Wish Wish

Chapter Three

Jessica played the memory endlessly in her head. Things weren't adding up. Before testing herself, she read how both expected results looked like. One line and she was safe. She had been nervous for a few minutes. What she was going to be getting would change her life, maybe, or maybe not... She sat at the toilet seat looking at the kit waiting, staring. She got too nervous and looked away for a bit. She heard Sam who was seating just outside the bathroom, as she flipped the pages of an old magazine. Suddenly the space in the bathroom was too suffocating. She then turned to the kit in her hand.

"Jessica Martinez, if you don't come from out of there, I'm going to have to--"

That was the only thing she heard Sam say. She could only see one line! She screamed in joy. She was never having unprotected sex ever ever again, she actually swore to that and she was actually going to make sure she stuck to that. As if like a terrible dream, she watched as another streak formed and tears rolled down her cheeks as she stood suddenly shocked. She closed her eyes, this is just an awful dream Jessie. She opened her eyes and it was two lines, again! She screamed this time sounding like a broken record. She opened the door finding the worried faces of her two best friends.

It was Thursday and still she didn't know what to do. She didn't know how to tell mama that she was pregnant. She was a sweet woman but a real terror as well. She'd skin Jessica alive. She was avoiding Chad because she felt she would tell him yet she didn't know how. Worst of all, his reaction was what she was afraid of. He'd always promised her heavens and he'd always delivered. Yet she had some doubt.

She sat at the back seat of Ryan's car as he drove her two best friends and her to a house party some girl in school was throwing. Was it Lila or Lina? Whatever...it didn't matter really. Prom was in a week and Chad hadn't yet asked her to be his date in as much as he was her boyfriend. Well, being a girl, so much is expected even though they're so undoubtedly obvious. She was going to tell him today. It had to be today.

She suddenly remembered Tony. She sighed in annoyance. He sat in her class a few seats across from her and he was always looking at her, always... It pissed her all the time, or maybe she thought. There was always a tingly feeling she felt that she'd brush away when their eyes locked. He seemed like a messed up guy, always alone. As if hiding something. Almost every girl in her school was head over heels for him but he always prefered his own company. She always wondered what it was he was planning on doing that weekend, well, according to that creepy lady. And why had she uttered the same words to Tony, those words she'd said to Jess? She really wanted to know what the woman meant. And why she was always somewhere she happened to pass. But Monday was the last Jess saw of her at the pharmacy. Why did she refer to her as his Spanish girl? Or was it his little Spanish wife? Oh gosh. This was all crazy. A sick joke.Enough with that Tony's business. Finding Chad and telling him was all she could think of right now.

The car stopped in an overly crowded street. Cars were all over the place. Well this girl really had friends... Amy got off first. Sam looked back at her and reached out for her hand.

" Good luck hun."

Jess smiled slightly and nodded then got off. She took a few steps and checked her phone. A new message was displayed on her locked screen. It was just a number. Can we talk? I'll be at the first floor balcony waiting. Whoever that was wasn't giving her room to decline. She didn't know where to start looking for Chad and she wasn't ready to talk to him for that matter. So maybe this meeting might as well buy her time. Besides, Sam and Ryan were making out in the car and she could hear them quite well so she wasn't going to stand there all night long.

She passed a few people she knew saying too many hellos. She quickly went into the house to find Amy talking to party girl Lila, Lina...oh forget it. The two were having a nice time. Amy was drinking? What the hell? Amy looked up and saw Jess and motioned for her to join them.