After the day Julie told Portman she was pregnant he became very distant. They did not spend much time together anymore and the time they did spend around one another was spent in mostly silence. In other words they were over.
Julie only told the people closet to her at the beginning. She had to tell Coach Orion because she was going to have to give up hockey until after the baby was born. She did not tell anyone outside of the team, but somehow within a few weeks the whole school new that Julie Gaffney was pregnant with Dean Portman's kid.
Julie did the best she could to ignore all the gossip that was going around the school. It wasn't easy. This day was the hardest. She felt awful. Everything she ate or drank did not want to stay down, and to top it off she had a meeting with the school's dean. She braced herself for the meeting as she sat in the office and waited. The secretary eventually came and got her and showed her to the Dean's Office.
"Good afternoon Ms. Gaffney. Please have a seat." the dean motioned for Julie to take a seat in front of his desk. Julie nodded and sat down. "Good afternoon dean." The dean sat down. He looked like he had a lot on his mind, but was unsure of how to tell Julie. "Julie, you have been a remarkable student in your four years at Eden Hall, but the board is pressuring me to eliminate your scholarship due to this pregnancy." Julie was shocked. "What? You can't…they can't make you do that. Graduation is only a few months away." The dean sighed and put his hands up in defense. "The school is worried about what this might do to there reputation." Julie glared at the dean and shook her head. "That's all this school is every worried about. I seriously doubt my pregnancy is the first one in the schools history. And I will not leave." He laid his hands on his desk and looked at Julie. "What do you plan on doing Ms. Gaffney? Do you plan on raising this baby?" Julie sighed. "I don't know yet, but I'm considering adoption." The dean smiled and nodded. "Well then that's good enough for me. I will not eliminate your scholarship."
After the meeting with the dean of the school and the way things were going with Portman it did not take Julie much longer to make her decision. She eventually decided that she was going to give the baby up for adoption. That had been a toughest decision she had ever made in her life, but she felt it was the best.
She got online and she called her doctor to get as much information as she could on adoption. She narrowed down the list of agency she had found down to two. She had called each one and set up appointments to meet with an adoption agent. The first agency she checked into she eliminated once she had meet with them. She did not like the fact they highly urged closed adoption. They suggested she give up all rights and keep the adoption closed. If that happened it would be hard for her or even to the child to ever try to contact one another. The second agency seemed to be more what she was looking for.
She meet with the lady who would handle the adoption if she went through their services. She was a friendly lady. She had a warm smile and seemed to care about making this as easy for the mother as she could. After that meeting Julie decided to go with them.