School was over and it was almost time to face my fate. Doctor's scared me…they scared me a lot. You could go in for one thing, and then they find something else wrong with you. I stood outside on the steps waiting for Paige. It was typical for her to be late.

After about 15 minutes of waiting Paige finally walked out of Degrassi.

"Paige…you're late." I hissed I had no idea why I was mad…it's not like I wanted to go to this doctor's appointment anyway.

"Chill, Ash. I thought you didn't like doctors?" Paige asked as we started walking.

"I-I don't." I stuttered.

"Then why are you so bitchy?" I looked at her in shock me, bitchy? That's funny.

"I'm not…look I've just been going through a lot lately." I looked down at the ground as we walked. Suddenly, I didn't really feel like talking.

"What's the matter with you? Your acting like you had a fight with your mom or something." I looked down at the ground.

"You did?"

"Yeah." I whispered, not really wanting to tell her.

"Ash…chill." Paige laughed. Did she find my problems humorous?

"It's not funny, Paige."

"You act like it's a big thing. I fight with my mom all of the time, it's what-"

"You don't understand Paige. The fight we had last night was intense. Not like some of our other fights…this one was different."

"Oh…well. I'm sorry." She murmured. Paige wasn't the one to actually apologize so I accepted whatever she could give.

"Well, we're here." Paige pushed the door open. I was extremely nervous, so nervous that my palms started to sweat…I could barely hold the door. I could tell Paige noticed how nervous I was getting by the looks she was sending me.

"Ash…are you okay?"

"Yeah…I-I'm fine." I looked down at the floor, trying to steady my breathing as I felt sharp pains in my chest…this had happened to me a few times before.

"Ashley Kerwin." A nurse called out. I looked up as I tried to steady my breathing.

"Dr. Meadows is ready to see you." And there they were, those words that I dreaded to hear.

"Ash, are you sure you want to do this?" Paige asked, aware of how weird I was acting.

"Y-yeah." I stuttered as I got up to follow the nurse.

"I'll be here when you come up- -okay?" Paige reassured me, just before the door closed.

"Your friend is very nice." The nurse commented as we walked down the immense hall. Paige a friend? I guess you could call her that.

"Thanks." I mumbled, not really wanting to admit it. After what seemed like an eternity we reached Dr. Meadows room.

"You can take a seat, Dr. Meadows will be in here shortly." I sat down on the bed like seat I started to look around. The walls were a pale gray; there were 2 posters on the wall about your health and your digestive system. Oh how I wanted to get out of this prison. Doctors' offices just weren't for me.

"Hey Ashley! I haven't seen you in a long time." I practically gagged at Dr. Meadows' attempt to try to act like we were friends or something.

I cleared my throat instead of responding the faster I get out of here, the better.

"Okay, I want you to step up on the scale please. I'm going to take your weight." I stepped off of the seat and walked over to the scale. I watched as he played with the scale numbers.

"119." He muttered as he wrote it down on his pad. He also took my height, 5'6. I had grown an inch, well that's one good thing that came out of this. I stepped off the scale and sat back on the big bed like seat. He did everything he was supposed to, he checked my reflexes, gave me a couple of shots, checked my eyes and my hearing, this had gone better than I expected.

"Okay, so now that we've taken care of the simple things, I have to ask you a few questions." I guess I spoke to soon.

"Have you been sick lately? You know I mean like throwing up or getting dizzy…you know things like that." I swallowed hard…should I lie? No, I couldn't do that. On the other hand it would make things easier. But I shouldn't…

"Uh—Yeah somewhat." I answered as I looked away from him.

"Hmm." He pondered as he wrote something else on his pad and paper.

"When was the last time you've had your period?"

"Um 2 weeks ago."

"Okay. Well you're going to have to change into this robe, I'll leave the room to give you some privacy." As soon as he got up and left I started to undress and put on the robe.

When I was finished, I started to feel kind of nauseous.

"Not now, Ash. Not now." I told myself, I had to keep myself together.

"Okay are you ready?" He asked outside the door.

"Uh-huh." I replied, I watched him enter the room.

"Lie down please." I nodded as I lied down.

"Ashley. Where are these scars from?" He asked.

"What scars?" I had no idea what he was referring to.

"These scars under your breasts."

"Oh those- they just appeared." I lied. The truth is, they've been there. When I started to get sick, they just formed.

He touched where the scars were.

"Ow." I winced in pain. Practically all over that area hurt.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just um…my chest gets soar whenever my period is going to come." I lied, that wasn't true either.

"But didn't you say you just had your period 2 weeks ago?" He asked. Damn! He had caught me.

"You know what, I'm gonna just go run some tests real quick okay. You can put back on your clothes." He said hurriedly as he went out the room. Was something run? What was happening?

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Dr. Meadows sure was taking long to come back. What kind of tests was he running?

I looked over to the door as I heard it creak open.

"Dr. Meadows." I jumped up out of my seat, anticipating what he had to tell me.

"Ashley…I think you better sit down for this." I watched as his face darkened. What was wrong with me? Fear started to consume me. I quietly took my seat.

"I don't really like doing these things." He rambled on. Could he just tell me what was the matter? I knew it had to be something bad.

"Ashley, you…."

What's wrong with Ashley? Oh yeah I'm really sorry for the lack of updates! I hope you guys can forgive me, but don't worry I'll post the next chapter soon…very soon!