Title: Fear
Author: K Gilmore
Summary: Just another short little one shot that came into my head…Its an AU
I've never seen my best friend afraid of anything.
When I met her in Grade 1, she was the only girl in our class who could go on the see-saw. I couldn't. I mean, you were so high up in the air. She wasn't afraid to swing up high on the swings, either. The rest of us just cowered like the little girls we were.
In Grade 4, her father died. I remember going to the funeral, expecting to see her completely unraveled. But she wasn't. She sat in a chair, quietly, trying to calm her mother and her brother down. I don't think she shed one tear. She knew she had to stay strong, for her family.
In Grade 6, she went right up to her crush; a boy named Johnny and told her she liked him. When he laughed in her face, she punched him. Then she helped him up, and walked away with her head held high.
In Grade 9, I was at her house and her stepfather came home. He was drunk, as usual. He forced her and her mother into a corner and started hitting them and spitting on them. She told me quickly to leave the room. I hid in the bathroom, terrified. When I came back, her stepfather lay on the floor and her mother was bleeding. In a calm, unfaltering voice, she said, "Call an ambulance."
In Grade 10, her boyfriend gave her a disease. He was messing around behind her back and she was the one who had to suffer the consequences. I would have been scared out of my mind. Not here. She walked into the STD clinic and got the medication she needed. Then, she beat the hell out of the girl who gave her boyfriend the disease.
Suffice to say, she was fierce. I thought she was fearless. Calm, cool, and collected, nothing could ever bring her down. But one day, that all changed.
Flashback
We stood in the bathroom on her house, surrounded by empty boxes.
"Okay, so if the strip turns blue, it means you're pregnant. If it turns pink, you aren't. Seems simple right?" I asked
"Yeah, it does. I guess I better get to peeing then."
I waited outside for what seemed like an eternity. Suddenly I heard a timer buzz. And then another one. And then a final one.
The door creaked open and I gasped at the sight that lay before me.
There she was, Alex, my best friend in the whole world, the strongest girl that I know, slumped on the floor, crying her eyes out, Next to her were three positive pregnancy tests.
"What am I going to do, Ellie?" she cried, hysterically.