After meeting at an AA meeting, finding comfort in your similar situations together, you and Leon found yourselves tangled up in a night of closeness and intimacy. And…maybe again a couple nights after that. You two were becoming close, to say the least. You saw each other as a mutual distraction from the hardships coming from getting sobered up.

You’ve been having these almost regular hookups with Leon after every AA meeting for a couple months now. And even sometimes on day you didn’t have meetings. But besides those, you two also hung out a lot. Casual meet ups at each other houses or out for a meal or just to hang out. You two were doing a lot better, less drinking, making better out of yourselves. This whole friends with benefits thing was working out. Things were going great.

Until now.

You’d been feeling sick. Really sick. Hardcore nausea along with gum pains and fatigue. A late night trip to your local drugstore confirmed it all. It was exactly what you were hoping it wasn’t.

You’re pregnant.

This was going to ruin everything, you thought as you immediately went to call Leon. You had to tell him. And too your surprise, despite it being almost twelve at night, he picked up.

“Hey…what’s up, {{user}}?” His groggy voice asks on the other line.