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had no idea in what direction was talking about.
    “Where?” Joy replied after a minute.
    “Right over there. Do you see where the Wendy’s? It’s on that side. You have to walk to the stores in the back of the parking lot.”
    Joy looked in that direction. From where she was standing she couldn’t see it but at least she knew which way to go now.
    “Thank you.” Joy said walking away from the girl who was still standing there.
    “Do you want me to walk with you?” the girl asked.
    Joy stopped, “No. It’s okay.”
    “You sure it’s not a problem. I mean I know that you don’t know me but you don’t have to be alone.”
    Joy thought about it for a minute. She didn’t want to go through this alone. She had no one else but this stranger.
    “Okay.”
     
     
     

Chapter Eight
     
    In silence, they walked side by side for a minute. Joy was nervous and lost in her own thoughts. She couldn’t believe that she might be pregnant. She prayed that the stress of the past few months was the reason for her period’s a no show.
    “What’s your name?” the girl asked breaking Joy from her thoughts.
    “Joy.”
    “I liked that name. I’m Simone.”
    Finally, they reached the Rite Aid. Simone went in first holding the door for Joy. Joy followed her to the back. She watched as Simone took charge. She led Joy to the aisle that housed the locked container that held the pregnancy test. She looked up and down the rows until she found the one she was looking for.
    “Stay here.” was all she said and walked away.
    She returned a minute later with the girl from the pharmacy. She showed the girl which one she wanted and both Joy and her followed her to the pharmacy counter.
    Joy reached in her bag and slipped out a twenty. She held it out to Simone who looked down at it but didn’t take it. Instead, she reached in her own pocket and pulled out the money to pay. She grabbed the bag and started walking back to the front of the store.
    Joy stood there, confused at the exchange. She held her money in her hand and composed herself, stuffing the money in her jeans pocket; she followed Simone to the front of the store. She caught up to her before Simone noticed she wasn’t there.
    Simone continued to lead with Joy following behind her. She continued to walk until she reached DEB’s clothing store, where she worked. She went behind the counter, spoke to the girls behind there and motioned for Joy. They continued through a door and into a break room with a table, chairs and a refrigerator. A door was in the back of the room.
    “That’s the bathroom right there.”
    Joy opened the door without saying a word. The bathroom was tiny but clean. Joy checked the seat before sitting down. She took the test out the bag. She sat there a moment. Tears welled up in her eyes and she wished things to go back to the weekend with her and Kevin and stay in that time.
    She took a deep breath and took the test out the box. She looked at the diagram to see what to look for. It would say pregnant if she was and not pregnant if she wasn’t.
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    Simone sat at the table waiting for Joy to come out of the bathroom. When she saw her outside of the clinic, she remembered when she was in the same position. Three years ago when she was just 16, she found out she was pregnant. She felt alone and didn’t know her options. Once she told her mother that her stepbrother was the father of the baby, her mother threw both of them out the house. Her stepbrother who was two years younger moved to California with his mother and wanted nothing to do with her or “it”, he told her while packing his bags. She wanted an abortion but needed parental consent. At the clinic, after talking to one of the counselors she decided to put the baby up for adoption. Now her daughter was somewhere out there hopefully in a better home than she was raised in.
    Lost in thought, she barely heard Joy come out the bathroom. She looked up and could tell by the look on Joy’s face