Mary Davies
The news has spread all over the school, I have successfully ruined my life. It has been confirmed that I am pregnant. One month pregnancy and I never noticed. I can still remember the look the nurse and the Principal gave me. The Principal told me to go to class while he called my mum. But I wasn’t expecting the news to have spread out so fast. I sighed heavily as I bowed my head and slouched my shoulders, I found it hard to believe that something was actually growing in my stomach. A baby.
I stepped into my class and everyone stopped whatever they were doing before. They were all looking at me as if I have suddenly grown two heads.
“What a slut. I have always known she is a slut.” Someone said, I was expecting everyone else to laugh. But no one laughed. It was like they were doing minutes of silence for the misfortune that just befall me. Maybe it wasn’t that bad to have a baby. I raised my head up and slowly tried to look around the class. Hawk Andrews isn’t in the class. I sighed in relief, though I don’t know why I did that. I just don’t think I was ready to face the father of my unborn child.
What am I even thinking, I walked towards my seats and sat down immediately, then I began to think about my life. My mum might want me to abort the child and who am I to rebel against that. I thought about college and my future. The school hasn’t made a decision on what they want to do about my problem. I know the Principal was only scared about his image and the school’s image.
I might get suspended for a few months, but I really don’t need that. I already made up my mind to tell my mum everything that happened between Hawk Andrews and me. Telling her the truth was the best thing I can do at this moment. I know she will want to know the truth.
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I was wrong when I thought my mum was going to be curious about knowing the truth, it was clearly evident that she was going to believe everything the Principal is going to say, than her own daughter.
I could tell she was shocked and embarrassed when the Principal announced my pregnancy to her. I dearly hope my own mum won’t stigmatize me after finding out about this truth.
“This shame your daughter has brought upon herself and upon you isn’t going to affect both of you alone. It’s going to affect the school’s image too. If the single parent of a teenage girl, a seventeen years old can’t educate her child about the dangers of sex, unprotected sex at her age. Then we as a school has also failed to give sex education. This has already happened, but I am sorry, the school won’t take responsibilities. This is a scandal already, what if she leads other students astray. We all know bad company corrupts good manners.”
“I won’t risk allowing your daughter to remain here, this isn’t a small case. Your daughter’s misconduct can bring the school down, as you know we have competitors and this scandal can be used against us, we are almost topping one of the best schools in the world. You see this tape here.” The Principal said, holding on to a tape.
“This tape contains two sex video of your daughter, this summarizes the situation she got herself into. I believe you both know what happens if the sex tape gets leaked. She is hereby stripped off the position as the senior prefect girl and she is hereby expelled on the grounds of her trying to ruin the school’s image.”
I sighed heavily, that was it. The end of my scholarship, the reason why I was in this school in the first instance. What made my life this way. It was taken away from me the way it was given to me.
Hawk Andrews succeeded in what he wanted from the start, sending me out of the school. Now, he has successfully ruined my life. If only there was a time machine, maybe I would have left Beverly Dale immediately I was threatened by him, I would have refused all what he did to me, I would have woman up and desisted being a coward and making a No stand. It would have been better if I had told my mum and showed her evidence before it got worst, maybe she would have known what to do to help me, and I wouldn’t have gotten pregnant.
Regrets upon regrets, that was all I felt. It was upon my shoulders like a heavy stone that kept pushing me down. No matter how I tried to get up, I find myself falling deep into the pit of regret.
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I know the news would have gotten to the Andrews home. Jessica, the rude brat didn’t fail to poke it in my face. I could read her facial expression, it was like she was waiting for me to come back to taunt me.
“I’m glad I have been proven right.” She said aloud, for both me and my mum to hear. I really don’t blame her, it was my own fault. Too bad she doesn’t know who exactly her brother is and what he is capable of.
My mum has been quiet since we left the school, I know there will be so many thoughts in her head right now, and I wish I could know those thoughts.
She walked ahead of me to the room without pausing to acknowledge anyone. She closed the door shut immediately I stepped into the room. I couldn’t read the emotions on her face, she did a good job in masking it.
“Start packing all your things tonight, tomorrow morning you are going to Minazuela. You are going to be staying with your dad, this is final Mary, don’t even think about arguing with me.” My mum said calmly.
I wanted to tell her I didn’t intend to argue, but I kept quiet. I wish she could just ask me who was responsible for the pregnancy like every mother would have done, but she didn’t.
“It’s Hawk Andrews.” I said out loud.
“Hawk Andrews? You mean the one you have been trying to seduce? Did you finally seduce him or is this a planned work. You are keeping the child Mary and you are going to live with the shame and embarrassment.”
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