Chapter Six

Rita's p.o.v

I told my mum and dad to come over to my apartment today so that I can tell them about everything. I'm rrally worried about how they're going to react! I've always been a good kid and to me that hasn't changed, I just don't know if they're going to see it that way. It's not like I went out partying every week end, slept with a load of different guys and got pregnant, I went to one party, drank more than I should have and made a stupid mistake. At least I know who the father is, which is more than some girls at my school can say!

For a while now I've wanted to dye my hair but I didn't want to commit to a colour and a lot of semi-permanent hair dyes you need to have blonde hair for it to work properly and I didn't want to go blonde but Michael showed me some colours that you don't need to be blonde for and so over the weekend I got Michael to dye my hair purple for me.

I'm going over to Taylors when my parents leave because she wants to know how everything goes. I'm not going to tell their parents about the baby unless I have Michael there, I wouldn't feel right doing it without him, they're his parents not mine. At least I know they like me though, they've always treated me like one of their kids.

I heard a knock on my door and I knew it was either my mum or my dad. I took a deep breath before I opened the door.

"Hi sweetheart" my mum smiled.

"Hey mum"

"So what is it you wanted to tell me?"

"I'd rather wait until dad gets here so that I don't have to explain it all twice"

"That's fine" she said, sitting down on my couch. "I like the purple by the way" she smiled.

"Thanks mum"

My dad arrived not long after and they were both asking questions about what I wanted to tell them. I don't want to tell them but I know that I need to. I'm not going to be able to hide it forever.

"Okay so something happened and I'm really not proud of it and I really don't want you to be mad at me for it, I know it was stupid and trust me that I've punished myself enough for it!"

"What did you do?" My dad asked.

"Well a couple of weeks ago I went to a party with Taylor and I saw Michael for the first time in like two years and I was with him for most of the night and I'd been drinking a little and some stuff happened and now I'm um...pregnant" I looked down at my hands rather than at them, I didn't want to see to look of disappointment that I knew would be on there faces.

"Oh Rita! What did we tell you? You should always be safe" my mum said, giving me a hug.

"So we let you live on your own and this is what happens?!" my dad almost shouted.

"I'm sorry! I never meant for this to happen! It was an accident!". I felt like I was going to cry again, I hate it when my parents are mad at me.

"So what's going to happen now?"

"Michael's going to be here through it all, except for when he's at college obviously. There's just over 5 months left of school so I'm going to stay at school and do all of my final exams and everything and if I get into college then I'll probably defer it for a year so that I can be there for the first year and then I'll go when that year is over but I'll be living with Michael near his college so that he doesn't miss out on anything. We'll come back here during the holidays so that we can see everyone and then go back during term time. Michael will be in his final year when I start so we'll only have to put it in colleges childcare for a year".

"Well as long as you've thought everything through and you understand that this is your life now and we are here for you when you need help but you can't just dump your baby on people when you need a break, obviously we'll baby sit for you but we're not going to be the ones raising the baby, I wasn't allowed to do that so neither are you" my mum said.

I can see that they're both mad at me but they're not yelling at me and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I feel like they're just going to blow up at me randomly.

Michael and I talked about how we were going to deal with things after I told him I wanted to keep the baby. Michael is trying to get an apartment off of campus for next year so that I can stay with him. My parents pay half of my rent at the moment so I talked to Taylor and she's going to be staying here while I'm away. Normally when Michael's at college he sends his roommate the money for the rent which is going to be a little harder to deal with. I feel bad that he's going to have to pay half the rent for one apartment and half the rent for another, I told him that I'll try and get a job up there so that I can help with the money, but my parents did say that if we're struggling with money then they'll help out, and Michael's parents always help out with the rent on his apartment here if he needs it.