Valerie Carmen's voice reached me through the haze of tiredness. "She just needs rest," she said.But Dad was worried. "I think we should still call the doctor, Carmen. I mean, anything could be wrong. She's pregnant. I just want her to be okay."Carmen reassured him. "Bryan, I've already talked to a friend of mine who's a gynaecologist. She says Val needs to rest for now and eat healthy. She's booked an appointment for Val tomorrow, but until then, she needs rest. Her fainting is due to stress, and there could be various reasons for a pregnant woman to faint, so don't worry about that. I'll take her myself and be there for her."Dad let out a frustrated sigh. "Okay. Did you tell her about Val consuming champagne?""I did. She said to make Val drink a lot of water so the alcohol leaves her body soon enough. For now, she needs rest. Don't worry, I have everything under control.""Why is Aiden still here, Carmen? Why did you stop me from throwing him outside the house? He doesn't deser
Valerie My eyes fluttered open, finally i was able to see. I had almost felt lost in my ownself. I satred at the ceiling without moving at all. it took more than a minute before all things came crashing down to my mind. I looked around and my father was the first person on whom my eyes fell upon. As I lay there, my father's worried expression softened, and a sense of relief washed over me. "You scared me, Val," he said, his concern evident in his voice. "Shay told us you are pregnant, and it scared me for you. I mean, you were drinking, Val. You shouldn't be so irresponsible about your health. You have a little one to care for, and I need my grandchild healthy and cute."His words pierced through me, a mix of admonishment and genuine care. But before I could respond, Carmen interjected, her tone tinged with amusement and exasperation. "God, she just found out about her pregnancy today, Bryan. Give her a rest," she scolded lightly, causing my dad to chuckle in response."You are going
Valerie I looked at my father and at Carmen. Deep thoughts drowned me. "Send him in," I breathed out, the weight of the impending conversation settling heavily on my shoulders."Are you sure, Val?" Dad's voice was laced with concern, and I nodded weakly in response. "Do you want me to stay?"I managed a smile, grateful for his concern but also wanting a moment of privacy with Aiden. "It's alright, dad. I can handle him," I assured him, squeezing his hand gently."Come on, Bryan. Let's get out of here. We need to cook something healthy to feed her and her baby," Carmen interjected, her voice filled with warmth and determination. I watched as she pulled my dad away, their easy banter bringing a small smile to my lips. There was definitely something going on between them, something beautiful and full of promise. And as they left the room, I felt a sense of peace wash over me, a momentary respite before the storm that was about to come.Closing my eyes, I leaned back against the headboa
Valerie“I can’t, Aiden. I just can’t,” the words slipped out of my trembling lips, each word heavy with the weight of uncertainty and fear. “Think about me, think about how hard it is for me. How could I come out of something like this? I don’t want to be made a fool once again," Si sighed."I don’t know if you’ll be looking at me or Laura. God, Aiden, I’m scared that you might even pretend that our child is yours and Laura’s.” The doubt would always be there in the back of my mind. The room felt suffocating, the air was filled with unspoken pain. I waited for Aiden's reply but what I got was a broken sob, a sound that tore through the silence like a blade. It hurt that I was hurting me but he hadn;t cared to bits when he had hurt me. “Please stop, stop," he cried out. "I can’t. I can’t ever do this to you and our child, Val. Please don’t degrade my love for this child and you anymore. I know I’ve built these insecurities in you, made you like this, but please don’t say such things
Valerie I was on the fucking verge of blasting in anger. I knew it wasn't as hell good for my child and me, but I couldn't stop myself from getting annoyed. Really, I wanted to find a bat and beat the shit out of him. He just had to ruin my day and dump a heap of troubles over my head and shoulder. I felt my ears grow hot from the raging anger inside of me. He couldn't have just stopped himself from butting in my life.I gave him everything I could, and that fucker paid me back like this. "Fuck you, Aiden" I yelled in the close bathroom space. I was so happy last week. Things were going well for me that I had at times felt like that I had landed in heaven. I had everything I could have wanted. For once in my fucking life life was going on great. Dad was there, my best friend, Shay was, I was pregnant, Aiden and i were getting on the right foot. Everything was going on really smooth. I had gone out with Carmen, to the doctor she had set the appointment up with for me. I loved the
Valerie "Val, listen to me for a moment with an open mind. It is just for your betterment and your future." His voice gentle and calm. How the hell could he so calm while I was burning holes into him?"Hell, with it Aiden. How dare you try to control my life? How the hell did you think that I would be ready to do something like this? Who the hell allowed you to play god with my life?" My voice was rising with every word, enough to grab everyone's attention over us in the cafe.When I had come to the cafe on his begging, I thought it was to talk about our child or at most us but the blow I got left we aghast. He had called Travis to meet me at the cafe, and I didn't know shit about him. Laura's asshole, cunt face father couldn't fucking keep a secret and had spilled the truth. If I ever saw I would let bad beat him blue and black and even let use her baseball bat on him. He was a fucking cunt."I'm not trying to do anything like that Val. He is your biological father, and I look up to
Valerie "He is my father Aiden and don't you dare do a fucking thing against him. He is far better than Travis. You wouldn't know what it would have felt to be betrayed by the woman you loved the most. He had a lot of shit to handle, and he isn't proud to act the way he did. But now we are here. He accepts me as his daughter even though I am not his flesh and blood. He treats me as any father would do.Travis was my biological father, and he could have manned up and owned up to his responsibility, but he didn't, and he ran away. I wouldn't have ever come to know of his existence if it weren’t for Laura's father and neither would he have. Did he ever try to look for me? No. He never tried and who the hell are you to play as his messenger? Your own life is dangling, and you are fucking pissing me off. I don't think that we can even work out Aiden!" I had tried my best to control my voice, but it was of no use. I could feel strange eyes over us. I was fucking mad at him, and I wanted to
Valerie "So Aiden isn't coming today?" Shay asked sitting beside me. I had been like hell mad at Aiden and who wouldn't be. He was mingling in my personal business. It had become a daily routine for Aiden to drop by at my house every evening before he went to his. He didn't want to miss any part of our child growing, even if it was in my tummy but after what happened today had I had to cut him off. I swear, if I saw him, I would say things that I would definitely regret. I didn't have control over my emotions nowadays. I was a mess emotionally. Well, that is what pregnancy would do to me. I would feel hundred times more emotional than I normally did. The doctor had told me with sweet words, Welcome to pregnancy! Note the sarcasm. "Did you not listen to me, Shay? I told him to stay away from me, and you are still asking me that dumb questions." See, this is what pregnancy is doing to me. With a frown on her face, she looked at me without blinking. "I'm sorry, it's just the-." "Hor
Valerie "I feel like a whale," I told to Shay, who sat at the end of the sofa while I laid on the couch with the remote for the tv. I was going to be around nine months pregnant in a week and this little buddy was going to come out soon. A lot has changed in last six months. I was no longer living in my apartment. Bryan had bought a new house which was closer to Travis and Aiden's house.The nursery was ready with hues of yellow and blue. Aiden and I had grown close but there had been nothing more than kisses and holding each other. The new house had many rooms and one of them was Aiden’s but he usually slept with me. He didn't go to his apartment often and just stayed here with me. He didn't want to miss any part of the baby and me being pregnant. He had warmed up to my heart, but hadn't been able to get that place back in my heart. His relationship with his mother was still rocky but they were at least talking. Whereas Laura and Aiden had drifted worlds apart.Laura had a breakdown
ValerieGod, this had to happen with me only. I groaned internally. this was right embarrassing. I felt Aiden sleeping on my legs with his hand feeling heavy on my belly. Besides it, I realize one more thing which was that I was going to puke. I felt it was coming, I knew it was and before I know I quickly pushing Aiden away and rushing to the bathroom kissing the porcelain seat. I puked and puked then brushed my teeth, gargled with mouthwash to get rid of that vile taste of bile. Being pregnant was not an easy task. "You have been caught red handed Aiden." It was Shay who was talking when I reached back to the living room. Aiden was on the floor rubbing his head. In my run to the bathroom, I might have pushed him a little too hard. Carmen stared at him while Shay busy staring at his share of uneaten food and smoothie. "I think we should have clicked the picture of the two together first," Carmen spoke without caring about the food. "Carmen she was eating mozzarella sticks and d
Aiden held my face and kissed me. I was stunned. I should have pulled back but I couldn't. I just couldn't. I was responding to his kiss, tasting our tears in it. Our kiss was passionate, our lips hungry for each other. It was a kiss filled with love and passion but yet soft. I could feel every part of my body needing his touch. It was wrong and yet it felt so right to do it. I was being lifted and pushed on my back. Our kiss never breaking. His torso in between my legs and my legs wrapped around him. His face in my hand and he took control over our kiss. Our tongues danced in sync. I was breathing heavily, I was feeling a need and then suddenly out of nowhere Laura popped up in my mind and the moment was lost from my side. My body stilled. My lips no longer responding to his and we break apart from our kiss. His eyes looked into mine searching for what stopped me. "What happened Val?" He asked concerned and worried. I closed my eyes and touch my lips. I knew that kiss we just had wa
Valerie "You... you what?" I finally managed to choke out."I didn’t know what else to do," he said, tears streaming down his face. "She was crying, Val. She was so upset, and I just wanted to make it better. I thought if I agreed, she’d be happy, and things would calm down. But I didn’t mean it. I don’t want to marry Laura. I don’t want to be with anyone but you."His words swirled around in my mind, but I couldn’t make sense of them. He had agreed to marry Laura? How could he do that to me, to us? I felt a surge of anger and betrayal."You agreed to marry her?" I repeated, my voice shaking. "How could you, Aiden? How could you do that to us?""I didn’t mean it," he pleaded. "I was just trying to calm her down. I don’t want to marry Laura. I love you, Val. You and our baby are everything to me.""But you said yes," I said, my voice rising. "You told her you’d marry Laura. Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? Do you even care about what I want, what I need?""Of course, I car
I waited for Aiden to speak something. I wasn;t a patient being but with him I was trying to be. I could see he was fighitng a battle on the inside buit I couldn;t do anytging until he spoke himself. "Mom dropped by the office today," he began. "She demanded to know when I was marrying you," that was literally nothing new. Why ouldn;t the woman get the hint that it wasn;t happening. "I told her it was none of her business, and she went ballistic, telling me that wasn’t the way I should speak to her." I still hated that woman. Travis had made sure she left me alone, even cutting ties with her. Aiden had tried to do the same, but she was his mother, and it was hard for him. I didn’t want him to cut her off for my sake anyway. He had a mother, and although she was mean and self-centered, no son should be separated from his mother. I wouldn;t want my child to be serpated from me like that. "Then she said that if we weren’t getting married, I should marry Laura." I was stunned. I looked
ValerieAs the doorbell rang happiness surged inside of me. At last, my angel came.Opening the door wide my whole concentration was on the packets in his hand rather than on him. Taking the packets for him I just went inside straight to the kitchen without a hello or anything.I just wanted to devour what was inside that packet before Carmen or Shay caught me. Carmen would literally fry me if she knew that I was busy eating fried mozzarella sticks that too with a vanilla chocolate smoothie. I heard the door close and him coming to the kitchen.This had become our norm, I would rush to the kitchen with the food and set each of us with a plate, mine always had a little a more than his. Whatever I ate, he had to eat that too, it was a part in a way for him to become the part of my pregnancy. I hadn;t lied to him when I had said that he would be a part of this preganncy in every step. As I looked up to see where he was I found his near the kitchen door. He stood there smiling at me wi
Valerie Two months later..................."Why," I questioned. "Why now," I was almost near to pnaick. "Why?" My father asked. "What do you mean by why. We are just going to meet each other and Bryan called me here to meet with him, Valerie. I think we should have talked to each other months back." Dad said while standing at the entrance of the house and by dad I meant Travis. I called them both dad but this was going to be first freaking time they were going be together face to face. I won't lie this whole dad one and dad two concept was so confusing for me. I have already told them if they ever were in the same room I will call them by their name rather than Dad. I haven't let them meet each other until now. If you remember when Bryan met Laura's father he beat the shit out of him. I don't want a recap of that with Travis. Gosh I still cringed thinking how beat up Laura's father was after Bryan's beating. "I'm having a bad feeling about this." I really was not going to tend t
Valerie "I.. never knew." a tremble in his voice made me believe that he really had no idea that what had happened."When my father came to know that I wasn't his he decided to hurt my mother by having affairs and dangling them in front of her," I paused taking in deep breaths. "My mother loved my father a lot but she understood what she had done," I continued even though all the memories were painful."She knew that she had hurt him too much, betrayed him. So she decided not to fight with Dad, she fought with the pain she suffered but she didn't give up easily. For four years she lived on knowing how her husband was cheating and hurting her. She lived for me until the day it became too much to handle." A tear escaped my eyes as I remembered finding her dead. The memory was ingrained in my brain for the rest of my life. Looking up to Travis I saw his eyes turned away from mine. He couldn't even look at me anymore.If only he had been brave enough to do the test last time this wouldn'
ValerieI waited for him in the cafe near my office, and let me tell you it was torture. The smell of coffee was in the air and it was hard to not have it. So I did the right thing and ordered one latte for me. I googled and even my doctor said a cup a day won't do any harm but under the watchful eye of Carmen, Shay, and dad I couldn't even have a whiff of coffee. One little sip of it was heaven for me. It had been six days since the thought of meeting him has been taking over my mind. The last I had seen him was a week before.Last night I had asked Aiden for his number when he came home with me. Aiden did really give me space and time. He called before even thinking of coming and he apologized times and again because of his mother showing up here. I really didn't say much about what happened between me and his mother. The only words that slipped my lips was that I didn't like her and he had promised that she won't disturb me anymore. I had called Travis and asked him to meet me at t