Thanks for all your lovely reviews, its really encouraging! I hope you like the next chapter J Thought of the day from me:
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Quistis
I'm standing here, outside in the freezing cold hallway about to face the most difficult situation of my life. I'm on the edge of just bursting into an eruption of hopeless tears. You see I'm just 20 and pregnant, I'm not married, I don't even have a boyfriend, and I'm pregnant. This isn't how it was supposed to be! My whole life was going just fine; I had a plan and trust me this was not part of it. I'm in college it's my second year, studying to be a politician. I'm not one of those family girls that just want to settle down and have kids and clean the house. I'm a career girl with high dreams and a purpose to change the world around me. Everyone thought I could easily lead this country in some way in the future, how the hell am I supposed to do that while raising a kid? I don't need this! And I definitely don't want it.
I look up at the door, the numbers 46 gleam at me with an almost mocking delight, I reach my hand up in a fist it stays still just hovering over the wood. It would be so much easier just to turn and run away. I take a deep breath hoping to find some lost confidence and calmness and quickly before I can stop my self I knock.
Minutes tick by, though it feels like hours when soundly the door is swung open and there he stands…the father.
"Hey Quistis. Great to see you! What do I owe the pleasure to? Don't stand outside in the cold, come in," he smiles at me with a lecherous grin and I feel a stab of guilt deep in my stomach he has no idea what's going to come next.
I hesitate before stepping over the threshold. I follow him inside the dorm and into the invitingly cozy kitchen.
"You must have smelt the coffee from your place? Want some?"
Yeah extremely strong black; on second thoughts why don't you just chuck in the whole jar.
"Yeah coffee would be great thanks," I sit down at the table where Irvine's room mate Zell is reading the sports section of the paper while munching on some all nutritious coco pops.
"Hey Quistis haven't seen you round in a while," he says glancing up from his paper, a single coco pop hanging from his chin.
"Yeah well.." yeah because I've been having morning sickness, perhaps because of the fact that I'm pregnant.
Irvine brings the coffee, placing a chipped mug down in front of me. He rewraps his dressing gown and joins us at the table.
"My, my do you always get up this early on a Saturday?" he asks before sipping his coffee.
"It's 11.00."
"Yeah I know! Zell here normally doesn't wake up till late afternoon," he explains motioning his head towards Zell now on the cartoon page.
"Just before the footy starts," he adds
"So is this just a random call in to have a chat, or is there something you wanted to talk about?"
Oh you know I just stopped into say I'm pregnant with your child.
