OOPS!

Chapter 5

Disclaimer: I've pinched things from the Finding Sky books.

Sky

What are going to do? Zed knows now so I feel a little better but I also feel bad for worrying my parents. I knew they wanted to be hard on me but were afraid of me shutting down again, especially after they found out I'd been crying. They grounded me of course and had a go at me for missing class but I could tell I had them worried. I could see it in how they were looking at me. They kept asking me why I was crying and wanted to know why I felt I couldn't tell them. They left me alone when they realized I wouldn't tell them so now I've been left with only my thoughts for company. And it sucked. I was just getting even more worried and even more scared. I just wished Zed was here then it wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't be alone. But I knew he would be grounded as well and I couldn't even text him because Sally had taken my phone. Oh my God! What If he texts and puts something about it thinking I would be the only one to read it? Or what if they text him to find out why I was crying and he thinks it's me?

Just as I was preparing myself to go downstairs and find my phone I heard tapping on my window and Zeds voice entered my head hey Sky, let me in. Are you OK baby? As soon as he was in the room I grabbed him and he just held me and told me he had an idea but we had to be quiet. It didn't take much convincing, as soon as he'd explained the note was written and we were down the tree, running down the road, jumping in the car and we were off.

Zed told me I should leave a note incase my parents realized I was gone and they started to worry.

Sally and Simon,

I've gone with Zed, we'll be fine and he'll bring me back later tonight but before you start complaining and blaming Zed, no he did not make me go with him, he suggested and I agreed. I think he's right and it will stop us going crazy. I'm sorry I didn't come down to tell you where we are going but I'm grounded so you would never have let me go. We'll be back later so don't worry.

Love Sky

We both decided it would be better to go to Aspen because then the Wrickenridge gossips wouldn't get any ammunition. By the time we got there I was shaking and Zed was squeezing the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles had gone white. I think he was just as nervous as me.

Zed parked in an empty space near the entrance and we went inside, but when we found the tests we had no clue which one to get. Zed looked terrified and I don't think I looked much better. We decided to go for the one that looked easiest to do and Zed said we should get more than one just to make sure. The woman who served us at the till looked down her nose at us and tutted when we left. I'm so glad I had Zed with me, I couldn't have done that on my own, he just squeezed my hand tighter whenever anyone looked our way and glared daggers at them.

He took me for a hot chocolate with everything on and we found some toilets in the café we were in. Zed waited outside for me and when I had done a test I gave it to him and went straight back in and did another. I didn't want to know the result before I had more to compare. I kept handing him tests and every time I came out he seemed to look whiter and more worried. When I came out with the fourth test he showed me the results. Positive. All of them. What were we going to do?

Zed

Sky handed me the first test and went to do another, she told me she didn't want to know the results until she had done them all. I just kept looking at the test until Sky gave me the next one and then I would stare at that one and then the next until we were both staring at the last on. Eight weeks. They all said eight weeks. What were we going to do? Pregnant. Sky was pregnant. We're only seventeen. Oh god what are we going to do?

It wasn't really sinking in. Right now I was just panicking and Sky was staring at the tests with tears streaming down her face. What were our parents going to say? Parents. Parents. We were going to be parents. That word never really meant anything much to me before. We're not old enough to be parents.

Finally we decided it was best if we went home but when we got to the car we realized we would have to tell our families sooner or later. "What if we just did it now when we get back? At least it would stop us worrying about what they're going to say because they will have said it." I suggested as Sky just looked at me terrified and nodded. On the drive back Sky used my phone to call her parents and asked them to meet us at my house.

Well they were here, but I don't think they knew we were here yet. We got out of the car and I started towards the house until I noticed Sky wasn't with me. I turned back to see her still standing by the car just looking at me with her hand resting on her stomach. I walked over to her and rested my forehead against hers. "I'm not ready to be a mum yet Zed, we're too young" she whispered to me. I stroked her hair and whispered back "I know baby, I'm sorry." Then for some reason my hand drifted down to her stomach to join hers. We stayed there for a minute, our hands holding her stomach cradling the child inside. Our child. "I'd always thought I'd have children but I never expected to be so young when I became a Dad… Whoa Dad. I'm gonna be a Dad." I stopped talking for a moment and just looked at my soulfinder before I whispered "that terrifies me". "Me too Zed, me too."