AN: I dedicate this chapter to BigLadyPotter for being my first reviewer. Thank you for reading and I hope you and everyone else enjoys this chapter. :]
I follow a new stocky nurse into the exam room. I take in all my white walls and the smell of disinfectant. The many magazine and newspaper articles clipped out and framed on the walls. The dozens of "what to expect when you're expecting" and similar titled pamphlets littering the counter. The detailed photos of different pregnancy view points alongside the framed articles.
"Okay sweetheart I'm going to need you to undress and put this on." the woman wearing a "Nancy" name tag tells me pointing to the light green hospital gown on the examination table.
"We're going to start with just a physical examination. Nothing you wouldn't be used to a your pediatrician's office. Once I'm done with the I will be turning you over to Dr. Brandt who will do a more thorough examination." Nancy leaves allowing me a few minutes to change into the gown.
"I'm done." I mumble through the door letting Nancy know that she is allowed to come in again. She leads me through a routine exam measuring height and weight and checking my vitals. She leaves the chart on the counter before informing me that the doctor would be right with me. She leaves me alone in the room and I'm left wishing that I had asked Anna and Elly to be here.
"Good morning Ms. Kent. My name is Dr. Brandt. Can you tell me why you're here today?"
"Well I'm uh pregnant..." I answer her trailing off at the end of my sentence.
"Okay and can you tell me how you've come to this conclusion? It says here on your forms that you've been taking birth control for over a year."
"Well yeah I've been taking it ever since I turned 16. My doctor put me on it because my periods were really bad and she said that it would help regulate it. I would take it every day at exactly noon."
"And how long have you been sexually active for?" She asks me bluntly not looking up from the clipboard in her hands.
"I had sex with my boyfriend the night I turned 18." I answer not wanting to give her any more details. She's still looking at the chart and I can tell she's adding up the time between then and now. Finally she looks up and I can see there is a look between sympathy and disappointment on her face.
"Did your boyfriend use protection?" "Yes." "And you're sure you didn't miss or skip a dose?" She asks.
"I am 6 pregnancy tests positive that I didn't miss a dose." I tell her starting to get angry. She can tell my mood and moves on from that line of questioning and gets straight to the actual exam.
Before I know it she's done and leaving the room allowing me to get dressed. I quickly toss the gown onto the examination table and grab all of my belongings after I've changed and make a bee-line for the front desk. Both Anna and Elly stop their pacing when I reappear in the waiting room. They both stay glued to my side as the nurse gives me my next appointment and some last minute instruction before it. Again we link arms and walk to the car.
To their credit they don't say anything until after we're back at the Palmwoods. We take the elevator up to my 3rd floor apartment and they're both still silent the whole time. It's only when we enter my apartment that they both turn on me.
"Samantha Kent explain." Elly says seriously. I look in her eyes and all I see is worry and concern. I can already feel the tears welling up in my eyes.
"Sam please don't keep us in the dark here. This is serious. You know that Elly and I are here for you always." Anna pleads with me also looking on the verge of tears.
"Where do you want me to start?" I ask completely defeated.
"The beginning." They both say as if rehearsed. They lead me over to the couch and take seats on either side of me.
"You know that surprise pool party you guys threw for me for my birthday?" They nod silently asking me to continue. "That night after everyone left the pool area Logan walked me back to my apartment..."
{flashback}
"I still can't believe you guys all got me. I honestly had no clue." I gush as I can't stop smiling.
"I'm glad you liked it baby." Logan says as we reach my door 3S
"Thank you," I say as we stand in front of my closed door. We're holding hands and stalling leaving each other.
"You're very welcome." He tells me pausing between each word to give me a kiss on the cheek. I'm blushing even after all this time together.
"Goodnight Logan," I finally say after a couple of moments of silence. I reach up on my tip toes to get to his lips. At first it was a normal kiss but something in us snaps and soon he has me up against the door flush against his chest. I reach blindly for the door knob. I find it and almost send us tumbling to the floor. Logan is able to catch me and stop us from landing on the floor.
By this point my legs are wrapped around his waist and my hands are latched together around his neck. He leads me over to the couch which we fall onto gracelessly. His hands find their way down my mostly bare back to the hem of my bathing suit bottom.
"Are you sure?" He stops as my hands slowly make their way down his bare chest. He lifts himself up with his hands leaving my skin tingling where his body heat has lifted. I nod my head furiously. He smiles at me before cradling me in his arms and taking me to my bedroom.
{end flashback}
"But he used protection right?" Anna asks at the end of my story.
"Yeah he did. I'd always told him that I wanted to wait until I was 18 to have sex. He told me the day after that he wanted to ask me if that meant I wanted to "make love" to him on my birthday but that he was too nervous and didn't want me to think that's all he wanted from me." I explain laughing a bit at the memory.
"So you got pregnant just from having sex once?" Elly asks me sounding amazed and horrified at the same time.
"Not exactly..." I admit waiting for their reaction.
"WHAT?!" Anna shouts loudly.
"GET IT SAM!" Elly exclaims relieving the tension in the room causing the three of us to burst out laughing. "But for real Sam, how many more times? The guys left for the tour not too long after your birthday.
"Just once more. It was the night before they left for the tour. I told my uncle that I couldn't work and Gustavo gave the boys the day off. We spent the whole day here just hanging out. We watched movies made food and just kind of forgot the world. I asked him to spend the night with me here. And well you know it just kind of happened again. And yes he used protection then too."
"So he used protection both times?" Anna asks.
"And you were on the pill right?" Elly adds.
"Right. The only thing the doctor told me was that I either missed a dose without realizing it or the condom broke and we just didn't notice." I answer followed by a small silence as everything sinks in.
"Wait a minute. Didn't you get sick a couple days after your birthday? We thought it was because the left over food was left out too long so we threw it all away. But Sam was throwing up all afternoon." Anna recalls.
"Yeah. I wasn't pregnant then. That would have been way too fast." I laugh.
"No I see what she means. You were throwing up for a good 2 hours that day. You take your pill at noon right?" Elly begins waiting for me to catch on. I nod and she continues. "So you had taken your pill and not even an hour later you had thrown it up therefore it hardly had time to take effect."
"Oh my God! You're right. So basically after that my whole cycle screwed up and taking the pill after that did nothing so it must have been that second time that something happened with the condom." I exclaim "Well at least now I can pinpoint the day my life was over."
"Your life isn't over. It's just taking a detour." Elly tells me seriously taking the opportunity to give me a big hug.
"Yeah. Sam you and Logan will get through this. It'll be tough but you can do it. We know you can." Anna adds joining in on the hug. In the midst of it all I've begun crying again and I can hear both Anna and Elly sniffling along with me.
"You can do it." I hear one of them say but I can't tell who.
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