Chapter 19

"Wwww….what?" Hailey gasped shocked. "Hailey, calm down. We'll just take the test just to make sure ok?" Vicky explained. "Okkkk…then." Hailey replied. Vicky smiled and went to grab her keys. Hailey went to walk to the door with her when Vicky turned around. "Hailey, I think its best if you stay here ok?" Vicky said to her. "Ok then." Hailey said and went back and sat down on the couch. Vicky smiled at her and opened and shut the door and went to her car. Hailey heard her car pull out of the driveway. She laid down on the couch. She prayed that the test turned up negative.

After about 15 minutes Vicky returned home with the pregnancy test. She walked over to Hailey. "Ok Hail's, let's just go upstairs and get this thing over with." She smiled at Hailey. "Ok, then." Hailey smiled nervously. She and Vicky went up stairs to the bathroom.

A short time later Vicky and she returned with the test. Vicky put the test on the kitchen table. "Give it a few minutes." Vicky said to Hailey. Hailey nodded and went and sat down at the dinner table. Vicky joined her. After a few minutes passed Vicky hoped up and went to look at the test. She read the writing on the back of the box out loud. "If red, positive and if blue, negative." She explained. "And what color is it?" Hailey asked. "Red." Vicky said quietly. Hailey jumped up and grabbed the test. She quickly looked at the writing on the box, then at the results. It was defiantly red. She was pregnant at 16. With Mark's baby. What if he didn't want kids? What if he dumped her and left her to raise it herself? What are her parents gonna think? All these conclusions rushed over Hailey and she burst into tears. "Oh Hailey, come here." Vicky said as she cuddled Hailey. "Oh Vicky what am I gonna do?" She cried. "Tell the father first, by the way who is the father?" Vicky asked. Hailey looked up at her. "You know that guy I introduced you to a few weeks ago?" Hailey said to her. "You mean that biker guy?" Vicky asked. "Yes Mark, he's the father." Hailey said. "Oh My God Hailey that is so wrong, and gross!" Vicky yelled at her. "What? Vicky I love him and I don't care what you or anyone else thinks!" She yelled back in tears. "Hailey, I'm sorry. It's just a shock that's all." Vicky explained. "I know, but it happened. I can't change it." Hailey sighed. "Yeah, I know. I'm going to tell your parents though Hailey." She explained. "What? No! Vicky I trusted you!" Hailey snapped at her. "Well who is going to tell them then, are you Hailey?" Vicky snapped back. "Well I'm gonna have to, but first I have to tell Mark." Hailey said. "Yes, I think you should, and eventually your parents, when you start to show." Vicky replied. "Yep." Hailey sighed. "Hailey you can't do this alone. Trust me; I've been through it not so long ago." Vicky explained. "Yes I know, I'll always have you though won't I? Hailey asked. "Oh of course you will." Vicky answered. Hailey smiled and hugged Vicky. "Well I better be going." Hailey said. "Ok then." Vicky smiled. Hailey walked out of Vicky's house, and towards the mechanics were Mark worked.

She entered the shop and went to the counter. A short man with a bald head came to the counter. "Can I help you?" he asked looking at Hailey. "Umm…can I speak to Mark Callaway?" Hailey asked. "Ok, hang on a tic. MARK! You have a visitor!" he yelled out to Mark. Mark came through the door and saw Hailey wearing a hooded jumper and track pants. He smiled at her. The other man went back into the factory. "Hey Beautiful." He smiled walking over to Hailey and kissing her gently on the lips. "Hey Handsome." She smiled. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" She asked. "Yeah sure." He smiled and crossed his arms. "Umm…maybe somewhere in private." She said. "Oh ok…Larry? Can I borrow your office for a minute!" Mark yelled out to the man. "Yeah sure!" He yelled back. Mark nodded and took Hailey's little hand and led her into the office nearby.

They walked in and he shut the door behind them. "What's up then?" he smiled at Hailey. Hailey sighed. "I don't know how to put this…." She began then stopped. "Put what baby?" He asked stroking his finger down her cheek. "I'm…..I'm pregnant." She said quietly. "What!" Mark gasped. Hailey started to cry again. "I'm pregnant Mark." She cried. "Oh Hailey." He said pulling her into a hug. "I'm so sorry." She cried onto his chest. "Hailey, it's not your fault, I'm the one that made you pregnant." Mark explained. "Yeah, but I know you don't want kids, but I can't abort it Mark, I just can't." She continued to cry. "Hailey look at me." Mark said to her. Hailey looked up into his eyes. "Hailey I'm meant to have a daughter the same age as you." He said to her. "What!" she gasped as she put her hands over her mouth. "My girlfriend in high school told me she was pregnant with a girl, but had a miscarriage a few weeks later." He explained. "Oh Mark, I had no idea." Hailey replied. "Yeah, it's the one thing in life I've always wanted, a daughter or son." He said chocking back the tears. "Do you want this one?" She asked grabbing Mark's hand and placing it over her still flat stomach. He looked down at her stomach and then into her eyes. "Of course! Hailey I would have loved my daughter to turn out like you, you are so beautiful, and so smart and so full of life. Hailey I love you so much!" He said with tears in his eyes as he pulled Hailey up into a huge hug. "Oh Mark I love you too!" She cried. "Have you told your parents yet?" He asked her. "No, I only found out a few hours ago. I don't know how they'll react." She replied. "Hailey, if anything happens you'll come and stay with me understand?" He said to her. "Yep." She smiled. "What about school though?" She asked. "Continue to go, and when you start to show or when you feel uncomfortable, we'll pull you out and enroll you into a course at college for pregnant women so you can still get an education ok?" He answered. "Yes, that's great." She said smiling. Mark leaned down and gave her a passionate kiss, Hailey gave into it straight away.