Chapter 6: What will happen?

The concept didn't set in until two weeks later. I hadn't thought much of it over the two weeks, until today. It was Thursday night and I was changing in front of my mirror into my night gown.

I was about to pull the shirt over my head when I noticed my stomach. Instead of the itsy, bitsy, bump I had saw two weeks ago, there was a more defined, more pronounced bump in its place. I let go of my shirt, and it settled over my torso. I wasn't done looking. I pulled the shirt up and started again.

I twisted my torso to see the bump from different angles. It was so defined, pronounced. I smiled. It was amazing. And that's when it finally set in.

I was carrying a life inside of me.

The sad news was simply amazing...and scary at the same time.

The amazement that I could harbor something so pure.

Sad that it came of something so nasty and wrong.

But it was not scary because I didn't know what to do or how to act.

Scary because I didn't know how to tell Troy, how he would act, or what he would do. Would he be mad or happy? Of course he'd be mad. Why wouldn't he be? The girl's he's been raping is pregnant with his child. Ok, so I know hes gonna be mad, but what will he do? Would he leave and never come back? Leaving me alone to raise our baby? That wouldn't be bad. Would he continue to come but make me give it for adoption? That would be bad, but standable. Would he make me have an abortion? That I wouldn't be able to stand. I couldn't kill something so precious as a life. Especially one who had never lived. Or something I already loved and felt attached to. Or would he do something harsher? Would he see all the trouble with having me and end our baby's life himself? While efficiently and effectively ending mine too? That would put us both out of our misery.

With that option out there, I couldn't stop the tears from coming to my eyes. All the fear from the first time Troy had come came back. I started to feel the exact same way I had when I was tied to my own bed the very first time Troy had come.

I feared for my life.

I saw my door start to open and I allowed my shirt to fall over my stomach.

Surprise of my life: In walked my mom.

It was weird because I hadn't seen her in months.

"Hey Sharpay."

"Hi mom." I closed the closet door.

"Whats up?"

"Nothing, just changing." We stood there for a moment. I got a little aggravated. "Don't you have to go to work?" I usually wasn't this impatient, but the baby made me this.

"Yes. I just wanted to see whats going on in your life."

I smiled and lied to her. "Nothing really."

She gave me a look I didn't understand. "Anything new in your social life?"

"No."

"Your school life?"

"No."

She hesitated a little before the next one. "What about your sex life?"

"What?" I almost choked out of surprise.

"Are you still a virgin?" I shook my head and laughed bitterly. "What?" She asked confused by my laughing.

"Mom," I said after my laughing subsided. "That ship has set sail. The ship set sail a long time ago."

"I should have known." She mumbled then turned to me.

"What do you mean?"

She sighed. "A few months ago, when I came home from work, I started to hear...noises coming from your room. Sometimes at night, sometimes in the morning. I sometimes saw the boy, who looks big enough to be a man, sneak out of your room afterward. I once walked in on you two late at night about a month ago. Neither of you noticed, y'all just went on having sex. The reason I brought this up is because I'm worried." I looked at her, shock written across my face. Were we that loud? I was better off with the sock in my mouth. "I'm worried that you aren't ready for this type of relationship. You're only sixteen. What are you going to do if something goes wrong? What if you two don't take the right precautions? What if he gets you pregnant?" I wanted to laugh, but knew the timing was awful. "What if this 'Troy' guy," I gave her a questioning look, wondering how she knew the name he'd given me. "I've heard you scream his name in your moment of passion," She answered my question. "What if leaves you?"

"He won't." I lied because I really didn't know.

"Are you two taking all the precautions?"

"Yes." I lied again.

"Which brings me to my next point. What do you know about Troy? Do you really know each other? Do you love him? Does he love you? Are you two really in love? Are you being careful? Does he really care for you? Or does he only want whats between your legs?"

I had to act so much right here.

"What?!" I said getting off the bed.

"Maybe hes just sleeping with you and using you as a sex buddy." She shrugged.

"What do you mean? What are you implying? That he's just with me to sleep with me?" Correct. "That he just wants me for sex?" Correct again. "You think I'm that easy?" Maybe."That I'd jump in bed with the first person to tell me he loves me?" He didn't even do that. "You think I'd give it up that quickly?" That easy. "That I'm that slutty?" I questioned her.

"No, that's not what I meant-"

"Its exactly what you meant! But its not like that!" It was. "We care for each other." My voice didn't falter during the lie. "He's here to stay, and we're going to keep having sex, so get use to it." I said and turned my back on her, toward my window, and placed a hand over my stomach.

"Sharpay..."

"Don't you have to get to work?" I sneered at her. Before she could answer I said, "Bye, love you." I smiled at her now.

I heard her get up, mumble "Love you, too." then walk out. I heard my room door close and someone go down the stairs and out the front door.

I looked at the clock. Ten at night. When I felt a pair of arms around my waist, I jumped.

"Its just me." Troy whispered in my ear. That didn't make me feel any better.

I wrapped my arms around my stomach and slid them under his. I didn't want him to feel the small, but oh-so noticeable, bump in my stomach.

"Did you miss me?" I didn't answer his question. "Whats wrong?" It appeared that two weeks had soften him up. Thank god. I don't know what I would have done if he had been harsh. I probably would have broke down in tears in front of him, and I really didn't want to do that.

"Nothing. Just a little ticked off after my mom's words." I shrugged. He dropped his arms.

"Lets get this started then." He grabbed me and started to kiss me. He pulled us over to the bed. He broke the kiss and sat down at the foot of my bed. His hands were on my waist, pulling me closer to him. He pulled me down on his lap, straddling him, and started to kiss me. My hands were resting on his forearms. He pulled my shirt over my head, which was followed by my bra and his shirt. He flipped us over and laid me on the bed. His lips went down my neck, were they stayed for a long time. He was unbuttoning my pants and I was getting really scared and paranoid that he was going to notice my baby bump. Notice our child's presence. When he finally got my pants off and was going for my underwear, it was just too much for me.

"I'm pregnant with your child!" I yelled and felt him instantly freeze above me. He moved his face back up to mine and looked me in the eyes.

"What?" He breathed. His blue eyes were dark and filled with some emotion that I didn't quite catch or understand. The look arouse another feeling inside me.

I feared for my baby's life.

"I-I-" I stopped and took a deep breath. "I'm pregnant...a-and its yours." I watched as he got off of me, sat on the bed and ran a hand through his tousled brown hair.

"Man." I heard him say before he got his clothes and started to put them on.

"Troy?" I whispered sitting up. "I-I'm sorry. Wh-"

"I'll...I'll come back tomorrow." He told me and his voice was full of uncertainty. I nodded and he left. I wondered why he had left and what he was going to do to me about this. I patted my stomach before laying down.

I don't know why, but I cried myself to sleep that night.

Third Person POV

Sharpay woke up in the morning and got ready for school like she usually did and went to school. She wasn't going to let the fact that she wasn't so sure about her, or her little ones, fate get to her at the moment. She was just going to go to school and try to pay attention and get her mind off it.

She made it to homeroom just in time as the bell rung, which means she wasn't late, but also that she didn't have to talk to Chad, Ryan, or Taylor. She hadn't spoke to any of them since the day she snapped at Taylor over a month ago, and she still didn't feel like it either.

First period rolled around and she found herself in her same seat beside Taylor. They didn't talk, but Sharpay could feel Taylor's eyes on her every once in a while. About halfway through the period, she felt nauseous and something coming up her throat. She automatically raised her hand and asked to be excused to the bathroom. When the teacher said ok, she rushed out the room.

Taylor noticed how her friend how gotten really pale in the last five minutes and was worried. She was just about to ask her if she was ok when Sharpay's hand suddenly flew up and she asked to be excuse. After seeing Sharpay fly out of the room, Taylor raised her hand.

"Can I go make sure she's ok?" The teacher nodded and she followed the path Sharpay had just taken to the restroom. Upon entering, she heard somebody gagging and throwing up and immediately knew it was Sharpay. She went to the door where she could see Sharpay's feet and lightly tapped on the door. "Sharpay?"

Sharpay had been in the restroom for about ten minutes when thought she heard somebody say her name, but she ignored it, thinking it was just her imagination. She had finished vomiting already and was just sitting there now, not really ready to go back to class yet. When she heard again, this time hearing in Taylor's voice. "Taylor?" She whispered in a small voice. Why did Taylor always show up?

"Yea, its me Shar, open up and let me in." Sharpay didn't know in which way Taylor meant. Did she mean open up and tell her what was going on? Or just open the door and let her in. So she just did the easier one. She opened the door. She saw Taylor looking down at her (she was one of the tallest girls at the school) with a look of concern. "Are you okay?"

Sharpay closed her eyes and nodded. "Yea, I'm okay. I'm better than okay, I'm great."

"Are you sure? This is the second time in a month that I've found you in here puking your guts out, so are you sure that this isn't anything more serious?"

"No! I'm okay! Why do I have to keep telling you people that?" She snapped, and was totally surprised by her outburst. So was Taylor.

Taylor stared at her friend with wide eyes. "Wow, where did that come from?"

"I don't know." Sharpay looks down at her feet, wondering, too, where it had come from. She had been feeling a little off balance all day, but she didn't really understand it. She had read many books about pregnancy, for her life class, and had thought she had understood how it would feel to be pregnant, but she was wrong. It was so much different experiencing it than reading about it in a book.

"What was that? I couldn't hear you."

"I DON'T KNOW!" Sharpay exploded again and watched as Taylor took a small step away from her.

"Whoa."

"Oops." Sharpay giggled.

"What?"

"Nothing, just mood swings." Sharpay laughed and left the bathroom.

Taylor just shook her head as she watched Sharpay leave. This was her first time trying to talk to Sharpay after last months drama, and it didn't go exactly how she planned. She really wanted to get to the bottom of what Sharpay had said and done, but Sharpay was acting really weird. Mood swings. She had said. She was definitely going to tell Chad and Ryan about these so called 'mood swings' and everything else. She had to get to the bottom of what was happening with her friend. There had to be a reasonable explanation to why Sharpay was like this.

Sharpay's POV

'GOD!' I thought to myself as I went back to class. 'Why did I have to act like that? Now Taylor will know somethings up and, of course, she'll tell Ryan and Chad. Then Chad will just come up to me and ask me why I'm acting so weird, and won't quit asking until I tell him the truth, and I really don't want to tell him yet. And Ryan...man, I don't know about him.' I shook my head and entered the class. Taylor came in a few minutes later and I was happy when she didn't mention what had just happened in the bathroom. We exchanged a few words during class, mostly about the project, but made plans to meet up outside of school and work on it. I knew that we were going to talk of something else, but I guess it was going to be okay, as long as I didn't mention the...

"Baby." I heard someone say from behind me and turned around to see that nobody was talking to me. It was just a jock greeting his cheerleader girlfriend. I shook my head and waited for lunch because I was starving.

Third Person POV

Taylor walked down the hall to where she saw Ryan and Chad standing by her locker waiting for her. She had texted them at lunch for them to meet her by her locker so that they could talk about Sharpay. She kissed Ryan on the cheek when she got to them and they walked outside together just in time to see Sharpay turn the corner toward her house.

"Ok, so what do you want to tell us about Sharpay, Taylor?" Chad asked as he sat under one of the big oak trees in front of their school. This had been their favorite hang out spot they were freshmen together. But lately, without Sharpay, it had been feeling a little weird for Chad. He really missed his best friend. They had known each other since birth, actually, Chad had been one when Sharpay was born, but still. He really wanted to know what was wrong with her and why she had been acting so bizarrely the past weeks.

"Well, I think somethings going on with her. I was in class with her earlier and she rushed out paler than ever. When I went to check up on her, she was throwing up, just like the last time I went to check on her. Then when I asked her what was wrong, she acted really weird. She was confused, then angry, then really happy. She said it was mood swings. And I was like, why would she have mood swings? Then at lunch, she ate like the world was going to end."

"I saw that." Ryan said, speaking up. "She ate more than you did Chad, and you do eat a lot."

"I wonder whats going on with her." Chad pondered and they all spaced out thinking about her. They sat in quiet for a while, before a light went off in Chad's head. "Oh god."

Taylor and Ryan looked at him. "What Chad?"

"Taylor, didn't you walk in on her throwing up the last time? Like this time?"

"Yea."

"And didn't you say something about her having sex with whoever made those marks on her body a month ago?"

"Yea, she gave her virginity to him and everything, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"Can't you see it you guys?" Taylor and him looked at him with confused looks.

"What Chad? What is it?" Ryan asked.

"God, she's pregnant." He put his head in his hands thinking about what his friend must being going through. Taylor gasped as Ryan remained looking clueless.

"I can't believe it." Taylor breathed, sitting in front of Chad on the soft grass.

"Thats what everything points to, her being pregnant."

"But that doesn't sound like Sharpay. She's smarter than that. Smart enough not to get pregnant at sixteen while she's still in high school."

"But how much of this really sounds like Sharpay, huh? The way she's been acting these past few months, it really isn't like her."

"What made her change though?" Ryan asked.

"I don't know, but I'd bet you anything that its that scumbag she's sleeping with." Chad seethed, hatred heating his whole body. "I mean, what kind of man would put his hands on a girl and hurt her then go and get her pregnant? I bet he did this on purpose, got her pregnant. I swear if I ever see him..."

"I know what you mean."

"But still, we've got to ask Sharpay about this. We need to be sure that she's pregnant, guys." Taylor chipped in. "We don't want to be wrong and push her further away than she already is."

"Yeah, you're right. But I'm going over there tomorrow and see whats going on. I won't leave until I get an answer." Chad said, more determined about this than anything.

With that, they ended their meeting and went separate ways home.

Sharpay's POV

I saw Taylor, Ryan, and Chad walking out of the building today and knew that they were going to talk about me. I walked home in a hurry to just get there and lay down. I was beet tired for some reason and just wanted to flop down on my bed and sleep. I was right in front my house when I finally noticed a car parked on the curb that I've never seen before.

My mom wasn't here, as always, so I let myself in and looked around my house. I saw the light on in the living room and went there. There, Troy was sitting on my couch, waiting for me.

I wonder what he wanted. Guess I was about to find out.

Thanks for reading, please review. So I'm going to ask you now, would you prefer for Troy and Sharpay to get together, or not? Please tell me.

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