𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐉𝐉 | 𝐉𝐉 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤

13. love.

The next day Otto hung out in her house, she hadn't heard a peep from Wes. She blocked him on every platform she could think of to try and ensure he had no way to contact her.

She spent time with her father, in the bath and getting some homework down - although she mostly just stared at it for an hour and then decided she had done enough - but now she was lying on her bed watching reruns of shitty TV shows.

With a fluffy throw pillow clutched to her chest and one leg thrown over it she watched as one housewife slapped the other for some innocuous reason.

After she was a few episodppes deep into the rabbit hole Laura walked inside.

Otto turned the TV to mute and sat up to look at her mother, she had a slightly serious look on her face which was unlike her.

Taking a seat at the end of her Otto's bed the girl's heart began to race.

Was there something wrong with her dad?

"Have you told JJ yet?"

This was relieving, it was nowhere near as bad as it could've been. Although it also wasn't great.

Now that she wasn't throwing up every other second and gagging at the smell of food, she could forget the fact she was pregnant.

And that meant she forgot what relationship she had with JJ.

He was no longer just a friend who she had sex with.

He was a friend that she had sex with and had fathered a baby.

Otto looked away from her mother's face, "I just haven't found the right time, I can't really tell him with the rest of the group and we don't often spend time just him and I."

It was an excuse, a poor one at that.

Laura sighed, she felt bad for JJ. She was good at reading people, she knew Wes was bad news and she knew JJ was good, at heart. She also would've bet a lot on the fact he didn't have a good home life, which would only made the situation he was about to find himself in all the more difficult.

But, he had a right to know.

Of Otto had decided to get rid of the baby he never needed to know, but now there was going to be an actual baby involved he had a right.

"You need to tell him." Laura said, more stern that usual.

Otto laid back, rubbing her hands down her face.

Why wasn't this simple? Why wasn't anything simple?

"I'll tell him, I promise." Otto said, she was telling thr truth but she didn't exactly have a good idea of the timeline she was tell him in.

"Soon." It was as if Laura read her daughter's mind, "He needs to know before it's clear you're pregnant, he really should've known already."

She left, she knew Otto needed to think.

And she knew her daughter would make a good decision.

Otto grabbed her phone and scrolled to JJ's contact. Clicking on it, her finger hovered over the call button.

She should tell him in person, right?

But that sounded stressful, so a call would be sufficient.

Otto hated phone calls.

A text would be perfectly acceptable.

Clicking on the message button her fingers hovered over the buttons. What was she meant to say?

"Just wanted to let you know you+me=pregnant."

"u got me preggers lol"

"Hey! Congratulations, in a few months you're going to be a father!"

None of those seemed appropriate, this was a serious matter and deserved to be written as such.

"Dear JJ (or whatever your first name really is) Maybank,

I regret to inform you that you managed to impregnate me.

With kind regards, Otto."

Trying not to overthink it she sent the message. She couldn't really pretend anymore, the little bubble of the secret she kept had burst.

Before it was nothing but a rumour that died out in a few days, now, now it was reality.

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Let's all take a bet at how JJ is going to react.

SPOILER: not great.

I think that'd be the reaction he'd most likely give, he doesn't seem the type to be absolutely ecstatic at getting a girl pregnant ever. And to get one pregnant as a teenager wouldn't go over well.