I have to say it now… I won’t wait for another day.
“Alex...” I called out his name softly, almost a whisper. It was the start of the second semester of the school, laughter and chatters filled the hallway. The sun was glowing like a fireball in the sky, giving its warm reflection through the tinted jealousies in the cold atmosphere. I was walking towards him, almost running. I looked at him as he went through the crowd until he stopped in front of his locker.
Yes. Gotcha.
“Alex?” I called out his name again and grasped his firm shoulder. I was tired of finding and following him around the hallway. He turned to look at me and there I saw the sweetest smile I’ve ever seen. His green eyes that sparkled with his pearl-white teeth made my cheeks flushed pink.
“Whatssup, Chloe?” He asked with a grin on his face. He then went closer to me. His after-shave smell and his perfume tickled and twitched my nose. He bent down and kissed lightly my forehead.
“um… Alex, we need to talk.” I said with a serious voice.
“About what?”
“Not here. It’s kind of urgent.” I have to tell him but not here in this hallway, obviously.
“Why? You want to break up with me?” He said with a chuckle then his face appeared to be worried.
“No, silly, that’s not it. I just need to talk to you in private. Alone. Get it?” I folded my arms then held his hand to pull him out of the crowded hallway.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We sat down on a wooden bench in our school’s garden. Different flowers showing different colors made the garden looked attractive. It was so quiet that we could even hear each other’s breathing. As the wind blew, fallen leaves started to move a little. The rustling of leaves and the chirping of the birds broke the silence.
“What do you want to talk about, Chloe?” Alex placed his arm around my shoulder.
“Alex…” I didn’t know it was lot harder than I’ve expected. My hands and feet started to sweat, making me nervous even more.
“Are you, okay?” He looked at me sincerely.
“I’m fine. Don’t worry. The thing is that… I-I want to tell something… something…” I breathed hardly and I felt droplets of sweat rolling down on my cheeks and neck.
“You’re making me nervous than you are, Chloe. We only have a few minutes left before the lunch bell rang.” He said with a laugh.
C’mon, just say it.
My sweaty hands gripped on my lap. I held out a handkerchief from my pocket. I cannot do this. It was a lot harder than I thought. I just have to simply blurt it out.
“Alex… I’m pregnant.” I looked down, embarrassed.
What would be his reaction? Would he accept it or not?
Those words ran in my mind that I felt dizzy. I felt my hands cold and sweatier. I didn’t have the confident to look at him. I know he would look like he was in a trance. He would be disappointed but I hope not. I was carrying his child now.
Then a laugh appeared.
“Let’s get married, then!” He gazed at me like he was very happy. Well, he looked cheerful.
“But we’re still minors!”
“With parent consent, we will! I’m so happy now! I’ll be a father!” He stood up and danced funnily and I couldn’t help but laugh. He was so happy, well, that is based from his gorgeous face, and I think he was. I stood up and he directly gave me a warm hug.
“I’m so happy. How I wish that would be true enough! You wanted to become a mother now? That’s funny. Anyway, bye for now, sweetie. I have to go.” Then the school bell rang as if to tell us to go in our respective classes. He swiftly loosened his hug and gave his goodbye kiss lightly against my lips.
"How I wish that would be true enough! You wanted to become a mother right now? That’s funny. Anyway, bye for now, sweetie…"
What the--?
I don’t get him. I was real pregnant. He thought I was just making a joke out of it?! I can’t believe it. And I thought he was ready to accept it… but how--?
He didn’t know anything about it, except that it was just a stupid joke of mine. How dare he? I have to tell him straight that I wasn’t trying to crack a joke about me getting pregnant. I have to tell him the real truth.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was already dismissal time. I directly went to Alex’s locker. I knew he would be always there. The sun was starting to set down. The hallway was filled up again with noises and shouts. As I look at through the crowd, finding a sight of Alex, I felt vomiting. It was a total surreal blur. I felt dizzy. I closed my eyes and opened it again to fight-off the dizziness in head.
“Hey, Chloe! I’m hungry; let’s go to our favorite snack bar.” He said all of a sudden then started to pull me out of the crowd, before I could say anything.
When we were out of the campus, I knew then it was the right time to tell him.
“Alex.” He stopped walking then turned his tanned body towards me.
“Alex, I want to--“before I could finish of my sentence, Jake, Alex’s best friend, wearing his basketball jersey, appeared out of nowhere.
Great.
“Hey, Alex. I want to remind you of our basketball practice this 5:30 p.m. Coach said we have to make no absence of it since the game is fast approaching.” He informed Alex then turned towards me and smiled. I forced a smile back.
“Yeah, I know. Thanks for that. Two more weeks and we’ll be able to kick those “Lions” off of their loser asses.” Alex gave out his laugh.
“Yeah…See yah later, man.” Then Jake left us.
“That means, I only have an hour to be with you today.” He sighed then wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I felt his warmth against mine. I was lucky to call he’s mine but I don’t know about that today…
Yeah, that means I’ll also have an hour to talk to you about this child I'm carrying...
As we went to the small restaurant, cold air filled our lungs which made us even hungrier. There were only a few people around. We sat down to our usual place, beside those clear windows because that’s how we met. Also, we ordered our usual meal, cheeseburger for him and white spaghetti for me.
While we waited for the order, I looked at him, with his hands holding mine. I knew then, I have to say it to him. This time, he would know and notice that this wasn’t a joke to laugh about.
“Alex…”
“What, Chloe?” his gripped on my hands became tighter.
“I’m really pregnant.”
“Chloe…”, he paused then scratched his head, “Actually, I’m not in time for jokes now. Okay, during that lunch time, I was surprised and it took it as a crazy joke---“I interrupted him.
“So do I. This is not a joke, Alex. I am carrying your child.” I said with a soft voice, not wanting to let the others hear us. He loosened his hands from mine and placed his hands on his lap and looked down.
“Alex, please believe me.” I felt my eyes became teary, and then a tear rolled down on my red cheeks.
There was no response.
“We didn’t do it, you know…” he declined with a nervous laugh. I saw that he was sweating and his eyes wandered throughout the place, didn’t even dare to look at me.
“We did it, Alex. Why are you lying? Remember, during our semester break… in your house?” I asked him and tears continuously fell down and I could feel the flow of blood in my cheeks.
“We didn’t.” he hesitated.
“Did too, Alex.” I was feeling hopeless.
“A-Are you sure? Have you even tried testing it?” he asked with a shaky voice.
“Thrice, Alex. It was positive.” I tried to be calm as possible and talk to him quietly .I felt weak and tired. He didn’t accept it. He didn’t want our child. I felt the guilt all over my mind.
It took him few minutes to break the silence between us.
“Chloe…um… I n-need to go for our b-basketball practice.”He uttered faintly, and then ran off from the restaurant.
“Alex!” I called him but it was too late. I looked at him running like a jerk. I was too foolish to believe him. I shouldn’t have trusted him as well I didn’t trust myself. I saw his presence going invisible and smaller until it wasn’t in sight anymore.
I was hopeless.
How could I resolve this problem? How will my parents react and how about Alex? He was my only hope.
To be continued…
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hey, guys! Thank you for reading this. I'm hoping that you like it and waiting for your feedbacks, comments, reviews, etc.
Also if this story is destined to have another chapter??
Thank you!
Gender:
Points: 28776
Reviews: 446