The Conception

"What happened?" Elissa asked. It was the first time after hours her eyes were open, and the view was much different from that which she knew. She looked towards the side, staring at other empty beds which stirred fear inside of her, but was comforted by the knowledge of who was present in the room with her even though the face was unseen. 

She could tell it was Martha from the colour of her hair and the way she stood, and as soon as she asked the question, she watched as Martha immediately turned towards her, and rushed to where she laid

"You're awake?" Martha uttered excitedly. She had her hands placed on Elissa's forehead, feeling the temperature of her skin which was now normalized. 

"Be calm! Let me get the nurse." She said to Elissa before she ran out of the room. 

The other laid on the bed, with her eyes fixed on the ceiling. She could still feel a bit of grinning around her forehead, and felt dizzy as well. 

As she laid there, she could hear footsteps approaching her room, and she looked to the sight of her friend who came in with a lady dressed in a lab coat, and lenses that rested on the bridge of her nose. 

"Give her some space. Let me check something" the lady uttered as she walked towards Elissa. She began by rubbing some preliminary tests on her, widening her eyes to check things which none could understand. 

"She's fine at the moment, but she still needs more rest, and I mean, a lot of rest" the doctor said to Martha. 

"What happened?" Elissa asked again, struggling to get up, and sit with her back resting against the wall. 

"We are talking, and you suddenly passed out" Martha explained. 

"I'm so glad you are fine now. You really scared me." Martha said. 

She uttered the words with all honesty. It was as though the entire world crashed, and she stood there without a thought of what to do. As she screamed for help, she watched as some men rushed towards her, taking Elissa up in their hands and running towards the school's clinic. 

"Have you contacted her parents?" The doctor interrupted the sober moment between the both of them. 

"Not yet. But I will very soon" Martha answered. 

"I just got your reports from the tests we conducted on her" the doctor said. There was a lot of suspense in the air, their eyes widened and hearts throbbing against their chests as though something wasn't just right about the reports the doctor was about to speak of. 

"Elissa? You're pregnant" the doctor said. 

Elissa was frozen in time. She sat there with her eyes widened, and her lips parted open as well. There was silence in the room, and her ears never picked up another sound except the slight piercing ringing sound that kept echoing.

A teardrop rolled down her eyes as she looked at the doctor, and she could feel Martha's hands wrapped around her in a bid to comfort her. 

"What?" The words dropped from Elissa's lips as though she never heard or understood what the lady said. 

"I'm sorry, Elissa. But you're going to have a baby" the doctor said again. 

"No!" Elissa said with heavy breath. Her breathing was increased, and her chest moved inwards and outwards as tears rolled down her eyes. 

"This cannot be" she said as she looked at Martha whose face was squeezed in the anguish of the news. She has her hands wrapped around Elissa, pulling her closer to herself as she kept stroking her friend's hair downwards. 

"I'm very sorry, Elissa" Martha whispered the words to her friend.

At the end, it seemed as though her positivity was not enough to cover up for the mistakes she had made.

 Elissa sat with tears, and with her heart heaping more guilt for her actions. At first, she felt that it was only once she had an affair with Zeph. But what happened between them had caused an offspring to grow within her. 

Therefore, her case was getting severe, gradually increasing as she realized that she did not just have an affair with a werewolf her parents warned her against, but also having a child for him in less than a few days. 

"I suggest that you get some rest, and have very good food for the growth of the child" the doctor said to her. 

She shook her head in disapproval. She was never going to let the fruit of her mistakes grow, and become evident for everyone in the world to see, especially with the stigma of her personality which she struggled to redeem herself from. 

She wiped her tears, sniffled her nostrils as she spoke to the doctor with a low tone.

"Please can you do me a favour?" She asked the doctor. 

"Please, could you keep this a secret. I'll find a way to let my parents know about this at my own time, but I don't want another ear to hear of this" Elissa pleaded, grabbing the hand of the doctor as she asked. 

The lady was dumbstruck, short of words to utter as she looked at Martha. Martha sat there with her eyes locked with the doctor's, and Martha nodded her head in agreement to what Elissa had asked for. 

"Fine. If you wish to, then I won't tell anyone. But be sure to maintain a healthy diet and get plenty of rest. It will help for both you and your baby" the doctor said before she walked out of the room. 

As soon as the door was shut against them, Elissa poured out all of her pain and her grief, tearing up loudly as she held tightly to Martha's hands. 

"I'm very sorry, Elissa." Martha said. There were no words to console her friend over what had happened to her. 

"I should have listened. What have I done?" Elissa questioned herself in her pain and tears.