Oh! Look! It hasn't even been a month yet. Anyway, a bit of a throw back after that last chapter. A shorter chapter too. The next few probably will be shorter. We're going back to the beginning of The Slip with this one, but quite a different view point, Lightning's mom.
She had not intended to get pregnant; and certainly not when having an affair with an older man.
But that's exactly what happened.
She told him when they were out for Valentines Day. She was only far enough along to know for sure that she was pregnant, but not far enough to be showing yet.
She had asked him if he'd marry her (not expecting that to happen), or at least for him to be there for his child, they didn't have to make anything public.
He refused to have anything to do with the baby. It was once he decided to not even acknowledge their child growing inside her; that she mentioned that she thought the press might find it interesting to know that he had a child on the way.
That completely shut the evening down. He wrote her a cheque for a couple thousand and told her that the world would never believe her foolish fantasy.
He also told her that they were never to see or contact each other again. He never wanted to hear from her again. They were done.
She had tried taking her story to the press the next day but was shut down.
"Lady, if we were to run every story of someone claiming to be pregnant by a famous figure; we'd lose credibility. You don't even look pregnant. Maybe you can try again once you actually look pregnant."
It was only shortly after that, that the story broke about who her baby's uncle actually was.
Alex had trapped her; there was no way anyone would pick up her story now.
Though, she did try once when she was further along in her pregnancy, and was certainly showing. They had still brushed her off, even though she was claiming it was Alexander Piston's baby. They were still more interested in stories about Jesse Hudson. So, she gave up on that avenue.
She had thought that if anything, the fact that she was claiming she was pregnant with Alexander Piston's child would be even more news worthy, to stir up extra drama, but apparently it wasn't.
Fine, her baby didn't need a selfish man like that for a dad anyway. If he wasn't going to acknowledge their child, she wouldn't acknowledge him.
Except; she ended up collecting every article that was coming out that remotely related to the Pistons.
In duplicates; mainly because the first copy she would end up scribbling scathing remarks about Alex and how if she had stayed quiet about her pregnancy that maybe he wouldn't have done such a thing, because surely it was her fault.
What had she been doing with a man that age anyway? Her baby's oldest brother was only four years younger than her.
Maybe her father was right to disown her, but she had never intended for any of this to happen. She never thought she would have ended up in that kind of relationship with that type of man. It made her wonder about what kind of person that made her.
So, she was now going to be raising this child of hers all by herself, but she wasn't going to give it up. The baby was hers and she was going to raise it to the best of her abilities.
She had to be strong for him, her son, it was going to be hard, but in the end she knew it would be worth it, to watch him grow up.
So there is the start of The Slip. Thoughts, comments, questions?