Chapter 31

Lilac's pov, two weeks ago:

The doors open automatically as I enter the store. I uneasily wring my hands around my wrists walking around until I find the aisle I'm looking for. I stare at shelf upon shelf. I had no idea there were so many. There are so many brands but each advertises about the same thing on the front of the box: Clear, easy to read results, 99% accurate, results in 3 minutes.

I grab a box of each brand and put it in my basket. I head up to the front and look over each check out desk. The shortest line is to my left but I decide instead to go three lines to the right with the only female cashier.

As I wait uncomfortably in line I look over the candy display. I grab a Butterfingers. As my turn approaches, I stop hiding the basket between me and the wall and put it up on the conveyer belt.

The ancient women peers over her glasses to give me a disapproving glare as she scans each pregnancy test. I can feel her judgment. She hasn't said anything but still I yell, "Times have changed!"

She holds her critical look without blinking. It looks like she's been sucking on a lemon, "That'll be $24.70"

I hand her twenty five and run out the door with the bag, completely ignoring the change. I keep running until I reach the car. My sister sits in the back seat with Prim. I can tell Lily's been trying to lighten the moods with jokes because they look like they've both been laughing, or crying, I'm not really sure.

I throw the bag into the backseat at them and start up the car, "Prim I got you a Butterfingers, I know how much you've been saying you wanted one."

She digs through the bag, forcing a laugh, "Lilac, I really think one could do the trick, you didn't have to get so many."

She finds the candy bar and starts opening it as I explain myself, "I didn't know which brand would work better."

She laughs again, "I don't even think I have that much pee!"

Lily pipes in with another joke, "We'll make some Kool-Aid!"

Prim takes a bite out of her candy and moans in delight, "You know, I use to hate these things but for the past two days they've been all I can think about."

I pull the car up to our house. We all pile out and walk in the door. Lily starts going through cupboards in our kitchen. "What are you doing?" Prim asks.

"Looking for the Kool-Aid packets." We all laugh. She couldn't find where they were so we made Tang instead. We mixed two flavors together to make one new one.

After Prim pretty much drank the jug by herself, she grabbed the bag of pregnancy tests and headed to the bathroom.

Lily and I anxiously wait outside. Finally the door opens. "Well?" I ask.

Prim holds a handful of about six tests, "I don't know yet, they say to wait for three minutes." I run to the kitchen and set the oven timer to three minutes.

She flicks one test uneasily in her hand, "Whoa, there's pee on that thing stop flinging it everywhere!" Lily laughs.

"Sorry, I'm just kind of nervous."

We stand there in silence for a moment.

"You guys, what if I actually am pregnant? What am I going to do?"

We look down at the floor. I speak up, "If you don't mind my asking, is there a chance that it's Nick's baby?"

I see a tear roll down her cheek, "No, he wanted to wait until we got married. I wish it were his, then we could get married and raise the kid like a normal family."

"Well whose to say he won't still marry you. I mean it's not like you actually cheated on him, you had to."

"Yeah, but whose going to want to marry me," she gestures to herself with her hands, "a pregnant fourteen-year-old whose baby's father is a mystery. Nobody's going to want to raise some one else's kid!"

Lily bites her lip before speaking, "But Nick loves you and he'll understand. He'll love the kid no matter what. He's really a good guy."

Prim calms herself down, "You're right, you're right, it's all going to work out. It's going to be fine."

The oven timer goes off. We each hold two tests each to look at the results. "Both of mine are pink." I say.

"Mine too," Lily announces.

Prim reads hers and nods, "Pink." She fights back the tears but fails horribly.

"Pink means positive?"

"Yeah, I'm pregnant." Lily and I both go to Prim and try our best to comfort her. She sniffles, "You know I lied when I said I didn't know who the baby's dad was."

We wait for her to continue but she doesn't, "Well who?" asks Lily.

"It's Josh's."

I try to wrap my head around it, "I'm confused as to how this happened. Don't they require the Capitol men to wear condoms?"

She nods, "Yeah they do, and usually he just gets it out by himself but the last time I was with him when I woke up in the morning I couldn't find any wrapper or anything. You guys, I think he meant for this to happen."

Prim's pov, present day:

I walk through the doors of the hotel like building. My little brother, also reaped much to my dismay trailing behind me.

My eyes search the crowd of teenagers. He must be here somewhere. They wouldn't have a Hunger Games without putting him in them. Finally our eyes lock. My heart pounds hard in my chest. I just look at him not quite sure what to do.

Finally I drop my bags and run.

I wrap my arms around him and he takes my face into his hands. We spend a long time just looking at each other. Finally I can fight it no longer and I kiss him.

The kiss was just like our first one. I get a knot in my stomach that explodes into butterflies. My heart skips several beats and my nose and ears feel red hot. The only thing that lets me differentiate the two kisses is this time the baby kicks.

Reviews! And if, by any chance you read my lord of the flies stories' I know I've done the teen pregnancy thing before. But that's actually a big part of my life and it'll help in this story. If you haven't read my other stories, then it's all brand new to you:P