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she has been nagging me about my drinking and now she thinks because I take a pill here or there I’m some kind of drug addict. Sometimes I just need to loosen up, and the pills help me to do just that.  Then she says the words that rock my world off its axis.  Hearing Katie say she is pregnant causes my world to stop; I feel all the air get sucked out of the room. I know if my parents find out they will make sure we get married. I see how unhappy Liam is at times. While his friends are still single and dating, he has a wife and a son to take care of. I don’t want that for myself or Katie; we are just kids with our whole lives ahead of us. The minute I tell her to have an abortion I know I lose her. The look she gives me tells me I crossed a line that can’t be uncrossed. It isn’t even a look of shock; it’s a look of disgust. When Liam speaks from the door, I know I am going to have to tell my parents; he won’t keep this from them. 
    I don’t hear from Katie the rest of the day. The next day she calls and tells me she made an appointment, and I am so relieved we are dodging a bullet. I don’t want to fight; I don’t want our last conversation to be an argument. We had two good years together; I don’t want it to end badly. When she calls back again after I said I wouldn’t go with her to the abortion, she tells me she has a ride and to deliver the money to her aunt at the Diner in an hour. I go into my sock drawer and pull out two thousand dollars. Sitting at my desk, I write her a letter. I know it won’t make up for what is happening but if I could just explain…
     
    Katie,
    I know you are upset with me now, but I’m sure you will see this was the best for the both of us. We are so young and have so much life to experience. Maybe when I come back for Thanksgiving, we can meet and talk. I don’t want to break up on bad terms. I do love you, Katie; you were my first love. But, I am eighteen years old and don’t want to be a father or a husband right now. I hope you can forgive me.
    -Michael 
     
    I seal the envelope with the money and seal the envelope with the letter when I see Liam standing at my doorway again.
    “You know you’re making a mistake,” he says to me.
    “No, Liam, you made the mistake. You gave up your life for your high school sweetheart and a baby. I’m not making the same mistake. I want a life; I want to enjoy college. I watch you walk around here miserable because you didn’t have a choice with Rose, and I’m sorry your life sucks but I’m going to Dartmouth, and no one and nothing is standing in my way.”
    “First thing, little brother, you don’t know shit about Rose and me or our marriage, and if you ever call my son a mistake again, I will break your fucking face. Second, this is going to come back to bite you in the ass because the shit you try and bury and keep under wraps is always the stuff that gets exposed first. Katie is a sweet girl and what you just did to her, what you asked her to do, is really fucked up and you have to live with that so go have fun at college with your parties and girls but remember you traded your baby for all that.” As he walks away, I hear the front door open and slam shut, and I can hear his car starting and then fading as he drives off the estate.
    Katie’s Aunt Maggie was always my favorite member of Katie’s family; she was funny and easy going. When I pull up to the Diner, she meets me at my car.
    “I don’t need small talk,” she said. “Just give me what you’re supposed to and go about your business.”
    “Please let me explain.” I try to say more, but she throws her hand up.
    “May you feel nothing but sadness, emptiness, and loneliness until you make your wrongs right. You will never be blessed with love and children until you atone for what you have done to a daughter of the earth. I curse you, Michael Kerrigan.” With those words, she got in her car and left. 
    I got a call from Katie’s house the day of the