Why Him?

The reveal

I haven't seen or heard from Riley all morning. When I get to class I am relieved to see her sitting there. "Hey riles. I went to your house to pick you up this morning. You weren't there." she ignores me. "Where were you?" she doesn't move a muscle. I tap on her shoulder. "Riley Whats wrong?" she finally turns around to me and mumbles something. "What?" I ask. She raises her voice. "HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME!!" I instantly walk up to Mr. Matthews. "You told her!?!?" tears pouring down my face. "How could you!" Lucas looks over at me. "Told her what?" I look back at him. "Why don't you just ask him. He seems to be ok with sharing other peoples personal information." Mr. Matthews looks over to me. "Please just take a seat Maya." I storm out of the classroom and I hear Farkle call my name.

I leave school and begin to walk home when Farkle catches up with me. "Maya you can't just leave like that." I continue walking. "Its not like you haven't done it before." he tugs on my arm make me stop. "Maya whats going on?" with tears still falling down my face I turn around to him. "Farkle I'm pregnant ok! Thats whats wrong!" he pulls me into a hug and I try to compose myself. I pull back from Farkle and he looks at me with sympathy. "How does Mr. Matthews know?" I sigh. "Its a long story that I just don't feel like telling you right now. I just want to go home. I'll talk to you later." I continue to walk home and he goes back to school.

The Matthews know. Farkle knows. Lucas more than likely knows. But my mother doesn't. I wouldn't even know where to begin to tell her. I've known that I was pregnant for the past 3 weeks. And I don't know whats harder. Pretending that everything is ok or telling everyone that its not. I've been at home by myself all day and I've been dreading my mom coming home. My mom gets off at 10:30 and not but minutes later she comes bursting through the door. "Maya you better have a good explanation as to why I was called at work to be told that my daughter had left school in the middle of class today." I look over at her all puffy eyed. "Mom....... I'm pregnant." she shakes her head. "No. No. Your not." "Mom I am." I say through my tears. She slams her bag down. "No! Because then it would show just how bad of a mother I am. Because I couldn't be around enough to teach you better." she's now crying. She then storms off to her room and slams the door. I sit there in tears. My mom doesn't come out of her room for the rest of the night.