I made it all the way to one hundred fifty-three when the door burst open. Felicity was holding a bottle of wine, giggling.

I covered my lower half with my hands, completely startled. My heart pounded in my chest.

“Sorry!” Felicity laughed. “I didn’t know you were in here. You should have locked the door.”

“I thought you were still at the bar!” I screeched.

“I’m sorry I scared you. After you left, we decided to leave, too. I thought we could lie in bed together, have some more wine, and watch a movie. What’s gotten into you?”

Her eyes drifted from my shocked face to my hand. In my hand, I clutched the pregnancy test. Her eyes scanned the room to the test packaging on the counter.

“Oh my God,” she breathed. “Is that—”

“I’m sure I’m not,” I said in a calm voice, “but I knew I would worry about it if I didn’t take the test. It’s nothing. You know how I get.”

She nodded, her hand covering her mouth. “What does it say?”

In all the excitement, I had forgotten to look. My fingers covered the test strip.

“I can’t look,” I said. “I’m too nervous.”

“Do you want me to do it?”

I grimaced. “I don’t know if that’s any better.”

She slowly extended her hand toward mine. I closed my eyes tight and dropped the stick into her hand.

“No matter what this says,” she said slowly, “it doesn’t really mean anything. Even if it’s positive, it could always be a false positive. And if it is—”

“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” I interrupted.

“You’ll be fine,” she continued. “There are plenty of options. Besides, you’d be able to be a mother while you’re still hot. That’s something a lot of women can’t say.”

I groaned. I knew she was trying to lighten the mood, but I was petrified.

She opened her hand and I watched her expression change. Her eyes widened and her lips parted.

“What does it say?” I asked already knowing the answer.

She pursed her lips and sighed. “It’s positive, Sierra.”

All I could hear was white noise. I felt faint, so I dropped my head onto my naked thighs. I wanted to cry, but nothing came out. Everything was numb.

“Sierra?” I heard Felicity say from the static. “Are you okay?”

“Yes,” I mumbled, even though I wasn’t.

“Pull up your pants and let’s lie on your bed for a little bit,” she said slowly, her voice full of concern. I blindly obeyed her instructions and flopped down on my bed. She got in next to me, pulling the top off of the wine. She took a swig and handed it to me.

“Oh, sorry,” she muttered once she realized that she was offering alcohol to a potentially pregnant person.

I felt myself beginning to process what was happening, but I still couldn’t fully believe it. I was almost certainly pregnant from a one-night stand with a guy that I knew nothing about. If I didn’t find him, I would have to raise this baby on my own. That might have been okay if I didn’t have any feelings for the father, but I really liked Apollo. I believed that if we had the chance, we could be something more. Maybe even a family.

“You can’t tell anyone about this,” I pleaded to Felicity, tears in my eyes.

“Of course I won’t,” she said. “Have a blood sample taken as soon as possible, though. These tests are accurate more often than not.”

“I will. Not at our hospital, though. Kara can’t know about this?”

“I won’t tell her without your permission. But she’s your friend. Why don’t you want to tell her?”

I wasn’t about to go into all the intricacies of my suspicions surrounding Kara. There was too much craziness going on to make a strong case to Felicity about it.

“I need to figure out what I’m going to do first. Just promise me you won’t let anyone know.”

“I promise.”

We sat on the bed in silence, her arms wrapped around me. Felicity knew that sometimes, not saying anything was just as good as talking about it.

“What am I going to do?” I squeaked out moments later.

“The hell if I know,” Felicity replied. “Your instincts are always right, though. I know whatever you decide; it will be the right thing. If you want me to be the father to your baby, I will.”

I smiled for the first time since I left the restaurant. “Thanks, Felicity.’

“It’s no problem. I know you’d do the same for me.”

We laid together in silence for a few hours before I must have drifted off to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, she was gone.

No matter what, I was all on my own for this. There was no other way around it.