Chapter 57. Sham of a Marriage

TOBY

"Who is pregnant?" I asked. I begged the powers that be to let Sapphire be the pregnant one here so it would have nothing to do with me.

"She is," Sapphire said pointing a finger at Ruby, "congratulations," she added.

"I'll just leave you two to talk," she said after we stood in awkward silence for a minute then dashed out the door.

"How?" I asked that lame one-worded question again leaning against her bedroom wall.

"You probably know more about the process than I do." She shrugged. She looked as shocked by the news as I was and judging from the tests that were now lying on her bed she just found out.

"But it happened just once, we had sex just once," I said bewildered.

"Well I guess it was enough," she said, sounding resigned to the situation.

"There's something called the morning after pill, you know, to prevent situations like this. W