The Plus Sign
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  • Reads 1,321
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  • Parts 3
  • Time 20m
Ongoing, First published Dec 23, 2013
Mature
"I simply cannot do this. I cannot raise a child on my own when I am only a child myself! This is a huge mistake! I'm only seventeen." I whispered to myself, looking down at the little plus sign as I sat on the edge of the bath tub. The little blue plus sign that would forever change my life stared back up at me. "I cannot keep this... this thing."


Finding out that you're adopted is hard. Especially when you find out your mother was a teen mum. 

What happens when you discover that you and your biological mother share the same fate?

Seventeen year old Charlotte A. Snow- Charlie for short- is attending school in America for the year with her boyfriend Jonas. 

Her mind has always been firmly set against teen motherhood, and finding out her biological mother was a teen mum herself has only increased this attitude.

She thought it would never happen to her, but all it takes is one little slip up and Charlie finds herself staring at the same little plus sign her mother saw seventeen years ago. Being in America while your parents are in London makes it easier to hide a pregnancy, but what happens when the child is born? When the baby’s father wants nothing to do with you, thinking the child belongs to his best mate, even though it doesn’t? 

Or does it?
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