Pawnshops and Carousels

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Chapter 27

Seth: The problem with my dad is that, he agreed to our new idea for about three seconds. Okay, about a week. We were doing good until the doctor put Sabrina on bed rest, and Steve decided to start throwing things out. My dad pitched a fit and threw him out of the store. Apparently only Sabrina could deal with my dad and with her out of commission everything went back to normal. I had tried to talk to my dad but of course he just dismissed me. I was livid, I have a baby on the way we need to be making money not loosing it and my dad is just making it worse by not letting us grow. So… I decide to take matters into my own hands.

Seth has been gone for most of the day. I tried calling him but he didn't pick up the first couple of times and the last time I got a hold of him he practically blew me off.

I was worried, I couldn't help it I was his dad, of course I'd be worried, so I called Sabrina. It was a bad idea, to worry her when Seth was so worried about her wellbeing and the doctor told her to stay on bed rest and to stay calm, but I needed answers. Seth had been so worried about Sabrina that he didn't trust her to stay home alone, so he had asked Lily to stay with her during the day, like some kind of babysitter. But it wouldn't be completely unheard of if Sabrina called him and asked him to come home. Seth would have sprinted out of here.

Maybe I just missed the mad dash for the car.

But calling her got me no answers. According to her Seth was at work, that was where he said he'd be. Then she immediately wondered if he was hurt… or worse… cheating on her. Everyone in the family knew there was no way my son was going to go down that road again, there was no way that he'd cheat on Sabrina a second time and potentially lose her… AGAIN. So that wasn't on the cards, and she normally would have known that if she wasn't going crazy with the baby hormones.

So when, after everything else, not even Sabrina knew where Seth was, I knew I was going to have to do some digging.

I walk into the back and go straight to Ashley's desk. "Hey do you know where Seth is?"

Ashley doesn't even look up from her computer. "I'm not my brother's keeper. I don't know where he is."

Well, Ashley was no help either. I pull out my phone and try to call him again, even I'm starting to get worried now. Flashes of my baby boy dead in a ditch somewhere, or rolling into some hospital after a major car accident are running through my head.

This time however he picks up the phone.

"Hey."

"Yep?"

"Where are you?"

"I'm… around."

Ominous. "What does that mean?"

Seth pauses again. "It means I'll be there in a little bit." His voice had been low for most of the call but suddenly it perked up. "Hey, here's a question… is there a reason why Sabrina is texting me accusing me of cheating on her?"

Yep, I don't want to answer that because I know exactly why she was texting him about that.

"Alright see you soon," I say and then hang up the phone as quickly as I can.

Ashley begins to laugh. "Oh… if you bothered his precious Sabrina about this, Seth is going to flip shit."

Yes, he would, but I had bigger issues at that moment. "Do you have any idea where he could be?"

"Have you checked his calendar? He puts everything in his calendar."

Okay, well that's good to know. Would have been nice if someone had told me that sooner though. Either way, I leave Ashley and go to his office look into the giant black suitcase that was the calendar that he used. My son loves his technology and I know that the only reason he uses this paper calendar is because Sabrina got it for him. And it works for me, because I can easily flip to the right day. I'm absolutely shocked by what I find there.

"Really?" I ask myself.

"What? What really? What did you find?" Ashley asks but honestly, I'm just too betrayed to believe it. There's no way my son, my own flesh and blood could do this to me.

I slam the calendar shut and leave his office, now I have Ashley's compete attention. "I'm too upset to talk about it right now. I'll be back."

Les: I can't believe my son, I thought I could trust him. I never would have imagined out of both of my children, that my precious baby boy would be the one to sell me out. But sure enough, I go all the way to Bill's Pawnshop, look into the window and there he fucking is. Standing there, with what I assume is Bill the owner, clearly talking shop with him. I didn't want to think he was there, but… he was. I've never felt so betrayed in my entire life. My son is abandoning the family business for the competition. Well… I won't stand for it.

I come back from my meeting and I'm already tense. My dad has been on my ass, Sabrina is sending me text messages like I owe her money about not being at work and cheating on her. So, I'm livid when I see her car in the parking lot and I swear my mom better have borrowed the car to come check on my dad.

But nope. I walk in and I see Sabrina standing with my dad and my mom and my sister. Oh god I'm going to kill them. For fuck sake.

As soon as they spot me, Sabrina turns around, her eyes wild and tear stained. Fuck these hormones they sure as hell got her doing all sorts of crazy things.

Before she can even shout at me, I'm on her. "What are you doing here, Sabrina? You're supposed to be on bed rest!" I then turn onto my mom. "Why did you let her come here mom!"

But my mom doesn't get to answer. Sabrina has punched my shoulder, hard. "You're leaving me, aren't you?!"

To be honest, I'm hurt that she could even think I would do that to her and our child. After everything I went through just to get her back in the first place. How the hell could she possibly think that I'd cheat, or leave her. I damn near took a bullet for her.

"Leaving you… leaving you… Sabrina!"

"Yes, you are. Les told me! There's a new pawnshop and new woman. You're leaving me, you're leaving the family!"

See now I'm surprised, cause I didn't tell her about the other pawnshop yet. Which meant someone had to tell her about it. This can only mean one thing… that my dad knows where I was today and for some reason, he told Sabrina, who now thinks that I'm leaving her for another woman. Thanks a lot dad.

I turn on him. "You worried my pregnant wife over this? Are you out of your mind?!"

"Well why were you working at my competitors?"

I groan because that is not the point. "But why the hell did you call Sabrina, why didn't you just call me?!"

"You weren't pick up your phone!" he yells.

"Because I was busy!" I scream back.

"Stop yelling! Stop yelling! We're family, family doesn't argue like this," she shouts at us and I immediately turn to her.

"You stop yelling, you're supposed to be on bed rest!"

"Not until you tell me what's going on!"

"For godsake Sabrina, of course I'm not leaving you… I was…"

But she doesn't let me finish, she hits my shoulder again, this time with her purse. Damn, that hurt. What does she have in there? Bricks?

"Then why Les asking me why you're in another pawn shop? Why did he not know where you were when you told me you were here… at work? Who's the other girl Seth?"

This is ridiculous. Going to another pawnshop is like cheating on my dad and the family business. It does not equate to me being with another woman. Not when I have the perfect woman at home. "There is no other girl!"

"Don't you dare lie to me!..." she suddenly stops and puts her hands to her belly. Immediately I go from being frustrated and angry to just plain scare and it gets worse when she starts to moan. "Oh…. Oh…"

A put a hand out to her. "What… what is it…"

Sabrina looks down to her dark sweat pants and then back up to me. "I think… I think my water just broke…"

I know I didn't hear what I think I just heard. "WHAT?!"

She is frantically looking around, rubbing her belly which is probably hurting her now. She sucks back another moan as I descend into panic. "Seth, my water broke… my water broke… oh oh dear…"

"Now? Are you serious? But that's early. That's like two weeks early!"

She turns her wide angry eyes onto me. "WELL IT'S HAPPENING NOW! SETH!"

"But we're not ready!" I scream and then begin to pace. "Oh god, everything… everything's at home, the bag we packed for the hospital our fucking health cards… who's car do we take?"

Sabrina groaned and turned to my family who were all watching us with rapt interest. "Okay, Ashley, Lilli, Les, Bobby J… anybody. Help me please. Seth's essentially useless."

"No, no I got this," I cry, jumping over the counter and heading for the door. "To the car! To the car!"

I rushed out the door got to my car and pulled out of my spot before I realized that Sabrina wasn't with me. I pulled up to the front where they were waiting for me.

"We'll meet you at the hospital," my dad tells me as he helps Sabrina into the car. "Lilli's going to go back to the apartment and grab the bag, Ashley's agreed to check on Escobar until you guys are back."

Well that's everything covered then. I look at Sabrina who's wincing in pain as the contractions have, no doubt, started. We're about to have our baby.

Four hours of screaming, of handing my wife ice chips, and her squeezing my hand so hard I'm certain she's broken it, our baby is born. Sierra Catherine Gold is about two weeks early and a little under weight, sitting at 4.5 pounds and 15 inches. Though she's smaller than expected our doctor ensures that this normal and she's not unhealthy or in any danger.

She's taken away for a check up and I spend the rest of my time with Sabrina who is breathless and still going through the pains of after birth which I didn't not realize was a thing. By the time the whole process is done, Sabrina, who's already had a chance to hold our child, is out for the count and now it's my turn.

I stand in that little hospital room, where my wife is quietly sleeping, holding my daughter in my arms. She's so… she's so little and quiet. Other when she first came out, she hasn't made a single noise. I'm not stupid enough to think it'll always be like this. But for right now I'm just amazed that me and Sabrina made tiny perfect little human.

And I have like a million messages from my family who are all waiting to meet our baby too. So, with the nurse's permission, I head out to the waiting room where my family is waiting with Sierra in my arms.

"Hey guys," I say softly once I'm out there getting all of their attentions. "Come on over and meet Sierra Catherine Gold."

All of a sudden, I'm surrounded by family. Ashley and her husband are on one side looking in on her little face and my dad and mom or on the other. Everyone is cooing and awing at how pretty sure is and how beautiful. They ask me about Sabrina, and how Sierra is since she was born early. I answer all of their questions and then everyone starts asking how we picked the names and when they get to hold her but I don't want to let go of my daughter just yet.

So, while my mom and Ashley argue over who gets to hold Sierra first my dad approaches me. He looks sheepish and I wonder if he'll take the distraction as a chance to hold Sierra first.

Instead he says: "I just want to say… that if you explain to me what happened, I'm sure I'll be able to forgive you…"

I groan at can't be serious right now. "Dad, we're going to do this now, right now? With Sierra, your granddaughter, in my arms?"

He shrugs at me. "I'm just saying…"

I sigh, my god he's never going to let this go, and since I plan to be off for the first little while to be with Sabrina and Sierra, I might as well get it over now. "You wanna know what I was doing there?" I ask him and he nods. "I was consulting, alright? I'm getting paid to tell other people how to run their business."

"You're selling our trade secrets?"

"No, because you won't implement what I'm teaching in the store!" I cry and my dad is slightly taken aback. The only thing that reels me back in is that my daughter starts to fuss in my arms. "Look today is a happy day. My daughter was just born, you wanna be mad at me, you can be mad at me. But the only reason I was doing it for the extra income, alright? I had a child on the way who is now here and I needed the extra cash, alright? Is that good enough for you?"

In my arms my daughter continues to fuss and I look down to make sure that it isn't my raised voice that's upsetting her. I bounce her a little bit like I saw Ashley doing with her kids and that calms her right down.

When I look up again my dad has softened. "Look, it's family or nothing, you need more money I'll give you a raise. Talk to me, not our competitors."

I shake my head. "Alright dad. Alright, do you wanna hold your granddaughter or do you wanna argue?"

"No, no I want to hold her."

"Then shut up and take her, dad."

He takes my daughter into my arms and looks down at her chubby little face, I can already see so much of Sabrina and me in her. God I hope she grows into those giant ears of hers. But honestly, I'm just so amazed that I helped back something so damn perfect.