In her hand was a very thin object, long and skinny with a little box-shaped screen on the front. From one moment to the next it was the same, her eyes just watching it, but just a moment later- not just the screen changed, but her life. Jade Harper was standing in her dorm’s bathroom with a pregnancy test in her hand. Anybody who knew this girl would think it was crazy for her of all people to be holding one of these at the age of fifteen. Jade was an innocent girl, she was nervous around guys and hadn’t shown any interest in them! Well, minus the guy she had been dating for the last while. It had been kept on the down low but of course, she had always been the centre of attention at first, which she had hated and still did. Not being recognized was what she had preferred, and what she still did. So now as she stood there, alone, at six in the morning with a test that had a pink plus sign on the screen, she took a deep breath and steadied herself on the kitchen counter, not sure what she was going to do next. Jade felt queasy, like she was going to faint but somehow she was managing to keep herself up and still good. Stuffing the test in her silk robes pocket, she was fully aware that she would need it for proof because no one would believe her, at least not if they were in their right minds. The first person she would think of going to would be her brother, but since he didn’t go to Hogwarts she really couldn’t. Beauxbatons was way too far and she was not about to ‘rebel’ even more by just running away from Hogwarts. This was bad enough as it started, especially since she had a real hard feeling that the father wouldn’t want to be a father this young. Knowing that abortion was not an option, she was pro-choice and her choice was to never kill a thing in the world- that was her sisters’ way. Searching frantically through her clothes, she just threw on a pair of neon green short shorts that were a flannel pajama material before adding a white top to that just so that she wasn’t going out in just her robe. Taking the robe off, she wrote an owl to the only person she could think of other than her boy: Cale Bradley. He was about one of the only people she actually trusted to keep this secret and not yell at her, saying how stupid she was. Sure, he could end up doing that and she did know it was true. The thing was, she just wasn’t sure what she expected to get from him, the information she now knew was just something she couldn’t keep to herself. This was just too much.
Since they were in the same house, she didn’t really have to go anywhere to get to him. The owl only had to go knock on the other side of the tower’s window, so it wasn’t far and she didn’t feel bad for sending it this early in the morning. Making her way down to the common room, she was very thankful to see that no one was an early-morning person like she was. This had to be the most peaceful time of the whole day, since a lot of people were night-owls and stayed up all night, unable to sleep. She was like that as well, but she also couldn’t sleep in. Waiting, she didn’t sit down on the chairs and she definitely hadn’t brought her book down to read. Every morning Jade usually did have her own routine. First she would wake up, go to the bathroom and then head for a shower. After getting clean she would go down and eat while the hall was still quiet and near empty, if not empty. The wide space around her always was comforting. When full, she would head back up to the common room and read part of her book, if not most. She owned so many that she would be set to read at least one each day. The thing was, ever since she had started dating the man she was, she had less time to read, therefore when she did get the chance she spent it quite concentrated. Literature was a big part of who this girl was as a person. It was only when people started to come down into the common room when she bookmarked her page and placed it back up in the dorm, where she would get dressed and make sure her hair looked decent. Of course, her hair always did but that wasn’t the point. Even if she didn’t have to try to be attractive it made her feel more normal to just assure everything was in place and she was happy with what she was. Sometimes she wasn’t happy, and she actually felt ugly still. It was only normal for girls to feel ugly, but a veela? Probably not, which was why Jade wasn’t like your everyday person, or even the person you’d expect to get out of her when first meeting, or hearing about her from someone you were friends with. She had even been told in the past she wasn’t what they had expected to meet. Jade took this as neither a bad or good thing either, since she didn’t want to think about how much of a possibility of it being a bad thing it was. Turning her head, she had thought she heard a noise, but was wrong.
Since her mind was playing tricks on her constantly, she could tell that she was very paranoid. The biggest part of this all would be the fact that she really didn’t want the news to get around. Jade had made a decision just now that was making her feel guilty as ever. The thing was, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do by herself but what she did know was the fact that she wasn’t going to put the life of a child onto another. She should have been smarter; she should have made sure there was protection. Before that moment, she had thought that it would be common sense to just slip on a condom before entering for the guy but with them, it had all happened so fast that she wasn’t sure what had occurred at first. Jade knew she had been so caught up in the moment that it was perfect just as it was. Now that it was all over she could see how much of a.. wrong doing it was. Most people would have just started that as a ‘mistake,’ since it was the most practical word. Jade, on the other hand, found it rude to state it in such a way. No child, unborn or born, should be considered as a mistake, even if you hadn’t planned it. Jade herself saw life as a miracle and this wasn’t going to change it, no matter how hell-like her life would probably be stress-wise, as well as emotionally. Just talking over what she had already ruled over in her head with a friend would help, though. The one thing that was most important she was rather iffy about telling him, so right now she was not too sure whether or not it would be mentioned. Jade knew that people judged and it was one thing that she didn’t want to happen to her. Jade was a very self-conscious person and the paranoia was already making her think that when she was talking to Cale someone who overhear. Shaking her head, she didn’t like that idea at all. Deciding once he came down that they wouldn’t stay in the common room, she just hoped he was willing to go walking outside with her. It was a little moist because of the fresh rainfall that had occurred the night before, though it wasn’t the end of the world or anything like that. Continuing her pacing, Jade was uneasy as ever.
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