————-Bette———–

Surprisingly I had some idea of what might be wrong with our eldest daughter I had suspected for a few weeks now but had not wanted to say it was some accusation to make after all if it had not been true.

I was proud as she looked us in the eye and told us not only that she had slept with someone but that she had not been careful and was now about ten weeks pregnant at three week shy of her sixteenth birthday. I can’t deny that I was as mad as ***** but for once I managed to hold it back, Angie needed me as brave as she was pretending to be I could tell she was terrified, we would have a strong discussion about this later for now it was time to decide what would be done.

———–Tina———

I was so glad Bette reacted calmly as all I could do was cry as our daughter told us that she had acted on impulse feeling lonely and out of place at boarding school she had just wanted to be with someone who loved her.

Angie was extremely smart and had wanted to go to boarding school when they offered her a scholarship; both of our daughters had skipped grades and were in classes with older children. We had thought she was happy but upon hearing what she said the first decision was that we would find a school closer to home so she would not have to live away, if she choose she could go back to her old high school and her old friends.

It was Bette that bought up the more tough choices that lay ahead of our eldest daughter.

“Angie, baby, I know it is hard but we need to discuss what you want to do about the baby. We can all listen and discuss it with you but in the end it has to be your decision. Have you had any thoughts about what you want to do?”

Now it was my turn to be proud as she told us how she felt and what she thought she wished to do.

“I think I know what I want to do, I am not ready to keep the baby and I don’t think I could sit back and let you and mom raise it just the same as I don’t think my heart would be able to give it up for adoption, I have researched it and I think that the only option that I can handle right now is to have a termination.”