Friends or Benefits

Donald: Ok Claire you're getting a color in your face? Are you ok?

Claire: Are you fuckin kidding me? Of course not! Our best friend is pregnant and she is not denying it. What about that is normal to you?

Donald: Are you gonna talk to her though? Because ever since we got here, you've been kind of avoiding her.

Claire: Enlighten me Don? What would you ask Mai if you were me?

Donald: For starters I'd ask how she's doing? And then I'd ask how pregnant she is.....or shut sorry I meant how she got pregnant? Or some...thing?

Claire: How she go pregnant? Are you joking me? C'mon Don I know you're gay but you do know a vagina needs a penis and all that B.S in order for babies to be made right?

Donald: I didn't know that! And now that I know I would be sticking to fact that I still don't know even tho you just told me. Claire ....go talk to her....you'll figure it out.

So we've been at Mai's for over an hour now and I still couldn't bring myself to stand next to her. I mean we'd made a pact to get married at thirty after being sluts for all our twenties. And now she's what? Pregnant? Why? Who's was it? Did we know him? I was practically driving myself crazy just thinking about this. This is Mai, Claire. I told myself.

If anyone deserves the truth? I did

Mai: Heeeeeyyy! For a second there I thought you were avoiding me?

Claire: I was

Mai: Ummm ok. But why?

Claire: Are you.....?

Mai: Yes I am.

Claire: Wow ok

Mai: Three and half months now

Claire: Wait you mean to me you were pregnant before going on vacation?

Mai: I meant to tell you Claire...I did ...I just didn't know how to

Claire: I'm your best friend. What do you mean you didn't know how to tell me?

Mai: Well because the baby's father is John

Claire: John...as in.....

Mai: Listen I...

Claire: My John

Mai: Well technically he isn't yours anymore....

Claire: Don, Z, we're leaving......NOW

Mai: Jesus Claire can you hold on a minute please?

Let's talk about this? Please?

Claire: You wanna talk about this now?

Mai you know what John did to me?

Did you forget what we did to him?

Mai: I love him!!!

Claire: No you don't Mai

Just like I couldn't

Mai: I AM NOT LIKE YOU

Claire: No you're not...

You're worse than me

I'd had it

Enough with the drama

I can't deal with this at school and at home and then my best fucking friend in the whole world is what? In love with a guy who pretended to like me only to bed up dating my mom?

No I wasn't gonna let that happen

I could agree to a lot of crazy shit but this wasn't one of them

Over someone's dead body and I wasn't going to be mine

I'm gonna have words with Maman

Don and Zoe tried asking me what was going on on our way back home but I wouldn't answer them. So they dropped me off at home and I stormed off into the living room to find my mom making dinner

Celine: Claire you're home

Claire: Mai is pregnant mom

Celine: I know

Claire: And it's John's....wait what? You what?

Celine: I said I know

Claire: What....I don't understand? Why are you not mad right now?

Celine: Because he told me two months ago and he said he was under the influence and he apologized and also because I love him?

Claire: Love him? Love....Mom he's 21 years fuckin old...

Celine : Language....

Claire: He's a kid maman What The hell!!!!

Celine: I don't care Claire and that's the end of this...

Claire: Un-fuckin-believable

Celine: And also he's gonna be moving in with us.

Claire: Eh No he's not...hehe

Celine: This is my house. And I make the rules

I walked right up into her face and stared down at her

Claire: Over someone's dead body... Maa

AND it's not gonna be mine