Sleeping where I want

Round 17: Days 81-85

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Narrated by Abigail Lachance

So the homework has been piling up and I really can't be bothered to do it. At breakfast the other day, I told Dad I was thinking about forgetting college and just going right out and getting a job.



Yeah...he wasn't so into that. I got home from school that day and he'd piled all my school work up on my desk and stood there while I worked through it all. Dad says even if I don't go to college, I'm still expected to do my work.

But at least my parents let me get this makeover station for my bedroom. As you can see here, I kind of messed up Aislin's hair.

I fixed it though, see? I don't know if it's anything I'd want to do for a career. It was kind of just a whim.

To reward myself for finishing all my homework and getting my bronze cosmetology badge, I invited Caleb over while my parents were at work on the weekend.

Before we knew it, we were undressed and in my parents' bed. I hadn't planned on sleeping with Caleb but I guess we got a little carried away.

The next day, I realised something was wrong. I hadn't eaten anything unusual and I never get sick. I took a test to confirm but I already knew I was pregnant.

I have to wonder if Dad suspected something was up. He kept asking me if I was feeling okay and if I'd been staying up too late recently. I waved him off but I knew I'd have to fess up eventually.

If the pregnancy book I checked out of the library was accurate, I was going to start showing soon.

Really soon!

When I told Dad, he immediately launched into a lecture about how we should have been more careful. I guess we should have been, but it's a little late for the birds and bees talk now!

Mum didn't say much at all, apart from asking what I planned to do. I was going to keep it but that's all I knew.

I was hoping to get out of school and hide away for my entire pregnancy but Mum and Dad are insisting that I still go. My grades are still a bit crappy and people will find out that I'm pregnant eventually. I don't really want to be the subject of gossip but I've been rethinking college and I need to do better in school if I want to go.

I've been thinking about what I want to do when the baby is born and it seems like my parents have been thinking about it too. They were assuming I'd want to skip Suffolk and stay at home with them. I've decided that if I get enough scholarship money, I'm going to enrol and take the baby with me. I think they even have special housing set up for students with babies. I think Mum and Dad were both relieved. I think they would have helped out if I stayed at home but I'm sure they weren't keen on the idea of raising another baby just when they thought they'd finished.

So I've been preparing to live on my own. I'm trying to keep my room neat on my own and I'm teaching myself to cook too. I don't want to burn the house down on my first day by myself!

And actually attending school has paid off because I'm getting all As now!

This is how I spent the evening of my last day of school - giving birth. I was glad Mum was here to help me.

So this is Nicholas! It's hard to say who he looks like right now but he's definitely got my colouring.

Yes, and Caleb was there for the birth too! When I told him I was pregnant, he promised he would be and he kept that promise.

Notes:

• I rolled an ROS for Abigail which I'm too lazy to copy and paste but it was basically a woohoo scavenger hunt - woohooing in every possible object in the game. I couldn't do the car one but they woohooed everywhere else. Abigail actually got pregnant in a hot tub at the aquatic centre (which, ewwww!) but I wasn't able to get any good pictures of that. So bed pics instead.
• I had to really think about how I was going to handle this family now that Abigail's got the baby and is going to college. I pretty much plan my whole hood to avoid empty-nesters! So Abigail will move to student family housing with Nicholas and when Jonas graduates, he'll move back in with his parents. Tatiana will be at college and if all goes to plan, will graduate at the same time as Abigail. At that point, I'll move Jonas and Tatiana to the farm and Abigail and Caleb will be with Mina and Pascal. Caleb isn't going to college, so he'll probably be in an apartment next round. I'm putting that all down here, because I'll completely forget it otherwise!