He cried so much that it got to the point that if he cried for a long time I can tune him out. My little Shawn Douglas Cameron-Van Zandt. Yes, it was a long name, but I wanted him to have my name as well as his father's. I was usually so smart, but I was naïve when it came to sex. After he had some of me, he left me until I told him I was pregnant. He decided to do the noble thing and come back.

He was so different since he'd got with Emma, and then Ellie. Now he's mine, Sean Cameron. He was as good as he was made out to be since he pretty much always had a girlfriend.

We lived together in Sean's home. He wasn't on student welfare anymore, he'd gotten a job, but we were still in his house.

Shawn Douglas was the smallest thing I've ever held except for the mini pencil sharpeners. He had brown eyes and brown hair, a mixture of my brown and Sean's blond. He cried so much because I was nursing him and he always wanted to be nursed. He was born a month early and he stayed in the hospital for a long time.

Sean was a good daddy who only left home to work, and anywhere else he'd bring his son. I did see Sean staring out of the windows sometimes, longing to be free again.

"Liberty, as soon as you turn eighteen we're getting married!" he declared many times. I'd just laugh and smile because that was when he was in his happy moods.

At the moment Sean and I were both cranky.

"Would you get him?" he yelled.

"I'm not your slave," I snapped. "Women aren't slaves anymore and neither are African Americans. Besides, he's your son."

"He's your too!" Sean yelled back at me. He was in the bathroom shaving or something and that wasn't important at all.

"You weren't saying that at the store yesterday!"

"You know what Liberty," Sean peeked at me from the doorway. "I wish I hadn't got into this mess with you. As much as I have Shawn you can't even pick him up out of his crib. What the hell are you doing?"

"None of your damn business Sean!"

Actually I wasn't doing anything, just being lazy. Just across the room Shawn was crying in his crib, but I didn't want to get him. I didn't want to be a mom. I didn't want him, period. I could've given him up for adoption if Sean hadn't stopped me.

Sean didn't say anything at first, but then his voice got calm and cool. "If you don't go get him I'm taking Shawn and we're leaving for good. Tonight we will." His tone was threatening and I knew he really meant it. He wouldn't lie about something like that. "I have girls lining up to be with me."

I couldn't stand that, but I let my pride get in the way. "Fine, I don't need you and I sure as hell don't need your baby."

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I could tell he was surprised, but Sean kept to his word. If he said he was going to do something then so far everything that he told me he was going to do has been done. A week had passed and he hadn't said anything or called. Although my heart was jumping in my chest I didn't react at all. I only sat there pissed. I was being declined my rights as a mother. I had a right to grow up with my child, now I didn't know where he was.

Emma and Manny tried their best to comfort me, but I knew they didn't want to be bothered. No one would have wanted to be bothered by poor Liberty who had let her ex take her child away from her.

Soon as I began drifting into depression I found myself cuddling with the stuffed animals that Sean hadn't taken. I really missed Shawn and I wished I could've been a better mother, but I was a bitch. I deserved this and I knew it. I should've been dead and in hell for what I've done.

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It was a cold day outside when the door had burst open and Sean walked in with my baby.

"Oh my God!" I screamed happily meeting them. I picked my baby up from his car seat and held him so close to me. "I missed you Shawn." Then I looked at Sean who had taken good care of his son, my son, our son. He was the best father in the world. "I love you Sean"

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Author's Note: Sorry it was so short, but this chapter was boring. I hope you continue to read though because it is good since I wrote some of the other…interesting couples. I just want you to know that some of my chapters are boring and then some are something to be proud of, but it's like that because I wrote them in a different order then I posted them.