Undeniable by Micalea Smeltzer

Author:Micalea Smeltzer [Smeltzer, Micalea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

16

Karlie

Tick.

Tock.

Tick.

Tock.

The ticking clock of my relationship with Holden was getting louder and more insistent.

It had been a week since I had seen Holden.

Or even talked to him.

Not that he hadn’t tried to contact me. There were currently ten missed calls on my phone and that was only since this morning. I knew it was only a matter of time before Holden showed up, demanding to know why I was ignoring him. After all, that was usually his method of operation, not mine.

My phone vibrated again and I turned it off before stepping into the house, the plastic drugstore bag firmly clasped against my chest.

Jared and Katy were at the gym and wouldn’t be back for a while.

And yet, I tiptoed around the house, like I might set of a bomb.

I headed down the hallway and opened the door to the powder room.

I closed the door and locked it, before pulling the box out of the bag. My hands shook, blurring the directions on the rectangular box.

I wanted this to be some kind of nightmare, but no nightmare I ever knew about, lasted a week.

No, this was the real world.

With clumsy fingers, I opened the box and grabbed the stick I had to pee on.

I couldn’t be pregnant. I just couldn’t. We used a condom! This wasn’t supposed to happen.

I closed my eyes and took care of business, then waited impatiently for the five minutes to pass.

Tick.

Tock.

Tick.

Tock.

When I was certain that enough time had passed, I picked up the stick and my whole world shattered.

Two little red lines glared up at me, and with them, everything I had worked for crumbled around me, and the final tick of my relationship with Holden sounded.

I collapsed to the floor, wrapping my arms around my legs, and sobbed.

I don’t think I had ever cried like this in my entire life.

I didn’t want to be one of those girls. The ones that got pregnant and their boyfriend left them and then they had to raise a child on their own. I couldn’t do it. I wasn’t strong enough. I couldn’t even keep a gold fish alive so a baby was out of the question.

I cried until my eyes were red and my throat was raw.

My dreams of dancing were gone. Replaced by formula and a screaming infant.

Shaking all over I stuffed the box back into the bag, tying it closed and dropped it into the trashcan. I wrapped the pregnancy test in toilet paper and dropped it in as well.

I knew Jared and Katy would be back soon, so I turned on the TV, grabbed a blanket, and wrapped it around me like I was a mummy.

Sometime later, the door opened and I sat up to see Jared and Katy.

“Hey, squirt, still sick?” Jared asked, locking the door behind him.

I nodded. Sick was the best explanation for how I felt.

“You’ve been sick all week,” Katy sighed, sitting down beside my feet, “maybe you should go to the doctor.”

“No!” I screamed. Jared and Katy looked at me like I had grown two heads.

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