"What's with you today Delko?" A 20 year old co-worker asked.
"Me and Cal are back."
"I thought she had cheated on you."
"Long story, but we're back!" Eric yelled swirling.
"Stop, you look like a girl."
"Whatever, I got to hurry this up."
"Why?"
"I need to go check on her."
"Like the old times hum?" the man teased chuckling.
"Yep."
"May I go?"
"Hum?"
"May I go with you, you talk about her all the time so I want to meet her."
"Sure."
"I won't stay long don't worry."
"She's working anyway so."
"She working on what?"
"Waitressing in a coffee down town."
"Hum."
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"Hey there."
Calleigh's smile widened as he sat in the table near to the counter and walked to him.
"Hey!"
"I missed you."
"Me too."
"This is Adam, I work with him."
"Oh, nice to know you."
"You too, this kid spends the whole time talking about you."
Calleigh blushed a bit walking away when Horatio called her.
"Yes?"
"You make a break, have dinner with him."
"No, it's my work time and…"
"And I'm your boss, so sit and relax, you're pregnant, you can't walk too much."
"I'm only 3 and half months."
"I don't care."
"O.k."
"C'mon, I'll go serve you in a second."
"What? No, don't mind, Eric has a sandwich with him."
"I've noticed, but sandwich is not a good food, so sit, Alex made something for you."
"She did?"
"Yes, she said if she saw you two feeding on sandwiches much longer she would get crazy so she made you food."
"She didn't have to."
"But she did."
"I got to thank her, and thank you."
"Why are you still standing here?" Horatio asked simply.
"Going going."
"What's up?"
"I have a break and Alex got us dinner."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Wow."
"Humhm."
"How's the baby?" Eric asked planting a hand over her bump.
"Behaving."
"No moving yet?"
"No."
"Oh."
"Yeah, I hum… I have an appointment tomorrow."
"I know." he smiled.
"Do you want to come?"
"I would be insulted if you didn't let me."
"Thank you."
"Anytime."
"Here you go."
"Thank you."
"Hey, I didn't cooked, don't thank me."
Calleigh smiled thanking Eric when he put the food in her plate.
"Thank you."
"Just eat, you need it."
"Well, I need to go now, by Delko, Calleigh, it was a pleasure."
"My pleasure."
"O.k. see you."
"See you tomorrow."
"Hey Eric?"
"Yeah?"
"Hum… why's your mum here?"
"What?" He twisted on his place waving when he spotted his mum.
"Hey there, what are you doing here?"
"Shouldn't I be asking that?"
"No, because you know Cal works here and I check up on her so, what are you doing here?"
"We wanted a new place to have dinner."
"Isa?"
"I have nothing to do with this."
Eric squinted but moved to the side.
"Sit please."
Isabella took the sit next to Eric which forced Carmen to sit next to Calleigh.
"Hello Mrs. Delko."
Save it, I just came to try the food."
"Mum."
"So Calleigh, how's the baby doing?"
"Fine, the doctor said that it's getting big, that's a good thing."
"Not when you're giving birth." Isa laughed.
"I suppose not." She chuckled.
"Ma'am, miss, good night, what can I get you?"
"Hum, do you have a burger?"
"In the plate or in the bun?"
"Plate."
"And to drink?"
"A beer."
"Coming right now. What about you Ma'am?"
"The same please, but with red wine."
"Sure."
"Where's dad?" Eric asked.
"He's at some friend's birthday."
"Hum."
"Yeah."
The table came silent and Calleigh sipped her orange juice nervously.
"So hum… how's the café doing?"Eric asked trying to break the ice.
"Good. How's the swimming going?" Isabela answered smiling a bit.
"I'm trying to get a scholarship, it's going good so far."
"A scholarship hum?"
"Yeah, it would save the money we would pay for college."
"Yes, it's a good idea."
"Thank you."
"What about you Calleigh? Also trying for a scholar ship?"
"Yes, I got to make a project to physics and a research for chemistry, they'll see the results and decide on that."
"Good, how much do you have?"
"Oh, I got until the next year."
"They must be waiting for some big projects hum?"
"Yeah pretty much, that means that I have to work hard."
"Any ideas 'till now?"
"For physic's yes, for chemistry not so much."
"You got to start thinking harder."
"I know, but there are so many things."
"Can't you do something that evolves both?"
"Yes, but I think that they would give more points for different things."
"Maybe."
"Here's your food." Horatio interrupted setting the plates in the table.
"Thank you very much."
"I'm done H, if you want me to get back to work just say and I'll be right there."
"No need, I managed this place for a few years, I can take it a couple hours."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes don't worry."
"Hum, I got the free night Cal." Eric announced smiling.
"You do?!"
"Yes, it's raining a lot so we can't do a thing."
"I see."
"Humhm."
"What are you thinking about doing tonight hum lovebirds?" Isa teased biting on her meat.
"Nothing." they answered in choir.
"Sure not." Isa teased.
"Shut up would you."
"Of course not, you're my little brother, it's my duty o tease you."
"Stop it kids." Carmen cut in a strict tune.
"Yes mum."
"So, you got any baby things already?" Isa asked.
"No."
"Nothing?"
"No, we wanted to ask you something Isa."
"What?"
"Do you have a room we can use for a while?" Calleigh asked quietly blushing a bit
"What for?"
"We need money, and not paying a rent would be quite helpful."
"Hum, we do have a room free, I'll ask Damon about it."
"Thank you."
"Any time."
"You got some nerves hum?" Carmen accused.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"First you embarrass our family, you ruin my son's future and then you come asking for a free room?"
"Mum enough!" Eric spat.
"I…"
"They aren't embarrassing me, or Mari, or Estela, you're the only one who has a grudge against this, and I don't get why." Isabella stated.
"Because they're just kids, I'm sorry if I want the best for my son."
"This is it, would you rather them not to have this kid?"
"I would rather them not to have to have to think about having a kid at all."
"Well we can't do that now, sorry."
"You think I don't know that?! I don't want you to have a kid with a kid who doesn't even know what it is to be a mother because no one has ever been a mother to her! I don't want you to have a kid with someone who got knocked up a couple months after you started dating, in fact, she being knocked up after 4 months of dating means one thing and I think you know what."
"Mum!"
"C'mon Eric, what were you expecting?! She didn't had an education, do you really think that you'll have this kid and you'll live happy ever after and she won't get sick of you and stop loving you?! Actually, she doesn't even loves you now!"
"ENOUGH!" Eric shouted getting up ignoring the looks.
"Eric please sit down." Isabella said.
"That's enough."
"I didn't said half of what I had to say."
"Shut up, just shut up."
Calleigh got up running to the bathroom with Isabella and Eric running after her.
"Cal?!"
"Calleigh are you o.k.?"
"Go away." She muttered.
Isa sighed getting in the bathroom.
"Calleigh…"
"Go away please."
"She didn't mean that."
"Yes she did."
"No, she did not, are you feeling all right?"
"I'm fine."
She shook her head when Calleigh turned to the toiled throwing up again.
"Hey, hey, relax o.k., it will get better if you relax."
"How can you know?"
"I know o.k."
"Can you leave now?"
"No. listen to me, what my mum said was bull shit, all of it, you'll be a great mother, and we all know you love Eric."
"I cheated on him." Calleigh said.
"What?"
"I cheated on him, I didn't mean to, but I did."
"What the fuck Calleigh?"
"You still believe I love him hum?! You still believe that after I ruined our lives!?"
"Calleigh, shut up, shut up right now, you don't know what you're talking about so shut the fuck up."
The girl stared at the elder woman speechless.
"w-what?"
"Relax, the sickness will get better."
"Isabella."
"You're just kids, and you're right, this baby it's hard, it's really hard, you have to work, you have to give up on things, you have to ask people for help even if you don't want to because there's not a choice, but this baby doesn't mean that you ruined your lives, it just means that it will be a bit harder, but you'll see that it's also happier, I mean… Eric's smile, I have never saw that smile on him, and I know that he loves you, and he loves the baby you're caring, and he'll try everything he can to keep you safe."
"I know. I want to keep the baby safe too, I want to keep Eric safe too."
"I know, that's why I don't buy you cheating on him, besides, you're together again so that means he forgave you."
"I thought he hadn't told anyone about that."
"He didn't, my mum would go ballistic if she knew."
"More that she is now?"
"Way more."
"Why is she so pissed?"
"She knows how hard it is to have a kid when you have no money or solid job, she wants the best for Eric, and for you."
"She hates me."
"She does not, if you got to wait that much she'll be all happy and cheering once that baby is born, she can't resist her nietos."
"So I've noticed."
"It's a pain in the ass when you deny them something and they just start saying "I'll ask abuela and she'll let me!""
Calleigh laughed a bit.
"Your stomach better?"
"Yes, thank you a lot."
"Anytime, and Calleigh, I don't think that your parents have a thing to do with you, the fact that your mother was like she was just makes you be a greater mum because you know what you don't want to be like."
"y-you know about…" she stammered.
"yes."
"Who told you?"
"No one, I overheard my mum and dad talking about it one day."
"Oh."
"Don't you think that that will serve as excuse if you screw up."
"I don't."
"And don't think I pity you, you're still the same crazy kid that dates my baby brother."
"Thank you."
"Just get out of here, case you haven't noticed it's a bathroom."
"I know."
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" Mum, you talk like that about Calleigh again and our relationship is cut, you don't even get the chance to see the baby."
"Eric, c'mon."
"Eric…"
"It's just a warning, it's you who decides what to do now.
"Mrs. Delko, I'm not saying sorry for being pregnant, and I'm not saying sorry for ruining our lives either, because I don't think that that's what's happening now, but I really am sorry that I'm causing all the fights between you and Eric, I never meant for it to happen, I'm sorry."
The woman huffed and left the dinner with no other word.
"Sorry." Calleigh mumbled.
"It was not your fault."
"Still."
"Are you feeling better?"
"Yes thank you, I hum… I got to work, sorry."
"Stop saying sorry."
"o.k. o.k." she laughed getting to the client that had just arrived.
"Good night, welcome to Caine's diner, what can I get you?"
Good night, I… just a soda please."
Will be right back!"
"Hey kid!"
"Hi Frank! The usual?"
"You know it."
"Coming right away."
"The woman that had just been attended by Calleigh was looking at them in disbelief."
"What's up with the lady?"
"Don't know."
"Who's that woman with Eric?"
"His sister, he doesn't work for the next couple hours so he's staying here."
"Hum, why aren't you with him?"
"I'm at work Frank."
"Good point, I think she's checking up on you." He added looking at the woman again in time to see her turn away.
"I don't know her, at least if I do I don't remember."
"Hum, how's the baby by the way?"
"o.k., the doctor said that it was perfectly healthy and it's too shy to let us know the sex, but maybe in the next appointment she could tell us."
"Good."
"Humhm."
"So, you and Eric together again?"
"How did you know we had been… apart?"
"He didn't show up for a month, and you looked terrible."
"Wow, thank you Frank." Calleigh joked.
"C'mon, go get the food."
"Hey, you started this conversation."
"Did not."
"Yes you did."
"Well, you continued it."
"Fine, let me go before H fires me."
"Yeah."
