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“We’ve been careful,” I insist, answering a question that no one asked. “I’m on the fucking pill, and most of the time, we use condoms, too. Not every time, but a lot of the time. Like, at least half.”
I blow out a breath because I’m rambling and need to stop.
“Shit, we haven’t used condoms in a really long time. Still, I take my pill every day without fail.”
“Then maybe you’re not pregnant,” Luna says as she reaches for the stick in the package. “You want to look, or do you want me to?”
“You do it.” I stand and walk to the window, chewing on my thumbnail. Damn it, I can’t be pregnant.
I. Can’t.
His reaction when he realized he didn’t wear a condom that first time was intense, and he was so freaked out that it took him an hour to calm down.
Jesus, I assured him that we couldn’t get pregnant because I was on the pill.
“Uh, June?”
I close my eyes and then turn back to them.
“Yeah?”
“Open your eyes.”
“I don’t want to.”
“June,” Sarah says. “It’s okay.”
“I’m not pregnant?” My eyes pop open in relief, but when I see their faces, I know I’m wrong.
“No, youarepregnant,” Luna says. “She means that everything’s going to be okay.”
“Holy shit, I’m going to throw up.”
I run back into the bathroom and drop to my knees by the toilet in time to get violently sick. Someone’s rubbing my back, and someone else is holding a wet cloth to the back of my neck.
“I don’t like to be touched,” I mutter between bouts of vomiting, but they don’t stop.
When I’ve lost everything I’ve ever eaten in my life, I sit back on my heels and take the wet cloth, rub it over my face, and then turn to rest my head on Sarah’s shoulder.
“What am I going to do?”
“You’re going to come back into your bedroom and eat a cracker,” Luna responds.
“I’ll go heat up some water for tea,” Sarah says when we reach my room. She hurries off, and I sit on the side of the bed.
“At least this explains all the throwing up and being so tired.”
“Yeah, well, I think I’d rather have the flu.”
“I know.” She sits beside me and wraps her arm around my shoulders. “If you don’t want this baby, you have options.”
That brings tears to my eyes. “It’s not that Idon’twant this baby, it’s that I didn’t think I wantedanybabies at all. I thought you and Sarah would have a dozen kids between you, and I’d be the cool aunt who gives out gum and ice cream like it’s going out of style.”
“I’ll invest in a good dentist,” Luna says dryly.
“I have hot water,” Sarah announces, carrying a tray with a steaming mug and a plastic bear holding honey. “Annabelle says that she’ll check in on you in a little while.”
“Did you tell her?”
