“So, uh, I’ve got some more business in a few weeks back up here in Boston.”
My mouth split into a huge grin as I looked up at him. Tyler definitely didn’t have any business here, it’d just been his pretense to come see me.
“Oh, business, hmm?” I grinned at him.
He winked. “I’ll figure something out.”
I melted into his arms just the same as he kissed me, never wanting to let him go.
A few days after Tyler left to go back home, I got my first hint of something being different, but I told myself it was nothing; these things happened all the time, right? And even a few days after that, I still told myself it was nothing to dwell on and nothing to worry about; it would come soon, definitely.
But a week after I was due for my period without one, I knew something was up.
The test was easy enough, once I’d cabbed to the other side of the city to buy one and then secreted it back to my dorm room. The hard part though, was going to be opening my eyes and looking at it now, and seeing what was going to come next.
Slowly, I cracked my eyes open and stared at the little stick in my hand. I could feel my heart start to beat faster, and a flush come into my cheeks as I gasped.
Ok, now things where going to get really interesting.
Chapter 17
Christina
Just like that, with one little stick with a pink dot on it in my hand, my life suddenly got very, very complicated.
I remember spending the rest of that first day of knowing just in shock. I skipped classes, which was unheard of for me, and spent most of the day huddled in bed trying to lose myself in mindless Friends reruns.
The real scary thing was how alone I felt. I knew Tyler cared about me, but I wasn’t sure how he’d react if I just called him up with “surprise, I think I’m pregnant.” Besides, it wasn’t that long ago that he’d gotten out of a big commitment - namely marriage. Did Tyler Weaver even want kids?
Jesus Christ, what was I saying? Did I?
Te only other person who knew about us was Anna, which was, well, complicated. It wasn't like I'd been ignoring her since Tyler’s visit, when she'd openly watched us make love, it was really more that I was worried that things had gotten a little out of control that night. I'd been so caught up in the eroticism of realizing we were being watched, and I guess part of me was more of an exhibitionist than I'd ever really thought about.
Fucking Tyler and riding his cock while my roommate and best friend played with herself as she watched us had been insanely hot, but I was worried that we'd crossed a line. Anna was my best friend after all, and while it wasn't like we'd had some kind of a threesome or anything, it'd been a really intimate thing that I'd shared with her. She was a total free spirit, I got that, but I was still worried that what had happened was going to change us somehow.
Ok, so, maybe I had been avoiding her; just a little bit I guess.
She cornered me a few days later coming out the side entrance of the library, with frozen coffee concoctions in her hands.
“Christina”
I whirled towards my friend, faltering awkwardly for words; "Oh, uh, hey, I was just about to call y-“
"Okay, stop." She arched her brow at me and gave me one of her looks. ”Look, I know you've been weird since Tyler left, and I have a gut feeling it's more than just that."
I shuffled my boots, kicking at the fall leaves around our feet. “No, it’s-”
It's that I'm in love with a man I can't have, and I'm embarrassed that I made a fool out of myself with my best friend and now everything will change. Oh, and I'm fucking eighteen years old and pregnant.
I wanted to say all those things to her, but somehow, I couldn't. Well, not all of them; not yet.
"I don't know, I just-” I sighed and finally caved, “Okay, I feel kinda embarrassed and like maybe I crossed a line with, you know - that night.”
Anna gave me her most serious look. "Oh you mean when you let me watch you fuck your hunky older boyfriend with the big dick?"
I blushed scarlet and she giggled. "Ahah! Well, I'm glad to see the slightly prudish, blushing little Christina I love isn't totally gone now that she's got a boyfriend and having sex and all.”
I reddened deeper, still shuffling the toes of my shoes in the leaves. ”Nope, she's still here." I finally dragged my eyes up to my friend, seeing her grinning at me with a smirk on her face.
"So, listen, I'm sorr-"
"Damnit, Chris!” She burst out, rolling her eyes at me and huffing. “I’m the one that got all creeper on you and started spying on you guys. I'm the one that needs to apologize here. Why do you think I finally just cornered you like a stalker?”