CONQUEST

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Chapter 16: Oh crap

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It had been three weeks since I had last spoken to him. Since that day. Though not for lack of trying on his part. He wanted to be near me. He wanted to be around me all of the time. I couldn't stand it. That's why I hung around in my safety group. Kelsi, Shar and Ryan. They were the ones who had warned me when I wouldn't listen. They were the ones who so graciously took me back when I grovelled so much.

Shar was the trickiest. But she gave in. Ry was too much for her.

It was currently eight am on tuesday morning. The crisp winter air filling my room, as I had pushed my balcony doors open. I had not been feeling very well, nausea and sweats were not a good combination. My mom didn't know, because I had a funny feeling that she wouldn't want to know, I had a feeling that I was pregnant. With his child. I was waiting on my period, but still no luck, and now the sweats and vomiting, I couldn't help but feel like I was. I groaned at the thought, I couldn't believe I had let myself get this way.

I wasn't going to go in today. Hopefully my mom would be fine with it. Not likely though, she wasn't keen, she didn't like me missing one day of high school, first woman president, that was her dream for me. I wonder if a bastard child would fit in at the whitehouse?

I put on my best face and headed down the stairs, hoping that she would be gone..but she wasn't and neither was my father. Crap. I thought to myself, this was gonna be tough. I was not looking forward to it.

"Mmom" I whispered

Her her glossy sharp brown hair whipped around to look at me "Yes Gabriella"

Her face was hard as stone. I couldn't believe that this woman had given birth to me...what a disappointment I must be. "II'm not f-fee-feeling so good"

My face was pale and my eyes tired, how could she not let me off. "Ugh go to bed" she said, clearly fed up, I don't think that she was in the humour for me right now. Probably her period-lucky bitch.

I nodded and headed eagerly back to my bed. It seemed so inviting, but I knew this wasn't what I needed. Even if I was tired, I had to wait until my mother went to work, until she decided that she was primed enough to go. My dad should be gone in a few. He was at least easier that way.

I decided to get a few winks while they were still in the house. After all I really was tired. I hadn't gotten much sleep at all last night. Tossing and turning, worrying about being a teen mom. About Troy, what he would say, what would happen if I had to tell him. My head spun for the whole night. Though it really didn't stop.

Finally I drifted off, awaking an hour and three quarters later by the starting of my mothers car. How could she only be leaving now? How much make up was there to be put on? I got up, dressing in my most downy clothes and heading out the door, I douubt she would have liked that, but I had never been a success in fashion circles, she should have accepted it. My mind pondered as I snuck down the street, I tried to keep it off the fact that I could be a lone mother but my mind kept going back to the fact that I may be pregnant. What would my mom say? I knew she wouldn't be happy, but really how would she put it. It would almost be worth being pregnant for.

Though thinking about it again, it really didn't seem all that great. She would probably disown me for good this time. She probably would be expecting it though, seeing as I was such a disappointment of a daughter. But still, I could see it now, I would join the unwed mothers club in a hostel because she would have thrown me out.

My father was a different matter. He would be even worse than my mother. Think of the social scene, they couldn't go out, they couldn't be seen at all the best do's, due to the fact that their daughter was a pregnant slut. That would be his greatest concern. He would probably tell me to get rid of it. I could never do that.

Shar would never talk to me again, Kelsi would say 'told you so' while Ry would agree with one of them. I would be alone. That thought frightened me, so much so, that I could almost want to get rid of it.

I vigorously shook these thoughts from my mind. I could never do that.

Entering the pharmacy, I picked up the first response pregnancy test, that Pay had always talked about. That's how she found out about Jake. So I trusted her on that much. Plus I was no expert. I had never had one of these pregnancy things before. I had never really had any intention of having one, until Troy came into my life and took that decision away from me.

Paying for it, I received some strange looks, but the thing was teen pregnancy was quite common, Sharpay was the only other one I knew. It must have been a shocker. I walked out of the store, my test in hand, and a queasy feeling in my stomach, I couldn't hold it in any longer, moving here had been a mistake, and I broke down. Tears streamed down my face. I had a much better life back in California, now look at me.

I ran most of the way home. I couldn't think of much else. The test in my hand, I ran up the stairs. My eyes were blotchy from yesterdays attempts to piss off my mother with my goth make up. My hands shook as i took the test from the box. It was not supposed to happen. I wanted to be married. I wanted to have a husband. But no, I had to fuck it up. But that's what my mom expected anyway because I wasn't Mary fucking sunshine twenty four seven.

I took the test and with shaking hands I waited the three-five minutes stated before turning it over It was an agonising wait, so many thoughts passed through my mind, most of them quite irrational from never telling Troy if I was pregnant to my mother and father being understanding. And then I looked, I couldn't take it. Tears formed in my eyes because even though I already knew the answer it still hurt to see those blue lines, telling me that I was-

Pregnant