She thinks you’re pregnant!
As soon as Nicole told me the newest rumor about me, I totally froze up. My eyes went wide and my breakfast was totally forgotten.
Nicole continued to laugh, until she realized I wasn’t joining her. Then she stifled herself. “Cynthia?”
I was totally blindsided. So the girl who had walked in on me had seen enough to know I was pregnant, just as I had suspected initially. But why did she wait so long to say something? Why didn’t she accuse me right away?
Unless she waited until I left. Or she didn’t understand what she saw until she thought it over.
Either way, I was in deep trouble.
Nicole’s smiling face fell farther the longer I was silent. Soon, her own eyes went wide and she leaned over the table, whisper-yelling, “It’s not… true?”
I had no idea what
