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"I'm going for a walk." I say to Sheila as I was about to leave the house. "Are you sure you wanna go on a walk on these streets?" Sheila asked me. "Yea, I'll be fine. I just need to clear my head." I say before leaving the house. The truth is, I'm not going for a walk, I'm going to a walk-in clinic just so I can be one hundred percent sure that I am in fact pregnant. I take a deep breath once I approach the building and begin to walk in. I walk up to the counter considering there was no one in line, the waiting area consisted of mothers with crying babies and old people with their caretakers. "How may I help you." The lady says looking down at something, she looked and sounded familiar. "I was hoping I could get checked with a doctor." I say quietly, "for what, gonorrhea, herpes, chlamydia, hiv, aids like what?" She says, she sounded like she didn't want to be here. "Uh, I wanna see if i'm pregnant." I say quietly I leaned closer to the glass so she could hear me better. Her head shoots up and lo and behold, it's my birth mother Talia. "Sure, sign here and we'll get you with a nurse soon." She says handing me a sign in sheet. 

People were getting called to the back, it was going by somewhat quickly. "Odessa Jackson." I hear someone yell. I get up and walk towards the nurse who said my name. We walk towards the back through the quiet bright hallway. We walk into a room with a table, a doctor bed, and a screen. "Lay down and lift your shirt for me please." she says politely, I do as told. She puts this cold gel on my stomach and then grabs some weird looking tool, she uses it to spread the gel and the something pops up on the screen. "Looks like you are in fact pregnant." she says with a smile. I don't know if I should cry or smile. 

I was walking back home, when I decided to just go to the Gallagher house. My phone begins to ring so I grab it out of my pocket and answer. It was Willow. 

"Hello"

"Hey Des. What are you doing?"

"I'm heading over to the Gallagher house, what are you doing?"

"I'm taking the twins over there to play with Franny." 

"I'll see you there then." 

"Yea. See ya."

I approach the house and walk up the stairs. The door was unlocked as it always is, so I walk in there. I go through the second door and see everybody sitting on the couch or on the floor watching tv. When the door shut everyone's head turned. "Do you know what the fuck knocking is?" Mickey says. "Anybody can literally come in here, that door is never locked." I say sitting next to Carl on the couch, he puts his arm around me and kisses my forehead. Willow walks in through the kitchen door with the twins, who immediately run over to Franny, who was in her play pen. We were all just chilling on the couch watching tv. 

We heard the door open and the sound of two people walking in, thinking it's just Kev and V coming back from the bar we continued watching the tv. "Look at this ole' big happy family." I heard a voice say, I knew instantly that it was my birth father, James. I get up and so does everyone else, we all turn around and face the couple in front of us. "Who the hell are ya'll?" Mickey questioned. "You didn't tell your friends about your parents Des, that's very low of you." Talia said with a fake sad expression. "What are you doing here? How did you know I was here?" I say to them with an annoyed tone. "Oh we just came to say congrats on your baby." James said. "What?" Carl says turning to me. "I'm guessing this is the baby's daddy, aren't ya'll just the cutest couple." Talia says. "What are they talking about Des?" Carl asked me, I looked at him, I felt like I was gonna burst into tears. "Ohhh I see what's going on. Why didn't you tell him?" Talia says. "shut up." I say quietly as my eyes began to water. "You must have thought about aborting it." James said, "That baby is gonna grow up traumatized with this damn family." He added on. Him and Talia started to laugh. I felt like I was gonna burst, they're laughing, and I wasn't ready to say anything about my pregnancy yet. "SHUT UP!" I yell, it caused the room to go silent and all eyes fell on me. I looked at everyone before running out of the house. I heard my name being called but I ignored it. I can't take any of this right now, it's bad to be stressed and pregnant. 

I had ended up at home i knew it would be the first place people would look for me, but right now I don't even care. I walk into the house and see Sheila sitting on the couch. I walk over to the couch and sit next to her. "I'm pregnant." I say to her bluntly. I didn't care anymore, I was relieved when I told her. "Oh wow! That's amazing news." she says pulling me into a hug with a big smile, "We can turn our guest room into a nursery." She says. I smile, but then start softly crying in her arms. This is all so damn overwhelming. 

I was upstairs in my room with Carl, he had just got here. It was silent so I assume h's either upset or shocked. "Can you please say something Carl." I say quietly. He stops fidgeting with his hand and he looks up at me. "I don't want you think I'm mad, I just wanna know why you didn't tell me." He says standing up. "I don't know Carl, I guess I was just scared." I say. "Did you think I was gonna leave you?" He asked sounding kind of hurt. "I mean we're two sixteen year olds who met like two months ago and we like having sex with each other and I like kind of just found out we're dating So yeah, maybe I did think you were gonna leave me, and you can't blame me for thinking that." I babble on. "I love you." He says quickly. This is the first time he's said it, I mean we've said it through intercourse, but we would forget about it the next day. "I love you too." I say back to him. He pulls me into a hug and hold on to me.

"It'll be us, forever." He says softly 

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