Chapter 14: Pregnant
Sorry that I've been gone for so long, BUT IT'S NOT DEAD YET!
It had been 6 months since she married, and Alaika was happier than she had ever been in her life. Her marriage had brought nothing else but good things in her life. She had a new family now, and everything was better. She had been shopping with her sister Syal on a sunny summer Saturday in July, and when they were done, they sat down on a café terrace in the sun and just chatted about their new lives. They weren't aware that 2 women from Jefferson, a brunette and a blondine, were watching them from the table next to them, drinking tea.
"Hey, Mackenzie. Aren't that women over there your daughters?" the brunette asked.
The blondine, Mackenzie, looked at the younger women chatting. "Y-y-yes Sana, that are Syal and Alaika, my daughters." she said, looking sadly.
"You said you had some news for me when we left your house, now I'm curious." Syal said.
"Well, you're not going to believe me." Alaika said, smiling. "I found out this morning that I'm expecting a baby."
The brunette, Sana Rods néé Antilles, Jagged's younger sister, looked with open mouth and eyes from Mackenzie's daughters to Mackenzie. "Your blackhead daughter is pregnant?" she asked.
"I didn't even know she had a boyfriend." Mackenzie replied, staring shocked at her daughters.
"Are you serious?" Syal asked with a smile on her face. "Oh my god, did you tell Luke already?"
"This Luke guy must be her boyfriend." Sana concluded. "Probably just as ugly and dumb as she is."
"I told him when he left for his work, he was so excited to become a father again that he was jumping up and down and cuddled me way tighter than he normally does." Alaika replied, smiling as well.
"My daughter has another child with that man?" Mackenzie asked.
"How far are you? And how did you found out?" Syal asked.
"I had pain in my underbelly, so I sought on the internet what the problem was, and being pregnant was one of the options. I had already bought a pregnancy test yesterday and I tested it this morning, and it was positive, and the test said I'm 4 weeks far." Alaika replied.
"My god, I think I'm going to cry…" Syal said and held her hands under her eyes.
"You know Syal, Luke will soon come." Alaika said.
"He's coming to this café?" Syal asked.
"Yup, he'll be here in a few minutes if he didn't end up in a traffic jam." Alaika replied.
"I haven't seen Luke since your wedding." Syal said. "I was too busy with my own love life and Fabian's custody, his father's family claims it."
Sana and Mackenzie looked at each other with open mouths.
"Your blackhead daughter is MARRIED?!" Sana asked in shock.
"I cannot believe it…" Mackenzie said.
"Who can this man be, who can love such an ugly girl?" Sana asked.
"Which reminds me, you're dating Zeb, am I right or not?" Alaika asked.
"Yeah, Zeb is truly amazing, he loves Fabian like his own, he'd be devastated if I lose the custody case." Syal replied.
"Don't give up the fight, not yet. Am I able to help you?" Alaika asked.
"There's not much you can do, except for making up defenses against the allegations Gidean's family is throwing around." Syal replied.
"What are the allegations then?" Alaika asked.
"That I'm too unstable to care for a child, that a parent shouldn't be alone because a child needs both a mother figure and a father figure." Syal replied. "And more of that sort of stuff."
"Well, practically you're not alone. You have a boyfriend who loves your son, as for the instability, you just had a hard time behind your back with father's supremacy believes." Alaika replied. "Did that help?"
"Actually, yes. I can use that in the court room, plus it is the truth." Syal said.
Sana and Mackenzie saw a handsome blonde haired man with clear sky blue eyes walking over the terrace, a red haired boy on his arm, making his way to Syal and Alaika.
Alaika turned around to see the man, smiled and stood up, while Syal just waved.
"Luke! There you are!" Alaika said as she kissed and hugged the blonde man.
"That man doesn't know what beauty is, he has a blackhead wife and a redhead son he's holding like he loves it!" Sana snapped in a whisper.
"Hello beautiful, how are you and the baby?" Luke asked.
"We're both fine, don't worry." Alaika replied as she kissed Luke's cheek.
"Am I gonna have a brother or a sister?" the redhead boy asked.
"We cannot tell, we're able to tell you in 4 months." Alaika said as she took the redhead boy from Luke's arm.
"I hope it will be a girl, and just as beautiful as her mother." Luke said, striking Alaika's right cheek with his left hand. "She'll have a grandfather, a father, 2 uncles, a big brother and 2 cousins to protect her against the wrong kind of boys."
"I'm not that beautiful." Alaika said.
"You are Alaika, just stop denying that fact. Why else do you think men are so jealous to me? Look around you, and you'll see, you're the most beautiful woman in this world, never let anybody tell you're not. And those who do, are the ugly ones themselves. Never forget who do say you're beautiful." Luke spoke with a caring voice.
"Humph, sympathy." Sana mumbled.
Mackenzie kept looking at the man who married her youngest daughter, the daughter that was actually not even Jagged's. She had been abused by her husband early in marriage, before she gave life to Syal. Mackenzie had tried to be loyal, but Jagged cheated on her, so she decided on revenge. Alaika's father had left Alaika in her as a sign to Jagged that it was over between him and Mackenzie.
But instead of getting a divorce, Jagged started to abuse Alaika the way he had abused her. Mackenzie had been so scared for her husband that she couldn't do anything for her daughter. She had never loved Jagged, she had only loved her children and she still did, no matter what they were and who they were married with.
Alaika's husband was a handsome young man and seemed to treat Alaika very well. He was what a father should be, exited when his wife told him they were having a baby.
Alaika's father had just reacted like that, all thrilled he was going to have a child.
Mackenzie told him after they decided to stay with each other, even if Mackenzie's family found out she was having an affair.
"Oh, Syal, before I forget to mention," Luke began. "Zeb is waiting for you to pick you up and take everything that you bought. Me and Alaika are going to look what we can buy later on for our baby."
"Thanks Luke! See you later sis, and good luck with your baby!" Syal said as she picked up the bags of the things she bought and went away.
"You come with me, my lady?" Luke gracefully asked.
"Of course." Alaika replied and reached out for her bags with her free hand.
"Let me carry them." Luke said, and grabbed the bags for his wife.
As Alaika went, Mackenzie decided to stand up.
"Where are you going?" Sana asked.
"I… uh… need to visit an old friend of mine in the city." Mackenzie said, smiling. "It can take a while, and I don't think you want to leave Pete waiting."
"Yeah, sure." Sana said, her eyes narrowing in suspiciousness.
Mackenzie just walked away, she didn't care that Sana didn't believe her. It was partly true, because she was indeed going to visit someone in the city. But this someone wasn't an old friend like she said, Mackenzie was going to her boyfriend, Alaika's father.
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