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2024-10-29 19:42:56Hi. My name is Anne Jones and this is the story of my life. The story doesn't begin at my birth or one or other special birthday or something like that but way way back, back to where my biological parents met, the troubles and roadblocks in their way that influenced my life from the start of my breath and subsequently my life journey as consequence to my biological mothers decision.
Well let's get started.Elizabeth's P.O.V (Anne's Biological mother)I met the love of my life. We have been together for 6 months and it is just amazing. He is just amazing. We fell in love and I fall more in love every time I see him. Life is just great... although my mum doesn't seem to agree with my point of view of Arnold. You see he is a little older than me. I am only sixteen and he is already twenty two. My mum feels that he is only in my life for one thing and she believes that once he has gotten what he is after he will be dropping me like a hot potato and scurrying off to go and enjoy the rest of his life, leaving me alone if there would be problematic consequences. I don't believe he is like this but my mum told me that I am just naive and that I should get rid of him. I don't want to but no amount of talking to my mom and explaining that he isn't like that is helping so I just dropped it all together. Fighting over the same thing each and every time was starting to grow old. Iget that she just wants to protect me but it's not needed from Arnold.I still remember the day we met as if it happened yesterday. It was love at first sight.FlashbackI walked into the coffee shop to order my favourite cappuccino flavour of the month, No judging.. they bring out so many new great flavours that it's hard to keep just one favourite. There were no open tables left to sit at but there were a few open chairs where Icould share a table with some other people. I looked around to find the perfect and the most non-creepy place. That's when my eyes landed on Arnold sitting at a two seater table typing away on his laptop. Having decided at the time that this is where I would like to sit. I went over there and asked if he would mind.When he looked up it was love at first sight. Work and homework forgotten we talked for hours until the shop owners chased us out as they wanted to close the shop. Arnold dropped me off at home after we exchanged cell phone numbers and promised that we would soon meet again.End of FlashbackAnd meet again we did...One afternoon we made plans to meet at our favourite coffee shop and later on went to his house. As we arrived at his house he opened the car door for me like always and we both went into the house. I went to sit on the couch as we were going to have a movie night and he went to the kitchen to make us something hot to drink. He came and joined me on the couch with the steaming cups ofcoffee and some snacks. A little while into the movie we started making out and that ended bad.I woke up the next morning still at his house, in his bed and I was naked. Panicking I got up and started getting my clothes and getting dressed. I really needed to get back home before mum notices my absence. I started remembering what happened last night and this only made me rush more to get dressed and out of here before Arnold wakes up.A little while laterAs I got home I thankfully saw that mum's car wasn't in the driveway. Remembering that she said something about visiting a faraway relative or aunt or something. At least she wasn't with her slimy boyfriend again.I rushed inside and stripped out of all my clothes taking the longest shower of my life. Trying to wash everything that happened last night from my memory and from existence. After what felt like hours I got out and dressed in my fluffy pink pajamas and got into bed trying to get some sleep.BUT...He just keeps on calling me. I'm not ready to talk to him at the moment. I'm sixteen for goodness sake. I'm not... I'm... I'm not supposed to be losing my virginity and having sex. Stopping the tears wasn't going to happen so I just let them fall.Over the next few weeks the calls got less and less until they completely stopped. We still messaged every now and then but I wasn't comfortable with going anywhere with him at the moment. He must have gotten busy with work as I had gotten busy with school as the messages seemed to stop all together. I still loved him, that can't be taken away it's just that I was feeling so guilty about what happened between us. Mum of course had questions when I started staying home more and not going out as frequently as I had before. Luckily that was easily dismissible with lame excuses because she would most probably not be looking into it as that would be wasting precious time she could be spending with her flavour of the month.I went on with my life as much as could have been possible until my regular period never showed up. I'm never late as in never, not even a day. This could only mean one thing. This is exactly what I was trying to not happen to me. Especially not at the age Icurrently am. I didn't want to be the stupid girl who had sex and got pregnant at sixteen.But it looks like fate had other ideas for me.Related chapters
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Working up the courage to even go to the pharmacy to buy one of those pregnancy tests was hard. What is there was someone that knew me or mum in the shop? They would tell her and then I would have to please and explain what I was doing buying a pregnancy test for when she is under the impression that I haven't even lost my virginity. Not like I would be trying to talk to her about anything that happens in my life anymore as she had told me the last time that I was basically just a burden in her life at the moment and that she would be kicking me out of the house as soon as she lawfully and possibly could. She is more interested in spending time with her current flavour of the month and only asks me questions she deems necessary to establish to her standards that I am not messing around and doing some things that would have her fork out anymore money that the absolutely necessary. Finally decided that buying the test would ease my worries even if only for a little bit. I went to the
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Arnold's P.O.V (Anne's Biological Father) Waiting for Elizabeth at the coffee shop felt like the longest time of my life. I was so stressed and worried that I arrived an hour before we were supposed to meet, thinking that the time would pass quicker if I was already at the coffee shop. That isn't what happened. Finally I saw her coming through the door and looking around to spot me. I give her a quick wave and then see her going to the counter to order her drink. I wonder if her favorite drink is still the same as what it was two months ago. I used to love to tease her about having a new flavor each and every time they released any new flavors and she would blush and mumble that there really wasn't a way to choose between some of them. Those were the good old days. The days I have gone to miss extremely since she began ignoring me. I would come to the coffee shop hoping to catch a glimpse of her sitting at one of the tables with her drink doing her homework or just reading a book.
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Two months laterElizabeth's P.O.V As he had promised he had gone with me to the doctor's office. After all the tests were done the doctor informed us that I was indeed pregnant. Arnold asked so many questions it made me blush and try to hide in shame. He even went so far as to have an extra copy of the first ultrasound printed out for him to put in his wallet to keep it with him always. I tried to remind him that there would be more ultrasound pictures to come but he said that this one is special as it was the first time he was seeing our baby.He even said our baby. He turned out to be so supportive and helped me without asking questions or looking back.At our next and second ultrasound, we were excited to get to know the gender of our baby. What we didn't expect was to find out that we would be having two babies. Turns out that our boy was hiding his little sister at the previous scan. They were both in perfect health and condition. Once again Arnold had an extra ultrasound pictu
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Seven years laterJuliet's P.O.V (Anne's Adoptive mother) Anyone ever feel that time just goes past way too fast? I feel this way today. It is hard to believe that it has been seven years that I have been a mother to dear Anne. It really does feel like only yesterday that we were blessed to adopt our beautiful baby girl but in fact today is her first school day. Me and Donald love her so much and we would do anything and everything for her. Only the best is good enough for her. Even with saying this we will be making sure that she grows up a kind hearted soul and not a spoiled brat. We took a while to decide in which school we would be enrolling Anne and we finally after visiting them all decided on a small private school near our home. Anne looked most happy there and the teachers are competent in doing their jobs.Donald made sure that he would be able to provide for his family. He started out as a bell boy at the local hotel and worked himself up from there until he owned it. He
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Donald's P.O.V We went up to go and tuck Anne in as we had promised her before she went up. I first had to get the tears out of me and wash their trace from my face. I didn't want Anne thinking that she had made me sad when in fact they were happy tears. We were walking down the hallway when we heard this beautiful voice sing the one song that I would call special. It was the song that Juliet and I danced to when we got married first and it was also the song that Anne has loved to be sung to her when she was restless in the evenings. Mind you we weren't singers and it was off key but at least we got the correct words in and she seems to have learned and memorised them. I turned and looked at Juliet. She had tears in her eyes and she was smiling so bright. We started quitely walking to her bedroom where we stood just outside the door as quietly as we could while she was singing the last part of the song. She even added some of her own dance moves in. I doubt she knew we were stan
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