A Little of The Unexpected

Chapter 1

"Dinner's ready honey," Mom said knocking on my door as she usually did when it was time to eat.

"Okay." As usual, she didn't linger. having to get back to the kitchen to set the table. I had at least five minutes before she came looking for me again.

Quickly I ran to the door and cracked it just enough to make sure she was really gone, and walked across the hall to the bathroom, clothing the slender white, plastic stick between my hands.

I felt nauseous even as I walked. I wanted to believe it was my nerves, but I'd been sick for days now.

I closed the bathroom door and went to the toilet.

Three minutes might not have seemed like a long time to some people, but to me, it felt like an eternity. I looked at my phone for the third time already, only to see one minute has passed. Maybe when your fate hangs in the balance, time slows down like a turtle crossing a street.

I sat there hoping and praying to god that what I already suspected wasn't true. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let this happen? I was smarter than this. Though, I guess given the circumstance, what happened wasn't anyone 's fault.

The condom broke. No one could have foreseen that.

Like I always did when I thought about the possibility of a growing fetus inside me, I thought back to the night that started it all.

I had the biggest crush on Asher Coleman. He was hot, funny and quite possibly charming when he wanted to be. He was mister popular and always in the student body eyes.

Asher and his girlfriend had just broken up, and he was finally single. He was having an end of school year party, and a lot of the girls around him are dying for his attention. He didn't seem all that interested to my surprised. I wanted so badly to talk to him, to have the courage that all the other girls did, but that just wasn't who I was. I was the shy, quiet girl, who waited for opportunities to come to her. I was never one to seize the moment. so I never approached him. I had planned on leaving that night without speaking a word to him.

Then, the strangest thing happens, I was tired and ready to leave the party with my best friends Emma and Katy. We were spending the night at her house because she lived just three down from where Asher lived. Before we left I decided to find the bathroom, I felt like my bladder was about to burst. After I went to the bathroom, he was there, standing there, leaning against the wall, staring at the picture on the other side of the wall.

It took me a minute to reel in from the shock, but once I did, I smiled at him. Or I smiled at the wall beside his head because it was hard to look directly at him. I was afraid he could see the schoolgirl crush on my face.

"Oh," he said a little surprised. "I didn't know anyone was up here."

I looked back at the empty bathroom and the quite second story and blushed. I guess I wasn't supposed to be up here. No wonder there wasn't a line for the bathroom.

"I'm sorry," I said quietly. "I didn't realize-" I trailed off. He was looking at me. "you see, the bathroom downstairs was full and well-"

"Don't worry about it," he said and sighed at the wall.

"I was just getting ready to go"

He rolled his head to the side and looked at me. "I would too, except I live here, so...I'm kinda stuck here."

I started at him with wide eyes. Asher usually liked parties. He never seemed to mind them before. It was unlike him to want to bail out so early, especially his own party.