Evelyn
“This isn’t actually happening,” I state, hands out before me. “Everyone is here to play a prank on us, right?”
My mom raises her eyebrows while watching us. “What? What are you talking about?”
“You’re pregnant! Mom, I’m eighteen!”
Her face is turning white. “And I did my job with you. Now Gregory and I want to raise our own baby together,” she insists. “Aren’t you happy for me?”
Everyone else focuses their attention on Sebastian and me. I half expect Gregory to start shouting, but that’s when I realize he’s not even in the room.
“Maybe do this later?” Sebastian whispers in my ear, and I feel my spine tense.
“Why couldn’t you have at least told me?” I ask, my voice catching and coming out in pieces of broken sound.
“Eve—”
I shake my head and leave, feeling the familiar fee
