A Stormy Love

Chapter 24

*6 days after Dave and Jake found out about you miss your period*

"What kind do you think is the best?"  you ask your friend as you stare down the isle of pregnancy tests in the pharmacy.

"I don't know man! ... This one is the cheapest." She says holding up a package.

"Ugh, you're so fucking dumb, why would I buy the crappiest test."

"Look, I know you're stressed out, but you don't need to be a bitch."

You look into her eyes, "yeah I'm sorry, that was uncalled for."

The two girls stand there in silence staring that the multiple rows upon rows of home pregnancy tests.

"The woman on this box looks happy..." she says throwing it into the cart.

"The test on this box says negative, that's gotta be good luck right?" you say adding another box to the cart.

"This test says its doctor recommended." Into the cart. "This one is a pretty pink." Into the cart. "This one says it's correct 9 out of 10 times." Into the cart.

After ten minutes, and 16 different types of pregnancy test later, you pick up 3 jugs of orange juice and head back to your friends house. There's no way you let Jake see you if he was at the apartment.

*At her house*

"Just chug the entire bottle," she says as you position yourself on the toilet.

"I can't piss while you're lookin' at me like that!"

"You told me you wanted my support!" she interrupts. "Here, maybe this'll help." she scurries over to the sink and turns the water on, "Do you need to pee now?"

"yeah...but I'm scared..." you reply as you rip open the plastic around the first pregnancy test.

Your friend turns on the stereo in hopes of calming you down. It works. "Now what do we do?" you ask flushing the toilet and placing the test on the counter.

"The instructions say to wait for 5 minutes. But here, drink some more, we have a lottttt of tries."

*5 minutes later*

"What does it say???" your friend pipes up.

"I'm too scared to look... you do it, I can't," you say covring your face and hand the test to her.

Silence. "WELL??" you start to panic.

"Ok, well this is only one test, there's no need to worry, but... it's positive..."

You start to feel your heart beat through your chest and you lose balance causing you to fall to your knees. She rushes to your side and softly rubs your back to comfort you. Even though this was supposed to be a happy and magical event, there's no way you could bring yourself to stop worrying. I don't even know who the father is, and even though Jake is still protective over me, I'm not even sure if he loves me. It's quite obvious that Dave isn't in love with me...he's been raging at me ever since we found out Jake was alive. Even worse, the 2 possible father's might be in love with each other.

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3 positive, and 0 negative pregnancy tests later, you decide to bring the "joyful" news to the 2 possible fathers. You decide to go to Dave's house first since you were still shaken up from the last rough encounter with Jake.