Chapter sixteen

The consequences that love leads us to

"Hey, Hey, come on ladies and gentlemen what's all the fuss about?" a shrill voice asked from some where up on the hill.

"Oh shit the tyrants are a coming!" Gordie cried, "Come on Sacks it looks like we'll be wagging the first day of school."

Vern looked stricken "Oh no, not me guys if I have another day off that's me gone, suspended!" he cried edging out of the crowd which was slowly dispersing.

"Yeh, yeh go Vern, what about Teddy I think you'd be suffering the same fate as Vern if you came" Chris put in.

"No nah ah you ain't making me into a wimp like limp dick over there, I'm a soldier and I leave no man behind, besides, you've waged everyday that I have, your fate is me fate anyway" Teddy pointed out, seemingly unfazed at the situation.

"Oh for gods sake you guys, just go this is mine… well and a little bit of Chris's fault too, but its none of yours, I'll go catch up with Ace you guys head into class and try to cover my ass as best you can" she winced, wiping away a fresh spiral of blood from her lip.

Sahara clutched her stomach with one hand and with the other tried in vein to stem the blood flow that was pouring from her face.

"Nah I'd rather go with you" Gordie said.

"Yeh same here" Teddy seconded.

"Ok but either way we gotta get this one to a hospital like now" Chris hissed as Sahara stumbled her knees bucking, her breaths becoming laboured.

"Yeh guys I'm seriously finding it hard to breathe here, oh jesus my face hurts"

"OK you guys just make a decision and fast the tyrants are nearly on us" Sahara cried, making a move towards the school gate, a place she felt more comfortable going out of then in of.

"Ok right, me Gordie and limp dick will stay here and cover your asses, while you and Chris make up with another shower session" Teddy laughed. Sahara threw Gordie and Chris a heated expression.

"Alright which one of you told?" she demanded.

"Don't look at me" they both replied, smiling innocently.

"Ok who cares, we gotta go now, Saks lets high tail it into the forest" Chris said, grabbing Sahara's body wait and hauling her towards the safe greenery.

"Ok Saks will take the short cut into town through the woods, ok?"

"Ok hurry!"

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"Mr DuChamp, Mr LaChance, I hope you have a reasonable excuse for being over 10 minutes late for your first day of class" miss Organstien, a frumpy 40 something up tight quack, asked.

"Nope" Gordie said matter of factly, walking casually past her.

"None what so ever, miss Organstien" Teddy added, following Gordie's lead.

"Oh my god, it hurts so bad!" she spluttered, her a face contorting with agony.

Chris stopped, trying to pull her hands from her stomach "let me see, let me see" he cried, trying to stay calm.

"Chris, Chris take me to D.r Moore, please help me" she winced.

"Ok, but this'll hurt, ok?" he asked. He was so afraid Chris was used to bruises cuts, and broken bones, things he could see, but this, this was an unknown pain, something he couldn't fix.

"mmmmmm, just do it" she grimaced, her face now white as a sheet and covered with sweat.

"Ok" he said, heaving her up into his arms, so her head lolled on his chest. "it's ok now baby it'll all be over soon" he eased.

Chris ran as fast as he could. He'd run this forest more times then he could count, but this time it seemed much longer and treacherous.

"Oh jesus, where's the town?" he asked himself, trying not to listen to Sahara's gruesome cries.

"Chris" she sighed, "Oh Chris."

It felt like now that Chris was holding an eel, her body was covered in sweat and sometimes her legs with slither out of his grasp, if he didn't get to the town fast a situation that was dangerous would become perilous.

Finally the sound of a truck rumbling past caught Chris's attention and in a few more leaps he was in the heart of the town. He breathed a small sigh of relief "thank you."

He sprinted across the road to Dr Moore's surgery, "Help, Help!" he screamed, when he entered and saw no one at the secretary desk, "Dr Moore, help it's Sahara!"

High heeled shoes came cantering down the stairs, "Ok Chris you going to have to tell me what's wrong" she cooed pushing back the hair that had become glued to Sahara's saturated face.

Dr Moore took one look at Sahara's ravaged face and grimaced, "Jesus, what happened?"

"She got into a fight at school, she got pretty bashed Dr" "and Dr Moore she was screaming real bad, like she was in agony" he wailed.

"Ok Chris you did the right thing, now me and Bob are going to take Sahara into the room just over here and you can just wait right here in the waiting room" she smiled, trying to calm him down. "Bob, BOB I need so help!" she hollered. In minutes a second pair of shoes were running down the stairs, "I'm here, c'mon miss Berkinshire let's get you fixed up" he smiled warmly gently taking Sahara from Chris's arms.

Numbly Chris nodded, and sat down on the bench.

What would he do if he lost her, Jesus was this how Sahara felt when he was so punched up?

An hour or so past, Chris sat in silence trying to drown out Sahara's gut wrenching moans.

"Sahara, Sahara listen to me" Doctor Moore calmly asked, "has the pain gone from your stomach?"

Sahara wiped away the sweat and sat up, gingerly, "Yeh, thanks heaps doctor Moore what do you think caused it?"

"I have a strong suspicion, but I should wait until the tests come back" Dr Moore cupped Sahara's ashen hand.

"Oh just tell me now, please you now it'd kill me if I didn't know now!" Sahara cried.

Dr Moore who was very attractive for a woman over forty suddenly became very plain and grey looking, her skin became tight with lines and her eyes dulled with regret.

"All right, this question may sound silly but, Sahara when did you last have your period?" Dr Moore tried to smile, tried to give an ounce of reassurance to the slightly bewildered Sahara.

The question hit Sahara like a ton of bricks, and a feeling that can only be described as pure untamed fear enveloped her mind. "Ummm, about a month or so ago, I'm still not that regular." She numbly responded.

"Are you sexually active?" Dr Moore asked with an offhand sort of tone.

"Oh god" Sahara choked. "Don't tell me, please don't tell what I think you're going to say, just lie to me, anything don't tell me the truth!" Sahara moaned.

"Sahara you need to here this, there is a very high likely hood that you are pregnant, you'll have to tell the father, or Chris" Dr Moore stopped for a moment, "Chris is the father isn't he?"

Sahara's fuze snapped, "Of course just who the hell do you take me for?"

Dr Moore looked back at her, unfazed by Sahara's attack, "it's alright Sahara."

"It was one time, one time, and I love him so much" Sahara sobbed, "one time."

"Should I break the news or would you like to say?" Dr Moore slightly smiled,

"No god please no, I'll tell him!"

"Ok well you'll have plenty of time to thinks things over I won't you in here for about 3 days at the minimum, ok?"

Sahara to tired to argue agreed.

"Ok I'll leave you to it" Dr Moore said, taking one last look back as she closed the door on a shadow of a girl who used to be.

Sorry guys I didn't mean for it to take so long to post, DAMN COMPUTERS SO UNRELIABLE!

Anyway hope you enjoy this chapter.

Love bex