by Katy Kaylee
“No,” he said, his voice steel. “You’re not. You’re going to stay here.”
“Dallas-”
“I don’t want you to come with me, okay? I don’t want you.”
I gasped, stepping away from him, the drive to go after him suddenly gone. I took a deep, shuddering breath and looked away from him. I was stuck in a strange place, somewhere between loving him and complete betrayal.
The door slammed shut and I stood there for a moment, one strap of my dress hanging off. I did not like to cry, but I was, renegade tears sneaking out and dropping to the tile below me. The first sob ripped through me, and my chest felt like a vacuum, like an empty pocket of space.
I found my phone in the bottom of my bag and called Delilah, my best friend, who finished her last final the day before and was packing her things to move home. I couldn’t talk, I could barely breathe, and she told me that she was on her way over. I hung up the phone and slid down to the floor, trying to breathe and finding it hard.
I knew that raising a child was hard work with two people, but with just a single person, would it even be possible? My hands were shaking as I thought about the fact that not only was my only form of employment a part-time job at a coffee shop, but I just graduated with a degree in Art and Design. It would take months to get a job, and years to be credible enough to make good money.
I was thinking through all this, my anxiety and panic growing, when Delilah showed up, and, not seeing Dallas, seemed to connect the dots rather quickly. She helped me up off the floor and started to tell me that everything was going to be okay.
“Delilah,” I sobbed, “I’m… pregnant.”
She paused, the expression dropping from her face for a moment, then she went right back into mother-mode, taking my arm and leading me from my apartment.
“You are staying with me tonight, and we are going to talk about what happened, and you are going to take another pregnancy test because those things can be wrong, honey. It’s all going to be okay, you’ll see.”
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