#Chapter 58-Wasn’t Expecting to Expect

Evelyn “This isn’t actually happening,” I state, hands out before me. “Everyone is here to play a prank on us, right?” My mom raises her eyebrows while watching us. “What? What are you talking about?” “You’re pregnant! Mom, I’m eighteen!” Her face is turning white. “And I did my job with you. Now Gregory and I want to raise our own baby together,” she insists. “Aren’t you happy for me?” Everyone else focuses their attention on Sebastian and me. I half expect Gregory to start shouting, but that’s when I realize he’s not even in the room. “Maybe do this later?” Sebastian whispers in my ear, and I feel my spine tense. “Why couldn’t you have at least told me?” I ask, my voice catching and coming out in pieces of broken sound. “Eve—” I shake my head and leave, feeling the familiar feeling of tears threatening to show themselves. I walk away with gusto from the stupid party, making my way upstairs to hide in my room. “Evelyn!” Sebastian calls out to me from the bottom