Nine:

When Dylan left, she stood looking at me like I was looking at her. It was like she also didn't know what to say.

"So you've been stalking me huh?" I asked hoping to break the weird and awkward silence.

"What?" She let out a rather loud chortle which turned into a smile within seconds.

"Yess, I have seen you so many times, it only stopped recently."

"Oh really? Where exactly, if I may ask?" She asked tucking all her eight fingers except her thumbs into each of her back pockets.

"Here." I used my fingers as counters."At my lodge, here again....."

"Okay stop, which lodge do you stay in?" She asked.

"Acting like you don't know, wow." I said.

"I don't, really." She shook her head.

"Yeah, you don't know I stay at the ivory lodge."

"I don't. If I did, I would look for you there and not here, where I see you almost all the time."

"So what were you doing there the other day?"

"What other day?" She looked surprised.

"When you were at Ivory lodge, looking for someone?"

"Oh, I was there to pick a friend for class, wait you mean you were there?"

"Yeah." I said, glad that we were talking smoothly but I still had in mind that she had walked up to me for a reason and we weren't talking about that yet.

"Well it's good, I know where you stay now." She said.

"Yeah, you can come say hi, whenever you come pick that friend of yours again." I said jokingly but she didn't seem to find funny.

"So how are you?" I heard her ask when she stopped smiling.

"Uhm.... pretty good." I replied and she sighed.

"How good?" She asked again, which made me worried now.

"Is there any problem?" I knew I had to ask.

She covered her face with her palm, and drew in a long breath. She came over to where I stood and sat, I had to sit.

"I know I said I would take pills that night...."

No! Fuck nooo! This has been on my mind ever since I so her at that general class. She can't be pregnant!! Fuckk! She didn't take the pills!

"....I've been feeling really sick and like weird lately, so I thought I should buy a pregnancy strip....."

"Are you pregnant?" I cut her short, I needed to know.

"I don't know yet." She answered looking relaxed about the situation unlike myself, I was tensed up as hell.

"What do you mean you don't know yet?"

"You didn't l let me finish, I was gonna tell you that I bought this pregnancy strip and I plan on checking as soon as I got home to my apartment." She said looking at a frenzied me.

I wasn't saying anything, I didn't know what to say, I just wished this was me having a bad dream.

"Jerry?" I heard her call my name, this want a dream. My mum will be hurt if she found out about this. It would literally crush her, I've barely spent a month in school. Oh God.

"it's fine, I knew you'd react this way, I just thought I should let you know in case I was pregnant, my roomie says you have a right to know, if I'm pregnant, it would be your child too and....."

"How are you not panicking about this right now?!" I cut her short again.

"We don't know if I'm pregnant yet, soooo

..." She Shrugged.

.....

"How can she not be worried?! I mean she looked calm the whole time." I ranted on our way back to the lodge.

Dylan has been smiling the whole time, like it was funny, a situation. He turned to me.

"Maybe she's just not an overthinking person like you are."

"Bro, this is fucked up, this is so fucked up....." Dylan stopped smiling, seeing how I actually felt about this whole thing.

"I told you that party was a bad idea." He said walking front, more like to avoid facing me.

"So that's what you are going to say about this? really?" Was he serious?

"I'm sorry I have to sound like that but it's the truth; what I'm saying and you know it." He turned back to me now. "Look, can we not do this? I mean, she hasn't called like she said she would, if the test came out positive, you need to calm down about this, okay?"

It was clear in his face right now, his honesty about not wanting to sound like he was mocking my situation. I walked past him, and up the stairs at the lodge.

When I got to our room, I just went straight to the bathroom, locking the door behind me, I sat on the closed water closet. Everything was quiet for a while until I heard Dylan come into the room and it was back to quietness.

I closed my eyes, I didn't know what to think right now, I was so fucked. Why did this have to be happening? just why?

Maybe it was because I thought of it, way too much, just maybe..... and now I decide to get my mind off it, it happens.

I could hear my own loud breathing, she could call any time now. My heart was beating faster now, I was sweating. Now that I had time to think about it alone, I actually understand what a mess I had gotten myself into.

"Jerry?" Dylan knocked on the bathroom door.

I didn't answer, I didn't want to. I knew somehow, just somehow, he would either make this situation feel a little less complicated or be straight up honest with me and I wasn't sure I was ready for whichever one it was he wanted to do. I just wanted to be alone.

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