ALWAYS || RAFE CAMERON

36

i emerged from the bathroom, holding the test in shaky hands.

"you alright, sweetie?"

i nodded. "it says to wait a couple of minutes."

"it'll feel like a lifetime. do you wanna call your boyfriend?"

"yeah."

she handed my phone over and smiled. "i'll wait outside."

"hey, i'll be there in five." Rafe answered on the second ring. "are you okay?"

"yeah... um, i..."

"Juno? is everything okay?"

"i- they think... there's a possibility that i could be..."

"be what, Juno? you're scaring me!"

"there's a chance i could be... pregnant."

"pregnant?" his voice echoed.

"yeah. i've taken a test and we're waiting for the results."

he didn't say anything.

"Rafe?"

"yeah, yeah... this is good, right?"

"i don't know. is it?"

"i don't know."

there was silence again.

"i'm here now. i'll see you in a minute."

Nurse Midway re-entered with the test in her hands.

"do you wanna wait until your boyfriend arrives to look at it?" she asked.

i nodded.

her face was void and i couldn't tell what she was thinking, let alone what the test said.

Rafe burst through the door a second later.

"June," he hugged me tight and kissed my hair.

"i take it you're the boyfriend?" Midway looked between us.

"yes, i am." he stood up straight, his arm still protectively round my shoulders.

"alright. i take it Juno has filled you in?"

"she has."

"okay. are you ready?"

they both looked at me.

i swallowed and nodded slowly.

Nurse Midway flipped the test round.

two fat red lines sat in the middle of the screen.

"congratulations," the Nurse said at the same time i said-

"fuck,"

"i'll leave you two alone for a moment." she said, and left the room again.

"i want to get rid of it."

"i want to keep it."

we said simultaneously.

"what?!"

"i don't want to be a single mother!"

"i'd never leave you! you know that!"

"that might change if we have a kid!"

"it wouldn't!"

"you don't know that. my body would be ruined." i sulked.

"i don't care, June! i'm not with you for your body, i'm with you for you! ...and also a bit of your body."

i scoffed and rolled my eyes. "i'm not ready for a kid—neither are you!"