Chapter Fourteen
Abi streched as CJ started crying.
She was surprised that this wasn't bothering her yet, the night feeds and diaper changes.
She sat up and started feeding him, he was three weeks old now and she couldn't imagen life without him
Cameron rolled on to his back and looked at them "Greedy"
"Hey, he's your son" She said
"I know, he looks too much like me to not be" He sat up and put his arm around her "No news on Nikki yet"
"Maybe she's forgotten..."
"...Or Jay's told her"
"Do you want to see her?" Abi said, panic raising inside her
"No, no, of course not" He said "I just don't want her coming over unexpected"
"Ok" She sat CJ up and started rubbing his back
Cameron moved her head to look at him "Don't think for a second that I want her. I have you two now"
"I know" She wasn't looking at Cameron now, she was watching CJ fall back to sleep
"Abi..." He whispered, stroking her face "I love you"
"I love you too"
He kissed her gently "Don't worry about a thing"
"As long as you're with me...I won't"
...
Cameron opened the front door of the house, holding CJ, expecting it to be Joanne, back from the store...he was really, really wrong
"Nikki!" His heart jumped into his throat "What are you doing here?"
In the living room, Abi froze, she couldn't run now, Nikki would notice her
"Thought I'd come see you" She looked at CJ "Who's this?"
He hesitated, this would be easier if Jay had told her...
"Cam?"
He took a deep breath "This is my son"
She frowned "What?"
"My son...Abi was pregnant when I went to see my Dad and I stayed at yours, but I didn't know"
"You got your girlfriend pregnant?" She almost yelled "What's happened to you?"
"Nothing! I made love with my girlfriend and, well, yeah it was unprotected I'll admit, but that doesn't mean I've changed!" He replied "I'm the happiest I've ever been Nikki... you're just pissed that its not with you" He shut the door and leant against it
"Has she gone?" Abi asked
He looked through the peep hole, he saw her pick up her bike and ride off "Yeah"
Abi breathed a sigh of relife "Thank God"
"Thought she'd take her worse than that if I'm honest"
She shrugged "At least she's out of our hair"
"Probably not forever" He pointed out
"Well for now anyway"
...
When CJ was three months old, Cameron went back to school, instead of studying at home, he was the one who needed to go to college after all
At his locker, he saw Amber coming towards him. Should he run? Or was it too late? Had she spotted him? Yes she'd spotted him, he leant his head against the cold metal of the door
"Hello Daddy" She said
"Hey Amber" He said, opening his locker door "I assume everyone knows"
"Yes... but it wasn't Nikki's fault"
"How can it not be Nikki's fault?"
"Well, she was telling me, quietly...but a cheerleader behind us overheard"
"Oh great, fantastic" He put his books in his bag "I'm gonna get called Daddy all day! For the rest of our school life"
"No you won't..."
"I should have known thats why people were looking at me weirdly, not because I'd been gone for three months, but because of my son?"
"Cameron..."
"No, Amber, don't 'Cameron' I'm gonna be alone now, in everything, not just lunch. Good guy, gone bad..."
"Everyone's kinda over it..." She said "So you being back may cause a stir, but so what? They'll soon get over it, just like they did the first time"
...
Cameron was surprised that there had been a split in his lunch group, Nikki sat with the two other girls in their group, Amber and a black haired girl named Zora, while the two guys besides him, Tom and Jordan, sat with him.
Tom clapped him on the back as they sat down on the chairs beside him "Way to get the job done"
"What?"
"You got your girlfriend pregnant on the first try! Thats an achievement" Jordan said
Cameron rolled his eyes, of course, getting your girlfriend pregnant showed performence skills to his friends
"And you weren't even trying..."
"Guys..." He said, cutting off Tom "...it doesn't show manliness or whatever you think it shows. It requires growing up fast, patients and a lot of hard work...once the baby's here that is anyway. But its not what you think when she's pregnant either, caring, understanding and loving is what you need to be"
His friends stared at him, then looked at each other, then back at Cameron
"You got a boy right?" Jordan asked
"Yes"
"What's his name?" Tom asked
"CJ"
Jordan stifiled a laugh "CJ?"
Then he saw the look Cameron was giving him and stopped
"Abi always wanted to call her first born son after his father" He explained "I wasn't gonna deny her that. And her dad died when we were six so I said Joshua, as thats his name, so CJ stands for Cameron Jr and Cameron Joshua" He looked at them both "Funny now?"
"No" They both muttered
"Hey Bale!"
Cameron turned around, the voice had come from towards the door. His heart sank at the sight of Bradin Westerly, Nikki's older brother.
He caught sight of Nikki, she was looking at him and was shaking her head as if to say she'd never told Bradin to do anything
"You got nerve" Bradin said, now standing over him "Showing your face here"
Cameron stood now "I have a right to an education"
Bradin looked Cameron up and down then said "You broke my sisters heart by getting that Abi girl pregnant"
"I wasn't even with Nikki when Abi was pregnant! We'd been over for weeks when it happened, months before I found out..."
"You still broke her heart..."
"But thats in the past! I have Abi and my son. I'm sorry that I hurt Nikki, I really am, but I have my life now"
"So you're saying Nikki wasn't your life?"
"Oh My God!" He yelled, out of frustration "At one point, yes she was, but I moved on!"
"I have nothing more to say to you" Bradin practically growled "So I'll show you instead"
Cameron had expected this, so he didn't move and let Bradin's right hook send him to the floor