Barely legal (Student/Teacher Relationship)

Chapter Twenty-One

Merry Christmas you guys! I hope you had an amazing time with your family and friends, and I wish you a blessed New Year!

Chapter Twenty-One:

There is a very strange feeling that comes over you when you know your best friend is in trouble. A very protective, territorial, and angry feeling washes all over you like waves washing over the sand. When your best friend does something stupid it is incredibly hard to not be angered by her choices, to not want to yell at the top of your lungs. 

When Ivory first told me the news, I felt like I was the one whose life was turning upside down. We had so many plans after high school together. We were going to skip college for a year, move out of this town, get an apartment together, and see where life took us from there. Once we were ready, we planned on attending college, getting our degrees, then getting married and having children. In that order, call me naive but thats how I planned out our lives. So when one of us is deviating from that plan, it feels like the whole plan is derailed.  

How could she let this happen? She was the one who always gave me the spill on protected sex. For God's sake her motto was "No glove no love." Obviously, she preaches more than she practices.  

Everyone always feels for the person that is directly affected by something. What they don't see is how others are affected also. She was my soul mate of a best friend, and now I feel like our entire life was in jeopardy. 

It had been two days since I last talked to her. I can't even bring myself to answer her messages, and I still haven't had the nerve to call her. It's crazy, after all she is my best friend. Why shouldn't I be able to just pick up the phone and call her just like any other time? 

"Rilan?" Kyle's voice calls from across the room. I feel bad for him. I haven't been showing him much attention either since I heard the news from Ivory. 

"Yeah babe? I'm sorry." I say looking down at my hot pink toe nails. 

"It's okay. I was just wondering if you wanted to go get lunch with me or if you want me to bring it back?" He asks sweetly coming across the room and sitting next to me. 

"I'll stay here if you don't mind." Burying my head in his shoulder, I know I have to call her now. 

"Okay, i'll be back." He says kissing me sweetly on my forehead before leaving the room. 

I couldn't think about what I was doing because I know i'll just talk myself out of it yet again. So dialing her number quickly I throw myself on the bed and promise myself everything will be okay. 

"Rilan?" Her voice was soft and scared as if she had been waiting for me to call her. 

"Are you sure?" I couldn't stop myself from diving right into questions, I have to know everything. 

"Positive, I went to the doctor yesterday for a blood test. They confirmed it this morning." She says quickly and waits for my next question. I couldn't help but find her attitude slightly annoying. She was very calm about the whole situation, when she should really be freaking out more than I am. 

Exhaling loudly into the phone I wait for a moment to calm down before continuing on."Who is the dad?" 

"Reed Johnson" She says without hesitation. His name alone made my stomach ache. Reed Johnson is known for his partying ways around school. Every Friday night it is understood that he smokes pot, heavily drinks, and has sex with a different girl. His whole group of friends are well known trash, but no one seems to do anything about them because they are considered "good looking." 

"What the fuck? When did you even have sex with him? Why didn't you tell me?" The anger rising inside the pit of my stomach made my whole body burn.