Chapter 3

I was having so much fun with my family that night. As usual every time we're together my uncle and my brother got into an argument about which sport was better basketball or football. Me, my sister-in-law and my cousins watched on in enjoyment at the two while prince played with his food, soon after the fight was over I heard my house phone begin to ring.

"Hello". I said.

"Hi, um, is this Mary". I voice said on the other line.

"Yes".

"Oh, this is Carol, you know from the grocery store". It took a moment for me to remember who she was.

"Hi Carol, what's up?". I asked.

"Nothing much, I was just wondering if you were free tomorrow, there's something important I need to talk to you about".

"...ok, yeah I'm free, where do you wanna meet?".

"Well, is it alright if I come to your house?".

"Sure, that's fine with me".

"Great, I'll be there at around 1:00".

"Okay, bye".

"Bye". We disconnected our calls and I hung up and proceeded back to the dining room.

The next day I was looking through my closet for something to wear. It was about 12:45 and Carol would be here soon, I didn't want to make a bad impression by looking like a slut so Breathe was helping me out.

"Why don't you just go with some jeans and a tee?". Breathe said as she continued to tickle Prince.

"All my jeans are tight and so are my tee's".

"She's just coming over to talk, it's not like she's inviting you to a black and white party".

"I know". I said. After a minute or two I decided on a plain white shirt that I tied in the back, some white faded jeans and flip flops. Just as I finished getting ready I heard the doorbell ring, I turned to Breathe who winked at me.

"Don't come downstairs alright?". I asked, she nodded and gave me the ok. I quickly ran downstairs before she could ring a second time.

"Hi". I said opening the door for her.

"Hello". She said rather quietly stepping inside my house, she took a second to look around. "Your house is very beautiful".

"Thank you". I said, we both took a seat on the living room couch. I could see she seemed kinda nervous about something, but I ignored it.

"So, tell me about yourself Mary". Carol said. I gave her a weird look.

"I thought you had something important to tell me".

"I do, but this is part of it".

"Oh". I said. "Well, I just turned 20 about a month ago and I finished college earlier than expected so I could get a job and take care of Prince".

"A job, what do you do?".

"Well not 'a' job, I'm a work-out instructor, lawyer, I help out a the hospital sometimes with my friend breathe and I tutor some of the college students at school".

"Wow, I could never do that".

"It's hard I'll admit, but when I had my son, to be honest I was in debt and low on money, so I had to put my skills to work, it's kinda fun actually because I have my own schedule for everything".

"Speaking about your son, why don't you tell me about him".

"What do you mean?".

"Like about his father". She said.

"...well...his father left me a year ago, I was pregnant at the time and I never got the chance to tell him".

"Why not?".

"I guess he just didn't want to hear what I had to say". I said sadly.

"Do you know where he is?".

"No and frankly I don't care, I don't want to see or hear from him again".

"Well what happened, why are you so mad at him, why did you two break up?". Truthfully the fact that I was telling a lady that I didn't even know that well my personal business, was starting to make me upset, having to relive the past over and over, but I decided to tell her.

"He said I was hovering him to much, that he needed space. He had been out late every night and after he cheated on me the month before I just wanted to make sure he wasn't doing it again, plus I was worried. When I would ask him where he had been when he came home, he would yell at me to leave him alone, that it was his business and then we would get into this big argument. Are relationship at that time wasn't going so well, you could say it was kinda rocky, we would hardly ever hang-out like we usually would, or go out together unless it was with our friends. We even slept in separate rooms, when I got the news that I might be pregnant I was so happy because I figured that it would be a chance for us to start over, but the night I was going to tell him was the night he'd had enough and left". A tear escaped my eye and I wiped it away. I looked over at Carol who was looking at me sadly.

"Mary, I'm so sorry".

"It's okay, I'm fine". I said putting on a fake smile. "So what was your news". She took my hand into hers.

"Mary, the reason that I came over today is...". Carol took a deep breath. "...I think that my son is the father of your son Prince".