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“Hey, Maggie,” Sydney greets.
“Hi,” Maggie replies. “Tell Mom I’ll be back later,” she says.
“Tell her yourself,” I respond, then push my bedroom door open.
“Should I also let her know you lied about where you were this weekend? Sydney might be willing to cover for you, but I’m not.”
I glance at her. “How do you know about that?”
Maggie rolls her eyes. “Like I wouldn’t hear you went off on a sleepover with your boyfriend. Cora has a crush on a bunch of those guys. She follows them all on social media. It didn’t look that fun. So, tell Mom for me.”
Sydney laughs under her breath as Maggie continues down the hall. “I guess she didn’t leave the dramatics in high school.”
“Nope,” I say. She’s had more fits than Sally this summer.
“Wow.” Sydney surveys the mess that’s my room.
“I know. Packing got put off for too long. I have no clue how it’ll all fit in my car.”
“When are you leaving?”
“Thursday. Classes start Monday, and the apartments opened to everyone yesterday.”
“Oh. I thought you had another week.” Her tone is distant as she glances around the disaster that’s my room, focusing on nothing.
I take a seat at the edge of my bed. “What’s going on, Syd?”
She exhales. “I have no clue how to say this. And I hate that I’m burdening you with it, because you—”
“Sydney,” I interrupt. “Just tell me.”
“I think I’m pregnant.”
I blink at her, those four words registering yet also sounding totally foreign.
“Saysomething.” Sydney pushes a stack of shirts aside and sits down beside me, her fingers twisting anxiously in her lap.
“I… You hadsex?” As far as I knew, she was still a virgin.
Sydney exhales. “Unfortunately, yes.”
“Unfortunately?What the hell happened?”
She makes a face. “Well, the sex itself sucked. And now I might be pregnant. So overall a pretty crappy experience. Zero out of ten, I’d say.”
I want to pelt her with more questions about thelosing her virginitybomb, but it’s overshadowed by the second revelation. “Might be? Did you take a test?”
“No. I realized I was late on Friday, freaked out all weekend, then booked a train ticket back home yesterday. Catherine picked me up from the train station. I had her drop me off here.”
“Did you tell her?”
“No, of course not. She’s nice, but it’s not like she’s my mom. She’s not still in Pembrooke for me or Holden.”
“You need to take a test, Syd.”
She looks away. “I know. I just need to panic some more first.”
“You might be panicking for no reason.”
