Surviving my Scholarship

Independence

                Sorry I ran out of drink names for the titles so for these future chapters it is whatever I feel like. So, these future chapters would have been in a sequel, thus why new chapters are added and the book is "completed" but well being a rebel. Also, I took a turn in perspective since Pierce and Violet are so far away from each other. If you object to it let me know and I will turn it back to like the first, but I like having the story seem to split with that impending question. When will their two stories combine again?

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        I glanced up to a set of large silver eyes staring at me in expectation. I had been so distracted with my thoughts. I hadn't seen her scoot her round, obviously pregnant, self through the rows to stand in front of me in the aisle.

"I'm sorry. What," I asked trying not to glance at the popped belly button exposed at eye level as she placed her swollen hands on her hips in a scorning motion. What the hell did I do this time?

"I'm pregnant," she huffed out as she rolled her stomach towards me. I had to lean back into my pod to keep it from brushing my nose.

"Congratulations," I slowly drew out as I tried to figure out why she was bothering me.

"You're the father," she threw her arms forward in a gesture to prove her point. Her hands graced my shoulder shortly and she retracted quickly as I glared at her. Here we go again.

A sigh escaped my mouth before I glanced back up at the woman. I squished my vision slightly as I tried to picture her petite form that the child destroyed within her. Yeah, she looks the type I liked before Violet came along. I just left her with an attendant to her flight and already I feel like a lifetime has passed without her. My chest aches for me to go back to her, to stop her from going to Earth and to beg her to forgive me, but I can't.

The woman starts to tap her foot distracting me from yet another Violet mope and I let out another sigh as I pull a card casing from my back pocket. The small silver case looks as if it holds some sort of drug. I push the small silver button that encases the many people my father keeps on hand for this type of thing.

Lawyer, nope. Assassin, hmmmmm, nah. Tutor, nope. Chiropractor, nada. Ah. Here it is. I pull the card out and slip it in between my pointer finger and middle finger before handing it over to the woman standing before me. The woman hesitates before taking the card from me pinching it with both hands as she stares down at it.

"Call the number on the card and explain the situation. They already have my DNA on file. So if it is my child, you will be appropriately compensated," I state coldly before turning to listen to the attendants explain the safety protocols. They all stop when the woman next to me starts screaming at me.

"Who the fuck do you think you are," she states as she throws the card down on the ground. "I don't want hush money. I want a daddy for my baby. You will marry me." She stomped her foot like a gavel making her statement final.

"I am already engaged," I stated firmly before turning and nodding to the attendant. They quickly usher the nuisance away while giving me a scolding glance. Every time I use public transportation. Someone always accuses me of something, but if I had taken one of our private shuttles, I wouldn't be able to get what I need without her knowing what it is I intend to do.

"The papers said that. That council woman's granddaughter. Who is it," she screams as the attendants struggled to pull her away. "It can't be that bitch you dated in school, she is engaged to some defense officer and that other one blew up on that shuttle to Earth."