Chapter 2

As Melanie sat in her car, outside of Derwin's apartment, Jason's words kept flowing in and out of her mind. She kept thinking about what he said. He did treat her nicer than Kelly when it came to money, he was so tight whenever Kelly asked. When Melanie asked, she got whatever she wanted, no questions asked.

It took her a while to convince herself that he was just saying anything he could to keep her from leaving. She looked in the rearview mirror, freshened up her makeup, and she rushed upstairs to be with the one that she truly loved, Derwin.

When Melanie walked into the house, she immediately started coming up with excuses as to why she came home so late.

"Sorry I'm late baby, but Kelly asked me to go to the mall with her and Brittany, and she insisted that I try on 10 different dresses, for absolutely no reason. Just because she felt like I needed to expand my wardrobe. Can you believe that?"

"Melanie, we need to talk"

Melanie just knew that Jason had called Derwin already, and told him that he had been fucking his wife for months now, and now wants to be with her. She didn't know what she was going to do, so she started doing what she become accustomed to the last couple of months. She continued to lie.

"Then as if I don't have a life, Tasha called an asked me if i could come over to help her find something to wear when she went out with Rick tonight."

"Melanie, I told you we needed to talk." Derwin sounded very serious now.

Melanie had almost come to the conclusion to just come clean and tell Derwin the whole truth, until she saw actually saw the envelope Derwin had been waving in the air since she walked through the door.

"Derwin, what made you decide to go through my mail? That's a felony, and I could have you arrested," Melanie shouts to the top of her lungs when she walks into the living room and discovers that Derwin has opened her mail marked 'Confidential' from the clinic.

"Really, Melanie? Would you really call the cops on me? Didn't think so! Now do you want to talk about this or not?"

"Actually Derwin, I don't. Now can I please have my mail?"

"Melanie, I think you already know what it says, now you will sit down, and talk this over with me. How could you hide something like this from me? After all that we've been through? i just cant believe this. Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant? Did you think I would be mad? Well, I'm not. This is the most excited I've been in a while. Oh my God Mel, your pregnant."

Derwin takes a seat on the living room sofa beside Melanie, wraps his arms around her, and holds her tighter than he has in a while.

"I'm sorry Derwin, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just didn't know how you would react."

Melanie was sorry indeed! She knew she couldn't be but 4-6 weeks pregnant, therefore it had to be Jason's baby. Her and Derwin hadn't had sex in 3 months and a week. How was she going to tell Derwin that the child he thought was his, was actually his team mate's, and one of her best friends husband. Putting a little more thought into it, Melanie realized that on nights that they had alone Jason started to throw hints around that she would make a great mother. Then her mind started spiraling to the fact that the condom had broke a couple of times, she wanted to stop, but Jason insisted that they should keep on going, said he would pull out, but never did. Could it be that Jason had intentionally wanted to get Melanie pregnant? She didn't know, but she sure the hell was going to find out.

"I love you Melanie. More than anything in this world."

"I love you too, Derwin, but there's something I really need to get off of my heart."

"Sure baby, what is it," Derwin asked wit deep concern.

"Derwin, I'm sorry but I...," Is all Melanie got the chance to say before she fainted in Derwin's arms.