Why? (Editing)

Why?

(Picture of Bentley at the side)

My name is Danielle Knight. Everyone calls me Dani. I’m 18 and I have a 8 month old son. I left my home when I was 16 because I was raped by someone. He got me pregnant and I never did find out who he was. I did not want to have an abortion because it wasn’t the baby’s fault. I was going to put him up for adoption but I didn’t want my child to grow up wondering why I abandoned him. I just couldn't do that to him. I vowed to love him even though he was the result of a rape incident. I still considered him my adorable baby boy and I wouldn’t have given anything or change anything from my past because Bentley was my world.

I moved in with my aunt who lived on the other side of the country, to Pennsylvania, from California. My parents knew that I was raped and had gotten pregnant as a result and had insisted that I get an abortion but I wouldn’t allow it. I moved because my aunt was a teen mom and I felt that it would be easier to live with her since she went through teen motherhood when she was 16. She told me that it wouldn’t be easy and trust me, it definitely wasn’t.

Me, my aunt, Sarah, and Bentley were going to California for the summer vacation to visit my parents. It would be hectic especially with my little baby boy Bentley. He was just 8 months old and absolutely adorable. He would get all the girls with his big blue eyes and chubby cheeks. I had just turned 18. I had Bentley when I was 17, a couple of months before my 18th birthday. As for my mate, I hadn’t met him yet and I didn’t want to either. I was perfectly fine with Bentley and Sarah and her daughter, Abby. Abby was 5 Years old and Sarah was 21. She was practically my sister.

My mother and father wanted me to go to visit them. I hadn’t seen them since I left after I had found out about my pregnancy. They really wanted to see Bentley. I only sent them pictures of him. They told me that the reason for my trip was so that they could meet Bentley but I knew that they also wanted me to meet the new Alpha. I didn’t even know the guy’s name! I agreed to go only if Sarah came along. At first I thought that Sarah would say no but she agreed to come along, saying that she wanted to see her parents as well. She took a small break from college, where she was majoring in business. She had a job at a Diner where I worked as well. But I went to school as a senior and I also worked at a daycare center. We lived a pretty good life and it’s not like we couldn’t support ourselves and our children, because we could.

"Dani, let’s go or we are going to miss our flight!" Sarah said, getting me out of my thoughts. We were sitting at the airport, waiting for our flight to arrive. Looks like the flight had already arrived, though.

"Okay, let’s go," I said, standing up and picking up Bentley who had been sleeping. With two kids that didn’t like to be woken up or loud noises, this would be a long flight. Thank god they were sleeping for now.

The plane ride was 4 hours and it was just plain boring. Sarah slept through the whole flight. I let her do so because she had been having a hard time sleeping lately. When Abby woke up, all she wanted to do was run around and play. She woke up Bentley and he cried for 10 minutes straight. Luckily I got him to stop crying with some singing. I then got Abby to calm down by giving her my phone so that she could play a game on it. I was starving. I should have eaten breakfast… I was going to eat Abby’s snacks but that would have been mean.

"Sarah, wake up, we are here," I said, as I shook Sarah awake and stood up. I then grabbed my carry on bag and put Bentley in his stroller. We got off the plane and I noticed how different California was. I guess I had gotten too used to Pennsylvania.

Opening the closed door, Sarah entered the house. I saw her hugging my Aunt Suzie. Sarah was sobbing into her mother’s shirt. I just had to burst out laughing at Sarah’s crying face. She looked up at me and stuck up her middle finger. Of course, she then got yelled at by her mom for doing that. I had tears flowing from my eyes by that time.

"Oh Dani, you looks so beautiful, you got so big! And oh my goodness, who is this little guy?" Suzie cooed. It brought a big smile to my face seeing Bentley reaching his hands out to Suzie with wide eyes.

I picked him up and handed him to her.

"This is Bentley, my son," I told her as she looked at him adoringly. She held him as we went to grab our bags. Walking to where more people were waiting, I noticed my parents sitting there with big smiles. Suzie had put Bentley in the stroller and was holding Abby’s hand so that me and Sarah can hold our bags.

"Oh my, Danielle I missed you baby girl! You grew up so much,” My mom said wrapping me in a huge hug.

"Hi Mom. Missed you too," I said in a monotone voice and giving her a slight hug. My parents and I were not really close. I just couldn’t have a proper conversation with them. I hugged my dad and gave him a small smile. I picked up a crying Bentley to try to calm him down and rubbed soothing circles into his back. I noticed how my father wouldn’t stop looking at me.

"Oh is this Bentley?" My mom asked. I felt like replying her with a smart-ass comment like, ‘No mom, this is just a random baby that I took from his mother so that you could see how cute he is.’

"Yes, this is Bentley" I said, handing him to her. Bentley looked at her with confusion. He reached his chubby little hands out and touched her cheeks. Tears filled her eyes as she looked at me and smiled.

"Oh Joey, look at our grandson, He looks exactly like Dani when she was a baby!" She said, looking at my dad. He looked down at Bentley and gave him a small smile. He was always like that. Always serious and pretty much never smiling.

"Let’s go home," He said and walked towards the car. Well, that’s my dad for you. I walked to the car with my mum, who was holding Bentley and hugging him tightly.

Edited: Thecatsaysbloop