virgin mary.

Otto's father was in hospital for a week. In his fall he had hit his head which caused a small bleed on the brain, this coupled with his cancer made the doctors want to keep him im for monitoring for longer than a normal brain bleed.

For the first few days it didn't look good, the doctor tried explaining that all the levels in his blood were out of whack but Otto didn't understand it. She just knew it wasn't good.

It took a while but he slowly came to, although he played the world's worst prank on Otto.

As he woke up he looked Otto straight in the eye and pulled a confused expression 'who are you?' He had asked her, but with the look on her face he quickly told her he was joking.

If he wasn't sick she would've strangled him.

He was okay for the most part, although the fact he was falling over wasn't a good sign. Losing mobility was one of the signs that the end was drawing near.

She didn't want to ever leave his hospital room, the last time she had left him he got hurt.

If he died without her being there she would never forgive herself.

She essentially lived in a chair that folded out to a bed that sat in the corner of her father's room. He tried numerous times to get Otto to hang out with her friends - who she now was back in contact with, although it was extremely limited - but she told him that as he was bed bound he couldn't make her do anything.

Wes visited a few times over the week, he brought Otto new clothes, and some flowers for the room.

He was seemingly understanding, but he never apologised for his behaviour that caused her to be at the hospital hours late.

Otto didn't think he'd apologise even with a gun to his head.

Her contact with her friends was top secret, she couldn't have Wes knowing about it or she would be in trouble.

Due to her practically living at the hospital she took the week off school, but once her dad was back at home and in a better, more stable, condition she went back.

Wes still picked her up, driving her to school he had his hand firmly gripping Otto's thigh.

She still hated it, and often pushed him off subtlety, but he didn't seem to notice.

Or he simply didn't care.

When he arrived out the front he leaned over and pressed a chaste kiss to her lips. "Be good." He said. "I'm always good." She said tightly, before getting out the door.

Otto had been very explicit with the group about how and when they could speak to her, if Wes saw it she would be in trouble. She didn't say what trouble, she just said he got jealous and she couldn't be bothered to put up with it, which wasn't strictly untrue. So it had to be within the school, and the grounds at the back that were hidden, especially where the group sat.

Kie walked a few steps behind Otto, and once the doors to the school closed behind them she quickly caught up.

"How's your dad?" She asked, looking I've at Otto.

"He's good. Better than before." Otto had told them that her dad had cancer. She didn't give them much information but her friends managed to piece together the rest of the picture.

School went along as usual, she shared most of her classes with Kie, Maria and JJ. And the ones she didn't share with them, the more advanced classes, she shared with Pope and Belly. It was nice to always have a friendly face, someone she actually knew.

The group was thankful to have her back, despite only knowing her for a handful of months they had grown to love Otto.

She had a personality few people possessed.

At lunch they all made their way over to the table sanwhished between classrooms and trees.

Technically it was out of bounds, but that just made it all the more perfect.

None of the group pressured Otto to talk about what happened, and ask if she was okay, because they knew her well enough to know she'd probably tell them to fuck off.

"Maria hooked up with that bitch Penny, she rubbed it in my damn face too. Posting it on Instagram and making sure to walk by me in the hallways as much as she fucking can." Kie complained, leaning back against a wall eating a smooshed sandwich.

Otto laughed, it was clear Kie and Maria loved each other but it was in an ultra specific way.

They loved drama, and fighting, they loved the off and on aspect of their relationship. They fought, hooked up and got back together, then repeated it again, and again and again.

It was a doomed relationship in reality, Kie and Maria knew that, but it was fun and they were only in highschool so nothing had to be serious.

"Maybe it's a sign that you should maybe, I don't know, not get back together in forty-eight hours." Pope offered the sound advice although it would fall on deaf ears.

Kie stuck up her middle finger at Pope who simply rolled his eyes.

Otto's phone buzzed and she looked at the notification anxiously, it would be one of two people and neither of the options were good.

It was either her mum with bad news. She only texted Otto during school if it was bad news.

Or Wes, and he never gave her good news.

It was the latter.

What are you eating for lunch?

A packet of crisps and a fruit salad.

Be careful what you eat. You want your clothes to fit.

I'm careful.

His comments knew no bounds, he would comment on anything an everything. He didn't care if she couldn't change it, he commented on the freckles on her face, the shape of her eyebrows even her damn hairline he made a dig on.

Apparently it was wonky.

She tried to let them roll off her like water on a duck's back, but she would be lying if she said they didn't affect her at all.

As of late she was trying to repair the damage Wes had done to her emotional fortress.

Otto could sense that this was going to end badly and she had to prepare herself. She needed to put all her guards back up, she needed to get his claws out if her back and she needed to do it without him realising.

The bell rang shortly after and they all wandered back to their classes, but both Kie and Otto needed the bathroom so they went there before their Anicent History class.

Closing the door to the stall Otto hung her back up on the hook and went about her business.

"Kill me now." Kie grumbled, "Do you have a tampon?" She asked Otto.

"Yeah, one second."

She got out a tampon and handed it to her friend underneath the stall. While washing her hands Otto came to an awful realisation.

She hadn't had her period for a good few months. She also was also nauseous for weeks on end. Not to mention how tired she was.

A string of curse words filtered through her mind.

This wasn't happening.

This couldn't happen.

Kie came out the stall few minutes later, "You look like you've seen a ghost." She commented.

It took Otto a few seconds to come up with a response. "It-- all good! I mean, I'm all good." It was not like Otto to fumble over her words, she always sounded confident and like she had thought out what she was going to say.

Kie raised an eyebrow, "We should probably get to class before Mrs Greene murders us."

Otto didn't say anything, she just followed behind her friend.

She couldn't be pregnant.

It wasn't possible.

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