And the crowd goes wild!!!!!!!!
Ever heard of being independent? If you don't know what "doing on your own" means then I guess you are a baby.
There is a difference between being independent and lying to those around you. She could have told them the truth and STILL done this on her own. I certainly did. But she is choosing to hide it instead and that is going to hurt EVERYONE. She is not yet thinking of the consequences of those lies. I am not berating her for it. I am simply stating that she is in for a very bad surprise when she realizes what those consequences are. She is not exactly thinking like the grown-up she is trying to be.
I think her problem is that she doesn't know what to do. It's obvious her parents didn't tell her much about pregnancy, let alone sex. They expect her to be the perfect, social child until she marries in her early 20s-early 30s, then gets pregnant. I believe that's why she couldn't tell them. And with her boyfriend, again it's the same. Even if he accepts it, his parents may not want him in any part of it and may force him to back out of it leaving the child fatherless. Plus, according to this updated chapter she wasn't taught how to be an adult because her parents possibly spoiled her. But the biggest problem with the parents is, like every pregnant teenage girl's worst nightmare, she might be berated on impact and potentially forced to abort, or get kicked out. On top of this, she watched anti-teen pregnancy videos and ads on the internet before wanting to tell her parents so that's another huge factor to this. It's not really independence, she's just naïve but wasn't given the proper talking to about serious situations like this.
I agree. Which is why I say I hope she realizes her mistake.
She probably won't realize her mistake until she's about to have the kid.
What is she going to say to her folks and/or BF when they show up unexpectedly to find her really showing, or already raising the kid? Does she think they will be happy she hid this from them?
In an earlier chapter, she said to herself that she didn't tell her BF because she didn't want him breaking up with her. But now her BF would be well within his rights to and will be much more likely to break up with her because she kept this from him. Especially if he is as good a person as she says, because he will feel she betrayed him by keeping this whole thing a secret and not trusting him. Though I would hope he'd still be an active father.
As for her folks, she didn't tell them because she doesn't want to hurt her parents or make them feel bad or embarrassed, but her parents will be even MORE devastated finding out AFTER the fact, that they have a grandchild, than they would have been had she told them from the get go.
For someone who is trying so hard to be a "grown-up" and do things in a grown-up manner, she is failing miserably in the common sense department. If she was worried about being beaten or disowned, I would side with her.
But with the reasons she gave... NO, those assumptions do NOT warrant the actions she has taken. Ultimately she is hurting the very people she thinks she is protecting and that is going to end up hurting her and her child as well. She needs to realize this soon, before it is too late.