(Vincent's Pov)
-Two Weeks Later-
Two weeks, it's been two damn weeks since I had gone to take that test and I just kept freaking out when the phone would ring and Clem would answer it. She looked at me as if I was crazy a few times but can I blame her? I was acting very fucking weird. Brody and the others were still here along with Clementine's friends who were currently playing on the game system a bit. I then hear the house phone ring and I got up to answer but it was already picked up as Clementine looked at me.
"Hello?" She asked and I looked at her to figure out who she was talking too.
"I'm sorry can you repeat that?" She asked and I looked to the phone a bit and she looked to me.
"Oh… ok I'll be sure to tell him." She says as she hangs the phone up and she looked angry but didn't yell. Her voice was very scary though.
"That was the hospital, mind telling me why there was a paternity test done and your name is involved?" She asked and I hear the room go silent at this, fucking nosey people.
"I uh… well you see I uh." I tried to speak but I couldn't. I was scared and I rubbed my neck a bit at this.
"Who is she? You apparently know this woman." She says and I look at her and I felt small.
"What uh… what was the results?" I asked and she glared at me and crossed her arms as she looked to me.
"I won't tell you until you tell me who the woman is." She says and I feel a hand on my shoulder and I look to Brody and I rubbed the back of my head.
"I uh… well it… it was an honest mistake I was drunk and-."
"WHO?!" She yells and I flinched at this.
"M-Minerva." I say quietly and I felt a slap to my cheek and the hand get taken off my shoulder and I held my cheek and looked to Clem who was seething with anger.
"Woah hold on what is going on?" Louis asked.
"YOU'RE HAVING A FUCKING CHILD WITH HER?!" Clem yells and I look at her.
"I didn't do it on fucking purpose." I tell her.
"OH, AND THAT SHOULD MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?!" Clementine yells and I back up a bit as she tried to come after me again but this time Brody and Louis, both grabbed her and I looked at her scared.
"I was fucked up ok, I didn't even… I don't remember any of it, I was drunk off my ass after the funeral and I-I don't know I didn't know it happened, she told me we didn't and then… fucking…. I just." I started to panic and I held my chest a bit as the room span.
"BULLSHIT!" Clem yelled and I look to her.
"I swear-."
"Clem he's right, he was out of it after the funeral." Brody says and she shoved Brody off of her.
"YOU KNEW?!" Clem yelled.
"Vincent called me but I didn't want to say anything it wasn't my place; believe me he had a fucking panic attack on the way to the doctors." Brody tried to explain but I tried to calm myself down but I couldn't. Clem was mad, I was going to be a dad and not with Clem being the mother.
"I… I need… can't." I tried to speak but fell to the ground and I tried to breath but I couldn't. I saw Brody come up to me and Ruby did as well trying to calm me down but it was becoming an issue.
"Call an ambulance." Ruby says and I tried to breath but it was becoming an issue.
"Fucking hell." I hear as I tried to breath like Brody was telling me to. I shake my head and place my hand to my chest as it felt constricted and I tried to keep calm.
"N-No… No… Hosp- Hospital." I tried to speak.
"Jesus Vincent, you need to calm down." Marlon says and I tried. I really tried and I was able to after a while. I was breathing slowly like Brody and she looks at me and so does Ruby.
"What the hell." Louis says and I coughed a bit.
"Is he ok?" I hear Clem ask and I shake my head at this and I back up a bit. I looked to the floor and I felt Ruby move away from me and I just kept breathing like Brody.
"Here drink some water." Ruby says and I nod a bit as I grabbed the cup. My hands shaking a bit so I placed it on the floor and I take a few deep breaths. I then looked up to Clem who looked scared herself and I look back to the floor.
"I… Can… can Clem and I… talk?" I asked.
"Are you sure?" Brody asked and I nod.
"Ok, let's head on out." Ruby says and I feel the two women move away from me and I hear the door open and close as everyone left the house. I take a few deep breaths and I look up to see Clementine looking at me and I look back down.
"I… I didn't mean… I didn't… I don't." I tried to speak but my words were caught in my throat.
"I… Vincent I just." Clem tried to speak but even she couldn't say anything on this.
"Are you ok?" She asked as I look at her and see her come up to me and I just look at her and I shake my head.
"No… no I'm not." I tell her.
"What… I'm sorry for hitting you I just-."
"I get it… I deserved it… I was hoping it wasn't mine." I tell Clem honestly as I interrupted her and she looks at me.
"Explain… what happened." She tells me and I nod a bit.
"I was drunk, I couldn't deal with my family especially my aunt and Uncle…. I basically forced Brody to come out to a bar with me, I forced her to come with me… I got wasted and I just… I don't know what happened after the drive home, Brody said something about taking me to my room after my aunt and uncle started something with me, and I just… escaped? I suppose… after Brody went to get me some water and medicine." I tell her and she looks at me.
"I woke up in a motel and I was naked in the bed… I was looking for my clothes and then I saw Minerva and she told me that I just threw up on my clothes, she said we didn't have sex or anything and I just… I'm so sorry." I tell Clementine and I hear her sigh.
"I don't know what to do." Clementine says and I grabbed the water and took a drink then looked to the ground.
"I… if I'm going to be honest… if you want to leave me, I won't stop you." I tell her.
"Do you think I should leave you?" She asked and I think.
"I… I'm not to sure." I tell her in all honesty.
"Would you stay with me if I cheated on you?" She asked and I look at her.
"I… I think so… I mean I stayed with Minerva and she was cheating on me a lot… but… it's your choice to leave me I can't make the choice for you." I tell her and she was looking at me then she looked to the side.
"Is it a boy or girl?" She asked me and I look at her confused.
"The baby… is it a boy or girl?" She asked.
"I uh… I don't know." I tell her.
"Hmm… is she going to let you visit the baby?" She asked and I think and nod.
"I asked if I could… but I… I was hoping the kid wasn't mine." I mutter and pulled my legs to my chest and I lean my head on my knees.
"Look… right now I have no trust in you, I don't want to leave you because I believe your story, you don't remember any of it and Minerva did lie to you… but I don't want you to think you can't earn my trust back." She says and I nod at this.
"And… I don't want you to think I won't help you take care of the baby." She says and I look up at her quickly and she looks at me.
"I… no you don't need to help me, it's my responsibility-."
"How about this… if you think you need my help than I will help you with the baby." She says and I nod a bit.
"I'm sorry Clementine." I tell her as she gets up.
"Sure, you are, I'm going to get the others, go sit on the couch if you can get up." She says and I tried to get up but my legs were shaking a bit so I sit back down slowly. I feel hands on my shoulder and I look to see Clementine as she helped me up and I took a seat on the couch. Clem then grabbed my water and I watch as she set it on the table. She looked out the window and sighed a bit.
"They left, don't know when they will be back." She says and I nod and looked to my hands which were on my lap. I felt awful about everything, I deserved every bad thing that happened to me.
"I… I'm sorry." I muttered and placed my face in my hands. I felt like crying but I did my best to keep the tears at bay.
"Vincent." I hear Clem say and I tried to slow my breathing a bit.
"I'm sorry…. I'm so sorry I…. I fucked up, and I'm sorry." I tell her and she rubbed my back a bit but it didn't work on calming me. She should have left me, she shouldn't be helping me, I was a bastard I don't deserve this sweet woman.
"Please calm down, you're going to have another panic attack." She tells me and I tried. It took a bit but I was able to calm down as best as I could. My phone goes off and I tried to grab it but I stopped and looked at it a bit.
"I think you should answer it." Clem says and I look at her then to the phone. I grabbed the phone and saw it was Minerva I put the phone on speaker so Clem could also hear and speak if need be.
"Vincent?" Minerva asked.
"And Clementine." I say to her.
"Oh uh… hello." Minerva says and I hold myself a bit.
"I uh, wrong num-."
"She knows." I interrupt her and I look to the phone then to the floor.
"I uh… um." Minerva didn't know what to say and I look at Clementine a bit.
"Look, I'm a bit upset but right now, I kind of want to know how this is going to be planned out, is Vincent going to have visitations and such?" Clem asked and I just kept quiet.
"Yes of course, I know how much he's wanted a kid of his own, I wouldn't keep him from that." She says and I look at Clementine as she kind of glared at the phone a bit.
"Alright, that's good at least." Clem says and I nod a bit.
"Well, I have an appointment next month, we can see the baby's gender… and if you want you can come Clementine." Minerva says and I look to the phone then to Clementine.
"Sure, if they'll let me." She says and I nod.
"Alright, send Vincent the information and we will meet you than." Clem says and Minerva agreed and then she hung up and I look at Clem then back down.
"You should call your parents when you can." Clem tells me and I nod at this.
"I will." I tell her and I just stayed in one place. Clem called the others and said they could come back when they can and I just sat on the couch. As all our friends came back, I had a few people giving me disappointed looks and I just looked to the floor.
"How could you do this?" Louis asked and I just kept my eyes to the ground.
"You slept with Minerva what the hell?" Marlon says and I look up to them and I sighed and looked back down. Right now, it felt like I couldn't defend myself so what was the point in doing so, I felt bad I really did, they act as if I wanted this but I didn't.
"What was going through your mind?" Louis says and I shake my head on this.
"You all act as if I was sober when I did that, I was… you know what fuck it." I say as I get up.
"No this is bullshit, you cheated on Clementine." Gabe says and I glared at him.
"Stop this now, look-."
"Clementine don't try and defend this asshole." Gabe says and Clem looks to him.
"Don't tell me what to do, Vincent and I are going to work things out." Clementine tells him and I look at her.
"This isn't right." Gabe says and I just keep quiet on this.
"Just stop, I don't want to hear this anymore." Clem says.
"You should leave him; this isn't right for fuck's sake he's having a baby with another woman." Louis says and I look at him.
"FUCK YOU!" I yelled as I stood up.
"FUCK YOU, I MADE A MISTAKE AND I FUCKING REGRET IT!" I yelled at him and he looked at me in shock and I shake my head.
"Look Vincent and I-."
"You shouldn't have to take care of anything, Clem, Vincent fucked up he needs to take care of the kid himself." Gabe says and I get pissed off at this.
"Oh, this coming from the guy that didn't want me to be friends with Sarah anymore? Your judgement isn't needed so shut the hell up." Clementine says and I look to her. Everyone was silent and I just rubbed my neck a bit at this, I couldn't say anything and I don't know why.
"Vincent." I hear and look at Clementine and I shake my head at this and I headed outside. I took a seat by the firepit and I just kept to myself for the rest of the night. Clementine's friends left and so did the band, I hear the door open and I look to see Clem as she looked to me and she had a mug in her hand and I rubbed my hands a bit and then looked to her.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I shake my head and chuckled a bit.
"I should be asking if you're ok." I say and I see her take a seat next to me.
"Look, you have every right to be mad at me, I don't blame you at all, and fuck… I hate to say it but Gabe was right, I should deal with my own problems." I say to her.
"I understand but I want to be there for you, we can work this out… yea I'm going to be upset for a long time, it's expected." She tells me and I nod.
"I'm just… I'm sorry I don't want to talk anymore." I mutter and I feel her hand on my shoulder as I looked down to the ground. Clementine stayed with me for a bit before she went inside since I wasn't talking to her at all. A few weeks had passed by and currently Clementine and I were at the doctor's office and I was looking at the monitor as Minerva was laying on the hospital bed. As the doctor was prepping up for the ultrasound, I looked to Clementine but then back to the floor for a bit.
"Alright, and we should be able to see the gender of the baby, do you want to know?" The doctor asked and I looked to Minerva then to Clementine.
"Sure, that would be great." Minerva says and I sit up a bit at this and look to the monitor as the Doctor gets to work. I heard both Clem and Minerva laughing a bit at this.
"Guess dad's excited hu?" The doctor asked and I just keep my eyes on the screen.
"Yea he is." Clem says and I see something on the screen.
"Oh, there is the baby." The doctor says and I look to Clem then to the screen again.
"Alright, and the baby is… a girl congratulations." The doctor says and I look at the Monitor more.
"Could we get copies of the ultra sound?" Clem asked.
"Sure, would you like a copy to mom?" The doctor asked Minerva who nodded and we finally got our photos and I look at it for a while. The doctor tells us that the baby should be here in about nineteen more weeks.
"So that would mean the baby is going to be born in July." Clem says and I just keep looking at the photo. A daughter I was having a daughter in a few short weeks.
"I think you'll need to drive him home." Minerva says and I look to them.
"Hu?" I asked as I looked to them and they laughed at this.
"Ok, let's get you home." Clem says and I nod a bit as I look back to the photo as I got in the car.
"You're really excited for this." She says and I look at Clementine.
"I mean… this is my first kid; I mean this is just… I am having a daughter… Me… I never thought this would happen." I tell her and I look at the photo again.
"Oh, we need to get a room ready for the baby when she visits." Clem mentions and I nod.
"Oh, a pink room, oh or sharks… I don't know what she would like, maybe she'll like music, or sports, I have many things planned for when she's old enough." I say and I look to the road as Clementine drove.
"Have you called your parents yet?" She asked.
"No, but I will tell them, I have a photo to show them." I say and I looked back to the photo.
"Alright…" She says and I look at her and saw the sad look on her face.
"Are you ok?" I ask her.
"I just… you seem so happy about this, I get it, it's your first child and of course you should be excited… it's just…" she stops and I rubbed my neck a bit at this.
"It's because it's with Minerva, right?" I asked her and she nods a bit.
"I just… I'm… I'm pissed off." She says and I look at her sadly.
"I get it you were blackout drunk but it just… fucking hell." Clem says and I looked to the road as we get to the street from our house.
"I know me saying sorry won't fix all this, honestly I've been keeping quiet so that I wouldn't say the wrong thing to you or others." I tell her.
"Say what wrong thing? What would you say that's wrong?" She asked.
"Hell, if I know, just… Gabe and Louis got to me I guess and well fuck I know my parents might yell at me too and I just don't want that to happen." I explained and then sighed.
"Plus, I guess you… after what happened when you found out I just… I just don't want to mess anything up." I tried to explain but I just stopped talking and sighed.
"I am sorry for what I had done." She tells me and I look at her.
"You don't need to be sorry; you had every reason to be mad I get it." I tell her.
"But it was wr-."
"No, it wasn't wrong, listen to me Clementine, I fucked up I really did, I don't want you to forgive me so easily… for fuck sake you are the sweetest woman I have ever dated, you're even saying that you'll help me raise the kid and I am very grateful that you are willing to help me." I tell her as she pulled up to the house and I looked at her as she sighed.
"I uh… it's just I feel bad for the kid." She tells me and I chuckled at this and rubbed the back of my head a bit.
"Yea." I mutter and I look to the house.
"I didn't mean it to be rude, you'll be a great father." She tells me and I nod and get out the car.
"I get it, trust me I do." I say as we walked up to the house. I went into the living room and took a seat on the couch and Clem also took a seat next to me. I looked at the photo more and then look back to Clementine who was smiling a bit at the picture as well.
"You good?" I ask her.
"Yea just… thinking." She tells me and I look at the photo again.
"Just imagine if we had a kid." She says and I look at her a bit shocked.
"Woah wait we uh-."
"I know it's after I finish college, I know I just got to thinking, and you look happy in all honesty." She says and she places her hand on my shoulder.
"I am a bit happy, I mean a daughter, I just can't believe it, I mean… sorry I just… holy hell." I mutter and I chuckled at this.
"So, what should we get for her?" Clem asked.
"One of those huge teddy bears, that would be funny." I tell her and Clem laughed a little and I look at her.
"You know you're basically going to be her mom too." I tell her.
"I suppose so, but I don't want to overstep." She tells me and I am a bit confused.
"Overstep? You aren't going to overstep in anything trust me… hell I don't know how to raise a kid so any help would be great." I tell her and she looks to the floor.
"I just don't want be a bother or just… I think that Minerva would get mad-."
"Who the fuck cares, I'm with you, and yea I'm having a kid with her but you are my girlfriend and you are willing to help me raise my daughter even though you don't have to, like I said you could have left me but you didn't and you want to help me even though you don't have to." I tell her and she looks at me.
"You're a sweetheart Vincent, of course I would help you." She says and we kept silent for a bit and then decided to make some lunch. It wasn't long till Clementine's family came over and I was just looking at my phone for a bit as I stared at my mom's phone number.
"Thinking about calling your mom?" Clem asked and I look at her and I nod at this.
"Yea I mean… I just haven't been able to tell them." I look up a bit and take a breath then looked back to my phone.
"You haven't talked to them in months." She says.
"I know I know." I mutter.
"Haven't talked to who?" I hear and looked to Lee.
"Oh, uh just my parents we haven't talked to them since my grandmother passed." I tell him.
"Ah I get it." He says and I nod.
"Oh, it's not because of the baby?" AJ asked.
"WAIT WHAT?!" Lee and Carly yelled at the same time.
"Wait, no it's not what you think." Clem says and they look to her.
"What do you mean?" Carly asked and I rubbed my head a bit at this.
"Look it happened when I was in Texas ok, I was drunk and I don't know what happened all I know is that… is that." I stopped and sighed.
"Wait, you don't remember anything and got someone pregnant?" Carly asked and I nod.
"That's rape, you were raped, you were drunk you didn't consent to it." She says and I look at her.
"Wait no, I don't know what happened let's not go and do that." I say to her.
"Vincent-."
"Stop, just stop please look I just don't-."
"Vincent, you don't know what happened and now a girl is having your baby… wait how do you know if it's even yours?" Lee asked.
"Because I know who the mother is and had a paternity test done, I just wanted to make sure if It was or wasn't mine." I explained.
"Clem did you know?" Lee asked her.
"Yes, I know, Vincent and I already talked it out and I said I would help him." She says.
"I… I can't stop you on this, just… I would really want you to focus on your schooling." Carly says and I look at her.
"Trust me, I want her to focus on her schooling, I just might need some help if it gets too bad." I explained.
"I don't know raising a baby is a big responsibility." Lee says and I rubbed my neck a bit at this.
"We know." Clem says and I looked back to my phone and sighed.
"Well… alright I'm just going to rip it off like a band-aid and tell my parents." I say and I called my mother.
"Hey Vincent are you ok?" She asked.
"I uh… yea um is dad near you?" I asked.
"Yes, he is what's going on?" She asked.
"Can you put him on speaker?" I asked.
"Ok we're on speaker." My dad says and I sighed.
"I am… well, uh I am going to have a child." I tell them.
"OH MY GOD YOU AND CLEM?!" My mom yelled and I sighed.
"No… no not Clem and I… I uh… it's with another woman, I know, I know you can be mad all you want and yes Clementine and I have talked about it, and yes, I am in the dog house for a while." I explained to them.
"Oh son… do you know if it's yours?" My father asked.
"Yes, I know, we had a test done and yes I know the mother." I tell them.
"Are you going to help the mother?" My mom asked.
"Of course, I'm going to help raise my kid." I look to Clementine as she was talking with her parents.
"Don't take it the wrong way Vincent I just wanted to know." My mom says and I rubbed my head.
"Alright, I uh… I just want you to know that you're going to be grandparents… and it's a girl." I tell them.
"Oh, a granddaughter how sweet, when is the due date?" She asked.
"Around July is when the baby should be born." I tell them and we talk for a bit, I look to the side a bit and we both hang up and I head over to Clementine.
"Well, we have it all planned, maybe we can hold a baby shower?" Clem asked and I think.
"If she is up to it, I don't see a problem with it." I tell her and she nods. AJ was watching TV and I sat with him and watched Disco Broccoli together. I then hear Clementine talk with her parents.
"Look it's going to be fine; Vincent is great when it comes to dealing with kids, I mean AJ loves him for one thing." Clem explained.
"Yes, but a baby is way different, the sleepless nights, constant crying and so on, it's going to be hard." Lee says and I look down to AJ for a bit and then back to the TV.
"Alright well… we can talk more about this later." I hear Carly say and I look to see them coming over.
"Come on AJ, we have to head home." Lee says and AJ gives me a hug and then leaves with Clem's parents.
"Not much of a stay… guess the whole baby thing was just a lot hu?" I asked her.
"Oh yea, when you were talking to your parents they kept asking if I really wanted to help you… not in as I should leave you just… would I be able to help you and deal with college." She tells me and I think.
"You don't need to help me, trust me-."
"No, I am going to help when you need it, I don't know how many times I have to say this to anyone, I want to help you, I am willing to help you if you ask me to, everyone even you are acting as if I shouldn't be helping you at all." Clem says and I look at her.
"It's just… we don't want you to lose focus on your school work, besides I don't blame them." I tell her.
"Jesus… I'm going to say it again until you get it, I don't care I love you and-."
"You should care about your schooling." I interrupt her.
"I'm not going to drop out of college." She says and I shake my head.
"No, I mean… you worked so hard for your scholarship, you need to be focused on keeping your grades up, you don't need to worry about helping me, I got to learn some of this stuff on my own, and yea if it gets really bad you can help me but only when I ask." I explain to her.
"Ok I get it, I do." She says and I rubbed my head.
"Sorry I just, I don't want you to worry about helping me." I tell her and she nods. We decided to lay on the couch for a bit and watch a little bit of TV but we ended up falling asleep on the couch anyway.