out, she reminded herself. She couldn't do that anymore, because in a few months she would have a baby in her arms.
Sabrina promised herself she would do whatever she needed to for this child. That's why she swore to herself, as she sat in the car, to never tell the father.
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