Friday, January 1st

The Block Estate

1:45pm

Massie decided to invite Landon over to her house and tell him the news. She figured she'd go ahead and get it over with and not to procrastinate about it. Telling the PC earlier that day gave her the push she needed to tell Landon. She walked around her room thinking of all of the possible scenarios that could happen. She knew she probably shouldn't have been doing that because she'd assume the worse, but she did anyway. Until she heard her mothers voice over the intercom in her room saying, "Landon's here!"

Oh crap, she thought. Pretty soon her bedrooom door slowly opened as Landon stepped in.

"Hey," he said as he walked up and hugged her, "What did you need to talk about?"

"Oh, um, ya know just stuff." Gawd, she sounded stupid right now.

"That's not very specific."

"I know," she says, "You should probably sit down."

Now Landon was kind of worried. Anything that required sitting down was usually big. He studied her for a second before sitting down on her bed next to her.

Massie looked at the ground nervously for a second before she started talking.

"Do you love me?"

"Of course I love you," Landon answered confidently.

Massie felt better hearing that.

"Do you love me?" he asked.

"I do, you know that." he was the first guy that Massie felt like she could actually relate to and be herself with completely, and she loved him.

"Okay then, so what's going on?"

she decided to just get right to the point. "I'm pregnant."

Landon's eyes widened. He was going to ask her if she was serious, but decided against it, he could tell by looking at Massie's very serious expression that what she was saying wasn't a joke.

"Wow," was all he could think to say.

"Yeah, wow is what I said too."

"How long have you known?"

"Almost two months," she said quietly, now feeling bad about not telling him as soon as she found out.

"Why didn't you tell me? This is really important ya know."

"Yes, I know, I was scared... I didn't know how you would react."

"I'm not even sure how to react right now or what to think to be honest." Landon looked off into the air focusing and thinking really hard now.

"And that's what scares me. Do you want to leave me now?" Massie now felt tears forming behind her eyes as she thought about being abandoned by Landon and being left with a child.

"Massie, this is hard on me too, I'm almost done with high school and my life is supposed to be just getting started now, but both of us made this baby, I won't abandon you if that's what you're scared of."

Massie sighed, he really was great. If he stuck to what he was saying right now, then this whole experience would be less stressful than she imagined.

"Thank you," she says, "Really, that's exactly what I was scared of, and now I feel better."

"I'm glad you do. But we need to think about how were going to handle this. We're both in high school and raising a baby would be really hard for us."

"I know, I've thought about that, and I'm so confused. I'm not ready to be a mom right now, I'm only fifteen."

"Wait, were you thinking of maybe getting an abortion?" he asked quietly, "Not trying to convince you to, but I was just wondering."

"I've thought about all of the options and I don't think I should do that, it would feel wrong." Massie had thought about abortion in the begininng, but she couldn't help but think about how bad she'd feel after. Besides the usual things like guilt, she felt like if she did that she'd be losing in a way, Like she'd be saying she wasn't capable of handling this. And even though this is a hard situation to handle, Massie didn't like the idea of feeling like she lost.

"Okay good, because I really don't think you should do that. Have you thought about adoption?"

"yeah, I'm still unsure on that one, but it's still an option."

"I don't want you to think I'm against keeping it, I think it would be nice if all of us got to be a normal family together even though we didn't plan this, but with both of us still in high school I just don't think it would happen the way we want it."

So far it seemed like both Massie and Landon were on the same page about this and that was relieving.

"I think we should consider adoption and keeping it."

"Me too," Landon agreed, "But even if we decide to do adoption we should still be prepared to keep it. You could always change your mind."

Massie thought about what would happen if she chose adoption. Right now she could say she didn't feel very maternal, since she could hardly believe she was even pregnant, but if she had to, would she be able to give her child up to someone else? She wasn't even showing yet, so it was hard for her to think of what was growing inside her as a child, even though deep down she knew it was. And she didn't know how she'd feel once she was actually showing and her due date got closer, but when she thought about things like the fact that she's only fifteen and still in school, adoption didn't sound like a bad option. But nothing was set in stone yet.

"Do you think we should tell my parents now?" Massie asked. Part of her wanted to wait as long as possible because she was terrified of what they would think, but she also wanted to get it over with so she could move forward.

Landon's eyes widened and he started shaking his head, "No! They're gonna kill me, and probably you too!"

Massie rolled her eyes, "Come on, it can't be that bad, not for you anyway, they're my parents and I'm the one who's pregnant."

"Yeah, but in situations like this, parents always blame the guy. And I'd rather not die today."

Massie laughed, "Relax Landon, I don't know what they're gonna do, but I'm pretty sure you'll make it out alive...maybe."

Landon still didn't look like he liked the idea of telling her parents today.

"It'll be okay, I'll even text Claire to see if she'll be here while we tell them."

"What's Claire gonna do?"

"Um, I'm not sure, but we're hoping if she's here then their reaction won't be as bad."

"Okay then, let's hope I make it out of here alive."

So after that Massie text Claire asking her to come over. They waited in her room until Claire had finally arrived and then nervously made their way out of Massie's room and downstairs to where her parents were. When they entered the living room Kendra was flipping through lucky magazine and William was reading a newspaper.

"Hi mom and dad, I have something important to tell you," Massie said awkwardly. How do people usually start these kind of announcments?

Her parents looked up at the three nervous looking teenagers.

"What is it?" Kendra asked while eyeing her daughter, she knew something weird was going on, Massie usually didn't randomly decide to tell her parents things out of no where.

"Um," William looked at Claire and Landon, "no offense, but why are you two here?"

Landon gulped, but Claire tried to act normal. "For moral support."

Kendra's eyes widened and she looked at her daughter, "Moral support? You're not pregnant are you?"

Massie and Landon's face paled, Claire looked down at the ground awkwardly, and William gave Landon a threatning look.

"Um..." Massie tried to think of something to say, but for once she didn't know what to say.

"Claire, I think it's time for you to leave," Kendra said while never taking her eyes off of Massie and Landon.

Claire looked at her best friend sympatheticly. "Good luck," she told her before walking out of the room.

"Please tell me you're not." Kendra hoped that her fifteen year old daughter wasn't about to confirm what she'd said, but by looking at Massie's frightened face she knew deep down that her susupicion was right.

"I wish I could tell you I'm not... but I am." Massie said the last part quietly. She honestly didn't know what to expect, her parents had never been strict or anything like that, she pretty much did whatever she wanted to do, but telling them she was pregnant wasn't exactly something casual.

William's facial expression turned angry and he turned to face Landon, "I can't believe you knocked up my daughter! I actually thought you were a good guy!"

"We trusted you!" Kendra

"It was an accident!"

"It had better been an accident!" William yelled at Landon, "I'd hope you wouldn't intentionally get my daughter pregnant and ruin her life."

"I would never try to ruin her life, I love her!" Despite the bad circumstances, Massie warmed on the inside hearing Landon say that.

"If you did love her, you wouldn't have done that and put her in this situation!"

"She wanted it just as bad as me."

Massie slapped his arm, "Nawt helping!"

William looked like he wanted to kill Landon. "I don't care," he said, "All I know is, my daughter is fifteen and she shouldn't be having sex, and especially not pregnant. You two should've at least been responsible about it." and then he looked at Massie, "And don't think for one minute that I'm putting this all on him either, I'm extremly disappointed in you. We've given you everything and this is how you repay us, by getting pregnant!" he said the word pregnant like it was the worst word in the world.

Massie was surprised by how much her fathers words stung, he'd never talked to her like that in her entire life, he'd always been so nice and laid back. She knew her parents reaction wouldn't be good but this wasn't what she was expecting. Since she'd found out she was pregnant she'd been thinking about herself and how this would affect her life, not once did she stop and think about the fact that she was disappointing her family. She gasped on the inside, Was she an embarassment to them now? She couldn't imagine that, the thought of anyone being embarrassed by her was completely absurd, she was Massie Block, everyone had practically worshipped her her whole life.

Kendra finally spoke again, "Landon I think you should leave before this gets any worse, we need to talk to our daughter alone."

Massie wished Landon could stay, but it obviously would've created more tension, and there was already enough of that to go around. They exchanged a glance at each other before Landon quietly said, "Talk to you later," and he got out of there as quickly as possible.

As soon as he was gone Massie sat down on the couch across from her parents, she wasn't sure it was safe to sit near them at this moment, and as she sat down her dad got up.

"I can't be in here right now."

Wow, Massie thought, does he hate me now?

Now that it was only her and her mother in the room Massie quietly said, "I don't know what to do."

Kendra sighed, "I wish you weren't in this situation, because no matter what you do it's gonna be hard, don't make any rash decisions."

"Does dad hate me now?"

"Of course he doesn't hate you, it's just hard for him, and me too. I don't think any parent wants to hear their fifteen year old daughter tell them she's pregnant, especially since we still look at you as a child, I can't even imagine you having a baby. You're whole revolves around you, and if you have this baby it can't be that way anymore."

Massie felt so lost and confused, so she just listened.

"And another thing to consider, because you're the woman, everything is going to come back on you. At school, people aren't going to judge Landon, they're gonna judge you. It's not fair, but that's how it is, and no matter what decision you make, this will stay with you forever and when people find out they're going to gossip about it and most likely say bad things about you."

"Well Gee thanks for making me feel better mom."

"I'm sorry, I'm not going to sugar coat it for you, that's what happens when girls get pregnant young."

"I think I'm going to go back to my room now, I need to think," Massie says while getting up.

This was going to be a lot harder to deal with than she thought.

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