Sasha Austin
Bio
I'm a boy mom from Virginia who loves being outdoors. If I'm not running, or laying in the sun reading a new book, I'm probably writing, creating something fun, or hitting the ninja warrior gym with the kids!
Stories (15/0)
Positive.
Keira paced outside the closed bathroom door and checked her watch again. Why had she closed the door? Her roommate, Hailey, who was also her best friend since second grade, wasn't home. She couldn't hide from the test. She had to go back in there and see what it had to say. Today was the day after Valentine's day, she and Hailey had spent last night sharing a bottle of wine, and swearing off men forever. But after her second glass, Keira realized she felt sick, again. She couldn't remember her last period but that was nothing new, they were not regular and the birth control pills made them more sporadic. After digging around under the shared bathroom sink, she found a pregnancy test that Hailey had left over from a scare last year with her ex-boyfriend. Keira wasn't irresponsible and she wasn't promiscuous. She only had sex if she was in a serious relationship and she was careful about the men she chose to be in relationships with. But everyone makes mistakes. And Bobby ended up being a huge mistake. When they first met, he came across as friendly, charming, kind, and considerate. After four months together, his true colors slowly emerged and a new picture came into focus. Condescending comments about her appearance, insults disguised as jokes, inconsiderate behavior, and that was just the beginning of it. After calling off a date with her at the last minute because he wasn't feeling well, she and Hailey went out anyways. They stopped by his apartment to check on him but he wasn't home, when she called him, she got no answer. The next day he refused to answer when she asked where he was and instead got angry that she stopped by and called her a stalker. She felt ridiculous. Keira decided to end the relationship after asking for an explanation about some flirty comments left by a woman she didn't know on his Instagram. Bobby would only say she was a friend and Keira decided that she deserved more than a man who was still interested in other women. She didn't need or want a ring but she needed commitment.
By Sasha Austin2 years ago in Fiction
Not Safe
Dammit. She was already running late and it would definitely be dark when she heads out to her car now. It took over four minutes to reset her password before she could clock out on the ancient computer in the back room of Pins and Plays. The only bowling alley in town so it was packed wall to wall on the weekends but dead on the weekdays until it was time for the league players. Tashi rushed out the door, across the parking lot, glancing around, no sign of the truck tonight. Thank God! She reached her beat-up, old-ass, blue Ford Focus as quickly as humanly possible and got inside as her cell started to vibrate. Her heart sank. Her stomach clenched. She didn't want to look at it. She mentally prepared herself and looked at the phone but it was Carmen. Her best friend since childhood and no threat at all. Tashi relaxed and they gossiped as usual, about the boys at school, and the plans for the summer, the ten-minute drive home passed by pretty quickly. Carmen was filling Tashi in on the plans her parents had to rent a beach house down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina when the text came through on Tashi's phone.
By Sasha Austin2 years ago in Fiction