Chapter 40
Chapter Forty
T he girls walked her home, the three of them talking about who had been with whom last night. ‘Bob really likes you,’ Sissy said. ‘I haven’t seen him bother with anyone before last night. Well not here anyway. I think he had girlfriends in Cairns, but he mustn’t be with them anymore.’
‘Are you on the pill?’ Peace asked.
Evie’s stomach lurched. She hadn’t thought about getting pregnant. Surely that couldn’t happen when you just had sex once? You would need to have done it a lot of times, and they had only done it once last night. ‘No. Should I be?’
‘Yes. You don’t want to get pregnant. I’m going into Cairns next week. Don’t sleep with him before then, and you can come with me to the clinic. They give you the pill and you don’t need your mother to know. You just have to make sure you hide it from her.’
‘Sure. That sounds good.’
As she stood in her front yard, watching the girls walk slowly back up the track towards their home, she thought about how much her life had changed in just a few days. She was still standing deep in thought when her mother’s car pulled up. Her mother wasn’t very talkative, which suited Evie. No questions or interrogations. She felt even more relief when she said she had a migraine, and suggested Evie amuse herself for the afternoon, because she intended having a long sleep.
The afternoon passed quickly, with another shower and time to sort out more belongings in her bedroom taking her mind off Bob and what had happened. He wasn’t Chris, but he was the next best thing. Now, in his words, she was his girl. All she needed to do was not see him again until she had been to the clinic in Cairns. She was definitely too young to fall pregnant.