Chapter Two

Amy woke up feeling sick like she had been for weeks, just hours before she had told her sister that she might be pregnant. Madison, Lauren and Morgan had all noticed a change in her and Amy hated lying to her best friends especially Lauren and Madison.

Morgan had become also part of their close best friend group, if she lived in Pemberly they would have been best friends from the start but she couldn't tell her they weren't close enough. Amy waited for Morgan to take a bath before she said "Lauren, Madison I have to tell you something—"

"No Amy don't tell them yet you don't know for sure and it's not the right time" Ashley said walking in the cabin. "There will never be a right time" Amy said tearing up, "Guys what's going on?" Madison asked alarmed at her friends crying. "Madison, Lauren I think I'm—" Amy couldn't seem to get the word out. "What are you?" Lauren asked stepping towards her friend, "pregnant" Amy finished.

You could see the big question mark on both their faces and after a few minutes it sank in.

Amy their best friend since birth, virgin Amy, was pregnant? "Ames you can't be, can you?" Madison said with a raspy voice holding back tears, "I'm going to kill Ricky" Lauren said rushing to the door but to have it blocked by Amy and Ashley, "No! You can't tell him or anyone else. Please, just give me some time to figure out what I'm going to do!" Amy pleaded her eyes burning holding by tears. "His the father he has to know!" Lauren protested backing of, "How do you know he even is the father?" Amy asked trying to stir the topic somewhere else. "Because we know you better then anyone else and we also know Ricky a little and what we know leads to him" Lauren explained.

All the way across camp Ricky stood in his room trying to control his thoughts away from the girl he had hurt, fooled and used. She probably hates me now, he thought without doubt. All the girls I could have gone to I had to hurt the one who I actually had feeling for he admitted mentally slapping himself looking at the pretty blonde that laid on his bed still asleep, when she woke up he'd have to hurt her too.

Every camper got onto the big yellow school bus and took a seat. Ricky was the last on while Amy and her friends were the first. Ricky could see her tear stained face and her eyes shining with unshed tears and pain. "I can feel that I am" Amy said starring straight ahead ignoring Ricky's gaze, "Just try to think of something else" Ashley said holding hugging her sister and sending a hate filled glare at the cause which he clearly saw.

"Hey Ames are you alright?" Hunter Graham asked her, Hunter was a boy Amy had come to know at camp. He was nice to her and shy in some ways. "She's fine she just has a headache" Madison answered for Amy, "She's right, my head just hurts" Amy answered her voice steady and strong this time.

Ricky was silent the whole ride not talking to Griffin or flirting shamelessly with the girls around him. "Ricky what the hell is wrong with you?" Griffin asked his best friend, "Nothing" he answered looking out the window.

When they reached the small tourist town called Oakdale which was an hour away all the buses stopped. "Okay everyone be back here in two hours because that's when we leave. Remain with your buddy at all times and try to buy something useful we don't want a repeat of last year when someone bought a canoe that we couldn't fit on the bus" Ms. Tanner said looking at Hunter sternly. He innocently smiled, "Okay have fun" and with that the quartet of girls walked to the closest market and walked in.

It was amazing how one night could possibly change so many peoples life and how one ordinary girl's life could change forever no matter the answer. "Lauren Madison you guys go wait outside and make sure no one comes in" Ashley commanded "What are we supposed to say?" Lauren asked, "I don't know make up something, just don't let anyone in" Ashley commanded with a determined look.

After a few minutes of deliberating which test to by, Ashley took three different test from the top shelve and headed for the counter with Amy close behind. "Why three?" Amy asked her sister in a low whisper; "Because we have to make sure" Ashley explained paying for them. The clerk gave the two sisters a disapproving look but kept quiet while putting the tests in a brown paper bag. "Are you guys finished?" Madison asked eating a chocolate bar that she had brought with her, "How many did you buy?" Lauren asked.

"We bought three just to be sure" Ashley responded putting the brown paper bag deep inside her purse where no one would be able to see it. "Maybe I'm just coming down with a fatal disease or something" Amy said hopefully, "I doubt it" Lauren replied.

"I wish I was" Amy murmured to herself.

The first hour went fast and the four girls now stood in the middle of the town where they were supposed to meet with brows creased thinking about the situation. After they had bought the test they went straight there instead of having fun like they were supposed to, they hadn't talked since they got the test.

It made it all now seem real, actually having the pregnancy test. Once the second hour was up, and more teens started returning to the spot their names were checked off on a list and off they went back to camp.

Ricky sat there laughing at his friends making stupid jokes, while Amy sat still, cold and empty.

It was amazing how a positive answer that possibly made a million women happy made Amy feel so negative inside. Such a positive answer gave her the most negative effect leaving her hollow with eyes burning with tears, she stood there staring at the three positive pregnancy tests refusing to let the tears fall. She looked down at her perfectly flat stomach knowing that in a few months it wouldn't be flat anymore, but unlike her friends and sister they let the tears freely fall. That night Amy, Ashley, Lauren and Madison cried themselves to sleep.

The last day of camp had arrived and everyone stood there hugging everyone, exchanging phone numbers and giving out email addresses. "Morgan we're going to miss you so much" Amy said forgetting about her problem and saying goodbye to a good friend. "We'll call everyday" Lauren said smiling sadly at Morgan. "Same here" she responded wiping away a falling tear. After Morgan got into her moms car the girls separated saying goodbye to friends they had meet. "Hey Amy your not leaving without saying goodbye to me are you?" Hunter asked beaming down at her and embracing her in his strong arms.

Amy felt safe and let the tears she had been holding back for the passed couple of day's fall staining his white camp shirt. "Aw Amy don't cry I'll call you" Hunter said hugging her tighter not knowing the real reason for her tears. Ricky passed from behind Hunter staring at Amy giving her a blank expression; she looked away from him her expression hardening. "Bye Hunter call me everyday, I'm really going to miss you" Amy said, "Won't you come next year?" he asked, "I'm not sure I'll try my best" Amy said not knowing what the future had in store for her. They all got on the same buses that they had been on when coming to camp. Ricky sat in the back flirting with girls and making jokes while Amy sat right behind the bus driver clutching her stomach for dear life. Three hours later Amy stood in front of Grant High next to her friends waiting for her mom to pick them up. Before her mom got there Ricky's father large expensive car came to pick Ricky and Griffin up.

For dinner that night her parents had took Ashley and Amy out. "So how was camp?" George asked his two daughters, "Camp was camp" They both said with fake smiles fooling their parents.

At home Amy and Ashley sat on their porch discussing the situation, "What are you going to do?" Ashley asked her sister delicately. "I don't know I thought you were going to tell me" Ashley explained panicking.

"Ames this is your decision not mine, but I will tell you one thing. Ricky will find out sooner or later"

"What am I going to do I promised mom I was going to try out for cheerleading, she'll be so disappointed when she finds out I won't this year"

"We'll talk about it later, but tomorrow after church I'm taking you to the doctor." Ashley said with authority. "How? Neither of us can drive and the bill will just go back to mom" Amy questioned, "That's a risk we have to take for the safety of the baby" Ashley said for the first time saying that word since she found out. Amy cringed at the word almost as if it actually hurt hearing it coming out of someone's mouth and for Amy it did. "Ash I still go to a pediatrician, I'm not even old enough to go to mom's doctor." Amy said laughing darkly.

That night Amy fell asleep tossing and turning, waking up with red stained eyes, church was church but the part that really bothered Amy was when Rev. Stone said "And for all of you starting at Grant High tomorrow remember that abstinence is what's best" Amy could feel tears blind and turn her eyes but she could feel Ricky's stare boring in her back possibly burning her soft skin. If only she could have never meet Ricky or gone to camp none of this would be happing to her, if only she had remembered her promise she'd still be a virgin and not a pregnant fifteen-year-old. Ashley squeezed her sister's hand reassuringly and whispered "The clinic is only a few blocks from here; we can walk there then eat something on the way back. We'll just tell mom and say we're going to meet up with Lauren and Madison at that new smoothie place that just opened"

"Mom, dad we promised Lauren and Madison we would meet them at that smoothie place just a block from here can we please go?" Ashley asked smiling sweetly at her parents in spite of what she really felt. "Do you want us to drive you there?" George asked his daughters suspiciously,

"No we need the walking if Amy's going to try out for cheerleading this year" Ashley said knowing her mother would beam at her daughter. "Of course you two can go but be home before seven because you have school tomorrow" Ann responded.

"I'll wait for you outside" Amy said leaving her sisters side and sitting on a bench under a tree letting the tears fall freely. She could hear someone approaching "Amy just give me a sec please" she said without bothering to check.

Hope you liked it next chapter shold be up tomorrow, when i finish editing it!

Mary