Lurlene McDaniel by Hit & Run

Author:Hit & Run [Hit & Run]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89170-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

DECEMBER 12

I hardly ever get taken out of my game. But Laurie's words did it. “We have to talk.” My mind flashes back to the long-ago day I heard them fall from Corrine Ochoa's lips. It was at the end of eighth grade and I had just made the first-string All-City All-Stars senior baseball team. A big deal because no fourteen-year-old had ever made it before. Dad made sure every paper in the area carried the story. My parents let me throw a pool party. Everyone came—my friends, their friends. And Cory came too. Beautiful, dark-haired Cory, the girl I loved. My girl. And in the middle of the party, she walked up to me and said, “We have to talk.”

“Can't it wait? Dad's passing out burgers.”

“It can't wait. And I'm not hungry.”

And something in her voice, in her face, told me that what she had to say was serious. “Let's go in the house. Less noise.”

I was wet from swimming, and when we stepped inside the air-conditioned family room, goose bumps covered me. I pulled Cory to me, kissed her like I had a hundred times before. Her body went rigid. “Hey,” I said, “where's my girl?”

“She's here.” Yet Cory pushed away and I saw tears in her eyes.

“What's wrong?” She was scaring me, because Cory was always sunshine and smiles and softness in my arms. She was the first girl I had sex with, the only girl I've ever loved. Our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces.

“Quin, I'm pregnant.”

Her words fell like dark raindrops on my heart. “Are … are you sure?”

“I took the home test three times. I'm sure.” She started to cry. “My parents will kill me.”

I took her in my arms. “Hey, it's not the end of the world.”

She looked up at me, her eyes brimming. “You're not mad?”

“I—I don't think so.” I held her tight. I wasn't mad. I wanted her so much.

“What are we going to do?”

“I don't know. We'll figure it out.” My insides turned to jelly. I would have married her the next day. I knew I had to tell my father. And that scared me more.

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