Expect the Unexpected, chapter 4

Two months later and Johnny and I were still going strong. We weren't having sex though, like we did that night we got together. Nothing of much significance happened in those few months except me getting the stomach flu. At least, that's what I thought it was. On a Friday night Mrs. Hall had to work late, so we decided to order pizza.
"What do you want on it?" Kathy asked while she dialed the number.
"I don't care just no mushrooms and no anchovies," Johnny answered.

"Okay, how about you Liz?" she said to me.

"Sausage," I said immediately. Kathy and Johnny both gave me confused looks.

"Liz, I thought you hated sausage," Kathy said.

"Well yeah," I said. "but for some reason I really want some." This was true, Kathy was right when she said I hate sausage, I really do, but for some reason, I had a craving for them.

Kathy and Johnny looked at each other for a minute, and then Kathy shrugged and said she would ask for them. Twenty minutes later the food arrived. Kathy and Johnny both started to eat it, I grabbed a slice and brought it to my mouth. I was about to take a bite, when suddenly, I felt really, really sick. Kathy looked up at me and said, "Liz, are you alright?"

"No" I answered; I dropped the pizza and darted for the bathroom. After and minute or so I felt better and walked back into the kitchen. By this time Mrs. Hall had come home. She saw that I didn't look to good and asked me what was wrong, so I explained to her that I thought I had a stomach bug.

"Wait a minute," she said once I finished, "how long has this been happening?"

"I don't know," I answered. "A few weeks I guess."

"I see," Mrs. Hall said. Then she turned away from us for a minute. I looked back at Kathy and Johnny. They both shrugged. I turned back around to see Mrs. Hall looking at me again.

"Liz, come with me," she said and began to walk towards the front door. Slowly I followed her, wondering what this was all about. We walked out to her car and got in; she started driving up the street and into town.

"Liz," she said suddenly, "Have you been sexually active with a boy recently?"

I was going to say no, then I remembered that thing with Johnny. "Yeah," I said, "about two months ago with Johnny, why?"

She sighed and looked at me, "Because..." she started.

"Because what?"

"Because I think you might be pregnant."

That was not what I had expected her to say. It wasn't like I hadn't thought of the possibility that I had gotten pregnant, I just didn't think it could happen. I knew that this is what happened to my mom, and then I got scared. What if I was pregnant? Would I end up like her? What would happen when Johnny found out? Would he leave me the way my father left my mother? All these questions and more ran through my head as we drove. She stopped at a pharmacy where we bought a pregnancy test.

Back at the house Mrs. Hall had let me go in the bathroom to take the test. Now I sat here, anxiously awaited the results. Please be negative...please be negative...please be negative. Finally I got the results. My face fell. It read 'positive'.

I slowly sank down to the floor and started to cry. This can't be happening I told myself, but I knew that it was. After I had semi-composed myself, I exited the bathroom where Mrs. Hall was waiting. "Well?" she asked.

Without a word, I handed her the test so she could see for herself. She read the results and then gave me a hug, telling me it would be alright. Eventually Kathy came over. "What's wrong?" she asked me.

"K-Kathy" I stammered, "I'm pr-pregnant"

"Oh my god," Kathy said in shock. "It's Johnny's right?"

"I haven't slept with any other guy, it has to be his."

"What has to be mine?" I heard Johnny say.

I looked up and saw him walking over, a look of concern on his face. "What's going on?"

Kathy and Mrs. Hall then left so I could tell Johnny myself. I wiped the tears from my eyes and looked at him. "Johnny I'm- I began.

"You're what?"

"I-I'm pregnant" I choked out.

I watched as his expression changed from concern to shock. "WHAT!?!?!" he screamed. "How can you be pregnant, we've never had sex."

"Yes we have, two months ago remember?"

"Oh that. That was nothing that was just pure insanity. You can't get pregnant, I'm only sixteen, I can't be a father you can not be pregnant."

"Yeah, well, like it or not, I am and that's it, and did you even stop to think about how I feel about this? Do you think I wanted this to happen? I don't want to be pregnant at sixteen like my mother was."

"So get an abortion."

"WHAT?! I could never go through with that Johnny, I can't believe you would even suggest it."

"Well, what do you want me to say then?"

"I want you to say that you're going to stick with through this unlike my bum of a father did to my mother."

I turned from him as tears began to fall down my face once again. I could his hand touch my shoulder. I turned around and he pulled me into a hug.

"I'm sorry for yelling," he said. "And I promise you that I'm gonna be there for you through this, and I'll be the best dad in the world."

"Thank you," I said through my tears.

After a few minutes, he let go of me. "We're going to have to get married you know," he said.

"I know," I answered, "And we'll both have to get jobs."

"I know." he said.

"It's gonna be hard."

"Yeah, but don't worry, until you have that baby, I'll always be right there next to you, helping."

"Even when I start getting mood swings?"

"Well, I don't know about that." I hit him on the shoulder when he said that. "Ow, see, they're starting already."

"Well, you're gonna have to learn to deal with it because that's what it's gonna be like in a few months, only worse."

"Oh great." I hit him again. "Ow, okay I'm sorry, don't hit me again," he said as he held up his hands in defense.

I laughed a little and promised not to hit him again. Then we went to find Mrs. Hall and Kathy.