Rejected For My Secrets

Chapter 17

This is personally my favorite chapter so far! Confessions, confessions everywhere...

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Recap: Ana went out of the room while my dad and I were chatting excitedly about the wedding to probably get my test results. I got even more nervous than I already was and my palms felt clammy.

When she entered the room again, my breath caught in my throat.

“Hailey....”

Chapter 17

“Hailey...” she mumbled quietly unable to continue.

My heart beat started accelerating, and I felt nauseous when Anna –or should I say my soon-to-be-step mom- hesitated in continuing. I didn’t have to hear the words from her; the look on her face said it all. I looked down at my stomach while gently caressing it, the tears brimming in my eyes. I sobbed quietly and my dad went to pull me to his shoulder but I aggressively pushed him away. I looked at him aggravated, but the hurt in his eyes made mine soften.

“I’m sorry, dad. I just need time,” I breathed out, my voice wavering and brittle, getting up from my seat and walking towards the door.

Everything just felt surreal, and I was slowly dying from the inside. I thought back to everything that has happened in the past few weeks while walking my way in the forest. I didn’t even bother raking my car; I knew that my dad would have been generous enough to do that for me.

Just a several weeks ago, I had a normal life when Alex popped into the picture. It wasn’t exactly normal; I had a deceased boyfriend and a gone mother, but I still considered it normal compared to how it transformed. Alex had to come into my life and destroy the last bits of happiness that I had stores in my shattered heart. I spent years trying to give my heart back into one piece, but in just a couple of days, Alex had managed to stomp on it. But the problem was, I still couldn’t hate him. The last inch of my heart still longed to be with him, although I knew that I couldn’t trust him with that.

Shoving my hands in my pockets, I walked in the narrow paths of the forest slowly and felt the wind nipping at me cheeks making them go red. I breathed out in a sigh, but it came out as a white puff.

Thinking of losing too much in just a short time was really unbearable and painful to me. That’s when the first tear fell. I walked for almost half an hour when my house came into view. I sighed and continued my way to my house.

Alex’s POV

“Kill the fucking zombies! Slay them!” Chris cheered on as my thumbs took their profession on the PlayStation 3 controller at killing damn zombies on Call of Duty.

Abruptly, I felt a pang of pain in my heart. I dropped the controller from my hand and clutched my chest tightly, curling myself in a ball and gritting my teeth in the process. I heard Chris screaming my name, but it felt distant and I couldn’t focus on anything except the sudden pain that had invaded my body. The pain gradually eased, but it was still there. Deciding to go outside for fresh air, I pushed myself from my coiled position on the bed as I groaned from the aching of the muscles all around my body.

“Alex! What is going on?” Chris asked, worry seeping in his voice. I wanted to answer him, but I didn’t know what was happening myself. I sighed and shrugged my shoulders, not wanting to talk, and exited the room. As I walked downstairs, I thought about what might have been happening with me. That excruciating pain came out of nowhere! It was still there, but it was bearable.