Chapter Nineteen: Never Coming Back
A/N: This chapter will take a tiny break from Manny and it's going to be really short anyway. I just want a chapter on Paige, but don't worry; the next chapter will be right back to Manny and what happens with her…
It had been four months since Chris went to jail. Paige couldn't believe everything that happened to Chris and Manny. She thought she had it bad when she got pregnant, but compared to Manny's life, she had it pretty easy. She was sitting on the couch in her house, waiting for Jake to come over. The doorbell rang and she jumped up to answer it.
"Jake! You know you don't have to ring the…" she started to say, but realized that the person at the door wasn't Jake. "Spinner, what are you doing here?" she asked, surprised. He was holding a baby; his baby with Hazel. He was also crying.
"This is my daughter, her name is Maia," he simply said.
"Do you want to come in?" Paige asked him. She felt bad for him, but she didn't know why. She didn't know why he was crying. Spinner walked into Paige's house and closed the door. "What's wrong?" she asked him when he sat on the couch.
"She said she couldn't do it. She wasn't ready to take care of a baby. I don't know where she went Paige," he told her.
"Hazel left you?" she asked.
"Yeah, she did. Our marriage has been annulled. She's never coming back," he said.
"Spin, I'm so sorry," she told him and gave him a small hug.
"I can't raise her alone," he told Paige. "I want us to be a family. Me, you, Avery, and Maia," he whispered.
"Spinner I can't do that," Paige told him. "I love Jake and we're going to get married some day. I'm sorry. I want you to know that we'll do whatever we can to help you out," she told him.
"Paige, I love you. I always have. You don't know how upset I was when I found out that Hazel was pregnant. I always wanted to be with you, I was just scared when you foundout that you were pregnant. I didn't think I could raise a baby, but now that I have one of my own, I love her so much. But I can't do this alone."
"I can't be with you Spinner, it's too late," she said and shed a few tears for him.
"I'll never give up on you Paige. Just know that if you ever need me again, I'll be there and I won't leave you," Spinner told her. He kissed her lightly and stood up. At that minute, Jake walked into the house.
"Um, hey Spinner. What's up?" he asked. Normally, a guy would immediately be angry if he found his girlfriend with her ex-boyfriend, but he trusted Paige, and knew she wouldn't do anything to hurt him.
"Nothing. I was just leaving," he told Jake and walked out of the house.
"What was that all about?" Jake asked Paige as he sat down beside her.
"He just needed someone to talk to," she told him. "Hazel left them," she added.
"Poor Spinner," Jake said. "He's a good guy, he doesn't deserve that. But I'm guessing he came back to ask you to be with him."
"Yeah, he did. But I told him that I love you and would never leave you," she said. Jake smiled and kissed her. Paige pulled Jake down on top of her and kissed him back. They had been together for seven months, and Paige knew she was ready. "Make love to me," she whispered in his ear.
A/N: Spinner and Hazel's daughter's name is pronounced 'Maya.'