Creative Story

Person: A high school whose girlfriend just told him she’s pregnant
Detail: An earring
Setting: A city on a hot summer night

Labor Day weekend was already here for Matt and Alyssa. They were extremely excited for their senior year of high school and were planning on going to college together next year in Virginia, which is far away from their home in New York. Alyssa was excited until this past week, when she learned that she was pregnant with Matt’s child.
Alyssa thought that this would never happen to her and that she would be living her senior year the way she wanted to by having fun and going crazy. She knew she needed to tell matt that she was pregnant but she just found out and hadn’t even told her mom yet. She needed to tell him and she needed to do it now.
On Saturday Matt and Alyssa were going to go into the city to watch the Yankees play – it was a hot day in New York but Alyssa knew it would be the best way to tell him. Alyssa had decided she was going to tell Matt after the game just before he dropped her off at her house. She had everything planned out and she even knew what she was going to wear. Alyssa has a favorite pair of earrings that have been passed down through her family that started with her great-grandmother, then her grandmother, then her mom and now they belong to her. They are her favorite earrings and she always wears them in situations where she is not sure of how it is going to go.
Alyssa was not ready for this night- she thought she would never have to tell someone she is pregnant until after she was married and had graduated from high school and college. When Matt picked her up she was extremely quiet and matt could sense that something was wrong. While they were at dinner, Alyssa noticed that one of her earrings was missing and she had to find it. When they started looking neither of them saw it around the table they had been eating at or in Matt’s jeep. Alyssa began to panic and she knew she had to find the earring because she needed to wear them while she told Matt she was pregnant. When they were looking Alyssa was becoming even more anxious and mad and when Matt asked her what was wrong she snapped at him and then she began to cry hysterically. Matt knew that something was wrong and wanted to know how he could help her. Matt then proceeded to hold Alyssa while she cried and that’s when she gave in and told him that she was pregnant.
Matt didn’t say anything to her right away and she wasn’t sure what he was going to say. After this long day, Alyssa asked Matt to just take her home and think about what is going to happen to them and talk about it the next day.