Baby {l.h}

Prologue

Jane Nunez

"Fuck you," I hiss at Jonathan as he walks away from my locker, leaving all the papers scattered on the floor. I squat down and begin to pick the assignments off the floor, and I glance up at Misty Jimenez, my ultimate best friend. She looks down at me, her hazel eyes full of worry. Maybe she's just panicking that her essay is loss within the pile of papers.

"Aren't you going to help me pick up your papers?" I ask her, smiling. She bites her lip at me and sighs.

"I can't," she mumbles, sighing. I look at her with a weird look.

"Okay..." I mumble curiously, piling up the papers and standing up. "Why not?"

"Because," she begins before violently yanking my arm and pulling me into a corner where no one else is. "I might have done something bad and now my life is ruined."

"Did you kill someone?" I ask.

"No."

"Did you accidentally poison your dog?" I question.

"I don't even have a dog," she retorts.

"Then what happened?" I interrogate.

"I-I... I had sex."

"You lost your virginity?!" I whisper-yell excitedly. Both of us have been virgins forever, and I'm glad she finally lost her V-card. "To who?"

"A guy I met at a party," she mumbles. "He was really tall, and cute. And he had a lip ring."

"He sounds perfect," I gleam dreamily, nudging her playfully in the stomach. "Why are you so upset? Did he not call you back?"

"H-He did," she stutters, sighing. "That has nothing to do with it."

"Then what's wrong?"

She takes a deep breath, looking me directly in the eyes. Misty blinks her hazel orbs at me, and purses her pink, glossy lips, brushing her wavy blonde hair off her shoulder and down her back.

"I'm pregnant."