♡ Mia's pov ♡"Are you okay?" I asked Kade, chewing my bottom lip as I spared him a glance.From the moment dad cut the cucumber in half he had been like this, mute and practically a ghost judging by his pale complexion.It was rather unsettling to see him like this because usually, he would be throwing me cheeky glances. But his gaze had been set at the front the entire time we had been in the car and he definitely looked lost in his own head.And it was even more strange that he hadn't tried to tease me when he usually did when Colby wasn't here. And Colby wasn't because he caught a ride with Stanly today.So it was just us two, in complete awkward silence.I didn't like this silence.He hadn't spared me a single glance.Even his reply was abrupt and dull. It was like he wasn't even here. "Yeah."I pinch my brows together and looked ahead before I crash the car. We were heading to school and we were a tad bit later than usual but not entirely late for school.We still had about ten
♡ Mia's pov ♡"So I'm thinking about dying my hair in green just to match with the school's uniform. Think Stanly would love it?" Colby asked.I nodded even though I wasn't really paying attention to his words. Honestly, the only thing that registered in my head were the words love and it.Apart from that, I didn't hear anything."So Gracie shart on the front lawn of the school and Phillip stepped on it. Do you think the school board will press charges? I mean you gotta go when you gotta go, you know what I mean?" He asked which I nodded to, still not really paying attention."Your skirt has a huge hole at the back and I can see your granny panties. Think the guys will bend you over and spank the shit outta your ass?" He questioned. I nodded."Are you even listening to me?" Colby huffed out with a breath of irritation.I nodded again, putting another book into the locker. I wasn't even sure it was the right book. I was just aimlessly putting in books and hadn't bothered to check which
♡ Mia's pov ♡Colby's eyes are wide. Practically like globes honestly. And they were filled with disbelief, shock, terror and confusion."You're joking? Is it April fools or some shit? Because Mia girl, you can't blow up my mind like that, it's way too early for this shit." Colby lets out in one breath.I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, sighing as I rose to my feet. "Unfortunately no, it's not April fools. Nor are we even in the month of April. I'm not kidding Colb, I've been feeling sick for a few days now."I flushed the toilet while my best friend looked at me like I was some kind of ghost.Was I pale?I opened my mouth to ask him but he beats me to it. "Does he know?"His question completely took me off guard even though I should have expected it.I looked away from him guiltily and sidestep him to walk to the sink. I hear his exaggerated breath behind me and cringed knowing he was about to throw a fit."Oh my God Mia! You didn't tell him?! Are you crazy? He deserves to k
♡ Mia's pov ♡Plop.My eyes widen.Oh no."Mia. What was the sound of that? Did you take a dump or?" Colby's voice cracks through the door.I winced, turning around slightly to stare at the toilet bowl. Floating and looking ready to drown in the water was one of the pregnancy tests.I managed to have caused it to slip from my fingers when trying to pull up my jeans. It was a bad idea to have been so close to the toilet in the first place.Now I was paying the price.With my jeans almost at my hips, thankfully I still had one test alive and in my grasp as I use the other hand to pull it up my jeans while backing away from the toilet."Don't get mad. But one of the tests is currently having the time of its life in the toilet bowl." I winced while speaking."You dropped them in the toilet!" Colby blasted in disbelief.I cringe. "I said one Colby. The other is safe....kinda." I pinched the test not wanting my fingers to touch where my pee had touched."Girl you better not drop the other.
♡ Mia's pov ♡"You didn't go to kill the baby did you?"I felt like I was zapped somewhere else, another reality, where no one spoke, not a single sound was heard, except for Brianna's voice.I looked around the room lost with my ears ringing.I must've heard wrong.Why else would everyone be so frozen?Why we're there no reactions or changes of expressions?Why was Kade so-I stop when my eyes fell into a blue storm. He was also frozen where he stood, his hand still plastered to the table, his gaze still on me, his face so...stiff.His eyes, on the other hand, they told something, they wanted to express something. But all I seem to get out of them was the look of confusion."Did you?"Her voice, was so acidic with false worry. So nasty.They pulled me out of that reality where I only saw frozen faces and threw me in another where the faces expressed different emotions.Confusion. Shock. Interest. Intrigue. And expectation. They were expecting my response.My heavy tongue gave me reli
~ Kade's pov ~ I paced in front of the room, raking a hand through my hair so many times that my scalp had begun to throb from the assault. "Calm down you're making me even more nervous." Colby voiced out, looking like he was about to throw up. I groan, tugging at the roots of my hair and turn to him. "Did you know?" I managed to wrench out of my throbbing throat. God, I was holding back tears and it only caused my body to feel like I was about to die. Every breath I took feel painful. Colby's brows pinch as he looks up at me from his seat. "Knew about what?" "Dammit Colby the least you could do is stop pretending that you don't know what I'm talking about!" I sneered. It was wrong of me to pass the frustration of the situation on him. But I couldn't help it. I needed to let it out. If I didn't I would suffocate. Colby winces and mumbles. " I only found out today. I was the one who made her take the test today and it came back negative. You must know she was going to tell you.
~ Kade's pov ~ I have never felt so anxious in my life before, so scared of the unknown, so terrified of someone else's words. Words that can change you, break you, tear you apart. This kind of fear was crippling. I can't seem to hear voices, the words going around me. I'm aware of mouths moving. I'm aware that something important was being said. Something I should listen to. And when my eyes shift from the doctor currently speaking to Mrs. Cross I knew that whatever was being said, wasn't good. I could see the pain in both their eyes, gleaming so strongly that I was nearly tempted to look away. Then Mrs. Cross's hand lift to her mouth in a gasp and I just knew the doctor had delivered the worst news ever. And perhaps it was that which prompted my ears to work again, to get the information I needed. Information I was sure would rip my soul." She might need a few days or months to cope with the loss of the fetus. Miscarriage is not an easy road to emotional recovery. She's young
♡ Mia's pov ♡Why?That was the question that kept swirling in my head over and over. The answer never came to me though, and I was sure it never will.I will never know why this had happened. Or why it had to. I would never know.My throat felt impossibly sore when I was done screaming. But I knew the reason I stopped was because I had no more voice left to scream. I had no more energy to even cry.No more tears to soak the pillow under my head.I felt cold, dead even.I didn't feel like myself anymore.And I feared that.....no one would be able to save me from the darkness that has chosen to swallow me whole.And maybe....I didn't want anyone to.I'm aware of the door reopening again, but I'm too lost in my sorrow to even turn around and see who has entered.It's only when I hear the warmth of my mom's voice I know it's her. "Mia baby," She started her voice cracking in grief.The sound made my heart throb."Twizzler...." Dad started and I clenched my eyes tightly, my heart shatteri