She's Kind of a Disaster

25- Prove Me Wrong

"So he just started telling me that I should quit, that I should grow a backbone. And I was irritable so I told him that I didn't want to end up like him. It spiraled from there and at the end, I told him not to come back for a while so I think that I broke things off with him. I've been so moody lately though, I'm totally PMSing so I think maybe I overreacted."

"He'll come back," Bella assures me as we walk into the Walgreens so that I can get some tampons because I realized that I'm out. Bella wants to get some junk food for a movie night too so she tagged along. "He'd be stupid not to. And you were obviously stressed so he shouldn't have instigated anything."

"I don't know," I mumble.

"Even if he doesn't, don't worry about it. He was just a fling, wasn't he? I think that it could be good for you that you got all of the crazy out of your system at once. Now you can move on from everything and get back to your life."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. It's not like we had a future anyway so it's good that I ended things now. I was just wasting my time with him," I decide. "And he made it pretty clear that he doesn't think very much of me. It's for the best."

We head over to the food section of the store and Bella grabs are favorite snacks from the shelves. I see the Fritos in front of me and decide to grab a bag of those too.

"Fritos?" Bella frowns at me in confusion. "You hate Fritos."

I just shrug at her. "I don't know, I'm just craving them. So are we going out tomorrow night?"

"I was planning on it. You want to tag along?" She asks me curiously.

"Yeah, sure, it's Saturday night, I want to do something," I decide with a nod. "I can't stay grumpy for the rest of the week, I need to cheer up and just stewing in my room won't help."

"Alright, yeah, it'll be fun," She agrees with me as she grabs a paper coffee cup and fills it with the coffee blend in the brewer near the snacks.

When I get a whiff of her coffee, I cringe from the smell. "Are you sure their coffee is good? That smells horrible."

"What?" She wonders with a small laugh. "Wren, this is your favorite blend."

"Maybe something is wrong with the brew, I feel like I'm going to throw up just standing near it," I mumble as we head toward the feminine hygiene aisle so that I can grab my stuff before we head out of the store. We're spending our Friday night in with her roommate, Esther, and I'm pretty excited to just spend some time with Bella.

"You feel nauseous," She says slowly. "I mean, you are on your period, right? Have you actually started your period yet?"

"No but I can tell that it's coming. What's with the sudden interest in my cycle, Bell?" I ask her in confusion as I grab a box of tampons from the shelf.

"Wren," She says my name to get my attention so I turn to look at her and see that she's holding a pregnancy test.

"Fuck off," I walk past her toward the front of the store to check out.

"I'm serious."

"I'm not pregnant."

"You sound like you are," She tells me. "Coffee makes you nauseous, you're craving Fritos. Do you do that every month? Because I don't think so."

"Bella," I start walking away again. "Stop."

"I'm buying it," Bella decides. "And you're peeing on this stick. Just to make me feel better."

I just let her buy the stupid stick because I know that I can't be pregnant. It's time for me to get my period so it lines up that I'm having weird cravings. One time, I ate an entire jar of pickles in an hour because of my period. Not to mention the fact that every time that I've had sex, it's been protected. I know that condoms aren't 100% effective but I'm on birth control too so those odds are on my side. I can't be pregnant.