Chapter 22 - Call me out

A month later

“Did you take the test?” Noni asks staring at me.

“Will you not talk so loud?” I say making her quiet down. “I don’t want my mother to hear us.” I add and she looks at me in shock. Her mouth opens and her eyes pop out.

“So you are pregnant!” She says whispering a little too loud for my liking.

“I didn’t say that” I say feeling my heartbeat picking up. I still can’t believe the test came out positive. I sat on my toilet a month and a half ago and stared at the pee stick in shock. How can I be pregnant? It took one oops and that was it for me.

“You didn’t have to.” She says sitting next to me on my sofa. She touches my hand and the tears I’ve held in for the past month come rolling down my face “Oh, Shalom. You have to talk to him. You can’t act like he doesn’t exist.” She says pulling me in for a long hug.

“I don’t know how. I don’t even know if he wants to see me or talk to me.” I say feeling so guilty for the way I acted that night. I treated him like a random d