Heather looking our way.
“Yep!” she said as she popped her P and batted her fake lashes at me.
“Just know this Evan, you will never find anyone that will love you the way I do.” She said as she walked away.
I walked back in and see Lila and Nikki dancing. I took a swig of my beer and told Zander to change the music, I grabbed Lila’s waist and pulled her close to me just as “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts came on. I pulled her closer to me and whispered in her ear. Then I started singing the lyrics of the song. I could feel my arousal through my pants. Fuck, I have had more erections around Lila than I have ever had. I backed up a little, I knew she could tell what was going on.
She just kept her distance as she laid her head on my chest. I pulled her back in and imagined kissing her, and holding her in my arms all night. God I would have loved to know what she would feel like inside and out. The music stops and I realize I was still holding her. I pull away and smile and ask her if she wants to get a drink.
“Evan, I think I should go. I have had a few drinks and my stomach feels a little upset. I have had a really great day, thank you for everything.” Lila says as she walks off to tell Nikki she is leaving. I took her home and she seemed kind of quite all the way there, I hoped it wasn’t the dance that upset her.
I walked her to her door, and asked if I could see her tomorrow after class. She agreed and I leaned in for a hug, and I kissed her nose. Yeah real nice dude, I thought. I just needed to put my lips on her body at this point I wouldn’t care if it was her fucking toes.
“Evan, I really enjoy spending time with you. I can’t wait till tomorrow,” she said as she gave me another quick hug.
“Goodnight, darlin’, sleep tight.” I said as I walked off the porch. I got in the car and laid my head on my steering wheel. What the fuck is going on with us, I think she likes me? But I still think there is so much she isn’t telling me. I sat there for a few minutes thinking about everything. My mind is so fucked up right now. This girl is driving me crazy. I want her so bad I can’t fucking stand it.
I went back to the loft, Brody and Nikki was in his room. Zander had some girl on the couch. I had never seen her before. I went to my room, I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling for what seemed like hours. Then I started thinking about the last month that I spent with Bryn, how I was looking forward to being a father.
“Evan, I need you to sit down. What I’m about to tell you may shock the crap out of you. I know it did me anyways. I have thought about this for weeks, I know I should have told you when I first found out but, I was scared and I’m still scared. I…I’m um… Evan, I’m eight weeks pregnant. I don’t know what to do. I haven’t told anyone yet, well except for Kay. But I don’t know how to tell my parents. Evan say something.”
“Bryn, I’m in shock. We were careful, the condom must have broken or something. Baby, I love you and I will always take care of you and our child. We are in this together. I will go with you to tell your parents. I know my parents will help us, or my grandparents. They won’t let us or our child go without.”
“Evan that’s just it, my parents are going to freak! They will make me get rid of it. I know them, you know that Duwayne is my nephew not my brother. They hid my sister until she had him, so no one would know she was pregnant, and not my mother’s. This will ruin their reputations. I can’t tell them Evan.”
“Bryn we will get through this I promise, baby. I will never let them hurt our family.”
Just thinking about it all, made me hate her parents more and more. We waited for a week then, we told them. They were both disgusted and of course wanted no part of us being a family. Her mother’s exact words was, “ No child of mine is having a baby at the age of seventeen, even if I have to give you the
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