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It was the third morning in a row that Riley had been feeling and acting this way. Naseuous. Throwing up.
"Ugh," she groaned.
"Hey, what's crack a lackin'?" Maya asked, coming into the room as Riley was coming out of the bathroom, wiping the remaining puke off of her mouth. "What's wrong?"
"I haven't been feeling that well."
"Are you sick?" Maya brought her hand to the top of her best friend's forehead. "Has it been all day or just specific times?"
"Just the morning. My period's about two weeks late, also," Riley answered, then her and Riley's eyes widened. "No…it can't be. We've only been married a few months! We wanted to wait!"
"Well, there's only one way to be sure," Maya said.
"You go down there. Please?"
Maya agreed, knowing why Riley didn't want to go down to the drugstore. The Walgreens was next to the veterinary clinic where Lucas worked, and if he just so happened to need something next door, or he ran into her on the street, he'd somehow find out. And Riley sure didn't want him to find out before she was positively sure she was pregnant.
Begrudgingly, Maya went down to her car and drove the ten minutes to the drugstore while Riley waited back in her and Lucas's apartment, turning on the television to calm herself down.
Maya pulled into a parking space and almost ran across the street, trying to get in and out of the store before anyone she knew, especially Lucas, recognized her. She was in and out of the store in five minutes, without one sign of Lucas, and back home in her neighbor's apartment in record time.
Riley was basically going crazy and pounced on her blonde haired best friend as soon as she knocked on the door. She took the box from the blonde's hands and raced into the bathroom, reading over the directions and following the instructions.
"Riley, you okay?" Maya called through the door. It had been a few minutes and Maya was starting to think that something had happened to the teacher.
"Y-Yeah," Riley said, looking down at the test in shock.
"Well, what does it say?"
Riley came out of the bathroom and held up the test, saying one word: Pregnant. Maya didn't know which expression her friend wanted her to express. Happy or dismayed?
"So…" Maya said. "Is this a good thing."
"I honestly don't know," Riley answered.
"How do you think Lucas will feel?"
Riley shrugged as she threw the test away and washed her hands. It was a Saturday, so neither she nor Maya had to work. She and Maya were supposed to go to a movie, but that was postponed when Maya went off to buy the test.
"On one hand, we're starting a family, earlier than we wanted," Riley said.
"On the other?" Maya prompted.
"We're starting a family." Riley smiled at the sentence, and as she started making lunch for herself and Maya, she couldn't stop smiling. "I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant!"
The girls danced around the room screaming "I'm pregnant" and "You're pregnant", not noticing when their husbands came in.
"WHAT?!" Lucas shouted to the girls. Maya and Riley stopped jumping and shouting then, looking towards Farkle and Lucas. Lucas had his eyes locked on Riley's as he came over and grabbed her hands. "You're pregnant?"
"Yes," Riley said, no use in denying it or trying to pin it off on Maya. They had heard. "Yes, I'm pregnant. I took a test today."
Lucas looked towards their two friends and nodded towards the apartment door. The two got the message and left, leaving Lucas and Riley to talk.
The end of the chapter! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a few weeks, but I was on vacation and I have excuses:
I was on vacation
I was reading this series all summer that I've read on and off/out of order called The Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (seriously, check it out!) and it's 25 books without the prequels and I just finished it today.
While I was writing this in my head, I didn't know which one I wanted to be pregnant, so I kept writing it back and forth in my head, until I FINALLY wrote it today.
Note: I go back to college in a few weeks, and like any normal college student, I will not be able to update as often as I like because I have lots of classes, am doing executive board for one club, and in another. Also, I have a creative writing course, so if I accidentally put THAT up on here, please realize that that's an accident!
Until next time!
