A Baby Changes Everything

School Drama

Greer woke up the next morning and made sure not to get in anyone's way.  She wanted to make sure that Clara and Hudson left before she did.  She didn't even know why she was still going to school, when no one liked her anyway.

Greer walked downstairs.  Grace stopped her and said, "Here honey.  You have to eat something for the baby and your health, as well."

"Thank you, Grace.  Please don't go out of your way to do any of this for me.  I appreciate you letting me stay here, but I don't want to get in anyone's way.  I just need somewhere to live.  It will be like I'm not even here."

"Honey, that isn't what we want at all.  You are more than welcome here.  I want you to feel like you are part of the family.  I want you to know that we care about you."

"Clara and Hudson would not agree with you there.  I'm just a nuisance to them.  I'm just in the way.  I'm going to do everything that I can to make sure that that doesn't happen."

"It is going to get better.  They just need a chance to realize that they need you in their lives again.  This baby just might be what they need to change their mindset."

Greer sighed.  "As much as I love this baby, I don't know how I will be able to keep it.  This baby needs better than I can give it.  This baby hopefully won't change anything for anyone other than my body."

"You don't have to give your baby up, Greer.  If you want to keep your baby we will help you."

"I can't and won't ask you to do that for me."

"We have loved and cared about you since you were born.  That is how it is always going to be.  I just want you to be happy sweetheart."

"Thank you.  I appreciate it all."  Greer hugged Grace and left for school.

As soon as Greer got to school she noticed everyone looking at her.  Then came the snickers.  When she got to her locker she realized why.  On her locker was a note that said, "Little miss perfect and innocent isn't so perfect or innocent anymore.  Greer is with child.  I wonder who the baby daddy is.  I would stay a secret if I were him, too."  Greer opened her locker to have bottles, pacifiers and bibs came falling our her locker all over her.  Everyone in the hallway was looking her way.  Many were laughing and pointing.  

Greer started crying and took off running to the bathroom.  She knew she was going to vomit.  She ran straight into Hudson.  He grabbed her before she could fall.  He asked, "What's wrong?"

She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "Like you don't know.  There was a note and baby things all over my locker.  I can't do this!  What did I ever do to her?  I just don't know what I did to make her hate me so much.  Now everyone knows that I'm pregnant.  I thought I still had a month or so before I became the laughing stock of the school.  I guess that was wishful thinking.  Now everyone thinks that I'm some kind of harlot.  I didn't do this on purpose.  I didn't ask you to come into my yard that night.  I didn't think I would ever be a mom at seventeen.  I thought I was smarter than that.  It's just not fair.  Now I'm the kind of girl with a no named baby daddy and a baby without a father.  The next eight months are going to be awesome.  Now if you will excuse me, I need to go vomit."  Greer went on to the bathroom to lose the contents of her stomach.

Hudson went in search of his sister.  He found her and her little minions pointing and laughing at Greer's locker.  He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into an empty classroom.  He said, "You are heartless.  You are not the sister that I have always believed in and stood behind.  Leave Greer alone.  Things are hard enough without you making it worse.  That's my baby she is having.  Like that doesn't suck enough for her.  Stop drawing attention to her.  She doesn't need it."

Clara stuttered, "Your baby?  How do you know it is your baby?  I'm sure she sleeps with anything that will look in her direction."

"Listen to yourself.  You know Greer.  You know she has the biggest heart of anyone I have ever met.  She was a virgin when I had the best night of my life.  Now I ruined her life.  She has to go through a pregnancy that she doesn't want to be in, but she isn't going to kill our innocent baby.  I can't be a dad.  I told her that and I'm pretty sure that she hates me for it.  I don't even know if she is going to keep or give our baby away.  I'm sure she is never going to talk to me again.  I deserve it all."

"Your baby.  My niece or nephew."

"Yes, that you just told the whole student body about.  Then I'm never going to see the baby again after it is born, if she even lets me see the baby when it is born.  If she does keep the baby I'm sure she is going to run away with it.  I wouldn't want to be around me either.  I'm a horrible person and I know she is never going to forgive me for how awful I have been to her, but if I am going to do anything good with my life it is going to be to keep you away from her.  Leave Greer alone.  Just let her have a chance to have the life of a teenager that can come to school without fearing what people are going to say about her.  Talk about me.  Talk about my friends.  I don't care.  Just leave Greer alone for once in her life.  She doesn't need the added stress of you and your friends spouting lies about her.  Now that everyone knows about the baby the rest of the school is going to do that for you."

At this point Clara had tears running down her face.  "H..."

"No, I can't hear this right now.  I have to figure out how I am going to enjoy my senior year of high school knowing that I got someone pregnant and I'm probably never to get to see my baby because I freaked out.  My kid isn't going to know me.  I'm not going to know them.  The woman that I have always cared about hates my guts and I know that she doesn't want to give up our baby, but I'm selfish and I want to live the life of a teenager."

For the first time in a very long time, Clara felt sorry for Hudson and for Greer.  The two of them were in a predicament that was going to impact them for the rest of their lives.  She was going to have a niece or nephew that wouldn't know their family.  They may not even be adopted, if any of the terrible things she had heard about the adoption system were true.  It was at this time that she was being to not like herself.