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Alone Together
Chapter 1: Alone together
She clutched his frayed picture to her chest, like a child reaching out for a rose; she had reached out innocently towards his beauty only to be stung. Like a rose, he hadn't meant to hurt her, it had been an accident.
A stupid, pointless accident.
She ran her hand over her own taut stomach, reminiscing on her own mistakes. Never again, never ever again. Of course it was too late now and being a catholic, abortion was never an option. She caressed her belly, a warm mound of flesh concealing a now, not so secret love.
They had only made love a few times, but it had been careless and consequential, very consequential.
She hadn't even known about this baby until after that day and now there wasn't any point in telling him. He wouldn't come back, not a chance, he was to damn stubborn.
Flashback
2 months before
She stood in the bathroom facing the mirror, her loose ponytail bobbing up and down as her shoulders shook with the unconcealed sobs. His body had lain still on the ground, dead, and she knew what was coming.
She now stood in front of the mirror, alone; he had left, blaming her for what had happened. If only Mikey hadn't been involved maybe they would have had a chance, they'd still been sleeping together, just more secretly.
As she lay down on her bed she could still smell him. He smelt different than anyone she had ever been with, way better. Well there was no point dwelling on things that would never happen, she thought as she turned over, she would just have to get used to it.
1 month before
Cruz pushed her hair out of her face again as she heaved into the toilet. What is wrong with me? She thought as she rinsed her mouth out.
She looked at her reflection, she was gaunt and her face was pale. Her stomach felt really hard and her legs ached. She felt nauseous and her head hurt. She shrugged, sometimes she felt this way before she got her period.
Suddenly she stopped short, No, No way. She ran to a calendar and frantically flipped the pages. As she looked at the day she wanted to bang her head against a wall,
"You have got to be kidding me" she said out loud.
Ok, a week and a half, maybe she wasn't pregnant.
She didn't want to take any chances so she hurried out to a drugstore. Quickest, Clearblue, Novarel, Profasi, Pregnyl? Why were there so many? Cruz groaned as she looked at them.
She randomly chose two that had a guarantee sign on them, hopefully they were good! She carried them discretely to the front cash and blushed profusely when the woman at the cash grinned at her.
She high tailed it out of the store and drove home as quickly as possible. When she got home she set both of the pregnancy tests out on the counter in the bathroom.
She just stared at them a while, before actually taking them. When she was done she set them on the counter and paced restlessly in the bathroom.
It said wait 5 minutes but she couldn't wait, at four minutes she turned and stared at the both of them. Pink…Pink… Damn it!
TBC…New story finally!