Sins of the Flesh
Chapter 3: The Results

"What?!", Sally's eyes got as wide as saucers.

"Sal, Ah'm not gonna go 'round tellin' everyone about this, so don't worry. But can ya tell me truthfully if you and Sonic are...you know...", Bunnie said while making an expression to hint what she meant.

This time, it was Sally who lowered her voice, "Don't tell anyone...especially my father...but yes, Sonic and I have been sleeping together."

"You don't gotta answer this out loud, but have you at least been doin' somethin' to protect yourself?", Bunnie asked with a hand on her steel hip.

"Well, he pulls out. I trust him to not screw up like that", Sally responded nonchalantly.

"That…doesn't always work, Sal. It's pretty risky dependin' just on that, even if ya do trust Sonic. There's a name given to folks who use the pull-and-pray method, girl – they're called parents!"

Sally felt sick to her stomach again, but it was not from the nausea she was experiencing previously. This wasn't physical illness nausea; it was anxiety nausea. She was not some naïve little girl in terms of relations, but she got so caught up in the bliss and excitement of the moments with Sonic that she sort of mentally blocked out the risks she faced as a result of her reckless behavior. But Bunnie managed to put that risk right in front of her face and now the princess was beginning to have a breakdown in her friend's arms.

"Oh Bunnie...I don't want to have a baby. What do I do?", she cried.

"Well, first thang you gotta do is find out if you're actually pregnant. Then, you gotta tell Sonic, and then you gotta tell your dad."

"No! I can't tell Father – he'd find some way to punish Sonic, and I don't want anything to happen to him."

Sally sighed and wiped away her tears, "Where can I go to find out if I'm pregnant? I can't go to the royal doctor because he'll tell Father I was asking about it."

"You come with me back to Knothole and you can take a test there o no one will see you. You just tell your dad we're gonna take a walk or do some other girl stuff."

"Okay."

After a long and drawn-out discussion with her father about upholding her royal duties, Sally finally managed to get out of the castle and leave with Bunnie. On the way to Knothole, Sally began to ask Bunnie how she knew so much about pregnancy. "How do you know all this stuff, Bunnie?"

Bunnie turned away, not able to look Sally in the eyes when she said it, "I know 'cause it happened to me many years ago."

Sally's eyes got wide. She placed a hand on her friend's shoulder and said, "You were pregnant, Bunnie?"

"That's right, Sal. It was before I met any of y'all and before I got turned into a robot."

"So what happened?"

"Well, ah had a little bit of a fling with this sweet guy…Ah thought we'd be together forever, but when he found he got me pregnant, he up and ran for the hills. Ah actually found out what was going on with mah body when I was 'bout four months gone, but ah also ended up getting' very sick from bein' pregnant, to the point where mah very life was in danger. Ah didn't wanna get rid of mah l'il one, but ah also didn't wanna die...the only thing I could do was get an abortion."

Bunnie took a deep breath and continued. "Ah definitely didn't plan for that to happen, but after thinking about it more, ah started to get excited thinkin' about bein' a mom. It was jus' real hard having to terminate, but ah wanted to live. It took a while, but ah eventually came to terms with knowing ah'd never be a mom."

Sally didn't quite know what to say - she had never known Bunnie could even get pregnant, nor did she know the rabbit girl had gotten pregnant and then aborted. It seems so surreal to Sally...just because this was all happening in her life. "I'm sorry you had to go through with that, Bunnie."

Bunnie looked slightly depressed, but she took a deep breath and said, "Ah well...it's in the past now, sugah. Let's get to helpin' you now, though."

"What do I do?"

"Well Sal, I just want you to go to mah place and wait - Ah'll be back in a few minutes. Ah gotta go get somethin'."

Sally did as her friend advised and went to Bunnie's home. She sat down on an overstuffed armchair and began to aimlessly pick at a loose thread poking out of the fabric. She just couldn't get it out of her head that Bunnie was pregnant. She could tell by her friend's voice that this was sort of her deep, dark secret that she couldn't tell everyone. Sally also felt rather naïve not knowing the risks she was putting herself at…or, rather, trying to block them out so as not to destroy her intimate moments with Sonic. She's pretty sure her father also did his best to ensure she was kept totally in the dark about sex, and she fumed over this thought for a while before another thought hit her...her father most likely did not tell her about this because he figured she would not have begun having sex until she was married anyway. Or if he kept her ignorant, she wouldn't bother trying it.

It managed to make sense to some degree, but that did not ease her tensed nerves in the least - all she could think about was what her future may be like with a baby. She had never really had much of a maternal instinct, and she wasn't all that crazy about kids. She was also a seventeen-year-old unwed princess. She began to fear what her father would think; she realized at that moment what kind of shame she will bring upon her family with a bastard child. Considering he had the laws wrapped around his fingers, he could bend them any way he wanted, including in his favor to remove Sonic from her life. All these thoughts rushing through her mind brought tears to her eyes.

Then she began to try and console herself..."Maybe it won't be that bad", "Maybe I should get engaged to Sonic so it won't be as bad", "Bunnie only said I only might be pregnant. It wasn't definite." It took a bit, but she eventually calmed herself down.

Moments later, Bunnie came through the door carrying a small bag. "Ah'm back now, Sal."

"Okay, so what do we do now?", Sally asked, wiping away what remained of her tears.

Bunnie pulled a small box out of the bag and began to open it and revealed a home-pregnancy test. "You take this an' you pee on it, and it tells you if you're pregnant."

"You've got to be kidding me."

Sally looked a little disgusted at the fact that she would need to have her own hand so close to bodily fluids, but she had to know whether or not if she had another life growing inside her. She took the device and the box with her into the bathroom and followed the directions; the way in which the test was carried out seemed so silly, but she still performed each step in the instructions. After doing what needed to be done, Sally held the test up to wait for some kind of reaction. Within moments, two very clear blue lines appeared in the small window; Sally referred back to the box to see that such a result was an indication of pregnancy. She felt all the blood drain from her face and felt as though her heart sank a few miles into her chest. Her biggest fear had come true.

The bathroom door remained closed for well over forty-five minutes. Bunnie waited patiently for the princess to emerge, but she knew well enough what the outcome of the test was, considering how long Sally had been in the bathroom. After more than an hour had passed, Sally came out of hiding, her face flushed and her eyes puffy from crying. She didn't even need to say anything to Bunnie before the rabbit girl went up and hugged Sally tightly. Sally cried in her friend's arms.

"It'll be okay, Sally girl. You'll make it through this. Ah'll help you."


Author's Note: Oh, the drama! This is turning out like a very bad Lifetime movie. XD