Affliction 1

Chapter 1

Aurora Emily Estrella P.O.V

"I'm pregnant."

"No, no!"

"What do you mean by no, Reagan? What do you expect ha? I won't be able to get pregnant? We've had a lot of sex together. Remember? Then that will be your reaction?" My head is getting hotter now because of his reaction to what I said, even I was surprised by what I found out, I didn't expect that I would get pregnant, and it was a mistake.

"How could I not react like this? You told me you were taking pills, Aurora. This can't happen. You know what will happen to both of us if our parents find out!"

"So what do you want me to do huh?"

"Abort that child." My eyes widened when he immediately said it, I just looked away from him and started crying out of nowhere. Next, the tears flowed down my cheeks as if nothing could stop them.

"I don't want it here, Reagan. I don't want this child! But I can't bear to abort it, my conscience can't bear it. I don't know what to do!"

"And I hate that child even more, Aurora. That will be the reason for my downfall! When they find out about this, they won't be happy and they won't continue to bequeath to me what I should be bequeathed to me, and worse maybe they will hang me, and I say that the outcome of my life will not be good at all! So I'm telling you, abort that child while it's still early!"

"No! I won't do that!"

"And what? What are you going to do? You're going to tell your parents too? What do you think they're going to tell you?! You don't think they're going to tell you to abort that child either! Did you forget that your parents are more worse than mine huh?"

"I don't know anymore! I don't know anymore!" I screamed while I was crying.

I don't really know what to do, because Reagan is right, I know that's what my parents would want to happen, to abort this child. I hate this child but I will not get to the point of aborting this child. My conscience is what I can fight against here and I know that it is not right to have an abortion.

Reagan was right, my parents are really worse, they won't like it when they find out I'm pregnant, they don't even know that Reagan and I have a relationship, they also don't like Reagan's family because they are business rivals and they see it as an enemy, same with Reagan's side, so it's very unlikely that they will like this child. I don't know what to do.

And one more thing, Reagan and I don't really have a relationship, the truth is that the two of us only have pure sex and there is no romance involved. We both loved it, and we really didn't expect that I would get pregnant. I seem to have missed going to the Doctor for months. I've also been busy with school, as I'm finally leaving college and will be able to graduate from the Political Science course and enter a law school and then review for the bar exam, but it seems that all of this will be delayed because of my condition.

That's what I'm afraid of, being a disappointment to my family. My Mother will surely embarrass me.

"I can't think of anything else for you to do, Aurora. Abort that child. That's the end of our conversation."

"I won't do that." That was the last thing I said before getting up and taking my bag and leaving him where he was sitting.

I just met him here at one of the restaurants not far from my school. I even had to run away from my driver earlier just to meet him. I waited half an hour with him there because he said he had an important meeting earlier when I called but I told him that what I was about to tell him was also important.

I also returned to the University immediately after I left his presence. I still had to wait for a ride outside and it was so hot that it made me dizzy. I just closed my eyes tightly.

"I'll drop you off, wait for me. I'll just get my car." I just rolled my eyes on him. I just agreed with it because when our driver sees me that I'm with someone and get out of another car, he'll immediately report it to my Mother, it's always like that.

To be honest, my life is really suffocating, I am very suffocated by what my parents are doing. The truth is that I don't really want to take a Political science course, I want to be Architecture because I like to draw and design things, but my parents don't care about what I want and it is necessary for me to follow  them because they are the ones who pays for my education. And another thing, being a lawyer runs in our family. If I'm not going to be a lawyer, I'm the only one who's different from them, so I have to follow in their footsteps.

I haven't done anything because if I don't become a lawyer, I should stop studying and just run away from home. 'right, what will I be against that? I am the youngest of our three siblings. And both of my brothers graduated and they only took one bar exam and they actually passed.

Me? In my four years in the Political science course and I was really able to pass even though it looked like I couldn't really do it anymore. The grades are going down and my parents are really not happy about that and now, I'm even pregnant. Maybe they killed me themselves.

Overall, I don’t have a choice in the things I want to do because they almost control my life, now that I’m pregnant, their anger towards me will only get worse, so I really don’t know what to do anymore.

End of Chapter

-QJG