Chapter Two: A Woman Too Soon
Instead of heading home like she should have, Aria headed to Ezra's place. She needed to be there for some reason. After unlocking the door, she walked in and looked around. She knew physically Ezra wasn't here, but she could still smell the scent of his cologne in the air. As she breathed in the scent, she started tearing up. She can't imagine what he'll say when she tells him. She can barely even think about being pregnant, this was happening too soon.
She closed the door and walked to the couch, sat down and pulled her cell phone out of her purse. As she browsed the contact list looking for Ezra's number, she was thinking, should she even do this over the phone? She pressed call, and listened to ring after ring. When Ezra answered her heart leaped. "Aria, hey," as she heard those words out of his voice, she dried her tears. "Hey," she says with a breath. He can tell something is wrong. "What's up? Were you crying?" He asks her. "No, it's um, my sinuses. I know you don't know when your coming home. But can you try to estimate it. There's something I need to tell you." As she said those words she hoped he would come back tomorrow. "I'm not sure, Aria, i'm still new to this father thing. But I don't want to disappear out of Malcolm's life tomorrow," he tells her.
"It's kind of important," Aria tells him. After a minute, Ezra answers. "I'll be home in a few days, can it wait till then?" As she listened to those words, she realized what she needed to do. "Sure," it's not that important, she wanted to add sarcastically, but didn't.
When Spencer told her mother what happened, she made a doctors appointment for that afternoon, they needed to be completely positive before making an drastic decisions for her life. As Spencer sat on the examine table, fully dressed, she started to get a little impatient. An older male doctor walks into the room holding Spencer's test results. "Spencer, I haven't seen you around. How are you feeling?" She looks at him as he asks that, he knows how she's feeling. She'd like to know if she's pregnant or misread that stupid test. "Fine. Now can I know the results," she tells him. He flips a page and looks at it.
"Your pregnant. A few weeks along. Now you have plenty of options, Spencer. If your going to carry the child to term you need to find an OBGYN as soon as possible. There's certain medications you'll have to take and so forth..." Dr. Buchannon tells her, Veronica speaks up, while Spencer is thinking. "Do you have any suggestions?" Dr. Buchannon grabs his prescription pad and a pen and writes down a name. "What about abortion? How long before it's not possible?" Spencer asks, shocking her mother. "You can get it done before week 12. But you have to be extremely positive before hand," as Buchannon tells her that Veronica gets ready to leave, he hands Spencer the piece of paper. "Dr. Baer, is one of the best, she'll take good care of you if you decide to keep the baby. She'll take care of you from now on," he lets her know.
When Veronica and Spencer walk into the house, Spencer is walking ahead of her trying to go upstairs. "Why would you consider that?" Veronica asks her daughter. Spencer stops on the first step upstairs and turns around. "You wouldn't understand," as Spencer tells her mother that, she considers telling her everything but knows she can't. "I'm your mother, you need to tell me..."
As Aria laid on Ezra's bed, she thought about how she was going to tell Ezra, trying to imagine how he'll react. Will he be excited? Scared? Upset? Then she hears Wesley come into the apartment, she sits up in the bed. "Hiding out again?" she asks him. "Something like that..." he tells her, "stalking much?" he asks jokingly. Aria smiles slightly, gets off the bed and walks up to him. "There's something I need to tell you, but you have to promise not to tell Ezra, not at least until I talk to him. I can't tell him this over the phone and I need to know how he'll react," she basically asks him. "I won't tell him, what is it?" He tells her, she looks at him, takes a deep breath... "I'm pregnant," as she said those words some relief drifted away. "Wha...wow...seriously?" he asks, not knowing how to respond to this big life changing event. "When did you find out?" he asks trying to find out more information. "Today... I wanted to tell him, but I couldn't do it over the phone."
After talking to her mother about her options, she even considers letting her mother raise the baby and becoming it's "sister" but then drops that thought. She even threw in Melissa, but as soon as she did, threw it out. Her mother did say something that did make sense, she needed to tell Toby. Even though she didn't know where he was and didn't want to look at him, she knew she had to tell him. As she sat on her bed, staring at his name in her phone, she kept recollecting herself. Finally she dialed and listened to ring after ring. No answer. She was going to hang up but needed to say something... BEEP... "Um... It's me, Spencer... I wanted to talk to you, not leave a message. But um... I need to tell you something. Something life changing. I'd rather tell you so call me please. This is really important, please call me," she tells him, falling into tears and then hanging up the phone.
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