Father at 17? No, that's not what I plan to do, that's not what I intended when I had sex with Emma, we were always protected. We were always safe. My moms would not like this but neither would Emma's parents. They are going to kill me.
-Jesus? Are you ok?
-Ye-yeah, I am
-What are we going to do? I am still sixteen and I would be just seventeen when this baby come to the world and you are going to turn seventeen in three months. We have to decide if we want to keep it or take an abortion or give him or her to adoption. We have to decide what we do if we keep him or her. We continue on school? We give up and start working on something different? And we have to decide how we told our parents.
If I was in shock before, now I was even more in shock. I know I don't want to give my kid into adoption and I am not very fond with the term of aborting. I did the "mistake" I deal with it.
-Um…I think I have made my decision but I have to think about it.
-No, please, talk to me, please.
-I think I want to keep the baby. It would be the summer when the baby is due to born so we would have finished school and it would only be one more year to come. If you or your parents want me to be near the baby we can life in my bedroom because is near the kitchen and near the bathroom and on the first floor. I would work part time as a waiter and I would take care of you in every way. I don't like to give my baby for adoption and I want to make responsibility of my actions.
-I understand what you say and is very reasonable…but what about school? What would people think?
-Um..i don't care but if you care we can both start being homeschooled. My sister Mariana knows a mom that was a teacher and had homeschooled her daughter and son.
-I would think about it, you would think about it and we would talk tomorrow. First thing in the morning I would call you.
Jesus looked at Emma and hesitated –Are you mad at me?
-No, I am frustrated because this is not what I have in plan. This was not planned and I am not married, and I had not finished school and my parents are going to kill me or worse, you.
Jesus hugged Emma, his big arms wrapping her in a tight hug, she was his everything, the girl he has been for the past year and he love her, he know that and he would do whatever he have to do to protect her.
-I love you, we would talk tomorrow.
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Two days later they have make a decision, they would pick the baby because Emma knows that their love could survive this and is the best choice she see right now. So they are at Stef's and Lena's living room, sitting in fornt of them and in front of Emma's parents.
Jesus took her hand in his, he was sweating.
She was also sweating.
Is normal in this circunstances.
-Ok, eh, we have something to tell you and before we say it I want to tell you how much I love Emma, how much I care about her and how much I appreciate you.
Emma parents smiled at him and they looked at each other: we appreciate you too Jesus and we are proud that Emma is with someone like you. And we know Em, we would support you in whatever you want to do.
-WHAT?! You-you know what?
-We saw you at the drug store the day you went to buy the test. We know you are pregnant.
Stef stand up from the sofa and looked sternly at her son. She can't believe what she was hearing, they had talked to him several times since he has been dating and he seemed responsible enough.
-You are what?
-Mom, I promise you we were safe, we used a condom even if Emma is on the pills but accidents happen, we can't reverse what have happened. Em and I have make a decision.
-We want to keep the baby, I am two months pregnant already and we are in January so the baby is going to be here in July, we would have finished this year of school by that time. Jesus would be 17 in two months and my birthday is in June so I would also be 17.
-Emma wants to be in school until the six month of pregnancy that would be in May.
Emma's mom looked at her daughter and smiled: I see you thought about this a lot sweet pie.
-Yeah mom, I want to start being home schooled in May and in June we have exams so I would just have to go do the exams. Mariana knows some teachers that teach at their house to their own children and one of them offered me a place for May and first of June to practice for my exams.
Lena by this time have breathed and started thinking clearly. They were responsible of this. She looked at Emma's father and sees the worry on his face.
-Em, we…we don't have the space for a baby, we live in an apartment and both you mom and I work and you would need someone to take you to appointments and those stuff.
-I have the solution for that. Emma, you are welcome to stay in the garage with Jesus when the baby comes, is big enough for a crib and all the baby stuff and have an own bathroom. And don't worry about the appointments, someone in my family would take you, even Jesus would.
-yeah, we booked the next appointment for next Saturday morning so I can take her there. And moms, I have found a job as a waiter, I would work Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, Friday nights and Sunday mornings so I still can go to the wrestling team on Monday and Thursdays and study the rest of the days.
Stef smiled, she was proud of her son and his girlfriend. They have made a good decision and she wanted to support them all the way through pregnancy.
-Ok, so you keep the baby, live with your parents through all the pregnancy, we take you to appointments, you would continue in school and when the baby comes you would stay here with us. For me works.
The rest of the parents nod and they all hug their children.
Jesus felt relieved. He was going to be a dad in seven months and he was nervous, but he knows everything would be allright with the support of his family.
-You know what your birthday present would be, right?
He laughed and kissed her mom.
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Today is Emma's five month appointment and he is on his way to pick her. For this past three months they have been great. Emma has wide t-shirts on every day in school so anyone had noticed yet. Next month she would be studying at home and today we are hoping to find the sex. My moms gave me a gift ticket to a baby store and my siblings said they are going to wait until I know the sex to give me their gift.
Emma is waiting at her porch, she seems happy, she has been in an energy stage and I see her more beautiful every time it pass. I am so in love with her ans I can't wake to have a baby with her.
-Hey beautiful, how are you and my baby today?
-Very happy and moving a lot today, I can't wait for you to feel it kicking.
-yeah, that would be great but I can't wait to know the gender of our baby, we are going to have a baby in four months, can you believe it?
-If we are lucky we would know the gender in an hour and no, I can't believe it yet. I am still in class, I am living with parents and going out with boyfriend and friends so…It seems like always except for the fact that I feel it moving all the time.
-Yeah, it must be weird to feel it.
We arrived at the doctor appointment and before I know it Emma was in the examination table and we could hear the heartbeat of the baby. It was fast and the image shows us a big baby by now. I get emotional every time I see the baby and I always think if this is love at first sight.
-We can finally know the gender, you want to know it?
We both nodded and the doctor smiled at us: You see that? That's his private part, you are having a boy. Congratulations guys. Look he is waving at you. He is very active right Emma?
-Yeah, he must be like his daddy.
At this I get worried, what if the baby has my ADHD?
-Doc, it could be possible that the baby inherit my ADHD?
-It could be possible, but don't worry, it would not be visible until 5 or 6 years.
I kiss Emma's forehead and she kisses my lips. A boy, we are going to have a baby boy in four months.
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We are having a weekend trip to LA because our classmates went to the trip but Emma is seven months pregnant and she is currently studying at home so she is not allowed to go and I was not going to go without her. So two weeks ago her parents came to me and told me that they wanted to give us a gift.
"Your moms and us decided that you deserve time for yourselves before you become parents and students and workers all at the same time. We booked you a hotel for two days and one night and have tickets for a Lakers match and a comedy show in L.A. You would have to take care of the gas and the lunch."
So two days ago I told Emma.
-I have a surprise for you, in two days we are going on a trip, you have to pack summer clothes and some bath suits and light jackets. Is just for two days so don't pack that much and we are going in mom's big car so you would have space to rest.
She hugged me and cried, fuck hormones she said and we laughed together. She was happy and that's what I want to do, make her happy for as long as I can and provide her with a good and healthy family.
So now we just had arrived to L.A after three hours of traffic even if is very early on a Friday. The hotel our parents booked us in is in front of one of the many beaches that L.A has and is on the 9th floor, we have a wonderful view from here, and we can see the Hollywood sign from the other window of the hotel, we have a big bed, a good TV and a spacious bathroom.
-Here we are, are you tired? You wanna take a nap while I put our clothes on the wardrobe?
-Yeah, I would take a nap, would you wake me up in two hours? So we can go to that boat trip and see the dolphins and whales?
-Yeah I would
So I put our clothes in order and do some workouts and before I know it is 10:45 and we have to be on the boat at 11:30 so I wake her up: Babe, c'mon wake up, we don't have much time, babe.
She wakes up with a smile and kisses me, I immediately get lost in her kiss and her cares. She is amazing and I can't wait to have my baby boy with us.
-Can you give me my sweatshirt? The black one, I know is just May but near the sea it can get cold.
-Em you don't have to say anything, of course I would give you the sweatshirt – I give it to her and we left the room, we take the car and go to the port and we are soon on the boat, the ride is slow and after twenty minutes we see the dolphins and they let us go into the water. I take Emma into my arms, protectively, and we swim a little and two minutes later a dolphin is circling us and I get scared for Emma but one of the staff members tell me: Don't worry, almost all the animals can feel when a woman is pregnant and the dolphins more so he just want to protect her.
Emma is smiling and soon touch the dolphin head and he make a sound that make me chuckle, how cute so I take my go pro and take a lot of pictures but soon they take us back to the boat because they saw the whales and we get fascinated at the beauty and the enormity of the image. I take lots of pictures and soon we go back to the beach, we have lunch in a restaurant where we have seafood.
-What do you want to until we go to the Lakers match?
-We can walk through the beach, we can do some sightseeing so we would be near the stadium, what do you think?
-Is perfect
We walk through the beach, we talk and laugh a lot and we take lots of pictures. Thirty minutes later Emma is tired so we sit on a bench. I look at her hair, at her eyes trying to see everything surrounding her, at her beautiful face and her lips and then I see her hand going to her belly, protecting our boy like she has been doing for months now…I put my hand there and we kiss. I take a selfie and she laugh at me: you are sooo cheesy sometimes, I love you.
We go to the stadium and watch the match, I send some text to the family group so mom can get jelous and we spent the rest of the night having dinner and walking through Beverly Hills.
-OMG, this street is awesome, full of expensive stores, one day we would buy something in here.
-Yeah, when I am a professional wrestle and you are the best scientists to ever exist in this world.
-Sorry babe, but that's Sheldon Cooper.
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-Good morning princess, wake up, we have lots of thing to do – I fill her face with kisses, her mouth, her forehead, her eyes and finally she wakes up with a giggle –I love you
-Hmm, me too
-Okay, sleepy head, we are going to sunbathe on the beach, to swim and to the CAC and after lunch we would came here for a nap before the comedy show. You like the plan?
-Yeah babe, at what time we have to leave tonight?
-At 7:30 after dinner and I suppose we would be at your house at 11.
-K'
Emma love the beach and I loved the way Emma smiled when we were on the beach, we sunbathed and swim in the sea, when we were there we make out and splashed and have lots of fun. Emma also loved art and that's why we went to the MOCA and she spent like three hours watching modern art that I didn't understand but I was content with seeing her happy.
-So, you liked the morning?
-I loved it, it was awesome seeing you in that bathsuit and kissing you and seeing art and now after this nap we are going to laugh a lot and that's great. I can't believe that tomorrow we have to study for our exams again.
-Yeah, boring boring boring.
After a three hours nap we went to the comedy show and I have never laughed more in my life, Emma even have to go to the bathroom twice because according to her our baby boy liked to play with her bladder so she has to go to the bathroom every two hours.
And now is time to go, we are on the road, we have three more hours until going home but is another day sooner to the due date.
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We are in the end of August and a lot changed in my live.
I am now a father.
We finished our exams by the 14th of June and our baby boy, Aiden, arrived into this world the 25th of June even if he should have been here the 1st of July. Emma and the baby came live with me the 29th, before that I built his crib and a rocking chair with the help of Mike, AJ and Ty so now we live together in the garage room where we have the big bed, the crib, the rocking chair, all his toys and a commode for his clothes. Emma's parents bought the high chair that we have in the kitchen and the playpen that we have in the living room and my moms give us bottles, bibs and some baby toys from when Frankie was born. I bought the car seat and put it in the car of Emma that she has here now and would be our car for the rest of our time together.
Today is the first day back in school and our boy is just two months old so I decided to be homeschooled too for the next three months so the both of us can take care of him. The teacher, Pam, would arrive here in two hours: at 9 a.m. and would start with the class in the dining room. We picked that hour because would be no one around here because Jude, Frankie, mom and mama would be at school or work and Aiden would be asleep and he would not wake up until at least 11 that would be our free time so Emma can feed him and I can change him and we can have some time with him. We would have time until 1 p.m. that would be our and Aiden's lunch time and at 2 p.m. we would start again until 4.
On Mondays and Tuesdays I would go to wrestling team at 5 p.m. and Emma would go on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Tuesdays mama would take care of Aiden. I also have to work on Wednesdays afternoon, Saturday and Sunday mornings. Emma would work on Friday and Sunday afternoon. It's kind of a chaotic schedule but we did it as best as could be good for Aiden. We know we have our family support and if we feel exhausted or need some time to just be teens they would take care of him so we have hope.
Today started at 6 a.m. when Aiden woke up and I took him to the kitchen and feed him and then change him in the bathroom of the first floor, always trying to calm him so he would not wake up the rest of the family. I put him on his crib and go for a run, leaving from the back door of the house. I came home at 7 a.m. in time to have breakfast with all my family and when mama and siblings leave the house Aiden woke up.
-Oh I would feed him; he needs some nana's time. You go get ready and Em you can go for a run, I would leave in half an hour. So go, go.
I kiss Emma before she goes for her run and went to the garage to change, I have taken the baby monitor with me so I could see mom with his grandson. First she kiss his cheek and cuddle him while the bottle is being heated and then she feed him in the sofa od the living room while baby talking to him. And soon she starts talking to him.
-Hi Aideeen, you like your food uh? Yeah? Just like your father, he would leave us starving if he was not as good as he is. He does not know this but I am so proud of him, he has always been lazy and messing with everything but was always sweet and a protector of the ones he loves but I could have never imagined how he would be as a father. He is the best dad, right? He wake up early with you and take care of you so your mommy can have more time to sleep and he is fighting for his dreams, to be a good wrestle and sometime being the best he could be. You are lucky boy, very lucky and we all love you.
I smile and take away my tears. I shower and put on some clothes in fifteen minutes and soon I hear mom calling me from the kitchen door.
-JESUS! I HAVE TO GO WORK! PICK YOUR SON!
I smile because the way they treat me never changed and I hugged her and my son, I am lucky, very lucky.
-Good luck in the first class, take your pills and please behave. He is awake but you should put him to sleep at 9 so you would not be interrupted.
-I know mom, I have been dealing with him for two months, you know?
-I know, bye son
-Bye mother.
The class was fun, Pam made us see her classes as something fun and try that we always talk and participate. She cooed and cuddles Aiden when she met him and she knew how to deal with my ADHD.
-I have two granddaughters at home and one of them seem to have your same problem and she is driving her mother crazy but I love her nevertheless.
We finish at exactly four and Aiden just woke up two times in all morning but at four he was fully awake but he was also very entertained with his aunt Frankie and grandma Lena.
-Em, I am going now, I would take the skate so you would have the car if something happens, call me and text me about everything that happens please.
-Yeah babe, don't worry, go have some fun for an hour, we would be ok and I have your mom and I am working with Jude on my homework now so don't worry.
I went wrestling and it felt so good to be with friends, doing something I like and having fun but I kept missing both my babe and my baby. I can't wait to go home.
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A blue graduation gown and cap, sitting on the grades beside Emma Accard, my girlfriend of two years and a half and the mother of my son that I can see from here sitting on his aunt Mariana's lap and clapping her hands. All my family is sitting in front of us: Mama, mom, Mariana with Aiden, Callie, Angelica, Brandon, Jude, Noah, Frankie and Emma's parents.
Is our graduation day, it has been a chaotic year but in December we returned to the school and sent our son to daycare, we did our exams, went to wrestling team and worked. We did great with the help of our parents and our son was brilliant, he learned to sleep through the night at five months so we could have a good night sleep even if he is an early riser and he is very independent too so better for us. We passed all our exams and in March a wrestle coach came see me and told me that he wanted me to be in his professional team and they would pay for my studies.
Yesterday moms talked with me about what are my plans for the next four years of university.
-Well moms, you know I would still be working on the waiter job and Emma would be working in that shop too for the summer. And we found a two bedrooms/ one bathroom apartment with spacious kitchen and living room and a small balcony that would only cost us 400$ per month and that is near the stadium where I would have practice every day and is a ten minutes ride from her university and Aiden's new daycare. So don't worry, with the 2000$ I would receive and the 500$ she would receive a month it would be enough to have a decent live.
-We are so proud of the man and father you have become, your son is going to turn one in a week, how do you feel about that?
-I can't believe how soon the time passed and I am so happy moms, I would do something I like an dwould have the opportunity to be a P.E teacher one day and I can provide my family to have a good life. Thank you, for everything and yes, you can come see us every time you want, you have grandma house to stay right?
They just hugged and kissed me.
So today I am finally graduating and tonight we have the party at the house with all my family and friends and tomorrow moms and sibling would keep Aiden and Emma and I would go to the after graduation party.
-EMMA MARIE ACCARDS!
I stand up and cheer when mama, the principal, give Emma her diploma and smile at her parents cheering and taking pictures of that moment. After two more students is my time to go there, I clean my sweaty hands on my gown and wait.
-JESUS ANTONIO ADAMS FOSTER!
Mama is waiting for me with a beautiful smile on her face and I can hear all my family cheering, I take the diploma, take the picture with mama and kiss her on the cheek. After half an hour of classmates getting their diplomas mama continue her speech.
-And finally, is my pleasure to introduce you to the Anchor Beach Charter School 2016 promotion.
When we go to our parents we take our son in our hands and become the focus of attention and pictures. Moms kiss me a lot and told me how proud they are of me again and I can't help the smile that form in my lips. I am lucky of this family.
That day and the next ones are one of the favorite's days of my life and I can't wait for the university years to come but only if is by the side of my little family.