Chapter 15

Alexa

Hazel’s disappearance has disappeared, urspued but a meatier topic of controversy. The news of pregnancy has spread across town like a forest fire. By morning my parents were bombarded by calls from lairs posing as friends calling to warn about such scathing rumors Mrs Harris was spreading around town. I wasn't spreaded from the barrage of calls either. At a point in the morning, over breakfast, we decided to switch off our phones for the sake of our sanity. Mum and I still weren't speaking and we avoided making eye contact all through the awkward breakfast.

By mid afternoon we had over thirty people over to pay a welfare visit to us. After Alex lets them in they drop the microwaved food on the counter and strained their necks looking for me or any bits of gossip they could find to relay to the other nosy fellows. The ones that were lucky enough to see me looked directly at my stomach trying to see how far along I was with the invisible bump. We drew the curtains and locked the