snowflakes a.i

december 19th, 2014

december 19th. this was the day a highschool rumor spread like wildfire through the halls of WMHS. it was like nothing the students or faculty had ever seen before. it was just so shocking, and probably true.

"gina's pregnant?" is all meredith heard when walking through the front doors that friday morning. despite gina being the school's designated slut, she was surprised. there had been no pregnancy scares yet in her 3 and a half years at this school, and honestly, she wasn't planning on there being one.

the only question was, who's was it?

she walked to her locker slowly, wanting to catch the words of students in her grasp, thirsty for information on this new gossip. her eyes darted from cluster to cluster of students, all whispering to their friends about the leaked secrets.

some sophomore girls were really stuck on the fact that it was grade-a hottie finn blacke, gina's ex boyfriend whom she'd only dumped about a month before. meredith honestly didn't know who she thought it was. someone had caught her hooking up with shane finnegan near the beginning of december, but that was probably just a fling, they were smart enough to use some form of protection, right?

she finally made it to her locker and was listening to two juniors from the cheerleading squad shriek. "i, like, cannot believe she got off the pill!" the brunette one gasped to her shorter blonde friend. meredith was now intrigued.

"i know.. like seriously, if you're gonna hook up with an std ridden druggie at least take something!" blondie scoffed. meredith raised an eyebrow from behind her locker. so gina's been around the burnouts as well, hm? if she remembered clearly, gina was the one who was giving her crap for hanging out with a "reject."

the brown haired one giggled. "at least he's not that ugly so their offspring has a chance of being cute."

she took this as her cue to leave, and rounded the corner. gina was walking in the front doors, looking as bitter and washed out as ever. the bows in the back of her uggs were frayed and her hair looked like it had been through a car wash. not to mention her face, she was paler than ever and looked horrified. meredith almost felt bad for the poor, pregnant girl. almost.

as meredith walked on, she heard silence take over the hallway. gina was the talk of the entire school, and it wasn't even first period yet. meredith was soon in her first class, sitting silently, listening to information, and occasionally laughing at theories.

••

by lunch everyone had a theory about the father. meredith's best guess was finn, the star quarterback, and gina's ex. they broke off around thanksgiving, and probably ended after some bad sex. she sat at a table, waiting for ashton. the second he walked through the doors of the cafeteria, a high pitched shriek pierced the ears of all around the source. "YOU!" the voice yelled, and it belonged to none other than gina peters. she took long strides over to ashton, and dragged him down the hall and out of the cafeteria. meredith was confused for a moment, but then it hit her.

what if ashton was the father?

her eyes widened at her own thought, and her first instinct was to prove herself wrong.

no, he hates her! absolutely hates her guts!

but he does get drunk a lot and... ya know...

but gina thinks he's scum, and never goes to those parties.

but they could just hook up on the side of hating each other?

she slammed her head down on the table and held in a scream. it took every last ounce of her self control to not let loose and go ballistic in the middle of the school day. her best friend could possibly be hooking up with her worst enemy, and could have gotten her pregnant? this seemed impossible. implausible. the last explanation for this confusion the school was sent into.

but she could almost tell that the students were going to begin to think the same thing after seeing what happened. part of meredith wanted to get up and follow them, but instead she sank farther into her volleyball sweatshirt and picked at the pasta she'd bought. she didn't want to be there. she wanted to go home and curl into a ball and watch reruns of america's next top model and cry about everything that had happened in the past five hours.

so, she did what she knew she could.

she went to the nurse and faked a migraine to get sent home. the things she was supposed to bring home werent in her top list of priorities. she just grabbed her bag, phone, and got the hell out.

on the walk home, she could only think about them. ashton and gina. brought together by a stupid baby that was never supposed to be born. but instead of leaving and paying child support, she saw him being a father to the mistake.

then, meredith realized she was getting way ahead of herself. no one knew that it was ashton's, hell, gina couldn't even be pregnant! there was no one home in the king household, with her father away in florida on business, and her mother working on the campaign. so meredith did what she did best.

she ate half baked ben and jerry's, watched the virgin suicides, and desperately tried to understand. the movie was the only thing that could get her mind off things. it was confusing, and packed with drama, but put in calm ways, until the rest of the four girls died on the same night.

it's like that family wanted to become a mystery.

then her head snapped up. she was onto something! just as she was about to think about it more, her phone rang. "hello?" she answered, not knowing who it was.

"did you go home sick?" she heard ashton's voice on the other end.

"yeah." she said bluntly, really not wanting to talk to him at all.

brief silence came in from the other end. "are you angry at me?" he asked.

meredith took in a deep breath and shut her eyes. "i don't know ashton, and i'm being dead serious because i'm just really confused right now, okay?" she huffed, then hung up the phone and sighed.

••

that night there was another dinner with the hemmings', and it landed on a day where meredith's father was away, again. when she greeted the family, luke had no sarcastic comments to make. meredith frowned a little, she never liked luke, but it was something they'd always do.

she sat down at the table next to luke, and then it began. "luke, honey, how did you do on your science test?" mrs. hemmings asked, ready to ask meredith after.

"i'm not feeling too good about it." he mumbled, and she raised an eyebrow.

"i'm sure you did fine." meredith said, shoving some chicken in her mouth.

the group of five sat in silence for a while before mr. hemmings asked about their day at school. "nothing much, gina peters is pregnant." she muttered.

meredith's mother nearly choked on her water. "what?" she asked. "gina peters with a wealthy dad?"

"yeah... she's knocked up." luke said, staring at his plate.

"no one's surprised."

"i think it's shane's." luke told her.

meredith shook her head. "my money's on finn." she shrugged, and he nodded understandingly as their parents watched in horror.

these dinners always were interesting.

••

that night, meredith was catching up on some chemistry homework, when ashton texted her.

ashypoo:

mer im sorry for whatever i did
[11:29pm]

ashypoo:

you know i never want you to be sad :~(
[11:32pm]

ashypoo:

mer i swear i will come over there right now.
[11:33pm]

meredith:

dont.
[11:35pm read]

••

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