unspoken words | mileven

twenty-eight

ONE OF THE TRUTHS

"she is my child." mike says.

el shakes her head and opens the door wider for him to come in. he does and continues to repeat the comment, "she's mine!"

"shut up! she is sleeping and my father is as well!" she whisper shouts and hurries to the kitchen with him following, "you lied! why didn't you tell me!?"

this isn't what he planned. he was planning to ask but his emotions were taking over.

he didn't want to shout, he didn't want to cry but he can't stop doing both!

"tell me, el! tell me she is mine and don't you dare lie to me!" he screams as she holds the countertop of the kitchen island. soft sobs and cries were escaping her as she nods slowly, "she is yours."

"why didn't you tell me!?" he couldn't help but shout. he breathes heavily and then whispers, "why?"

"because you left me!" she turns to him in a snap, "you didn't want me! don't you remember!? you didn't want me!" she swallows her sobs.

"you still could've told me!" he cries and runs his hands through his hair.

"how!? when you were ignoring me, when you were talking to stacy whilst i was wondering what was happening to my body! whilst i tortured myself to death and then realised i was pregnant! you ignored me, you pulled me into an alley and left me!" she shoves him lightly due to how much she was crying.

"i need to speak to you." mike whispers as el smiles and nods, "okay. why? is something wrong?"

he doesn't reply but instead pulls her away from the party and into an alley. it was night out so it was dark, but thankfully there was a nightlight just enough for them to see each other.

"what's wrong?" she questions innocently.

"i'm breaking up with you." he chokes out as her smile drops, "w-what? why?" what did she do wrong? they were fine yesterday, what did she do?

"i'm sorry." he whispers and walks away.

"we were happy! we were sharing ice cream and jackets and we were in love! i knew something was wrong and i wanted to make sure before i told you. then you broke up with me and when i made sure and wanted to tell you despite you not even glancing at me! i saw you with stacy at our lunch table!" she screams, not even caring that aurelia was sleeping right now.

"and then i dropped dead the next day." she scoffs, "i thank god, thank whoever the fuck is looking after me for not letting my baby die with me that day. i am so thankful about what happened and that is why i left. because i will not let someone that doesn't even want me, near my child and i most certainly won't let stacy near my child as well."

"we didn't even fucking date!" he screams.

she scoffs and crosses her arms, her tears dropping down to the ground.

"then why didn't you tell me when you came back?" he asks her quietly, calming down his temper.

"because i didn't know if you'd want me now. all aurelia ever wanted was a father and if i were to tell you, i needed to make sure you wouldn't leave her as well. i needed to make sure that if i was even going to tell her that you were her father that you wouldn't—"