"I'll be home in an hour or so…I need to go by and pick up some books from the library" Hannah said when she spoke down the phone to Mark who was at her home in the spare room, keeping himself busy.
"Well just be careful" he said
"Will do…anyway, I've just left college now…and I could have sworn I felt the baby kick a little" she said and Mark chuckled;
"I'll have to feel it"
"It's weird Mark…anyway…I shall see you later"
"Love you"
"Love you too"
Hannah walked swiftly on the ice to her car, looking down at her feet to make sure she didn't slip or fall about. As she walked she heard another car in the empty college campus and she looked up and shook her head, pulling her car keys out as the man ran towards her.
"I just want to talk" he yelled, slipping and sliding on the ice as Hannah shook her head and felt him grab onto her elbow;
"Get off me" she snapped, pushing him off her and moving to her car, but he was too quick and blocked her from gaining access to the driver's side door.
"Mr Clarke" she said "move out the way"
"No" he said "I need to talk to you"
"You said all you have to a long time ago" Hannah replied "now move"
"It's about Mark" he said and she raised a brow;
"What about him?"
"I need you to break up with him" he said and Hannah shook her head, her mouth parted slightly and her eyes wide;
"Are you mental?" she asked "why would I do that?"
"So that he can move on from you" he said, his eyes glaring at her
"He loves me"
"And that's why you've ruined his future"
"He can still go to college" Hannah retorted
"And you think any high end law firm will hire him if they knew he had gotten an eighteen year old knocked up? You think that shows him to be responsible?"
"We're giving the baby up for adoption" she said "no one needs to know"
"Word travels in this city" he looked around "firms do their own checks on employees…do you really want my son to be the one who end up unemployed?"
"You're exaggerating" Hannah informed him "he won't"
"And you know that? You're a naïve eighteen year old who knows nothing of the world" he spat, pointing his finger at her as she cowered away from him slightly "you've ruined him Hannah"
"No I haven't! Mark will be fine and he doesn't want you"
"He doesn't know what he wants because you've poisoned him against me!" he yelled at her
"No I haven't! Mark has a mind of his own…he doesn't need me or you to tell him what to do and if you can't see that then you're as naïve as you believe I am!" she roared
"You're a bitch Hannah" he said "and when Mark sees that he'll be begging for us to take him back…I gave you the chance to get rid of all of this…"
"We didn't want an abortion" she said "we couldn't do it"
"But you can ruin my son's life?" he asked
"I'm not" Hannah grew tired "I can't be"
"Oh you can" he laughed once in disbelief "say it's not his"
"What?" Hannah gasped
"Say you slept with someone else…let Mark get off the hook about this…surely his grades are dripping with this and then working part time too"
"I'm not doing that" she shook her head "lying to him"
"You'd be helping him" he told her
"No! Now move!" she yelled and tried to push him out of her way. At first, he slipped to the side and Hannah placed her key into the lock but then she felt his grubby hands on her waist, turning her to him as she hit him on the chest;
"Get off!" she yelled
"Just calm down" he told her
"Get off me!" she yelled again, but this time, he tried to get her from him due to her hitting him, but he pushed her too hard. Hannah slipped on the ice, she tumbled to the side, slamming her body against her Volvo and then she fell to the floor. Geoff looked down at her and rolled his eyes as he saw a tear fall from her eye at the impact;
"Stop milking it" he told her
"Oh" Hannah gasped and a hand flew onto her stomach and her eyes shut in sharp pain
"Hannah" he said, seeing the teen on the floor, her body shaking profusely. And then he saw the blood.