Not Another Teen Pregnancy Story

Chapter Five Results

I couldn't do it. I was too scared to look at the results. I needed someone with me. I was only sixteen, I couldn't handle this kind of thing on my own!

I grabbed my phone off the nightstand and dialed Beth's number because it came before Chris and I knew they'd be together.

"Hey! Where'd you go?" She answered on the second ring.

"Can you two come over here? I have something to tell you two." I barely got the words out before the tears came.

"We'll be right over." I tried to swallow the tears to respond, but I made this weird noise and hung up the phone.

What am I going to do with my life?

I should just look at the test. Curiosity tried to creep in, but the harsh reality shooed it away.

What if I am pregnant?

No, no, no! This can't be happening.

Just breathe. Think positively and breathe.

"Lydia what is this all about?" Chris and Beth came in my room and sat down next to me on my bed.

"Okay so you know the night of my party?" They both nodded. "Well, Daniel and I had sex that night."

"Uh duh!"

"Obviously why you're not over him." I fought the urge to roll my eyes at them.

"Anyways, I'm late for my period and I bought pregnancy tests and I peed on them, but I just can't look at the results." I started crying again. Beth leaned over and hugged me, smoothing my hair and telling me everything would be okay. Like a mom would. God, I missed my mom so much. Things like this make me wish my mom was still alive.

"You want us to tell you the results?" Chris offered, already getting off the bed towards the bathroom.

"Please." She nodded and continued to walk in the bathroom. There was seven test.

"When my mom was pregnancy with Johnny she said she bought three test. She didn't look for two out of three negative tests, she looked for one positive test. You get me?" I didn't have the slightest idea what Beth was talking about, but I nodded anyways.

"The two cheap test both say positive, but the four name brands say negative. However, the most expensive one says positive." I pursed my lips. Well, what the hell did this mean? Was I pregnant or not?

"What does this mean then?" I looked back in forth between them.

"I think you should schedule a doctors appointment to find out for sure." I groaned, this was what I hadn't wanted to do. Doctors were messy.

"I don't want to." I crossed my arms over my chest and pouted like a little kid. 

"I think you have to. Then you have to tell your dad and Daniel." My heart skipped a beat and had a hard time beating.

"I uh don't know about that." Did I really have to tell Daniel?

"What do you mean?" Beth asked, Chris looked furious.

"Daniel obviously doesn't want to be with me, so maybe I shouldn't tell him. I wouldn't want to ruin his life." Was I being considerate? Or stubborn because my feelings were hurt?

"So just let it ruin your life?" Chris stated.

"A baby isn't going to ruin your life. It's just going to complicate things for a little bit because you didn't plan on having one." I rolled my eyes, the preacher was preaching. Beth was a Christian and from a long, long, line of Christians with self-righteous attitudes.

"You could get an abortion." This was where Chris and Beth took sides and weren't on the same one. This was where they split as identical twins into two different beings on two different planets. Awe look at me being all philosophical.

"I might not have to, I might not be pregnant!" I threw my hands up in the air. It looked like they both were thinking I was pregnant. One thought I should keep the baby and raise it with Daniel and the other thought I should kill the thing before it got any bigger. Nice. Gotta love best friends. 

"Yeah, but if you are what are you going to do?" Beth asked, she was still glaring at Chris. Who was glaring right back at Beth.

"I don't know, I don't really want to think about that until I have to." It might not be the best thing to do, but  I didn't want to be overwhelmed. Or think about something I might not have to think about if I'm not pregnant.

"Well, are you going to schedule a doctors appointment?" Ugh, I really didn't want to do this.

"Is there a way they won't bill my dad?" I might have enough money in cash.

"Maybe if you pay in cash." Chris offered, she was as dumb as I was in this department.

"Guys! There is a free clinic downtown. It's a special pregnancy clinic just for teens. We should go." They had such a thing? I wasn't surprised Beth knew this because she was very up to date on babies and all adult things.

"How do you know?" Chris asked, narrowing her eyes at Beth.

"Ah because my mom told me. And I'm not completely oblivious of my surroundings. No offense Lydia."  I shrugged, I was in a total numb state.

"Maybe we should go tomorrow." As bad as I wanted to know I wasn't pregnant to get this thing over with, there was a possibility that I was pregnant and that possibility was killing me.

"I can't skip school tomorrow: I have a science test." Chris was the nerdiest popular girl I knew.

"You guys don't have to come. I should do this by myself." They both scoffed.

"We're your best friends and you don't have anyone else to go with you." Chris started.

"I just looked and the clinic closes at nine tonight. We have time." Beth finished. I sighed, they weren't going to wait till tomorrow.

"Fine. Let me change." This time they nodded and went down stairs. What would I wear to go see if I was pregnant? Not a skirt... I didn't want to seem anymore slutty than I already seemed. I grabbed boot-cut jeans and a green tight tee. I threw on some Nike's and pulled my hair in a ponytail.

Time to go find out if I'm pregnant.

Oh God, never thought I'd say that.