Looking Back

Chapter 23: Secret Revealed

Tanner's POV

What was going on?

I've noticed Tamara has been acting very strange lately. Ever since her dad was put in the hospital that day, she's been quiet and closed off to everybody around her.

Even me!

She stopped going to church and the library after school which was really strange. At lunch, she barely talks to me or even looks at me. And when I call her she never answers her phone.

I don't think I can take another day of this. I needed to know what was going on. There had to be something more to this. Tamara wouldn't act this strange just because her father went to the hospital for one night.

Something else happened.

Tamara's POV

A week has passed and I still haven't had my period. It never skips. Ever. What is going on?

I couldn't be pregnant. Not after only one time.

I skipped school that day and went to the library to talk to Felisha.

"Tamara, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at school?"

"Yeah, but I need to talk to you in private," I said quietly.

"Come in my office."

Shutting the door behind me, Felisha sat down waiting to hear what I was going to say.

I took a deep breath wondering if I was really considering this. Finally I spoke. "Is it possible to get pregnant if you did it only one time?"

"Tamara..." She got out of her chair and squatted next to the seat I was sitting in.

"My period skipped and it has never done that before," I said staring into her brown eyes that were full of concern.

"We will go get it checked, okay?"

All I could do was nod my head.

I was pregnant.

Felisha and I went to a clinic out of town and bought a pregnancy test that was very accurate. The results came back positive. On the way home all I could do was cry.

Tanner

I couldn't take it anymore. The silence and Tamara's eyes that once sparkled, but now have dimmed and formed dark circles around them was killing me. I needed to find out what was going on inside that head of hers.

What was going on?

The only person who could possibly know what was going on would be Felisha. Why didn't I think of her in the first place? Not waiting for another opportunity to pass by, instead of going to lunch, I went to the public library to visit Felisha.

"Tanner, what are you doing here?" asked Felisha when she spotted me.

"Can we talk in your office?"

"Sure." She shut the door behind me. "Does this have something to do with Tamara?" she asked.

"Everything," I told her. "She won't talk to me. At all. And I want to know what's going on." Seeing the worried, scared, and sad mixtures of expressions on her face made me sick to my stomach.

What happened?

"Tanner...Tamara is pregnant."

"What?!" I said nearly yelling. "Is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke?"

"I'm not joking," she said being very serious.

Tamara pregnant? How? When? She couldn't be serious. I shook my head not sure if I could believe this. It was impossible.