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statue.  Killing our baby.  The words, she had blurted in my face at the same spot, were still ringing through them.   I noticed another girl behind her was alone.  Probably thinking the same thing, which had been going through Kelly´s mind the whole time.
    “Kelly Foster,” the nurse called out for a second time.  Kelly didn’t move.  I walked slowly towards her, thinking she would get up and head towards the nurse.  She didn’t. Instead, like a blaze of fire, she ran out of the same door we’d just come in.  Not far behind her was the girl who’d been sitting behind her crying her eyes out like a baby.  I stood with only one thing on my mind.  Only one word escaped my mouth. “Shit,” I said as I headed to the exit wondering whether to search for Kelly or just go home and tell my dad and her mom what happened and what was really going on.  Either way, things were about to change.  I just wasn’t sure how; I wasn’t sure of anything anymore.

*** K elly ***

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    I was such a fucking idiot to think that Sebastian would make this work.  Why the hell did I trust him? I should have known that the prick from high school was still lurking under the surface even after graduation.  I turned back a couple of times to see if he was chasing me.
    Of course not. The coward would probably send me a text telling me to come back.
    I picked up my phone once I got to the Stuffed Olive bar.  Nothing!  He hadn’t even bothered to call or anything.  I’m not sure why I was surprised.  Maybe the hormones were playing with my mind.
    Shoot, I had nothing in my purse, other than my phone. I wasn’t thinking straight.  I hadn’t slept or eaten since he gave me the leaflet.  I had walked away from Pilgrim Medical Center and only had one thing on my mind: calling Brenda and telling her about being dumped in the abortion clinic.  I had shut her out.  I’d be able to think about was Sebastian and our future with a baby.  Getting my degree and living as one big happy family.  Sebastian gave me a wake-up call, and I smelled the roses big time and they smelled far from sweet.
    As I picked up my phone and ordered a juice, the kind waitress gave me a wink.  I think she knew why I was sitting there. Behind me in the other booth was a girl. The one who’d been sitting behind me in the waiting room at the clinic.  I was tempted to go over and speak to her.  I changed my mind as Brenda picked up the phone.
    “Hey you, where you been?”
    I hesitated in replying to her.  Damn, where did I start? Oh, I’m knocked up and Sebastian said I should get an abortion. Couldn’t go ahead with it, so can you pick me up, please.
    “In Pine Brook.” I sighed as I sipped on the orange juice. 
    “I’ll get you a big slice of pie.  Pie always makes things better,” the waitress said as she hurried over with a slice, and I saw that she left it on the other girl’s table.  I really should go over and speak to her.
    “Who was that? What has pie got do with anything, and why the heck are you all the way in Pine Brook?” Brenda had a million questions, and she had every right to ask them.  I had hardly spoken to her after graduation.  I was a fool in love. Sebastian had taken the fool right back out of me.
    I cried when the apple pie was placed in front of me, because even though it tasted so good, there was nothing worse than humble pie.  I blurted out, before she hung up the phone,“Make sure you bring money to pay for the pie, please?”
    “Since you put it so nicely. Sure.”
    She hung up, and I knew she was on her way.  I sighed with relief at the idea of having to confront her and not Mom.  I wasn’t ready for that confrontation yet.  Then, to my surprise, the girl from the waiting room came to sit next to me. 
    This was the part that made me feel better about the trail of events.  Her boyfriend of three years had gotten her pregnant.  He’d promised he loved her, but the minute she fell pregnant he dumped