I clutch the test in my hands. My stomach wrenches. My head reels. I start crying in the stall.
"Cheater!" accuses my geometry textbook from the floor.
My parents can't find out.
"You're an idiot," scoffs the toilet beneath me.
God. I'll get kicked out of cheerleading.
"What about Aiden?" taunts the skirt at my ankles.
After prom we were gonna be each other's first! This isn't right. Ashley and I only fooled around a little when he tutored me. Just that one time…
But that damn test has a big, fat, blue plus on it.
"You're pregnant," it says.
Author bio: Jonathan Hawk is a sesquipedalian and "ugly bag of mostly water" from the Baltimore, Maryland area. He's an avid free culture enthusiast and Creative Commoner. His stream of consciousness haunts Twitter as @doublecompile.
Cheater is part of 101 Fiction issue 5.
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