Call a friend who might know a thing or two about this

"Shona," you read on the screen, the name of a good friend of yours. Perhaps more important is that she's been around the block sexually. Many many blocks, if the rumors are at all true. If anyone can tell your what to do it would be her.

After all, she's been around that much and she's never been, or stayed... in that condition.

Before you can rethink your decision you tap the phone, holding it with trembling hands as it rings. Just as you're about to hang up, your mind changed, she picks up.

"Shona!" you blurt, before she can even say hello. "I... I need your help. Please!"

"I... I slept with this man. I mean, he tricked me! He said he'd had a vasectamy and that it was safe. And he didn't need a condom because he said he was clean, so I wouldn't catch anything. And I... "

You gulp, ashamed of yourself as you admit, "I wanted it so much, I wanted to get rid of my virginity, and he's so good looking, but... I was stupid, I believed him, and now I'm... I'm..." Shying away from the word again you paused a heartbeat before desperately resuming your plea.

"I need your help, Shona, I don't know what to do. I... I've got a bit of money from my Mom's emergency stash, but she'll notice I took it. She'll **** me to tell her, and she might..."

You fight back a wave of panic as you think about your mom, how furious she would be, the things she might say and do. Shona says something but you don't hear as you play out the scenarios in your mind. A slut, a whore, she'd call you.

"What if she kicks me out?" you finally blurt. "She's always going on about how I should save myself for that 'special' one. And if she kicks me out and I have this... this... I'll be ruined! I'll be alone, I won't be able to work, I'll be so poor I won't be able to... I... I don't know what to do. And you've never been... you've never... I thought you might know what to do. Do you? Shona?"

At last you stop for breath, trying to **** your lungs to stop pumping frantically and suck in air slowly and deeply.

When you get your response you're nearly hyperventilating.