The world blurred into red and white as I screamed for help, clutching my stomach, panic rising like bile in my throat. Pain radiated through me, sharper than anything I'd felt before, and terror gnawed at my chest. I couldn't lose this baby. Not like this. Not with those two snakes—Lacie and my pathetic excuse for a roommate—waiting to watch me fall apart.

"Somebody, please!" I screamed, my voice cracking as I slid to the cold floor. Faces blurred above me—girls from the team, ...