"There's no way it's mine."
Jade flinches as she clutches the pregnancy test in her hand, "Of course it's yours, Sam. I would never cheat on you."
"We use protection!" Sam squeaks, and Jade simply presses her lips into a thin line as he paces through the living room. "I-I don't want to be a father, Jade. This was never a part of my plan."
"Your plan?" Jade scoffs. "What happened to there being an us?"
"I meant you and me. Not a baby. We're barely out of high school!" Sam exclaims. "We just bought this apartment and it...it sucks! This baby is going to be expensive, and we just can't do it."
"What are you saying?" Jade whispers.
Sam finally stops pacing as he looks at his crying girlfriend, "I'm saying that this baby...we can't have a baby right now, Jade."
"And you're suggesting I just abort it, right? You want me to get rid of it?" The brunette snaps as she stands and tosses the pregnancy test on the coffee table between them. "Like hell I am going to abort our child, my child."
"What about school? What about your music career? What about all of the things we planned?" The boy asks as he slaps his hands together. "We have an amazing thing here, Jade. We have dreams."
She stares at him as tears run down her cheeks, "I thought you were a dream. I mean, you were the first guy to love me for me and I thought you were my forever. I thought we were a team."
"I can't do this, Jade." He murmurs. "I won't ruin my future."
"Then go!"
The words leave her and bounce through the room, and she expects him to fold. She expects him to calm down and give her that goofy lopsided smile. She expects anything other than reality; Sam doesn't fight her, he grabs his jacket off the coat rack and slings it over his shoulder before he looks back at her with sad eyes. As soon as he slips from their shitty flat, Jade screams and grabs the pregnancy test before she throws it at the closed door and collapses back onto the couch. She's alone, Sam is gone and she knows he'll only come back for his things.
"I'm here." Jade whimpers as she rests a hand on her flat stomach. "I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. You're my forever. I-I had a different dream, but dreams change. We'll make this work, I'll make it work."
"I hope you know what you're doing."
The words are sharp and cut through the memories swirling through her head. Jade blinks tiredly as she watches her mam turn on her heels and leave the small hospital room.
Truthfully? She doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't have the slightest idea as to what she's taken on. All she can do is reach for the soft swaddle of blue in the cot beside her own and look down at bow shaped lips and thick eyelashes. All she can do is stare down at the little boy she plans to build her future and life around. All she can do is look into the eyes of the infant that she brought into the world and hope to everything that she doesn't ruin him.
"I have no idea what I'm doing," Jade whispers to her newest creation. "But we'll figure it all out. Won't we, Lou?"
Right away, Jade knows her son is something special because she swears she sees tiny lips tilt into a smile.
