one moment
Mia was still at Emily’s, she had been there going on 2 weeks. She had been throwing up every day, brushed off her missed period because she thought it was normal, and had been showing every sign possible that she could be pregnant. But she was, 6 weeks in fact.
Emily had been partying that night with her friends who had picked her up. Mia threw up that night and remembered that Emily asked her if she was pregnant, not even knowing how to answer of course she said no. She had been sick all day, and of course she was tired and wanted to know why, so she drove to the store to get a couple pregnancy tests, little did she know what that test would say could change her life forever, but for the better, rather than worse.
She got home immediately, she took at least 5 tests, and waited. That was the most nerve racking 10 minutes of her life. But when the time came to flip the tests over, she was scared. Scared she’d lose the one shot she had at a good future. She flipped the first test over, positive. The test was positive, she couldn’t even believe that it was. She flipped the rest over, positive. They were all positive. She was pregnant. She started crying immediately. ‘I’m pregnant’ she said out loud, crying, ‘I’m having a baby’ she said, trying to pull herself together. But she had to tell Jen. In that moment she put on her jacket, but didn’t grab her car keys, she instead went down to the garage where Emily’s 66 red mustang with a white stripe down the middle was at. She took the cover off of it, got in immediately, and left, closing the garage door after, leaving. What the rest of the night entailed she had no idea, but she was speeding down the highway, hearing the engine roar every time she sped up. By the time she got to Jen’s it was raining, but Mia went out there, not even caring she got her hair wet. She knocked on the door, ‘can I come in?’ she said, talking over the rain, Jen immediately let her in, ‘what are you doing here?’ Jen asked. Mia immediately turned around looking at her, ‘I’m pregnant.’