Your Body With Somebody Else. BWS

Panic!

Alysia's POV

This can't be right. I check the calendar again.

"Star? Star! STELLA!" I yell walking into her room.

"What's the date?" I ask.

"The 11th, why?" She asks as she does her make-up.

"I'm late." I say.

"Late for what?" She asks. I mentally face palm myself.

"Did you get your period the other day?" I ask.

"Yeaahhh, oh crap." She says as she realises.

"Yeah. What do I do?" I say starting to panic.

"Did you not use protection?!" Star screeches.

"Oh no, the condoms I keep with me at work had run out!" I shout sarcastically.

"What about the pill?!"

"I didn't really think about it!" I say. "I'm an idiot. What am I going to do?"

"Who says you're even pregnant? Maybe you just skipped one? It's happened before."

"Yeah but not a few weeks after I sleep with someone who's never here!" I say putting my head in my hands.

"I need to do a test! Do we have any?" I ask.

"Of course not, but I'll drive you." She says.

We walk down the aisle of the women's healthcare in the shop. I pick up a pregnancy test. It has two tests inside so I pick up another.

"Why do you need four?" Star asks.

"Just in case this happens again!" I say.

"In that case we better get these!" She says picking up some condoms, laughing.

We pay at the self-service machines and leave. We get home and I go straight to the bathroom.

"Lissy! Are you sure you want to do that now?" She says to me nervously.

"Yeah, of course why?" I shout.

"Your parents just pulled up outside. We forgot that they are coming over for lunch!"

"Oh crap!" I say. I run out of the bathroom just as my parents knock on the door. We greet them and let them in.

"Sorry we didn't make lunch, something came up." I explain.

"Oh Lissy, do you need us to leave?" My sweet mother asks.

"No mum, it's ok." I say.

"Well what came up?" My dad asks. I look at Star.

"Tell them Lissy." She says.

"Umm, I'm late."

"Oh." My mum says.

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend?" My dad says.

"I don't."

"Oh." My mum says again.

"I'm going to take a test now. I'm sorry I can't think about anything else."

"It's ok, hun we'll support you no matter what happens."

"Thanks mum." I hug her.

I go into the bathroom. I take the test and sit at the kitchen table. Star starts the timer. I look at the cooker. It's a bit dirty so clean it until the timer goes off to keep my mind off it. No one says anything.

*beep beep*

I give Star a worried look. I sit at the table, pick up the test and look at the result.

"No." I say in disbelief, putting my head down.

"Well?" My mum asks. I hold it up.

"Oh honey." She says.

"That explains why you've been so ill lately." Star says.

"How could I be so stupid?!" I say tears welling in my eyes.

"You need to tell Brad." Star says.

"I'd like to meet this Brad that got you pregnant!" My dad says. "Get him over here."

"I can't dad! He's in another country!" There's nothing I can do to stop the tears.

"What do you mean?" My mum asks.

"He's the lead singer in a band and they're on tour." Star explains for me.

"Which band?" My dad asks. I sigh.

"The Vamps." I say through tears.

"I don't know them." My dad says.

"You wouldn't. I interviewed them too."

"Well it started before that!" Star exclaims as she tells (most of) the story.

"And we ended up... sleeping together after the interview and they left for the tour the next day." I finish.

"Lissy!" My mum says hugging me.

"I'd better call Brad." I say getting up.

I listen to the phone ring. No answer. I try again few minutes later. No answer. I try again and again. When he looks at his phone he will have 8 missed calls from me.

We are watching TV with my parents when my phone rings. It's Brad. I put him on speaker.

"Hey Lissy, is everything ok? I'm sorry I didn't see these, we were..."

"Brad, that doesn't matter. Just listen." I say.

"Is something wrong?" He asks. I hear Tris asking if everything's ok in the background.

"Umm. Well I'm... I'm pregnant." I say. Brad says nothing.

"With your baby." We hear Tris saying "Brad? What's happened? Brad!"

"He calls you Lissy." My mum smiles.

Only family and my closest friends call me Lissy.