Zoey Guthrie had woken up feeling queasy. Her stomach was churning, and she had at times had to fight to not throw up. Normally, she would have written this off as a simple flu or maybe COVID-19, except she was pretty sure Selena had told her werehyenas can't catch human diseases. "Ohemgee!" the TikToker shrieked to herself. "Do I have some weird supernatural disease?!"
Then another, much more pleasant possibility occurred to Zoey. She'd been trying to get pregnant, and now she was waking up nauseous. Had she done it? Was she... pregnant?
Zoey rushed to the bathroom to test. She knew it was probably stupid to take a pregnancy test after she'd only been trying for less than a week. She hadn't even had a chance to see if she'd missed her period yet, for Pete's sake! On the other hand, werehyena pregnancies could work differently than human ones. Maybe they had a shorter... what did her Biology teacher call it? Gestation period? That was it! Well, she'd soon find out.
Once she was in the bathroom, Zoey pulled down her pajama pants and peed into a cup. She took out the pregnancy test stick and dipped it into her urine. She waited for a minute, on pins and needles. Her lips curled into a joyous smile as a plus symbol appeared on the stick. She was pregnant!
Zoey's head swam with happy thoughts as she got dressed for school. She was going to me a mom and Ashlee was going to be a sire! She couldn't wait to tell her mate when she got to school. Zoey figured she'd wait to tell her parents until she got home from school. She still wasn't sure whether to make up some story about an orgy with the football team or just come clean to her mom and dad about Ashlee and werehyenas. They'd support her either way, but she didn't want to overwhelm them with too many surprises. But the most important thing was little Bailey herself, growing in Zoey's belly. She was finally on her way!