Take Chances ~Teen Pregnancy~

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I'm a man, I dont get butterflies in my stomach.

I'm a man...

I had to keep repeating the same thing over and over again during the car ride to Mickey D's, I dont know this girl and yet im covering the steering wheel in sweat which is very dangerous by the way.

Your gonna be the death of me. I thought to myself as I turned to look at the brunette for a brief moment, not enough that she thought I was being a weirdo but just enough to notice how deep in thought she was as she stared straight ahead probably eyeing the giant yellow "M" just half a block away now.  

There was just something about her that really attracted me to her since the first time I saw her with her friends this morning, But for some reason I just could not put a finger on what it was..

All of a sudden I felt her dark chocolaty eyes on me as I put my right turn signal on to go into the McDonalds parking lot. "Something you wanna say?" I asked her curious as to why she was hesitating to talk to me, I was buying her lunch for pete's sake. Finally parking my suv and turning the ignition off I turned my torso slightly so I could face her.

She smiled and I could have sworn she was blushing tomato red but she turned the other way quickly so I wouldn't notice I guess which I admit made me frown a bit. "Its nothing, Im just really hungry." She finally said ending her sentence with a sigh. 

"In that case lets go." I replied a bit confused by the way she was acting, like it was so wrong I invited her to eat or something. She didn't say another word till we were up next to order our food and even then it wasn't much "a number one, medium.. Dr. Pepper please." I got the same thing the only difference was I ordered a large and instead of a Dr. Pepper I went for a raspberry ice tea. We only waited about 5 minutes and the chick at the counter hollered for order number 118.

The whole 20 minutes eating were the most awkward yet, it was like the big mac in Julie's hands was the most interesting thing in the universe. I tried clearing my throat, dropping packets of ketchup on the floor and no matter what I did nothing made her look up at me as if she were in a trance. Whatever, I give up.

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As we entered the school parking lot I saw her starting to pull her bag out from underneath her feet, so just for the fuck of it I decided I'd go slower than usual, like 2 mph slow. I saw her turn to me questioningly but I pretended I didn't notice as I was concentrated on "looking" for a parking space. "Will you be parking anytime soon?" I grinned enjoying how annoyed she was at me.  

"I'm picky with parking spaces" I replied holding a chuckle back. She sighed and looked down at her hands As if debating on whether she should say something to me or not Then taking me by complete surprise she looked straight at me hesitated for a brief second and said "I'm pregnant." 

I was going to hit the break but ended up on the gas instead and our bodies smacked hard against the seats, when my eyes settled on a parking space I slid my Suburban right in. Did she just say that? The funny thing is she said it as if it were my child she was carrying which automatically made me grin a little and it made her look at me wide eyed. It was then that I noticed a little bulge down where her flat tummy should be, it wasn't a bulge like the ones we all get when we sit down, no it was a very defined roundish bulge. I guess she noticed I was staring and quickly started to unbuckle her seat belt to leave.  

For a moment I didn't know if I should just let her leave and pretend we never met but at the same time I knew damn well this girl was special and there was no way in hell I could let her get away.

"Daniel it was nice meeting you, thanks for lunch but-" she didn't even finish her sentence and instead opened the door and jumped out of her seat.

I watched her walk away for about 10 seconds, she walked funny though which made me smile..  

I hopped out of my car and sped up my step to catch up to her, it didn't take long- Maybe another 10 seconds.

"Go away Daniel." She said not daring to look at me.

"I'm not going anywhere, let me walk you to class" I paused and remember she had thanked me for lunch "Your welcome." 

She stopped, turned to look at me curiosity completely taking over her "For what?" Se asked not looking into my eyes but at least she was looking at me.

"For lunch, and call me Danny." I smiled warmly taking her hand and tugging slightly for her to walk with me. She didn't pull away which was a good sign, then something I did not expect happened. Julie walked right up to me and planted a soft kiss on my cheek.

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Julie's POV

I cant believe he did not run away. Any sane guy would turn his back in a blink on a girl who is expecting another guys child.. 

No matter how weird this was I didn't know how long Danny would stick around so I was gonna enjoy his company as much as possible. He didn't seem the least bit disturbed by the fact that I was pregnant and he didn't ask any questions about anything at all, He simply shrugged it off as if what I said was completely normal, as if instead of me blurting out " I'm pregnant" I'd said "Today is Wednesday". So whatever, i'm not even gonna think about it anymore just in case I jinx it...

It turned out we had three classes together, first period,which he decided to ditch, fourth and fifth. The last bell was going to ring in about ten minutes, we were in PE walking around the track at a snails pace just blabbering on, actually he was the one doing all the talking- I just listened. It seemed like he never got tired of talking, don't get me wrong- I loved hearing his life stories. Like the summer he build a motorcycle all by himself apparently it was super slow and he ended up selling it to a 13 year old for fifty bucks. To me it seemed like a waste of a whole summer but he told me motorcycles were his hobby and it was completely worth it.

The girls coach blew her whistle letting us know the bell was just minutes away and we could go change our clothes to go home. I turned to Daniel truly not wanting to leave his side just in case he disappeared all of a sudden but I reeked of sweat and i'm sure he could smell it. "Go, I'll be right outside the locker room waiting for you" he said smiling very sweetly. Every time he talked to me like that I felt like I could just die right there and die happily without a worry... except for my baby of course. I smiled back at him and turned towards the big brick building eager to change back to deliciously smelling clothes.

I ended up taking the worlds quickest shower in the locker room since I felt really nasty to put on my clean clothes after sweating like a pig in the hot sun. After getting dressed I grabbed my bag and ran towards the exit leading to the back of the school, until I ran past a mirror and saw how ugly I looked without make up on. Wow. 

I pulled out a tube of clear mascara and some concealer to hide some of the redness on my for head. I usually didn't care if I looked like shit after P.E. but usually Daniel wasn't waiting for me outside. Usually I wouldn't be pregnant, usually I didn't look as ugly as I seem to be looking now days. I pushed the double doors and walked out only to see no one in sight, not a single soul. 

"What the fu-" 

"No foul language in school Missy." a beautiful masculine voice creeped up behind me making my body turn a little too fast becoming really dizzy. "Whoa there Jules, you okay?" I felt his strong hold on me so I wouldn't fall on my butt, i'm pretty sure he felt how tensed up I got in his arms so he let me go fairly quick. "I'm good thanks." was all I could manage to respond. 

 After walking silently under his strong arm for about a minute now I realized as soon as we got to the parking lot we had to go our separate ways. I slowly turned to look up at him, my gosh he is very handsome, his eyes are completely mesmerizing.. marry me? I thought to myself. My phone buzzed in my back pocket making my ass vibrate a little and somehow Danny seemed to have felt the vibration and gently lifted his arm to let me get to whoever was interrupting my wishful thinking. I pulled the huge thing out of my pocket and read the screen. 

NEW TEXT MESSAGE FROM:

       MICHAEL 

I hesitated for a moment but something told me I should open it and so I did.

Julie we need to talk. i miss u please call me!