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 Title: Ashley's Story Chapter One Author: Jane Smith Keywords: Mf, MF, Rom,
Preg Part: 1
Summary: Thirteen year old Ashley learns she is pregnant.

   The following is a work of fiction.

   Chapter One Wednesday, April 27, 2011

   Thirteen year old Ashley Martin's fingers shook so hard that she dropped
the object she held twice before tearing the wrapper open.  Carefully she
removed the long, slender white tube and placed its wrapper on the bathroom
sink next to the instructions.  It was time.

   She slid her jeans and panties down to her ankles and parted her slender
pale thighs.  Swallowing, she slipped the tube between her legs and relaxed
her muscles so that warm urine flowed onto the end of the pregnancy test.
Then she sat it on the sink and finished relieving herself.

   Soon her urine worked its way into the plastic window.  It seemed to
crawl painfully slowly along the material.  Suddenly a pink line appeared.
Her breath caught.  The instructions said it would show up just to indicate
the test was working.  Micrometer by micrometer it moved up.

   Then a second line appeared.  And Julie began to vomit.  She was
pregnant.

   Her life was over.  Literally.  Her mother would kill her.  It was not
figurative.  What was she to do?

   The first thing was to conceal the evidence.  Quickly she pulled her
pants up and stuffed the pregnancy test, box, and papers down the front. 
No sooner had she finished did the bathroom door slammed against the wall.

   "What the Hell is going on in here?" Thirty-two year old Linda Martin
was a big woman, almost filling the doorway.  She had not always been so.
In High School she had been a cheerleader and homecoming queen.  Even after
college she was stunning.  After Julie's dad died, her mother had lost all
her will to live.  And she constantly blamed Julie.

   "I don't feel good." That was definitely true.

   Her mother surveyed the vomit and stepped back.  "Shit!  Clean this up!
It stinks.  And start dinner." Then she waddled back to the living room.

   Julie went to her room and quickly opened the side of the ancient
desktop computer under her desk.  It had been her dad's.  The thing was
massive.  Popping the side off, she placed the pregnancy test and material
into the bottom.  On the inside panel was a plastic envelope that contained
her most prized possessions - her diary, her parents' wedding photo, the
last photo taken of them as a family while on vacation at Walt Disney
World, and several letters her dad had written.

   But all Julie could think about at that moment was the baby growing
inside her.  And what was going to happen when her mom found out.  She felt
like vomiting again.

   It took no time to clean up the mess in the bathroom.  Then she made
dinner.  Fortunately her mom was not picky; she was more concerned about
cost.  So Julie made "old reliable" - spaghetti.  Dinner was eaten in the
living room watching old reruns of the Andy Griffith show.  Then she
excused herself under the guise of needing to do homework.

   Julie was a straight A student.  She knew it was her only way out and
the key to a happy future.  A future she was never going to see.