One Night

Chapter 4: Father Father

XO POV

A few days later, I knew I had to tell Ronny. I was dreading the task so I made a plan to just tell him and leave. I threw on a pair of jeans that were starting to get a bit snug, and a sweatshirt. I didn't really have a bump yet so know one could really tell. 

Stacey, Fiona, and Ursula were all the couch binge watching rom-coms when I stepped out into the living room. They all turned to me expectedly when I came out, "I'm telling him," I explained. Their faces all looked relieved, concerned, and curious all in one.

 "Do you need us to come with you?" Ursula asked. 

I quickly shook my head, "No, it's going to be quick. Besides, I feel like I should do this alone." I said, "Thanks though, you guys are the best." I said gratefully.

I jogged down the stairs and headed to my car. I quickly navigated my way through the busy streets until I saw the neon sign that read McQua's Bar. I took a shaky breath and parked the car, and slowly made my way out of my car and to the front doors. 

I walked in the bar, my heart beating so hard that I could hear it in my ears. 'Just breath Xo, it's going to be fine.' I kept telling myself. As I walked in that nice bar I immediately saw Ronny, 'Ooh he is even cuter than I remembered,' I thought. He soon saw me and his face lit into a smile, "Xo-' He started before I interrupted, "I'm pregnant and you're the father. Okay bye now." I said in one breath and then I sprinted out of that bar. Ronny followed me outside but I had the head start and I drove off. 

RONNY POV

The bar was pretty slow that night so I was just washing and rewashing the counter tops. Suddenly Xo walked in again and I couldn't help but smile. I hadn't seen her in almost two months yet she was still stuck in my brain. She was absolutely beautiful and I wanted to ask her out, when she interrupted me with words I couldn't believe. "I'm pregnant, and you're the father."  The words kept repeating in my head like a siren. 

She kept disappearing on me, but now there something huge. I had to find her and get her to talk to me. 

XO POV

I was out of breath from that running in my circulation cutting jeans. I had made it successfully in the car though before Ronny could reach me. I drove back home, I had done my task now I could just deal with this pregnancy without worrying about telling Ronny. 

When I got home, the girls were all waiting by the door for me. "Well?" Stacey asked urgently.

 "I told him." I said nonchalantly, hoping they'd drop the subject. I tried to squirm around them but they knew me too well. They made me sit on the couch and they stood before me. 

"Did you think that answer was going to suffice?" Ursula asked. 

"Tell us exactly what happened, from the moment you parked the car." Stacey demanded. 

They all looked at me intensely, "Okay, so I parked the car in the parking lot. Then I walked in the bar and saw him. He started to say hi and I cut him off and went, 'I'm pregnant and you're the father. Okay bye.' and walked out of that bar as fast as I possibly could." I explained. 

"Did you guys talk?" Fiona asked. 

I averted eye contact and shook my head awkwardly. "Xo!" They all yelled unanimously. 

"What?" I asked innocently.

"You guys didn't even talk? Xo c'mon you can't just drop him that news and then leave without talking to him. He is the father." Ursula said. 

"I'm really tired, I think I'm just gonna go to bed." I said, excusing myself. 

RONNY POV

"Hey man, you look like you just got punched in the groin." my best friend Nico said as he took a seat at the bar next to me. My shift had ended over an hour ago, yet I was frozen, my mind going a million miles. 

"You could say that I did get punched." I said morosely. 

"Dude what's up?" Nico asked seriously. 

"Well you know that girl I was telling you about, Xo?" I started. 

"Yeah that babe from a couple of weeks ago that you scored with?" Nico added with a smirk. 

"Don't talk about her like that." I snapped. 

Nico held up his hands in surrender, "Woah Ron calm down, I was kidding." He said.

"Well she came in and told me that she's pregnant and ran off before I could even talk to her." I said, running my hands over my head. 

"Wow." Nico said, completely stunned. "What are yo-' Nico started to ask when suddenly, 

"Ronny?" was questioned by a girl behind us. 

We both stopped and turned around, there was the girls who had come in with Xo the night I met her. "Hey,' I started, trying to remember one of their names, 'Fiona right?" I asked. 

"Yes. We want to talk to you." She replied. 

"Yeah I was kinda hoping you could help me too." I added. 

"So we know that Xo saw you today.." Stacey started. 

I nodded, "Yeah you could say that." I rubbed the back of my neck. 

"First of all we just want to say sorry for our best friend's elusiveness, but also we know that you two need to talk. However great Xo is she tends to be a bit flighty. So we're gonna have to get her to talk to you by sneaking on her." Stacey said.

"Hey we're going out dancing tomorrow night at 8, why don't you meet us inside and we'll get you two talking." Fiona suggested. "Okay, let's do it."