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Eric glanced up at his dad, standing at the bathroom door His insides still turned "No"

"Then what’s the nant I betrayed inable He’ll probably end up in jail forreally

"I dunno I just felt sick all of a sudden"

Less suspicious and more concerned, his dad asked, "You need ency roo questioned so he ate He went to his rooh he wasn’t the ious person on the planet, and God was probably not thinking too favorably of what he and Sofia had done, he began to pray

Several torturous days passed since Sofia should have got her period and still nothing She couldn’t wait any longer Convinced she was pregnant, she’d begun to think about her options There was no other choice She’d have to go to her mom, but she wanted to be sure first Eric was on his way over with a pregnancy test

The front door rang and she took a deep breath She heard Alex and Eric’s voices downstairs Eric wanted to wait until Alex wasn’t home He didn’t even want to chance the possibility of Alex sensing anything rong, but Sofia couldn’t wait any the test in his pocket The voices downstairs seemed to fade, and Sofia knew they were in the kitchen She made her way down and walked into the kitchen where Eric sat at the center island Alex had lass She exchanged glances with Eric, who looked as nervous as she felt

Even though the last thing she could think of was eating, she cut up an orange and ot a phone call he said he would take outside As soon as he was out the door, Sofia hurried over to Eric’s side He pulled out the small stick from his pocket and handed it to her under the island table She grabbed it, stuck it in her own pocket and practically ran out the kitchen, nearly colliding with Angel as he walked to the kitchen He looked at her funny, but didn’t say anything She hurried upstairs to the restrooel’s

Eric had already texted her the instructions on the box earlier and all she needed to know: One line = no, two lines = yes

Waiting for the results was the longest five minutes of her life She stood in front of the sink, eyes closed, taking deep breaths, checking her phone several tihts of ould happen if she had to tell her fa herher, but she’d always been able to go to herBut even her mother wouldn’t be able to hold back her brothers k heshe, especially Alex Sofia shook her head This couldn’t be happening

Finally, she confirmed it had been five lanced down, read the results and i hoh, but of all weekends for him to come home, Sal was there, too All three brothers and Eric were now in the garage Alex and Angel were both under the hood of theirsure everything was done properly

It couldn’t get any worse If anything went down today, they’d all be there to tear hi store when he stood there reading the labels on the hoot ho on not being sick, while the brothers argued back and forth

"Will you just hand ?" Alex held out his hand

"Hold on" Sal bent over to check Alex’s work "You gotta h"

"Hey, Mr Dreaht he didn’t even notice Alex was talking to him "Yo, Eric"