It seemed like time went by in the blink of an eye as the end of the final semester approached. Gabby, Aurora and I barely had time to hang out as we were all engrossed in submitting our assignments and taking our exams, while at the same time,looking out for jobs. I was already looking forward to working together with Zeke, but Gabby and Aurora still had to find theirs.
It had already been two months after our dinner at Ember and I still couldn't believe the achievements of Zeke Williams, who was the apparent heir to one of the biggest tech firms in the city. I admired him for not depending on his family wealth and how hard he worked to create his own niche in the tech world.
I had asked Gabby about Zeke, cause she knew almost everyone in the city, and sure enough,she knew about the Williams family and their only son Zeke, who despite being the sole heir to ZTech company, had started his own start-up game company,ZeWill, which was actually doing pretty good making a name for itself.Zeke and I had become quite good friends by now and occassionaly met up to brainstorm and come up with new ideas for his company.
I still had sleepless nights and dreamt about Roy in more than one occasions ,and woke up every morning with nausea and vomiting. Gabby and Aurora urged me to visit a doctor and I brushed it off blaming the stress caused by the impending exams and meeting deadlines for submitting assignments. Like all other days, I woke up today with nausea and ran to the washroom to vomit out whatever I had taken last night. It was 5 in the morning so not many in the dorm were awake. It was becoming a routine now, so I decided to visit the doctor,but,just as I was contemplating about the visit, I remembered something and hoped against hope that what I feared wouldn't come true.
I checked my period calendar and found that I had already missed my previous two months' periods. No,it wasn't happening,I couldn't be pregnant now. If pre-marital sex was a taboo in my society, then getting pregnant out of a wedlock would bring unimaginable shame to my family. I couldn't bear to let my parents go through the shame that I'd bring to them.
I waited for what seemed like an eternity for the drug store to open up at 8:00am,and bought a half a dozen pregnancy test kits,just to make sure I got the results right. By now, most of the girls were awake and rushing in to use the shared bathroom,so I went to the abandoned washroom, which was still under rennovation ever since I came to live in the dorms during my first year,couple of years back.
I peed on the stick and waited for around 7-10 seconds as per the instructions on the test kit. "Please don't let me be pregnant",I mumbled out a silent prayer,and hoped against all hope that life wouldn't plan a joke on me by making me pregnant now. However,much to my dismay, the kit showed me that I was pregnant. I tried with all the other kits, and all six kits showed the same result. I was pregnant, with Roy's child and he was busy dating someone else. After my confrontation with him, he seemed to have dumped Alyssa,but barely a week later,he started dating Sharon. I didn't want to keep tabs on his series of girlfriends, but we were in the same college, and were residing in the same campus, so eventually the rumour mill brought their news to reach my ears as well.
I was stressed out. How would I ever face my family,and friends? Will Zeke still employ me?After all,his company was still a small start up, and hiring a pregnant lady would bring its own share of unseen problems. How could I survive being a single mother? All sorts of questions ran through my mind and at long last, I decided to call Roy. He needed to know as well so i dialled his number and waited for him to answer.
"Hello", he answered the call,"Issy,are you finally willing to come out of your senses and beg me to be your boyfriend?",he added smugly. He hadn't changed at all. My speech that day didn't seem to bring any effect on Roy,if anything, he had grown more arrogant. "Roy,we need to meet up. I have something to tell you",I told him. "I'm listening,go ahead and tell me what is it",he replied."Its something that I cannot tell you over the phone,so please do me a favor and meet up with me",I insisted and he obliged,albeit,a bit reluctantly,"Ok, meet me in 5 at the cafe".