*𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐕.𝐈𝐈*

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MALEAH

TWO MONTHS LATER- THE NEW YEAR

Before you anyone says anything... Yes my mom was right. I am in fact pregnant, a month and a half to be exact. Mary and Blake are the only ones who know since we moved out the old house and into the new houses. Mary decided to move with me because one she didn't wanna be the only girl in the house. And two im pregnant and she wanted to be the one there for me. Bryce doesn't know or probably won't care because he's back to old Bryce. The saying New Year New Me doesn't apply to Bryce. He says he's changed but we all know he hasn't. 

"Hey, lunch is ready if you can stop playing dollies" I say opening Giannas door. She smiled and ran out her room and into the kitchen. "Wheres Auntie Marty?" She says as I put her in her high chair. My phone ran and it was Mary. "Right here actually" I say looking at my phone. I answered it and then handed it to Gianna. "BROOO I- Hi Angel how are you?" Mary says. "Hiii!" Gianna yells. "Where's mama?" Mary says. She points at me. I put her plate down in exchange for my phone. "Whats up?" I say. "It's Bryce" She says. "Okay?" I say. "Mal I think you are the only one that can talk to him right now." She says.  I bit the side of my nail. "I don't know Mary I haven't seen him in like two months." I say. "I know, I tried telling them that but they're not listening." She says. "Where is he?" I ask. "Brewers bar..." She says. I sighed "You and Blake get here so I can get there before he does something stupid." I say. "We're like a block away boo" Blake says. "Thanks guys." I say hanging up. What did I say... He has not changed.

About five to ten minutes later I hear the door open."We're here!!" Mary yells. "Marty!!" Gianna screams while trying to get out of her highchair. "Calm down she's coming in here, she brought Blakey Bear too" I say with my jaw dropped. She made the same face as me. Blake and Mary walked in and she smiled. "Hi bestie" Blake says to her. "Hi bestie" Gianna laughs. "Hi boo" Mary says. "Hi Marty" Gianna says. I love their relationship with her. "I'll be back, if you guys are hungry there's nuggets and tater tots on the stove" I say. "Okay mama" Mary says. "Shut up, it bangs no wonder why kids love them" I say. "Um yeah, dip both in ketchup living the best life."Blake says standing over the stove. "Babe thats the whitest-" "You said you'd stop with the race jokes!" Blake says. "Im sorry it just slipped out" Mary says covering her mouth. "Okay, it looks like you two have something to figure out and imma just head out..." I say walking backwards. "Dinner later?" Mary says. "If the dumbass doesn't ruin my appetite" I say. "You are eating like a normal person because you are eating for two." She says. "Thanks babe, its not like you tell me every morning." I say opening the door. "Just a friendly reminder!" She yells behind me. I flipped her off and closed the door.

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I walked into the bar and I think the owner of the bar greeted me "Hey, you must be Maleah. I'm Ronnie" Ronnie says introducing himself. "Yeah, what's going on?" I say shaking his hand then folding my arms. "The past two weeks he stays til close or I have to kick him out." He says. "Where is he?" I ask. He points to a crowed section of the rundown bar. "Thanks, next time don't let him in." I say walking over to him. I pushed myself through the drunken men and saw Bryce blistered out of his mind arguing with someone.  "Hey!" I yell causing the two drunk children to stop yelling. Bryce did a double take and you could see the embarrassment overcoming his body. "Your lucky your little girlfriend is here to save you." The drunk guy says. "Shut the fuck up and get the fuck out." I say glaring at the man. "What? Did the boys send you here to call me an idiot?" He says sitting on one of the stools. "No... We'll yes. But what the fuck are you doing here?" I say folding my arms. He laughed and stood up. "None of your business dumb dumb. I don't have to tell you anything. We're nothing remember." He says. "Doesn't matter get home." I say. "No." He says. 

I exhaled hard and looked at him "Bryce im not playing this childish ass game with you. Get home!" I yell. "Piss off Maleah! You can't keep trying to put people in check for your pleasure. Nobody fucking likes it! You don't understand that you are not the boss of everyone." He says. I looked down at my shoes as he told me off. "Thank you for that. At least you don't sugar coat shit. I think thats why I stupidly fell in love with you." I say scratching my nose. "Ditto, yet you don't think I didn't love you." He says. I looked up. "Bryce you didn't love me. You loved the thought of me. You loved the thought of having a girlfriend who did almost everything for you." I say tearing up. He got up and looked at me and smirked. "Yeah, I did. And you fell for it. Thank you." He laughs. I decided to laugh with him and punched him square in the face. "Oh I sure did fall for it. Fell so fucking hard I hit rock bottom and my second child actually has your fucking DNA in it. Yes Bryce I'm pregnant. I came here because the family I wanted my child to be apart of... asked me to. Told me I am the only one that could try to talk to you to get you to sober the fuck up and get home." I say in his ear. He was holding his face and looked at me. "You're actually pregnant?" He says. I unzipped my jacket and revealed my belly and walked away.

I opened the car door and someone shut it. "Congratulations" Bryce says. I didn't say anything. I can't even look at him right now. "I have to go." I say trying to open the door. I can feel him looking at me. But I didn't look at him. He tried to grab my hand but I moved it. "You play a sick fucking game and im not falling for it." I say pushing him off my car and getting in.

::**::

When I opened the door I was greeted by Oasis. "Hi boy" I say putting my keys up. "Mommy!" I hear Gianna yell. A smile grew upon my face hearing her little scream all through the house. "Boo? Is that you?" I say as I walked into the living room to all three of them watching Cinderella and Gianna jumping over the couch to get to me. "Hey, what did we say about the couch?" I say looking at her. "Only to attack nunu heads" She says pointing at Blake. I laughed and nodded my head

 "How did it go?" Mary asks. "It's how do you think it went?" I say sitting next to her. "Well your jackets undone so you must've told him" Blake says. "I did. I think it scared him sober...Blake im gonna ask you two questions and you don't have to answer but if you want you can." I say sitting on the couch. "Okay?" He says. "Okay the first one is... How many "assistants" did Bryce have before me?" I say. "Three" He answers instantly. I nodded. "Okay, the second one is how many of you guys knew that he didn't love me?" I say. "What are you talking about?" He tries to laugh it off. When Blake is about to lie he chuckles. I watch these boys like a Netflix series. They are unpredictable.  "Yeah, what are you talking about?" Mary joins in. "Blake you play stupid, you know everything that goes on in that house. Tell me im lying?" I say. He looked at me took a big and long deep breath. "We all knew. After Gianna left he said that if you came back that all you are gonna care about is getting her back." He says. I looked at Mary. "Okay? Thats my fucking child Blake!" I say clapping my hands out of frustration. "Oh my god I haven't seen you clap since high school. Babe she's pissed fyi." Mary says. "I know she is Mary but you seemed so happy and I didn't wanna ruin that for you. Neither did Noah, Josh, Jaden, and everyone but Bryce didn't wanna see you unhappy. Look, if its not me its Noah who have stuck up for you when Bryce or anyone who has said something bad about you. It's because we love you Maleah. I'm sorry." Blake says. Tears were forming in my eyes and got up. 

"Maleah wait..." Mary says getting up. "Mary did you know?" I ask. "Maleah no, if I knew you know I would've told you. Come on" She says. "I can't win for loosing Mary" I say. "I know baby, I know" She says trying to hug me. "No, please don't" I say stepping back. "O-Okay." She says now stepping back. I sighed and rubbed my face. "Mary im sorry." I say. "No no, its fine. Can we reschedule for dinner another night?"She says clearing her throat. I totally forgot about dinner and wasn't in the mood to go out. "Yeah, yeah thats fine." I say shrugging. "Love you, im staying at Blakes tonight. Let's go Blake."Mary says. "Love you too" I say.