I had to start attending mental help once a week, my mom wasn't too happy about that. But the week in the hospital was over before I knew it and I was finally back home, everything went back to normal pretty fast. Mom was always gone on work business, I was at home alone and still held tight to my secret.
The next morning I awoke and was starting my school routine, it was my first day back to school in two weeks since the episode with Brandon and still I didn't tell anyone. I walked into the bathroom and looked at my brutual body, then looked between my legs at the bruises that was just starting to fade but the memory would never die. Then I realized my period had not yet come this month. It was January 29 and I was suppose to start on the 20. I was nine days late and the thought horrified me. I could not possibly be a pregnant rape victim of Brandon Williams.
I went to school that day in my night pants and hoodie, I just couldn't get myself together this morning after everything. I was silent on the bus but I kept thinking about Chloe Chester and how only a few weeks earlier I promised myself I would never be like her.
Instead of going to first period and haven to face Brandon, I went to the nurse station. I walked throught the door but the nurse was no where to be seen. There on her shelf was a case of home pregnancy test, I took three out of the box and stuffed them down my bra and scurried out. I didn't even bother going to class that day, I just kept walking, I walkeed throught the front door of the school and kept walking until I was in front of my house.
Once I was inside my house I went to the bathroom, and I realized just how much of my time I spent in there. I sat on the toilet and took the three pregnancy tests out and urinated on them, I set them on the counter and pulled off my clothes and got in the shower and let the water attempt to wash away my stress. When I stepped out of the shower I looked at the pregnancy tests and saw two lines on all three of them. I broke.
I finally called mom and told her to get home as soon as possible that I needed to talk to her, she sounded annoyed but did as I told her. When she walked throught the front door greeting her with three positive pregnancy tests. Her jaw dropped as she smacked me across the face. She yelled at me and called me a slut and I thought "I'm just like Chloe Chester" She then told me that I couldn't stay with her anymore that I would have to move in with my father, brother, step mother, and step sisters. The thought somewhat brought joy to me as I was getting away from my mother and Brandon all in one.
The next day my mom stayed home from work and took me to school to withdrawl my records. Even though we didn't need them because the decision was already made that I was dropping out. As we were standing there waiting on the secretary to release me I saw Brandon Williams pass by. Part of me was terrified and the other part of me was filed with anger, he was the one that done this to me and destroyed my life and he deserved to know. I wrote down the words I couldn't find to speak on a piece of paper and handed it to him. He stopped and read it and his face went pale.
Mom never did bother to ask me who, why, or when she was just more worried about me getting out of her life. My things had allready been packed and on there way to Florida, and my father was informed of my pregnancy. We drove to the airport in complete silence and then she boarded me on a plane and left. No goodbye, No I love you, No nothing she just left me being 16 and pregnant on a plane headed somewhere I have never been to live with a man I hadn't seen in three years. Right then I vowed I would be a better mother than her and that was a promise I was going to keep.
I slept the whole entire plane ride I needed the rest, but I couldnt help but dream of me and my unborn child and how he or she would grow up without a father. I woke up at that with a flight attendent tapping me on the shoulder saying we had landed. I walked off the plane and immediatly recognized my father and brother standing there greeting me. They were actually glad I was here, they both ran and hugged me but being careful around my stomach area my dad looked me in the eye and told me how much he loved and missed me.
On the way to my new home my dad was filing me in on the last three years about his new job, how he met his new wife Claire, her two daughters Kennedy whom was 17, and Isabella who was 14, and everything else. I don't know why but at that I immediately broke down and told my dad and my brother Korey everything that had happened. From Brandon raping me, the suicide attempts and eveything. My dad just held me tight and cried with me and told me we could file a report and have Brandon put in jail but for some reason I didn't want that I just wanted to better myself for my unborn child.
Claire, my step mother greeted me as I walked through the door of their amazing beach house, she hugged me and grabbed me by my wrist and told me we had to go that she already schedlued me a doctor appointment.
Claire and I got off to a good start, we talked about baby names, and wheter I wanted a boy or a girl. I told her I personally wanted a girl and she smiled. At the doctors office everything was so weird I had never been to a baby doctor before. They laid me on a bed and put this cold gel on my belly and rubbed it across with this handle thing. And then I saw it, my little baby up on the screen moving and squirming. A smile came across my face at the thought of being a mom. I immediatly decided on names, for a girl Adalyn RoseDaniels and for a boy Landen Maverick Daniels, I was eight weeks pregnant which meant i had 32 more weeks to go.
Claire informed me about this sobering camp they had for teenage girls, it was 25 weeks long and they cleaned out your system and got you clean, I decided to go it was the best thing I could do for my unborn chilld. So once again I packed up my things and headed to a rehab facility.
I met several girls like me at camp and I fount alot of friends some who were even my age and also pregnant I felt like I actually belonged here, the first workshop I had to complete was telling my story in front of the other twenty girls here, for the most part it was easy until I got to the night with Brandon, but I told everyone I didn't regret it because I had a baby as a blessing from it. The rest was pretty simple we just laid in bed and had breathing monitors on us that eased us off the drugs we were on, it was actually kinda peacful feeling the drugs leaving my body and knowing I didn't them.
Time literally flew here It was my eighth week at camp and I was 16 weeks pregnant which meant today at my appointment I would find out the gender of my baby. Claire came to the nursing wing of camp to see me and spend the special moment with me, she was the best woman ever and I couldn't imagine where I would be without her. Once again the nurse rubbed jelly on my now big belly and we all looked at the screen, when she announced it was a girl I literally started crying and I hugged Claire so hard, I was so happy I couldn't wait to meey my daughter Adalyn Rose. The other girls prepared a pink cake for me and Claire stayed and ate a piece but then had to leave she was only granted an hour of visitation and I couldn't wait to go home and be back with my actual family only 17 more weeks til I went home.
Those 17 weeks went by fast and I was glad of it. At the end of your 25 weeks at camp you received a certificate of recoginiton and had a ceremony, kinda like a graduation service and I was now 33 weeks pregnant, only seven weeks until I met the new love of my life.
When I came home I was greeted with hugs and I finally got to meet my two step sisters who were actually really sweet, and I actually got to explore the house now all four kids had their own bedroom and bathroom and so did mom and dad. I called Claire mom now because she was more of a mother than I had ever known. Mom had even prepared a room for baby Adalyn, I was in tears I loved it so much.
That night I layed i bed on my phone and had several messages from a number I didn't recgonize. I opened them and they were from Brandon and he wanted to be in his babys life. I told him no and quickly blocked his number and pretended like the enitre situation never happened.
Kennedy, Isabella and I was doing alo tof bonding. We went shopping all the time I wasn't use to have people or sisters to shop with. We mainly bought maternity clothes for me, clothes and diapers for Adalyn, and tried on wedding dresses for Kennedy
who was engaged to get married next summer. In a way I was jealous of her life, she was beautiful, high school graduate and honor student, enrolled in college, and engaged to be married. I was happy for her but I wouldnt trade my life for anything.
That night as I was laying in bed I started having sharp pains in my stomach and I yelled for Claire, she immediatly drove me to the hospital, and dad, korey, kennedy, and bella followed behind in the car. I was 38 weeks pregnant and going into labor it was September 10. Labor lasted for four hours and hurt like hell, but when I saw my daughters face it was worth it little Adalyn Rose born on September 10 at 11:11pm 8 pounds 3 ounces, and 14 inches long. With blonde hair like me and green eyes like her daddy, the eyes that starred at me the day she was conceived. My daughter would never know that story.
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