My Very Unplanned Pregnancy

By Marie Brown

Danielle McNally was like any other teenage girl- dating, hanging out with friends, and getting ready for college that is until the pregnancy test came back positive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marie Brown
• Release date: Mar 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524226978

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Contents

Fast Forward: Young Girl

Typical Teenager

Fast Forward: It means you’re pregnant

Reflection section

The way things were: Let me take you back to the beginning

More than a promise ring

Lose some, win some

My moment

Something’s missing

It means you’re pregnant

Thank you for listening

Words could never express

She’s something else

The Loudest Whispers

Journal entries

Attempting to take flight

Additional colors to my wings

Painting my own wings

Embracing the flight

Feathers of  Phoenix

Let me soar

Young Girl

The Colors of my Feathers

About the Author

Young Girl

If there was something I could tell myself when I was a young girl

I’d tell myself to have bigger dreams at tackling the world

If there was something I could tell myself when I was about ten

I’d tell myself that not everyone that smiles is your best friend

If there was something I could tell myself when I was seventeen

I’d tell myself slow down and be the change you wish to see

If there was something I could tell myself each time that I cried

I’d tell myself the race isn’t over until the day you die....

COLOR ME, YELLOW

Typical Teenager

My name is Danielle McNally. I’m a little older now as I’m telling this story but I still feel fresh out of high school. It’s been a few years since I have been out of high school but I still remember it like it was yesterday. You see, I always had dreams. Well, more like expectations of how my life would turn out, like most people I would assume. I can’t say I ever really saw how I would get from point A to point B though. I never really had a plan. I was an extreme pessimist. I saw the mediocre as an accomplishment and anything beyond that as a headache. I mean I wanted the standard: the house, the family, and a career that allowed me to be home to spend time IN my house and WITH my family. Besides that, I was a pretty simple girl. I loved listening to music and spending time with my girlfriends. We were inseparable at times. You know; how girls are, we took bathroom breaks together, stayed on the phone all night. It was all typical teen age girl stuff with us. I was always really shy around boys too. I always felt my knees shaking around them and was probably one of the last of my girlfriends to start dating. I just felt I had time to date and frankly wasn’t in any type of rush to get into anything serious. Maybe it was because I was really close with my family too. My family was the real affectionate type. There was always a hug to be given and a kiss to be returned. We always had family dinners together and participated in religious meetings every week. I came from a really religious and humble upbringing. My brothers, sister and I lived with my mother. My mother ruled with an iron fist but a loving touch. I wasn’t a party girl and I wasn’t one of the popular girls. I was just Danielle. I was a typical teenager in high school. I was a typical teenager living a typical life doing typical teen age things. That all changed real fast though.

Fast Forward:

It means you’re pregnant

I remember walking around the gym with my best friend Gina. My boyfriend and I had just recently become an engaged couple. I knew that wouldn’t look too good if it was true.  My mother would be livid I imagined. For goodness sake, I was only seventeen. She didn't think we were old enough to be in love or to know the meaning of an engagement. But, I just knew he was the man I wanted to be with. Yet, I didn't expect what was about to happen. I was late. I don't mean late for gym class either. My friend and I usually went through our cycles around the same time and she had hers but I didn't have anything. I had to have been in denial at that point. There was no way I was seventeen and pregnant. That happened to OTHER people. You know, the girls that WEREN’T me. There was no way this was happening to me. Not Now. I was an honor student, I was accepted into colleges of my choice, and I wasn't supposed to end up like that. That was for OTHER girls. The ones they portray on television as fast and promiscuous...you know? How could I end up in the same boat? I remember my best friend's reaction; she was the first person I told. Not even my best friend could believe the words that were coming out of my mouth....I think I'm pregnant.

I knew I would have to tell my fiancé the news sooner than later. I was nervous and afraid of his reaction. He was a great boyfriend and now fiancé, but father to be? Not so much. I approached him on the issue with uncertainty. I wanted to be completely sure and so did he if