How She Fell: Martina Monroe Book 7 by Christie H.K

Author:Christie, H.K. [Christie, H.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keekstar Media
Published: 2022-12-29T23:00:00+00:00

24

LORI

It was positive. I know that sounds like it should be a good thing, but it wasn’t. I had always envisioned I would get married one day and have children, but not at eighteen while I was finishing my first year of college. How had I let this happen? He swore he wore a condom. Not that I’d seen it, but I was sure he did. He would not have done that on purpose. How would he react when he found out the news?

Este said, “It’ll be all right, Lori, we’ll figure this out.”

What we? Este wasn’t pregnant. She hadn’t made a huge mistake. I loved Freddie, and it ruined my life. “I don’t know how I let this happen,” I cried.

“Did you use protection?”

“Of course he did.”

“Are you sure? I wouldn’t exactly say he’s an upstanding person.” Este was never a fan of Freddie, and after he dumped me, she thought he was lower than scum at the bottom of a pond. “What do you want to do?”

Even though our mom was a single mother and her life was hard, raising two girls all by herself, she had said she loved us, and that although she hadn’t planned to have children so young, it changed her life. She said we were her greatest blessings.

“I don’t know what to do.”

“You’re so young. You have so much ahead of you. There is plenty of time to have babies, but I don’t think right now is the right time.”

On campus, there were booths set up with different political messaging regarding whether abortion should be legal. I always believed that a woman should have the right to choose what happened to her own body, but I had thought that I would never get an abortion. I also thought I was too smart to end up a teenage mother. Cut to being dumped and pregnant at eighteen. I had been such a fool.

There was no question about whether I could handle this on my own. I couldn’t afford a full-time nanny plus college plus working and then medical school. I couldn’t do it all. There was no way, unless Freddie helped. Funny. I knew better than that. The only help he had provided was helping himself out of our relationship.

Staring at the plus sign, I felt positively broken. Este took the pregnancy test out of my fingertips. “Can I throw this away? It has your pee on it.”

I laughed through my tears. “Yes, please.”

After she threw it away and washed her hands at the sink, she returned to me. I sat perched on the toilet, fearing that once I left that room, my entire world was going to implode. Este wrapped her arms around me and squeezed tight. “I love you, sis.”

That only made me cry more.

Eventually, she released me and then stared me dead in the eyes. “You don’t have to keep it.”

“You don’t think I should?” I asked, a little surprised.

“I think you should take your time to think about it. Think about what life would be like with a baby.

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