Chapter 2
Sometimes I wonder if I am very dramatic because I feel like I am writing a soap opera lol
Not everyone likes it and that's okay :-)
"You're pregnant" Matt exclaimed.
"This is what I wanted to tell you..." she rested a hand over her belly. "Please, come in".
He was astonished, because of that he took more than two seconds to register her request. Subsequently, he moved forward and closed the door behind him.
Gabby strode toward the big window in the bedroom while Casey stayed a few inches from the door.
"How far along are you?"
"Almost six months, I-" he cut her off.
"I'm the father, Gabby?" he paced the room nervously. Gabby felt that he was getting angrier every second. She could hardly think straight; watching him so agitated by the news made her stomach dropped, which occurred to her when she found out she was pregnant, entering the second trimester.
"I don't see another reason to be here", he stopped abruptly to observe the woman she had loved with all his heart carrying now their child. Why took her so long to reveal that to him? Maybe, she wasn't sure, another man could be possibly the father, he thought.
"Matt, we-" but he kept interrupting her.
"This child might be not mine, I had other women in my life after you, so you dated other men as well" he scratched his forehead." I don't want to disrespectful you, Gabby, but please understand my position, besides we had used protection..." he tried to recall their night together while Gabby had imprinted on her mind every detail of that night.
"Listen to me, I don't doubt that this baby is yours, I only had been with you at that time... I wasn't on birth control and... and you didn't use protection on the third time we had sex, we thought your 'pull out' game was going to work, but it didn't as you can see".
Matt sighed deeply as he ran a hand over his face. She was right and he couldn't deny the truth of her words.
"Don't worry, I'm not against a DNA test... since you have doubts about the baby, a simple test... will show if you are the baby dad or not". She was half offended by his previous words, yet he was on his right. After all, they had one encounter seven months ago and a lot of things had happened in their lives since then.
"We are not doing a paternity test... I believe in you" he affirmed as he digested his new role in the world: he's gonna be someone's dad.
"We are doing it, I don't want you... doubting about this, the baby deserves being loved completely". Gabby would blame the hormones for the tears threatening to fall again, she turned her back to him and wiped the tears away.
"Look, I'm not arguing with you anymore about this... I'm the father and you're not gonna take it from me. So I need to know... Why did you decide to tell me just now? If you think you are better than me, you're wrong, Gabby".
Then she turned around to looked at him on the eyes. "I'm not and I had my reasons to delay the news for you, you may not understand them..." she said nervously.
"Then you determined that six months were time enough to finally come back to Chicago and tell me?" he narrowed his eyes to her.
"I didn't take so easily that I was going to be a mommy, Matt... You've known I have a 10 percent chance of dying, yet I have 90% of overcoming this..." her eyes were tearing up. "I'm holding onto it because I've never wanted something so badly in my life and now it's real and it's happening... I have my doubts also..."
"I've always wanted that with you" he verbalized.
"Are you sure? Considering you went behind my back to an adoption agency..."
"You were putting your life on the line to give us a baby, Gabby... I couldn't accept it, I wouldn't lose you..."
"Although, you did, Matt..." she trailed off. "We are not together anymore..." she whispered. " My only wish was having my own child and you made pretty clear in your office that I couldn't and it broke me..."
"I shouldn't say that I was frustrated with you putting me out of your decision..." his words seemed genuine.
"Although it wasn't my intention to make you felt excluded from the decision of getting pregnant and now that I'm, I hope you don't consider that it happened intentionally, I didn't have a hidden agenda when I met you in Chicago."
"I never would think that of you. How could you claim that?" he asked angrily.
"Why I wouldn't, Matt? The last nail in the coffin happened when you didn't recognize me anymore, who I am", Matt wished they could forget their last fight, it was too painful to remember."As I spoke to you, I haven't changed, I will always stay true to my feelings". Gabby's emotions were all over the place.
"I know you, better than anyone else, so don't' come with this bullshit" he waved his hand above his head, he felt frustrated.
"Don't talk to me like that, Matt!" Gabby shouted at him. They stared at each other. Matt was one who looked away first, he couldn't take anymore her rage eyes towards him.
Gabby felt so tired of that back and forth, it was weighing on her, hence she chose to sit down on the armchair next to her. Matt watched her closely to make sure she was fine.
"What are you feeling?" he got worried when he saw her closing her eyes and resting her head against the back of the chair.
"I'm okay, just feeling tired..." she put a hand on her belly.
He got closer to her, "can I get you anything?" he asked softly.
"No, I'm fine, thank you". Silence fell over them for minutes.
"I had tried to call you, God knows, but when I thought over it, I gave up because it would feel more real... I would die giving birth to this baby and you were gonna be a single dad because of me. Her words hurt him deeply. "It was like a mantra", she gesticulated opening her eyes to gaze at him. "I could see you saying that I was leaving you to take care of him when you didn't intend to get me pregnant".
Matt's heart was crushed. He felt that somehow he failed her, she didn't trust him enough to overcome her fears of telling him about their child.
"I'm sorry for making you feel that way, Gabby. I assure you that I am not here to recall what that doctor said to us. I'm gonna support you in every step of the way". She didn't reply, her head was down, her hands seemed more interesting than his words.
"I- I want you to live with me...". She quickly raised her head. "At least until the baby was born".
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