"Can I be honest with you Alice? I'm lost for words. I don't want to tell you it's okay, and that you're going to be fine, because either you've heard it all before, or you wouldn't believe me if I tried…but…I'll say that you've come to the right place. Push aside the negative ones…"
Alice glanced up at him, curious how his little speech would end. She bit down on her lower lip hard enough until she could taste the bitterness of copper. It was something she had started to do ever since the day she came home from the party and really accepted what had happened to her. She had been taken advantage of and possibly by more than one person. She wiped the blood off her lip, flushing slightly when she caught the eye of Jase, who was peering at her openly, curiosity obvious. She looked away from his gaze and focused on the group leader again, catching the last bit he said to her.
"…until they realize no one is here to hurt them, either. Stay close to the ones who have open arms, and we'll get through this together. Do you have anyone to go to the doctor with you?"
The doctor? She hadn't even thought about that and suddenly felt ashamed. What if her baby turned out to be in trouble because she had not seen the doctor sooner. She looked down at her stomach and then back up at Andrew, shaking her head.
"N-no," she whispered. "I only told my brother; he has no time to go with me. He is working double, even triple at his job to help me save money for later, but I'm too afraid to tell anybody else." She was very small for her age, not even over 100 pounds yet and until this moment, she had not even thought about how hard the birth would be. Her eyes widened and her already pale skin paled even more.
"I-I think I gotta..." Oh yeah, her nausea seemed to be tied in with her emotions a lot. She jumped up and couldn't help but knock into Jin's chair as she ran out of the room.
"Someone should check on her," Jase mumbled, though doubted any of the girls in the group would care that much for a poor pregnant teenager. Everyone had their own problems to deal with.