After a tragic lose that shattered Hailey, she is forced to continue on and face her life in the apocalypse with her boyfriend Carl and their group. Carl learned that they need eachother to carry on, but Hailey is shutting the one she needs most out...
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|Hailey's P.o.v.|
"What did you just say?" Rick asks clenching his jaw.
I stand there getting looked down on by Rick and I didn't know what to say. I look down at my feet to avoid the shame I felt looking into his eyes. Maggie calls out for Rick and apart of me feels like she did that on purpose.
"We are not done this discussion." He tells me sternly before walking away to Maggie. My eyes are still staring at the ground because I honestly feel ashamed. I told pretty much everyone, even people I don't know, that I'm knocked up at 16-17 years old. I wonder how Carl will feel once we get back and he knows that everyone knows. I told them without him and I already know he'll feel some type of way. A hand on my shoulder breaks my thoughts. I look up to see Randall offering a reassuring smile, but it didn't matter because nothing could take away what just happened.
"Let's go talk." He says.
The rest of the group was inside, but honestly I didn't feel like being in there. I didn't want the stares and the lectures right now, I just need a friend to talk to. That's exactly what Randall was offering.
"So, you're having a baby." He says surprised as we take a seat on the stairs of the porch. I nod my head and bite my lip.
"Yeah, that's what it seems like." I sigh.
"Does Carl know?" Randall asks.
"Yeah, we found out yesterday." I tell him.
Randall laughs causing a confused look to plaster my face. I'm not sure what he could be laughing about with this situation. Randall looks at me with a grin.
"The one thing I was trying my whole teenage years to dodge happened to you." He teases laughing. I smirk and shove his shoulder with mine.
"Shut up!" I tease back. I shake my head at his horrible joke, but at least it got a laugh out of me. I never really thought about teenage pregnancy as I was only 14, a virgin, and never had a boyfriend at the start of all this. Even when I got older and had a boyfriend it wasn't until later I was thinking about sex. I know I practically gave it away to Randall, but my mother never had the talk with me. Carl never got the talk. We only ever got the talk at the prison when Rick saw we were getting closer. But other than that I wasn't educated much. Teenage pregnancy never really slipped my mind, but I'm going to have to start getting used to it as I'm now pregnant.
"Okay, okay, okay." He starts calming his laughter. "Serious note, are you happy?"
I look into Randall's eyes and there was nothing but empathy and worry. Am I happy? That's a great question because I haven't even gotten around to asking myself yet as this all happened so fast. On one hand this baby will be loved and they're a mixture of me and the boy I'm in love with, then on the other we're young and in a world where just one wrong turn, one wrong person, you're dead.
