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twenty one.

a/n the pregnancy "scandal" is going to be toned down in a few chapters and i will be focusing on other characters so stay tuned!

heather

so now that i had broken the news to my mother, alejandro and i think his family, it was time to tell my friends. however, there was something i was avoiding. the thing is, i was very much aware of the fact that alejandro had a special and close bond with his parents and i knew he would want the same for this kid, however, i just had to remind him that we were only eighteen and that we simply can't support a child right now. i needed to let him know i was going to give it up for adoption to a reliable family. honestly, he couldn't just make me raise a child so i was hopeful that he would understand. 

my stomach dropped as i entered school that sunny thursday morning. everyone was staring at me with wide orbs. confusion, curiosity and "new topic for gossip" spread across their wide faces. my peers were staring me down like bats. i felt like there was no escape. my airways suddenly became blocked as i struggled to gather words. how would i explain myself? how did this get out? did courtney or bridgette tell someone? was it sierra's weird phsyco
blog? so many questions raced through my head, as if they were all rushing at the same time to find a reasonable answer. i felt my ears burn up and my cheeks transform into a bright colour of red as i acted quickly to cover my slowly growing stomach. it wasn't like it was visibly obvious i was knocked up? seriously! i had always been a slim girl therefore, in pregnancy, i had always been told that i would stay slim for the first few months! in fact, i was pretty sure that happened to everyone. so how on earth did this fly into the school?

you see, my school had always identified me as the "mean girl". ugh so katy heron meets janice ian. i wasn't mean, just honest and some people are simply not tough enough to handle some true honesty! like sorry i'm not going to sugar coat every thing i say. anyway, it felt as if everyone were shooting daggers at me during the first few lessons. not even court or bridge would speak to me. i initially ignored it because i like some time for myself, and this kid was serving me a full dish of nausea, but then i remembered that i was labelled as the school "mean girl". were they all so scared of me and what i would say that they all completely ignored me? hello i was the most interesting person at the school! the feeling finally passed as the bell for recess rang it's annoying bird dying like sound. finally. relax. i could catch up with my friends and inform all of them of what my plan for the future is and how i'm actually a compassionate person, oh and the baby news.

the cafeteria was noisy as always. everyone in their usual spots. nothing changed really. the same thing always happened at this school. like an endless circle. some would say a routine. this baby news definitely did the job of breaking the cycle. to be honest, i was pretty much doing everyone a favour if you really think about it. i was feeding them hot new gossip to talk about! may as well call me the saviour of this dead school.
i made it to my spot where everyone was dead silent. that was odd. we were usually the loudest group in this whole flipping school, apart from izzy's group of course.
geoff once again with his great sense of timing let yet another, intelligent idea rip.

"you know you could just stick a coat hanger up there and call it a day" he said in his signature beach bum voice. duncan let out a muffled laugh which resulted him with a punch in the arm, courtesy of Courtney. Bridgette and dj immediately reacted. "Geoff!" they said. "what!" he said back. "just trying to lighten up the mood dudes!" he continued. suspiciously enough, i didn't react. the only thing my body did was widen my eyes. geoff can consider himself lucky. alejandro cleared his throat and motioned for me. i mouthed "no" but he insisted. god, this was really happening.
i recreated alejandro's common action and cleared my throat. my friends eyes were all tuned in. it was like they were begging for answers to. "so as m-most of you know" i started. i took a deep breath. "i am in fact pr-" i took a deep breath once more. this could've gone on for days. "pregnant" i finally spat out. the whole room became silent. even the teachers. how did everyone hear me-

everyone who was considered a senior focused their eyes on me. they must all have amazing hearing. good god how movie like. i quickly whispered to Bridgette, not wishing for the whole grade to listen in. "okay how did this spread?" i asked. Courtney soon tuned in. "Heath,  i promise, we said absolutely nothing" she said. my face puzzled. so how did this actually spread? it was like a virus. everyone knew. now even the teachers. Sierra then turned bright eyes and "cutely", that is put in quotation marks for a reason, giggled. everyone then came to the conclusion that this wasn't interesting anymore and continued their endless chatter. noticing that the room had now risen in sound levels, i rushed to sierras table. "Sierra! how did you find this out weird stalker girl?" i put a threatening fist on the table. alejandro soon rushed to the table too. suddenly, Scott spoke up. "sorry that was me lol" yes he physically said "lol". alejandro and i soon turned out heads around to face the redhead. "what" I said through gritted teeth. "you're lucky she's pregnant or i would beat you to a pulp" alejandro threatened. duncan came over too. "yeah!" he reassured.

"oh my god! a taco and a magnet! i'm shaking!" the farm boy said sarcastically. that must've been his peak of humour because he started laughing like a power gun. never, shutting. up. we walked away, tired of Scott shananagons and swiftly migrated back to our respected table. i slouched to my knees with a genuine frown on my face. Cody attempted to be reassuring. "Heather, don't worry! by next week new things will be there to talk about!" He said in his high voice. "yeah, surely enough "hot new juicy gossip" will reach sierras blog." Noah added on. "I guess" I frowned. nervous for the fast arising future.