Dead Butterflies

four

VIC'S POV:
[A half a month later]

I woke up to the sound of my alarm going off and a knock on my window. It was her.

"Vic, it's fucking freezing." Rosa said pounding on my window.

"Rosa, you and I broke up weeks ago." I said and turned my back trying to go back to sleep to ignore her.

"Victor Vincent Fuentes, I will knock on the front door and tell your mom I'm here and I know she'll let me in because apparently someone doesn't have in her to tell mama that we broke up." I rolled eyes and decided this was not the best time for my mom to find out, with all the arguing she's doing with my dad.

So i got up and opened my window and then sat at my desk chair. She got in and gave me a look.

"What? I let you in." I said rolling my eyes.

"You always used to rush to put your pants on and you'd always help me in even though I didn't need the help and you'd still do it even if you were mad, Vic, what changed?"

"You." I said and she looked down and leaned against my window. "Vic, I'm pregnant." my eyes widened

"What?" I said

"I told Terrance, he left me alone, I'm scared Vic. Vic please! I may have lost you but we've known each other since we were kids! You're my best friend and all I have in this world. I need you. Mom wants me to get an abortion, and Dad thinks its yours, so he's asking you to step up."

"Rosa, you can't just throw this on me, that's not my kid, I love you but this is wrong. It's like you don't even care about how I feel." I said to her.

"I do." She said then walked up to me and got on her knees and grabbed my hands. "I'm not asking you to be a father, I just don't think an abortion is what I want for my child. I'm asking for you to stay with me, if not as my boyfriend, then as my best friend. Just until I give birth and put this baby up for adoption." She said.

"Adoption?" I asked worried, she looked down in shame. "I'm 17, Vic! I can't give up my life! But I can't give up on this baby! If it's not me, then I hope someone can give this baby a better life than mine." She said to me

"That's your choice Rosa, I'll support you, of course, but it's gonna take time. Right now I gotta go." I said and got up and put my pants and a black Thrasher hoodie on.

"W-where you going?" She asked nervously.

"To think." I said and got my keys and left.

"Vic! Good morning mijo!" My dad said to me as I came downstairs. "Hey paps, I gotta go, tell mama I went out!" I said and walked out the door knowing he wouldn't really care.

I got in my car and opened my glove compartment and found that tiny piece of paper.

"Hello?"