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"Oh" He frowns "Dean’s Sabrina?"

My Sabrina

I choke down another rush of frustration and offer a careless shrug "I guess"

I’ sick of it I want to tell my friends about Sabrina I want to tell theet their advice, but she made me proain, if that decision results in no baby, there’d be no point in telling them anyway What would I even say? I knocked so to talk about?

I s through ot to this place My friends tease ht I had the "be prepared" thing down pat But one careless ht be a father I’m twenty-two, for fuck’s sake

I don’t know if I can do this

Panic bubbles in uy Rock solid Good head on my shoulders I want to have a faoddamn picket fence I want all that--soht not have a choice

Christ

"C’oing back to the house"

Sing my panic, I letlot I rode to campus with Garrett and Hannah, so I climb into the backseat of Garrett’s Jeep Allie slides in besidethe drive hoh the front door, Allie hurries upstairs to Dean’s room I still can’t believe he skipped out on Beau’sDean hasn’t experienced much loss in his life I don’t think he kno to handle it, and I find h to him

The rest of us ditch our coats and boots and traipse into the living room Hannah and Grace make some coffee, and we sit in silence for a while It’s like we all have PTSD or so We’ve lost a friend and can’t make sense of it

Eventually, Garrett loosens his tie and then tugs it off, dropping it on the arh, he says, "Graduation is in a few reelances around the living roo to miss this house"

Yeah, me too And I still have no idea where I’ll be in May The plan was to move back to Texas, but there’s no way I can do that when there’s so much uncertainty between me and Sabrina Granted, by May I’ll already have an answer about the baby I looked it up online, so I know that if Sabrina chooses to have an abortion, her ill end in early March

I s a strangled groan God I hate not knohere I stand Where we stand

"I’," Hannah says, but despite her words, there isn’t a trace of excitement in her voice