Captivated Hearts

Chapter 8

Arya went to school the next day hoping that nobody remembered anything Scarlett had said but, by the looks on everyone's faces when she got there, she was positive they remembered.

She spent most of the day dragging along, waiting patiently for the day to end but every time she looked at the clock, the time only passed by a minute.

Arya had never felt so alone. It wasn't like she could go and talk to Bella given how angry she was with her and when she passed her in the hall on her way to first period, she looked in the opposite direction.

She was sitting in her second period, zoning out completely when she came to the thought of who the dad of her baby was.

Arya had been so worried about telling her mom and dealing with Bella, she had totally forgot.

There was only one person that could be her baby's dad.

Jase, the guy she hooked up with the night of her party.

She pulled her phone from her back pocket and unlocked it when the teacher had turned away, opening Instagram and went to Scarlett's page. Scarlett followed everyone in the school but who she found to be 'weird' or 'not popular enough.'

Although Arya was very popular, Scarlett didn't follow her simply because they envied each other. Arya clicked on Scarlett's followers and typed in the name 'Jase.' There were only six accounts that came up but, two were short for Jason and two were empty profiles. She figured it was worth a shot to check and see if the two profiles with pictures were the one she had hooked up with more than a week ago.

The first profile that she clicked on had a guy holding a football helmet in his hand. He had blonde hair and fare colored skin; his arm was wrapped around a petite black-haired girl who was in a cheerleading outfit. Their smiles were bright but, she knew that it wasn't the guy she was looking for, so she pressed the back button and clicked on the other boy's profile.

When she clicked on the profile, she could tell instantly that it was Jase. It wasn't his face that she recognized but, it was the picture that he had up. He was in a white and black stripped shirt with matching white pants, a pair of cleats on his feet and a baseball cap on his head, covering his curly brown mop of hair and his smile was dull while he was holding a banner that had their school district displayed on it. Arya thought about continuing to look through his profile and find any other pictures to make sure it was him but, she was positive that it was.

She clicked on the 'message' button which was beside the 'follow' button and exhaled. She wasn't sure what would come next and how he would react. It was possible that he already knew or just maybe, she would reach him before Scarlett or anyone else could. It took ten minutes of on and off zoning out before she came up with something to say. When she finally sent it, she stared at the screen, rereading it in her head while she tried to imagine how he would react.

'Hey Jase, it's Arya from the party. I was wondering if you were available to talk sometime today.'

She didn't message him anything insane or something that would give him a hint as to what she needed to talk about.

Her phone buzzed just as she went back to paying attention to the teacher, her eyes falling back down to her phone.

It didn't take him long to give her a response, leaving her know time to think.

'Wassup Arya, I'm in class at the moment but I can meet you by the cafeteria in five."

Her heart pounded in her chest, and she couldn't think of any right words she could say to him. There was nothing else to be said until they were together.

'Okay. I'll see you then.'

Her teacher cleared her throat and was looking directly at her.

'Sorry.' She mouthed and slid her phone back into her back pocket.

Arya's eyes stayed glued to the clock for the next few minutes, waiting patiently for the five minutes to pass and the second the larger hand touched at the nine, she rose her hand and asked her teacher if she could use the restroom. The teacher nodded her head and Arya quickly got up from her desk and made her way out the door and to the cafeteria.

When she got there, she stood toward the side, where she couldn't be seen. She checked her phone, reading the time or to see if she had a text from Jase but she didn't. Arya tapped her teal acrylics on her phone case for the next few minutes until she heard footsteps approaching and when they were close enough, she could just make out Jase's muscular body inching toward her until he was staring right at her, his expression blank.

Jase was about to begin to speak but, she cut him off. She didn't need to waste any more time. All the time for fooling around was the other night but today, was a day of getting straight to the point.

"Okay look. I know this wasn't planned and we barely know each other but, I'm pregnant and it's your baby. I tried to think and remember if there is any other possibility it's not but, you're the only person I've had sex with the last month and considering I am only 4 weeks along, the time frame matches."

Arya felt relieved after she spoke, yet Jase was silent and just stared at her. She began to get worried with his reaction, which was nothing at all.

"Jase?" She questioned.

"No." He spoke sharply.

"No. What?"

"I don't want anything to do with it, or you. You're a slut. You're trying to trap me with a baby. God I should have known."

Arya's eye twitched, her heart dropping in her stomach. The world felt as if it was falling apart and as if the world wasn't on her side. When would it be her turn for things to go okay.

Her vision blurred and tears began to fall from her face, but Jase just shook his head and began to walk away.

Arya began following him, grabbing his hand. "Jase please. This isn't fair to our baby!" She begged.

Jase turned around, his fists were clenched, and he began to yell, "Don't ever call it our baby again! It's just yours. Get the fuck away from me!"

People walking in the hallway began to stare at them, but Arya didn't care. Tears streamed down her face, and she fell to the floor crying. She couldn't handle all the heartbreak and Jace was just the cherry on top.

Jace began to walk away, turning on his feet he yelled to her, "And by the way, I never wanted to sleep with you. Brayden asked me to." He smiled slyly and with that he was gone.

How could someone do something like this? Who would knock someone up and then just leave, even if someone else had asked them to sleep with you. It wasn't fair.

But that didn't matter as much as the fact she was doing this all on her own. Her baby wasn't going to have a father and that was going to kill her.

The only person she had was herself and that didn't feel like enough, even if her dad was offering for her to stay with him, it wasn't like he had much of a choice with how her mother reacted.

Nobody wanted to help the immature teenager who managed to get herself pregnant by sleeping around.

Arya's body slid down the wall, her arms dropping to her knees and she cried as hard as she could.