Chapter 20: Clearing The Air

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Justin's p.o.v

"Hi sweetheart." My mom said as she hugged Isabelle tightly. "How are you feeling?" She asked. "Im okay, still in shock but I'm happy i am here. Hopefully you guys can get my mind off of it." Isabelle said.
We told my family about the miscarriage but never told them about the pregnancy so when we called them from the hospital it was all just a shock to everyone. Which makes total sense because we didn't even have time to process being pregnant before it all went downhill. "Hey baby." My mom said pulling me into a hug, interrupting my thoughts. "Hey mom." I said kissing her on the cheek. "How about you, are you okay?" She asked. "Yeah, just doing everything i can to make sure she is okay." I said. "Make sure you take care of yourself too." She said back. "I know mom." I smiled.
My dad's family came over a little bit later and we all just talked, laughed and had a good time. I glanced over at Isabelle and she seemed happy. She was okay and thats all that mattered. We all had a few drinks, my dad was drunk and the rest of us were getting there. Isabelle and my mom were drinking wine like the classy beautiful women that they are. My dad started passing around shots for everyone while we played some drinking games. He handed a shot to Isabelle and said "hey it's a good thing that baby is gone so you could join in on the fun right?" Laughing afterwards. Everyone got silent. "What the fuck did you just say?" I said, not holding anything back. I was furious. "What? That baby was like two seconds old, it was practically nothing." He said. "Actually five weeks, so it was something." Isabelle interrupted, stood up and walked outside. "What is wrong with you?" I shouted. "Come on Justin, it's not that big of a deal." He said. I could not believe the words that were coming out of his mouth. "You are disgusting. Get the fuck out of here." I shouted again. "Watch your language in front of my kids." He shouted back. "Thats enough, Jeremy you need to leave." My mom shouted at him. "If you disrespect my fucking girlfriend then i sure as hell will disrespect you. Fuck you." I yelled. The kids were watching this all unfold. I walked outside to go find Isabelle.

When i went outside she was sitting on one of the lawn chairs by the pool, just looking up at the stars in the night sky. "Im sorry baby." I apologized. "For what? You didn't do anything." She said still looking up. "My dad is just an asshole." I said. "I mean, he is right. I have no reason to be upset about it. I should be happy i don't have to deal with the responsibility. It was traumatic but so what, right?" She said now looking at me. She was trying to tell herself what she believed others wanted her to think. Which broke my heart into a million pieces. "I love you, we can get through this, together." I said, pulling her into a hug.

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   The press had gotten out of hand. We were back at home now laying in bed. I tried my best to stay away from social media but i went on it anyway. Right away there are a million accusations of why i canceled the tour. Stories about Isabelle and I breaking up, hailey doing interviews talking about my relationship, and there were even some about the miscarriage, which i was shocked about. How did people find out about that? I decided i needed to clear some things up so i made a post on Instagram. I posted a picture of Isabelle and I in a raw moment of us just embracing each other.

The caption read "I tried to keep to myself for a while so that i could be there for Isabelle but it just keeps getting harder

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The caption read "I tried to keep to myself for a while so that i could be there for Isabelle but it just keeps getting harder. As many of you already know, Isabelle experienced a gut wrenching, traumatic miscarriage a couple days ago. Yes we were pregnant, surprise. But no unfortunately we are no longer. We are both having a hard time trying to process the pregnancy still and now losing a part of us which is why I needed to take some time away. To my fans, i am so sorry and i love you all dearly but i need to take this time to be there for Isabelle. I hope you all can understand. To Isabelle, baby, i love you more than words could ever say. You push me to be a better person every single day and i aspire to be as strong as you one day because seeing you pull yourself through a time like this is like no other. I love you baby, keep being you. To all of you, please respect our time away from social media. We need our space to work on each other.  Thank you." And then i clicked post.

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