"I'm actually surprised that you're here right now, this...." She paused briefly."I expected you to blame me for this whole thing, I mean, that night I should have just gotten the condoms, they were just a drawer away." She looked away, blinking repeatedly, trying to stop her tears.
"I shouldn't have listened to you, I should have insisted, but I was too indulged, so we share equal guilt here." I said In a bid to make her stop sobbing.
"I don't even know how this fucking happened, I took some postinor, I swear I did, first thing after I showered that morning."
"Please stop crying?" She really needed to stop, I couldn't bear looking at her cry even though I felt like crying myself, because this was huge.
"I wanna keep the baby." I heard her say in her still shaky voice.
I looked at her to make sure she wasn't somehow trying to get a humour out of our situation, by saying that.
"Are you sure?" I asked and she turned to me sharply.
"You said you will support whatever decision I made, didn't you?"
"I know, I said that, but can you at least think about what you are saying?" She really needed to think about this again.
"I've thought about it....."
"No, you haven't." I cut her short, shaking my head.
"I have." She said.
"When? Just this evening after you saw that you were pregnant?"
She didn't say anything for a short while, she just looked at me and wiped the tears which were almond dried up on her cheeks with the back of her hand.
"You said...."
"I know what I said but you need to think Ann!" I cut her short again knowing what she wanted to say.
"I already told you, I've thought about it., if you feel you don't wanna be part of this, you can leave, I'm fine!"
"You don't get Ann! You just don't get, if you keep it, you can't stay here, you won't be allowed, then what, you plan on leaving school?"
"They've changed that law about our uni, you can study if you're pregnant, we have adult students in our uni, and most of them are married and expectant mothers."
"Right, they are married, you are not, everyone is gonna find out about it, your friends....."
"I don't simply give a shit." She cut me this time. "Abortion is murder, I've always been against it, still am, I will not do it, the baby inside me is pretty much alive as you and I are. How would you like someone killing you right now, cutting your life short, even though you did nothing wrong? huh?!"
She was almost yelling now. I didn't know what to say anymore. I had said I will support her decision, but I didn't expect her to choose to keep it. I had thought, I would have to support her in getting an abortion because it would be her first time and she might be scared to do it or something.
This was unexpected,did she know what it was to be a pregnant teenager? I rubbed my face with both palms.
"How do we take care of it, I mean the baby, what do you plan to do?" She at least had to think about that.
"I don't know." I heard her say. "I don't know." She said again. "I will have to tell my parents, it wouldn't be that hard with their support."
"You plan on telling your parents?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Yesss. You could abort it?"
"No." She said sharply."Oh, I get it. You don't wanna do this, do you? You can leave, i didn't ask you to come anyway."
She said and I felt hurt by what she just said. I looked at her directly in the eyes, she meant those words she just said.
"If I wanted to opt out of this, I wouldn't be here." I thought I had to let her know. When she didn't say anything, I thought I should continue.
"Your parents, they must be really cool for you to feel so confident about informing them about this."
She chuckled.
"They are the worst. My only confidence here is on their financial help, nothing else." She hissed.
"And you plan on telling them?"
"They won't know till it's visible for everyone to see, maybe during semester break and....." Her doorbell rang, interrupting her words.
Her friends were back. She looked at me for a while before sighing. She wiped her eyes with the tissue. I didn't know if she planned on letting her friends know and if that was why she was cleaning the remnant of her tears or she just had to, but they would find out later anyway.
"You have to go." She said standing up and heading to the door. I followed her. The doorbell was rung repeatedly now, almost nonstop, the person seemed impatient.
"Girlll, What took you so long to open the damn door?" Someone asked once she opened the door. The girl had too much makeup on." Cherry and the girls left, since you won't open the door."
I guessed it was her roommate. Ann made way for me to pass through the door. Her friend kept looking at me.
"Bye." I said to Ann. She just nodded.
"Was it him that night?" I heard her roommate ask.
"Just come in." Ann said before closing the door.
I hailed a cab and was soon on my way back to my lodge. I was the only one seated at the back of the cab and I was glad about that. I had time to think.
When the cab dropped me off, I was ready to go up those stairs, into the room and just have a good sleep but I saw Dylan. He was sitting there on the last flight of the stairs.
I almost didn't say anything to him, I wanted to just keep on walking up the stairs as planned but he was sitting right there, at the ending of the stairs, so I couldn't go up. I stopped when I got to where he sat. He stood up, adjusted his glasses.
"I was waiting for you, since you would not pick up my calls." He said.
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