Page 76 of Not Before Game Night
“Now’s not the time to freak the shit out of me, Abby.”
“I said potentially.”
Mia came over. “She’s right though,” she said.
“I’m fine. I have an injection,” I informed them and marched over to my purse to get the little card that would show them I was completely protected and wouldn’t be as dumb as they thought to have unprotected sex with Cole.
I took out the card, and when I read the date, my heart almost stopped beating in my chest.
It said November 30, 2018. But it was now January 2019.
I stared long and hard, willing my thoughts to calm down and not race.
I wasn’t pregnant. No way.
Couldn’t be…
Only a few months ago, I was a virgin. I was the one who …
I just…couldn’t be pregnant. Not me. I wasn’t even in a relationship.
I looked at all of them. Mia, Abby… Gage. I could tell they were all thinking the same thing. They’d thought it before I picked up the card and saw my reaction.
My eyes lingered on Gage.
He’d tried to warn me, tried to tell me guys like Cole just wanted to have fun.
He’d tried to tell me; he’d even said he would have preferred to see me with someone better. Someone with more integrity.
I always listened to Gage. I’d always listened to him. Why didn’t I listen when it mattered the most?
My gaze returned to the little card, and I willed myself to remember my last period. On the injection, it was always irregular or didn’t come at all, or was so light it was barely there.
I couldn’t remember, and there was no way I was going to go to the doctor and put myself through the torture of waiting to hear if I was pregnant or not.
I needed to know tonight. Right now.
I grabbed my coat from the nightstand.
“Where are you going?” Abby winced.
“Drug store,” I answered, barely able to talk.
“One of us can go,” Mia offered.
“No, I can’t sit around and wait. I have to go,” I snapped.
Gage came up to me and took my hand. “Come, let’s go together. We’ll go together, and we’ll come back here and check. Yes?”
I nodded, and he gave my hand a gentle squeeze. He’d always said I was more of a sister to him than a cousin. Tonight, I felt that too. He felt more like my big brother who was looking out for me, there to support me.
We left, and the girls were still here when we got back with the pregnancy test that would give me an answer tonight.
I wouldn’t have normally been so open with something so private, but I was too weak to do something like this by myself.
Gage was right there with me when I checked the Clear Blue stick and the positive plus sign came up a yes for pregnant.
Gage was right there with me too when I broke down.
