Falling Stars [h.s]

Chapter 7

Aurora

-Six Years Ago-

Odyssey stared back at me in disbelief, "What do you mean you're pregnant? I thought the doctor said your ultrasound came back negative." At this point there was no trying to control my tears. The cries left my mouth one after another. My head was aching, my face was burning and my heart. My heart was breaking, it literally felt like it was breaking. The pain that was thumping in my chest was the worst pain I have ever encountered. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

How can someone make you feel like everything all the while making you feel like nothing?

I shook my head in denial at what was actually happening. I looked up at Odyssey once again with my tear filled face, "I took a pregnancy test this morning. It came back positive than I took a couple more. They were all positive Odyssey. How can this be happening to me? What am I going to do?"

"First we are going to go see a doctor."

I shook my head "No. I have to get out of here. I can't be here, I have to go." I took off the veil throwing it to the ground before picking up the huge wedding dress and running out of the door. Ignoring Odyssey's yells for me to stop, I ran out of the building, getting inside the limo that was still outside.

When I got home I started packing my bags with no second thought. I need to go. Anywhere but here. I went over to my table to grab my necessities when I spotted another envelope, similar to the one Harry left, sitting on top of my pillow.

1 I picked it up and opened it. Inside were two keys, a five hundred thousand dollar check and a note.

'I want you to keep the cabin as well as the car. I know this won't make up for the pain I caused you, but please take this money to repay for all the money spent on the wedding.'

I crumbled up the note tossing it to the floor. After changing out of the wedding dress, I loaded my luggage into the jeep that was in the garage. Just as I was about to get in the car my parents, my sister and Odyssey come out of a truck running towards me.

My mother stood in front of me and stared me down, "Aurora what are you doing?"

"I'm leaving."

She grabbed a hold of my arm, "You are not leaving, get back in the house." I snatched my hand out of her grip, "I'm leaving! This is all your fault. Now leave me alone. I'm getting the hell out of this toxic place and I'm never coming back." I turned away from them and got in the car. Quickly after the back door of the car opened. Odyssey and Anastasia got into the car. I stared back at them in confusion.

"You don't have to go alone." I started up the car, driving off to the only place I can think of going right now. The cabin. It was the only place that was quiet, isolated, and private. I can stay there for now until I can think of a plan.

•

A week later I was over the whole Harry Styles incident. I never saw him again after that day. What bothered me now was knowing he wasn't far. He also knew where I lived. I sat in my parked car after coming home from work. I didn't have the energy to get out. So I sat for a long while, letting my thoughts overtake me. Eventually I got out of the car.

A voice sounded from behind me as I walked up to my doorsteps. "Aurora." I stopped walking at the sound of the familiar tone calling out my name. I turned around to face him once again.

"What are you doing here?"

"Can we talk?"

I shook my head no, "There is nothing to talk about Harry."

"Please, I'll only take up five minutes of your time." I thought long and hard about my decision. I agreed in the end because I wanted to hear what he had to say. I got back inside the car. Harry sat on the passengers side of the car. I stared out of the windshield in hopes to avoid eye contact with him.

"I want to start off by apologizing for everything. I should not have left you like that and I'm sorry." I sat silently waiting for him to continue. He let out a breath of air. I turned to look at him. For the first time since reuniting with Harry my eyes met his in a deep eye contact. My eyes left his to scan his facial features, ones similar to Layla's, before locking eyes with him once again.

"What am I supposed to do with that Harry? For months I suffered because of you. I tried everything I can to forget about you, but what good is that when I was pregnant with your baby? A baby you don't seem to care about at all."

"I do care about her Aurora."

"You don't! You don't care about Layla. If you did you would have responded to the millions of letters I sent you. You would have been there during my pregnancy. You would have been there when I was delivering her after being in labor for three days! Do you know how painful it is to be in labor for three days. You don't, so don't you dare sit there and tell me you care about my daughter when you couldn't care less."

"I wanted to respond. When I got your first letter saying you were pregnant I didn't know what to do so I did nothing. Then another came, and another, and another. By the time I got your last letter you had already made it clear that you were doing just fine on your own. I did want to respond, but I believed it was already too late. Every time I wrote a letter the words weren't what I was thinking. As years went by I wrote letter after letter that could possibly explain how I was really feeling. By the time I finally got the right words the baby was already going on to be three years old. I convinced myself that maybe you were better off without me. And by then I already had a three year old of my own to care for."

"So Layla isn't worthy enough of your love and caring like your other kids?"