Resist My Twin Stepbrothers

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

I smiled weakly. "I have been doing detention, you know?"

She rolled her eyes. "Sure and getting a lot of atten—tion because of it."

I chuckled, but really, I was not in the mood for humor. I couldn't blame Hayley, though. We were sup—posed to do this days ago, but for the past few days, I'd been giving her the runaround.

"I'm sorry about the way that I've been acting lately," I weakly apologized for ignoring her lately. She was my friend not only that but my best friend and I'd been acting like a jerk lately.

Evan was finally talking to me, and while I was worried, I could still act normally around him as long as I didn't know for sure if I was about to have my life changed forever. I could pretend nothing was wrong; it could just be a hormonal imbalance that will fix itself. We learned in biology that it could happen during pu—berty.

"Let's go in," Hayley said gently after some minutes, ignoring my apology. She probably didn't know how to react to it. She put her hand on my back to nudge me forward.

I didn't move.

"It's a little late," I said frantically. "Can't we try again a bit earlier tomorrow? Or, you know, the week—end?"

"No," she said firmly. "No more running. We're al—ready here, so we do this today. It's just a quick thing, and I can talk to the lady in there if you're so worried. I'll do everything; I'll even pay for it, just don't forget to pay me back. We find out about this tonight. Crap, even I'm starting to get anxious about the answer here!"

I winced. Hayley was a really good friend about this, and I knew that. She was just trying to help me. So, I took a deep breath and let her lead me inside.

The whole procedure was quicker than I'd thought. We headed to the aisle quickly, and I knew from the way Hayley didn't hesitate that she'd been down this aisle before. I'd never gone down it. I hadn't needed to. The lady at the checkout counter wasn't surprised when Hayley approached her with a pregnancy test. She no—ticed me standing awkwardly behind Hayley, with a panicked look on my face, and she gave me a glimpse of sympathy. I knew right then, she knew the test was for me, but she handled everything very quickly and profes—sionally, explaining it to Hayley but loud enough so I could see, without it being too loud as to attract the at—tention of her coworker and some of the other people around.

In about five minutes, we were out of there. Hay—ley's house would be empty for a few hours, so we de—cided I would be sleeping over, and headed back.

"I'm sure you heard the instructions," she said, im—mediately pushing me to the bathroom. "Just pee a little and come out here. Be careful how you touch it, though. Use tissues!"

I closed the door between us and wobbled over to the toilet bowl. I peed, and I waited.

When the result came, I was almost afraid to check, but it was right there, and my eyes fell on it.

I was pregnant. Holy fuck. I was too stunned to move. All I could do was stare at the stick of doom.

"Anita? You've been quiet in there for a long time. Are you okay?"

I rushed for the door, pulled it open, and fell into my friend's arms as I broke down crying. Hayley was surprised for a second, but she quickly realized what was happening and wrapped her arms around me tight.

"Oh, honey," she murmured, her voice full of heart—break for me.

"Hayley," I sobbed. "What am I going to do?"

She sighed, and I let myself be led to the bedroom. "For now, nothing. We'll lay down on my bed; you can have a good cry. Maybe a nap. Then we can talk about we're going to do."…to be continued in book 2.

Evan

I waited patiently, but the way my foot tapped on the floor said that was a lie. Still, I waited. The last bell of the day, the bell for those that had been given deten—tion, would soon ring and Anita's time in detention would be over. I'd made sure mine would be the first face she saw as I waited at the door.