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MOVING FAST TONITE
❝ I DON'T KNOW IF I'M GOING TO MAKE
A HUGE MISTAKE, BUT I CAN'T HAVE
IT. ❞

THE TIME READ JUST GONE 9AM ON SCARLETT'S PHONE SCREEN. A large sigh escaped her lips, lips that trembled with nervousness, her jean - clad legs constantly bouncing up and down. She was sick five more since she finished filming no tears left to cry, and she was meant to promote the single as instructed by her record company, but she was too occupied with the baby inside her to care about the album that should be able to define her career as a popstar.

"Scarlett Cabello-Holland?" A kind looking nurse had spoken as she appears from the door where a line of rooms where all this stuff happened. Scarlett's head snapped up, standing and walking with the nurse with a gentle face to a large medical room, all white and pristine and hygienic.

"And how are you feeling today, Scarlett?" The nurse asks, readying the bed for Scarlett to sit on, but right now she was sat on a consulting chair.

"Uh yeah, okay, I guess. Threw up this morning, like every morning." Scarlett lightly laughs, dryly with no sincerity to it.

"Right, and you said you comfirmed your pregnancy by a store-bought test, yes?" The woman asks, bringing out her computer and typing various notes that describes Scarlett's suspected morning sickness.

Scarlett nods, and the nurse hums, turning once more to the popstar, but right now, she's just a woman with an unexpectef pregnancy. "Okay, so we're just gonna run some blood and urine tests to confirm you're pregnant, and then we'll have an ultrasound to see the baby, then we'll just go through step-by-step what happens in this next stage, is that okay?" She asks, kind and sweet as always, and Scarlett nods, feeling calm for once in an environment with rules and regulations, one that couldn't have anything unexpected, like most things in Scarlett's life recently.

About half an hour later, once Scarlett's tests had come to an end and she was most definitely pregnant, she was set up on the bed at the ultrasound, her legs propped up and a blue medical cloth covering them, her stomach on show. The nurse brings out the ultrasound gel, warning Scarlett it may be cold before smothering it all over her stomach.

"So, this is your uterus here," The nurse describes the picture on the black and white screen, one that wasn't very easy to read what was happening. "And this, is your baby."

Scarlett stares at what the nurse was pointing at, a small tiny white blip in a massive space in the whole screen. She feels her chest get tight with emotion as she stared at the small dot, feeling her eyes tear up. "Oh wow, it's so small."

"I'd say you're about six or seven weeks along, so really you're earlier than the usual patients we get in here."

Scarlett had a baby inside her for almost two months, and didn't even realise it herself. She realised it must've been when her and Tom reunited for the first time alone when they both went to Cleveland, the emotion and love between them peaking as they shared a loving night together. That was the result.

"So, we're going to give you these leaflets, and you can research on this all you want, but we've scheduled your termination for April 25th, and if you ever change your mind, you need to call us a week before."

That gave Scarlett three weeks to make a decision if she actually wanted that baby. She thought it was just going to be over and done with today, but clearly there were rules in the UK that stopped her from making a rash decision like this.

"Okay, thank you so much. I'll be in contact soon."

𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢

are you sure you want to
unblock camila  from your contacts?

yes , no

contact unblocked

scarlett
camila oh my god

scarlett
i don't care what happened, what
you did, i don't care about any of
that anymore. i'm in a situation that
i can't talk about with Tom anymore and
now i'm scared and idk if i'm making
the right decision

scarlett
i'm scared

camila
it's been so long

camila
why are you scared?

camila
we're family, baby sis. it's all water
under the bridge. always.

camila
now what's the matter?

scarlett
well i just found out a few days
ago that i'm pregnant and tom's
really happy and excited but i don't
want it and i have until 18th april
to decide if i'm going to go through
with the abortion because otherwise it's
too dangerous

camila
WHAT THE FUCK

camila
ok fuck this we need to have a chat
on the phone this is not the discussion
to have over text

"WHY DON'T YOU WANT IT, PEQUEÑA? YOU'VE WANTED A BABY FOR FOREVER." Camila asks as soon as Scarlett picks up the phone, no greeting certainly needed. The two sisters are having their first conversation in months, and they both missed it. It would be better to catch up and chat shit as usual, but this was what sisters were made for. Serious shit.

"Because, I just know that as soon as I give birth to that baby I'll look at it and I'll just see all the lies Theo told me. That baby...that would be my baby with him, not Tom, and it should have already been born. I can't." Scarlett cries into the phone, on the way back home from the clinic.

Camila could be heard pacing up and down the echoes of her hallway all the way in Los Angeles. "Scarlett. That baby will be nothing to do with Theo — he's left all the way back in 2019! The prick is gone forever, and this is what you've dreamt of since you were seventeen. Your own family of three with Tom Holland. Talk to him, and try and make him understand. Because hell knows he's excited and he wants this more than anything."

"...You're right. I gotta make a decision with him." Scarlett mumbles, chewing on her nails as she stressed obsessively on the baby and it's future. Tom is the dad, so he has much of a right to have a say.

"But remember, baby sis, at the end of the day, your uterus, your final say, got it?" Camila firmly presses at her sister, and Scarlett laughs out loud.

"Sure thing, my uterus, my say."

"I missed this, and you." Camila smiles into the phone, and Scarlett could hear the upward stretch of her lips, feeling herself beaming too.

"You'll always be my sister."

"And I gotta come see you, like as soon as possible. You need to see how much little Luca's grown! It's too fast." Camila rambles to her sister, missing the ability to do such a thing after months of not speaking.

If there were any silver lining to this mess of an unexpected pregnancy, it was a slight reunion with her family, her closest family member. Her sister. And Scarlett realised at that very moment how important family was.

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pls don't forget to vote and comment, istg idk how manty times i have to say this but it is so fucking jarring.

see y'all soon with anotha update ☁️

we like halfway thru maybe¿