I'm sitting in the bathroom stall at my high school. I have never been this sick in my life. I missed my first period class because I was just so nauseous this morning. And being in science class, dissecting frogs is not happening today. Just the smell alone reeked so bad that I thought I was going to toss my cookies right there in front of the whole class.

So I have been feeling this way for the past week and I just don't get it. Why are all these smells revolting, crap I must be coming down with a bug.

My best friend Jennie comes rushing in to check on me. "Charlotte...are you in here. Mr. Burns wanted me to come see about you?"

"I'm in the last stall. I'm fine...just needed to get out my breakfast." I open the stall door and she is standing right there in front of me.

"Char...you look horrible. What is going on?"

"I don't know...Jen. Is there a stomach bug going around or something I have been feeling like this for a good week now?"

"Not that I know of...but hell look where we are...this is germ city girl."

I walk over to the sink and look in the mirror. She is so right I look horrible. "I think I need to go home."

"Yeah...alright...I will walk with you to the office."

"You don't have to do that...Mr. Burns will not be happy that you are missing class."

"Please...this is the perfect excuse not to have to do the assignment." She smiles back at me and then walks over to the door to open it for me.

 My mom comes twenty minutes later to pick me up and I still look like crap. So she called the doctor and they got me in at ten.As we are sitting in the waiting area, she is filling out all the paper work...just updating from the last time I was here. I don't pay attention to anything that is on it. The jolly little nurse opens the door with a wide smile on her face.

"Charlotte McAlley..." I glance up to see him gesturing for me to come back. Of course my mom gets up and goes right in with us. Yes I may be sixteen....but she still goes in there."So what brings you into the office today?" She says as she walks over to the area for me to be weighted and then check heart rate and temp.

"Well she has been feeling down all week. I assume coming down with a stomach bug, maybe something is starting to go around." My mom does all the talking for me.

"Well alrgihty...guess we will have to have the doc to look and see. Charlotte can you please take off your shoes and get on the scale for me."

I sit in the chair and take off my Converses and then walk over to stand on the stupid scales. They always say that I am under weight and then that gets everyone going about how I should be eating taking better care of myself. I step on and look down. What that can't be right? But then again I have been vomiting for the past few days so maybe it is right.

"You lost ten pounds since the last time you were here...Charlotte you have to eat you know."

"I do eat...it's just I have been sick for the past few days." I roll my eyes at her. I get down and sit on the chair by her table and let her check everything else out.

Before going to the back she hands me a cup. "I will need you to pee in this. Just set it in the little window in the wall before coming back out ok."

I take it from her and roll my eyes. They have got to be kidding me. Peeing in a cup is pointless...it's not going to tell me why I'm puking but whatever. I go to the bathroom and do what she has asked and then come back out. In the room we wait for the doctor to come in and after like fifteen minutes she finally comes.

"Good morning, Charlotte...Rebecca." She greets me and then my mom. I have been coming here since the day I was born and Dr. Blake is pretty good friends with my mom. "So tell me what is going on?"

"She has been feeling like this all week...she can't keep anything down. I thought it would go away by now but it's been several days."

"I see." She turns and looks at me. "Is that all...or is there more that is going on?"

"I don't know...I just don't feel good."

"Ok...let's have a look at you. Open wide." I open my mouth and she gets a good look at my tonsils. She feels around my neck, behind my ears, not to mention look in my ears. She does the whole works and then has me lay down. "So Charlotte...you're sixteen now right?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Any good looking boyfriends?" She looks down at me and smiles.

"Only one...but it's not like we really get to go anywhere...she says I'm too young to be dating." I point to my mom and give Dr. Blake a smirks. Ok...so I am a teen with a little attitude...shoot me.

"So then no sex then...right?"

I don't say anything at first and then I see my mom start to get worried. So I hurry up and shake my head no. "No..."

Dr. Blake gives me a look..."Rebecca...do you mind stepping out while I exam Charlotte?"

"Oh...no...not at all...she is in good hands. I will just be right outside." She stands up and goes out the door, closing it behind her.

Dr. Blake looks at me with a concerned look. "Charlotte, you are like one of my own girls...I have been seeing you since the day you were born. Are you being honest with me?"

"Yes..." I roll my eyes...Dear lord it was the only the one time during the football game. Everyone was out on the field and we...Danny and I made out in the locker room. Ok so we might have done it twice...but does it really even matter. The phone goes off and she stops to answer it. Apparently it was one of the nurses. When she hangs up she looks back over at me. There is a concern look now...like one that my mom usually gives me.

"Charlotte...I'm going to ask you again and I need you to be honest with me. This is between the two of us and only us. I need to know...have you been having sex?"

"No...why do you keep asking me?" I practically yell at her, being annoyed.

"Because we had you pee in a cup...you're urine sample came out positive."

"Positive for what?" I huff.

"You are pregnant." She says so matter of factly. "So this boy...how many times have you two been together?"

"No...No I'm not...I can't be." I stand up and start putting on my clothes. I go to grab my jacket and she stops me.

"Charlotte...you are. Now we can keep this between us or we can tell your mom...either way she is eventually going to find out. Would you like me to help you tell her?"

I feel the tears coming; there is a huge lump in my throat. "He promised me...he said that I couldn't get pregnant the first time...no girl does. He promised me that he used protection...how it is possible that I....that I...I'm pregnant...no it just can't be possible."

"Charlotte...I can do the test again but I had them check twice...and it still pretty positive. When was you with the guy?"

"The first time was like three weeks ago...during the football game. And then we made out in one of the janitor rooms at school about a week ago. My mom can't know...she will kill me."

"She will be very upset...but she will not kill you and you have to tell her sooner or later." She hands me a packet about pregnancy. I sit over in the chair as she goes out to get my mom to bring her back in. She sees me crying.

"Oh...goodness is everything alright. What is wrong?"

"Mommy please don't be mad at me. I didn't mean for any of this to happen...he said I couldn't...I never...never thought this would happen...not to me."

"Wait...what are you talking about Charlotte?"

I can't find the words to tell her. I look up at Dr. Blake and bust out crying even more."Rebecca...Charlotte is pregnant...maybe at least three weeks along. That is why she can't keep anything down."

I see the color drain out of her face. "How is this possible...she never goes out...she is never left alone with a boy." She turns to look at me. "This Danny boy you have been seeing...when in the hell have you had time to have sex with him?"

"It...it just happened." I cry out more...sobbing more than anything now. "I said I was sorry...I didn't think that I could get pregnant."

"We should go now." She turns to look at Dr. Blake. "Please keep this in this room...I don't need people talking about us behind our backs."

"Of course...it's confidential...you know that I am not allowed to say anything."

"Good...thank you...Charlotte lets go." I stand up and walk down the hallway in front of her. All the way home she is silent...not saying a damn word. I hate when she gets this way. I hate when she shuts down because I know inside she is thinking of what she is going to do to me...what will my punishment be.

When we pull in the drive she turns to look at me. "You tell no one about this do you understand me...not even that boy. You are grounded until I say you are ungrounded. Matter of fact I may just have to pull you out of school."

"Mom...it's not that big of a deal."

"Not that big of a deal...do you have any idea who the hell I am in this town...who your father is in this town...and when people find out that you got knocked up....dear lord the rumors will fly."

"I can't hide if forever mom...Dr. Blake said I will be due in like eight months...I will be showing way by then."

"No...you...you can't have this baby...it will ruin everything."

"What are you saying mom?" I stop my tears from falling, wiping the rest with the back of my hand.

"I'm saying we will set up an appointment within the next two weeks...and get rid of it."

"Mom you can't be serious... you of all people have been about pro-life my whole life and you are talking about just getting rid of it...like it's nothing."

"I'm sorry, Charlotte...but this is bad timing...you are two young to face the consequences of this and I just started my career again after all these years. I will not be raising another child."

"No one said you had too." I jump out of the car and run up to my room slamming the door behind me. I don't stop when she calls my name and I don't unlock the door. I just want to be left alone.

Danny promised that I could not get pregnant the first time...He swore to me that it was not possible, especially when he even used protection. I stand up and look at myself in the mirror. I rise up my shirt and at the moment it is flat as can be. I need to tell him...he has to know.