How To Play The Game.

twenty two - lily

"You need to calm down." Lily folded her arms across her chest, trying to stop Michael from getting upset. If he would just let her explain there wouldn't be a problem, but Michael wasn't letting her.

"Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down? I can't calm down." Michael babbled on, pacing back and forth around Lily's living room. He was still holding the pregnancy test tightly in his hand, like he was scared to let go of it. "I'm not ready to be a dad."

"I know, I know. That's fine - "

"No, Lily, it's not fine!" Michael said, throwing his hands up in the air in frustration. "You're pregnant, we're having a baby, we are not fine! I'm not ready, neither of our apartments are fit for a baby - "

"I'm not pregnant!" Lily yelled, cutting him off. She had been trying to explain this to him for the last 5 minutes. "Can you just shut up and let me explain?"

"You're not pregnant? Yeah, right. Who does the fucking positive pregnancy test belong to, then? Luke?" Michael scoffed. He stopped pacing and turned around to look at Lily. "I know you never went to college but the human body doesn't work that way!"

"Stop being so mean and just let me explain, oh my God." Lily said, shaking her head. She hated how Michael was talking to her but she tried not to let it bother her.

"Fine. Just try to explain this." Michael snapped, crossing his arms over his chest. Lily knew that Michael was upset and worried and even scared right now, but she thought that he could try to be just a little understanding about the whole thing. He could at least let Lily tell him what was going on without yelling at her every few seconds.

"I'm not pregnant, okay? I haven't been feeling good for the last couple days and Luke was insisting that I was pregnant so he went out and got me about a million tests and made me take them." Lily explain. "They all came out negative except that one. It's a false positive."

"Then why was this one laying out on the counter for the whole fucking world to see?" Michael questioned.

"Oh, I didn't know the whole fucking world was going to be taking a tour of my bathroom." Lily said sarcastically. "Luke and I were looking at it before he left for his modeling thing this morning."

"How do you know it's just a false positive?" Michael asked.

"Because all the others were negative. If I was really pregnant don't you think all of the test would he positive, not just one?" Lily said, answering Michael's question with her own question.

"I-I don't know, Lily..." Michael trailed off. "Why didn't you just tell me that you thought you were pregnant?" He sighed, seeming less upset now.

"I knew that I wasn't pregnant. Luke thought I was." Lily shrugged. That was kind of a lie. There was a very short period of time when Lily thought that maybe it was possibly that she was pregnant, her and Michael weren't always the safest when they had sex, but she knew that this was just a cold.

"You could have at least told me that you were taking a test. I would have liked to know about this." Michael said quietly and looked down at the ground.

"We weren't talking to each other at the time, I didn't want to bother you." Lily said. She hadn't planned on telling Michael about this at all, she'd meant to throw the positive pregnancy test away after her and Luke were done looking at it.

"If you had just called me and said 'hey Michael, I think I'm pregnant' I would have come over and helped!" Michael raised his voice a little, taking a few steps closer to Lily.

"What would you have helped with?" Lily asked, not really understanding. She thought that Michael was making a much bigger deal out of this than he needed to. "All I did was take a stupid test!"