That Awkward Moment

Decisions

Ebony's heart skips a beat as he reveals the two inevitable words, you're pregnant. 

"No no no no." She says in denial and takes the tests from him and reads it over again to see the results that he read off were true. 

"Ebony, Ebony its going to be okay." He watches a few tears fall down her cheek and uses his thumb to wipe them away.

"What if it isn't? I mean you don't love me.  We were just having fun weren't we? What if when I get bigger you don't find me attractive anymore...we never said 'I love you' and now I'm just your baby momma..." She breathes, wiping her eyes dry. "Oh, God how could we be so careless?"

"You don't want this do you?" Bakari sighs. 

"I mean...part of me does because I've always wanted to start a family but...I imagined myself married first and a little bit older.  This is a lot to take in..." She says looking down on her lap.

"I understand, whatever you choose because it is your body, I will be behind you 100%." Bakari responds, watching her nod her head in response.  "Let's sleep on it okay?"

Ebony nods.  "Okay, maybe I'm just over reacting let's just go to bed it's been a long day."

"Let's get you ready for bed, you wanna wear my MJ shirt and shorts?" Ebony nods. "Okay I'll start up the shower for you." He bends down to kiss her forehead before getting up to walk into the bathroom to get her shower ready.

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Throughout the night Ebony couldn't sleep as her mind raced with different possibilities if she were to keep the baby or abort it.  The first thing she did when she woke was set up an appointment with her Doctor to ensure everything was actually true.  After setting up the appointment, she gets ready for her day ahead by putting on a pair of distressed blue jeans and a cropped sweater exposing her midsection. 

She picks up her phone and clicks the button on the side of the phone and reads the time 9:45am it was rather early for her to be up on her day off, but she figured she might as well be up and make breakfast since she couldn't go back to sleep. Ebony exhales, placing her hand on her stomach and walks out of her room, closing the door behind her. She makes her way to the kitchen only to see her father making himself some coffee with the pots and pans ready on the stove with a carton of eggs, a loaf of bread, grits, and bacon spread across the counter. He smiles when he sees his daughter and gestures her to come over to where he was behind the marble countertop. She follows him and wraps her arms around him tightly in desperate need of a hug after her rough night the night before. Stephen smiles, and places his mug down to kiss her forehead and rubs her back soothingly.

"How's my babygirl doing?" He asks, caressing her back in slow soothing circles.

"I'm doing okay," she looks up at him.

"Is hell freezing over?" He chuckles to himself, watching her look up at him weirdly. "You know you're not a morning person especially on your day off? I used to have to literally drag you out of bed." He reminisces.

"Well I couldn't sleep." She admits.

"Something bothering you?"

She nods quietly.

"Dad I'm really scared." She sniffles, and quickly wipes away a stray tear.

"What's going on?" He asks confused.

"I could be pregnant I won't really know for sure until my doctors appointment on Monday but I'm pregnant according to the two pregnancy tests that I took last night. I took them just so I could get a clear conscience and," Ebony sniffles, wiping her saturated eyes.