Purchasing-or stealing a Pregnancy test is something that Rory Blake would've denied her entire life, and certainly would've prevented. However, here she stood, anxiously pacing the floor of her tiled bathroom, adverting her gaze from the plastic stick on her bench, all because of a pill that said 99% accuracy. Apparently, this moment was that 1%
Her timer goes off, alerting her the time was up. She glances at the test.
The two pink lines could mean anything. Maybe she had blood cancer. That would be a somewhat easier conversation-maybe something she could face head on.
But she'd heard of plenty horror stories where these things were wrong, a false positive isn't something she needs. People think she's nuts already, rumours going around that she's convinced that she's pregnant when she's really not would just knock the last bottle off of the looney bin shelf.
So she took another, and another, and another until she'd tried every test, colour, symbol, and brand on the shelf of the chemist she'd stolen them from.
All with the same result. From a digital 'yes' to a happy smiley face. This wasn't something to smile about. She was pregnant, and no matter the denial and confusion she felt, nothing would change that.
Damn that blonde boy. Damn him and his obnoxious smirk. Damn him and his good looks and bad boy attitude that got her into this mess. But she couldn't blame him, not when it was the both of them that got themselves into this mess. Not when JJ wasn't even sure of the consequences of the night by the bonfire. That night started their entire journey.
But there was only one thing for certain.
Emileah Oakley was pregnant and if that's not enough, she was pregnant with JJ Maybanks Baby.
"You're literally the twenty first century Bonnie and Clyde" - JB
"Don't lie. You look at her like she hung all the stars in the sky, like she's the ocean."
"Well she is. She's my ocean."
JJ x Oc
Has been in my drafts since 2020...
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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