Gone Without Goodbye

Chapter 10

Over the next few days, Stella tried to stay clear of Shane so she wouldn't slip up and tell him about what happened. Tonight she was home alone so she locked every door and window. Aiden was at the diner, Tony was with Jayme and the 2 girls took her car and went on a small shopping spree. They tried to get Stella to come with them but she told them that she didn't feel like going so they gave up and left.

She heard a knock on the door so she opened it, thinking it was the pizza she had ordered. But when she opened the door the person standing in front of her was none other than Shane Myers.

"Well, well, well, not making enough money working the family business that you're also delivering pizza." She smiled, "But the only thing is you're not wearing those company shirts they're supposed to wear."

"That's because I don't work for the pizza joint. I seen the pizza guy so I paid for this." He handed her the pizza.

She took the pizza as she said, "You didn't have to pay for the pizza. Anyways, you shouldn't be here."

"I know, I didn't have to but I wanted to."

"Why are you here?"

"Why have you been trying to avoid me?"

"Please don't answer my question with a question."

"Answer my question and I'll answer yours."

"Fine, because I don't want to hurt you. Like I said, I'm not staying for good. There, I answered your so please answer mine."

"Because I want some answers Stella. I want to know why you took off. Why did you run away?"

She looked around behind him then pulled him in quickly and shut the door and sat the pizza down.

"Sit down on the couch. You want anything to drink?"

"What do you got?"

"They have milk, water, beer and coke."

"Coke please."

"Coming right up. "

Stella disappeared into the kitchen then returned a few seconds later with 2 cans of coke and handed one to him as she sat down next to him.

"Thank you, now are you going to tell me why you ran away please?"

She sighed, "You deserve to know but before I tell you I want to say this might be the last time we talk to or see each other."

"What do you-"

She cut him off by putting her hand up, "That's not important right now okay." She put her hand down and continued, "I want you to promise me you won't get mad."

"Yeah, of course. I could never get mad at you."

"Say it, say you promise but don't say it if you don't mean it."

"I promise I won't get mad and I mean that." He said looking straight at her.

"Okay, well here goes nothing. It's the whole truth." She takes a deep breath and let it out, "My mom hated the fact that we were in love because she said you were nothing but trouble especially since you were in a band. So you know how a few months before my 16th birthday I snuck out, met you and you gave me a necklace."

"Yes I do remember that."

She smiled bringing the necklace out from her shirt, "I still have that necklace. I hardly take it off, but back to what I was saying. Well a couple months before my birthday I found out... I found out I was pregnant."

"What?!" He yelled shocked.

"Just let me finish, a couple days after my grandma died, when I went home, mom told me she was sending me away. She sent me to this fancy school for teenage girls who are pregnant and unmarried. So I didn't run away Shane. I got sent away. I wanted to tell you so badly that I was pregnant. My mother forced me not to. She didn't want me to ruin the family name. She even told me I was a disgrace to the family." Stella said through her tears as she played with her necklace.

"So, somewhere it there we have a little girl or boy?"

"Yeah, it was a little girl. I had named her Jasmine Marie because it reminds me of a princess."

"Yeah it reminds me of one too."

She reached into her purse and pulled out a couple of pictures, "No one knows I have these but one is the last picture taken of us then the other one is...is a picture of our baby girl." She handed him the pictures, "The nurse who took that picture didn't want to take that at first but I begged her to so she did. I also begged her to make sure the baby got and kept the name Jasmine, she said she would make sure that happened but I don't know if she had."

"She's beautiful just like you." He smiled, handing the pictures back to her after looking at them.

Stella blushed a little while putting the pictures heck into her purse. They then began eating pizza after she offered him some.