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Brax's POV
I stared at her in shock.
"But…how…what?" I asked still confused.
"I'm not pregnant anymore."
"Wait. So you shouted at Charlie giving out to her for having an abortion when really you had too?" now I mad. Very mad indeed.
She shook her head violently.
"No! No I wouldn't!" she cried.
"Then…"
"I had a miscarriage." She looked devastated. Then Brax remembered that Casey had said Ruby had been really down lately. Wait.
"Casey doesn't know, does he?"
She shook her head.
"Ruby! He has to know. He already knows something is wrong."
"I can't. Anyway he doesn't need to know. You're not going to tell him are you? Or Charlie?"
She looked at me.
"Brax?"
Another moment passed.
"Brax you promised!" she cried.
"That was before I knew it was something this big!" I replied.
"But they don't need to know! If you tell them now they will start blaming themselves. You know they will. They'll say they should have known something was up. You don't want to make them angry with themselves are you?" she looked at me pleadingly. But I could see something that could cost us both our loves.
"What if I did agree and I'm not saying I do, but what if I did and they found out? They would never forgive us." She didn't need to think about it.
"They will never find out as long as neither of us tells."
It took a bit more persuading but finally she convinced me. Then suddenly I realised how insensitive I was being. Here I was arguing with Ruby, a girl who had just lost her baby. A baby I take it she was planning on keeping.
Later I arrived at Angelo's to find Charlie talking with Ashley. She left her sitting at a table while she walked up to me and kissed me.
"I think I've finally got her on my side. I think we should tell her."
"What? Now?" I asked surprised.
"Yeah I think so. I mean Ruby knows."
So we told her. And she took it…well…brilliantly. She was so excited.
"Oh my God! Seriously? Yaa!" she screamed. Then Ruby and Casey arrived.
They joined in the screaming but then I caught Ruby's eye and I realised how sad this must be for her. She's celebrating a new baby while grieving for the loss of her own. And she didn't have any support. Except me.
Ruby POV
I felt slightly better now that Brax knew. Although I still knew it was my fault. How could it not be? I was pregnant. And I caused my baby's death. Brax kept looking at me searchingly as if wondering how I could be coping. In truth I wasn't. Any time I was alone I cried my heart out.
I couldn't bear their baby plans so I quietly excused myself and slipped into the store room where I couldn't hold back the tears. I didn't hear Brax come in but I felt him sit down beside me and put his arm around me. And I cried and cried and cried.
"It's all my fault." I sobbed.
"What is?" he asked confused.
"The miscarriage."
"No it's not!"
"Of course it is! The baby was inside me and it died. How is that not my fault?" she asked.
"Miscarriages happen all the time. It's not the mother's fault."
"You were pregnant?" Ashley had just stepped out from behind the door.
Suddenly she turned and ran back to the table.
Next Time
Will Ashley tell Casey and Charlie? Or can Brax stop her before she ruins his last chance with the woman he loves?
Is Charlie suspicious already?
