Ch. 2: Flipped Upside Down
"Can we please go somewhere to talk about this?" Darren pleaded as he remembered they were still in the restaurant.
"Fine," you said as you began walking to the door.
You and Darren walked out of the restaurant and he motioned you over to the black SUV he came in. You both got in the car to begin talking.
"Ok, start from the beginning, you were pregnant?!" he said still in shock.
"Yes, and you completely abandoned me," you said almost near tears.
"I told you, I never heard from you, just please tell me from the beginning," he pleaded.
"Fine. I found out I was pregnant about a month and a half after we broke up. I was in shock myself, but I knew I needed to tell you. So, I kept calling you and leaving voicemails. I must have left 4 or 5 messages, and you never returned a single one. Finally, I sent you a text message begging you to call me because I needed to talk to you. I didn't want to tell you through a text message. You are the one who snapped at me, and when I finally gave in and texted you I was pregnant, you accused me of sleeping around, asking if you were the father. I said of course you were, and you told me that you were done with me and that was it. You abandoned me and left me alone. So stop lying to me and face the fact that you left me alone!" you said in tears.
Darren just sat there for a few minutes trying to absorb everything and figure things out. Finally, he shook his head and spoke.
"I swear to you, Paige, I never got a single voicemail or a single text message. Please believe me. I swear to you, had I known, I never would have abandoned you, I swear," he pleaded.
You were so confused, he sounded sincere, but that didn't explain the text messages you received from him.
"Then how do you explain the voicemails, and the text messages? I didn't just make them up, they came from your phone," you said.
"I can't tell you, I don't know," he said.
"Did you lose your phone or let someone borrow it then? I just don't understand how you knew nothing about it, yet I received messages," you said.
"No I didn't lose my phone, and I never lent it to anyone. I cannot explain it right now, but I promise I will do everything to figure it out," he said. "Please tell me, did you have the baby?"
"Yes, I had the babies," you said.
"Babies?!" he said wide-eyed.
"I had twins," you said. "We have a daughter, Kyra Paige, and a son, Braeden Michael."
"I have a son and a daughter?" he asked in tears.
"Yes. Kyra looks a lot like me, but Braeden is the spitting image of you. It still amazes me that they are already two years old," you said tears in your eyes as well.
"Two? They're already two? Can I see a picture of them?" he asked.
"Yeah, here," you said as you handed him a picture of Kyra and Braeden both sitting in front of their toys.
Darren put his hand over his mouth as tears began to fall down his face. You couldn't believe all of this was happening. It felt like your world was being flipped upside down. There was a part of you that was hopeful at the prospect that Darren would finally come back and be a part of your children's lives; however, you still didn't fully trust that he didn't send you those text messages years ago.
"Paige, can I please meet them?" he finally asked.
"What? Meet them? They're not here, and we need to talk a lot more and figure this out before we take that step," you said.
"I'm they're father! I have a right to see them!" he demanded.
"I'm not saying you can never see them. It's just everything is happening so fast and I need to wrap my head around it. These are my children, and I don't want anyone just walking in and out of they're lives. I have to feel comfortable with you, and we need to talk more and fix things between us, before we bring them into this," you said. "My world has just flipped upside down and we need to take this one step at a time."
"Yeah, I understand," he said as he nodded. "My world has been flipped upside down too, believe me."
"So where so we go from here?" you asked.
"You said take this one step at a time, right? So let's start with rebuilding our trust," he said.
"Ok, let's start," you said.
a/n: So chapter 2 is finished, please let me know how you like it or if you have any suggestions. I've been playing around with a bunch of ideas and I haven't decided which direction I am going to take. so just let me know!