Unplanned Teenage Pregnancy Story
In the bathroom stall of a Target shopping center, I feverishly tore open the home pregnancy test I had just bought, and hovered awkwardly over the toilet seat. I didn't read the box with instructions on how to actually use the test, but then again why would I? At 19 years of age I knew everything... right? As I peed on the pregnancy test I felt the wetness of my own urine splash up against my fingertips. How in the hell did I get myself into this mess? Sex was the obvious answer! After emptying my bladder all over that stick, I put the cap on and waited. My high school best friend shouted at me from the other side of the stall. She impatiently waited for me to emerge and tell her what we both had been dreading. After about a minute I looked down at the test. Negative. How anticlimactic. "It's negative," I shouted to her from inside the stall. I emerged to see her smiling and clapping. Noticing the confusion or sad expression on my face, she questioned me. ...