|Weak Hero| One Night [Donald X Kingsley]

Pregnancy Symptoms

Kingsley was glad that she hadn't been recognized. She was able to attend classes as normal without ever having to acknowledge the one night stand she had. She just continued her normal day to day life, sometimes hanging out with Stephen and Gray's friends. But most of the time, she just kept to herself.

A couple days after that night, she began to feel a bit nauseous. She chalked it up to her overworking herself and decided to cut back a bit on studying. She could still keep her grades up even if she subtracted one hour of studying and added that hour to sleeping instead. However, even with the extra hour of rest, she still felt nauseous. 

She changed her diet to easier to digest foods such as bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. She also tried to eat small bland snacks like soda crackers rather than three large meals. She also drank more water and ginger ale to stay hydrated. She took a break from the caffeine, though it pained her to watch Gray happily drink coffee at breakfast.

About two weeks since that night, dread began to fill her. She had missed her period.

'Maybe I counted the days wrong,' Kingsley tried to reason. 'I probably miscalculated. My period will happen in a few days,' The thought that she had miscalculated was bad itself, but the thought of her actually missing her period was terrifying.

Another week passed, but she still had no period. Refusing to accept the possibility of being pregnant, she quickly searched up reasons why her period could be late besides pregnancy. One of the reasons was stress.

'I'm just stressed out, that's all,' Kingsley thought. 'I'm so stressed out about what happened that night and overwhelmed with my studies. It's a good thing I completely going to ignore that night, so that'll get rid of some of the stress. My studies are overwhelming since I don't want to lose my place in the top scores. I'm second place while Donald's first place. Usually I'd be first but with Donald in my class this year, it'll be a tough fight for first place,'

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Five weeks after the one night stand, Stephen and Gray began to worry about Kingsley's health. "You seem more tired than usual," Gray told her. "You also are nauseous and vomiting lately. Kingsley, are you alright? You might be sick,"

"I'm fine," Kingsley claimed. "Maybe I just have the common cold or the flu,"

"Why don't you stay home and rest?" Stephen suggested. "Rest is very important in recovering from an illness,"

"Yeah," Kingsley nodded in agreement. "I'll do just that,"

"Don't worry about dinner," Gray added. "We'll buy some chicken soup on the way home,"

'I'm overthinking things,' Kingsley told herself after Gray and Stephen left for school. 'I'm tired, nauseous, and vomiting because I'm sick with the common cold or the flu. I have an increase in urination output because I'm drinking a lot to stay hydrated. My breasts are tender probably because I need to get a new bra, or maybe I strained a muscle while exercising,'

All of them were symptoms of pregnancy, but Kingsley didn't want to think about that. She couldn't be pregnant. It was just one night. It was just one time. She was still in high school! There was no way she could be pregnant!

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'Kingsley didn't come to school today,' Donald glanced at the empty seat, but quickly averted his eyes. He didn't want to cause any unnecessary attention for Kingsley. 'She also seemed pretty sick these past couple days. She's probably at home resting. I'll loan her my notes. I live next door to her and her two friends. Nobody noticed yet, which a good thing considering that my fangirls might bother them,'

Once school was out, he decided to go shopping without his fangirls crowding around him. Jake also tagged along to buy some groceries for his house.

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Kingsley was at the store. She should have just stayed home and rest, but she was craving something sweet. Once she reached the store, she began to place chocolates, french fries, chips, horseradish, mushrooms, custard, carrots, pickles, and ice cream. She paused at the feminine care aisle and hesitantly entered. 

She stopped in front of the shelf of pregnancy tests. 'I'm not pregnant and a negative test result will confirm it. This is just to assuage my worries. Once this comes back negative, all my worries about possibly being pregnant will go away,'

"Hi Kingsley!" Jake greeted at the end of the aisle. He waved as he walked closer to her to avoid having to speak loud. "What are you—" He froze mid-sentence when he saw the box with the pregnancy test in her hand. His eyes moved towards the basket with a bunch of weird food items. "Are you—"

"I'm not pregnant," Kingsley denied. "I'm just picking these up for a cousin of mine. Besides, I can't be pregnant if I never had sex with anyone,"

"But you slept with Donald,"

"No, I didn't," Kingsley hissed. 'How does he know!? Everyone was passed out drunk!'

"I was the only one who was completely sober," Jake told her. "I saw you and Donald stumble into his bedroom. I was about to try to stop you guys but a couple fights broke out and I had to focus on stopping the fighting so we didn't break any of Donald's stuff. I would've knocked all of them out with my fists, but I might have destroyed some of Donald's stuff. By the time I calmed everyone down...you and Donald were both asleep. I decided to leave while everyone was knocked out so that I didn't have to help with cleaning up,"

"Does Donald know that he slept with me?" Kingsley asked quietly.

"He knows he slept with someone, but he doesn't remember their face," Jake answered. "So...what are you going to do?"

"I'm not pregnant," Kingsley denied once more. "I'm just taking this test to prove it when it comes back negative. Jake, don't tell Donald that the person he slept with was me. It was just a stupid mistake,"

Jake didn't immediately answer and instead stared at her panicked and worried expression. Finally, he nodded. "Alright," 

Just a disclaimer, I have no experience with pregnancies. This chapter was based on the research I did on the symptoms of pregnancies.