No. #10

"My best friend has experienced an unplanned pregnancy. He met a girl online, on Tinder. He met up with her two times, and about a month later, she gave me a call. She told me that she might be pregnant. Then she sent pictures of three pregnancy tests, which were all positive."

My best friend has experienced an unplanned pregnancy. He met a girl online, on Tinder. He met up with her two times, and about a month later, she gave me a call. She told me that she might be pregnant. Then she sent pictures of three pregnancy tests, which were all positive. I called my friend to tell him that she was pregnant. When he called her, she had been bawling.

He was in doubt. My friend did not want the kid at first. He was all for abortion. He told the girl he’s not ready, she’s not ready, they’re too young, they don’t have money, and they’re not even together. He got over it fairly quickly, but it was in his head for a while. He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t tell his parents. He was shocked and wasn’t sure if it was true.

It stressed me out! I was trying to be there for my friend, and then a girl that I didn’t really know who was having my friend’s child. It stressed me out because he wasn’t doing anything about it, and we both grew up without a father. I was like, “My God, you have to be in this child’s life no matter what.” We tried as hard as we could, and finally we got into his head. Me and my friends in his ear helped him change his mind. He had all the support from us.

She unfortunately had a miscarriage. I feel like it was because she was stressed. No one was there to help her out or support her. And I was there as much as I could but I work full-time, so it was kind of hard.

When my friend found out about the miscarriage, initially he was heartbroken. It just hit him that she had a miscarriage as he was realizing he was having a kid. He was upset because he was planning on naming the child after himself, who was due on his birthday. In the end he was just really sad. I would say it changed him. It made him kind of lazy and distressed. He’s honestly very stressed right now. Us, his friends, are always trying to tell him to try to pick himself up and trying to motivate him. He’s getting there, he’s getting better now. But it definitely slapped him in the face pretty hard.

After she had the miscarriage, she was bawling a lot on the phone with me for about a week. She had a bed for the baby. She just had her baby room set up, so she was just devastated. She was crying to me all the time. I told her to live her life, don’t let this hold you back. I know it’s sad and depressing and everything. But you’ve got to live your life. It seems like she’s living her life; she posts on Instagram. She smiles, that’s good to know.