Every Other Love

Chapter one

I was 17 years old when I found out I was pregnant, it was the most terrifying day of my entire life and there was nothing I could do about it.
I had been through plenty of things in my life, divorced parents, mentally abusive relationships, taking over a company at 14 with my mom and finishing high school. A baby was not in my plans. The constant battle I faced being pregnant and a teenager while also walking at high school graduation at. 8 months pregnant would send anyone into a downward spiral. But I had been through so much worse.

My life started to turn upward, I bought a house right of the coast in Florida. I had managed to get by with a two week old and not run into my dads toxic wife. That would be the same day I skipped state. Brynns first outing was supposed to be good. Then the step mom showed up.
"Hello kaylin" she says walking up to me while I hand the stroller over to my mom blocking her view of my baby.
"Hello" I say while slyly ushering my mom away with the baby still hidden from Hannah's view.

"What are you doing here Kaylin?" The witch standing across from me says as if I needed an explanation to be in a shopping mall

"Im just getting ready to be leaving" I say worried for the 12 day old baby thats pretty much been living in an isolation bubble.
Before she could respond with some malicious comment about the baby I take off in a sprint.
"Maman" I say running to the car to see her putting the baby in the back seat.
"Is she okay? Did hannah see her?" I say in a panic scanning over my baby, Hannah had nothing but bad things to say and think about my newborn.

"No baby she didn't, let's run to target to get more diapers and cloths, okay it's okay." My mom says reassuring me while I slide in the back next to Brynlee.
By the time I got to target I was still physically upset that I even saw hannah she's never had anything nice to say, I'm just glad I hadn't sat around to hear her words this time.
"Baby it was one person" maman says easing some of my nerves
"I know I just dont want something so precious to see any danger" I say looking at my baby again
"There's always going to be people that dont like you" maman says reminding me of something more or less important that I hadn't really thought about, l avoided relationships like the plaque since I'd gotten pregnant.

"Mom..how am I gonna fall in love, when I have a baby" I ask even though I had no thoughts about men in a long time. 
"Baby someone will come along, one day you'll meet the right man and he won't care at all about you having a baby because he will love you. I'd actually bet if your not in love in the next year Ill give you $100" maman says laughing while also being serious about how someone will feel.

At home we sit down and talk about all the important things we need to do discuss for my future. The first conclusion we came to first was the classes that ill be taking will all be online and I will only be taking the classes I need to graduate from college with a bachelors in business, not that I need it but it could be useful. We also talk about where I stand in Brynlee's life compared to men even though I'm scared of them with everything in me.

"Im her mom, I don't ever want her to feel like I chose a man over her... ever."

"Okay so your mom, witch means shes always yours, someone is going
To love you and her for that" maman smiles
"Will you tell her about her dad." maman asks looking down, she doesn't know what happened, how this all happened and how I really got
Pregnant.

"She doesn't ever deserve to know someone that evil" I say while I walk over to the fussing baby in the bassinet trying to focus on her rather than the horrors of the past.

"Someday, a man will love you so much it erases the even from him." Manson says while I look at and old family photo of everyone including Lucas, my boyfriend before I got pregnant, he thinks I cheated on him, but that was never the case, I had no choice, he just didn't stick around long enough to find out, even though I'd loved him since I was 8 years old.
"I already had one great love maman, I don't need Another" I whisper with a tear strolling down my cheek, I haven't talked to Lucas since he found out I was pregnant in a text conversation from some girl in our school.
"Kaylin" she says putting a hand on my shoulder
"It's fine maman, im going to take Bryn upstairs, I love you maman" I say walking carefully up the stairs with the baby not wanting to rehash on a man I used to know.
"Baby I love you" she says once I reach the top of the steps.
"I love you too maman" I murmer Before heading towards my room.