{A/N: I finally got some time to update this since I'm off this week for February vacay. (Even though it's Friday and I'm still not done with this yet) Enjoy!}
Ch. 5 - Finding Out - Part Two
{Six weeks have passed}
Reggie woke up as usual, she got out of bed, and got into the shower.
Otto was at the kitchen table eating breakfast when she came down. She sat down in the chair across from him, she looked a little pale.
"What's wrong sis?" Otto asked.
"Nothing, I just feel...sick." Reggie replied, not showing much emotion. She hadn't been lately, which had everyone worried. "I think I'm going to stay home today."
Reggie walked back upstairs and slid back under the covers without changing back into her pajama's. She just laid there for a little while, about two hours passed then when she was sure that she was home alone, she went outside and to her car that she had gotten for her birthday, which she was technically not allowed to drive without Breezy, or her dad since she only had her permit. She decided it would be okay since she wasn't going far. {I don't think I mentioned this yet? I could have sworn I did though, oh well, Reggie is 16, and Otto and Twister are 15, and Lars is 18.} She started the car and drove to the CVS around the corner. She walked in and walked to the back of the store.
She didn't notice that Lars was working there today. She knew he worked there, just not on Friday mornings. Luckily, there were two cashier's on today. Reggie went to the girl on the right, while another customer went to Lars on the left. Reggie put a home pregnancy test down on the counter and sighed. She saw Lars look out of the corner of his eye to what she was buying. The girl put the scanner over the bar code, and put it in a bag. Reggie paid, and then left. She got out to her car and put the bag in her purse and drove home.
Reggie parked the car and went upstairs. She went into her bathroom and read the directions for the pregnancy test. When she finished she set it on the bathroom counter and went into her room and laid down on her bed. The results would be ready in three minutes, but Reggie fell asleep.
Otto came home from school with a headache. Twister, Sam and him were going to go surfing anyway though. Otto went up to his room to get some Tylenol. He had some in his bathroom's medicine cabinet. (That is the coolest thing in the whole world, the way him and Reggie can talk/see each other when there medicine cabinets are open...or maybe I'm just a dork. lol) He opened the medicine cabinet, and noticed that Reggie had left her door open. He couldn't help seeing the pregnancy test Reggie left on the counter when he took the Tylenol off the shelf. Otto was shocked, the only time he had seen one of those was when the health teacher brought one in to show his class during sex ed. He immediately ran to Reggie's bedroom and started banging on the door.
"What!?" Reggie yelled from her bed.
"I need to talk to you now!" Otto yelled back.
"Come in."
Otto stormed into the room. "Why is there a pregnancy test on the bathroom counter?"
Reggie tried thinking of what to say, just then the doorbell rang.
"I bet that's Twist and Sam. We can talk about this later, just please don't tell anyone about it."
"They'll wait, I'll go let them in and they can wait downstairs." Otto said.
"No, I don't want to talk about it now. I'll talk to you tonight, after dinner."
"No now, or I'll tell dad."
"No, you won't or I'll tell him you took his car out for a joy ride with your girlfriend last weekend." Reggie grinned, "Now go!"
"You knew about that? Fine, but I'll be here at six-thirty waiting for an explanation!" Otto said as Reggie was pushing him out of the room.
Reggie sighed and went into the bathroom. She picked up the box that was laying on the bathroom floor. Two lines meant she was pregnant, one meant she wasn't. She closed her eyes and held her breath and walked to the counter. She opened her eyes, and then started to cry. She was pregnant, or at least according to the test she was. Maybe she wasn't really she thought, even though she knew the chances of that were slim, the test said it was 95% accurate. She sat on the bathroom floor and cried, for how long she didn't know. She heard the door downstairs close. She got up, it was six O'clock. Ray was home. She wiped the tears from her eyes, and opened her math book that was sitting on her desk to page 111. She took the paper out of it, it was the paper Lars had written the address of the woman's clinic that Twister had given her. She walked downstairs and asked Ray if she could use the car, by herself, for a few minutes, that she needed to ask a friend about a math problem.
"Why can't you call them?" Ray asked.
"I can't call... I learn better when people show me how to do something, then them just telling me to do it."
"Okay fine, just don't get caught. Oh, and be quick, dinner is almost ready."
"How, You just got home?"
"You didn't notice? Breezy has been home all day, she was sick too."
Reggie gulped. "Oh, I've gotta go now."
She drove to the address, she was expecting it to look more like a doctors office, but it was really inviting, and all of the people were really friendly. An ultrasound confirmed that Reggie was pregnant, a little over a month pregnant. The people asked if she wanted counseling, or help telling her dad. Or to even schedule an abortion. She didn't want an abortion. But she wasn't ready to have a baby. She told them she would tell her dad herself. And she thanked them and went home. Otto wasn't back yet, she ate dinner, and went up to her room, to think about what she would tell her family, and friends.
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{Sam, Twister and Otto are walking home from the beach}
"Guys can I tell you something?" Otto asked.
"Of course, you can tell us anything." Sam replied.
"I think that Reggie may be pregnant," he paused, Sam's mouth dropped open, Twister just looked away. "I saw a pregnancy test on her bathroom counter."
Otto noticed Twister looking down out the ground, and biting his lip as they walked.
"You know something don't you Twister?"
"No! I don't know anything!" Twister said innocently.
"Twister, if you know something please tell me." Otto asked, Twister had never heard Otto being so serious.
"Well, remember that party..." Twister started, "Reggie...got raped. She doesn't know by who for sure, but she thinks it was Lars."
"It probably was, that bastard. You remember what happened last summer between them, don't you?"
"No, I don't actually, I don't know what happened between them." Twister said.
"He wanted to have sex with her but she didn't want to so she dumped him."
"That's not what I heard," Sam started, "I heard that Reggie dumped him to concentrate on her school work."
"Either way, she dumped him, and he's trying to get her back."
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Breezy walked upstairs and knocked on Reggie's door.
"Come in." Reggie called.
Breezy walked into her room and sat on the end of Reggie's bed.
"Hey." Reggie smiled.
"Hi Reggie, I saw you going out earlier, where did you go?"
Reggie sighed. "Well, I needed to go somewhere...the pharmacy."
"Why?"
"Because, I... I'm... I'm pregnant."
"What? How?"
"I'm pregnant. Remember that weekend when you and my dad went to Nantucket for the weekend?"
"Yeah..." Breezy said, she started remembering her past.
"We had a party," Reggie started crying, "And a guy raped me, I think it was Lars!"
Breezy was shocked, she hugged Reggie, and told her it would be all right. She told her that she knew how she felt.
"I was about seventeen when it happened, I was walking home from a friends house when a man grabbed me and pulled me into an Alley. I tried screaming but he said he knew where I lived and he'd kill my family if I didn't shut up. He beat me with a baseball bat, then I passed out, the next morning they found me in the Alley. We also found out I had been raped, I got pregnant, but I gave the baby up for adoption." Breezy said.
"Wow, that must have been horrible." Reggie said, and then told her what she remembered about the night of the party, and then how Lars showed up wearing the same thing the attacker had been wearing.
"WHAT THE FUCK! THAT SCUM BAG! I'LL KILL HIM!" Was Otto's reaction to the news, Reggie told him a little later that night.
The next morning, Saturday. Reggie told her dad what she had told Breezy and Otto the night before. He cried a little bit, and embraced his daughter. He told her he was going to get her the best obstetrician in the state.
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Twister told Lars the news after he found out.
"Does she still think I raped her?" Lars asked
"Yeah, you were wearing the same thing the guy who did it was wearing."
"How many guys do you think wear jeans and a hoodie? Thousands Twister, what I was wearing means nothing."
"Hey, I don't think you did it, she does."
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{A/N: I finally finished! *Proud of herself* What happened with Lars and Reggie? You'll find out soon enough. ;D I have two more chapters to write. I have it all planned out. I might have a.. what's it called...epilogue? Afterwards. You'll find out who it was probably in the seventh chapter. Anyway, Please please PLEASE review. Thanx!}
Ch. 5 - Finding Out - Part Two
{Six weeks have passed}
Reggie woke up as usual, she got out of bed, and got into the shower.
Otto was at the kitchen table eating breakfast when she came down. She sat down in the chair across from him, she looked a little pale.
"What's wrong sis?" Otto asked.
"Nothing, I just feel...sick." Reggie replied, not showing much emotion. She hadn't been lately, which had everyone worried. "I think I'm going to stay home today."
Reggie walked back upstairs and slid back under the covers without changing back into her pajama's. She just laid there for a little while, about two hours passed then when she was sure that she was home alone, she went outside and to her car that she had gotten for her birthday, which she was technically not allowed to drive without Breezy, or her dad since she only had her permit. She decided it would be okay since she wasn't going far. {I don't think I mentioned this yet? I could have sworn I did though, oh well, Reggie is 16, and Otto and Twister are 15, and Lars is 18.} She started the car and drove to the CVS around the corner. She walked in and walked to the back of the store.
She didn't notice that Lars was working there today. She knew he worked there, just not on Friday mornings. Luckily, there were two cashier's on today. Reggie went to the girl on the right, while another customer went to Lars on the left. Reggie put a home pregnancy test down on the counter and sighed. She saw Lars look out of the corner of his eye to what she was buying. The girl put the scanner over the bar code, and put it in a bag. Reggie paid, and then left. She got out to her car and put the bag in her purse and drove home.
Reggie parked the car and went upstairs. She went into her bathroom and read the directions for the pregnancy test. When she finished she set it on the bathroom counter and went into her room and laid down on her bed. The results would be ready in three minutes, but Reggie fell asleep.
Otto came home from school with a headache. Twister, Sam and him were going to go surfing anyway though. Otto went up to his room to get some Tylenol. He had some in his bathroom's medicine cabinet. (That is the coolest thing in the whole world, the way him and Reggie can talk/see each other when there medicine cabinets are open...or maybe I'm just a dork. lol) He opened the medicine cabinet, and noticed that Reggie had left her door open. He couldn't help seeing the pregnancy test Reggie left on the counter when he took the Tylenol off the shelf. Otto was shocked, the only time he had seen one of those was when the health teacher brought one in to show his class during sex ed. He immediately ran to Reggie's bedroom and started banging on the door.
"What!?" Reggie yelled from her bed.
"I need to talk to you now!" Otto yelled back.
"Come in."
Otto stormed into the room. "Why is there a pregnancy test on the bathroom counter?"
Reggie tried thinking of what to say, just then the doorbell rang.
"I bet that's Twist and Sam. We can talk about this later, just please don't tell anyone about it."
"They'll wait, I'll go let them in and they can wait downstairs." Otto said.
"No, I don't want to talk about it now. I'll talk to you tonight, after dinner."
"No now, or I'll tell dad."
"No, you won't or I'll tell him you took his car out for a joy ride with your girlfriend last weekend." Reggie grinned, "Now go!"
"You knew about that? Fine, but I'll be here at six-thirty waiting for an explanation!" Otto said as Reggie was pushing him out of the room.
Reggie sighed and went into the bathroom. She picked up the box that was laying on the bathroom floor. Two lines meant she was pregnant, one meant she wasn't. She closed her eyes and held her breath and walked to the counter. She opened her eyes, and then started to cry. She was pregnant, or at least according to the test she was. Maybe she wasn't really she thought, even though she knew the chances of that were slim, the test said it was 95% accurate. She sat on the bathroom floor and cried, for how long she didn't know. She heard the door downstairs close. She got up, it was six O'clock. Ray was home. She wiped the tears from her eyes, and opened her math book that was sitting on her desk to page 111. She took the paper out of it, it was the paper Lars had written the address of the woman's clinic that Twister had given her. She walked downstairs and asked Ray if she could use the car, by herself, for a few minutes, that she needed to ask a friend about a math problem.
"Why can't you call them?" Ray asked.
"I can't call... I learn better when people show me how to do something, then them just telling me to do it."
"Okay fine, just don't get caught. Oh, and be quick, dinner is almost ready."
"How, You just got home?"
"You didn't notice? Breezy has been home all day, she was sick too."
Reggie gulped. "Oh, I've gotta go now."
She drove to the address, she was expecting it to look more like a doctors office, but it was really inviting, and all of the people were really friendly. An ultrasound confirmed that Reggie was pregnant, a little over a month pregnant. The people asked if she wanted counseling, or help telling her dad. Or to even schedule an abortion. She didn't want an abortion. But she wasn't ready to have a baby. She told them she would tell her dad herself. And she thanked them and went home. Otto wasn't back yet, she ate dinner, and went up to her room, to think about what she would tell her family, and friends.
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{Sam, Twister and Otto are walking home from the beach}
"Guys can I tell you something?" Otto asked.
"Of course, you can tell us anything." Sam replied.
"I think that Reggie may be pregnant," he paused, Sam's mouth dropped open, Twister just looked away. "I saw a pregnancy test on her bathroom counter."
Otto noticed Twister looking down out the ground, and biting his lip as they walked.
"You know something don't you Twister?"
"No! I don't know anything!" Twister said innocently.
"Twister, if you know something please tell me." Otto asked, Twister had never heard Otto being so serious.
"Well, remember that party..." Twister started, "Reggie...got raped. She doesn't know by who for sure, but she thinks it was Lars."
"It probably was, that bastard. You remember what happened last summer between them, don't you?"
"No, I don't actually, I don't know what happened between them." Twister said.
"He wanted to have sex with her but she didn't want to so she dumped him."
"That's not what I heard," Sam started, "I heard that Reggie dumped him to concentrate on her school work."
"Either way, she dumped him, and he's trying to get her back."
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Breezy walked upstairs and knocked on Reggie's door.
"Come in." Reggie called.
Breezy walked into her room and sat on the end of Reggie's bed.
"Hey." Reggie smiled.
"Hi Reggie, I saw you going out earlier, where did you go?"
Reggie sighed. "Well, I needed to go somewhere...the pharmacy."
"Why?"
"Because, I... I'm... I'm pregnant."
"What? How?"
"I'm pregnant. Remember that weekend when you and my dad went to Nantucket for the weekend?"
"Yeah..." Breezy said, she started remembering her past.
"We had a party," Reggie started crying, "And a guy raped me, I think it was Lars!"
Breezy was shocked, she hugged Reggie, and told her it would be all right. She told her that she knew how she felt.
"I was about seventeen when it happened, I was walking home from a friends house when a man grabbed me and pulled me into an Alley. I tried screaming but he said he knew where I lived and he'd kill my family if I didn't shut up. He beat me with a baseball bat, then I passed out, the next morning they found me in the Alley. We also found out I had been raped, I got pregnant, but I gave the baby up for adoption." Breezy said.
"Wow, that must have been horrible." Reggie said, and then told her what she remembered about the night of the party, and then how Lars showed up wearing the same thing the attacker had been wearing.
"WHAT THE FUCK! THAT SCUM BAG! I'LL KILL HIM!" Was Otto's reaction to the news, Reggie told him a little later that night.
The next morning, Saturday. Reggie told her dad what she had told Breezy and Otto the night before. He cried a little bit, and embraced his daughter. He told her he was going to get her the best obstetrician in the state.
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Twister told Lars the news after he found out.
"Does she still think I raped her?" Lars asked
"Yeah, you were wearing the same thing the guy who did it was wearing."
"How many guys do you think wear jeans and a hoodie? Thousands Twister, what I was wearing means nothing."
"Hey, I don't think you did it, she does."
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{A/N: I finally finished! *Proud of herself* What happened with Lars and Reggie? You'll find out soon enough. ;D I have two more chapters to write. I have it all planned out. I might have a.. what's it called...epilogue? Afterwards. You'll find out who it was probably in the seventh chapter. Anyway, Please please PLEASE review. Thanx!}