The following conversation is between Melissa Jakobs and unnamed friend.
In Your Face!
That better be a different kid, a blond woman turned brunette thought angrily. She was watching as Eric playing at the park with a little girl he called Chloe. The girl looked about four. Melissa had thought for one instant that Eric was the man who knocked her up. He'd better have knocked someone else up the same time or adopted a kid. The thought of "it" now being a happy, healthy, secure and loved child with a stable home and family enraged Melissa.
Melissa Jakobs was back in Miami for a few weeks. It was close to spring break after all. Parties, booze and college boys. She couldn't miss that. Four years ago after she gave birth in the state she hasn't stuck around for the results of the paternity test that was done on a Dade County Crime Scene Investigator named Eric Delko. She checked her out of the hospital, against medical advice, just hours after her c-section, leaving her written wishes with the hospital social worker. She loathed the child the moment the test came out positive and the feeling remained. Eric was one of the long list of men who possibly made her pregnant, and he wasn't the only one of Latino decent. She had been surprised to hear that he showed up for the paternity test.When she ran into a former friend on a Miami street Melissa asked her "when did Eric Delko become a father?" She had to know if the girl in the park was the "rodent" that gave her ugly stretchmarks and a c-section scar that prevented her from wearing a barely there bikini.
The other woman had become a former friend when she saw Melissa's true nature when Melissa became pregnant.
"When you had a baby," the woman replied "Remember, that precious child you gave birth to four years ago? The one who's face you refused to look at? The one who you said social services or the father could name and raise?
"Well, Eric was the father. He named his daughter and took her home when she were two days old. Chloe even has a real mother, now. More of a mother then you ever would have been. The woman raising Chloe loves her more than life. And since you terminated your rights to Eric's daughter, when he married Chloe's mom a year ago, Chloe was adopted and the bond the two had since Chloe was four-days-old was made official.
"Thankfully this makes it impossible for you to disrupt her life. Frankly, even if his wife didn't adopt her, there would be icicles in hell before Eric would let see her, not that Chloe or any child needs someone like you around, not that you deserve that privledge. You don't."