Selfishness
I stepped into the house and shut the door. "Is something wrong?"
He shrugged a little and then stepped off of the steps, "I don't know, you tell me."
I tightened my grip on my purse and dropped my gaze to the floor. "Everything seems alright to me…besides the fact that you've been a big jerk since you started working for the WWE."
He didn't say a word; instead he simple sighed and rubbed his head. "Yeah…I've been meaning to talk to you about that but first come into the kitchen so we can talk."
I didn't want to follow him into the kitchen. He seemed way too calm if you know what I mean. Still, I didn't want to risk pissing him off so I slowly followed him into the kitchen. When I turned the corner I nearly fell over when I saw who was standing in my kitchen.
"Laura?" I said as I dropped my bag. "What are you doing here?"
She glanced at John for a moment and then dropped her gaze. My heart started to pound as John pulled out a chair for me to sit down. "Sit down Kat."
"Not until you tell me what's going on." I said bluntly. "What is she doing here?"
He sighed, "Kat it's alright. I just need to discuss a few things with you."
"Like what?"I snapped.
"Like the place you're working for one." Laura spoke up.
I glanced at her, "Laura…please tell me you didn't."
She sighed and stood up straight, "John I've done my part. Please let me leave now. I've already lost her as a friend and what I've told you will not make things better for us."
John sighed, "Fine you can go and thanks again for telling me."
I glared at her evily as she grabbed her purse and went to walk past me. Before completely leaving she stopped in front of me and stared deep into my eyes. "Please understand…I did what I had to do."
I didn't say anything to her as she pushed past me and left. As soon as the door shut John took a seat at a chair opposite from the one he pulled out for me.
"Kitty please sit down and talk to me. I promise I'm not going to hurt you." He said.
I looked at him in disbelief. "How do I know that? All you've done is hurt me for the past five months."
He sighed, "Is that why you've been working down at that motorcycle shop?"
I glanced at him silently before sighing and taking a seat.
"What else is going on Kat?" he asked.
I shivered in fear not sure if I should tell him the complete truth. "Why do you even care John? I mean lately all you've cared about is your job."
"Which is why I'm so worried about you….I got a call today from your nurse…and the stuff she told me made me realize that my actions towards you may have made you run to someone for attention."
I broke down in tears the moment he said that. "What did the nurse say?"
He sat up in his chair and leaned against the table, "I think you know what she said…you're pregnant Kat."
"Oh God." I said as tears fell rapidly from my eyes. "John I'm so sorry."
"It's ok Kat…this is my fault." He said as tears formed in his eyes. "I should have been a better cousin to you but I let the fame get to my head."
I wiped my tears and then folded my arms. "No…just because you were being a jerk doesn't make it ok for me to do things like that behind your back."
He sighed, "Yeah but it was me who wasn't paying attention like I should have been….anyways, we need to figure out what to do about this."
I sniffled, "What do you mean? I'm going to take care of it obviously."
He looked at me blankly, "Actually Kat…I was hoping you would want to get rid of it."
I narrowed my eyes at him, "What? No! Why?"
"Because, you're not old enough to take care of a child and quite frankly I don't think you're mature enough to handle it."
"Excuse me!" I yelled. "I can't believe my ears, you say you blame yourself for this and now you don't want me to take care of my baby!"
He stood up, "I refuse to take care of a 16 year old girl who also has a baby of her own and probably to some creep who doesn't even love or respect you!"
I shook my head, "For your information the father of this baby does love and respect me! Every night that you made me cry, hit me, or called me out of my name, he was there for me!"
John chuckled, "Oh yea then go live with him then!"
My mouth fell open in shock. "Are you freaking serious!"
"Yes! Since this guy clearly takes better care of you than I ever have you can get the hell out of my house and live with him!" he said as he pulled some papers out of his pocket and slammed them on the table.
"What are those for!" I screamed.
"I'm giving up my guardianship of you. In this state once I sign these papers you can legally consider yourself an adult. Now go pack your shit and get out!"
I bit my bottom lip before walking to the table and picking up the papers. I then looked into his eyes and said, "You're going to regret this one day….I promise."
He chuckled and stepped even closer to me, "And you'll regret growing up to be just like your mother…nothing but a damn two bit whore."
I gasped angrily and slapped him across the face as hard as I could. "You are a BASTARD! Stay out of my life!"
Without another word I ran upstairs to my room and began packing my stuff. Within the hour I had all of my clothes, shoes, pictures, hair supplies, and other things all packed up. John didn't say two words to me as I carried the two large suitcases down the steps and out the front door. Since they came with wheels, I pulled them all the way down to the park where I proceeded to call Mark. I couldn't believe John had become an even bigger ass than he was before.
