Five Star Hotel

24. News

I'm so sorry for how short this chapter is but I feel like it had to end here.

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We ended up dragging Jade out of her room. Her hair was in knots and her makeup from the previous day was a mess. "I don't want to go out." She whined. Jennifer managed to get her to stop hyperventilating. "Why can't you just bring them here?" She asked as I combed out her hair.

"It'll be good for you to get some air." She hadn't taken a pregnancy test yet. We needed a confirmation before we did anything else.

"And you're sure it's with that guy?" Jennifer asked referring to Sean. "I mean, you're absolutely positive that it's not Luke."

Jade shook her head. "It's Sean."

"So what happened that night?" I asked her. "You guys seemed fine. You were both minding your own business."

"I know." She sighed. "We were. I wasn't even thinking about him like that. It's just that you and Dante decided to take the stairs up and we took the elevator. I was going to your room but then he began to tell me a joke. I followed him because I wanted to hear it. Anyways he told me the joke and it was actually really stupid. I remember laughing because it was just that stupid."

"Was it a dirty joke...?" Jennifer asked.

Jade frowned. "I don't remember. We were standing there one minute and the next..." She didn't finish her sentence.

She probably went through the same thing I did with Dante that first night. Well in her case things were worse because I was single and she wasn't. Plus I got my period.

Dante. There goes his stupid name again. I sighed out loud.

"Did you know him before that night?" Chloe asked. I was wondering the same thing.

"No. I'm telling you guys it was just physical." Well now look where that just physical attraction got her.

The three of us went out to the store and brought three tests, we then took them back to the hotel.

He was in the lobby. I saw him walk past but I didn't look over. If I did it would've ended up with me being the pregnant one unless he had a condom in his pocket.

Well actually I still had a few in my purse from when we were together. By the time I realized that we were already in the elevator.

"What do I do if they're positive?" Jade asked sitting on my bed. We were just waiting for the results now.

"You tell Sean then you break things off with Luke." I said a little too harshly.

I thought that he would've said something by now. Not avoid me. How does a person say they love you, but not try fix things? Simple things. It's not like I was asking him to cut off a limb. I just wanted the truth. I deserved to hear the truth.

"Ok. This is it." Jennifer said, walking over to the counter where the tests were. She pulled one out. "Negative." I think we all let out a sigh of release. Before any of us could start celebrating she pulled out the other one and read, "Positive." And then the last one. "Positive."

The three of us sat there, frozen. Jade was pregnant. Crazy, reckless Jade was going to be a mom... I couldn't picture it. Just when she finally settled down, her crazy life style caught up with her.

Tears just silently rolled down her cheeks. They wouldn't stop flowing. "It'll be ok." I said in a whisper. I didn't know if everything was going to be ok, but what was I supposed to say?

"No it won't." Her voice was flat. "It's not ok. This isn't ok. I hate myself. How could I let this happen?"

"We've all been there. And I don't mean pregnant, but that one night. It's not your fault that it broke. It could've happened to anyone." This came from Jennifer.

"But it happened to me." She said. "It had to happen to me. What do I do? Who do I tell first?" Now you could hear the panic in her voice.

"You need to let Luke go, then tell Sean. He deserves to know." I said.

I wanted to be supportive but at that moment I felt nothing but sweet relief that I wasn't the one in her shoes.