The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Chapter 36: Do You Want To Know?

Shailene P.O.V
I sat at my lunch table with Taylor and Marissa on each side if me. I was eating my burger too fast for me to join their conversation.

"No! Taylor Swift is better!" Taylor argued.

"Your only saying that because she has the same name as you!" Marissa sassed. "We all know that Ariana Grande is way better than that, thing you call a country singer!"

"Ariana doesn't even sing country! She sings pop! Pop!" Taylor yelled.

"Can you two stop? I'm trying to eat." I finally made them both shut up.

"Oh, uh sorry Shay." Marissa took a sip of my water.

"Hey, thats mine!" I said.

"So? We've been friends since kindergarten." She protested.

"Yeah, but she's pregnant! If your sick, she'll get sick and she can't take medication while she's pregnant!" Taylor defended me.

"She's right." I agreed.

"Well, I'm not sick." She poked my belly.

"You sure? Cuz, I'm thinking you caught AIDS from Brett or something like that!" Taylor joked, then looked at me. "Oh, sorry Shay."

"It's okay." I finished my burger. Before I could stand, Taylor wanted to throw away all of our stuff so she did. Marissa and I were alone.

"So Mar, can I ask you, what happened to your wrists?" I pointed at her red wrists that I noticed Saturday night.

"Nothing." She put her head down and looked as if she was about to cry.

Okay then...
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I was called to the office since I was going to the doctors again to find out what the gender of the baby was. Brett met up with me at my locker and walked down to the office with me. He drove himself while my mom drove me.

Once we got there, we waited about an hour before we we're called in. I told my mother that I wanted it to be just Brett and I when we find out. I layed down on the table thing, once again, with my belly free for the world to see. Before the nurse out the cold gel on my stomach, Brett whispered something to my stomach then kissed it.

"So dad's here this week?" The nurse asked.

"Yeah." He answered for me. "Are we going to find out what we're having?"

"Hopefully." The nurse put the cool gel on me then started to move around the wand thing on my stomach. "Someone's eager to find out what your having." She whispered to me.

After a few minutes of searching for the baby, she finally got it on screen. She took a few measurements of it and some pictures. Brett was staring at the screen. He couldn't stand still for a moment.

"So, you want to know what your having?" She asked us.

I looked over at Brett while he looked back at me. I nodded at him while he nodded at me. He held my hand and leaned against the table.

"We want to know." He smiled.