RUDE AWAKENING (#1)

I had fallen asleep on the couch that night while waiting for my friends to pick me up. Apparently they never came because when I opened my eyes, the green glow of the clock told me that it was 3:42 AM.

I lifted myself off the couch and headed down the hallway for the bathroom. Before I could get to the toilet, I blacked out, missed the doorway, and ran SMACK into the wall. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before and I immediately knew something was wrong.

I stripped down to nothing and stepped into a shower that almost burnt my skin off. As I stood there in that stream of scalding water, I felt like crying. I knew that in this situation I should be crying a lot. But I couldn’t. My entire body was numb (whether it was from the shower or from the shock, I didn’t know).

The rest of that week dragged hazily along. But two positive pregnancy tests, a teary-eyed confession, and constant nausea, made me fully aware that my life was in the midst of a drastic change.