Andrea "Drea" Johnson (feminist) wrote in valesco,
@ 2009-01-01 00:28:00

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Who: Phoebe and Ashlyn
What: :\
When: New Year's Eve

Okay, Ashlyn was really not ready for this. Sure, she had talked to Emmeline to get the potion and everything and she knew that things with Keegan were going to end up in matrimonial bliss at some point but she was in school. More importantly, she was not supposed to be the stupid girl who let some guy have his fun and then have these---consequences that she was far too young and not at all ready with which to deal! She had visions of becoming a hit witch that had been dancing in her head since she was thirteen and if she was pregnant (which she wasn't even really sure she was), her future career could be jeopardized. They wouldn't let a girl who was up the duff out on assignments, training and the like. This--this was the sort of thing that happened to other girls, girls like Ingrid Catchlove, not her. They had been careful! She was on the potion, and they'd used protection and--there was just no way she could be.

It'd been nearly a month since the last encounter with Keegan, and still nothing. Maybe it was just the stress that was making her late, she didn't know. But if she was pregnant, there would be no turning around from this. Her mother would be furious, and her father would probably kill Keegan, but she'd be having the baby. Even if she wanted to--to have an abortion--her parents wouldn't allow it (damn Catholicism). They would be angry if they even knew that she was on birth control but--she wasn't even sure if it had done its fucking job in the first place.

Even more scary than telling her parents would be telling Keegan. If she wasn't ready to be a mum, she was sure he wasn't ready to be a father. All she could do now is wait for Phoebe to show up and pray that she wasn't actually pregnant. She didn't want to admit this to Phoebe, either, but she was her best friend. This was something she needed to have her best friend there for, and if anyone would be understanding (even if she didn't actually mean it), it would be Phoebe. She just--needed to figure out how to word things before she arrived. And whether or not she actually wanted to use the test tonight or just wait a while longer. Maybe if she ignored it it would go away?

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feebees
2009-01-01 03:18 pm UTC (link)

Phoebe rapped on Ashlyn's door with both hands, creating a rapid drumroll of a knock. It was New Year's Eve! There was supposed to be confetti and fireworks and loud noises and Ellie birthday planning and Cedric attempting to stay up but falling asleep around nine! Of course she wanted to see her best friend today, to spread the joy, but Phoebe could not shake the feeling that Ashlyn was in trouble---it was a feeling she'd had about the girl for more than a few weeks, and Phoebe normally trusted her instincts.

Okay, she trusted them when it came to every aspect other than that boy named Elphias, but Phoebe was going to ignore any thoughts of him until she was done here with Ashlyn. Hopefully it was Keegan issues or---engagement jitters. Phoebe still couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that her friend was going to get married, but it at least was fun to do wedding planning up in the dorm.

When the door opened, Phoebe put her hands up to faux-shout some sort of celebration sound, but Ashlyn looked ready to puke. "What's wrong!"

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feminist
2009-01-01 05:15 pm UTC (link)

Oh, God--what was Ashlyn thinking?! She couldn't do this, just the thought of it made her sick and now Phoebe was here and it meant that she was just that much closer to telling her and the panic and queasy feeling in her stomach told her that she really wasn't ready for doing that---she needed to puke. She put up a finger before rushing past Phoebe, down the hall to the bathroom to er, well.

This had been the third time this week, which didn't help ease Ashlyn's mind when it came to the whole 'I might be pregnant' thing. At all. She sucked in a deep breath, holding her hair carefully in her hand just in case she wasn't done. But she felt done. She could always race down the hallway later if she wasn't, right? So standing on shaky legs, Ashlyn walked back to the room feeling as if she were walking to her funeral.

"That is what's wrong," she said miserably as she flopped down onto her bed. This was such rubbish. But, hey! What better day to find out the worst (best? she wasn't quite sure) news in the world than your birthday. It'd be an...interesting way to ring in the New Year's at least. "Pheebs, I think I'm--I think I'm gonna be in biiiiig trouble." Ashlyn wiggled around, leaning off the bed just enough that she could peer beneath it. The potion was down there somewhere, it was just a matter of finding it.

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feebees
2009-01-01 11:25 pm UTC (link)

There---there was only one reason that getting sick and running down the hallway to the loo was wrong. Having the flu, or having a virus, that wasn't something that was wrong, that was just bad luck that you slept away. Having something like that did not cause someone to think they were in biiiiig trouble, and Phoebe stood in the frame of the doorway, looking absolutely stunned at Ashlyn.

Noooo.

"Ash," Phoebe hissed, slamming the door shut and locking it swiftly before nearly leaping the distance from her spot to the end of Ashlyn's bed. She stared her friend straight in the eye (or the best she could manage), hands leaning heavily into the mattress, "You aren't!"

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feminist
2009-01-02 12:23 am UTC (link)

"I don't know!" she snapped back, immediately regretting the tone in her voice. She had no reason to get upset at Phoebe but--the stress of this wasn't helping her any, and she was super anxious about the entire situation. She was avoiding eye contact with Phoebe as she continued her search for the parcel--there. She sighed softly. "I'm sorry, I just--I've been putting off dealing with this and I just--sorry." She snatched up the potion and did her best to unscramble herself and sit upright on the bed.

"We were careful about things," Ashlyn said before the lecture could come. "We really were. And--and I've been on the potion since July for Christ's sake! There shouldn't be any way that I am but--" But all the signs were there. She sighed, unwrapping the parcel carefully, revealing the potion that had been sitting dormant since they went on break. She had no idea how to use it--she knew that the muggle tests just had you pee on a stick, but this looked rather full of liquid and she didn't think there would be room for more liquid. "And I don't even know how to use this damn thing," she pouted, pulling her knees up to her chest.

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feebees
2009-01-02 03:25 am UTC (link)

Phoebe snatched the pregnancy test (PREGNANCY TEST!) out of Ashlyn's hand to look at the vial. Her friend thought she was pregnant! Pregnant! Pregnant as in there was a supposed baby inside of Ashlyn! How on earth could this have happened! How on EARTH could this have happened?

Well---she knew how this could happen, but she couldn't figure out the bloody circumstances surrounding it!

"Stop---stop trying to make up--excuses!" Phoebe snapped, some small part of her feeling bad for scolding Ashlyn while she was in such a delicate situation, but someone needed to! Phoebe wasn't going to coddle her and tell her it's okay that she had unprotected sex (THOSE POTIONS WERE---THEY WERE 99.9999999999% EFFICIENT, WEREN'T THEY?), that she and Keegan couldn't keep it in their bloody pants and----"How could you just---put this--off!"

Phoebe turned to Ashlyn, looking absolutely incredulous. "Look, just---the instructions are under the label," she'd been in St. Mungo's enough to know how to work one of these damn things, "Just---go to the bathroom and----I'll be here."

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feminist
2009-01-02 03:55 am UTC (link)

"I didn't want to think about it," she moaned helplessly. Would Phoebe have wanted to take the damn test if she thought that Elphias had knocked her up? Hmmmmmmm?!?!

Ashlyn snatched the pregnancy test back from Phoebe before throwing the door open and stomping down the hallway. This was so ridiculous, why had she even bothered asking Phoebe. She wasn't even being nice to her. Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish! She slammed the bathroom door shut for good measure before sinking down onto the floor, her back pressed against the cold tile wall. She carefully pulled the label away to reveal the instructions...

Five minutes later, Ashlyn found herself quickly shuffling down the hallway, a fizzing purple vial in her hands. This was bad. Bad bad bad bad BAD! She quickly shut the door to her room and locked it before sliding to the floor yet again. She felt like crying or screaming or--or sending Keegan a howler, but she knew she couldn't do that. She didn't even think she could get herself to stand up at that moment.

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