This Summer

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

My eyelids fluttered open and my eyes met my sisters blue ones.

"Hey Shawna. I can't leave you alone for five minutes can I?" She said smiling.

I propped myself up onto my elbows and winced my head hurt and so did my ribs. "What happened?"

"Bethan pushed you into the ocean, you hit your head on the side of the boat and you bruised your ribs when you collided with the water. Brad managed to jump in and save you."

"Oh, sorry that I ruined your honeymoon."

She smiled. "Don't be silly, I was getting bored anyway I literally only had signal when I stood on the toilet seat in the bathroom."

I rolled my eyes and chuckled. "Seriously?"

Before she could argue her point the doctor came around to see me. "Ah miss Brown."

"That's me."

"Well everything's fine you've taken a blow to your head but there's no serious damage, you were a little confused yesterday but today is definitely an improvement. Your ribs aren't broken just a little bruised so give it a few days and you won't be in as much pain. One more thing when doing your blood tests we found human chorionic gonadotrophin in your blood, do you know what that means?"

My sister and I exchanged glances and I shook my head.

"Shawna, this may come as a bit of a shock but you're pregnant."

My sister gasped.

"I'm sorry, what?" I frowned, "I can't be."

"We can carry out more tests if you'd like but this detects some of the early stages of pregnancy."

I was dumb founded.

"Nothing to worry but I suggest you book an appointment with your GP and they should be able to give you more guidance and make sure you have a healthy and happy pregnancy." He replied with a smile. "Well, if that's what you choose. We're guessing you're around 5 weeks which means in a week you should be able to hear the heartbeat, there were no signs of bleeding after your accident so we can only hope everything is fine." 

I still didn't know what to say and out the corner of my eye I could see Ashley just gaping at me.

"I shall leave you to it then Miss Brown i'll be over to check on you in a few hours to see if you're okay to discharge." 

The doctor walked off to examine the other patients and my sister frowned, I knew what was coming.

"You're pregnant?" she squeaked, she looked me up and down staring at my stomach. "But... but, oh my god. Oh my god Shawna, you're pregnant!" 

I chuckled nervously. "I don't know, could be wrong." 

She shook her head. "This is how Frankie found out so it can't be. How didn't you know?"

I shrugged. "I got my period and didn't think much of it." 

"Shawna, you can still be pregnant and have your period oh my god, didn't you know?"

"Of couse I did, but I took so many tests and there was only one positive and-"

Ashley cut me off. "Only one!? are you stupid? that's when you should have gone to the doctors." 

"I know, I got told they were a faulty batch-"

She cut me off again. "faulty batch of negative's or positives?" 

I put my head in my hands and burst into tears. "I never asked."

I sobbed now knowing there was nothing I could do, sure I could have an abortion but I don't think I could bring myself to do it. It would be so hard being in this situation I could understand why many girls could but I don't have the willpower. Suddenly I regretted everything I said to Blaine and then another wave of shock crashed over me... it could be Brad's or even worse... Will's.