Chapter 6: Changing

I walked out of the doctor's office with a script for nausea medicine and an ultrasound printout. What was I going to do? The doctor explained that the morning-after pill has little to no effect on a person over 180 lbs. I weighed 190 at the time that I took the pill. How am I going to do this? I have to finish school, I can't just take a sabbatical from school. Not again anyway. I can't tell Mr.Kenway, god I'm going to seem like a gold digger if I tell him now. I've been avoiding him since we slept together. I thought I had this possibility taken care of a long time ago.

Why does my whole life have to change in such a short time? As I arrive home from the doctors I’m still in a daze. The one person I do not want to see right now is sitting in my drive way. Mr.Kenway is leaning against his vehicle, which is parked directly where my car normally gets parked. I pull the mirror down and look at myself in the mirror. I have puffy eyes and a red face. But other than that I look fine. As I go to step out of the vehicle he starts to walk towards me. “Why are you avoiding me?” He asks well standing directly in front of me. “I have no idea what you are talking about.” I say looking him directly in the eyes.

“You quit your job right after we slept together. You change your number every time I try to reach you. Why?” He says in a strained voice. “I have my reasons.” I say trying to walk past him to my house. “We need to talk Avalon.” He says grabbing my arm. “Fine, come in.” I say pulling away and heading inside. He follows me inside. I hit the intercom button for the kitchen. “Can we get coffee and tea in the dinning room for a meeting please.” I say putting my bag down on the table and grabbing my laptop out. As I put the laptop under my arm I turn and head towards the dinning room.

“What would you like to talk about Mr.Kenway?” I ask pointing him to the chair across from me. “ Well for starters, do you want to explain why you are avoiding me?” He says leaning back in his chair. “We’ll for starters, I did not plan to have sex with you. On top of that I quite my job because it was part of the terms of my inheritance. I have been busy with starting school and learning about my family.” I said nonchalant well reaching for the tea on the tray. “ I thought you drank coffee.” He said grabbing a cup of coffee off of the tray. “I drink both.” I said trying to avoid the subject as much as possible. “I would like to get to know you Avalon.” He says interlocking his hands on top of the table. “Why?” I say leaning back further in my chair. “Because I find you intriguing, your not like most women who try to trap me into marriage.” “How do you know that?” I said turning back to my tea. “Because every time I try to give you something or show you attention you avoid it or deny it.” “Well I’m sorry but I’m not looking for a relationship right now.” “What about a friendship?” He asks. I sit there thinking about how I can avoid being his friend.

“We can be friends, but let’s try to keep it virtual as much as possible. I am in the middle of a semester at school and I’m sure your busy with your business meetings.””Agreed.” He said with a smug look on his face. “Why are you so smug.” I say in an irritated voice. “Because either way I got what I wanted for the most part.” He says smirking. “What’s that suppose to mean?” I asked getting angry now. I knows probably the hormones but I can’t help it, he pisses me off. “It just means that one way or another I get to have you in my life.” He say standing up as I roll my eyes. “Whatever your highness.” I say staying seated. He walks around the table to stand next to me. He leans in close and whispers in my ear. “We both know you don’t want to be just friends.” He says standing to walk out. “I will text you later please don’t ignore me this time. Or I will show up unannounced again.” He says leaving. I sit there for a minute just thinking about what just happened. He seemed like he was genuinely mad that I did not try to reach out to him. I wonder what he would be like as a father. No! Those thoughts cannot live in my head rent free.

I get up to go start my college homework, I already know it will take me at least three hours. This little intrusion already set me back a half hour. As I start my homework I can’t help but think how much harder this is going to be when I have the baby. Though with my inheritance I can higher a nanny. But then I will miss my baby growing up, and I have to finish school in order to keep my inheritance. What if I switch to online classes? I’ll be ending this semester in about two months. That means if I switch to online classes little to no one will find out that I’m having a baby. I’ll have to look into which online school I’d need to transfer to in order to not have to change my degree.

As hard as I know this is going to be I’m going to have to hide the fact that I’m pregnant and having a baby for now. Thankfully I do not have morning sickness, just nauseous all day long. I also am not showing as much as some people that I know are pregnant. I’ll just have to wear bagger clothes for a few months tell I start my online classes.