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Chapter Thirty

It’s rather conv eni ent onl y ha ving to take an el ev ator to get ho me
from Allysa’s, as much as I want to move out of my own apartment at
times . It’s still strang e living there. We onl y lived there a week bef ore
we split up and R yle lef t for Eng land . It nev er ev en ha d the cha nc e to

feel like ho me and no w it feel s a little taint ed . I ha ven’t ev en been
able to sleep in our bed room sinc e tha t ni ght , so I’ve been sleep ing in
the gues t room on my old bed .
Allysa and Marsha ll are still the onl y ones who kno w about the
preg na nc y. It’s onl y been two week s sinc e I told them , which makes

me twen ty week s along no w. I kno w I sho uld tel l my mothe r, but R yle
will be back in a few week s. I feel like I sho uld tel l hi m firs t bef ore
any one el se find s out. If I can just someho w hi de my baby bump from
her unt il he get s back to the States .
I sho uld probably just accep t the fact tha t I’m more tha n likel y
going to ha ve to call hi m and tel l hi m long -distanc e. I ha ven ’t seen my
mother face- to-face in two week s. It’s the long es t we’v e gone witho ut

seei ng ea ch other sinc e she moved to Boston, so if somet hing does n’t
ha ppen soon she’l l sho w up at my front door when I’m no t prep ared .
I swea r my stomach ha s doubled in size thes e last two week s alone.
If someo ne sees me who kno ws me wel l, it’ll be impossible to hi de. So
far, no one at the floral sho p ha s asked about it. I thi nk I’m still on
the cusp of “Is she pregnan t? Or just chu bby?”

I start to unl ock the door to my apartment , but it beg ins to open
from the other side. Bef ore I can pull the jacket over to hi de my
stomach from who ev er is on the other side of the door, R yle’s ey es
land on me. I’m wea ring one of the shi rts Allysa gave me and it’s kind
of impossible to hi de the fact tha t I’m wea ring a materni ty shi rt when
he’s staring right at it.
R yle.

R yle is he re.