Baby Steps - Chapter 3 is up!!
Devomuffins:
Can't wait to read more! This looks cool.
qtpie3552:
Thanks everyone! Chapter 2 will up this week.
qtpie3552:
Chapter 2 - Interference
So far, although my life is complicated, I am doing pretty well. I am adjusting to my new school, and tolerating the people there. I even have a kind of sort of friend. Her name is Gabby and she is like me. Alone. We have a couple of classes together and we hit it off pretty well. Besides her, I don't talk to anyone at school. I just get up, go to school, do the work, and come home. It's a pretty simple way to live. I'm focusing really hard on my school work because I want to go to college so that I can support my baby well. Although college seems very hard. All the long lectures and gigantic textbooks. It's definitely going to be a challenge. But luckily I have all my family on my side.
One particularly boring night, my little sister came in to talk to me. She seemed worried. She had that "I am stressed out but I'm not going to say anything" look about her.
"Hey Ciera, what's up?" I say cheerfully, in hopes to get her spirits up.
"Nothing." She says, though she is playing with her hands nervously.
"Something must be up, you seem worried. What's going on?"
"Well, it's just that I have been thinking lately."
"About?"
"Well. Your going to have a baby."
"Ummm yes, I am pretty sure we have established that......"
"Yeah I know," She says with a little smile, "I was just thinking about how this is all going to work out."
"What do you mean? I told you I wasn't going to drop out of school or anything. Everything will still be the same around here."
"Umm yeah I guess. But I was just thinking. Is there even room for another person here?? Its a three bedroom trailer that is already full up. And who is gonna stay home with the kid? You have to go to school. And Vanessa and James have jobs. And the rest of us are in school too."
"Ill just take the baby to the school day care. It's really nothing to worry about, you know."
"Isela....did you ever think that maybe Vanessa doesn't want another baby in the house?" That made me think. I guess I had never really thought about how this would effect anyone else in the family. After all, it is a privilage for my sister to let us live in her house. She could have sent us to foster care. But she didn't. And then I go and screw things up. But still, why wouldn't she want another baby in the house? I mean, she just had a baby like two years ago. So what's one more. Besides, isn't that kind of selfish on her part? At this point in time I didn't even want to think about it anymore. Now that this was thrown out into the open, I knew it was going to bug me for a long time.
"Did she say something about it?" I asked.
"I don't know. I heard her talking to Juanita about how stressed she was with all the people in the house."
"Oh," I said as I felt my slight smile fade away, "Well lets just not worry about it now." I hugged her and then climbed into bed, forcing myself to think about something happy and not to think about how my life might be uprooted once more.
During the following weeks I willed myself to focus on baby preparations and school. One day I went to the library and checked out parenting books. The lady at the desk gave me a funny look when I put them on the counter to be checked out, but I ignored it. There is so many things you have to do with a baby. Check the formula temperature, support their head, make sure they don't have heavy blankets in their crib at night. The list goes on and on. At first I was feeling a little overwhelmed by it all, but as I kept reading I started daydreaming about all the good stuff. Little clothes and shoes to dress them in. And playing at the park. Maybe I'll even get one of those baby strollers and take them on a walk once in awhile. By the time I got to the end of the first book, I felt like nothing was going to screw up my life. It was all good. Little did I know what was ahead.
A few hours later the doorbell rang. I skipped happily to the door, expecting it to be the mailman or Mrs. Crumplebottom from next door. Now normally I would have dreaded Mrs. Crumplebottom. She is evil in human form, with that scary handbag of hers. But today I didn't care about the evil handbag lady. I was having a great day and nobody would ruin it. That is until I opened the door to find Dirk leaning against the railing. My first thought was shock. What was he doing here anyways? He said he wanted nothing to do with us.
"What do you want?" I hissed at him.
"Hey now, don't be getting an attitude." He said with a wink.
"I will if I want."
"Well fine then, Ill just take that as a compliment. Cause I know you love me." He smiled his fake smile and attempted to brush his hand across my cheek. I pushed it down immediately. Maybe he left something here, I thought, he just wants it back. Yeah that's it.
"Did you leave something here? Cause I'll get it and then you can go away."
"As a matter of fact I think you do have something of mine that I want. My baby." This took me by total surprise. At first I didn't know what to say. It caught me off guard and I must have stood there for a good ten seconds in silence. But then, once my senses came back, I let loose.
"What the freak are you talking about!?" I demanded.
"I want rights to my baby! No, I want the baby!" He yelled back at me.
"You said you wanted nothing to do with us, you can't just come in here and demand your kid!" Then a thought hit my mind. "This is your father's doing isn't it?!" Dirk's father was not a nice man. He was a con artist and made money off of anything he could think to make money on. Why he hasn't been shipped off to jail, I don't know.
"Maybe. We just want the kid, and believe me we will get it." His voice suddenly turned ice cold, almost in a creepy way.
"You will not! You will stay away from me, do you understand!?" I screamed at him.
"Oh yes, we will stay away for now. But I'll be back." He turned and walked down the stairway. I stared after him, I couldn't believe what just happened.
"Oh yeah," He said turning around, "Don't forget to send us updates on doctors appointments. I just can't wait to hear the gender so I can get the nursery all ready." He laughed and walked through the gate and down the street. I stood on the porch feeling totally and completely helpless. I didn't know what I was going to do. But I knew that I couldn't let his nasty family have my precious baby. No matter what it took.
Later that night, as we ate the burned spaghetti that Vanessa had made for dinner, I decided that I should consult her on what to do about this whole situation. I calmly explained what had happened, and she listened well like she always does. After I was done, she stared at the ceiling for awhile, thinking of what to say.
"Isela, darling, I know this is going to sound horrible but have you ever considered that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to share custody with Dirk?" She said finally. This made me mad.
"What!? Do you even know him? He is so mean! He is only doing this because his father probably found some way to make money off of it." I protested. Nessa sighed as she wiped sauce of of Anhelica's face.
"Don't be silly. Obviously he can't be that bad since you dated him in the first place. Besides, you can't do it on your own."
"I'm not! You guys will be here to help me." She didn't say anything at first, and Ciera shot me and I told you so glance from across the table.
"Isela, of course we will be here for you, but I can't stop my life just to help yours. And there isn't even any room here. The baby would have to sleep with you and Ciera, since there is no room in my girls' room. Maybe it would be better for the baby at Dirk's. I know they have money and I'm sure they can provide a lot more stuff........." I let myself stop hearing her words. I couldn't believe she had said that. I never want Dirk to have the baby, ever. And she doesn't even care! I sat at the table and stared at my plate for a long time. I finally decided that I had to take measures into my own hands, I made this mess and I have to clean it up.
Devomuffins:
Oh no! Kill dirk please! >:D
lonleyma1000:
very nice cant wait to find out what happends
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