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i remember this short conversation from long ago... scenes, occurrences and characters have been somewhat altered to improve the excitement of the story.
how are you, my dear "liz"? hope you're doing great up there :)

it was a chilly winter day in new york, my friends and i; david, liz, corry and kim, the regular crowd, were hanging-out at a cafe on the 5th avenue. we just had our regular weekend shopping drill. we were talking about how kim just gave her number out to a guy she met at barnes & nobles, who turns out to be her long-time friend and kim's long-term memory just couldn't reach that far back.

she says, "i don't seem to recall having a friend named stephen back in high school, but hell he's hot. now come to think of it, i think i did have a friend named stephen back then… hahaha". the laughter from our table could be heard all the way to the end of the cafe's counter. kim was saying how she wanted the sunglasses she saw on the way here, and dave being too-supportive as always, kept encouraging her to buy the sunglasses and put them on her credit card. the next thing we know, they stormed-out ofthe cafe and on their way to get those sunglasses. liz, corry and i were like, "geez they better control themselves the next time we go out shopping."
after waited for them for too damn long corry decided to have a cigarette, i was going to go and have one myself too but i decided not to, it was just too damn cold out there.

liz and i were the only two left in there.

"hey yod", she said softly with a serious look. "i've got something to tell you but promise me that you won't tell anyone."
"ok, what is it? you're scaring me".
she wasn't even smiling; she still got that serious look on her face.
"omg, you are not having a crush on me, are you?"
she shook her head, "don't be ridiculous."
a long pause, and she says "yod, i'm pregnant."
i was speechless for a minute, "it's roberts isn't…" i wasn't quite finish with my sentence when she said, "no, not him, it's someone else from back home. i'm done with my unclear relationship with bob."

i smiled and said "knew it, girl. i might be stupid but i'm not blind. i know you're not a heavy smoker but i haven't seen you smoking a single cig for the past 3 weeks and the 'cranberry on the rock' you had last weekend at the bar, just wasn't you.  so, how…" 

again, like she was reading my mind she didn't let me finish my question and says, "about six weeks, i was late last month and i took the pregnancy test thing and it was positive."

"liz, you know they're going to find out about this sooner or later, how are you going to tell them?"

"i don't know, but i'm not going to tell them now, not next week, and maybe not the week after… i just needed to share this with someone right now and you're the only friend i trust the most. thanks, i feel a lot better now.

i won't quit school though with only a couple of semesters to go, i'm still going to graduate next year."

i had tears coming out of my eyes, i wasn't sad because of her unwanted pregnancy, well maybe i was a bit, but it was more like happy tears. i'm happy that she has chosen me to be the friend she trusts the most to share a sensitive issue like this. 

we've been sharing secrets since God knows when and we've been each others' back bones for years, and i just know that from there on out, our relationship is going to last forever.

so, what's the moral of the story you might ask? live your life to the fullest and don't let anything drags you away from your dream… because shit happens but life must go on!