Chapter 9

Sophie

Oh my god! Wowsers, last night! I know I'm saying that a lot but for both our first times that was really good. I'm still sore but I still decide to go down to breakfast. I feel really bad about doing it now, imagining what Saul and Karla would say if they found out. I shove on a really loose chiffony top, a pair of shorts and some pumps. I put my hair in a ponytail and slip my phone in my pocket.

"Will, you ready?" I yell through to the bathroom.

"Yep, just coming." He walks in in a pair of shorts and a shirt. He still looks really hot even in just this. "You ready?" he says with a smile and I slip my hand into his.

We go downstairs and sit at a table. I order coffee and walk over to the buffet. I get myself bacon and eggs and sit back down again. We eat in silence. "Are you okay, Soph?" He asks, looking guilty.

"Yes...no...I don't know. Will, what if your parents find out?" I shift uncomfortably in my chair, unable to find a comfortable position.

"I don't know but it wouldn't..." He stops suddenly.

"It wouldn't what?" I ask anxiously.

"Nothing, they won't find out. I swear it, honey." He looked into my eyes and took my hand.

Later while we were at the pool, I had to call Sky. I couldn't explain why - I just had to. I left Will swimming lengths in the pool and dialled her number while wandering through the gardens using my new Blackberry that Sky insisted I have.

"Hello?" Sky's voice came through the phone.

"Sky? It's me, Sophie. I really need to talk to you."

"Are you okay?" She sounded concerned. "What's up?" "I need to ask you a personal question. It's for my benefit - to make me feel better - nothing else."

"Okay. Fire away."

"Have you and Zed, you know, made love?"

"Urm...I see what you mean about this being a personal question. Well, yes, quite a lot. Does that answer your question?" She sounded a bit embarrassed.

"Yep, thanks. I just needed to hear it." "Why what happened?" "Well, last night, Will and I had sex and I didn't know whether I was the only one or not."

"Oh okay, well I know for a fact that Yves and Phee have done it and Trace and Diamond - how else could she be pregnant?!"

"Okay. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Hey, do you know how long you're staying for yet?"

"I think that Will said six weeks!"

"Wow, lucky!" I can hear the smile in her voice. "I'm glad we bought that many clothes then!"

"So am I! Thanks for listening!"

"Call me sometime later, I don't mean today, I just mean sometime, yeah?"

"Sure! Bye." I ended the call and walked back to the pool, hoping Will didn't notice that I had used my phone, I didn't want to worry him.

We had stayed there at the hotel for another five weeks, doing all the activities that the hotel had to offer: quad biking, trekking, cycling, bungee jumping, canoeing and many other things, when I started getting really strange feelings, like when I randomly threw up when Will went down to the fitness centre. We were in the room watching TV one day when a thought occurred to me. I hadn't had a period this month and I was more than a week late. I told Will that I had to go get some more shampoo and rushed to the drugstore to get a home test kit.

As soon as I got back to the hotel, I went into the bathroom and used the kit. It took a minute to determine whether you were pregnant or not so put the cover down on the toilet and sat down, my head in my hands. When a minute was up, I looked over to the side where the stick was sitting and could see the colour easily from where I was.

It was a bright blue colour. It was positive.

God help me, what the hell am I going to do?

Will

I was worried when Sophie didn't come out of the bathroom after five minutes and went and knocked on the door. "Soph, are you okay in there?" The door swung open and Sophie looked at me, a tear falling down her cheek. "Hey, what's that for, hon? What's the matter?" She looked at me and said the very two words I had been dreading.

"I'm pregnant." Then she collapses, sobbing, into my arms. I lifted her onto the bed and let her cry all over me. When she finally stops, she looks at me and says "What on earth are we gonna do?"

"When we go back to Colorado, we go to the hospital on the way back home and get you checked up, okay?" She nods, but then launches herself towards the bathroom and reaches it just in time to reach the sink and throw up in it. I follow her and stand stroking her back and holding back her hair.

I get her a glass of water and sit her down on the edge of the bath. She smiles her first genuine smile of the day and says "If it's a girl, I'm calling her Katherine."

"Deal!" I smile at her. "But if it's a boy, we're calling him Nathan."

"Okay, deal!" and she holds me tight.