The Sisterhood of the Teenage Mothers

Before: Chapter Ten - The Sisterhood of the Teenage Mothers

                 

Before: Chapter Ten – The Sisterhood of the Teenage Mothers

The Day of

The next two weeks had passed uneventfully, especially for Kayla who since telling Mary her secret had tried even harder to keep her head low and to seem invisible. She had stuck to going to class, doing work and staying her quiet little self trying to forget that her getting pregnant had ever even happened. But she knew there was no way she could forget. Now that she had decided she wasn't getting an abortion she knew her stomach would grow bigger everyday until the time when people would start to notice it wasn't just because she had, had extra food. Kayla didn't know how she felt about having this baby. She had tried not to think about it for the last two weeks, but the thought always lingered at the back of her mind. While Kayla was wondering through the crowded school hallways she let all these thoughts go around and around in her head like an endless whirlpool. She was so pre-occupied on her thoughts in fact, that she wasn't really paying much attention to where she was walking. What are you going to do about this baby? She was about to look up and shake the thought from her head when she crashed into someone's hard chest. This, because Kayla was pregnant made her even more uncoordinated and she fell to her ass on the floor. Kayla felt a little amount of pain go through her body but it was gone in a matter of seconds and she looked up. Kayla saw the familiar face of her study partner that she hadn't seen since that night... the night she walked home late from his house. Kayla tried to push the thought from her mind it wasn't his fault that she had walked home in the middle of the night, even his parents had offered her a lift home which Kayla knew now she should of taken and as she looked up into his gentle hazel eyes she couldn't even be mad at him. From the floor Kayla was looking up at a boy named Noah; her study partner from nearly every class she had, for some reason the teachers would always pair them together, probably because they were both their star pupils. His hazel eyes were looking right into Kayla's green ones making her remain on the ground to stare. His brown hair was messy on top of his head like he hadn't had time to do it but somehow it still looked good. He had a backpack full of books on his back and probably a million things on his mind but he just remained there smiling at Kayla with his perfect teeth and dimples on his cheeks. Kayla didn't know what to say, well, true she couldn't say anything. She was shocked by the fact she hadn't even tried to see Noah in the past weeks. They had, had so much work to do and she had just left him alone to do it. Kayla suddenly felt so bad. But she understood why she had avoided him, she had avoided him because seeing him just reminded her of the last time she had seen him; on the night that had changed it all. Noah just smiled at Kayla though; completely unaware of why she had been avoiding him and that she had a baby growing inside of her. He just smiled that geeky smile at her and every bad thought that was related to him seemed to drift away. Kayla cleared her throat offering him her hand so he could help her up.

"Do you always spend so much time on the floor?" he asked with a slight chuckle, letting go of her hand as soon as she was up right. Kayla blushed a little but shook her head. "So... I haven't seen you around lately, how have you been?" Kayla considered telling Noah why she hadn't been around but she quickly decided against it. She did not want to tell someone else what had happened to her, she had, had a hard enough time admitting it to herself.

"I'm sorry I've just... had a lot to do... I'm sorry for just deserting you like that when you needed me and leaving you with all the work... I didn't mean to –"

"Hey don't worry about it, I got it all done and our teachers will still give you and A." he winked at her and Kayla smiled. Noah knew how important good grades were to Kayla probably because that's what he wanted for himself. They were both nerds and so they both understood each other's obsession with grades and studying. There was a slight silence between them as they both just stood there looking at each other. Kayla watched as Noah's eyes drifted away from her and she looked over to what he was looking at. She immediately saw the Prom poster hanging on the wall. Prom was still a couple of months away but the Prom committee had decided to start their advertising early so they could start raising money for the event. Posters were already hung up all over the school supporting the theme "Winter Wonderland" which Kayla found both cliché and somewhat mystical. She only wished she could go, but she knew by then she would be big enough for people to know she was definitely pregnant. "So I've been meaning to ask you something." Kayla who was still focused on the poster didn't even register Noah's words instead she stared silently at the poster that represented to her, all the things she would be missing out on. "Would you want to go to prom with me?"