The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0414

I rubbed my own forehead, the questions making my head ache. I could only imagine what Susie was going through.

“You have to tell Mark,” I said, because that should be the starting point. Mark was half to blame here, so he should carry half the burden of whatever happens

next.

“I agree,” Nicholas said. “He will do the right thing.”

Susie shook her head. “I’ll be such a bother to him.”

A bother? “Susie, the man got you pregnant. If he thinks you are a bother…” He isn’t worth your time.

“He wouldn’t think that,” Nicholas said.

“He’ll think I’m trapping him,” Susie said.

That seemed unlikely. It took two to tango, after all. “Did you use a condom?” I asked.

She shook her head. “I didn’t even think about it. We were so… And then…” She cried more. “I care about him so much. I’m going to lose him.”

won’t,” I

hard I didn’t know what to do

sobbed into my shoulder then, totally

Nicholas, but he seemed as lost as I did. What could we possibly say to a girl who was going through something like this? She was the one who would have

knew what she would face. I had been there before myself. I still face those hardships every day when someone knew discovers

I would tell her the full truth of

yes,

sometimes. There were plenty of days when I

and every hardship ever

exhausted. Then she asked to be

while.

•15 BOPAIS

said, and together, Nicholas and I moved to the edge of the room, all the way by

quietly, though furiously, “I can’t believe Mark was this careless. If he meant to bed Susie outside of wedlock, then he dam ned well should have

you really think he’ll do the right thing?” I asked, soft

“If he doesn’t, he’s not the man I

loyal to