Matt's a father
a new twist on how Matt's life would be
Prologue
Matt's 17th Birthday April 23rd 1997
He had gotten up knowing he would spend the day with Lisa. She was the love of his life. She may have been a year older than him but it didn't matter He just knew she was his soul mate. He opened his top draw and pulled out the ring he had saved every penny he earned since Christmas including all his Christmas money. He was going to ask her to marry him. His parents only met her a few times even though he had been seeing her for well over a year. He was still afraid to let his parents know how serious they were. Lisa was picking him up at 9 am and they were going to be together his entire Birthday His family did the family get together the night before because he had asked if he could be with his girlfriend today. he waited patiently, He had hoped she was feeling better. The beginning of the week she has strep throat but was put on medication, some very strong antibiotics. He had called her last night she said that she was OK by now even though she was still on the meds.
He went downstairs when he saw her pull up. Lisa arrived a little before 9 am. She was in a different car he had never seen it before Well except it looked like the picture of car he had on his wall, He went out to meet her, it was the same car on his wall the Mustang convertible.
"Nice car he said"
"Do you want to drive?" She asked
"Yeah this is sweet when did you get this"
Lisa slid over and he hopped in the driver seat. " I looked forever for this car for a while I finally got it 2 days ago, it has only 800 original miles everything is factory installed but brand practically brand new because the person I got it from only used it as a show piece Only thing brand new is the sound system."
" Wow this car is incredible" Matt said
"I am glad you like the car because it is yours Happy Birthday Mattie" she leaned in and kissed him
"Mine this is mine how can you ... I mean..."
"Come on Mattie you know I have money and I love you. Oh and here is a gas card for $500 an the insurance is paid for a year. its all registered in your name."
He sat there in disbelief
"Oh I also have something else for you," she handed him a bank book, "for college Mattie, I know you want to be a doctor and college isn't cheap this is so you never have to worry about paying for it."
He opened the savings book, "there has to be a misprint." he said
She looked at the book " No it is the correct amount
"Lisa that's too much the car, and now this, four hundred thousand dollars."
"Mattie it's no big deal for me I told you I come from money. My grandfather left me a very SIZEABLE amount when he died and I want you to fulfill your dreams and I do not want lack of money to be an obstacle "
He sat there in shaking his head he was in shock. She took his face in her hands and kissed him again. Then they took off for breakfast. They spent the day on the Santa Monica Pier they grabbed an early dinner at 4pm, after they ate dinner
Matt asked "hey do you want ice cream?"
"Not a whole bowl but if you get some I will eat some of yours."
He got a banana split and shared it with her Actually she ate most of they were done they left the restaurant and then she looked at him kind of funny.
"You know Mattie you need a hair cut its way to long look there is a hair salon open over there will you cut it?"
"You want me to cut it"
Oh please it will look so good"
He did and it was much shorter than he had worn it as long as he could remember but he did it for her he would do anything for her
and then they went and rented a motel room he knew how he wanted to celebrate his birthday and she knew what he, what they wanted as well. He brought her in the room and kissed her slowly, then pulled the box out of his pocket and got down on one knee,
" I love you Lisa I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Will you marry me?"
"Yes oh yes" she answered
He slid the ring on her slender finger he lifted her up and placed her on the bed, Neither one of them had ever had sex before and they were nervous.
"I know we have been talking about being together, Lisa are you protected"
"Yes I am on the pill so don't worry."
He put the tape player on in the room and their song was the first song on the tape he wanted to make love to her while it was playing it was Celine Dion's If you asked me to, He knew it was Lisa's favorite song They slowly undressed each other and explored each others bodies. Then with a quick thrust he possessed her she only felt the pain for an instant then ecstasy he moved inside her until they both came to their release.
They wanted to spend the night together, but he was only 17 and still living under his parents roof, so reluctantly they left at 9 pm he dropped her home they agreed not to say anything about their engagement He walked her to the door kissed her again,
"I love you" Matt told her
"I love you too" She replied.
He drove home, his mom and dad were in the living room waiting up for him they heard a car pull up and Eric went to the door. He saw the car when Matt walked in "Whose car is that?"
"Mine, Lisa bought it for me for my birthday all insured and registered."
Annie heard the conversation and looked out the door "nice car but it is a little too expensive a gift,"
"She wouldn't take no for an answer look at it this way now I don't have to borrow your car anymore" Well we will talk about this tomorrow. Did you have a nice day, Great, we went to the Santa Monica pier and She also as you can see got me to cut my hair"
'It looks really nice Matt," his mother told him
Matt neglected to tell them about the engagement, and simply said I am kinda tired I am going to bed.
Over the next couple of months Lisa and Matt spent all their free time together they spent many more intimate moments She also started to get to know the Camdens. They eventually told them about the engagement. But because Matt was still only going to be a senor in High school and His parents were a little uncomfortable with her. and the fact she was just finishing her freshman year in college. She had Graduated high school when she was 17 She was in college and living on her own. However since Matt had seemed to be very responsible and seemed to have really grown up since starting to date her his grades had considerably improved this past year Which was most definitely due to her influence and now with the engagement, they accepted their relationship. Lisa and Matt tentatively set a wedding date for next June after he graduated. She let her family in New York know about the engagement as well One of her brothers, Ridge, who frequently came out to California to see her came out and spent some time with her and Matt
A Devastating reality
She woke up again not feeling well, it had been that way for the past week and her period was late, she bought a home pregnancy test she didn't think she could be pregnant because she was on the pill but she want to make herself feel better when it would come up negative. She took the test and waited 5 minutes it was positive she took a second test that too was positive She went to the OB/GYN and confirmed her pregnancy. She knew she couldn't do this to Matt he was only going to be a senior in high school. They had eventually wanted kids with together but not for 4-5 years, Having a baby now was too soon at least for him. She loved him she couldn't do this to him. She knew what she had to do.
Lisa avoided Matt's phone calls for for 2 weeks. She put her house up for sale and already had an offer and the sale was pending. She had just gotten back from seeing her parents in New York, They were furious with her they wanted her to have an abortion and since she refused they or mostly her mum wanted nothing more to do with her. Her dad just sat there like he always did and said nothing. She was on her way back to the house Matt called her cell phone again, she ignored it.
This was the end of the second week Matt had enough of not seeing her, he knew something was wrong. He drove to her house, he pulled up and saw the for sale sign with a smaller sign attached that said sale pending. Looking at the sign Matt said to himself" What the hell is this?"
Lisa wasn't home yet but he had a key he walked in and found her house practically all packed. Lisa came home a short time later, Matt was sitting at her kitchen table.
"What the hell are you doing" he demanded "When were you going to tell me you were selling the house and why? Whats going on Lisa?"
She walked past him and kept her back to him she didn't say anything she was started to get choked up. He could see that she was upset
"Lisa look at me" he said in a quiet voice.
She wouldn't ,she knew if she looked into those eyes she wouldn't be able to do this. She loved him to much to saddle him with a baby. She had to end it now
"Mattie you should go I can't see you anymore." She barely could get the words out.
"What?... Why?... We are engaged, I love you why are you doing this ?"He said as he started to cry
"Mattie you need to go" She repeated. She kept her back to him she wouldn't look at him
"No I won't leave , you owe me an explanation. Why are you so upset? We are suppose to be getting married next Spring "
"No we are not we can't now I wish things were different" She said as she took the engagement ring off her finger she turned and with out looking at him put it on the table in front of him she walked out of the kitchen and into the living room. He picked up the ring
"Lisa, stop you can't do this you don't mean what you are saying. I love you I know you love me I know you do Please " He pleaded with her over and over again.
"Mattie you need to go."
"No I need you, I can't live without you why are you doing this to us?"
She said nothing" He tried to make her turn to face him she wouldn't her jerked her body making her face him, he saw she was crying,
"See I know you don't want to do this," he said as he caressed her face "What your doing makes no sense."
He made her kiss him. She melted into him as she always did But then she jerked free she had to keep her resolve
"No" she said "You have to go Mattie" she firmly said "Oh God Lisa please no", She wouldn't give in He finally relented and walked out the door. She watched him get in his car and drive away it was the hardest thing she had ever done was to let him go she sank to the floor and started to cry.
Matt drove towards home devastated. He was crying so hard he could barely see the road. He pulled over and took the ring out of his pocket. "Oh god why would she do this to me, I don't want to live with out her I want her back WHY WHY WHY" he cried out.
He took the ring and put it on the gold chain he had around his neck and started again to drive towards home. He got home and pulled in to the driveway and fell apart, Lucy and Mary were walking home and up the driveway and saw him. They tried to talk to him but he was too hysterical to even respond to them. They ran into the house in the Kitchen where their parents were
"Mom, dad , Matt pulled in the driveway something is wrong he is in the car still and he is hysterically crying.
They ran out of the house and got to the car Matt's head was on the steering wheel and he was still inconsolable.
Annie put her hand on his shoulder, "Whatever it is, it will be alright calm down"
" No...no it will never be... alright.. never" he still wept"
He couldn't even talk anymore he was so upset. Eric helped him out of the car where Matt collapsed to the ground in a fetal position and cried even more. They had never ever seen him like this
"Eric we can't leave him on the ground like this" Annie told him
They tried to get Matt up Finally Eric knelt down and cradled him and lifted him up and carried him in the house and up to his bedroom. Annie stayed with him finally he fell asleep She didn't want to leave him incase he awoke in the middle of the night. Sometime after midnight he awoke and saw his mother sitting in the chair next to him with her eyes closed.
"Mom" he said
She opened her eyes. "Matt are you ok?"
" No I am not" and he started to sob again He told her what had transpired between Lisa and Him.
"Matt that makes no sense she adores you why would she hurt you like this?"
"I don't know, Even her reaction was wrong its like someone or something was making her do it."
Annie crawled in Bed with her son and held him until he fell asleep.
A couple of days passed and Matt tried to call her and the line was disconnected and so was her cell phone. He drove by the house and she was gone.