Chapter 2

• Working up the courage to even go to the pharmacy to buy one of those pregnancy tests was hard. What is there was someone that knew me or mum in the shop? They would tell her and then I would have to please and explain what I was doing buying a pregnancy test for when she is under the impression that I haven't even lost my virginity.
• Not like I would be trying to talk to her about anything that happens in my life anymore as she had told me the last time that I was basically just a burden in her life at the moment and that she would be kicking me out of the house as soon as she lawfully and possibly could. She is more interested in spending time with her current flavour of the month and only asks me questions she deems necessary to establish to her standards that I am not messing around and doing some things that would have her fork out anymore money that the absolutely necessary.
• Finally decided that buying the test would ease my worries even if only for a little bit. I went to the little pharmacy on the corner of the block. Once inside I looked to see if there was any familiar faces in the shop before I grabbed 3 different pregnancy tests from the shelf. I also grabbed a random magazine to cover them if there would be someone familiar coming into the shop.
• I needed to be sure and Google said that these home test could sometimes give a false negative or even a false positive being wrong. I paid for them at the checkout and ran home.
• Mom's car wasn't in the driveway so she was probably at her current boyfriend's place again. She is never at home anymore since my dad left when I was very little. Mum never told me why. This was the reason that after I met Arnold I spent most of my time with him. He made me feel loved and appreciated. He made me feel that there is place for me in this world and that I wasn't just some girl that was useless burden to the ones around me.
• But since I left him I felt alone and just wanted to die. I know I could just call or message him and explain what went wrong and why I was being so distant but at the moment my brain didn't even want to see this as a possible answer to the
• problem. Deciding that it was now or never I went into my bathroom and locked the door. I read the instructions and now it was the waiting game. They took forever to show me the results and when it was finally done I stared at them in shock. All three had double lines and according to the boxes that meant that I was pregnant. After a mini freak out and a full on anxiety attack I caught my breath thinking that this would probably be a good time to get into contact with Arnold again. I had to at least let him know that I was pregnant and that he was the father of the baby. If he then decided to never speak to me ever again I would just have to accept it and try and move on with my life. Hopefully my mum wouldn't be too mad at me like grandma was at the when she became pregnant while she was still in school.
• I didn't have anyone else if she and Arnold ended up dropping me and never talking to me again. I would be alone in this big world and I would have a little one that would be dependant on me for their necessities and everything they would need.
• It took quite a while but I finally managed to calm myself down and stop thinking about what if's and worst case scenarios. It was currently too late to make contact with Arnold so I decided that I would try and get the courage to message him tomorrow morning first thing.
• Arnold's P.O.V (Anne's Biological Father)
• I woke up to my phone ringing the special ringtone I had assigned to my beloved Elizabeth. I never ended up changing it when she started ignoring me after that night we slept together. I tried to meet up with her and talk to her about it because I knew she must have been freaking out about everything but she never pitched or made arrangements to meet with me. It's been 2 months that she has been ignoring me and now suddenly I was good enough to be in her life again. I was debating whether I would answer the call or
• whether I would just ignore her like she ignored me when the phone stopped ringing.
• Sighing
• I listened to the realistic side of myself and was just about to call her back when the phone rang again. It was Elizabeth again.
• Answering the call I put the phone to my ear and said hello. After all the pleasantries were handled she asked if it would be possible for me to meet her at our favourite coffee shop because there is something very important that she had to tell me and she would rather not do so over the phone but rather in person. I did want to see her again as the love I felt for her was still there and my feelings about her hasn't changed. I agreed to meet her hoping that the serious matter she needed to discuss wouldn't be bad news as I would still like to marry her one day after she had finished school and was ready to become my wife.
• Calming myself down and trying to stop imagining all the worst case scenarios in my head I decided that I would go and take a shower and start getting ready to go and meet Elizabeth to hear what she wanted to talk to me about.