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I sighed. Fine. I’ll get in the damn chair. At least then the Supervisor will let me talk.
I hopped in the chair. It leaned back as he picked up an electronic device. He ran it over my belly and abdomen.
“What I’m saying is, I don’t want to do this anymore,” I said.
“Don’t want to do what anymore?” the Supervisor said, focused intently on his machine’s readouts.
“This deal we have. I don’t want to do it anymore.”
“You don’t want to return home?”
“No, I do. It’s just… I don’t want to lie to Kren anymore. We have this… connection. I feel bad about using him for our idea. I don’t think it’s a bad idea. It’s just… I would prefer for us to talk about it so we’re on the same page. Who knows, maybe he would agree to do it anyway. He might surprise you.”
The Supervisor raised the device and peered at the results.
“Doctor?” I said. “Are you listening to me?”
“You’re pregnant.”
“What?”
For a moment, the words he used didn’t make any sense. It might have been said in a foreign language I had no knowledge of.
“Pregnant?”
“Yes. It appears one of your… rounds last night hit the bull’s eye,” the Supervisor said.
I blinked. None of this made any sense.
“What do you mean? I can’t be pregnant.”
“But you are. Look.”
He extended the device to me and I peered at it. None of it made any sense except for the word POSITIVE written across the middle.
Okay… So, this made things a little more complicated…
Who was I kidding? It made things a whole lot more complicated.
Stay calm, I told myself. Relax.
I would tell Kren I was pregnant. He would stand by me. He’d be the father and everything would work out fine.
Except he explicitly told me he didn’t want to have a child in prison. He didn’t want to raise it here.
And he would blame me.
Not unreasonably, either. I’d been the one to say I wanted him to cream inside me. I was the one who instigated our sex last night. I was the one who made him feel bad about our sex being “incomplete.” It was total bullshit. It was always awesome.
I felt sick.
“I… I have to talk with him. With Kren. He needs to know about this.”
“I can’t agree with that. He will be unpredictable. I don’t know how he’ll react when he finds out you’re pregnant with his child.”
I climbed from the chair and stumbled, unsure what to do. I needed to return to the Prize Pool. I needed to talk to Harper. She would know what to do. She always knew what to do.
“Excuse me,” I said.
