What Kind of Love? by Sheila Cole

Author:Sheila Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504033008
Publisher: Open Road Distribution

Saturday, August 24

Yesterday Dianne asked me if I wanted to take a bike ride with her to El Moro Beach, “if it won’t hurt the baby or anything.” I said I couldn’t go. Then today Arianna asked me to go to the beach with her. There was no way I was going to let everyone see me in a bathing suit, so I made some excuse. The only people I don’t feel funny being with right now are Carrie and Nick. They’ve been terrific. Nick and I walked all the way to Penguin’s after dinner the other night: five miles there and back just to get some frozen yogurt. And last night Carrie and I went to the movies. Afterward we sat in the car and talked.

She thought that it was a big mistake for me to switch schools. She said I was being paranoid, most kids wouldn’t even notice that I was pregnant. But I said she was wrong. How could I go to swim meets or football games or hang around the lunch tables where the guys sit when I was expecting a kid? And what was I going to do once the baby is born? Take it to my classes? To dances? Parties? There’s day care at the school-age mothers’ program. And the other girls in the program are in the same boat. She said I was throwing away my chance for a decent education. She was starting to sound just like my mom, so I changed the subject and asked about her and Tom. She said she knew she should break up with him because of what he did when she was away, but she didn’t want to because she still liked him a lot.

She asked me about Peter. I said I thought he’d be home soon, although I didn’t know for sure.

“Haven’t you spoken to him?” she asked.

“Not for a week,” I admitted.

“He hasn’t called for a whole week!” she yelled.

I told her that it’s hard for Peter to call from a pay phone with his father watching him all the time and with my mother or father hanging up on him. The whole time I was saying that, though, I was thinking, why hasn’t he called? What if he doesn’t come back? Carrie must have read my mind, because then she asked me what I was going to do if Peter didn’t come home. “I don’t know,” I said. “But he is coming back. He promised he would.”

She drove me home because I had to go to the bathroom. I must go at least twenty times a day. The pregnancy books tell you that you’re eating for two, but they don’t tell you that you’re peeing for two.

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