Because of You

Chapter 40

:::Lia's Pov:::

"Why would he leave like that? And out of all places, he goes to see her." I vented to Malachi as he rubbed my stomach. We were on my bed and he was trying to get me to rest a little bit so that I would feel better but I just couldn't. I was too pissed.

"I don't know Lia. Maybe he just needed to think. I mean he just found out that he has another child on the way. Yeah he was wrong for leaving but we can't change that now. Don't stress over that because you are only hurting yourself and your unborn." he said, still rubbing my tummy. I felt so comfortable with him right here beside me.

"You are right." I said laying my face in the crook of his neck. "Can you get me some water?" I asked. I feel really nauseous and water with chunks of ice helps soothe my stomach.

"Yeah I'll be right back." he got up and walked out. I'm sad now. Malachi just left me here all by myself.

I thought he came back when my door opened but it was my dad. He came and sat on my bed and had a cup of ice water with him. I wish that was Malachi instead of him. I don't want to see him right now.

I just layed back and pulled my blanket over my head. Maybe he will go away then.

"Lia." he pulled the blanket over my head.

"Please leave me alone." I pulled the blanket back up.

"Look I'm sorry baby. Imma be straight up and tell you that I'm very disappointed in you but that wasn't a reason to ignore you or treat you like that. You're my baby no matter what and I was just shocked that you didn't learn from last time. You are about to have another child and I just don't want to see you fail in life because of that." he said. I sat up and crunched on my eyes. I wanted to hit a kevin hart 'are you done' but that's my dad.

"You saying that like I'm destined to fail because I'm having another child. Yes I'm gonna have two children by the time that I am nineteen but that doesn't mean anything. Dad I'm not gonna let this stop me from doing great things in life. I want to make you and my mom happy and I don't want ya'll to be ashamed or embarrassed by me. I want ya'll to be able to say ''That's my child right there. Graduated and got her life together even with two kids. That's my child. That successful little black girl that became a woman. And even though she had a few flaws in her life she kept going to make it better because she was determined.'' Dad I'm sorry that I disappointed you." I broke down into tears. "I'm so sorry daddy. I'm gonna do better. I promise." I cried. He pulled me onto his lap and just rocked me like he would do when I was younger.

"It's okay baby girl. I'm gonna help you do better. Stop crying that's weak. You stronger than that Lia." he said.

After a while I was still sitting on his lap sniffling. He just rubbed my back and comforted me. "Lia?" he started off. "Hmm." I groaned because I was starting to doze off.

"Did you tell Zone?" he asked. Instantly, I wanted to start crying again.

"Yeah." I replied simply.

"And....."

"He walked out and left." I said on the verge of tears again. ''

"Where did he go?" My dad asked.

"Dad don-" I pleaded but he cut me off.

"Where the hell is he Jalia?" he asked through clenched teeth.

"He went to the hospital to go see Megan." I said.

"So he left his daughter and you to go cuddle up with a girl?" he asked a rhetorical question.

"It wasn't like he went to cuddl-" he put his hand up, signaling for me to hush.

"I'll be back." he said. There was no point in arguing with him and begging him to not leave. I just laid back down on the bed and started to doze off again. A few minutes later I heard my door open and felt my bed dip down again. It was Malachi with my boogie bear!