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Pregnant? Am I pregnant?
My hands move to my stomach in their own accord. I don’t know if I’m making it up with the news I’ve just gotten, or there is really a small bump there, but it changes everything.
I have a living creature inside me. I have a baby in there, a baby who tries to hold on to life, a baby I’m responsible for.
Suddenly, I feel everything all at once.
Just five minutes ago I was a fourteen-year-old girl who was ready to die, but in the span of five minutes I grew up. I’m not a girl who accepts her fate and all the suffering she endures, I’m now a woman who is ready to fight, not for herself but for the little human inside her. I’m now a mother, and I have never thought it would make such a difference, not even years would mature someone like this reveal.
“We’ll take care of this. That cannot be accepted. That’s wrong. We cannot let another devil’s spawn to come to life,” Mary yells like the mad woman she is.
And I stay silent even though there’s a storm inside me.
I’ll get free of this mess.
I’ll be a better mother than my own.
I’ll protect my baby… no matter what the consequences are.
***
They come in the night. Father Edward, Sheriff Trexton, Sister Mary, and the town’s only doctor, Martin.
Martin sets his things on the nightstand next to the bed. I look at all the shiny metals he displays there. Some of them look sharp.
“Uncuff her and give me some privacy with her,” Martin says to the other three in the room.
“Just finish your job, Doctor.” It’s Trexton.
“I agreed to do what you said. You can at least respect me,” Doctor Martin snaps at him. I used to love Doctor Martin. He’s an old man with a bald head and a big belly.
After
a glaring contest, I’m uncuffed and alone in the room with the doctor.
“I’m sorry this happened to you, little one,” he murmurs. “But I have to do this, and I think this is maybe for your own good. You’re too young to be a mother.”
“Just one more day,” I whisper.
He frowns in confusion.
“Can’t we do it tomorrow? I’ve just learned that I’m pregnant, can’t I have one more day with my baby before you take her away from me?”
“They want me to do it today,” he says. He’s troubled, but I can see he’s considering my plea.
“Please, you’re the doctor. Tell them you can’t do it today. Tell them one of your things is broken. Tell them you gave me something to make me sleep all night so they won’t get mad at you. Tell them anything. Please.”
He scratches his bald head before pacing in the room. He’s distressed enough he doesn’t even notice the missing lancet as he picks up his things.
“Pretend you’re sleeping and don’t make me regret this,” he warns and leaves the room.
I hear yelling outside the cabin, but I’m too excited to make sense of it. Caressing the metal in my hand, I smile.
I’ll protect you, my baby.
Chapter 24
Past
