nobody got pregnant with the school's
golden boy and he was STAYING with me through it all. Damn, now
there's the cliché.
I shake my head and look back up to the
man now standing in front of me. I can't help but think of what my
mom said about my so called "Dad". I still remember.
"He left us. He impregnated
me with Madella then he left. He didn't even care for us. I guess
he didn't really leave, I kicked him out. But don't worry, it was
for a good reason. He did cheat after all."
I was afraid that's what Rane would do.
He had me pregnant, made me believe he loved me, and then he would
cheat on me with somebody better than me. I can't really blame him.
I definitely wasn't anyone special. That this would be just a game
to him and I was the target, he would be the cat and I would be the
mouse, unknowingly falling into his death trap.
I look into his sincere eyes and I
can't take it. I can't take the concern, the sincerity, and the
love that are portrayed in his eyes. They speak for themselves and
even if the say what he tells me is true, I run.
I run from the care he gives. I ignore
when he calls my name and just keep going.
I run straight home. My mom is sitting
on the couch when I do and I decide to just tell her now. I might
as well.
I sit on the chair opposite her's and
say, "I'm pregnant."
A slow sadistic smile spreads across
her face. My face goes into confusion. Why is she
smiling?
She laughs, it's high and cold. "Good.
It doesn't matter to me."
"Why?" It hurts that she doesn't
care.
"Why, dear," her face is
cold and hard as she leans closer to me. The brown in her eyes, I
notice, is darker than mine. "You are not my child."
Chapter 10
I sat, stunned, at my mother's
confession. A smug smile was on her face.
"Now I don't have to
pretend! I have waited so long for this!" she sighs after saying it. My chest
hurts painfully and she laughs. She is just so happy about it all. That's what hurts
the most. All these years and she never really liked me. I have so
many questions now.
"I told you he cheated on me. That's
how you came to be." she adds with a flip of her blond hair that I
had thought I had inherited from her. I was so wrong. She was only
Shane's and Madella's mom, nothing to me. She was a stranger, a
stranger in my own home.
"But... How? I mean, what happened?
Whose are father? Why did he cheat? Why-" she laughs and I am cut
off by the way it rings in my ears. It's cold and vile, holding
absolutely no warmth.
"Get your answers from your father."
she stands and starts to walk away
"I don't even know who he
is! Where is he? Who is h-" she cuts off my endless questioning once
again.
"He's closer than you think, and you,
my dear, will see him soon." with that said, she walks off, up the
steps and into her room. I hear her laugh just as she closes the
door. I still sit in my chair, not having the strength to get up
and do something. I don't even know what I would do.
My phone rings in my pocket and I jump.
I take it out of my pocket and answer in a daze.
"Hello?"
"Hi. It's... Rane." I hear
the masculine voice say in the phone. Damn,
even his voice sends shivers to me over the phone. I finally realize that I was talking on the phone
with... Rane. How the hell did he get my
number?
"Oh. Ummm.... How did you get my
number?" I probably sound like a choking cat.
"I-I.... uhhhh.. Well I was-
like- um- Layla." It's cute that he was stuttering. Oh. Layla. I should have known. I nod but then see how stupid that is because he
can't see me.
"Oh. Okay, yeah." Wow, Elaina, great reply. I shake my head and try to get a hold of myself. Soon I'd be
stuttering like Rane was. "Soooo..." I didn't know what to
say.
"Sooooo..." he says the same thing as
me and I laugh.
"You called?" I remind the poor guy, he
seemed as lost as I was for words.
"Oh. That's right, I did." I giggle.
"Well... I was wondering- it's stupid- but maybe, sometime, we
could... you know... go out?"
My heart stops. Did the incredibly
handsome,