Part 2
1 month later- February
Mimi is three months pregnant.
"We're going to have to tell them, Mimi. There's no way that you can put it off much longer.
You're already starting to show a little."
Mimi listened to her boyfriend's words and tried not to cry. Jesus, it seemed as if she cried over
everything here lately. She absentmindedly rubbed her slightly rounded belly. Telling her parents
that she was pregnant was the last thing she wanted to do.
Jason watched her eyes tear up and his heart broke a little more. They were in a mess. Here they
were at 18. Young, stupid, unprepared and pregnant. Jason knew that everyone would expect him
to leave Mimi high and dry. There was no way he could do that. He was going to be responsible
for their actions, and he loved her. As much as he had tried to deny it to himself in the past, Jason
loved Mimi.
They hadn't told anyone yet. They were keeping it a secret for a long as they could. The other day
Belle had asked Mimi why she was spending so much time with Jason and Mimi told her that they
were together now. Belle looked at her like she had two heads. Mimi could only imagine what she
would say if she told Belle that she was having Jason's child.
30 minutes later, they were still sitting in Jason's truck parked outside the Lockhart home. Finally
Mimi reached for the door handle. "Let's hope for the best."
They walked hand in hand to the door and went inside.
Thankfully both her parents were home, so Mimi didn't have to do this twice.
"Mama, Daddy. Jason and I have something to tell you." Mimi began. "Sit down."
Maureen Lockhart's heart sank to the bottom of her chest, she feared for the worst and her fears
were confirmed.
"Well, I'm pregnant." Jason squeezed Mimi's hand for support as he watched her mother crumple
into tears and her father's face turn beet red with fury.
Mimi started crying too. "I'm sorry, Mama. I'm so sorry. I ruined everything we talked about."
Mimi was hoping for some supporting words from her parents, but she soon realized there
wouldn't be any.
Mimi looked at her father, who was fighting back tears. "Daddy."
David Lockhart simply shook his head and got up and left the room before his little girl saw him
cry and before he put hid fist through Jason Masters face. The nerve of that punk to show up in
HIS house and tell him that he ruined his daughter's life. No, she ruined her own life.
Mimi watched as her father simply walked away from her. He wouldn't even look at her. Mimi
wanted to die. She wanted to die for hurting her parents so much. She felt so ashamed.
Mimi sat next to her mother and tried to comfort her. When Maureen jerked away from her Mimi
lost it. She started sobbing uncontrollably.
David Lockhart reappeared. "I want you out of this house. You are no longer welcome. And I
don't EVER want to see you, this bastard who knocked you up, or the bastard child you're carrying."
Mimi looked at her father in astonishment. What? What did he just say? She was still in a daze
when Jason helped her up and lead her out of the house. Neither one of them looked back.
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Jason drove them to his house in the Upper Side of Salem. Mimi watched all the other mansions
passing by and she felt numb. Not from the cold February air, but from her father's harsh words
and her mother's silent betrayal. She was on her own. Her parents wanted nothing to do with her.
Jason helped her out of the truck and lead her into his family's mansion. They went to the kitchen
and he fixed her some tea. It seemed to help everyone else.
She still hadn't said anything and he was starting to get scared.
Mimi sat there in her own world thinking back to when she was a little girl and could do no
wrong in her parents eyes and she was her father's little princess.
She could hear Jason on the phone, who was trying to be quite.
"Yeah, it's an emergency. Mom, I really need you right now. Could you please come home. Ok.
I'll see you then."
Jason just sat with her until his mother arrived. Mimi's tea sat untouched.
Jason greeted his mother in the hallway.
Jaclyn Masters looked at her youngest son and saw the grief etched on his handsome face. "What
is it, darling?"
Jason hung his head and then met his mother's eyes, "Mimi's pregnant."
Jaclyn closed her eyes. This was every parent's worst nightmare was to have your teenage son or
daughter dealing with something like this. She simply reached out and gave him a hug. "I love
you, Jason and no matter what we'll work this out."
Jason leaned into his mother's warm embrace and inhaled her familiar perfume. He was so lucky
to have his parents. They were so supportive of him.
"There's something else." Jason told his mother what all had happened at the Lockhart home.
Jaclyn was in tears by the time he finished. "She's still in there and hasn't said a word since."
Jaclyn Masters entered her kitchen and looked at the small girl sitting at the table. She looked
utterly broken. Jaclyn's past came back to her and she saw herself sitting there. "Come on, dear.
Let's go sit somewhere more comfortable."
Jaclyn lead her to the den and sat her down on one of the plush couches.
Jaclyn pulled her into a hug. "It's going to be alright, honey. You're going to be just fine." Jaclyn
continued to croon reassuring words to her and Mimi starting sobbing again. Loud heart
wrenching sobs. Jaclyn just continued to hold her and rock her. She cried too, for the anguish this
young girl suffer and for herself, for she had been in a similar situation many years ago.
Jason stood back and watched the two woman he cared about most, wondering what they all
were in store for next.
