Disclaimer: same as always

2 months later

I had been feeling weird for a while now. Not necessarily a bad weird, but just different in some way. Then on Saturday morning when I woke up, my entire body ached. When I tried to get out of bed, my stomach lurched and I ran to the bathroom. After three consecutive days of having to sit near the bathroom for fear of throwing up again, I thought of something. I was nervous now. My mom was sitting on the floor with her back against the wall and my head in her lap. I looked up at her.

"Natalie, what if this isn't a bug?" I asked sheepishly.

"I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean, sweetie." She returned looking a little lost and confused.

"What if this is…what if it's morning sickness?" I whispered. As soon as I said that, I could see my mom's eyes light up with confirmation. I sat on my bed looking down at my blue and white carpet. I felt the mattress sink a little next to me. I then felt a light hand on my back as I began to cry. This wasn't supposed to happen, I was only sixteen. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know what to do, so I sat and I cried much as my mother had such a long two months ago. It felt like only minutes of this went on, but in reality I had been laying in my mother's lap crying for almost two hours.

I woke up in the morning as if nothing had happened the day before. My mom came into my room shortly after my alarm sounded.

"You can stay home if you want. This is big news to handle on your own sweetie. Want to talk?"

I didn't trust my voice to be steady enough so she would believe me. I settled for a small nod of my head.

"Okay. Just let me know how you are." She replied warily.

I nodded. She was right. This was big news. It hadn't even occurred to me that I would have to tell George. I wasn't sure what to do, tell him now or wait. I chose now, I owed it to him and to myself to tell him.

I walked to the spot George and I always met to walk to school. As I neared the one way street sign, our meeting place, I got more nervous with every step. This wasn't going to end well, he would see my nervousness immediately and I wouldn't have time to think. I took deep breaths to calm myself down before I got to the sign. I walked as slow as possible to give myself more time as I neared the inevitable. Finally I got to the sign. I looked down, he noticed.

"What's wrong baby?" he asked.

"I…there's something I need to tell you. I don't know what you'll think. If you don't want to be a part of this I get it and you can say no it's a…" he cut me off before I could finish my ramblings.

"Cal, baby what happened?"

"I'm…pregnant."