The Pill

-IT'S HARD TO WAIT AROUND for something that you know might never happen but it's even harder to give up especially when it's everything you ever WANTED-

The phone rang throughout the house, and I froze.

"SARAH!" My drunken father screamed up the stairs. "ANSWER THE FUCKING PHONE!" I ran downstairs and answered the phone.

"Hello?" I murmured, eyeing my father, nervously. He was stumbling around the kitchen, searching the fridge and pantry for food we didn't have.

"Sarah it's Donna."

"Donna! I told you never to call here! This had better be damn important!"

"It is. Jackie's pregnant." I gasped.

"Jackie's.. wha-? She's.. huh?"

"That's how I felt when Eric told me-"

"Hold on a sec, Eric told you?"

"Yeah. Jackie told Eric and Eric told me."

"Well, did you ask Jackie about it?"

"Not yet."

I was sitting around The Hub with the guys and Jackie, nervously eyeing my snobby, cheerleading, raven-haired best friend. Wait a second, best friend? When did that happen?

I glanced over at the door, waiting for Donna, so we could both talk to Jackie alone.

"What's up with you? You're like a million miles away," Hyde whispered to me.

"I have a feeling you'll find out soon enough," I whispered back, just as Donna walked in. I jumped up and stood next to her.

"Um, Jackie? I have to go the bathroom." Donna said, and Jackie made a big deal out of Donna never asking her to go to the bathroom with her before.

"Yeah, whatever," I muttered and dragged Jackie to the bathroom.

"Is it true?" we yelled at the same time, and Jackie sighed.

"Yes. It is true. I am carrying Michael Kelso's child." I groaned.

"Jackie, you're a sophomore! How could you be so stupid?" Donna moaned, and Jackie shrugged.

"I'm a sophomore?" By that time, I had heard what I wanted to hear. I exited the bathroom just in time to see Kelso asked Eric why he was being so weird lately, and Eric answering,

"Jackie's pregnant." Kelso collapsed, knocking over a table and everything, with Fez slapping his face, trying to wake him up.

I ran over to stand by Eric and Hyde just as Donna and Jackie burst out of the bathroom.

"I think he knows..." Jackie said.

I was alone in the basement, watching cartoons when suddenly Donna burst through the door, looking peeved off.

"Uh oh. What happened?" I asked as Donna plopped down next to me.

"My dad found out I was on the pill, and he told ERIC! Now all Eric's gonna want is sex!"

"Hold on a second, Donna, you're on the pill? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Sorry. Back to my problem..."

"Hey, do you think I should go on the pill?"

"Sar-"

"Yeah, I think I should."

"SARAH! Focus!"

"Right. Sorry. Back to your problem."

"Thank you! Anyways, now that Eric knows I'm on the pill, things are going to change between us! You think so?"

"Oh yeah. All that horny little bastard is gonna want is sex." Donna groaned.

"I knew this would happen!"

I was leaving the Forman basement when Jackie came rushing up to me.

"Guess what, guess what?" she cried, and I shrugged.

"I don't know. What?"

"I'm not pregnant!"

"Oh My God, Jackie, that's so great!" I cried, and gave her a hug.

"I'm so glad that this is all behind me and I never have to think about this ever again!"

"Jackie, you got lucky this time! From now on, you have to take precautions! You should go on the pill, like me and Donna."

"You and Donna are on the pill?"

"Well, Donna is. I'm going to get on the pill right now. Hey, Donna's in the basement, go tell her what happened."

"Okay!" Jackie squeaked and ran inside.

I turned around and walked away from the Forman's driveway, and to the clinic.

Jackie, Donna, and I were all hanging out in Donna's room, when suddenly Jackie gasped.

"Oh My God, Sarah, you never told us about what happened at the disco!" she cried, and Donna nodded.

"Oh yeah! Spill!"

I told them about how we held hands on the way home from our kegger, kissed at the disco, and made out in the park on career day.

"Ooh!" Jackie squealed, clapping her hands.

"So, are you guys like, going out now?" Donna asked. I shrugged.

"Not yet. I mean, I'm pretty sure he likes me because he made the first move most of the time, but he never said anything about us going out yet. So, we're sort of just fooling around for now, I guess."

As soon as the words were out of my mouth, Jackie just nodded and launched into a story about how she dumped Kelso.

"Wait a minute, she dumped him?" I whispered to Donna, and she nodded. Damn.