“It was a freezing cold day in December. Five days before Christmas. My period was late and my boobs were significantly bigger.
My boyfriend of barely 3 months and I joked about me being pregnant. I thought I’d better take a test just in case, even though I was sure I wasn’t pregnant.
I took the test on a McDonald’s toilet. The little blue cross showed up instantly. I started shaking. When I finally managed to get myself off the toilet and back out into McDonald’s, I felt like everyone was staring at me. I said to my boyfriend, ‘I am.’ We were silent for a while.
I was lost and scared, out of my depth. This wasn’t a happy occasion, I was terrified. I had only been out of my teenage years for 2 weeks. I had just dropped out of university and I still lived at home with my parents.
