A/N: Thanks for the reviews, guys! I really appreciate y'alls support. :) This chapter is fairly short, but it's longer than the prologue. I'll try my best to make chapters longer in the future. :)
April 8th, 2010
"Alex!" Harper exclaimed as I arrived at school on. "I feel like I haven't seen you in forever!"
"I know!" I replied, hugging her.
We had seen each other on April 4th, though. The day before. Only 4 days previously.
"Did you lose weight?" she asked, before slapping her forehead. "That's a silly question. I just saw you! You couldn't have lost a noticeable amount of weight since then!"
"Yeah, Harper, that's crazy," I replied, shaking my head. It was true, though. Since she saw me last, I had lost weight. Only she didn't realize, because of the spell, that the weight I'd "lost" had been that of the baby I had been carrying inside me. "Now let's get to class."
"The bell hasn't rung and yet Alex Russo wants to get to class? Are you sick?"
"Maybe I'm just trying to be more responsible," I countered.
Responsibility. Cuz I'm so good at that. I thought. Getting knocked up at sixteen is so responsible.
"Haha, that's funny, Alex," Harper laughed as the bell rang.
"To Hell with responsibility then, I guess," I amended as we began to walk to first period.
•-•-•
May 1st, 2010
Secrets are hard. But when they're a lot easier to keep if they're not current.
When I found out I was pregnant, the secret lasted all but a week.
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August 7th, 2009
I sat on the bathroom floor, my head hanging over the cold, white toilet for the fifth day in a row. My tongue was acidic from the taste of the contents of by stomach that I'd just emptied.
I heard a knock on the door.
"Mija?" called my mother's voice. "Are you alright?"
I merely moaned. As I continued to throw up, I realized that my mom was coming in the bathroom.
"Alex," my mom soothed, rubbing my back.
I looked away from her. I wasn't going to tell her. Not right then. But then I made the mistake of glancing back into her eyes, and my secret flowed out.
"Mom," I cried as I clung to her leg, resembling a timid, innocent child that I wished I was at that moment.
"Yeah, baby?"
"I made a big mistake, Mom. You're gonna hate me." Tears rolled down my face and dripped over my lips, leaving a salty taste.
"I won't hate you, Alex. You're my daughter. Now tell me about this mistake."
I could tell that she was pretty sure what I was going to say. The throwing up and the profession of "I made a big mistake" only added up to one thing.
That made it so much harder to tell her. I felt like her eyes were pleading, "Please don't let her say that!"
But I said it:
"I'm pregnant."
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It had been almost a month since the day and I still hadn't given away my secret. It was easier to pretend that I never was pregnant than to pretend I wasn't currently. Because of that fact, I was still the only one in the world who knew that I, Alex Russo, had a 27 day old daughter, a human being who shared my DNA, out in the world somewhere.
A/N: Hope y'all liked it! So I've basically decided that there will be a lot of flashbacks in this story. Some to when Alex was pregnant, some to before/when she got pregnant...but there will also be a lot of current stuff...dealing with the secret, the pain of the adoption, etc.
Speaking of the Alex getting pregnant thing: I can't decide quite how she got pregnant. I'd like to hear your input. I don't know if I'll definitely go with what you suggest, but I'd like to hear it...
So here are the considerations:
Knocked up by...
boyfriend (first time)
boyfriend (they'd been having sex for awhile)
someone she had a crush on for a while, but never actually went out with
some dude at a party (after getting drunk)
other (be specific)