The magnitude of the two objects laying upon the desk before her was more than Gina could handle. She knew they were bound to change her entire life. She had been putting off both of them for too long, but waiting was only making things worse. It was time she faced the music. The first object, her letter from Princeton in response to the application she had submitted three months ago, was something she had been waiting for practically her entire life. The second she never, not in her wildest dreams, thought she would be faced with at this time in her life. She decided to deal with the letter first. She took the envelope in her hands and ever so carefully ripped open the top so as not to rip the letter. She eyed the Princeton seal in the top right corner, took one last deep breath and read.
Congratulations Miss Gina Levine! We are pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to Princeton University this upcoming fall semester.
The letter fell from her hands and tears of happiness welled up in her eyes. All of those years of hard work and she had finally been accepted to the school of her dreams. But the joy was temporary. The second object still lay upon her desk and the consequences of it loomed above her head relentlessly.
She wished Adam could be here. She needed him right now more than ever before. But Gina knew that this was something she needed to do on her own. She reached for the stick, the pesky little plus or minus sign was sure to have made itself visible by now but she was unable to force her eyes to make the journey down to her hands. She watched the seconds tick by one by one on the crisp white face of the clock and wanted to stop them. How on earth had she gotten herself into this situation? Gina had always been the practical one. She made lists and plans for her minute detail of her life and had known exactly what she wanted to become since she was six years old. She thought through problems rationally with charts and graphs and had never been one to let her emotions get the best of her, until Adam. She had never known how much she was missing in life until she met him and fell in love. The plan she had clung to for the last 13 years of her life now felt empty without him in it.
“I swear that boy has made a new woman out of you,” her mother had said. “I’ve never seen you giggle so much in my whole life. Just don’t go losing your head over some boy.”
Not only had Gina lost her head, she had lost her virginity along with it. She couldn’t wait any longer. Waiting wasn’t going to change anything. Without hesitation she moved her eyes to the stick and at the sight of the red plus sign she froze where she stood and dropped the pregnancy test onto the Princeton acceptance letter. Now what was she to do?
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